[03:14.33]Irene Casella reports from Caracas.
[03:16.71]Nicolas Maduro who was proclaimed the president on Monday after a narrow victory blamed the deaths and violence on opposition candidate Henrique Capriles.
[03:26.19]Mr. Maduro said the pattern of violence was similar to that of the coup attempt in 2002 when Hugo Chavez was deposed for two days.
[03:34.51]Mr. Capriles has not accepted the results of Sunday’s election.
[03:38.58]He asked supporters to carry out peaceful protests by banning pots and pans around the country.
[03:44.92]Police in Pakistan say a bomb targeting an election campaign rally in the northwestern city of Peshawar has killed at least eight people.
[03:53.00]The bomb exploded as senior members of the Awami National Party which opposes the Taliban were arriving for a meeting.
[03:59.64]Attempts by the former president General Pervez Musharraf to stand in the poll have been dented by the rejection of his candidature by election tribunals.
[04:08.26]His lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri said Mr. Musharraf would appeal arguing that the decision was undemocratic.
[04:14.92]“They are trying to establish that dictatorship or democracy is a frame of mind.
[04:22.28]A man in uniform can be democrat and a man in the shirt while can be a dictator.
[04:28.75]And they’ve also had dictatorship judicially.