This is a special extra edition of the Global News Podcast,
marking the momentous events in Venezuela from the BBC World Service.
I'm Alex Ritzen and at 21 Hours GMT on Saturday the 3rd of January, these are our main stories.
After a Hollywood-style raid by 150 aircraft and US special forces on a fortress in Caracas which snatched President Nicolas Maduro,
Donald Trump says he's now in charge of Venezuela.
We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe,
proper and judicious transition and it has to be judicious.
We can't take a chance
if somebody else takes over Venezuela that doesn't have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind.
Mr Trump announced U.S.
oil companies will fix Venezuela's broken infrastructure and start making money for the country.
The U.S.
president also released a photo of a blindfolded and handcuffed Nicolas Maduro aboard a U.S.
Navy ship on his way, he says, to face justice in New York.
But Venezuela's vice president, Delcey Rodriguez, now sworn in to take charge,
has taken to state TV to say there is only one president of Venezuela,
and his name is Nicholas Maduro.
Also in this podcast, we'll be looking at how far the US operation complies with international law.
Following on from the capture by the US military and the deposing of the Venezuelan leader,
Nicolas Maduro,