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

I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 1300-I's GMT on Monday the 21st of October,

these are our main stories.

In Moldova, a referendum on a commitment to join the European Union appears to have been

won very narrowly by the yes vote.

A US Special Envoy has arrived in Beirut for talks with Lebanese leaders about bringing

the war between Israel and Hezbollah to an end.

We look at the issues and groups dominating the US presidential election campaign.

Hello, I'm Mariana Spring and we'll be discussing online fandums that could sway the US election.

Also in this podcast we discussed the legacy of Muslim preacher Fertula Gulen who was

accused of masterminding the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey.

We started Moldova where the result of the referendum on a commitment to join the European Union has been on a knife edge. Shortly before we recorded this podcast President Maya Sandu confirmed a majority yes vote of 50.28 percent

but polls in the lead up to the vote had indicated that the country 50.28%.

But polls in the lead up to the vote had indicated that the country would commit to joining

the EU with a comfortable margin.

And speaking at a news briefing, President Sandu said there'd been outside attempts to buy votes and that more needed to be done to combat corruption.

In the last few weeks police in the country have accused Russia of interference after large amounts of cash was seized at airports with connecting flights from Moscow.

I got the latest from my Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford,

who's in the country's capital, Kishna.

It was an extremely close vote. who's in the country's capital, Kishna.

There was an extremely close vote, as you say.

I mean, last night when the first results came in,

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