US aircraft carrier group arrives in Caribbean
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Democrat governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has criticised deadly US strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean. The US has now struck at least nineteen vessels, killing around eighty people. On Tuesday, an American warship (the USS Gerald R Ford) also arrived in the region. There's growing speculation that the US might attack Venezuela, where President Maduro has announced a nationwide military deployment.
Also in the programme: The Israeli military says its troops were attacked when they detained four Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank for taking part in a large scale arson attack on Palestinian villages; out of the latest atrocities in Sudan, we will bring you the survivors' stories; and bagpipe world record broken in Australia.
(Photo: Dozens of aircraft on the USS Gerald R Ford add significant combat power to US forces near Latin America. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsAv from the BBC World Service, coming to live from London with me, John Donison. |
| 0:15.7 | And we're going to start the programme with the breaking news that's coming out of the United States. |
| 0:19.8 | Our millions of listeners there, I'm sure, have been waking up to it dominating the airwaves. |
| 0:25.3 | House Democrats in Washington have released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein |
| 0:29.5 | suggested that Donald Trump knew more about the financier's sexual abuse |
| 0:34.4 | than he has so far acknowledged and claimed that the now president had spent |
| 0:39.7 | hours at my house, that's Mr Epstein's house, with one of his victims. |
| 0:45.8 | President Trump has denied any involvement in or knowledge of the sex trafficking activities |
| 0:51.8 | of his former friend who died by suicide in federal prison |
| 0:56.6 | in 2019 as he was awaiting trial. Well, Michael Gold of the New York Times has been telling |
| 1:03.1 | me the details. |
| 1:04.1 | So yeah, these emails are coming, I should say, as the House returns to session and it |
| 1:10.2 | seemed designed to thrust the |
| 1:11.6 | Epstein issue back into the national conversation. But these emails all are from Jeffrey |
| 1:17.1 | Epstein, two associates of him. One is to Galane Maxwell, his longtime confidant, who's currently |
| 1:21.7 | serving a 20-year sentence. In that email, Epstein calls Trump, the dog that hasn't parked, and that's the one where he says he spent hours with this victim who the emails do not identify, I should say. |
| 1:34.3 | Any response from the White House yet? |
| 1:36.7 | Probably not. |
| 1:37.3 | Nothing from the White House yet. |
| 1:39.7 | Republicans on the Oversight Committee, though, did issue a statement accusing Democrats, essentially, of cherry picking, creating a fake narrative to slander President Trump. |
| 1:48.3 | And we should say, I just want to be very clear that the President and the White House have emphatically denied that he had any knowledge of Epstein sex trafficking scheme or that he had any involvement in any wrongdoing by him or Delane Maxwell. |
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