Venezuela’s opposition leader flees to Spain

The Spanish foreign minister says his country is offering political asylum to the Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate, Edmundo González. What hope now for the opposition?

Also in the programme: A number of Israeli civilians have been shot dead at a border crossing between Jordan and the Occupied West Bank, after a night of cross-border missile exchanges between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops; and, a warning to the West about the danger of Russian spies.

(Photo: Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez on the day he casts his vote in the country's presidential election, in Caracas, Venezuela. Credit: REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)