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Newshour: New El Salvador president sworn in

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New El Salvador president sworn in

01/06/2019 GMT

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Nayib Bukele, former mayor of country’s capital becomes president

Nayib Bukele, former mayor of country’s capital becomes president.

Thirty-seven-year-old Nayib Bukele was sworn in today as head of state of a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world.

Also in the programme: Elton John’s Russian Rocketman controversy and; the 50 Celsius heat in northern India.

(Photo: El Salvador's new president, Nayib Bukele waves next to his wife Gabriela Rodriguez, during his inauguration ceremony in San Salvador on 1st June 2019. Credit: Oscar Rivera/AFP/Getty Images)

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