This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in the evening in the venezuelan capital, caracas. Thats where two Opposition Leaders have been dragged from their homes by Security Forces and taken to a Military Prison after being accused by president maduros government of inciting violence. The un Secretary General says the escalating crisis in the country is making a peaceful solution difficult. Katy watson is in caracas. Antonio ledesma screams for help as he is taken away in his pyjamas by the venezuelan intelligence service. Theres panic while someone else yells that venezuela is now a dictatorship. He wasnt the only one to be taken away, officers also seized Leopoldo Lopez, an Opposition Leader released from prison a few weeks ago but placed under house arrest. Tensions are running high in venezuela after the election of a new assembly that will effectively rewrite the and. There have been violent protests in recent months and o
This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in the evening in the venezuelan capital, caracas. Thats where two Opposition Leaders have been dragged from their homes by Security Forces and taken to a Military Prison after being accused by president maduros government of inciting violence. The un Secretary General says the escalating crisis in the country is making a peaceful solution difficult. Katy watson is in caracas. Antonio ledesma screams for help as he is taken away in his pyjamas by the venezuelan intelligence service. Theres panic while someone else yells that venezuela is now a dictatorship. He wasnt the only one to be taken away, officers also seized Leopoldo Lopez, an Opposition Leader released from prison a few weeks ago but placed under house arrest. Tensions are running high in venezuela after the election of a new assembly that will effectively rewrite the and. There have been violent protests in recent months and o
bret: obviously, we have a personal relationship in that evan wall street journal reporter under our corporate umbrella and we have been doing stories and stories and a lot of, you know, outside pressure. is this one of these things where it could last for a long time? i have you might call me an optimist, but i believe that after november, no matter what the election results are, in this country, they will be a period of opportunity to negotiate for his release. and i thank you for all the conch that you do on him. i know you have done conch with the american families of hostages in gaza. and that conch, again, from a negotiating part of you, point of view, it is so useful it and critical in order to help us get people home. bret: while the united states and others can work with negotiators to call for the release of americans, the government cannot state to an overseas court that a citizen is guilty or innocent or provide
longer. putting the economy atop the to do list over immigration makes them mainstream and while yesterday s focus was on a $40 billion investment in a micro chip plant to make the u.s. less reliant on chips from china and taiwan they re now daring elected officials to say the border is a bigger problem than the economy. top priority is investing in the american economy and american communities and he is focused on out competing china and bringing back american jobs from overseas. that s what you ll see today. so if anyone believes that the president shouldn t make that his top priority they should say that out loud. so far none of these elected people that they re challenging have come forward to say that they think the border is a bigger priority than the economy. so it does not appear that president biden is feeling any kind of outside pressure to go to the border, bill.
for life now all with a major step towards what he sees as his legacy, and that s returning china to become the global superpower. not a superpower, but the global superpower in line with ancient chinese greatness. and to do that, he s told his military to rapidly modernize, to prepare for war by 20 the 27. their navy is larger than ours, their space force is launching more than we are. and he s told his economy to become self-sufficient both technologicallyically and from a manufacturing standpoint so that they can resist any type of outside pressure. he has become the most powerful chinese dictator since mao. maria: well, i know for sure that if the communist party of china is the number one superpower, your kids, their kids, my kids and their kids and grandkids are not going to have the same opportunities that we had in a freedom-loving america as the number one superpower.