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Hello and welcome to NewsHare from the BBC World Service.

We're coming to you live from London.

I'm James Menendez.

And coming up later, we'll begin more details, we hope,

on the shooting dead of a woman by a federal officer during an immigration operation that was taking place in the US city of Minneapolis.

Also, there's been a rare iron age discovery on the east coast of England. It's delighted musical archaeologists, but can you name the instrument?

Music musical archaeologists. But can you name the instrument? All will be revealed in 20 minutes. But first, just four days after US Special Forces flew

into Venezuela under cover of darkness and seized the President

Nicolas Maduro and his wife. U.S. troops, probably special forces, have been in action again.

This time it was to board and seize two tankers linked to sanctioned Venezuelan oil.

One of them were stopped in the Caribbean, carrying oil from Venezuela.

The other much further away,

in the North Atlantic, south of Iceland. And this one was bearing a Russian flag with Russian

citizens on board. However, it is reported to be empty. Here's the U.S. Defense Secretary,

Pete Hagseth. Two oil tankers, two were seized by the United States of America, stateless or sanctioned, because

the oil blockade, the quarantine of oil out of unsanctioned or stateless, sanctioned or

stateless vessels continues.

That leverage will continue as Secretary Rubio outlined.

So our military is prepared to continue this.

As he said, the president when he speaks,

he means it. He's not messing around. We're an administration of action to advance our interests.

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