US seizes two Venezuela-linked tankers
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The United States says it has seized two tankers accused of violating sanctions against Venezuela. One of them, a Russian ship, was boarded in the North Atlantic between Iceland and Britain. The US coastguard had been pursuing the ship for weeks since intercepting it off the Venezuelan coast. During the chase, the vessel underwent a change of name and adopted a Russian flag. Russian support including a submarine was on its way before the tanker was seized. The other tanker, sailing under the flag of Cameroon, was seized in the Caribbean. Also: the White House says that President Trump has been discussing options, including military force, to acquire Greenland, which it says is vital to US security. How a collection of preserved bowel cancer samples could help to unlock the mystery of why the disease is rising around the world, especially among younger people. And the Iron Age battle trumpet discovered in England - the most complete such instrument found in Europe.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Jean-Aat Jalil and at 16 hours GMT on Wednesday the 7th of January. |
| 0:15.3 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:17.4 | The United States says it seized a Russian tanker sailing in the North Atlantic and another one in the Caribbean, both linked to Venezuelan oil. |
| 0:27.0 | China denounces the US after President Trump says Venezuela will turn over tens of millions of barrels of oil to his control. |
| 0:35.9 | The UN human rights chief says Israel is subjecting Palestinians in the |
| 0:39.9 | West Bank to severe and intensifying racial discrimination and segregation, likening it to |
| 0:47.1 | apartheid. Also in this podcast, in all those boxes in this room, like the crates in |
| 0:53.9 | the Indiana Jones film, |
| 0:55.5 | we think the answer might lie because we can treat the room like a time machine. |
| 1:00.6 | Could decades-old bowel cancer samples help to solve the mystery |
| 1:04.8 | of why the disease is on the rise in young people? |
| 1:13.1 | The United States says it seized two oil tankers with connections to Venezuela, |
| 1:18.0 | one that the US had been pursuing for weeks since intercepting it off the Venezuelan coast |
| 1:23.4 | was boarded in the North Atlantic between Iceland and Britain. |
| 1:27.8 | During the chase, the ship, which is reported to be empty of cargo, |
| 1:31.5 | changed its name and adopted a Russian flag. |
| 1:35.1 | Before the tanker was seized, Russian naval support, including a submarine, |
| 1:39.3 | had been on its way to escort it. |
| 1:42.0 | The second vessel, which was carrying oil and sailing under a Cameroonian |
| 1:46.2 | flag, was seized in the Caribbean. It's now being escorted to a US port. A former Russian deputy |
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