Hello to you and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm Sean Lay and we're going to be devoting most of this hour to the fast-moving events in Venezuela and the apparent detention and removal of Nicolas Maduro.
What happened and what will happen to the Venezuelan president?
How's the government in Caracas reacting?
Will the Americans take further action?
What's Venezuela's opposition hoping for?
And can the government of Venezuela survive without its leader?
For months now,
US President Donald Trump has been signaling his determination to see Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro out of power.
In the early hours of Saturday morning, he apparently did something about it.
At a little before 2 a.m.
local time aircraft were heard flying over Caracas,
the Venezuelan capital, and explosions around the city.
A local resident recorded this.
Three hours later came this statement from US President Donald Trump on his media platform,
Truth Social.
The United States of America has successfully carried out a large-scale strike against Venezuela and its leader,
President Nicolás Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the country.
The operation was done in conjunction with US law enforcement.