Pete Ross

We're hearing reports that are problems with safety rules or even that the club wasn't licensed to operate.

Well, these are, again, initial reports because local authorities have so far said there could be indications pointing towards negligence.

Now, this is a place which is filled with nightclubs, as Vikas was just talking about.

It's a popular party destination.

And these clubs are open during the

Christmas time to cater to local tourists and these are also makeshift clubs, some of them which are dismantled as soon as the party season is over.

So Goa's chief minister has confirmed that a formal inquiry is underway and that anyone found responsible will face action.

The venue is among many such beach clubs so there is an expectation there would be a review of these clubs as well and there would be more answers to what exactly went wrong shortly.

Davina Gupta.

There have been protests around the world and outside the White House itself over the US military's actions off the coast of Venezuela.

A wave of strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific have killed more than 80 people since September.

The Trump administration says the strikes are targeting so-called narco-terrorists and the defence secretary is doubling down.

At the Reagan National Defence Forum, Pete Hegseth compared drug traffickers to the terrorists behind 9-11 and vowed the US would continue killing them.

Right now the world is seeing the strength of American resolve and stemming the flow of lethal drugs to our country.

Here again we've been focused and here we've been clear.

If you're working for a designated terrorist organization and you bring drugs to this country in a boat, we will find you and we will sink you.

The days in which these narco-terrorists, designated terror organizations, operate freely in our hemisphere are over.

These narco-terrorists are the Al-Qaeda of our hemisphere, and we are hunting them with the same sophistication and precision that we hunted Al-Qaeda.

We are tracking them, we are killing them, and we will keep killing them so long as they are poisoning our people with narcotics so lethal that they're tantamount to chemical weapons.

Our correspondent in Washington, Sean Dilley, was listening to the keynote speech.