North Korea Stages Rare Political Gathering
DPRK holds most important political event in decades; Venezuela crisis; Nigeria death sentence
North Korea is holding the first Congress of the ruling Workers party since 1980. It's being seen as an effort by the leader Kim Jong-un to cement his status and chart a vision for the future. And they've even invited Western journalists to visit the capital Pyongyang! Our correspondent Steve Evans reports live from there.
There is a political crisis in a South American nation... But this time we are not talking about Brazil - it's Venezuela. The country faces economic difficulties and there have been attempts to remove President Maduro through political means.
And is the death sentence a good solution to Nigeria's problem with a growing number of kidnappings?
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