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This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Paul Moss and in the early hours of Monday, October 28th, these are our main stories.
Georgia's election result prompts allegations of fraud, vote tampering and physical attacks so did the governing Georgia Dream Party really win?
We are receiving severe judgment.
Japan's prime minister admits to his party's crushing blow its worst election result for many years, and the Iranian president Masoud Pazhechkian has said Tehran is not looking for war, but will give an appropriate response to Israel's airstrikes.
Also in this podcast, the former Bolivian leader Evo Morales says he's narrowly escaped assassination.
There were 14 shots, one to the driver's head.
He arrived bleeding and got another shot that hit his arm.
Luckily, none of them hit me.
It's not how an election is supposed to be run in Georgia.
There have been allegations of bribery and ballot box tampering, as well as those reports of physical violence being meted out on people trying to cast their vote.
As we record this podcast, the official results of the weekend's contest are now pretty clear.
The ruling Georgia Dream Party seems to have won about 54% of the vote, but three separate teams of election monitors say they witnessed significant violation of the rules.
Antonio Lopez Estores White was head of the European Parliament's delegation.
In my particular case, I witnessed this in a polling station.