Hello and welcome to you Coffee House Shot, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman,

and this is the Sunday Roundup. This week, the American capture of Venezuelan President Maduro

dominates the headlines, and Kirstama sits down for a long interview with the BBC.

The US has struck Venezuela's capital Caracas and captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores.

In a press conference after the military operation, President Trump said the US will run the country until such time as we can do a safe transition

and claimed American oil companies will be very much involved.

Speaking to Kirstama, Laura Kuzberg asked if the US actions were in breach of international law.

And you've been incredibly clear always that Vladimir Putin's attack on a sovereign

country of Ukraine was wrong, and not to be condemned. What about President Trump's

attack on a sovereign country of Venezuela? There are all sorts of horrors that we know about

President Maduro's government, but for America to strike that country and then capture

its leader, that's an action against the sovereign state that surely flies in the face of

international law.

Well, at the moment, it's a fast-moving situation.

We know those facts.

President Trump, the White House has said that they captured Maduro and they struck

his country.

So there's a lot we don't know, but we do know that.

So will you condemn that action against the sovereign state?

Well, I want to get all the material facts together, and we simply haven't got the full picture at the moment.

It's fast moving, and we need to piece that together.

I can be really clear with you that there was no UK involvement in this operation.

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