What's going on between Donald Trump and Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela?
Indeed, between the United States and Venezuela as a nation,
the US has now seized a Venezuelan oil tanker,
a huge one, with all the oil, which they're not intending to give back.
Is that the first step towards proper military action against Venezuela?
And how much does that comport with the wider Trump view of the outside world?
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it's Sarah here in the BBC's Washington Bureau and it's Justin in the worldwide headquarters of America's in London,
England And we should say it's 10 o'clock in the morning on Thursday here in the US So it's three in the afternoon with you then Justin isn't it?
Yeah,
that's right that much I can confirm not much else But I can certainly confirm that
because I was up early this morning doing my day job But I've come in bleary-eyed back to the BBC
because we've got a lot to talk about and it's absolutely fascinating and it's about a place as well which is a place that we've both been to and both much loved when we were there.
Yeah, that's right.
We're going to be focusing on Venezuela.
The latest news is that last night on Wednesday,
the US government released a video of US forces basically seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker,
and the pictures are remarkable.
I mean, it's amazing that you can see this much of a military operation happening in the ocean,