Thailand's Prime Minister has called a snap election in an effort to defuse the kingdom's political crisis.
For more than a month hundreds of thousands of protestors have taken to the streets in sometimes violent street protests in an effort to topple Yingluck Shinawatra's government.
Demonstrators have been calling on her to suspend the country's democracy in favour of an unelected "People's Council".
Opposition lawmakers resigned en masse from parliament yesterday, deepening the political deadlock.
Sky's Asia correspondent Mark Stone says its difficult to predict what will happen next.
