2024-09-08
28 分钟This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Janet Jaleel.
And in the early hours of Sunday the 8 September.
These are our main stories.
Tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating across France, claiming President Macron has stolen democracy by appointing a right wing prime minister.
Security forces in Venezuela's capital have encircled the argentine embassy, where prominent opposition figures have been sheltering for months.
The heads of the american and british intelligence services say the world is facing a threat not seen since the Cold War.
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We begin in France, where tens of thousands of people have been taking part in demonstrations claiming that President Macron has stolen democracy by appointing a right wing prime minister.
Michel Barnier.
The mostly left wing protesters took to the streets of more than 100 towns and cities.
These demonstrators in Bordeaux shouted, resistance.
Resistance.
Mister Barnier, a former foreign minister who also acted as the EUS Brexit negotiator, was appointed by President Macron on Thursday after two months of political deadlock in the wake of inconclusive elections, which saw parliament roughly split in three between a left wing alliance, Mister Macrons, centrists, and the far right.
Although the left did win the most votes, it came nowhere near an absolute majority.
The french far right leader, Jourdan Badella had this warning for President Macron and his new prime minister.
If Mister Barnier wants to be the voice and the driver of the democratic aspirations that were expressed in the elections, then I will judge him on his policies.
If, on the other hand, he is the new frontman for Macronism and he continues the policy that was led by the french president Emmanuel Macron, then this government will fall.