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

I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Sunday the 8th of September,

these are our main stories.

Tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating across France claiming President Macron has stolen democracy by appointing a right-wing Prime Minister.

Security forces in Venezuela's capital have encircled the Argentine embassy

where prominent opposition figures have been sheltering for months.

The heads of the American and British intelligence services say the world is facing a threat not seen since the Cold War.

Also in this podcast? Last? Didn't we almost have it all.

The award-winning lyricist Will Jennings, who wrote many hits like this one,

has died at the age of 80.

We begin in France where tens of thousands of people have been taking part in demonstrations claiming

that President Macron has stolen democracy by appointing a right-wing

Prime Minister Michel Barnier. The mostly left-wing protesters took to the streets of more than a hundred towns and cities.

These demonstrators in Bordeaux shouted resistance, resistance.

Mr Barnier, a former foreign minister who also acted as the EU's Brexit negotiator,

was appointed by President Macron on Thursday after two months of political deadlock in the wake of inconclusive

elections, which saw Parliament roughly split in three between a left-wing alliance,

Mr Macron's centrist and the far right. Although the left did win the most votes, it came

nowhere near an absolute majority. The French far-right leader, Jordan Bardella, had this

warning for President Macron and his new Prime Minister.

If Mr Barnier, S sweat E. Port of

If Mr Barnier wants to be the voice and the driver of the democratic aspirations that were expressed in the

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