Maduro accuses US of 'fabricating a war'
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro warns US against war, after the Pentagon orders top aircraft carrier to join its campaign against drugs gangs in the Caribbean. We ask what is Trump's endgame in Venezuela.
Also in the programme: The difficulties of getting thousands of sick and injured Gazans for urgent medical treatments abroad despite ceasefire; and how a German company made a risky, but pretty funny, advert for itself out of the Louvre jewel heist.
(Image: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro attends a press conference in Caracas; Credit: Photo by MIGUEL GUTIERREZ/EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to the programme. |
| 0:11.2 | This is News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:14.0 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Paul Henley. |
| 0:17.5 | First up today, President Trump's decision to send a naval fleet, including the world's biggest aircraft carrier towards the Caribbean, has caused more anger in Venezuela. |
| 0:27.8 | In an appearance on state TV, President Nicolas Maduro broke into English and spoke about a possible war. |
| 0:35.4 | No to the war, not war, not war, not war. |
| 0:41.0 | Just peace, just peace, just peace, just peace, forever, forever, peace forever. |
| 0:45.9 | Peace forever. |
| 0:47.6 | No crazy war. |
| 0:49.7 | Well, later on, he accused the Trump administration of breaking its promise on not starting |
| 0:54.0 | new wars. |
| 0:58.1 | The people of the United States know it. |
| 1:01.2 | They're inventing a new, eternal war. |
| 1:05.2 | They promised they'd never get into a war. |
| 1:09.5 | Instead, they're inventing a war which we are going to avoid. |
| 1:15.1 | At least 43 people have already been killed in what the US administration calls a crackdown on drug trafficking in Venezuelan waters. |
| 1:24.1 | The Pentagon is yet to provide evidence of its claim that those targeted were drug |
| 1:27.9 | traffickers and posed a national security risk to the U.S., though. President Trump has notified |
| 1:33.1 | Congress of the administration's engagement in what it calls a non-international armed conflict |
| 1:39.2 | against cartels, but when asked, he said he would not be seeking Congress's approval on it. |
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