Venezuela explained and new year, same Starmer?
Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost
Sky News
4.0 • 224 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
What happens in Venezuela now that Donald Trump's US forces have captured Nicolas Maduro? How has the international community responded and will Trump target more countries?
Sir Keir Starmer is trying to hammer home a new year's message. But what will 2026 look like for the prime minister?
And there are lots of questions being asked in Switzerland after a fire in a bar killed 40 people and injured dozens more on New Year's Eve.
Sophy and Wilf have the day's news in just 10 minutes.
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| 0:08.3 | Celebrate the new year with triple discount savings on many sofas, from spacious corners |
| 0:13.1 | to relaxing power recliners. |
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| 0:23.7 | Credit subject to status minimum spend and deposit. Many triple discounts and credit offer end |
| 0:28.3 | 6th of January. |
| 0:32.1 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:46.7 | Happy New Year, Welcome to the first episode of the year of Cheat Sheet, the podcast where we do the work so you don't have to. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm Wilfrid Frost. |
| 0:52.0 | And I'm Sophie Ridge. It is Monday the 5th of January, 2026. |
| 0:59.2 | And we are back to the most extraordinary new story. So while we're off, |
| 1:05.2 | Donald Trump sent US commandos into Venezuela and captured the president. So we're going to be unpacking all of this. We're going to be working out who's running Venezuela now. Could other |
| 1:08.9 | countries be next? And also, why on earth did Donald |
| 1:12.6 | Trump do this? One of the most extraordinary stories imaginable. We're also going to be talking |
| 1:17.2 | about the news here. And the Prime Minister Kirstama is planning a major reset to try and reinvigorate |
| 1:24.1 | his premiership. That starts. Today, we'll break down what to expect. |
| 1:27.7 | And finally, I don't know how you're getting on with your news resolutions, but we are going to be revealing which has been the most popular. |
| 1:36.3 | So we're all still reeling from the absolutely extraordinary story that we've seen unfold and continue to unfold in Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro, the former |
| 1:46.8 | leader captured by the US set to appear in a court in New York today charged with drug |
| 1:51.8 | truck trafficking and weapons offences. And we've got a new leader as well, interim leader. |
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