a nicaraguan president, danella taylor has as expected one. a 4th term in office are to winning 75 percent of an early count in sunday's election. the countries supreme an actual council says about half the ballots have been counted. most opposition figures had been arrested or barred. from running the people versus agent orange continues. now i'll be back after that with a news out on me then if you can, i for now. ah when oh, when we started the litigation, this became a real david and goliath back because we had to you as the whole us attorney's office representing the federal government and the largest law firm in the state of oregon, representing i a fe which is a front group for the chemical manufacturers and for timbers sprayers the far as service had been unwilling to do any kind of community health survey after the spring to see if anybody wasn't fact being harm. it was simply saying our chemicals aren't harming anybody, but it wasn't looking to see if they were harmed. and it was very stunning. you know, that they would spray him are

as expected, nicaraguan president danella taylor has clenched a 4th time in office after winning 75 percent of an early count in sundays election . the country supreme electoral council says around half the balance have been counted. the european union is already rejected. the results say, nick, iraqi has transitioned into an autocratic regime. us call the election of pantomime and russia has condemned western nations calls not to recognize the po, most opposition, figures had been arrested, who barred from running a latin america to lucy newman has been following developments. from san jose in neighboring costa rica, the government has already put out what it says are the initial results, which will probably be the final result says, saying that president daniel ortega won by nearly 75 percent of the votes. no surprise there. but the, what is interesting is what the opposition coalition that has that monitored the elections from inside nicaragua says it says that between 79 and 84 percent of nicaraguans abstained in that election. and that is pretty consistent with what we've been hearing