Machado gives Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Trump at a private White House meeting, calling it a recognition of his “unique commitment” to Venezuelan freedom. Mr Trump posted on social media that it was a gesture of mutual respect, and thanked her. The talks come weeks after US forces seized Nicolas Maduro in Caracas and charged him with drug trafficking. Also: President Trump threatens to deploy military personnel to Minnesota as tensions grow over the deployment of ICE officers in the city of Minneapolis. Families of protestors killed in Iran say they are being charged large sums of money to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones. Scientists unveil a detailed new map of the landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice. Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney meets China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing as both countries seek to forge closer ties. We hear why more people are cutting out alcohol all year round, and how naturally mummified cheetahs found in a Saudi cave are yielding rare DNA from an extinct population.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Will Chalk and at 430 GMT on Friday the 16th of January. These are our main stories. |
| 0:18.3 | The Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Carina Machado has given her Nobel |
| 0:22.2 | Peace Prize to President Trump, but there's no sign she secured his backing to lead her country |
| 0:27.5 | after talks at the White House. Mr Trump has threatened to send soldiers to put down protests in |
| 0:33.3 | Democrat-run Minnesota over the presence of thousands of federal immigration officers. |
| 0:39.1 | The Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is visiting China, hoping to improve strained relations. |
| 0:47.0 | Also in this podcast, a first-hand account of the violence faced by demonstrators in Iran, far from the big cities. And scientists say |
| 0:56.2 | a new map has en masseed the landscape beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice. So it's really |
| 1:01.5 | important to know this everywhere so that those models of how sea level is going to change |
| 1:06.8 | in the future can be more accurate. |
| 1:18.6 | So it's been a big day for the two women vying to be central in the future of Venezuela. |
| 1:23.5 | Opposition leader Maria Karina Machado has met Donald Trump at the White House. |
| 1:32.1 | In October, she gained international prominence by being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her long fight for democracy in her country. |
| 1:39.5 | Back in 2023, she won the opposition primary by a landslide but was barred from running in the presidential election. |
| 1:45.3 | Many thought that following the recent American military operation to seize President Nicolas Maduro, |
| 1:48.0 | she would be the obvious candidate to replace him. |
| 1:53.8 | But so far, Mr Trump has failed to officially endorse her, saying she wasn't respected enough to lead the country. |
| 1:57.3 | The White House has said the meeting went very well. |
| 2:02.0 | This is what Ms. Machado said after the meeting surrounded by supporters and press. |
| 2:10.9 | I presented the President of the United States, the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize. |
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