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Venezuelans are no strangers to online surveillance, but President Nicolas Maduro has gone a step further by ordering the armed forces to create a new app so that citizens can inform the authorities about, quote, everything they see and everything they hear 24 hours a day.

It'll be part of an existing government platform set up to report issues about local services.

Tensions are high in Venezuela at the moment after the US began attacking alleged drug boats near its territorial waters.

James Cottnall heard more from Tony Frangimawada, Caracas-based journalist from the podcast Venezuela Weekly.

Was the president then absolutely explicit that this was being done in response to the tensions with the U.S.?

Or was that just something that everyone in the country read into it that way?

Would you anticipate people using the app a lot?

I mean, have people used it to report on anti-government protesters in a large way?

We all know about the power, the might of the US and President Trump seems pretty determined.

What are President Maduro's options right now, do you think?

Venezuela analyst Tony Franji-Mawat.

Next to a video that's been widely shared of an Indian health worker risking her life to cross a flooded stream.

She was on her way to vaccinate a two-month-old baby in a remote Himalayan village.

Despite their life-saving benefits, vaccines are controversial in many countries.

Our correspondent Davina Gupta travelled to the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.