Celia Hatton

Don't threaten us with sticks and doors.

I'm instructing my workers and people of this country to respond with whatever they use.

The chaos escalated and a state of emergency was imposed.

Even as the rest of the world expressed concern, many Bangladeshis, exhausted by the antics of the two warring women, were relieved.

Khalida Zia was accused of corruption and sent to prison.

She was only allowed out on bail to contest the next set of elections when democracy was finally restored.

She lost them and staged an angry boycott of the new parliament.

Many will remember her as one of two women who held the country's politics hostage with decades of feuding.

The legacy of the Bangladeshi politician and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who's died at the age of 80.

Let's turn our focus to Venezuela.

Speaking to reporters in Florida several hours ago, President Trump said the U.S.

had carried out a strike on a target allegedly linked to Venezuelan drug smuggling.

It's believed this may be the first U.S.

attack on Venezuelan soil since President Trump began his military buildup in the Caribbean Sea earlier this year.

U.S.

forces have so far struck at around 30 boats, killing more than 100 people in what Washington says is a crackdown on drug trafficking.

In the last few hours, the Pentagon said another boat had been hit.

I asked our Latin America correspondent Will Grant about the significance of a US strike on Venezuelan land.

OK, so if we take Donald Trump's assertion at face value that this strike has taken place, how significant is it then that these strikes are now being carried out on Venezuelan land?

Will any more information on why the U.S.