Hello and we're coming to News Hour from the BBC World Service.

We're coming to you live from London. My name's Paul Henley and we begin in

Bolivia in Central South America where two army leaders

have been arrested after soldiers and tanks took up position in front of government

buildings in what President Luis Arse called an attempted coup.

What happened prompted global condemnation of an attack on democracy.

Here's how it started.

Video footage showed armored vehicles and dozens of troops marching down the street in the

administrative capital La Pass.

Then suddenly things changed.

One of the tanks tried to break down a metal door of the presidential palace.

Surrounded by soldiers and by eight tanks, the now dismissed head of the army, General Juan Jose

Zuniga, said the armed forces intended to restructure democracy, to make it a true

democracy and not one run by the same few people for 30 to 40 years.

Reporters saw soldiers and tanks pulling back from the square shortly after.

The uprising lasted about five hours. This was the moment the

police arrested General Zuniga and took him away in a car. He'd been speaking to

reporters outside a military barracks when that happened.

In total, no, no, no, no,

it was not.

It was not a bad deal,

and no, no, no, President Arse later emerged to praise civilians for standing by him. They wanted to surprise us and the problem Bolivian.

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