US sends warning to Venezuela's new leader
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The US has warned the new interim leader of Venezuela to do as it says - or face the consequences. Donald Trump says if Delcy Rodriguez "doesn’t do what’s right, she's going to pay a very big price". The ousted Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, is due to appear in court in New York. Also in this podcast, Denmark's prime minister has told Donald Trump to "stop threats" about taking over Greenland. Police in Switzerland say they have now identified all forty victims of the New Year's Day fire in a bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana. Iran's government has announced that it will begin paying a new monthly allowance to every citizen. The President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, has markedly increased his defence budget for 2026. The movie Avatar: Fire and Ash has made more than a billion dollars at the global box office.
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| 0:07.6 | American politics can sometimes feel like a different language. |
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| 0:21.1 | This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm Ankara Desai, and in the early hours of Monday, the 5th of January, this is our top story. |
| 0:31.3 | Venezuela's new leader, Delci Rodriguez, has called for respectful relations with Washington |
| 0:36.0 | after Donald Trump threatened her with unspecified action |
| 0:40.0 | if she didn't cooperate. |
| 0:42.1 | Her predecessor Nicolas Maduro is due to appear in court later today. |
| 0:46.4 | We'll get the latest developments and analysis |
| 0:48.6 | from our correspondence on the ground. |
| 0:53.0 | Also in this podcast, all victims of Switzerland's New Year's Day fire are identified, |
| 0:58.8 | and Nigerious president steps up security and his defence budget amid rising violence. |
| 1:05.4 | And the new Avatar film has box office power, but... |
| 1:09.1 | I just want it to stop forever. |
| 1:12.0 | How is it possible to have come this far? |
| 1:16.1 | And for the storytelling to still be this bad? |
| 1:21.1 | What's made it a sleeper hit? |
| 1:27.3 | The US continues to push on with one of the most controversial interventions in Latin America in decades, |
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