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30/08/2013

IRS Recognises Gay Marriage

BBC World Service - Business Matters, IRS Recognises Gay Marriage

The US tax authorities say they're going to recognize gay marriage even if 35 states won't

The US tax authorities say they're going to recognize gay marriage even if 35 states won't.

There has been a new  victory for gay marriage in the US. The federal tax authorities say they'll recognise same-sex unions, but most states won't - so what's going to happen? We get reaction from Gregory T Angelo from the Log Cabin Republican group.

There's a rather bizarre protest going on in Paraguay over the last three weeks - eight men and now one woman have had themselves nailed to wooden crosses in protest at their dismissal from their jobs as bus drivers in the capital, Asuncion. We get the latest.

Plus our special guests the author Gordon Chang and Rachel Lu of the e-magazine Tea Leaf Nation in Hong Kong react to the latest developments on Syria.

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