The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Washington. This is bbc world news america. After a twoyear long power emeggle, Nicolas Maduro triumphant in venezuela. He controls all political institutions. Thatseaves the nation opposition in tatters. We speak to juan guaido lawmaker and self proclaimed interim president about what is next. Britains Prime Minister well had to brussels for talks after the president of the European Commission says the conditions for a trade agreement are not there. And sticking thei. Rescuing a group oranded giraffes in kenya. Katty wcome to world news america. Two years ago, global headlines were dominated by political in venezuela. We reported extensively on what looked at the time like the end of the maduro regime. Today, Nicolas Maduro is not only still in power, he has won a major electoral victory, giving him back control m the nationallly. Turns out the turnout was low and the poleri wascized internationally is fraudulent. But it does complete control of the countrys political institutions. Onthe opposis now in peril. Our south americaon corrent reports from caracas. Reporter these results were no surprise. With the vast majority of candidate loyalty president Nicolas Maduro, there w only goin to be one winner. The nationalism billy had been the last remaining branch of government controlled by the opposition. Now, president maduro has caught has consolidated his power. We have compiled the constitution. Five years on, i come out and say that we have a new nationalism billy as a result of the popular vo. People have electedanheir lawmakerwe have had a tremendous and gigantic electoral victory. Reporter at the voting e stations, precautions wken to prevent the spread of covid19. Social distancing and masks obligatory. But in many c places,rowds were not a problem. Turnouwas low. Among those who came out to vote, there was a feeling of duty. Dependent of a persons political position, voting is a they teach us that when we are young and sixth grade. You have to go vote. Reporter the opposition led juan guaido boycotted these elections. Instd, they are holding their own version of a referendum this week, asking people how they want the future of venezuela to be decided. But it is a vote that has no legal basisds and hittle appeal to a population that has grown tired of politics. People are fed up and despond. With foodnd fuel shortages and an economy in freefall, what tmatters to m venezuelans is how they can survive another day, and they dont believe politicians on either side have the answer. With a newssbly, either side, together, we cant move forward. Reporter the new National Assembly will be sworn in on january 5. An guaido, until now its leader, will be out of a job. What will happen to him . Will he stand in caracas and risk arrest . Or will maduro feel too in bold and too emboldened to care . These elections feel different than before. Usually usually a polarized country, they are more people who agree on not liking any of the options then wanting to choo a side. Katy watson bbc news in caracas. Katty it is catastrophic for venezuelans at the ment. Some World Leaders are calling the election of political sham. U. S. Secretary of state mike pompeo says america will continue to recognize juan guaido as venezuelas interim president. Earlier i spoke to mr. Guaido at his home in caracas, and in an exclusive interview. Following these elections, what the position at the moment of the opposition in venezuela . Mr. Guaido the most important thing at this moment for the venezuelan democracy, the democratic movement, is to have a legitite supporter of the people in order to find a solution. The demand of our cause is to have fe president ial and parliamentary elections. Nicolas maduros fraudat it was de. Not only in the streets, but it was seen by the international community, which saw that there should not be conditions for participating in the process. The right to elect and be elected, it is simple. I cannot be part of that process as i was disqualified. But neither could 300 other venezuelans, because they were being jailed or persecuted. Or disbanded. Ere made illegal that is why the whole world rejects that process and venezuelans keep demanding their right to choose, s that the rsecution does not keep growing. It is not going to stop us from demanding our rights. Katty are there up other opposition leaders have gone into exile. If it looks like you might be detained, will you follow them . Mr. Guaido spking spanish] translator there is a high risk foray me every it was a year ago that i was kidnapped, and that was the second time that has happened while fighting maduros dictatship. In spite of all this, the politicaluril, while fighting a dictatorship, i will find solutions and other alternatives along with the international community. The venezuelan people are not satisfied and are lookiat for altees. Katty thank you very much for joining us. Mr. Guaido y thank. Katty mr. Guaido speaking to us interview with the bbc. E in 24 days, the brexit transition process will end. For thfirst time, residents of the u. K. Will start to feel the reallife impact of a decision that was ten more than four in a process that has seen negotiation after negotiation and deadline after deadline, we know exactly what that means. Will the. K. Leave the european and political deal in place . Or will it fail to find commongr ound and leave in what is called a hard brexit . To explain it all, joining us now is rob watson, political correspondent. I keep getting asked in america, has brexit happened . When is bre . Is this ever going to end . Tare re now . Is this it, is this the week where we get some kind o conclusion . Rob i was going to ask you, what do you say back to them in reply . Katty i say i will talk to rob. Rob it is my job to try to provide right. It is my job to try to provide some answers. To make it as clear as one can, britnn left the european un officially on the first of january of this year. It was any transition, so absolutely nothing has changed as he say. Weetill trade exactly the s way. Essentially, a year was allowed to transition in which the u. K. And. U would work out their future relationship, particularly trade, but weher things a. It is a bit like you have asked your kids about thei homework, and they have left it to the very last minute to hand it and that is a situation we find ourselves in. Extruder narrowl after the holt extraordinarily, we still dont know what the future relationship will be. Katty and what would be the big difference for the people of the u. K. Between having some kind of a deal that they might reach this a wee not having any deal . Rob that is a very good question. There is this breadandbutter kind of answer. So if you look at the hard economics of it, it will be much more disruptive to have a new deal. There may be shortages of certain items in some of the shots. All of the independent forecasting suggests while any form of brexit will be damaging, more damaging than tid pandemic, a new deal brexit would be even more damaging. I think there is Something Else which is a bit less tangible. And thats, imagine this, imagine this everybody watching this, if there is no deal, there is a good chance the u. K. And the eu would be not friends. En sort oies. And that would have been d unthinkable if i sat to you five years agoe you would ht i was nuts. I think that is what people would notice. The practical things, it would abe difficult inew deal in terms of shopping, jobs, economics. But there would be the other issue ever britain and the eu being rivals, almost unimaginable. Katty so this seems to be a critical week, andha w heard Boris Johnson is going to go to brussels to try to hammer out a deal. Does it look to you having observed this as you have so closely for the last four years, that we are going to get to some kind of lastminute deal between the two . Rob an easy question, which i which is i have aolutely no idea. I suspect if you were to ask Boris Johnson and thers of the eu, they would not know. Im glad you raised boris johns because, heres the thing. Over 30 Million People voted in the referendum in 2016. But inay a funnywhat happens next, that future relationship all rests on one man, and that man is Boris Johnson. A populist leader and some might say in a turn of exqsite liirony, this po politician is facing two choices. It really is down to him, boti of which potly would leave him rather unpopular. First of all, he could go for a no deal m brexit, whiy in his party would like, but which could be very disruptive. Or he could do w a dealh brussels which would have many in his own governg conservative partyin say you trader, you sold us out to katty and maybe, just maybe, we might find out which way he goes this week. Rob watson, thank you very much. I was having that homework conversaon last might with poppy, and yes, she left it very late. Ngsouth koreas handf the coronavirus used to be seen as a good example of how to handle this pandemic. Now its Health Minister has warned of aal collapse as it faces a spike in the number of cases and deaths. Soul is described as a covid19 war zone. Mark labelle has the story. Reporter up to now, south korea has been dealing with the pressure omi the panwith flying colors. Like the students taking important exams in these even more challenging times. Achieving top marks with their tough testing and contact tracing. But the latest assessments dont look good. Now that daily cases have risen to a ninemonth high. The third wave was differents because it happening from the community spreading event from the daily activities. So it is more difficult for agencies to do contact tracing. Beuse of the nature of the community spreading event, it could create a future cycle of a further spreading. Reporter like other countries witnessing a resurgence in this crisis, it is introducing new tuesday in the capeoul andfrom surrounding areas, gatherings will be limited to 50 pele. Restaurants and some shops will close at 9 00. In gyms and karaoke bars will shut. As the country prepares for empty stadiums and a curtailed nightlife, the Prime Minister says south korea is facing a critical period in its fight against covid19. The countries Health Minister warns the medical system could reach its limit. Dangerous situation on the verge of expanding into a nationwide pandemic. Miporter president moon jaein is mobilizing thtary and Public Servants to help expand testing. He wants more drivthrough Testing Facilities and longer Opening Hours to help combat thisise in cases. As the country bears down to battle the virus in this third wave, it seems urgent effort than before. Mark labelle, bbc news. Katty vi even south korea hang problems. A look at other news from around the world. Ficials in the indian state of andrew per are struggling to identify Mysterious Illness after e number of people affected continues to rise. 300 pple of all ages have reported symptoms in the last two days. That includezz seizures, diiness and vomiting. One man has died. Indonesia says it ismi eng its first consignment of a chinese Coronavirus Vaccine ahead of distribution to medihil workers anrisk groups. The country with the worst outbreakia in southeast has received 1. 2 million doses, which has been undergoing tests since late august. Six coronavirus patients have died in a hospital in pakistan after oxygen splieran too w. Delay and delivers meant more than 200 patients in the hospital in the Northern City oxygen. Urs on reduced officials blamed the shortage on the supply company. Several staff have now been suspended. Lets get more on those brexit talks. Earlier, we got the view from the u. K. At is happening europe. Our reporter has been. Following negotiations from brussels she joins me. Thank you for joining us. We were hearing from rob watson on what he thought the likelihood was of a deal from the u. K. s point of view. What are the people in the eu thinking . Do they think they can get a deal on brexit . I think the hope is still there. The mood in brussels was a as gloothe weather this morning. I mean, really hard to see your way forward. We had the eus chief negotiator briefing andatted s representing the 27 eu Member States. Then moving onto the European Parliament and saying i really am not sure that it is possible to have a deal. But there has been lots of diplomatic activity today. You he Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron of france a the European Commission or president having a video conference. They were going to dohat anyway because there is a eu leader summit on other matters. They were talking about about brexit. You heard good news about e. U. U. K. Efforts to implement the brexit divorce deal. Allic of those comed arrangements on northern ireland. So there is movement here, and then the fact that Boris Johnson does make a difference. That of course, the eu does not know whate is going to say. When you talk to deployments here, they are not sure Boris Johnson has made up his mind either. The fact that he is coming here means those who want a deal, hope that all hope is not the not yet gone bu nobody thinks the deal is in the bag. Katty wero were hearing rob on why it is important for the , u. E whole issue of brexit and getting a deal or not getting a deal. How much of a priority is it for the eu at the moment, given they have a pandemic to deal with anh a whole ton of things on their plate at the moment . That is right. We definitely had a government members earlier this year suggesting that the economi devastation covid19, it has. Sdevastated obviously the economy, economies across europe, but this might make eu leaders focus more on the needs to get a brexit deal. But what we have actually seen in the last couple of weeks has been individual Member States o are represented by the European Commission. That is the Commission Building behind me. But individually, they have been not getting a deal, but aboutut possibly getting a they see as two too high a price. If you look at the big sticking points in these negotiations, it is competition regulations and the governance of a final deal. It is the last two that are ace primary importo the eu. Because what they are saying to the u. K. Is ok, we wil give you preferential access to our Single Market after brexit, but not if you have an unfair competitive advantage over our own businesses. Lets agree to some, competition principles. And because there ismu little al trust and because this is a legal document, the eu has been saying ok, lets make sure we have a mechanism in place so that either of us break our word, there can be swift legal painful action taken against the eu or u. K. Whoever breaks it. That is what we are hearing froe ther states. They dont want in a hurry to agree to this deal if it is not in their longterm interests. They did not choose brex, they said. They did not choose this timetable. It was boris jnson who wanted deal by the end of the year. Covid19 or no covid19. In the eu is nervous it would rather have no deal then a bad deal. An we hear that same argument as you will have heard from rob from the u. K. Too. Katty ok. Katty adler there with clarity in the fog. Thank you for joining us. You are watching bbc world new americ still to come on tonights program, turkey has put a new lockdown and nightly curfews in place. But doctors are concerned over the alarming rise in covid cases. Katty residents orta coastal re town on a popular australian Holiday Island have been td to leave immediately as a bushfire worsens. Fire crews are battling to control the fire on Fraser Island which is a heritage site off the coast of queensland. It was sparked by an illegal campfire in midoctober. Heres our correspondent. Reporter it has been going for a while n, since midoctober, because of the illegal campfire. I ehink what is makinryone nervous now, the reason why the alert level has gone to emergency and people have been urged to leave, is because simply, when you get the right weather condition for a fire, the fire becomes uncontrollable. And we have been getting really, really high to mergers, really, really dry lan and all it takes is a gust of wind and you get thisli fire tra at a reeed that frank, fifighters have been struggling with. And this is why we are gting these fire warnings. This is why they have been trying for weeks now. Katty doctors in turkey are g accusing ternment of covering up the true scale of the pandemic in the country. Amid a surge in infections, they eware now restrictions in place including weekend lockdowns and nightly curfews. Om istanbul, heres our correspondent. Reporter ul she wasof life, but she is e of the latest victims of covid19. Turkey. S now raging across she had a rare genetic condition. But relatives told us the toddler was doing well, untils she got the vist month. They sent us this video of her heartbreakg final days. Her and says she only got a suitable intensive care bad whee someone else and the Health System failed her at every turn. [speaking foreign language] reporter n the outskirts of oistanbul, silent witness turkeys second wave. Critics say until recently, the government was burying the truth. After pressure from the opposition, the authorities ares now pung figures for all those who test positive. S. T just those with sympt officially,here are around 32,000 new infections every day. Virus have just been buried here, sidebyside. Now that the government is releasing more complete data, it is clear that turkey is in the grip of a huge new wave of infections. Bubout as the official figures are, doctors here believe they dont reveal the full extent of the crisis. 50,000 new cas