indian administered kashmir continue to escalate venezuelans fleeing to brazil described how unbearable their lives have been even before the latest crisis and we report on iraq s fight to revive a sports with an illustrious history in the country. thank you for joining us we start the program in nigeria where the president has called for an investigation into why the country s presidential election was postponed by a week mohamedou biharis ruling party held an emergency meeting in the capital of abuja on the election commission surprise the situation to move the vote to saturday that i jury and they don t criticize the commission saying it needed to explain its quote incompetence he also called for the reasons behind the delay to be made public but only after polling takes place. definitively. why such incompetence many of his son. has to be explained to the nation after the election we have to know exactly what happened and. i know it s our employees to. make sure that this
violence in nigeria where one man has lost more than twenty family members. plus following years of war how the ancient iraqi sport of tent picking is bouncing back . welcome to the news hour donald trump has issued a public plea to venezuela s military to support opposition leader one point zero the u.s. president has been speaking to the largest venezuelan community outside of the country at a rally in miami now he told the crowd that the military would lose everything if it continued to support embattled president nicolas maduro. we seek a peaceful transition of power. but all options are on the law we want to restrict your venezuelan democracy and we believe that the venezuelan military and its leadership have a vital role to play in this process if you choose this pair you have the opportunity to help forge a safe and prosperous future for all of the people of venezuela or you can choose the second pair continuing to support. the one. you will find no safe harbor no easy
social credit scoring system finding themselves banned from traveling. some fear is in the money the british heavyweight multi-million dollar broadcast deal more. hello and more than forty indian soldiers were killed last thursday in indian administered kashmir the government promised a swift response to one of the worst attacks on its forces and then on monday indian soldiers surrounded a village in the same area looking for suspects they came under heavy gunfire leading to a battle that killed four soldiers two suspected members of an armed group and a civilian the incident is now adding to the already tense atmosphere around the region and pakistan has called back its high commissioner from new delhi. has more from new delhi. in the past few hours has been more fighting in indian administered kashmir several soldiers as well as a deputy inspector general of the kashmir police have been injured the police officer has been taken to hospital with a bullet injury to his leg an
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