Hello and welcome to News Out from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And we're going to begin today with Venezuela.
The Trump administration's efforts to derail the government of President Nicolas Maduro,
a drug-running regime, it says.
And the question of who or what would replace him?
Well,
the person most likely to take over were he to leave the scene as the opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.
She was in Oslo earlier today to receive her Nobel Peace Prize in person.
We have an exclusive interview with her to play you in just a moment.
But the honours in Norway came just as Washington was ratcheting up its campaign against the Maduro government another notch.
This time with the seizure of a huge oil tanker it says was carrying sanctioned oil to Iran.
The White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt has been giving some more details about that in the past couple of hours.
The United States currently has a full investigative team on the ground on the vessel and individuals on board the vessel are being interviewed and any relevant evidence is being seized.
With respect to the oil, that's a different issue.
The vessel will go to a U.S.
port and the United States does intend to seize the oil.
However,
there is a legal process for the seizure of that oil and that legal process will be followed.