Venezuela’s disputed election

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🗓️ 3 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie presents stories from Venezuela, Israel, Zimbabwe, Turkey and France.

Thousands of Venezuelans are protesting against the results of the presidential election last weekend in which the incumbent Nicolas Maduro claimed victory. The US said there is overwhelming evidence the opposition leader, Edmundo Gonzalez won the election. Since the election, several hundred people have been detained. Ione Wells has been in Caracas.

Hopes for a ceasefire deal between Israel and the militant group Hamas were dealt a serious blow this week with the assassination in Iran of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas. He was targeted only hours after Israel killed a senior commander of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement. Barbara Plett Usher spoke to the people most desperate for a Gaza truce.

Zimbabwe’s government has launched public hearings into a period of ethnic killings in the 1980s when former president Robert Mugabe moved to dismantle the strongholds of his arch-rival. The killings laid the foundation for lingering ethnic tensions. Shingai Nyoka spoke to some of the survivors and victim's families.

Turkish society is fiercely divided over stray dogs and a new law aims to remove an estimated four million from the streets. A controversial provision of that law that requires euthanasia for dogs deemed ill or dangerous has further galvanized Turkish citizens, says Victoria Craig.

In Paris, residents had serious reservations in the lead up to the Olympics: ranging from the E. coli risk posed to triathletes in the Seine, to the impending deluge of tourists taking over the capital. But has the event itself succeeded in winning over Parisians, asks Andrew Harding.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:05.3	Hello. Today we're in Jerusalem, where we hear from those embroiled in the conflict
0:11.1	between Israel and Gaza after two senior leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah
0:15.8	were killed. In Zimbabwe can public hearings help the country come to terms with the
0:21.6	legacy of a dark period in its history.
0:25.2	In Turkey stray dogs in the streets have largely been looked after by locals, but a controversial
0:31.3	new law is set to change that.
0:34.0	And finally, after initial scepticism about the Olympics,
0:38.0	Parisians are reveling in the triumph of the triathlon
0:42.0	in the now safe waters of the Seine and General Bonnumerre.
0:47.4	But first, thousands of Venezuelans have taken to the streets of the capital Caracas
0:52.1	and beyond to protest against the results of the presidential election last weekend in which the incumbent Nicholas Maduro claimed victory.
1:02.0	The opposition swiftly declared the result to be fraudulent and
1:05.2	independent observers said the vote could not be considered democratic.
1:10.1	The US Secretary of State said there is overwhelming evidence that the opposition leader
1:15.8	Edmondo Gonzalez won the election. Prior to that election, opposition candidates had been banned from standing.
1:24.0	Since the election, several hundred people have been detained, according to Venezuela's
1:28.7	Attorney General.
1:30.3	Irony Wells has been in Caracas.
1:33.0	Venezuela is a very hard country to enter and a very hard country to leave.
1:38.0	To enter because the international media are only allowed to have visas during election periods. The government wants us
1:44.4	and the world to see they are holding elections, less so what goes on outside them.
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