Alex Ritson

Mr. Trump's remarks came after it emerged that the head of the CIA recently met Ms. Rodriguez in Caracas. Meanwhile, the regional ramifications of Venezuela's political upheaval have been playing out in Cuba, which had been a staunch ally of President Maduro. On Friday, the Cuban leadership organized a protest march past the U.S. embassy in Havana to demonstrate against the killing of 32 Cuban security personnel there.

who were guarding Mr. Maduro at the time of the U.S. raid. From Havana, Will Grant reports.

With his voice faltering, the Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, delivered a speech railing against US imperialism before leading a march past the US embassy in Havana. The sentiments expressed by both the island's leadership and the crowd revolved around similar themes in Cuba, that the relationship with socialist ally Venezuela is unbreakable, and forged over years of a shared struggle against Washington.

However, as President Diaz-Canel was speaking, it became clear that the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, had traveled to Caracas and held talks with the interim president, Delcy Rodríguez. The move comes just two weeks after elite U.S. troops forcibly removed Nicolas Maduro from power in Venezuela and took him to the U.S. to face drug trafficking charges.

While it isn't yet clear if the apparent turnaround in political direction in Venezuela will represent a rupture with the Cuban government, there are many in Havana who are worried about the future with Delcy Rodriguez in power in Caracas. As well as the CIA meeting, she also recently held a lengthy phone call with President Trump, after which he described her as a terrific person.

Meanwhile, the remains of the 32 Cubans, many of whom were part of Nicolas Maduro's personal security detail, will be interred at the military pantheon in Havana's main cemetery. Will Grant in the Cuban capital. Germany has returned two fragments of the Bayer tapestry that were taken during the Nazi occupation of France in 1941. The small, unembroidered pieces were discovered by historians in state archives from northern Germany.

Why would Hitler have been interested in an early medieval artwork depicting the Norman conquest of England?

While not, we can assume, for any tips on invasion that William the Conqueror might have been able to offer at an interval of nearly 900 years. No, the reason scientists were dispatched in 1941 to Bayeux by the SS's Ahnenerbe, or Ancestral Heritage Organization, was to see what evidence the tapestry might offer to bolster Nazi racial theory. You see, William the Conqueror was a Norman. His ancestors were Vikings, so he was a kind of honorary Aryan.

and the Nazis regarded his exploits with a sort of veneration. The SS scientists scrupulously examined the tapestry, but their report never got written. D-Day intervened, and the whole episode would have been forgotten, but for the discovery last year in a museum in Schleswig-Holstein of these two tiny pieces of linen brought back to Germany and preserved by one of the team. Last vestiges of a failed bid to harness English history to the Nazi cause.

We hear about the former British spy who was sent to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau and made sketches of the atrocities that took place.

Are we living in a new world of strength, power and force? That's what Donald Trump's advisor Stephen Miller says. And the US strikes in Venezuela suggest we may be moving into a new era of empire. So every day this week, the Global Story is joining forces with our BBC podcast cousins around the world with unmatched expertise of their regions to explore these new empires.

Tuli pulkkamäkiä, polttareita tai puutarhajuhlia. Löydät nyt yli tuhat pysyvästi edullista tuotetta K-ruokakaupoista.

The exiled son of the last shah of Iran has urged the international community to support anti-government protesters, saying he is confident the Islamic Republic is about to fall. Reza Pahlavi called for a series of actions, including surgical strikes against the Revolutionary Guard.

There's little evidence that street protests are continuing after authorities began a violent crackdown. Reza Pahlavi has vowed to return to Iran and is promising a peaceful transition to democracy. Our chief international correspondent Lise Doucette has more.

That report by our chief international correspondent Lise Doucette. A court in the US has begun hearing a case brought by five British families who are suing the social media platform TikTok over the deaths of their children. They say their youngsters died after being exposed to harmful content which had been promoted by TikTok's algorithms. The company says it strictly prohibited content that encourages dangerous behavior. Our North America technology reporter Lily Jamali sent this report.

A compelling yet disturbing and rare set of drawings of a Nazi concentration camp will be put up for sale in New York later this month. The artist was a British spy. Brian Stonehouse was parachuted into occupied France in 1942 by the secret special operations executive, the SOE. But he was captured in France and then sent to the Dachau camp in Germany.

Päinvastoin, kun hän oli valmistunut 1945, hän teki tehtäviä korvauksia, murtua, krematoriumia ja gas chamberia. Brian Stonehouse sitten tuli yhdessä yhdessä yhdessä yhdessä. Hän tuli yhdessä yhdessä yhdessä.

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This edition was mixed by Rosenwin Dorrell and produced by Muzaffar Shakir and Wendy Urquhart. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Alex Ritson. Until next time, goodbye.

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