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

I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Sunday the 18th of August,

these are our main stories. The Venezuelan opposition leader, Marie- the fresh demonstrations take place against Nicholas Maduro being declared

the winner of the recent presidential election. The UN's nuclear watchdog

says the safety situation at the Zapparichi nuclear power plant in Russian occupied Ukraine is deteriorating

following a drone strike near its perimeter.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says Israeli negotiators have expressed cautious optimism about

the possibility of reaching a deal with Hamas on Gaza. Also in this

podcast, any woman in India has faced this sort of things at any level, be it as small as cat calling to getting sexually assaulted or raped.

Non-emergency hospital care in India is halted by a 24-hour strike and processed at the murders of a doctor and a nurse.

A recently qualified doctor tells us how vulnerable she and many other women feel.

Let's begin in Venezuela. That's the sound of opposition leader Maria Karina Machado

atop a campaign truck joining thousands of protesters on the streets of Caracas.

She spent most of the last month in hiding contesting the declared results of July's presidential

election. The Electoral Council named Nicholas Maduro the winner again,

but the opposition says it won and the United States, the European Union and some countries in the

region also reject Mr. Maduro's victory claim.

Ms Machado told her supporters they were not going to leave the streets.

Edmundo Gonzalez, the opposition's candidate, says Mr Maduro, cannot ignore the

will of Venezuelans.

Instead of preparing democratically for a peaceful transition, the regime has decided to

persecute, imprison and murder compatriots who've only demanded for the majority

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