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

I'm Rachel Wright and in the early hours of Tuesday the 30th of July, these are our main

stories. President Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela has accused

his opponents of trying to mount a coup as large crowds take to the streets to

denounce his re-election as fraudulent. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has faced

years from crowds on a visit to the scene of a deadly rocket strike in the

occupied Golan Heights. On day three of the Paris Olympics, Ukraine has won its first medal and a

17-year-old Canadian swimmer has taken her second.

Also in this podcast... Jonathan Clothia.

This graduation was a long time coming.

Johnny Clothia, who's now 62,

lined up alongside those in their 20s at the University of Bristol.

At last, a British man graduates after many years, all because a parrot ruffled a few feathers.

We begin in Venezuela's capital Caracas. Where security forces have used tear gas against crowds protesting against

Nicholas Maduro's presidential election victory, although Maduro has been officially declared the winner,

the opposition has rejected the outcome as fraudulent.

He is responded by accusing the opposition of trying to stage a coup.

A number of countries including the US, Brazil and Spain have demanded transparency over the vote count,

and nine Latin American nations have requested an emergency meeting of the

organization of American states to discuss the results. Our South American

correspondent, Ioni Wales, is in Caracas and gave this assessment of the day's events.

In Caracas, thousands of people have started walking towards the Presidential Palace

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