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Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
Coming to you live from our studios in central London.
I'm Julian Marshall and we go first to Georgia, the country that is where a team of international observers has issued a damning report on Saturday's parliamentary election, which the country's electoral commission says was won by the governing Georgian Dream Party.
The election is seen as critical in determining whether Georgia aligns itself more closely with the west or with Russia.
In a moment we'll hear from one of the observers who in the past few hours have held a news conference at which they outlined numerous violations both on voting day itself and during the campaign.
But even before that, the pro EU opposition had claimed that the election was rigged.
Azad Karimov is an official from an opposition party who was hospitalized after being beaten up in Tbilisi.
He told the BBC he called the police to report election fraud.
After that, a local town councillor stormed up to him.
I told him I was waiting for the police.
He started hitting me.
Then another 10 men joined in.