supplies are at a premium. my guest is leopoldo lopez, long time venezuelan opposition leader and former political prisoner, now in exile in spain. is it time for him to acknowledge failure? leopoldo lopez, in madrid, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. thank you for the opportunity. it s great to have you on the show. back in 2019, your big idea as a key leader of the venezuelan opposition was to undermine socialist president nicolas maduro by creating an alternative president and an alternative government. would you now acknowledge that big idea has failed? well, certainly we were not able to remove the dictatorship. and if we are measured by that standard, certainly we didn t get to the results we expected. but it s also true for any other alternative that we ve tried for over 20 years. we ve tried voting. we won the national assembly with two thirds of the vote, and the dictatorship also dismantled the possibility of the national assembly to exercise its constitutio
on the streets of lima, members of the security forces confronted crowds demanding the resignation of president dina boluarte. you re watching bbc news. now, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. venezuela s authoritarian leader, nicolas maduro, has, for the moment, outmanoeuvred those forces inside and outside the country, intent on his removal. last month, the opposition gave up on their own alternative president and indicated a willingness to negotiate with maduro. in the us, in latin america and in europe, they seem ready to engage with the caracas regime, not least because oil supplies are at a premium. my guest is leopoldo lopez, long time venezuelan opposition leader and former political prisoner, now in exile in spain. is it time for him to acknowledge failure? leopoldo lopez in madrid, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. thank you for the opportunity. it s great to have you on the show. back in 2019, your big idea as a key leader of t
vladimir putin illegally annexes four regions. there s no checks on mr. putin. can the west keep him under control? plus the road to 2018, virginia becomes a battleground for one of the most competitive house races in the country. you look across the spectrum, the number is 218. i spent time in a district that could prove decisive. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is picking up the pieces after a devastating storm. the numbers and images are staggering. at least 67 are dead in florida, four in north carolina, more than 850,000 still in the dark this morning. hundreds of thousands now essentially refugees days after hurricane ian swept ashore and swept away life as many know it. already more than a thousand civilians have been rescued and evacuated according to the governor s office. we re getting a clearer view of ian s map-altering impact. entire stretches of florida s coastline are gone. once sprawling community like sanibel island
we re glad to be together on this couch. rachel: we are glad to be together. will: petition and i were talking, it s like we were talking in code and rachel s like i m not following. we were speaking in sports pet s metaphor. rachel: we do speak in code sometimes. we don t talk in code with you. we re grateful you re here, fourth hour of two days, four hours, we re in the home stretch. we have a lot of big news. rachel: we sure do. there s no bigger news in my house than our baby valentina turned 3 years old. she celebrated with a birthday dinner and we got her cake. she has come along way. she doesn t just have down s syndrome. she had a serious heart condition when she s was six months old, had open hearth surgery so we re so glad and i want to be put it up because so many viewers prayed so hard for her and her doctors during the surgery. she is doing great. she just started school. they start school for children with special needs with down s a little earlier so she s st
world. ahead this hour, tv news mourns the passing of a legend. we ll take a look at the life and legacy of barbara walters. plus these murders have shaken our community and no arrest will ever bring back these young students. the long-awaited arrest in connection to the murders of four university of idaho students. how the community is reacting after this month s long ordeal. and a never-before-seen look at donald trump s taxes. house democrats making six years of the former president s financials public. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom . trailblazer, pioneer, ground breaker. however you label her, barbara walters was an american original. late friday we learned that legendary news woman had passed away peacefully at the age of 93. it is easy to forget what it was like six decades ago when women were rarely, if ever seen as serious journalists in the u.s. she proved them wrong becoming the first to co-anchor an evening newscast and that was just t