US seizes second oil tanker off Venezuela's coast
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The United States has released dramatic footage of its forces seizing an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, ten days after taking control of another ship in similar circumstances. Washington says the tankers’ oil is funding narco-terrorism, while Caracas accuses the United States of theft and kidnapping.
Also: with just one Israeli hostage’s remains still held by Hamas in Gaza, Israel’s Hostages Family Forum begins winding down its operations. The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has ordered a review into the police and intelligence services after the mass shooting at Bondi Beach last week. President Volodymyr Zelensky says he would support direct talks between Ukrainian and Russian teams if it unlocked prisoner swaps or paved the way for negotiations between him and Vladimir Putin. A German engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to travel to space on a Blue Origin rocket. And astronomers marvel at an unusual lemon-shaped exoplanet the size of Jupiter spotted with the James Webb Space Telescope.
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| 0:39.2 | For the second time this month, |
| 0:44.9 | the United States says it seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Commemorations are taking place across Australia one week on from the terror attack at Bondi Beach. |
| 0:52.2 | Also in this podcast, Ukraine's President Zelensky says the U.S. has proposed fresh face-to-face negotiations between officials from his country and Russia. |
| 1:03.3 | And an engineer from Germany becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space. |
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| 1:23.3 | The U.S. has released dramatic footage of its military forces seizing an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, |
| 1:29.3 | 10 days after taking control of another ship in similar circumstances. |
| 1:34.4 | Washington claims the oil's being used to fund narco-terrorism, |
| 1:38.8 | but Venezuela has accused the United States of theft and kidnapping. |
| 1:43.4 | In recent months, the U.S. has been building |
| 1:45.6 | up its military presence in the Caribbean Sea, carrying out deadly strikes on alleged |
| 1:50.1 | Venezuelan drug-smuggling bows. President Trump hasn't ruled out the possibility of war against |
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