Words of thanks for the expressions of solidarity i received from you. I wanted to inform you that i arrived to madrid today in the morning, my departure from caracas was surrounded by episodes of pressure, coercion and threats that i would not be allowed to leave. I trust that we would soon continue the fight for liberty and the return to democracy in venezuela. A big hug for everyone. Venezuela s opposition says its candiate mr gonzalez won the presidential election held on the 28th ofjuly. The opposition published vote tallies online claiming to show its victory. The us, the eu and other nations backed those voting figures and to this day recognise mr gonzalez as the winner. But, nicolas maduro a socialist who s been in power 11 years says he won the election. He moved to crush protests and legal challenges to the results ultimately forcing mr gonzalez to seek protection. Before fleeing the country, he took refuge in the spanish embassy in caracas. The 75 year old faced certai
Are put in to bat on an overcast first morning of the third test against sri lanka. They already hold an unassailable 2 0 series lead. Good afternoon, and welcome to the Bbc News at one. The Prison Population in england and wales has hit a record high for the second week in a row. The latest figures show there are now more than 88,500 inmates. Thats a rise of almost 1,200 in five weeks. Around half of those are cases linked to this summers riots. In a few days time, the governments temporary early Release Scheme will begin, and some offenders will be able to leave jail at an earlier point in their sentences. Lets speak now to our Uk Correspondent daniel sandford. Daniel, what are these high numbers doing to the Prison System . Last week, i was sitting here talking to your audience about the Prison Population hitting an all time high. This week its even higher, and essentially what happened is on the 30th Ofjuly when the rioting Started this summer, the Prison Population has been rising
[crowd clamoring] [protesters chanting] harris and we begin this day with more Breaking News on a very basic Rite Of Passage for people just trying to reach their dreams, by going to college. Albeit a very expensive college, and you would think that by paying that much you might not have to see this over and over. Its not just free speech on display, which is fine. Its the violence and the rioting. Students are in fact back on campus, but the jewish Hating Protesters are back out in force, too. Im harris faulkner. You are in the faulkner focus. The antijewish protesters at Columbia University are saying they are going to return for a second day. We can tell you that some students are also planning a Sit In at the international affairs building. They are demanding that people walk out of Hillary Clintons class. Per usual, complaints by College Students over the entire New York area, the School Leaders are not doing enough. The administration has made a commitment to ensuring the safety
Investigation is continuing just now, that has been difficult for the snp, hard for people to move past that. There was a lack of progress, of course, on independence. A number of people who have criticised a strategy that Nicola Sturgeon pursued, that Hamza Yusuf pursued as well, her successor, and of course Nicola Sturgeon was such a successful politician. She resigned quite suddenly and was replaced by Hamza Yusuf as her predecessor, who had a short time as First Minister and of course, he did not have the support at holyrood in the chamber i do not have enough mps to get things through. So there were a minority government, they had lost their Partnership Support so he had to go. John swinney is now coming in, trying to address a lot of those problems, a lot of those problems beyond their control, such as the police investigation. 0ther control, such as the police investigation. Other problems, when it comes to delivering, for example, Government Advisers here quite candid, say, yes
In the west make the idf sending in hundreds of soldiers with armored vehicles and bulldozers israel says it has killed 20 terrorists and gun battles and airstrikes including a senior hamas commander welcomed a brandnew hour of fox news live i am bryan llenas. Anita: i am anita vogel. West bank operation is considered one of the biggest and deadliest since the war began between israel and hamas. The fighting growing more intense today with reports that at least one idf soldier was killed several others wounded. Many in the international community are calling for a halt in the fighting. A jeff a paul is life in tel aviv with the latest on the ground. Brian a fourth day of her raids by israeli forces got under way a little earlier today in the west bank. And really, when you look at this operation it is one of the most significant and biggest bit operations that is really forces have conducted in that area in quite some time. Most recently they are focused in and around the west bank c c