Delcy Rodriguez sworn in as Venezuela's new president
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Delcy Rodriguez is sworn in as Venezuela's new president at a special ceremony in the capital, Caracas. Meanwhile, her predecessor, Nicolas Maduro pleads not guilty on drugs charges in court in New York. Also: the US tech company Nvidia introduces a new AI technology - that the chip designer says will help self-driving cars reason more like humans; the South African justice system is in crisis with many trials taking years to get to court; and a former school teacher is unmasked after posing as a senior naval officer at national days of mourning.
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| 0:21.3 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm Will Chalk, and in the early hours of Tuesday the 6th of January, these are our main stories. |
| 0:34.0 | Venezuela's new president is sworn in, while the old president, who insists he is still |
| 0:39.0 | in charge, sits in jail in New York. We investigate the court case crisis in South Africa |
| 0:45.2 | where thousands of trials are being left in limbo. And how close are we to a world where AI does |
| 0:51.1 | all of our driving for us. |
| 0:56.4 | Also in this podcast. |
| 1:03.1 | We had an imposter, somebody wearing a rear admiral's uniform and medals. |
| 1:07.0 | One of the medals, nobody has ever been able to wear that medal. |
| 1:09.4 | It hasn't been presented to anybody as yet. |
| 1:12.6 | How a fake admiral fell on his own sort. |
| 1:22.3 | So Venezuela officially has a new president. The former vice president, Delci Rodriguez, |
| 1:25.2 | has been sworn in as leader in the capital Caracas. |
| 1:31.2 | Except thousands of miles away in a court in New York, Nicholas Maduro, the man spirited out of the country on Saturday morning by US Special Forces, had insisted he was still president, |
| 1:36.9 | as he pled not guilty to drugs charges. |
| 1:39.6 | So by any reckoning, what life is going to look like in Venezuela after the removal of its |
| 1:44.1 | Earth-World leader is yet to become clear. And to confuse matters more, the US State Department |
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