Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez and coming up later we're beginning more details we hope on the shooting dead of a woman by a federal officer during an immigration operation that was taking place in the US city of Minneapolis.
Also, there's been a rare Iron Age discovery on the east coast of England.
It's delighted musical archaeologists.
Can you name the instrument?
will be revealed in 20 minutes.
But first,
just four days after US Special Forces flew into Venezuela under cover of darkness and seized the President Nicolas Maduro and his wife,
US troops, probably Special Forces, have been in action again.
This time it was to board and seize two tankers linked to sanctioned Venezuelan oil.
One of them was stopped in the Caribbean, carrying oil from Venezuela.
The other, much further away.
in the North Atlantic, south of Iceland.
And this one was bearing a Russian flag with Russian citizens on board.
However, it is reported to be empty.
Here's the US Defense Secretary, Pete Haggess.
Two oil tankers, two were seized by the United States of America,
stateless or sanctioned because the oil blockade,
the quarantine of oil out of unsanctioned or stateless, sanctioned or stateless vessels.