the election tally, claiming it's being manipulated by the electoral council. and that's what we have time full, but coming up next, i don't commentary. the 2nd part is on documentary, on the dr. down cathedral in paris. and some of it's different states you into that if you can. i'm, i need to make it and thank you for watching the growing up as a palestinian and driven on. we can't expect much living with the bare minimum without civil rights and with no prospect. this is not a good environment. yeah, no, no, my children and favorite shadow starts oldest good. on the w for a long time you would believe.

and then for the secretary general of the national electoral council doctor. and you have access caracas, which 1 july 28th, 2024. congratulations the entire well, this was just part of the 1st or 2. it's been delivered by the national and electoral town. so engine sure. in that 69 percent of those eligible. that's the, that's the part and that there was a nation that a cyber attack, which is what joseph a, i've been looking at the new address location and as soon as 40 to this 1st report as well. there we have it the national electoral council giving a speech there in venezuela. they said that south to 80 percent of posting stations had returned results. that the incumbent nicholas, i'm a dear, who had 51.2 percent with the unity coalition, and the gonzalez on 44.2 percent. he said it was an irreversible trend. and of course the voters in venezuela had been taking part in this scene is one of the most consequential elections in the countries modern history. and the election itself took place on the 28th of july, the 1st day of the lights, and his wedding pres

it was watching the president maduro speaking, not the electoral council. in his remarks they are very competent and very strong rhetoric walking through the history of the conflict in venezuela and his cataloging. his views and all of the things that have been done against them. i think the election unfolding as part of a long-standing conflict and that conflict remains unresolved. i think there was certainly a hope that this would be recognized as the elected president of venezuela. i think that has not happened and isn't likely to happen given what i've seen. i'm not excusing it i'm just laying it out as i see it, but i think that getting the record straight is really important to bolstering how people see this and how they respond. of course the electoral authorities should release the precinct level data and it's important to keep focused on that. the focus is and should be on the election that i just took place. there are those may be some that are watching. a year ago they basically predicted how it is going to happen. those that predicted that are r

any backlash against this result preemptively represents the announcement from the electoral council, public prosecutor's office, persecution against those who announced different results or numbers from the government. moreover, mr. maduro announced he is calling for a dialogue but excluding the formal opposition in venezuela. this goes to show the evidence is stacking up of a massive fraud. the fabrication of results. wholesale fabrication of results by the government. it is reflective of the realities on the ground. geoff: thank you. i want to turn to that in a second, but why don't we bring in samantha schmidt. samantha is joining us from caracas. we are delighted she is able to join us. she is a washington post bureau chief covering south america and previously reported on gender and family issues for a local desk with a focus on the lgbtq community. she was awarded a national headliner award in 2020. i want to encourage everyone joining to tune into samantha's reporting and follow her latest piece she got out very early this morning looking at the latest from on the ground. what

it was watching the president maduro speaking, not the electoral council.remarks they are very competent and very strong rhetoric walking through the history of the conflict in venezuela and his cataloging. his views and all of the things that have been done against them. i think the election unfolding as part of a long-standing conflict and that conflict remains unresolved. i think there was certainly a hope that this would be recognized as the elected president of venezuela. i think that has not happened and isn't likely to happen given what i've seen. i'm not excusing it i'm just laying it out as i see it, but i think that getting the record straight is really important to bolstering how people see this and how they respond. of course the electoral authorities should release the precinct level data and it's important to keep focused on that. the focus is and should be on the election that i just took place. there are those may be some that are watching. a year ago they basically predicted how it is going to happen. those that predicted that are right, bu

according to venezuela's national electoral council, maduro obtained over 51% of the votes. let's 5.8 million votes and 3 million ballots ahead of his. opponent henry falcon, the electoral council with the turnout of 59%, maduro held his win as victory against what he called imperialism, and what you're seeing now is the gaza war, the us is really genocide is continuing there raining down bombs and shells and... is what the israel regime has done, killing at least 30 palestinians in the process. earlier we joined by our gaza correspond to musa for the latest details on the israeli crimes in the b strip. as the israeli army issued more evacuation orders for the people in alb refugee camp. vast residental squares were demanded to be fully evacuated from the palestinian people and the israel incubation of occupation forces demanded the palestinian people there to move and to evacuate to almase area and the wistering part of uh khanuni city as you know a massive influx of the displaced palestinians there were toks over the boss couple of hours uh we are talking about thousands o

all eyes need to be on venezuela's national electoral council, on the electoral authority, and whetheresults from this election. if maduro is confident in his victory, he should have no problems in publishing the results. 0n the contrary, if they do not, if we just see maduro claiming victory without backing it up it will be evidence of electoral thread. —— electoralfraud. new moments reveal when a police officer stomped on someone at an airport. you've got him on the floor, stop being agressive! the man in blue here is fahir amaaz — now known to millions as the man who has his head stamped on by a police officer. this new footage, obtained by the manchester evening news, shows what happened just beforehand. as police appear to try to apprehend the man in blue, a man in a grey top comes in and punches are thrown. the man in blue breaks free and more punches are thrown between him and two other officers, who fall to the floor. he then drags the other officer down, as he holds a taser towards the man in grey. one of the other officers tasers him, and this footage ends as the man in blue

according to the venezuelan electoral council, president nicolai's mother has been re elected for a 3rd time in office. this means another 6 years as the president of venezuela. and as you said in your introduction, this will be received as a shock by the opposition that had been gaining ground in these elections. this result seems to go against what the polls have shown. i'm going into this vote that had seen the candidate by the a dale position candidates and the gonzales leaving my daughter between 25 at 230 point to 230 points. and now i've been talking to a number of people in venezuela who are saying that this is a, a bracelet and shameless fraud that we are so expecting to hear from both the presidential candidate, the wound gonzales and from my the equity. now my child who had is the leader of the opposition in driving the force behind that their attempt to m. c. to me class my buddha pastor, a decade in a power. obviously we're going to have to see what their response will be. and if indeed, they will also call for people to take to the streets in response to this to to, to do

as it was transmitted to the electoral council, that is a very important record.icial documents, it is not a pole, and exit poll but an actual document laying out what happened. so that is very important. the other that the opposition has is the result of what counts and that is a scientifically designed representative sample that lays out what it should be. i don't know that any of those have been made public or if they've been given to the electoral council along with to clarify why the discrepancy. i think it's important to go through, i know i heard you and i understand the voices from the outside are important so they feel the need to address and it's important internally i think to make sure that they are hearing from you and that you are going to pursue this and exercise your rights, so i think that is what i was referring to. on the military question, it is okay what we have seen are the mistakes made we haven't seen any more public statements. they were panning and on military officers and addressing the forms there. so far, the cohesion seems to be at le

welcome to the program. venezuela's electoral council has declared nicholas missouri, the winna of sunday's presidential election with 51 percent of the vote. but the countries of position coalition disputes that result. it says the count was manipulated by loyalists close to the president. and the last missouri has ruled venezuela since taking over from the hugo chavez in 2013. so make or model. i'm nicholas madura, the re elected president of the boulevard in republic of venezuela. nicholas my do to was quick to claim victory in front of children and supporters off to be like daughters council announced he has secured a tut them with the majority of the vote counted the claim. the opposition was also quick to counter it. warranted. we want to tell all open it's willa, and the word that been equilla has a new president elect needs. it wound up gonzales, who wrote down the opposition a coalition of bodies which united to spend against my doodle claims that scanned to be 170 percent of the vote. and that the electronic consul numbers are fraudulent. the stand off corner was a tense night acc

all eyes need to be on venezuela's national electoral council, on the electoral authority, and whetherf maduro is confident in his victory, he should have no problems in publishing the results. on the contrary, if they do not, if we just see maduro claiming victory without backing it up it will be evidence of electoral thread. we will continue to track these elections. looking at some other stories making headlines. wildfire sweeping across parts of northern california. it was sparked on wednesday as a suspected arson attack. more than 360 thousands of acres of land have been bad. nearly 4000 firefighters are tackling the blaze. it isjust12% blaze. it is just 12% contained. blaze. it isjust12% contained. the fire is the largest this year in california. b pattern has won the us against plans to station long—range missiles in germany, adding moscow could respond by putting weapons in western countries. —— within range of western countries. the us announced onjuly western countries. the us announced on july ten western countries. the us announced onjuly ten that it will start deploying bl

the head of the electoral council said with 80% of the ballots counted he had won despite the 44% edmundoz received. they dismissed it as fraudulent and promised to challenge the result. world leaders are questioning the result of the election and nine governments including argentina, ecuador and uruguay of planning a emergency meeting due to profound concerns over sunday oops election results. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken had this to say after it was announced. >> we have serious concerns the result announced does not reflect the will or the volts of the venezuelan people. it's critical every vote be counted fairly and transparently, that election officials immediately share information with the opposition and independent observers without delay and the electoral parties publish the tabulation of votes. the international community is watching this very closely and will respond accordingly. >> the bbc has this report from caracas. >> there must be respect for the popular will, which country in the world after receiving 930 criminal sanctions, after having suffered while we have

authority, the national electoral council, the cna, by its allonym, and it's important to know that this country has five public powers and one of them is the electoral authority, they are the only ones who are able to disseminate the official results, the preliminary results and the final official results. anything else that's disseminated ahead of that is not uh legal and is not shouldn't be as correct, and so there are some concerns that the uh that the campaign is warning about that the that the plan of the opposition is to try to get this false information out and that they will be working with the international media and on social media uh and the the uh supporters of the venezuelan opposition to uh try to uh disseminate results that are um that are not clear that are preemptive and um and that this is part of of of of what they have planned um for sunday, so right now there's a lot of campaign activity going on, we have a couple more days before the closing of the campaign, and so uh, everything is in full force, we've seen how large of the mobilizations that have taken place

council and all the electoral authorities throughout the country. those who have, who have and, and, and there's during the tax on the social networks we finished with the software. we will not back to get a cyber attack. this deal night he will keep the um, massive hockey gigabyte window, what country it came to. i'm not gonna say it will not, couldn't my individual be branded, but it's a cyber attack of the transmission system up to the electra c n. e, because the davids didn't want the votes to be total, then for the at final rate turns to be announced. official returns to be announced today. we know where that came from, and we know eggs actually actually know who ordered it from the office of the attorney general will open an investigation to show this and prove this to our people. the c panel by cutting garage or late the technical experts in i c t and venezuela who were successful at ad. and if indeed you put it in to this hacking which they tried to prevent us from having our final results to receiving the fight or was it just that? why woul

this was stated by the chairman of the national electoral council. state of emergency was introduced in three districts of the chelyabinsk region due to flooding. powerful limos led to rising rivers, several villages were flooded, and residents were evacuated. in chelyabinsk itself , the mias river overflowed its banks, and the city embankment was in full swing. all reservoirs in the region are already full, but the weather cannot yet be expected to improve. the tavrida festival gathered more than 60,000 guests art in crimea. the event became international. participants from 35 countries came to the forum. this year the main theme was multicultural art. the organizers organized a carnival where guests demonstrated. our dream is that this is such a city of young creators, here in reality there are already 250 hectares, you see, right behind your backs the construction of the temple is being completed, the temple should turn out to be very beautiful, which is also a work of art, by the way, all the interior decoration was also designed by young creator

but the national electoral council set up an agreement which maduro and seven other countries signed,, but edmundo gonzalez did not sign it. this was about accepting the result. why did he not, why did your party not? first of all, what we've seen in the past is the electoral council does not comply with its own rules and just comes up with a result that is not a reflection of what truly happens. and we will not come to the point to say unless we have the tally sheets, unless they respect the right to have our observers in every single poll, unless they do not block the right for a response to vote, we will not accept what they say, which is clearly a violation of the process. we will respect the truth. and i have to say that all those candidates that you mentioned are not opposition candidates. those are candidates that are part of a phoney system maduro has created. ok, so from the sounds of it, you will only accept... the only outcome you will accept is a win for your party. we know that president maduro had — he was reported by cnn to be saying, if they do not want venezuela to fa

maduro also has strict control over the security forces, the national electoral council, and most oftes that he will remain in power, despite growing pressure for him to step aside. right, and a lot of eyes on the developments taking place in venezuela — and nine south american countries, as we said, have called for a complete review of the results and an emergency meeting of the organisation of american states. what can the international community do in the circumstances? the regime for a full recount, especially well—established democracies like uruguay, brazil, chile, and also colombia, and also brazil, which are long—time allies of lula. we think that it will continue to pressure for a full recount of the votes and to increase transparency. however, the maduro regime has already accustomed to operating under diplomatic isolation. for example, we think that, given that the results will will not be considered free and fair, we think that maduro�*s credibility on the global stage will take a further knock, that will further deepen venezuela's isolation in the global stage. it will a

but the national electoral council set up an agreement which maduro and seven other countries signed,gned, but edmundo gonzalez did not sign it. this was about accepting the result. why did he not? why did your party not? first of all, what we've seen in the past is the... ..electoral council does not comply with its own rules and just comes up with a result that is not a reflection of what truly happens. and we will not come to the point to say unless we have the tally sheets, unless they respect the right to have our observers in every single poll, unless they do not block the right for a response to vote, we will not accept what they say, which is clearly a violation of the process. we will respect the truth. and i have to say that all those candidates that you mentioned are not opposition candidates. those are candidates that are part of a phoney system maduro has created. ok, so from the sounds of it, you will only accept... the only outcome you will accept is a win for your party. we know that president maduro had... he was reported by cnn to be saying, if they do not want venez

the final results must be reported by the national electoral council of venezuela, in total. were 10 candidates in the race for the country's top post. observers from belarus noted high interest in the elections on the part of citizens. in total , representatives of 97 countries watched the voting. strong winds and showers in belarus again bad weather. forecasters declared an orange alert level. a cyclone is moving through the northeast of our country from latvia to russia. it brings rain, thunderstorms and squalls. during the day +14 in the east and up to +20. four in the southwest of the country. in lithuania, bad weather has already left 130 thousand consumers without electricity, toppled trees onto dozens of cars, and thrown a yacht from the baltic sea onto the shore. meanwhile , the chinese province of hunan is suffering from record floods, with eight settlements losing communications due to the arrival of high water. showers triggered sunrise landslide that killed at least 15 people. in the jedzian region, due to heavy rains, the fish would become. north korea, the epic

maduro also has strict control over the security forces, the national electoral council, and most ofof this indicates that he will remain in power, despite growing pressure for him to step aside. right, and a lot of eyes on the developments taking place in venezuela — and nine south american countries, as we said, have called for a complete review of the results and an emergency meeting of the organisation of american states. what can the international community do in the circumstances? well, the international community should pressure the regime for a full recount, especially well—established democracies like uruguay, brazil, chile, and also colombia, and also brazil, which are long—time allies of lula. we think that it will continue to pressure for a full recount of the votes and to increase transparency. however, the maduro regime has already accustomed to operating under diplomatic isolation. for example, we think that, given that the results will will not be considered free and fair, we think that maduro�*s credibility on the global stage will take a further knock, that will fur

when as late as an actual outcome stands, 6 hours off to the polls closed, the national electoral council declared nicholas mother to the winner with 51 percent of the vote. opposition candidates and window gonzales got 44 percent. the electoral authorities has to announce was 59 percent. among the 21000000 people registered to vote. alejandro on p i. t has been following developments from neighboring columbia. the venezuelan electoral council came out announcing the results in 6 hours and this was their 1st bullet in 6 hours after the bolts closed, which seems to indicate to a number of people of servers inside venezuela that they were discussing or thinking inside the government. how to proceed, but they did come out and announced that the person in the class and my daughter has won this election with 51 percent of the vote. and a said that in 2nd place was his main arrival. if wound double in silas with 44 percent of the vote and they also said that the address, 59 percent of eligible. ready there's a came out to vote, and this seems to go against the what we had seen anecdotally throu

all eyes need to be on venezuela i need to be on venezuela national electoral council, on the electoralnicolas maduro is confident in his victory, he should have no problems in publishing the results. on the contrary, if they do not, if we just see maduro claiming victory without backing up it would be evidence of electoral thread. ., ~ would be evidence of electoral thread. ., ,, , ., would be evidence of electoral thread. ., ~' , ., , would be evidence of electoral thread. ., ,, ,, , . would be evidence of electoral thread. ., ~ , . ., thread. thank you very much for our thread. thank you very much for your perspective- _ thread. thank you very much for your perspective. thank - thread. thank you very much for your perspective. thank you. i live now to our south america correspondent ione wells, who is in caracas, venezuela. tell us what is the latest you have been hearing, as this voting seems to now be wrapping up? this voting seems to now be wrapping u? �* , , ., voting seems to now be wrapping u? �*, voting seems to now be wrapping up? as you say, the pulse have closed and _ up? a

protests erupted in venezuela just hours after the national electoral council, which is loyal to thet president nicolas maduro the winner of sunday's election. i accept these powers, constitutional and legal, from the body responsible for electoral issues in venezuela. the sovereign government of venezuela has made a decision that i humbly accept. the president of the national electoral council , elvis amaro, said that maduro received 51% of the vote and edmundo gonzález urrutia 44%. gonzalez became a candidate after the government banned opposition leader maría corina vachado from running. edmundo gonzález urrutia received 70% of the vote in this election. nicolás maduro got 30%. machado says her results are based on counts obtained by the opposition campaign from representatives located near 40% of ballot boxes. statements about election violations have attracted the attention of the international community, in particular us secretary of state anthony blinken, who on monday, during his visit to tokyo, expressed concern about the reliability of the results. it is extremely important

council has announced to the president nicholas madura is the winner sunday's election critics. those are the results of shocking and how to believe uh, corresponding to alexander on p. s. he has this report from neighboring columbia to 6 hours after both close to business with us electoral council controlled by government loyalist announced that nicholas my daughter had won a 3rd term as president. well that will change the policy until was 80 percent of the ballots counted and with the level of participation at 59 percent, the results are as follows. first, nicholas, my do it on. most of the grand total of 3 article got 51.2 percent candidates, moondog gonzalez, so the messa uh, the loud when the dad got 44.2 percent of it's a 12th and my daughter says his victory was undeniable. blaming the delay and then specified cyber attack from abroad and calling on the people in the international community to respect the results. well, i can say before the people have been as well, i'm the world. i am nicholas but due to models, re elected president of the boulevard in republic of venez

he has been following developments from neighboring columbia as venezuela. m. electoral council came out announcing the results in 6 hours. then this was their 1st bullet in 6 hours after the bolts closed, which seems to indicate to a number of people of servers inside venezuela that they were discussing or thinking inside the government, how to proceed. but they did come out and announced that the person in the class and my daughter had won this election with 51 percent of the vote. and a said that in 2nd place was his main arrival. if wound double in silas with 44 percent of the vote and they also said that the address, 59 percent of eligible. ready there's a came out to vote in this seems to go against the what we had seen anecdotally throughout the day with huge qs with a people staying in line for hours to be able to cast a vote. and also a people that had spent the night outside of some of the polling stations to make sure to vote in favor of that opposition. so this, there's no doubt that this announcements came as a shock for all of those people that were expecting a change i

the oscar, the opposition says that it wants the government control the electoral council to release a tally of the votes. what is the actual likelihood of the council doing well they, they've said that they will do that in time. they have not really disclosed. ready how they came up with those numbers. there's a lot of questions about those numbers. even some other of the presidential can olives that weren't independent. they've also asked for those penalties. now the opposition has just announced that they will create a web page where they have all the counties of the voting machines, those pronounced that they received, they have more than 40 percent of them. and they say that that's more than enough to show the overwhelming victory over the long time is what they said. they won't do that tonight and tomorrow they will hold concentrations at 11 o'clock in the morning to support this claim of victory to w correspondent, oscar shanker. and crock us there, over to the middle east now, where is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu is falling retaliation for a rocket strike. that k

the oscar, the opposition says that it wants the government control electoral council to release a tally of the votes. what is the actual likelihood of the council doing? well. busy they, they've said that they will do that in time. they have not really disclosed how they came up with those numbers. there's a lot of questions about those numbers. stevens from other of the presidential can lives that weren't independent. they've also asked for those penalties. now the opposition has just announced that they will create a web page where they have all the counties of the voting machines, those pronounced that they received, they have more than 40 percent of them. and they say that that's more than enough to show up. the overwhelming victory all the time is we're going to do something, won't do that tonight, and tomorrow they will hold concentrations at 11 o'clock in the morning to support this claim of the jury. 9 latin american countries have so far jointly expressed their concern about the election and called for an emergency meeting of the organization of american states. what kind of in

and as well as government controlled electoral council has declared the incumbents, nicholas madura the winner of sunday's presidential election with 51 percent of the vote. but the country's opposition coalition disputes. the results it says account was manipulated by loyal as close to the president. nicholas missouri has ruled venezuela since taking over from hugo chavez in 2013. so he, me, going on by the, i'm the coolest madura, the re elected president of the boulevard in republic of venezuela. nicholas my do to was quick to claim victory in front of children and supporters for us to be like daughters council announced he has secured a talk to them with the majority of the vote counted the claim. the opposition was also quick to counter it. warranty li onto the telephone, open equilla, and the word that been equilla has a new president elect needs. it wound up gonzalez who wrote down the opposition a coalition of bodies which united the stand against my brutal claims. it's candidate 170 percent of the vote. and that the electronic council numbers are fraudulent. the stand off, clos

the opposition was campaign managers haven't been allowed in the electoral council yet, which worries many people out there have also been many reports of national electronic servers that could not enter police stations that were threatened by government supporters. but after all the violations people witnessed during the campaign all there were a regularities, we have seen today where warm is expected. and that is why many people, how big visuals outside police station since last night, and why they are holding visuals now until they receive those print outs of each machine. so the night is still young and the or troll council here is the last word before the opposition can come from. but people are hopeful that the outcome is so massive. it will be hard to manipulate and that's what i have been. and then he can only crisis for yours now. so the results of the selection possibly change that we may call a mistake it well in the 1st place, change would bring about a lifting of the economic sanctions. but besides that, many investors know the potential vendors will have, especially in e

the electoral council has declared the incumbent nicholas mate during the winter of sunday's presidential election with 51 percent of the vote. but the countries opposition coalition disputes the results. it says the count was manipulated by loyal as close to the president and kill us montero has ruled venezuela since taking over from hugo chavez in 2013. so we need to know by the i'm nicholas madura, the re elected president of the boulevard in republic of venezuela. nicholas my do to was quick to claim victory in front of children and supporters of to be like daughters council announced he has secured a took them with the majority of the vote, counted the claim. the opposition was also quick to counter it. warranty li onto the telephone, open equilla, and the word that been equilla has a new president elect needs. it wound up gonzales, who wrote down the opposition a coalition of bodies which united to spend against my doodle claims that scanned to be 170 percent of the vote. and that the electronic consul numbers are fraudulent. the stand off corner is a tense, might accounting with op

the venezuelan opposition dismissed the electoral council's announcement as fraudulent, and candidate show he was the winner. world leaders are also questioning the result of the election. latin american governments will hold an emergency

so although the poll showing majority for the opposition, the electoral council has the final say of the results. so in this case, the opposition witnesses in each border center will take center stage when the results come in to verify if their receipts matches. uh, the final results. well, we did mention that some prominent collection observers were barred from entering the country. so is there any hope that this election can be free and fair as well to deal with troll cancel a head, as i said is open to each of these the end pro government. and we have seen a number of obstacles and persecution towards the opposition. during this campaign . it has not been up to now fare and free process. so it was expected that they would not allow the opposition as international allies in the country. these regional leaders were not invited by the government and they knew they were going to meet some obstacles here. but it's part of this pressure to allow once freedoms and been, it's weird. i mean, this past month, we have counted over 80 arbitrary arrests in under a month. a media outlets have b

the venezuelan opposition dismissed the electoral council's announcement as fraudulent, and candidateds to show he was the winner. world leaders are also questioning the result of the election. nine latin american governments including argentina, ecuador, and uruguay will hold an emergency meeting

the opposition has disputed the election tally claiming it had been manipulated by the electoral council, which is run by loyalist close to the president. here as my due to a speaking officer, his victory was an honest bob and i said before, there would be peace. and there was and there has been and there is, there will be peace and stability, and justice after the 28th of july, from today onward, peace, stability, and respect for the law and justice. let's get more from john list, a married man who's now joining us from cadillac as mary. how does the opposition reacting to this result? well, the opposition is, is strongly claiming the result of fraudulent saying they have a boating minutes to prove their results. clark, quite different from the ones that were announced. they say if you look on silas, which is the making opposition and sound is they want the election by a long fly. they say 70 percent of the boat on uh well they are asking for international uh the international community to is these uh they are now there will be options to uh, some sort of uh uh, claim that uh that the,

the opposition was campaign managers haven't been allowed in the electoral council yet, which worries many people there have also been many reports of national electronic servers that could not enter police stations that were threatened by government supporters. but after all the violations people witnessed during the campaign, all there were a regularities we have seen today were more or less expensive. and that is why many people, how big visuals outside police station since last night, and why they are holding visuals now until they receive those print jobs out of each machine. so the night is still young and the old council has the last word before the opposition can come from. but people are hopeful that the outcome is so massive. it will be hard to manipulate but that's what i have been. and then he can only crisis for yours now. so the results of the selection possibly changed that many economists think of, well in the 1st place, change would bring about a lifting of the economic sanctions. but besides that many investors know the potential vendors will have, especially in ener

and venezuela's electoral council declares incumbant madura the winner of the presidential election with

council., let me say that the u.s. applauds the venezuelan people for their courage and commitment to democracy by participating in this election in the face of repression and adversity. we continue to call on the lake electoral authorities to release full transparent and detailed , voting results including by polling stations as well. this is especially -- just it is especially critical, given there are clear signs that the election results announced by venezuela's national electoral council do not reflect the will of the venezuelan people as it was expressed at the ballot box on july 28. we are also reviewing other electoral data shared by civil society organizations and the reports of international election monitors. the united states stands on the sides of the democratic aspirations of the venezuelan people including expressing their right to express their views freely and without reprisal. that is where we stand. we will just not get ahead of that, but we have been very clear about the el

according to the electoral council, early results show maduro received about 51% while opposition candidate edmundo gonzalez received 44%. this is maduro, speaking from caracas. >> in this new term you have given me, that you have given to yourselves, i swear, i will give my life to carry out all the changes and transformation our country needs to head for a destiny of prosperity. a destiny of growth, peace, social happiness, to rescue all the rights violated by the economic more anti-imperialist missiles. amy: a delegation said they found the election to be fair and transparent not venezuela opposition candidate edmundo gonzalez rejected the official results. >> what happened during today's poll when doing was a violation of all the rules to the point where there were majority of electoral registers have not been handed over. our message of peace change still stands. our struggle continues and we will not rest until the will of the people of venezuela is respected. amy: gonzalez joined the race after the venezuelan government barred opposition leader maria corina machado from running. u.s.

council declares incumbent maduro, the winner of the presidential election with over 51% of the votes

authority, the national electoral council, the cne, which said that polls have opened with normalitye uh, we'll be visiting many polls around the city today, getting a little closer and watching people uh vote inside uh and making sure that everything transpires with normality. they have of course uh thwarted a couple of what they say are attempts to derail this process including another announcement that was made very late last night uh a sort of statement given by three people uh one of the right-wing parties uh aligned with uh edmundo gonzalez who said that the idea behind uh some of these uh far right opposition parties is to once again uh recavoking the country and bring about violence once again if the election doesn't go their way run side the foundation is hosting a special teacher training event in tehran, the foundation which is in charge of promoting persian language across the world is hosting guests and enthusiasts from iran and 12 other countries. our correspondent fatima masame brings us the details. the summer school is bringing together around 50 advanced persian lea

so now what we're waiting for is first to hear from the electoral council if they're going to be openh and every vote as the opposition is -- and as every other country is asking to recognize the government. this for now what we expect in the next couple of days. if this doesn't happen, then the opposition definitely is going to announce another strategy, being her the main face of the campaign, they're going to keep up until the end. they're going to keep going until the very end. >> first of all, please take care of yourself. i very much appreciate you being on with us today, and our admiration for the venezuelan people who came out to vote by millions with a hope and a dream. let's see what the future holds. thank you. >>> up next, president biden lays out his proposal to reform the supreme court. >>> plus, new questions about the police officer who shot and killed sonya massey in her illinois home. what newly released audio recordings of his former superior reveal. you're watching "josÉ diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. Ée diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. why use 10 buckets of water wh

authority, the national electoral council, the cna by its acronym, and it's important to know that this country has five public powers and one of them is the electoral authority, they are the only ones who are able to disseminate the official results, the preliminary results and the final official results. now let me turn over to san francisco, richard becker, richard, uh, you know the the us has been poking it nose into affairs of lifetime countries uh throughout the years as you know serving like backyard for the us as many observers calling it hasn't it i mean hasn't it changed i mean isn't it still uh the same time i mean things have changed circumstances have changed so what is it that washington is trying to pursue to see happen you know by uh actually standing behind those figures like juan guiido who of course did not achieve it. success, it couldn't pull off any success there, so what's the us agen, especially venezuela? well, the us agenda is clearly in regard to latin america is... to return latin america to status of neocolony uh and this what we're seeing with this election

venezuela's national electoral council has officially declared incumbent head of state nicolás maduronday's presidential election. the chairman of the electoral commission presented the politician with the corresponding act, and maduro brought a pocket edition of the constitution to the meeting. holding the book, he warned that those who enter into political collusion are deprived of the right to rely on the fundamental law of the state. at the same time, he promised to lead the country to peace, prosperity, national unity through dialogue. a historic day, we defeated fascism and demons, with the power of christ, bolivar and chavez, this is a historic achievement, our people have done it again. this is how madur's supporters greeted the news that the local central election commission announced that he had received more than half of the votes. and here is maduro himself. nicola moro, i am nicola maduro moro, re-elected president of the bolivarian republic of venezuela. but the opposition candidate, edmundo gonzalez, rises to his podium. true, it will not be he who speaks again, the eng

he presented with his advisor, who is now the head of the electoral council, the results that were publishede was a reaction. there was a reaction that was expected by the venezuelan people. what was not expected, i think, by the regime is the protests taking places where maduro at some point won elections. we are also seeing defections from the police, who were taking off their uniforms, military who were decided not to repress. sumi: is that the case? at this point, it does look like the military and the police are remaining loyal to maduro. leopoldo: yes, and as somebody once said, the military and police are loyal until the point that they are not. i think that is where we are. as you said in your introduction. everything is already there for a transition. so it was a landslide victory, 70/30. the attention of the region, the welcome of the democratic world, i may say, is very clear in asking for the resolution of those results. the people are in the streets, and the only fear that maduro has now is the police come of the military, and maduro will continue to do that. let's remind that m

council coped with the task perfectly, all attempts to interfere with the elections were stopped, maduro emphasized. in the chelyabinsk region. continues to eliminate the consequences of the flood, precipitation in the region has finally begun to weaken, what is the reason for this and whether the southern urals can again be covered by extreme downpours, he will tell evgeny teshkovets. the downpours in the chelyabinsk region have become overwhelming, but the hydrological situation still remains difficult, in which areas are houses already flooded to the rooftops, when will the rivers begin to return to the banks, and is it true that the hot summer will finally leave moscow today? meteorological news time on the russia channel. i am evgeniy tishkavets, leading specialist at the fobas center. hello, the cyclone is leaving the chelyabinsk region, leaving behind a huge flood. these shots were taken the night before in evangelinsk. this is how the houses in the area were flooded almost to the roof two villages, pioneer and worker. 142 people, including 25 children, were evacuated from the dan

authority, the national electoral council, the cna by its ac, and it's important to know that this country has five public powers and one of them is the electoral authority, they are the only ones who are able to disseminate the official results, the preliminary results and the final official results. now let me turn over to san francisco, richard becker, richard, uh, you know, the the us has been poken at nose into affairs of latim countries uh throughout. the years, as you know, serving like backyard for the us, as many observers calling it, hasn't it, i mean, hasn't it changed, i mean, isn't it still uh, the same time, i mean things have changed, circumstances have changed, so what is it that washington is trying to pursue to see happen, by uh actually standing behind those figures like juan guiido who of course did not achieve any uh success, it couldn't pull off any uh success there, so what's the us agenda for? latin america, especially venezuela. well, the u.s. agenda is clearly in regard to latin america is to return latin america to status of neocolony. uh, and this what we're see

. authority, the national electoral council, the cna by its acronym, and it's important to know that this country has five public powers and one of them is the electoral authority, they are the only ones who are able to disseminate the official results, the preliminary results and the final official results. now let me turn over to san francisco, richard becker. richard, uh, you know, the the us uh has been poken at nose into affairs of lifetime countries uh throughout the years, as you know, serving like a... backyard for the us, as many observers calling it, hasn't it, i mean, hasn't it changed, i mean, isn't it still uh, the same time, i mean things have changed, circumstances have changed, so what is it that washington is trying to pursue to see happen, you know by uh actually standing behind those figures like juan guiido who of course did not achieve any uh success, couldn't pull off any uh success there, so what's the us agenda for latin america, especially the... venezuela: well, the us agenda is clearly in regard to latin america is to return latin america to status of neolo