That the ruling party has reaches down to the very to the local level a lot of the communal authorities local authorities belong to the ruling party and they wield a lot of power over the people theyre the ones who sign your Marriage Certificates theyre the ones who decide who gets government money and if they tell you that you have to go vote and then you know that means something for the people and the people theyre not theyre afraid to speak out if you go around and you ask people no one wants to speak openly because theyre afraid of repercussions if they say they support the opposition so taking all that together i think its fair to say that with these elections cambodia has moved one major step further or closer to becoming autocratic country. Take capital phnom penh thank you for that. An earthquake has hit the Indonesian Island of lombok Officials Say it killed fourteen people and injured forty more the six point four magnitude quake struck
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education and to get insults are still widespread in german schools. and have ever been on this we re not there yet there s still a lot of injustice we have to deal with and i think this is a wonderful way of doing that. as we heard in the show you are a public people should not hide. this is about freedom and not having to hide anymore you can be yourself over signs of. crime statistics how the show that being yourself can be dangerous in berlin alone there were three hundred twenty four confirmed homophobic attacks last year the unreported number will be significantly higher the burned guys are and tens of thousands of others the fight for justice continues. in yesterday s penultimate safe to ride thomas all but seal victory in the tour de france the well cyclist held on to the yellow jersey with a strong performance out of the time trial and now he just has to make it to the
finish line in today s final stage to win the overall race. the moment current thomas has dreamed of the tour de france title is as good as his thomas produced another excellent display in the penultimate stage he finished the time trial in third place and crucially retained a lead of almost two minutes in the general classification. to do on the biggest stage of all. over three weeks four. since a. time trial world champion tom to milan won the stage an outcome that keeps the dutchman in second place overall. he finished narrowly ahead of chris froome the four time tour de france champion has had a difficult few weeks but will at least end up on the podium in paris but barring a disaster it s his team sky colleague thomas who will take his crown as the holder of road cycling s most prestigious title. and not
surprisingly there have been celebrations and thomas s hometown the welsh capital of cardiff is this the hall and parliaments were laid up in yellow the color of the leader s jersey to mark the first ever win by a welsh rider its likely biggest race and festivities are no day continue as the tour procession heads into paris later this afternoon. and if or when britain s lewis hamilton will start today s garion grand prix in pole position after finishing ahead of his mercedes teammate terry both in qualifying houghton took advantage of black conditions at the range to speed home in just over a one minute thirty five seconds victory puts him in a commanding position for sunday s main event if he looks to extend his seventeen point lead in the standings hamilton s title rival sebastian fattal will start in fourth position. and it s a reminder of the top story that we re following for you. commodious have voted