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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
We can access all the latest information coming through the BBC | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
newsroom and we have an hour of international news for you. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
President Obama has been talking about increasing gun controls and | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
victims of gun violence. Every time I think about those kids, it gets me | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
mad. And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day. | :00:37. | :00:49. | |
More from Cologne, more than 100 attacks on women. The man on the | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
latest Islamic State video is thought to be this man from East | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
London, a relative of one of those killed in the video has been | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
speaking to the BBC. We will report from India. I don't know if you have | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
heard about this schoolboy who has scored over 1000 runs in one innings | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
at a local cricket match. And also on Outside Source, if you have | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
questions we are covering you can reach us. We have lots on the | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
escalating row between Iran and Saudi Arabia. We have sent those two | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
our correspondent and here are the answers he sent back. We will show | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
you that later. Barack Obama has announced plans to | :01:34. | :01:43. | |
increase background checks The President is doing this | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
despite opposition from Congress. Here's what he said | :01:48. | :02:01. | |
in the measures a few hours ago. We don't need to be talking past one | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
another, but we do have to feel In Doctor King's words, | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
we need to feel the fierce And the constant excuses | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
for inaction no longer do. That's why we're here today, | :02:16. | :02:28. | |
not to debate the last mass shooting, but to do something | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
to try to prevent the next one. As Ronald Reagan once said, | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
if mandatory background checks could save more lives, | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
it would be well worth making it The Bill before Congress three | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
years ago met that test. But unfortunately too many | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
senators failed theirs. Every time I think about those | :02:55. | :03:07. | |
kids, it gets me mad. And by the way, it happens | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
on the streets of Chicago every day. So, all of us need to demand | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
a Congress brave enough to stand up to the gun lobby's lies, | :03:18. | :03:33. | |
all of us need to stand up and protect its citizens, | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
all of us need to demand governors and legislators and businesses | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
do their part, to make some of what the president said | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
earlier. Clearly a very frustrating subject | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
for President Obama. He alluded to the number of children | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
dying because of gun violence in the United States. | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
This is a list from a website called the gun violence archive. | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
I will not read out individual cases, but you can see as I go | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
through the long list posted online, 129 children died in gun violence in | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
the last two years. You get an idea of the scale of the problem. The | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
question is will what President Obama is suggesting do anything to | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
protect these lost lives? Jane joins us. Aside from these background | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
checks, can you run us through the other measures President Obama is | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
suggesting? The background checks are the big one but he is also | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
proposing extra money to treat people with mental health disorders, | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
because of the 30,000 deaths by shootings every single day in | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
America. 20,000 of those are suicides, so clearly mental health | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
is an enormous issue here. He wants more funding, to treat that. But | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
getting back to the main issue, background checks. What he wants is | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
for all people who sell guns to perform background checks on all | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
people who buy them. At the moment if you are a licensed gun dealer you | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
have to perform a background check, but the Internet is pretty much | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
unregulated and if you go to a gun show and buy a gun off a private | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
dealer you do not need to go through a background check most of the time. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
He's just saying, I want everybody who sells guns or is in the business | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
of selling guns, to make sure that they know who they are selling to. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Please don't go anywhere. You are telling us about the proposals from | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
the president. Next let's talk about the politics. Even as that speech | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
was going on his critics were taking to Twitter to push back at his | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
ideas. The National Rifle Association saying these executive | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
orders will do nothing to improve public safety. Let me show you a | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
couple of others. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives | :06:01. | :06:01. | |
said: And Republican Presidential | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
hopeful Marco Rubio said on his first day in the Oval Office | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
those orders are gone. clearly the Republicans are not | :06:12. | :06:20. | |
happy, but is there anything they can do about these proposals? | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Yes, there is, because the proposals are being enacted under an executive | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
order, which means President Obama is taking unilateral action, | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
bypassing Congress and saying as long as he is president, this is | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
what should happen. That is the problem, because this year America | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
elected new president and depending on who gets in his executive order | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
could be upheld or overturned. Without action from Congress, this | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
does not become law. So it's all very tenuous at the moment. The | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
White House says they are acting well within the existing law and | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
what they are actually doing is clarifying what is already on the | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
statute books. The Republicans say that is not actually the case and I | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
think we can expect a lot of legal challenges in the months ahead. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
Thank you. Don't go anywhere, we will come back to you in a moment. | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
In an interview last year with the BBC, President Obama told us his | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
failure to pass effective gun laws was his biggest regret. We made a | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
report on how he has come back to this issue again and again in his | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
presidency. People were scrambling left and | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
right. My children got out first. With my wife. Even as we learn how | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
this happened and who is responsible, we may never understand | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
what leads anybody to terrorise their fellow human beings like this. | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
As a country we have been through this too many times and we will have | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
to come together and take meaningful action, to prevent more tragedies | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
like this, regardless of the politics. We have two people coming | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
out. Why did you do it? At some point we | :08:06. | :08:19. | |
as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
violence doesn't happen in other advanced countries. | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
There are some steps we could take not to eliminate every one of these | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don't happen as | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
frequently. We just had a tweet from one viewer asking what he can | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
achieve with a relatively short period of time left in the White | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
House. We can go back to Jane in Washington, DC. Clearly the | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
president is concerned about his legacy. He wants is issued out with | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
before he leaves the White House, but time is ticking. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
It is indeed, and this is a deeply personal issue for the president. We | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
saw how emotional he was in his speech today, saying how the deaths | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
of 20 schoolchildren in 2012 in Connecticut changed his life, and he | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
hoped the country would have changed as a result of that. He was wrong. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Congress failed to enact any legislation to tighten gun controls | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
that is why out of sheer frustration he is taking the action he has | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
today. It was partly also buoyed by yet another shooting last year in | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Oregon. Ten people were killed at a community college. At point you | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
proud about to make this a political issue. I think what his long-term | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
hope is is that this is now firmly back on the political agenda. It's | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
going to be part of the presidential campaign. We've already seen | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
candidates weighing in on both parties. He is hoping that this will | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
now come back into the public conversation, and that future laws | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
will be an acted to stop thank you very much for your help in telling | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
this story. We can switch from the US to a very disturbing story, a | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
strange story from Germany. At least 90 complaints where made | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
to police in Cologne about sexual assaults and thefts | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
by male gangs on New Year's Eve. The attacks happened | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
during celebrations around the city's Central Station and | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
Cathedral. You can see on the satellite image | :10:26. | :10:34. | |
the square, that is where a lot of the celebrations were taking place. | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
Damian McGuinness has more on this from Berlin. | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
It was a chaotic scene, with thousands of people in front of the | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
cathedral in Cologne. Normally New Year's Eve is chaotic anyway, with | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
fireworks being set off in all directions, but this New Year's Eve | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
was particularly disturbing with the sexual assaults. What has got | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
Germany talking is the comment by police officers that the men | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
appeared to be the attackers, they appear to be of north African or | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
Arab appearance. There is no evidence that the perpetrators were | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
actually migrants or refugees or asylum seekers themselves, but | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
anti-migrant far right groups have been saying that this proves that | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
Germany has been taking into many migrants and refugees. More than a | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
million refugees and asylum seekers and migrants came to Germany in 2015 | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
alone. This event has sparked outrage, the assaults on women, but | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
also a lot of discussion among people in Cologne. The problem is, | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
where did 1000 people suddenly come from? They say there were 1000 North | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Africans and they were not asylum seekers, but where did they come | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
from all of a sudden, in such a large amount? You do ask yourself | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
that. TRANSLATION: I think you should just be prepared, you should | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
be careful and always wait for the help of the police. I would advise | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
young people not to get so drunk that you don't know what's going on | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
and to perhaps not be alone, and to call for help as quickly as | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
possible. And especially at large events, there are always enough | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
people around who hopefully are not drunk. It is worst in areas where | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
there is nobody and where you cannot get | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
The next challenge Germany will face is the Carnival season at the | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
beginning of February, particularly in Cologne, where the city closes | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
down the street parties and parades. Officials have to find out what | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
happened on New Year's Eve and make sure it doesn't happen again. More | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
information on that story in the next few days. In a few minutes time | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
I will play you a report from Dave Lee, who has his hands on a bendy | :12:50. | :12:59. | |
screen which is being released by LG in a big con pension in Las Vegas. | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
David Cameron will allow government ministers to campaign on both sides | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
of the upcoming referendum on Britain's membership of the European | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
Union. Here is the Prime Minister speaking in the House of Commons. | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
My intention is the conclusion of the renegotiation, the government | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
should reach a clear recommendation and then the referendum will be | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
held, but it's in the nature of a referendum that people, not the | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
politicians, who decide. As I indicated before Christmas, there | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
will be a clear government position, but it will be open to individual | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
ministers to take a different personal position, while remaining | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
part of the government. Ultimately it will be for the British people to | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
decide this country's future, by voting in or out of a reformed | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
European Union. In the referendum, that only we promised and only a | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
Conservative majority government was able to deliver, and I commend this | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
statement to the house. This is Outside Source live | :14:03. | :14:12. | |
from the BBC newsroom. A tearful President Obama announced | :14:13. | :14:24. | |
plans to tighten controls on firearms. He said the gun lobby | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
could no longer hold America hostage. Some of the main stories | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
from the BBC World Service: a journalist who was working in Turkey | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
spent four months in prison. A journalist who was working | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
for Vice News has been released on bail after spending more than 4 | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
months in a Turkish prison. He was arrested on charges | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
of assisting a terrorist organisation while covering | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
the conflict in Kurdish A new giant statue of | :14:51. | :14:51. | |
the Chairman Mao, the Chinese community party's founding father, | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
has been unveiled. It was built by farmers | :14:56. | :14:56. | |
and business people. Some hold Chairman Mao responsible | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
for millions of deaths, but many This is what a hoverboard did | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
to a family home in Australia. You can hear a first hand account | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
of what happened on the BBC We've had a lot of comments | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
and questions come into us about MAP the escalating row between | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
Saudi Arabia and Iran. We covered it in detail yesterday. | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
It has progressed further today. Kuwait announced it is | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
recalling its ambassador to Iran. This follows Bahrain and Sudan also | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
cutting off their diplomatic ties Before we play you Jim Muir | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
answering some of your questions, here are the basics | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
of what's happening. What Iran distrust about Saudi | :15:45. | :16:05. | |
Arabia is the belief that Saudi Arabia being a Sunni state is also | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
supporting Sunni groups, especially Isis. The distrust is mainly about | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
the role Iran is playing in the region. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
countries have been quite concerned about what Iran is playing in | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
different Contra conflicts like the Yemeni conflict. Iran and Saudi | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
Arabia. Traditional Saudi Arabia has viewed Iran as the regional power, | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
viewed Iran as a country that tries to expand its influence in the | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
Middle East. The geopolitical, political and economic elements | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
definitely create a role here. It is not really about religion. It's not | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
just about this. It's not a clash of religious narratives. There seems to | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
be this competition between the two countries. | :16:59. | :17:12. | |
War is quite a big word here. The cutting off of diplomatic relations | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
might escalate into a fully fledged military confrontation. However that | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
has been a concern about a war by accident. It is very unlikely, but | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
it might mean that the continuation of military strikes. Is one of the | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
parties, their proxies or their supporters on the ground make a very | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
small mistake, that will lead in deepening and rising tension even | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
more. In a sensor has been a cold war going on between the two. What | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
many countries call a war by proxy, they are in effect fighting each | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
other through groups that they are supporting in Syria and Yemen in | :17:53. | :17:53. | |
particular. And just a reminder that this | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
whole thing was started the Shia Muslim cleric | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr - The Saudi embassy in Tehran | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
was then ransacked and set alight - and then Saudi Arabia | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
cut off ties with Iran. Lots of you have sent us questions | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
about this story. We picked some of them out on Zelem to our | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
correspondent in Beirut. These are the answers that Jim sent back. | :18:23. | :18:32. | |
There are fears this crisis could impact heavily on the effort | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
to get at Isis, both in Iraq and in Syria. | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
In Iraq it could aggravate, and has already aggravated sectarian | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
That will make it more difficult, probably, for the Shia dominated | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
government in Baghdad to work with Sunni militias, | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
tribal militias and other Sunnis who may want to turn | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
against IS in the areas, their areas, Sunni areas, | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
where Isis, the militants have dug in. | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
In Syria, conversely, there are peace talks coming up, | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
hopefully around the 25th of January or so. | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
With Saudi Arabia and Iran at loggerheads, if the crisis hasn't | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
eased by then, it could make it much more difficult to get | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
I think the important thing really is to contain this crisis and stop | :19:11. | :19:25. | |
If it gets worse, then obviously it's going to complicate things | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
throughout the region, aggravating the kind of sectarian | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
fault line between Sunnis and Shia and relations between the main Sunni | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
So the main thing is to contain it, and then to try and ease tensions. | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
That may take some time, but it doesn't mean to say that it | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
will remain at the current level of crisis. | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
It doesn't necessarily mean that the Saudis | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
will send their Ambassador or restore relations. | :19:57. | :20:10. | |
With countries like the Russians and the Americans, also even Turkey, | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
which has been calling for restraint, it's kind of caught | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
All of those countries are pressing Riyadh and Tehran to kind of cool | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
it, trying to persuade them it's not in either of their interests | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
So I think containment is the key thing, and there are a lot | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
of voices calling for that, but pressure isn't quite the word, | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
it's more the pressure of persuasion. | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
Jim Muir answering those questions. And those of you who sent the men, | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
thank you. Your questions always welcome. | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
Outside Source Business, and let's go back to our top story. | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
President Obama calling for increased gun controls in the US. | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
This is interesting. Noting shares in Smith and Western are up-tempo | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
sent today. Go back to January when President Obama was inaugurated for | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
the first time and it shares were ?2.50. Gun sales often go like this. | :21:13. | :21:21. | |
Take a look at this very interesting map. This shows how many background | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
checks were done over the last nine years. That informs us how many | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
Americans are buying guns. What's interesting is you will note spikes | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
on the number of checks that are related to the occurrence of mass | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
shootings. When a mass shooting happened it seems Americans buy more | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
guns. Michelle flurry joins us. I remember right back at the beginning | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
of President Obama's presidency, we also saw a spike in gun sales. | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
That led to comments that perhaps President Obama is the best gun | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
salesman the industry has had. If you look at what has happened today, | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
the share prices, it is not just Smith and Western who have seen its | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
share price jump. Some of the other gunmakers have increased share | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
prices. All of them seeing a lift to their share price. This is in part | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
because investors see the announcement today from the White | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
House is having maybe a effect on gun sales, or if anything, bringing | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
forward gun sales as people try to make their purchases before the | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
rules come into effect. It is a pattern we have seen before. If you | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
look back in December, the FBI came out with the latest figures for | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
firearms transactions. They say they saw a 37 cents jump. | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
Very interesting. Thank you for explaining that. Las Vegas next. CES | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
is a vast technology convention. It starts on Wednesday but we have a | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
ready seen some of the best kit, including a fully flexible screen | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
from LG. Dave Lee has got his hands on it. At | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
CES it is a rush to make the finished screen as quick as | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
possible. This one from LG, the first fully flexible LED screen. You | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
can roll it up just like a piece of paper and the picture stays in | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
high-definition, in fantastic quality. This screen is 18 inches. | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
Eventually they say could be 50 inches bigger than that. Rather than | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
having a TV in the corner of your room taking up space, you can finish | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
watching TV, roll it up and put in the cupboard. This screen is very | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
much a work in progress will stop you can only roll it up in one | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
direction and if I am too rough, some of the individual pixels become | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
dead quite quickly. Meaning there are tiny missing pieces in the | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
overall picture. Why would somebody need a flexible screen like the one | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
you have been working on? Today you are looking at an 18 inch | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
prototype, but imagine you have a larger size, may be larger than 55 | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
inches, then you can roll up your TV when you don't need it and you can | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
still look at your beautiful interior or wallpaper. This is just | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
a concept at the moment and there is no idea how much it will cost but it | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
is an interesting sign of what could be the future of TV. | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
Impressive. Venezuela next. In Caracas members of Parliament have | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
been sworn in, the first time the opposition will be the majority for | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
17 years. This graffiti says this is their | :24:40. | :24:52. | |
territory, just in front of the assembly in Venezuela. The | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
Parliament from today will be controlled by the opposition for the | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
first time in the last and teen years. The graffiti shows how | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
difficult the day is going to be for the opposition, but also how | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
difficult the next years are going to be for the opposition that faces | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
a very powerful government that controls most of the institutions | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
and the country and does not seem to want dialogue. | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
Just the fact I'm filming here in the National Assembly of Venezuela | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
is news because for the last years only government journalists were | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
able to comment, because this was their territory. But now | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
international and opposition and even me are able to get in. Some | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
fear the majority of the opposition parliament, the Parliament the Army, | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
could be mere symbolism, in the sense that the power of the National | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
Assembly can be controlled by many of the institutions the government | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
still influences, and that is the question that will be resolved in | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
the next days and years here in Venezuela. | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
I will speak to you again in a few minutes time. | :25:58. | :26:08. | |
Hello, good evening. It is not only the UK that has been experiencing | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
wet weather | :26:14. | :26:14. |