For for information. Plus knowing to connect to an unbiased agenda subscribed no more new to. This is data news live from berlin thailands king officially takes the throne ceremonies take place in bangkok for the countrys first coronation in seven decades our correspondent at the same also coming up. Officials say its a miracle no one was killed after a jet slides off the runway at a u. S. Naval station in florida and. Her last race before a controversial rule change in track and field Caster Semenya overwhelms the competition in the Eight Hundred meters. Im Rebecca Races welcome to the program elaborate ceremonies are underway in bangkok to crown thailands new king. Run on corn the sixty six year old ascended the throne in twenty sixteen after the death of his widely revered father Saturdays Pageantry is the start of a three day ceremony that formally invests him with regal power symbolizing his consecration as the up holder of buddhism in thailand. The coronation begins with a Ritual
king will stage an elaborate parade in front of his people. and hallett tells them phil is following the festivities for us in bangkok charlotte this is day one of a three day ceremony to consecrate the king how is the ceremony going. they are back a while events today are starting to draw to a close here in thailand it s the early evening here at the men but i m sure you can see behind me there are still people gathered around the grand palace here they ve been likely to be here late into the evening and that is because of course for most people here in thailand this is the first time that they ll have witnessed the coronation of a monarch the last time almost seventy years ago and in a country where the monaco is is considered essentially a day if this really is a mentors moment entire history now earlier on today we had the purification ceremony here that is where the monarch was dressed in a in a white robe he was had holy water poured in his head and there was the annoyance