Hello. Today in Iran, anti-government protests are spreading across the country.

We hear from those calling for a return of the Shah in Tehran.

We're at a street party in Miami among the city's Venezuelan community, in the hours after the US seized President Maduro.

We're in India's far northeast, where we witness a centuries-old stone-pulling ceremony, albeit with a little help from a modern-day digger.

And finally, in a warehouse in a suburb of Berlin, factories have

been repurposed into creative spaces, but ones being retooled for war. But first, America's

nighttime military operation in Venezuela last weekend seemingly caught the whole world off guard,

as the U.S. Army's elite Delta Force unit seized the country's president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife Celia Flores.

Venezuelan officials said around a hundred were killed in the assault.

The couple were swiftly transported from Caracas to New York, where Mr. Maduro

faces allegations of narco-terrorism. Appearing in court, the couple pleaded not guilty to all charges

against them, and Mr. Maduro declared he had been kidnapped. Our correspondent Will Grant

reflects on his years reporting on Nicolaas Maduro's leadership.

There was a time when you could simply get Nicholas Maduro on the telephone.

Almost 20 years ago, in late September 2006, I called the number, as arranged, in New York of all places,

and he picked up with a Buenos Tardes,

good afternoon in his unmistakable baritone timber. A day earlier, the Venezuelan president

at the time, Albuquerés, had delivered one of the most memorable speeches the UN General

Assembly had ever seen. He called President George W. Bush the devil and said it still smelled

of sulphur at the podium where he was standing. The delegates delighted in it, or shifted

uncomfortably in their seats, depending on their political meanings. In my telephone interview with

the then-Venezuelan foreign minister, Nicholas Maduro, I asked him about the backlash. Critics had said Chavez

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