Oliver Conway

Were you thinking of those other daughters, those other mothers in Venezuela and around the world who have not had this moment that you've been able to have?

What about the next thing for you, though?

Because you know that the Venezuelan government is now calling you a fugitive, that you will be arrested if you go back.

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado talking to Lucy Hawkins.

France is battling to control violent drug gangs that are exploiting and even killing children.

In the worst affected city, Marseille, the number of teenagers caught up in the drug world has risen sixfold in recent years.

President Emmanuel Macron has urged police to treat the multi-billion dollar industry in the same way as terrorism.

Our correspondent Andrew Harding has been to visit the southern French port.

Bursts of automatic gunfire, filmed from the window of a French apartment block.

On the street below, rival drug gangs, heavily armed, often just teenagers, are fighting over turf.

We're going to kill you all, he says.

Night after night, some neighbourhoods in the ancient port city of Marseille are being transformed into war zones.

Footage of the dead circulating on social media.

Victims as young as 14, 15.

The cumulative effect of all these killings here in Marseille has created what people locally describe as a kind of psychose, a nervous panic, a terror that has gripped the city.

He's lifting up his vest here, T-shirt, to show me the scars.

He's got a big scar on his back.

Yusuf, a gang member, shows me where he was shot by rivals.

In the last few years, he says, the bosses are using young people, paying them next to nothing.

It's chaos.