This is The Guardian.

We've had at least two senators saying this looks like it's the start of leading to war with Venezuela.

And I think there are genuine concerns that, you know, we're heading in that direction.

We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker very watch. What happens to the oil on that ship? Well, we keep it, I guess. I don't think this is

over by any stretch of the imagination. I think Trump's making it very clear now that he's not going anywhere on this

and that he's only going to keep pursuing this.

Why is Donald Trump attacking ships near Venezuela

and is what his administration is doing illegal?

From the Guardians today in focus, this is the latest.

With me, Lucy Hath.

I'm going by Deveka Bat, who is Deputy Editor of International News.

Thanks so much for coming up to the studio to join us, DeVica.

So this is a genuinely wild video that was posted by the Department for Homeland Security yesterday

and its footage of US Special Forces landing onto the deck of a massive oil liner off the coast of Venezuela.

What do we know about this US operation?

So, as you say, it was sort of announced yesterday via both Trump himself as well as

video footage that was posted by the Department of Homeland Security as well as Pam Bondi,

the US Attorney General. So Trump, in announcing this operation, said that the US had captured

or seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela,

refused to say who actually owns the tanker and sort of obliquely said there could be more to come.

But he did say it was seized for a very good reason.

The Americans are saying it was a tanker under sanctions.

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