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we begin in venezuela, where the security services have taken two opposition leaders off to a military prison, a move that s been widely condemned. after months of violent protests and deaths, the un secretary general has said rising political tensions are making it harder to find any peaceful solution to the current crisis. venezuela has some of the world s largest proven oil deposits but 82% of venezuelans live in poverty. former president hugo chavez, who died in 2013 after 1a years in office, styled himself a champion of the poor and poured billions of dollars of venezuela s oil wealth into social programmes. his successor, nicolas maduro, has struggled to cope with inflation running at more than 50% a year, plummeting oil prices and accusations of corruption. the bbc‘s katy watson sent this report from caracas. antonio ledezma screams for help as he s taken away in his pyjamas by the venezuelan intelligence service. there s panic, while someone else yells that ve ....
we begin in venezuela, where the security services have taken two opposition leaders off to a military prison, a move that s been widely condemned. after months of violent protests and deaths, the un secretary general has said rising political tensions are making it harder to find any peaceful solution to the current crisis. venezuela has some of the world s largest proven oil deposits but 82% of venezuelans live in poverty. former president hugo chavez, who died in 2013 after 1a years in office, styled himself a champion of the poor and poured billions of dollars of venezuela s oil wealth into social programmes. his successor, nicolas maduro, has struggled to cope with inflation running at more than 50% a year, plummeting oil prices and accusations of corruption. the bbc‘s katy watson sent this report from caracas. antonio ledezma screams for help as he s taken away in his pyjamas by the venezuelan intelligence service. there s panic, while someone else yells that ve ....
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. ....