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It's Wednesday, the 8th of October. This month is just flying by. It's going to be Halloween

before you know it. Welcome to the president's daily brief. I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears

on the world stage. All right. Let's get briefed. First up, Venezuela's president, Nicholas Maduro,

is putting on a show of strength. But new reporting says his own people aren't buying it.

We'll look at why his call to arms is apparently coming up short and what it reveals about cracks forming inside his regime.

Later in the show, a Canadian surveillance plane enforcing sanctions on North Korea gets buzzed by Chinese jets, part of a growing

pattern of risky encounters in the region. Plus, Syria holds its first elections since the fall of the

Assad regime. We'll tell you who's now in charge, and why not everyone's convinced, this marks a real

democratic transition. And in today's back of the brief,

apparently the most dangerous place for a Russian to be, other than the Ukrainian front lines,

is standing next to a window. We've got another mysterious death among Russia's elite. This time,

a former newspaper publisher falls out of his apartment window.

But first, today's PDB spotlight.

Today we're beginning in South America, where Venezuela's government continues its efforts to project strength in the face of mounting U.S. pressure.

But new reporting suggests President Nicholas Maduro's call to arms may be exposing cracks,

both among the civilian population

and inside his own armed forces. According to the Financial Times, his rallying of the troops

...