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Hello, I'm Susan Hume, and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Monday the 5th of January.

Coming up, the Foreign Secretary comes under pressure to condemn President Trump's action in Venezuela at the weekend.

But Yvette Cooper chooses her words carefully.

I have raised this issue of international law with Secretary of State Rubio

and made clear that we will continue to urge all countries to follow it.

Also, after the government's change of heart on the agricultural inheritance tax,

Will the Minister now have the good grace to apologise on behalf of the government

to farmers and family business owners?

And the problems faced by people living next to asylum hotels.

Constant protests on their front door and YouTubers turning up trying to get a vox pop reaction at 11 o'clock at night.

But first, the Foreign Secretary has been pressed by MPs across the Commons

to say whether the government believes President Trump's actions in Venezuela broke the law.

Yvette Cooper would not give any view on that,

but said she'd raised the importance of complying with the international law with the American Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The US incursion into Venezuela at the weekend resulted in the seizure of the President Nicolas Maduro, who's now on trial in New York.

In the Commons, Yvette Cooper condemned the Maduro regime

and what she called its appalling human rights violations,

saying the government shed no tears for him.

But she said it was in the interests of UK security

to uphold international law and defend democracy.

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