Maduro taken to US court
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro is transferred by armed forces to make his first appearance in a US court on drug trafficking and weapons charges, alongside his wife Cilia Flores. Both were seized by American forces from their compound in Caracas and flown to detention in New York, before being led in handcuffs into a Manhattan courtroom. The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says he's "concerned rules of international law have not been respected", as nations discuss the US actions at a UN Security Council meeting. And we learn more about Delcy Rodriguez, Maduro's right-hand woman, who is due to be sworn in as acting president of Venezuela.
Also: a court in Paris convicts 10 people of cyberbullying France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, over false claims about her gender and sexuality; China and South Korea reaffirm their ties at a summit in Beijing; and we look back at the life of Eva Schloss, Holocaust survivor and Anne Frank’s step-sister, who has died at the age of 96.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.5 | American politics can sometimes feel like a different language. |
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| 0:13.3 | Make sense of what's happening in the US, |
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| 0:21.1 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm Jean-Ullat Jalil, and at 16 hours GMT on Monday the 5th of January, these are our main |
| 0:31.7 | stories. |
| 0:32.9 | The Venezuelan president, Nicholas Maduro, and his wife have been transferred to a court in New York to face drugs charges two days after they were seized by US troops in a raid on Caracas. |
| 0:44.2 | The UN Security Council is holding an emergency meeting on Venezuela. |
| 0:49.5 | A French court finds 10 people guilty of spreading lies online about President Macron's wife, Brigitte. |
| 0:59.2 | Also in this podcast, |
| 1:01.3 | The struggle to get myself how I was, because I was a very outgoing and open. I love people. |
| 1:09.0 | But after the war, when they came out, I changed completely |
| 1:11.9 | personality. The Auschwitz survivor and step-sister of Anne Frank, Eva Schloss, has died at the age |
| 1:19.6 | of 96. As we record this podcast, the ousted Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro is due to make his first |
| 1:31.8 | appearance in a US court on charges of drug trafficking and possession of weapons. Maduro and his |
| 1:38.4 | wife Celia Flores were seized by American military forces from their compounding Caracas on |
| 1:43.3 | Saturday and taken to a detention centre in New York. |
| 1:47.1 | On Monday morning, the pair were flown by helicopter to a Manhattan court, |
| 1:51.2 | both in handcuffs and escorted by heavily armed police. |
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