Hello,
if you were listening to the last episode of newscast you will have heard Shashank Joshi from The Economist talking about the importance of the Greenland Iceland UK gap and how it plays a very important part in the Tom Clancy novel about a Russian submarine,
The Hunt for Red October.
Well today there was some real-life maritime drama in the gap.
The Americans, with British help,
seized a Russian flagged oil vessel with links to Venezuela and then very soon afterwards the Americans seized another Venezuelan linked vessel in the Caribbean.
We'll discuss what's going on and what it means in this latest episode of Newscast.
Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio and shortly I'll be joined by Faisal Islam,
who's going to tell us the latest news in computing from the quantum realm,
which we will explain what all that is, don't worry.
But first of all,
today's big international story has been the US dramatically seizing a Russian flagged oil vessel,
which was linked to Venezuela.
And this all happened in the sea in between Iceland and the UK.
And the US did this with British help.
The ship was called the Marinera.
Previously it'd been known as the Bella One
because it had only recently transferred its international flagging,
as is done in the shipping industry, to Russia.
And then shortly after that, the US Coast Guard seized a second vessel linked to Venezuela,