A year of Trump: terror, territory and tariffs
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We bring you a special report today of the 'dark flights' that are deporting hundreds of people - the vast majority of them here legally - in shackles from Minnesota to Texas detention centres.
There is no official record these flights exists, so one man - an aviation specialist - has made it his life’s work to document each flight that leaves and count the number of people who are being "disappeared" without trace.
But - on this inauguration anniversary - we start with the latest conundrum for the world’s leaders: who is Trump threatening to invade now? And can any of their words make a difference to what comes out of his mouth next?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK Commercial Banking, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.6 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | There's two main things that have really got me really upset over the last couple of months when this has been going on. |
| 0:19.1 | The first time was when I saw them dragging the shackles and the chains around out of the backs of the airplanes. |
| 0:25.1 | There are these big shackle apparatus that's going to connect your wrist to your waist. |
| 0:30.0 | A pair of chains that are maybe a meter and a half long, |
| 0:32.9 | going to go between your legs and your hands and your waist. |
| 0:37.3 | It's so profoundly upsetting to me. |
| 0:39.4 | These people are working so hard. |
| 0:41.8 | They're learning a new language. |
| 0:43.5 | They're working one or two jobs trying to support their family. |
| 0:46.8 | Who knows where the rest of their family is? |
| 0:48.9 | Maybe there are thousands of miles away in another country. |
| 0:51.2 | They're doing their best. |
| 0:53.0 | And our government is coming and just taking |
| 0:55.0 | them and terrorizing them for no good reason. They're not criminals. They're Americans just like me, |
| 1:02.0 | or they're working on becoming Americans just like me. They're doing things the right way. And the |
| 1:07.2 | government is just ripping them out of our community. And it's so profoundly upsetting. |
| 1:12.6 | That is Nick Benson. |
| 1:14.3 | He's a self-confessed plane spotter. |
| 1:16.5 | And right now, he's making it his life's mission |
| 1:18.7 | to document for public record every single dark flight |
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