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30/07/2017 GMT

Controversial Referendum in Venezuela

BBC World Service - Newshour, Controversial Referendum in Venezuela

President Maduro puts plans for a constituent assembly to the vote.

Venezuelans go to the polls in a deeply divisive election for a new constituent assembly. The opposition are boycotting the poll, saying the whole process is just a means for President Maduro to maintain his grip on power. More than one hundred Venezuelans have been killed during four months of unrest. 

Also on the programme, Australian authorities have arrested four people who they allege are involved in a plot to blow up aircraft. And, as we approach the twentieth anniversary of her death in Paris, why does Diana, Princess of Wales, exert such an attraction to so many people to this day?

(Picture Voters in Caracas Credit AFP)

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