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Speaker 1: Scuffles and skirmishes between police and protesters in Glasgow. Gevin

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Speaker 1: grins how Uken you're corresponding, Gvin?

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Speaker 2: What's going on in Glasgow, Scotland? More anti racism protesters

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Speaker 2: meeted and greeted more anti immigration demonstrators in what became

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Speaker 2: a pretty tense standoff. Trying to keep those two groups separated.

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Speaker 2: Police briefly drew their batons and shouted at the protesters

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Speaker 2: to get away, with two people arrested during the protests,

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Speaker 2: but there were pretty unpleasant scenes in and around George Square.

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Speaker 2: So what happened was two to three thousand people joined

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Speaker 2: an anti racism rally, but about three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: people were at a rival demonstration calling on the government

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Speaker 2: to get much tougher on those coming across illegally on

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Speaker 2: the small boats. And then a group of mass men

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Speaker 2: believe to be a sort of ultra group of Celtic

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Speaker 2: football fans, a so called Green Brigade, had to be

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Speaker 2: contained in a corner of the square as they believed

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Speaker 2: they were sort of coming up behind the anti racism group.

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Speaker 2: But at one point a man brandishing what appeared to

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Speaker 2: be two sticks rushing towards the square was grabbed by

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Speaker 2: police and bundled into the back of a van, with

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Speaker 2: the barriers trying to keep the two groups of demonstrators apart,

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Speaker 2: at one point being overwhelmed. But anyway, police I think

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Speaker 2: would be pretty keen that it passed off reasonably peacefully.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds like it. I remember Gonzalees, the Venezuelan opposition

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Speaker 1: leader presidential candidate. He has fed to Spain.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and that is because a Spanish air Force plane

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Speaker 2: carrying him landed in an airbase in Madrid. He's going

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Speaker 2: to be granted political asylum there. He's been hiding in

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Speaker 2: Venezuela because there's been a warrant for his arrest issued

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Speaker 2: after the opposition disputed the presidential election result back in

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Speaker 2: July that saw the incumbent, Nicolas Maduro handed a third term.

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Speaker 2: There are thoughts that he and mister Gozales felt for

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Speaker 2: his life frankly feared for his life, and other opposition

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Speaker 2: organized as a saying that the Maduro administration has unleashed

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Speaker 2: a brutal wave of repression following the election. Now many

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Speaker 2: people are questioning the election results, which Nicholas Maduro said

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Speaker 2: that he won easily, but some are saying, look, we'll

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Speaker 2: publish the voting tallies. There's international pressure for him to

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Speaker 2: do that. They simply do not believe the scores that

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Speaker 2: have come out of these votes, and countries include in

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Speaker 2: the US, the European Union, the majority of foreign governments

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Speaker 2: refusing to accept Nicholas Maduro as the winner without Caracas

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Speaker 2: releasing that voting data.

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Speaker 1: Gevin, thank you for that, Kevin Gray are UK You

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Speaker 1: correspond interestingly, a lot of people questioning that result, of

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Speaker 1: course when you've got a dictator like Maduro in charge.

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Speaker 1: But the Venezuelans I think will vote with their fate,

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Speaker 1: more of them. So in the past ten years the

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Speaker 1: GDP and Venezuela has dropped eighty percent, and just ten

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Speaker 1: years and seven million people have immigrated out of the year.

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Speaker 1: This is a country of just twenty eight million people.

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Speaker 1: So you'd have to say, with more problems and the

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Speaker 1: opposition leader having to flee, more of them will do

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Speaker 1: the same. And then what does that create border issues

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Speaker 1: for the US. I'm sure something that will be discussed

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Speaker 1: in the debate that is coming with Harris and Trump

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday.

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