maria corina machado. welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, stephen, it is a pleasure. great to have you on the show. for years, you have argued that participating in democracy in venezuela under nicolas maduro s rule, is a grave mistake because it ends up legitimising maduro. how come you have now decided to your hat in the ring how come you have now decided to put your hat in the ring and seek the nomination from the opposition, to fight in next year s presidential elections? for years, venezuela s people have been explaining to the world the way nicolas maduro have been rigging elections and turning down through control and repression, thejudiciary system, the national assembly, as well as the military at every single democratic institution. we have reached a point in which we realise maduro is willing to do anything to stay in power. the only way through which we can confront and defeat him is building a huge, unprecedented social movement, citizen movement that is ri
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alliance, and it s good for sweden and turkey and all of nato and the baltic region. but the big topic of discussion at this high stakes summit is the war in ukraine. ukraine wants a path to nato membership, but the u.s. and other countries are reluctant to do so while the war is still raging. looking at this is josh letterman, and also joining us, jim townsend, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for nato. and a former deputy assistant second of defense. how did this happen? well, josé, according to the countries that are involved in this, nato and the u.s., and of course, turkey, they were able to move past long-standing concerns that turkey had about arms exports and terrorism within sweden and finland, the country that joined nato back in april. but behind the scenes there was a lot of wrangling by the turkish government trying to extract concessions on key issues, including trying to get the u.s. to sell f-16s to turkey, and we started to hear from presiden
stream of threats after ruling former president trump should be taken off the state s primary ballot. we re following breaking news overseas, in prague, authorities say an unspecified number of people are dead after a shooting at prague university. at the border, we re live in eagle pass, texas, where agents are trying to process thousands of migrants at the bridge crossing. plus, why the governor of texas chartered a plane to fly migrants to chicago. breaking overnight, ten americans jailed in venezuela are now back on u.s. soil after the u.s. frees a major maduro ally. we begin this very busyour with the aftermath of the colorado supreme court s bombshell decision to bar former president trump from the state s primy ballot next year. afr the ruling, threats aimed at colorado s justices flooded social media, according to a report nbc news obtained exclusively from a nonprofit organization that conducts public interest research. it says some of the threats came directly
minister imran khan has been arrested in connection with a corruption case. these are the pictures, showing para military troops whisking him away from the islamabad court complex in a van. mr khan had arrived in the court to seek bail in other cases registered against him. his party leaders say the premises were attacked by security forces who arrested mr khan. these images have just these images havejust come these images have just come to us, they appear to show mr khan s lawyer, apparently injured during the arrest. members of the paramilitary appear to break through the court windows. let s get more on this with our south asian regional editor anbarasan ethirajan. there is a lot of confusion. bring us up to date if you would on what we know so far. in us up to date if you would on what we know so far. we know so far. in a dramatic development, we know so far. in a dramatic development, pakistani - we know so far. in a dramatic i development, pakistani rangers we know