This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritzen and at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 2nd of August,

these are our main stories.

The Kremlin confirms the convicted assassin Vardim Krasikov, released in a huge East-West prisoner

swap, was a Russian security agent.

Meanwhile, President Biden and Vice President Harris have welcomed home the Americans freed from Russian jails

while the Trump campaign tries to claim credit.

Hundreds of mourners gather in Doha Qatar to offer funeral prayers for assassinated Hamas leader Ishmael Haniya.

Also in this podcast.

We want a change because we can no longer stand this government. in this

government.

There is so much misery, so much hunger, so much crime, so much injustice

towards innocent people.

The results of Venezuela's presidential election remain disputed.

The US declares the opposition have won.

Nicholas Maduro says otherwise.

We speak to one protester ahead of a nationwide mass

demonstration on Saturday. It's the morning after the night before in

Washington, the afternoon after in Moscow, and with

the prisoner exchange between Russia and the West now complete, the talking has begun, one of

the three Americans who arrived at Andrews Air Base, the

former US Marine Paul Whelan, has been speaking about his sense of relief as

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