turnout

perhaps denied the new president a bigger triumph.

Police in Chile have used teargas and water cannon to try to break up a protest against the

screening

of a documentary that praises the former military government of General Augusto Pinochet. Reports in the Chilean media say many of the anti-Pinochet demonstrators were arrested. Gideon Long is Santiago.

The first protest there came across with a group of pro-Pinochet supporters who were gathered outside. They have flags saying 'Long live Pinochet', and some of them were carrying a momento from the 1970s, from the 1980s – they were lording Pinochet. And they walked a couple of hundred meters up the street, and

came across

'fell Augusto Pinochet', people who were protesting against the event. There was a very heavy police presence, and generally, it seemed that the two sides had been kept apart, but there have been very serious clashes between the protesters and the police.

The Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles has formally registered to run in October's presidential elections. After leading tens of thousands of his supporters on a 10km march through the streets of the capital Caracas, Mr Capriles

vowed

to fight crime and

root out

corruption. President Hugo Chavez who's recovering from cancer is due to announce his candidature on Monday.

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A state of emergency has been declared in a part of western Burma hit by deadly violence between Buddhists and Muslims. A curfew had already been imposed in four cities in Rakhine state, including its capital Sittwe after the deaths of 17 people. The trouble follows reports that a Buddhist woman had been raped and murdered in an attack blamed on Muslims.