main candidates of faced, often a final to the debate. old for showing rebel term, fall efficient gustavo petra, as a clear front runner and alessandra petty jones been out live from bogota and alexandra to the candidates faced off in that final t. b debate. but gustavo petro remains the leader in the race, doesn't mean yes, daren, good faith through. i've been leaving overwhelmingly, in the polls throughout today's campaign. there's no doubt that he's that clear front runner, the big question is if he will be able to attract enough votes to win outright on sunday, in the 1st round of voting, he will need the 50 percent plus one of the vote to now most fold that are now more than a week old saying both those are not allowed to publish new polls. the 7 days before the actual election had them between 40 to 45 percent of the vote. so not enough to avoid run off. if indeed, there will be run off, which is right now they're most likely outcome then things could complicate for pe, throw. could the type in quite a bit. what's clear is that the pit throw has been very successful with a larger affectio

what could go wrong for gustavo petra? ah, well, mary, i'm back with some of it all in the front runner since the beginning of this campaign. and what seems clears that never before and have columbia's been so willing to give to give that through less that over to the governor. this capture would be the 1st time in history that such a radical platform with managed to win the election here at that said, even if the polls show that this is clearly a close to 4045 percent of the vote, he probably doesn't have enough to wait an hour drive in the 1st round of the election next sunday. however, things will become more difficult for him eventually. and i think in a 2nd round, especially for a while the car candy, they put a mandate managed to get in 2nd place. he is a 77 year old and super nurse that was really little known in the country a few months ago. but he's been growing in the polls with very unorthodox a campaign and presenting himself as an anti corruption populates that could make it difficult for pedro to present to h

candidate could win for the 1st time in the country's history. paul's showing rebel turned politician gustavo. petra is the front runner . i will send that on pierre, to report from the capital bobo tar the small army of police officers follow presidential candidate gustavo, paper wherever he goes. and stage men with large bulletproof shields stand on either side of him, a reminder of what he means to run for office in columbia. especially when promising a drastic rebuke of the status quo. we are on the cusp of changing history and columbia changing over his, she saw full of violence or fin, justice of social exclusion to the possibility of building a country at peace. as colombians head to the polls, the climate is less than peaceful veterans. rise from to invest in rebel to the threshold and become the country. first let these presidents have meant an uptick in their threats, which he blames under countries. beliefs. a progressive force has never govern columbia. i call what we had here, hereditary democracy, which is not democracy. 40 families have kept the control of the country for 200 years. t

gearing up for some days, presidential election pinion, poland, place, rebel term politicians, gustavo petra, as the front run. and you and human rights cheap says china must not use legitimate concerns about terrorism to justify human rights abuses. michelle bachelor visited the shin chung region where authorities are accused of abuses against the weaker ethnic minority. now, russia's president says, he's willing to discuss ways to ship grain that stock in ukraine's ports, but only if sanctions lifted putin said russia made the comments in a 80 minute phone call with the leaders of france, germany, russia, and ukraine account for nearly a 3rd of global wheat supplies dosage bar re has more for moscow. the russian president told his counterparts, the status of the military operation. mimi talked about how and there are a number of issues with the ships that are carrying ukrainian wheat that have been stuck on in the black sea as a result of what the russians are saying are minds that are placed along the routes for them to leave in the black sea, by the ukrainian military now vladimir putin

a sen, gustavo petra, and it's under amputee as this report leading vice presidential candidate, france jamarkis doesn't look like, nor has the resume of a traditional colombian politician. yet she has become a political phenomenon, giving a voice to the country's marginalized communities. i didn't ask to be in politics, but politics messed with us and now we mess with it. and we're messing with politics because they always told us, it wasn't for us. that politics was for others. mark as rice has been meteoric as a black woman and environmentalists, her message and candid language propelled her to the 3rd place in the country's march presidential primary, compelling, the leading presidential candidates gustavo pedro to choose her as her running mate . okay, columbia law said thank you, i'm be a can't accept a woman that the elite c as that housemaid. we were limited to one role and she's changed that showing us and our daughters, that we can be what we want. even president aurora as a single mother. she worked as a housemaid, but managed to get a law degree and was awarded the goldman p

the police response to the shooting after criticism i wanted to spend and left as for my rebel gustavo petra, one the 1st round of columbus presidential election, setting a stage for o bundles next month. he'll face businessman with over at numbers whose anti corruption platform helped fuel a last minute search. in support. china's foreign minister is in fiji for closely watched meetings with the island nation's leaders and other pacific foreign ministers. while he says he wants to increase cooperation with pacific island nations on climate change. but countries including the us and australia have raised concerns about security wayne. hey, has more from fiji? well, the timing's interesting, probably not a coincidence this to or of the pacific by one you started last week. we also saw last week and meeting of the quad country, the united states, japan, india, and australia. that grouping pretty much designed to counter the rise and influence of china in the region. we also saw the u. s. president joe biden introducing his indo pacific economic framework agreement, which by the way, fiji has n

on june, the 19th left is to a former rebel fighter gustavo petra, will go against a populous candidate who was little known until recently and asunder and p a. t has more from bochita downtown book. i was com the day after one of the most consequential presidential results and column in history left his former rebel fighter. gustavo pedro came on top. but we'll now face an unexpected, uphill battle against the surprise. second place candidate through a door, fernandez a right leaning populist anti corruption. crusader de managed to capture an important section of voters. disenchanted with the status quo. and monday he spoke to as to porters, v. s. social media. every day they will come up with something that i am an obese term, that i am a patricia her, or that i am neutral that i am being investigated. but the truth is, my only allegiance is with the columbia people. but many working class colombians who were thrilled that to left hope of any storage takeover of the presidency felt deprived. i say this, any money them okay, you're connecting, i'm happy. i'm discouraged. i want to petr

next month. gustavo petra is pledging to tackle rising inequality and fully implement a 2016 piece deal with fog rebels. he will faith businessmen, rodolfo hernandez, who's an see corruption platform, help fuel a last minute such in support as go to correspond, alexander, run pets. he was my friends in bogota. i was under one of the main takeaways from yesterday's vote. melina, a number of takeaways, 1st of all, is the fact that we are in the new territory in columbia and politics for the 1st time to clearly anti establishment candidates will face off in run off. one of the 2 will become a president of columbia. this is unprecedented in the history of the country. the 2nd point here is that despite an impressive growth in the last 2 presidential elections is also clear, that there is no clear majority for the left and its vision in the country. a 3rd point they say is that one thing that the majority of columbia agree on is the fact that the levels of hunger, unemployment, poverty, inequality is in this country are sustainable. and they blame the establishments for the situation. the co

gustavo petro has come out on top in the 1st round of presidential elections there, the former gorilla and one time mayor of the capitol bogota as campaigned on the platform of tackling poverty and crime. petra will now face the independent candidate with wilful amanda's in a run off, the businessman finished in a surprise, 2nd place in the election. and let's get more now from d. w. corresponding johan ramirez, who is joining me from bogota, the on very good evening to you. so 1st of all, this surprise when by and, and as what made that happen. this is it. yeah. when we see is that people are tired, colombians are tires off of their whole if they got a leak in the country. that's why what we see today are 2 candidates. on one hand, gustavo petro left his candidate. if he winced the 2nd round, he would be the 1st time dad to the left updates power in columbia. on the other hand that we have rolled fernanda, an independent candidate, he has never been really able. i mean, he was back in 2016 that he was mayor of his hometown city. he does his own the experience in politics. he was in the office just for 3 years, a very bung trial experience, but he has, he's not far off the political elite in

gustavo, pe throws, galvanized millions, especially young voters by promising to change this deeply unequal country. don't be under the 1st 20 year old is stephanie ramirez, decided to volunteer for petra's campaign after she was unable to pay for her college. during the pandemic and her parents struggled to keep their small shop open. boy, not admin to come home. it's been very difficult as a young colombian to live in such precarious conditions when it comes to work and access to health and education. and i believe that petro is betting on changing all of this. ah, last year she joined tens of thousands of other young colombians to protest against living conditions. they were some of the most violent demonstrations columbia seen in decades. the police track down only slain the discontented those outraged by the countries widening inequality. before the protests had been very inactive politically, but with all the injustices and killings, i could not remain indifferent. it was the desire pink to be different. for us. it is backed by many poor and working class colombians, but viewed with alarm by business men and some middle class voters. they fear his plans to fall to oil development,

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