The headlines in the most human way possible. Here at aljazeera we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. Where march against the monarchy in thailand and its amount for political reform the protests have been the biggest in years so what can the government do to quell this growing anger and what does this mean for thailands king this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im how he had seen a wave of protests as great thailands since february its been led by the young mostly 1st time voters who say they want to modernize them on a key over the weekends tens of thousands of people in the park used for one of the ceremonies and they cemented a plank in the grand palace that expresses what they say is the peoples will the protesters also hands its over a letter with their its a monster to the boil guards well these demands include the removal of Prime Minister. Hes a former army general who came to power in a coup in 2014 and wanted to species election last year they also
Were march against the monarchy in thailand and thats amounts for political reform the protests have been the biggest in years so what can the government do to quell this growing anger what does this mean for thailands king this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im how he had seen a wave of protests as gripped thailands since february its been led by the young mostly 1st time voters who say they want to modernize them on a key over the weekends tens of thousands of people in the park used for one of the ceremonies and they cemented a plank in the grand palace that expresses what they say is the peoples will the protesters also hands its over a letter with their its a monster to the boil guards well these demands include the removal of Prime Minister. Hes a former army general who came to power in a coup in 2014 and wanted to spaces election last year they also want to parliaments dissolves and new elections to be held there demanding that the constitution which was draf
Im michael okun welcome to the program at least 90 people have been arrested in hong kong in protests against the governments decision to postpone Elections Police fired pepper balls at prodemocracy campaigner protesters are angry that authorities will hold elections to the citys Legislature Next july instead of this sunday authorities have blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the delay antigovernment protesters have been held across since june last year. And correspondent phebe kong joins us now from hong kong by phone phebe hundreds of people are protesting there today against the press boning of the elections what exactly are they worried about. Yeah i have been writing that sos has all i said all afternoon in hong kong today and all this week with her protests so kind of like give me back my clothes and i want to kind of like those guys on the street so today i originally on this is just an election day one of the most important election in a city. Like this and so it acts like a st
For going i think process being out also in protest has been fortified as organizing protests by local authorities and attempt to really prevent these kind of images reaching the world to speak given everyone out in the streets and that is eventually all in vain but the attempt made nonetheless now you know the mobile section is coming back and the rest become trees being. Said. Nic its day 29 of the protests in the momentum of the opposition at least where were sitting seems to be sure no sign of slowing do you get the impression people are cheating anything. Well i think this is a very difficult choice and there is no clear roadmap no clear plan where this goes the country that basically has had a new politics the course of a century where one man has made all decisions i dont rest of his i. Q. Is going to be marginalized. In gauging this going to politics hes very noble for most of the reasons they just dont remember it as to how this process goes on well the reasonable just council
Trump turns on the media and democrats insisting his supporters court get it. And shock at the u. S. Open as number one seed Novak Djokovic is disqualified after hitting a line judge with the ball. Im jared read its great to have you with us at least 100 people have been arrested in baylor verse during a massive rally in the capital minsk hundreds of thousands defied a government warning and returned to the streets for a 4th weekend in a row theyve been demanding that long time off for a tear in later Alexander Lukashenko stepped down last month he claimed he won an election with 80 percent of the verge but many opponents and observers reject that result. I see of dissent. Flooding minsk. More than 100000 protesters marched through the capital calling for an end to president of exxon to look goes through the 3 decades long rule. This protests cannot be stopped any more theres no way back to the point of no return has already been crossed the people will go to the end to defend their Co