thailand's former prime minister yingluck shinawatra has been convicted of negligence and handed a five year jail term the case surrounded the mismanagement of a rice subsidy scheme that cost the country billions of dollars wasn't in court to hear the verdict she fled thailand just over a month ago when he reports. under thailand's military government gatherings like this are banned but there was no stopping some supporters of you know what who gathered outside the supreme court in bangkok. i came here to give support knowing that i may not show up because i'm a supporter of the. because of them at one stage as able to forge a better life the judges took four hours to read the decision before the former prime minister's legal team emerged to confirm a guilty verdict and a five year jail term. i don't know how to feel. the court has done its duty to deliver the verdict that legal team with allies have verdicts again how we have fought this case and see if we can appeal. the case centered on the rice pledging scheme it was a populist policy that helped party win the two thousand and eleve

he also said she is not in thailand. yes, she likely is in britain or dubai, and she likely is going to try to request political asylu m going to try to request political asylum they are. and if she does, she is going to have to say that this court ruling is very unfair, very much against the rule of law, which appears, and then she can probably get some sort of asylum. thank you so much for your insights on this issue. paul chambersjoining us on this issue. paul chambersjoining us from thailand. thank you. 16 million australians are currently being asked to vote in a same—sex marriage postal survey. the issue of legalising gay marriage is so polarising that parliament has approved new anti—vilification laws to keep the debate respectful. both no and yes campaigners have been accused of violence over the past few weeks. 0ne lady from melbourne says the marriage debate is getting so heated, even her dog has been drawn into it. claire sutherland told me about an incident with her dog, mack. he's been wearing a marriage

hello i'm down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up thailand's supreme court is expected to deliver its corruption verdict against former prime minister yingluck shinawatra who fled the country last month. changing gears saudi arabia will allow women to drive for the first time from next year. to slow to inefficient the french president emanuel micro outlines his vision for transforming the european union. iraq has over the kurdistan regional government to surrender control of its airports or face an embargo on international flights it's part of mounting pressure on the kurdish leadership of rich secession referendum on monday initial results most people voted yes in the non-binding poll reports from ever built. the rhetoric and threats continue and from both sides. iraq to me is that at that i still is still occupying some parts of kirkuk and some parts of iraq i still is still a threat to the cities with some of our brothers in iraqi kurdistan a living we must not divide iraq according to or through all viral referendum that is completely rejected such language will go

thailand's former prime minister yingluck shinawatra has been sentenced to five years in prison she's fled into exile. and how the push to defeat the hottest is taking a heavy toll on the people of somalia will have an exclusive report. plus a long and winding road towards forming a new government germany's general election last weekend means chancellor merkel has been swayed to other parties to join her conservatives now that could take months. i'm brian thomas welcome to the show saudi arabia says it will begin allowing women to drive now it is a big leap for the old truck conservative nation the only one to bar women from getting behind the wheel a royal decree announced on state t.v. says the ban would be lifted in june now in the meantime a committee will be formed to work out how to implement that royal decree. the streets of saudi arabia have long been a battleground on one hand women wanting to drive on the other the religious conservatives who have called them too stupid their mobility a threat to society now it is the women who have won. king solomon has issued a decree givi

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there at live from coming up thailand's supreme court is going to bring its corruption verdict against the former prime minister fled the country. as saudi arabia allowed women to drive for the very first time from next year. and . discovery has revealed a brand new work by one of the world's most popular authors more than a century after his death. iraq has over the kurdistan regional government to surrender control of its airports or face an embargo on international flights as part of mounting pressure on the kurdish leadership over its secession referendum on monday initial results showed most people voted yes in the non-binding poll reports from air built the rhetoric and threats continue and from both sides. if you look at me as i get that i still is still occupying some parts of coke and some parts of the rock i sill is still a threat to the cities with some of the brothers in iraqi kurdistan a living we must not divide iraq according to or through all viral referendum that is completely rejected such language will go down well with the international community including the us an

on thailand's former prime minister found guilty of criminal negligence for why it's unlikely she will serve any of her five year sentence. hell i was about to start writing again in southern china you thought it had all finished but now are afraid not the winds turning from its circulation on thursday to an on shore feed come friday so it's lighter rain from hong kong down towards the vietnamese border but the real rain is still alive extends from sichuan to shanghai it's given a lot of rain in shanghai recently but the focus will be heading further west to the next there's a potential for flooding still exists with the retreating monsoon through india we are still getting late season rain fairly heavy rain in fact in bangladesh than in tamil nadu as well and occasionally as a forecast jessie gets as far north as mumbai north of that it's dry and warm and sunny it's still thirty five thirty six in new delhi and low thirty's in southern pakistan with the retreating monsoon we're getting a lowering in the humidity for salala so the what if it's just about overnight and a slow lowering i

this is t w news coming to you live from berlin five years in jail but the will thailand's former prime minister actually serve the sentence the supreme court finds young look should a lot of guilty of negligence bought she's already fled the country and has given no sign of planning to return home we'll go live to bangkok to find out what happens next also coming up a bit more freedom for women in saudi arabia the ultra conservative kingdom is finally going to let women drive activists have been fighting for that right for years. how the push to defeat just how this is taking a heavy toll on the people of somalia we have an exclusive report. plus the long and winding road toward forming a government germany's general election last weekend means chancellor merkel has to persuade two other parties to join her conservatives could take months. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us thailand's supreme court has sentenced for prime minister yingluck shinawatra to five years in jail she was found guilty of failing to stop corruption in a government rice subsidies scheme shinawatra wa

guilty verdict the supreme court in thailand sentences former prime minister yingluck shinawatra to five years in prison for corruption. the u.s. defense secretary and nato secretary general in kabul sells a new afghan policy that may not be all that new plus. a show of force from south africa's largest workers' union its main demand president jacob zuma must go. iraq's kurdish region is about ten ounces the official results from monday's succession referendum an official estimate say kurds have voted yes iraqi prime minister body is ready regional leaders to cancel the results it's good morning from me joining us live from bill we waiting on the results what are you hearing how is it going to work. well we're waiting for the results the first said that they were supposed to be announced a short while ago. however the room where the press conference is going to happen is full with journalism everybody is really on standby even the people here in this square behind me everybody has been coming and asking us do you know what the results are so this is a certain level of anticipation among

prior to the verdict being delivered on wednesday the prime minister of thailand general prior china china said that he knew where it was and would tell everyone after the verdict well we now know that the former prime minister yingluck was given a five year jail term for negligence and he now says that she is in dubai the prime minister saying the police will now have to proceed and coordinate with the foreign ministry and interpol in reality though if she is in dubai it seems there is very little that the thai government will be able to do to get her back because presumably she is in dubai with her brother taxon chin what another former thai prime minister who has been living in dubai for years after he too was ousted in a coup in two thousand and six and cynics in thailand would also suggest that the prime minister. knows where young like is because she had help getting there there's been speculation that she may have made a deal with the military government to allow her to leave thailand remembering that she disappeared a couple of days before the original verdict dates which was

to thailand where the supreme court is expected to announce its verdict in the corruption trial of the former prime minister yingluck shinawatra whose government was toppled in twenty fourteen and is facing up to a decade in jail for negligence over a rice subsidy plan she's not expected to attend the courts she's let the country her supporters according its political prosecution let's talk live now to our correspondent wayne hay who's covering that story for us out of bangkok when just just explain to us what might happen today. yes well certainly it has been a very long day already we were expecting the verdicts reading to begin at around nine o'clock in the morning it's just gone to in the afternoon now it didn't start at eleven so it's been going for more than three hours now certainly in the last few minutes there's been some excitement from the very large media contingent that's gathered outside the supreme court in bangkok as it appears that a verdict may be coming any time soon but as you say it's been a very long process because of their the fact there are nine supreme court j

going to allow women to drive activists have been fighting for that right for years also coming up thailand's former prime minister yingluck shinawatra has been sentenced to five years in jail but she fled into exile. and a woman to lead germany's opposition the social democrats select on they had knowledge of their left wing to head the group in parliament. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us saudi arabia says it's going to allow women to drive it's a big leap forward for the ultra conservative nation the only one to bar women from getting behind the wheel a royal decree announced on state television said the ban would be lifted in june in the meantime a committee will be formed to work out how to implement that to create it came as something of a surprise we'll find out why it's been issued at this time for us this report. the streets of saudi arabia have long been a battleground on one hand women wanting to drive on the other the religious conservatives who have called them too stupid their mobility a threat to society now it is the women who have won. king solomon has issued a

well every chena want supporter that i come across around thailand including those who were outside the court to hear the verdict just a couple of hours ago say that they still support the shinawatra family they still support the party the poor thai party which as you say has done very well in elections winning elections for a very long time in this country it's very difficult to say though exactly how strong that support is at the moment because any sort of overt political demonstrations or political displays at the moment a band by the military government which staged a coup in two thousand and fourteen to force the government all being like china want out and of course their brother tanks and was also forced out in a coup in two thousand and six so if we had an election tomorrow i think most people would assume would bet that you know wants and their party. he would win again but as i say it's very difficult to guess very difficult to say one hundred percent because any dissent or any criticism of the current government has been fairly well stamped out since that coup in two thousand

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hell i was been writing it seems for months in thailand more recently it's been raining further south in thailand but if you take a discrete snapshot from space on this and most of the clouds over the water tween the philippines and vietnam some of thailand is covered in clouds stretches down toward singapore and they are under sumatra of course coming to the wet season i'd expect the rain here and it's still there but it goes a long way north and northern thailand is also getting its face share of wet weather. borneo and now more recently jobber including of course jakarta the scene you might expect this time of the year in australia of course we went to spring now it's turning quite warm in the east. cloud here the cloud which reveals rain still not far away from person is going to be west australia more where more rain falls but is pushed ahead of it a line a streak of green here which is actually a little frontal system maybe not that obvious. to the east we're in the low twenty's now this is relatively high for this time of the year but that streak is just revealed itself to be s

former prime minister of thailand has been sentenced to five years in prison corruption. last month the first ever female convict the. subsidies. the kenyan president to order kenyatta and the opposition leader riley meeting the electoral commission ahead of next month's rerun of the presidential election on tuesday hundreds of people protested outside the commission's office calling on staff to step down let's go to latest now from nairobi and our correspondent stephanie decker i think it really does depend who you speak to kenyans a very much politically aware educated and they feel passionate about this you have diehard supporters on each side but i think there is also a feeling that people just want to get this done now the fact if you off people here they don't really like to talk about it on camera but the economy is suffering and businesses are suffering foreign investment also something that is pretty much being affected by this because it is this sort of air of uncertainty nobody really knows how this is going to play out nobody really knows what's going to happe

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with eight minutes to go, pokkhao anan equalised for the thailand. hertha berlin's matthew leckie got the winner for the socceroos, but saudi arabia's win means australia were pushed down to third and will face syria in the playoffs. if we hadn't got one a bit earlier, then we would have opened them up a bit. but that's just... then we would have opened them up a bit. but that'sjust... like i said, it is heartbreaking for the players. they didn't get their rewards tonight for a brilliant performance. syria drew 2—2 with iran in tehran to finish third in group a. they broke through iran's defence for the first time in the 13th minute — tamer haj mohamad heading home from close range. iran went ahead 2—1, but syria pushed for an equaliser and it arrived three minutes into stoppage time — al soma secured the fairytale comeback and a place in the playoffs. so syria now play australia over two legs with the winners playing someone from north and central america. that could still be the united states. syria's draw extinguished china's faint hopes o

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tomijuric put thailand in order to confirm their place. tomi juric put them ahead but with eight minutes to go thailand equalised. poor defence but a pretty good goal. mathew leckie of hertha berlin got the winner for the socceroos but saudi arabia's superior goal difference meant australia were pushed into third place and they will face syria in the play—offs. place and they will face syria in the play-offs. if we had got one a bit earlier, and open them up a bit, but... likei bit earlier, and open them up a bit, but... like i said, it is heartbreaking for the players. i thought they did not get their rewards tonight for a brilliant performance. that was ange postecoglou, the australian coach. syria drew 2—2 to finish third in the group. they broke through the iranian defence for the first in the 13th minute with a close range header. and iran then went ahead 2—1 but syria pushed for an equaliser and it came three minutes into stoppage time. this secured the fairy tale comeback and a play—off for them. you and everyone else in aus

right here on out as it thailand's government has confirmed that former prime minister yingluck shinawatra is in dubai on wednesday she was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison for negligence and a rice subsidy scheme disappeared from thailand last month when the verdict was originally meant to be delivered a brother texan also a former prime minister lives in self-imposed exile in dubai after he was found guilty of corruption south korea's marking at sixty nine forces day with a show of military might some of its strategic weapons were put on display including ballistic missiles tensions have been high on the korean peninsula for months as north korea ramps up tests of missiles and nuclear weapons. you know our military possesses defense capabilities capable of overwhelming north korea based on the strong south career u.s. combined defense posture the government has been tightening military readiness and also making efforts to manage the situation in a stable manner so that escalating tensions would not lead to military confrontations kathy novak has more from seoul. this is a co

next we are going to turn to thailand. thailand's former prime minister has been found guilty of negligence. it is to do with her involvement in a billion—dollar rice subsidy scheme. she was given a five—year sentence. that happened in the supreme court in bangkok. young induction watcher has moved to dubai. she went there last month. her brother tax in shinawatra another thai prime minister lives there in exile. there were definitely some behind—the—scenes discussions between her side and the government's side here about what deal there might be over the sentence. those discussions clearly did not produce some leniency for her. we do not know if the sentence was harsher because of her fleeing the country. this is definitely on the country. this is definitely on the harsher side of where could have been. the maximum sentence for this was ten years but many people viewed the charge itself as very unusual, but prime minister was being charged not for corruption herself, but for a policy which turned out to be corrupt

last year we had drought in thailand area. vietnam, we saw a rice production affected quite seriously. that have an impact on prices. this year we see more of a concerted effort to try and overcome supply issues. they has taken measures ahead of the ramadan fasting to make sure food prices do not spike. we have a fairly benign inflation outlook. energy prices have not been a big driver of inflation this year. currencies has been fairly stable or strengthening. overall, a good pitcher for inflation this year. week, the bank of thailand, they have been under pressure to cut. are they going to get a cut? >> the central bank is facing pressure from the government to reduce interest rates. atchmark rate is already low 1.5%. the central bank is trying to preserve the policy space in case they need to respond to any global shock. inflation is very low. growth is sluggish. the currency is extremely strong and they are benefiting from massive inflows, for inflows. that is an issue for the economy. i think it is going to be an interesti

back to terry now and thailand's most wanted woman that's right that's right been thailand supreme court has sentenced former prime minister yingluck shinawatra to five years in jail she was found guilty of failing to stop corruption in a government rice subsidies should walk was not present when the sentence was read out she fled the country in august when the verdict was originally due. well for more on this story let's bring in our correspondent floria know she's standing by for us in bangkok florian first of all yang looks right subsidies scheme was deemed a failure but governments make lots of costly mistakes all the time why did this result in criminal prosecution. i think there are two answers to that one one legal istic one if you listen to the judges they have a unanimous vote saying that members of your glocks administration actually falsified a government to government rise deal and that that was also corruption involved which you know it wasn't part of but she should have overseen that which she didn't so she was accused of negligence and that is the legal istic answer but i

going on into sunday you can see the west or whether they're just around thailand turning up the heavy showers that we have into parts of the goal line the showers into central and southern parts of india as well further north is warm in new delhi thirty three. the weather sponsored by qatar and nice. russian filmmaker under a necklace of continues his journey across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin during his travels he meets christians and muslims patriots and separatists i told you the locals in the southeast were on our side when i arrived i don't do something completely different someone to leave russia but for others the russian passport means hope and the chance of happens in search of putin's russia at this time onal jazeera. you're watching others here a reminder of our top stories this hour britain's terror threat level has been raised from severe to critical after an explosive device detonated on a london underground train twenty nine people were injured in the incident which happened at one of the busiest times of the morning. north korean leader kim j

americans leave the united states for medical care than foreigners come to the united states go to thailand there as if they want to go to brazil for a boob job but not for important things like cancer and they like here because we are the best when they go to thailand they're going because their brain a cash price they can also go to oklahoma they can go to florida and they can go to virginia and that's where the people from canada come it's own guys the only guys should get out of the united states and see some of these other countries anyhow charles and julio great having you with us thanks for dropping by tonight you know and that's the way it is tonight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport it requires you get out there get active tag your. all the feelings of. every the experience. that you get out of the old world. according to a gesture. welcome our moral come along for the rock. there's a real irony going. to let them think that it responsible points in the people and there is always. the question always. seems you know little more area now wholesale surveillance you

flee the country before sentencing everyone knew that was a risk there's a history of that in bangkok thailand how could she be allowed to get away. yeah that's the thing and even though the military junta denies any role in. nobody really biased that because she had been under pretty much twenty four hour surveillance there is a very tight security grip on the military so for someone like you for someone like you not just to escape across the border into cambodia that's apparently what happened without the military knowing about it that it's hard to believe for everyone so my take and the take of pretty much everyone here is that the military ordered the police to how pro flee the country because the military thought this would be an elegant way of getting rid of an opponent because they feared jailing would actually could stir the masses here to protest but with this symbol gone the military can basically continue as they like florian thank you so much to florian notion that reporting from bangkok so you look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today spain's ce

the former prime minister of thailand sentenced to five years in prison in absentia. yingluck shinawatra was pushed out in a crew three years ago and has been charge over her governments failed rights policy. close to 500,000 rohingya muslims have not run from permit into bangladesh. coming up, our exclusive with the road injured insurgents the first attack police in vermont wanting the mass retaliation that's been called ethnic cleansing. and a victory for rights groups in saudi arabia. women there will finally be allowed to drive starting next waser david saudi arabia the last country in the world still barring women from getting behind the wheel. has a deal been struck between paris and rome for the french shipyard that built the world's biggest cruise liner? details in our business update. and paris and all its splendor has a saint laurent fashion show near the eiffel tower. the top court in thailand has sentenced the former prime minister yingluck shinawatra to five years in prison. she was sentenced in absentia for kernel negligence after having fled the country

thailand's supreme court is expected to deliver the verdict in the corruption case of former prime minister yingluck shinawatra who fled the country last month. but first iraq has ordered the kurdistan regional government to surrender control of its poles all face an embargo on. international flights it's all part of mounting pressure on the kurdish leadership over its secession referendum which was held on monday now initial results are showing that may's people voted yes in this non-binding referendum that ripple through. the rhetoric and threats continue and from both sides. are still is still occupying some parts of kirkuk and some parts of iraq are still is still a threat to the cities with some of the brothers in iraqi kurdistan a living we must not divide iraq according to or through or viral referendum that is completely rejected such language will go down well with the international community including the u.s. and the e.u. each sent the timing of the vote could weaken iraq's unity at a time when the fight against terrorism is paramount and about he says the kurdish referendum on i

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mass of cloud across the other side of into china through laos easing across into northern parts of thailand and continue to drive its way further west which is because on through the next few days a few showers there in hong kong as we go through monday into tuesday it should brighten up some very heavy rain that you can see across central parts of china. as continue across southeast asia some lively downpours coming in here malaysia cool seeing some other wet weather that weather just stretching across towards the good parts of well southern areas of thailand joys out with the wet weather that we have over the other side of the thing golez big down polls will continue as we go on through the next couple of days quite a massive cloud actually across the goal of the moment be a mosque seeing some heavy downpours again the remnants of docs year here weather into the far north east of india very wet weather into central and southern parts of in the western areas the western gas look very disturbed over the next couple of days to the north of that is dry. sponsored. a deadly attack destroyed he

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watching al jazeera live from doha also coming up the verdict is guilty local media in thailand say the former prime minister yingluck shinawatra has been sentenced to five years in prison for corruption. a landmark decision in saudi arabia will allow women to drive for the first time starting next june plus. it's a welcome break from the fear of a nuclear attack south korea holds a film festival to call for peace. russia and france have called on kurdish leaders not to pursue actions that may further destabilize the region they are the latest international powers to call on the bill to remain part of iraq in the wake of monday's session referendum moscow called for talks between baghdad and the courteously. the ship the french foreign minister says a declaration of independence would trigger a new crisis meanwhile iraq is demanding the kurdish regional government surrender control of its airports or face a ban of international flights charles stratford reports from bill gates the rhetoric and threats continue and from both sides iraq the need that's out of that i still is still occupyi

storms just around the gulf of thailand a little further south we're trying has seen one hundred thirty six millimeters afraid in twenty four hours and those showers structure all the way up through bangkok live the weather here she can see lightning strike in bangkok the big showers so they do stretch their way across cambodia vietnam into the philippines week showers there to into borneo some very heavy rain coming through his sliding a little further southwards as we go on through monday some wet weather there into java city some wet weather recently it's the central parts of australia has had forty two millimeters of rain since saturday and whether stretching south of the border into south australia sixty one millimeters of rain here twenty four hours this area cloud and right that will make its way further eastward queensland seeing some heavy rain eventually pushing into northern parts of new south wales that's no bad thing with that very wet weather just around the gold coast the sunshine coast as we go on through monday not looking to study them brits been at around twenty degre

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this is state of the news coming to you live from berlin five years in jail but the will thailand's former prime minister actually serve the sentence the supreme court finds young look should a lot of guilty of negligence bought she's already fled the country and has given no sign of planning to return home.

that's going to dissolve disintegrate and do its darndest to make people rather too wet in northern thailand probably me and in the next day or so and vietnam still got the feet of the most suggesting more showers on that coast there's a big gap until you pick up shanghai under these green is repetition of rain has been falling recently more than a month's worth in one day fell a couple days ago which of course is the real problem shanghai has had a wet summer and that line is developing once more so i think the potential for flooding is going to be realized it's still hot to the south of forty one is forecast in the future that really is quite outstanding in hong kong thirty four humid degrees otherwise though fairly dry they do expect the rain bands to be going south this time the and indeed they are still plenty there in the philippines and now increasingly through malaysia and they should get fairly daily there in jarvis a jackass is likely to get a few showers and if you're in singapore used to it by now as to thailand yeah it's still wet. the weather sponsored by qatar and nice. too of

thailand's former prime minister yingluck shinawatra has been handed a five year jail sentence after being found guilty of negligence but she was in court to hear the verdict after fleeing thailand last month should know what was convicted of mismanaging a rice a subsidy scheme that cost the country billions of dollars. residents of the indonesian island of bali are spending their six that day on the highest possible will cain alert as mount are going threatens to erupt the volcano in northeastern bali is spurting smoke and that the intensity of tremors is increasing that's according to seismologists almost one hundred thousand people have been evacuated from a twelve kilometer exclusion zone the last time mt ago in europe that that was one thousand nine hundred sixty three more than a thousand people were killed. tens of thousands of people have been out protesting in south africa against president jacob zuma and the corruption that they say has become in them make under his leadership the marches were organized by the country's largest workers' union whose alliance with the african

we also see records and taiwan, thailand, south korea, indonesia. china has the biggest fx reserves. they lost $1 trillion, but are rebuilding that now. there comfortably above the $3 trillion mark. the asia reserve story looks strong. betty: how worried are the policymakers about the fed? center. is front and this is what all the policymakers have been waiting for. indications are they are taking it in their stride. broadly speaking, asia and emerging markets have done well. central banks in asia have not had the -- it is an unusual coupling. we are going down a new route, a balance sheet tightening. conditions appear quite calm. but there is always risk of surprise and some countries might be vulnerable to some sort of volatility triggered by janet yellen's announcement next week. there is caution, and that is why they are buying foreign currencies at a record pace. in indiae reserve bank was among the hardest hit by this taper tantrum. are they prepared better for fed tightening? enda: most certainly. back in 2013, investors dumped indian currenc

guilty verdict thailand's former prime minister yingluck shinawatra is sentenced to five years in prison for corruption plus. a strong show of force from south africa's largest workers' union the number one demand president jacob zuma must go. to. the kurdish regional governments transport minister has rejected a demand from iraq to relinquish control of its airports baghdad says it will ban international flights from landing in kurdish regional airports from friday it follows monday's succession vote unofficial estimates say the referendum has passed earlier russia called on iraqi and kurdish leaders to avoid pursuing actions that may further destabilize the region get more now from how to go home a joining us live from erbil how did you think iraq will go through with these threats. well actually just moments ago did you rocky civil aviation authorities said it had notified international airlines that it will be suspending all flights international flies from fifteen hundred g.m.t. on friday prime minister said from twelve hundred g.m.t. and now we also are seeing reports but i cannot

there's no doubt the shinawatra and their party still enjoy a lot of support around thailand but there's unlikely to be any significant mobilization of those supporters following this verdict since the military coup in two thousand and fourteen that saw the young like government removed from office the military has clamped down on dissent and opposition voices. the shinawatra believe they are victims of a campaign by the establishment and military to remove them from politics for good . they support his may have been largely silenced but they refused to give up. i don't know what's the political future is but the people always support the shit of what the party will always vote for the poor thai party with a without a shadow what's the verdict means that depending on the political situation you know what is unlikely to be back in thailand for a long time if at all wayne hay al jazeera bangkok now we're going to talk about the. story we cover a lot here the exodus continuing in some pretty staggering numbers which is what we want to focus on i'm going to level with you i was going to do a