Ms shinawatra said she felt it was time for her to serve. I talked to my family and a lot of people from my party and i decided that it is about time to do something for the country and for the party as well. And ijust hope that i can do my best to, you know, make the country go forward, that is what i tried to do. Right now, of course, today i feel very honoured and i feel very happy. Paetongtarn shinawatra s election sees the return of the powerful and divisive shinawatra dynasty. Herfather, thaksin shinawatra, was prime minister from 2001 to 2006. He was deposed in a military coup and lived in self imposed exile for 15 years, during which he was convicted of corruption. He returned to thailand last year. Mr thaksin s brother in law, somchai wongsawat, led the nation for less than three months in 2008. An anti corruption body found him guilty of neglecting his duties while working in the justice department eight years earlier. Mr thaksin s sister, yingluck shinawatra, was in powerfor
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With me in the studio is bbc health editor, hugh pym. Here in the uk, covid has quietly slipped down news programme running orders. During the summer, newspapers and website front pages have had other headlines olympic and paralympic glory, and of course afghanistan. It was scotland s first minister who brought us up sharp, tuesday, when she told the scottish parliament that cases had increased by 80% in a week. Scotland has just recorded its highest daily rate of infections since the pandemic began. Pupils returned to school in mid august. Will other parts of the uk now experience a similar rise in cases as the term begins there? perhaps mindful of the anger on display in city streets in a country like australia, uk political leaders say they don t want to lockdown again, so what sort of winter awaits here in the northern hemisphere, and can the global south expect some relief? first of all, looking at the uk, what are the statistics telling us at the moment? what sort of picture is
You can t see any of that without being emotional. After the racist abuse directed at england players in hungary, football s world governing body says it is investigating. Stealing a pet is to be made a specific criminal offence in england after a rise in dog thefts during the pandemic. And at 8:45 p:m. , news watch investigates why bbc breakfast news bulletins disappeared over the summer. The uk s vaccines advisory body has said it can t recommend vaccinating healthy 12 15 year olds against covid 19 on health grounds alone. It says children are at such low risk from the virus thatjabs would offer only marginal benefit. But thejoint committee on vaccination and immunisation said the government should consider wider issues, like disruption to schools. The health secretary, sajid javid, says he has now asked the chief medical officers in all four nations to look at whether those considerations tip the balance. Here s our medical editor fergus walsh. From france to the united states and i
A huge story from the music world because abbott has announced a new album for the first time in a0 years, and they say they will provide perform on stage as holograms. At least 15 people are believed to have died, as the remnants of storm ida brought flash flooding and tornadoes to north eastern america, including the state of new york, where a state of emergency has been declared. Newjersey and new jersey and connecticut. President biden says it s another reminder that the climate crisis has arrived. This destruction is everywhere, and it s a matter of life and death, and we re all in this together. This is one of the great challenges of our time. More than 35,000 people remain without power in new york state. Part of the reason for that is that the storm felled a number of trees. That took out power lines, and, as some residents found on thursday morning, cars, too. My car s crushed. I mean, it s totalled. It s, er. A ten tonne tree just fell on my car. That was caused by the win