Will Chalk

Our Central America correspondent Will Grant is in the Cuban capital Havana, where tributes are being paid to 32 of the country's soldiers and security personnel who were killed in Venezuela during the US capture of Nicolas Maduro. I asked Will what Ms Machado had been hoping to achieve in her discussions with the US president.

Maria Corina Machado oli, jos haluat, yksityiskohtaisen poliitikko, joka oli viime vuoden valmistelun jäsen, Edmundo González. Hän vaikuttaa erittäin erityisesti Venäjällä tulevaisuudessa olevaan hallituksessa, ja toivottavasti hallituksen johtajana olevansa valmistelun jäsen.

It's not surprising that she has met with Donald Trump even if he was initially quite dismissive of her possibilities of being president. It's going to be interesting to see how that personal relationship begins to fare now that Nicolas Maduro has been removed from power and whether or not this peace offering of the Nobel Peace Prize medal is sufficient to smooth over any differences they might have.

Olet mainittanut medalin. Se oli todennäköisesti haastavaa hetkeä. Oletko uskonut, että se auttaa Donald Trumpin vahvistamiseen? Olemme tehneet paljon siitä, kun puhutaan Yhdysvalloista ja muista puolustuksista, kun katsotaan sitä, että se voisi olla vaikuttanut hänen tuntemukseen, että hän tuntui hänen tuntemukseen, kun hän tuntui hänen tuntemukseen.

I'm not so convinced that that really is behind the fact that the Trump administration is working with Delcy Rodriguez as an interim president in Venezuela. I think it seems like there were security and intelligence assessments of the opposition's plan for government, and it was deemed that they weren't ready or they weren't sufficient, and that Washington would essentially be having to prop up a proxy government for years and years.

Ja he eivät uskonut, että se oli niin vaikeaa kuin työskennellä Maduro-administraatioiden muiden osin, kun hän oli ulos kuvassa. Jotenkin se on tietenkin erinomainen, että hän antaa medalin Donald Trumpille.

Meanwhile, we've got Delcy Rodriguez with this almost seemingly impossible task of continuing Maduro's socialist agenda, but also appeasing the US. And to make things harder, while she was speaking, she had Nicolas Maduro's family in parliament today.

Joten siinä on se yksi osa, jossa olen Cubaan, ja sekin dynamicti. Kyseessä on tietenkin cuban liikkuvuus Venäjällä. Kyseessä on tietenkin ihmisiä Cubaan, jotka ovat erittäin miettivät siitä, mitä tulevaisuudessa tulee, jos Delsio Rodríguez jatketaan Donald Trumpista.

Mutta Venäjällä on myös ihmisiä, jotka arvostavat, että tämä on sopiva sosiaalinen hallitus, sosiaalinen hallitus, jossa on läheisiä liikkeitä Havannaan. Ja jos jotain toimii toisen suuntaan, vaikka se antaa uusia määräkulmia Yhdysvalloille, eikä anna niitä Havannaan. Olet oikeassa, hän on hyvin vaikea tehtävä kokeilla näitä kaksi erittäin erilaisia näkökulmia.

Tällä hetkellä he ovat soittaneet jonkinlainen vihreä kautta ympärillä, mutta en ole varma, kuinka pitkälti se voi loppua ennen kuin jotain alkaa antaa. Se oli Will Grant Kuban kaupungin Havanaan. Mennään taas Yhdysvalloille tämän seuraavaksi, koska presidentti Trump on vahvistunut lähettämään sääntöä sääntöön Minnesotassa, jossa he ovat rauhoittaneet 2 000–3 000 ympäristöryhmää Minneapolisiin.

Kuukausia asuntoja otettiin ulkopuolelle, kun venesuaalinen ilmastopuolueen ilmastopuolueen ilmastopuolueen ilmastopuolueen ilmastopuolueen ilmastopuolueen

Usually members of the military are prohibited from being used in domestic civil or criminal law enforcement. The Insurrection Act of 1807 grants an exception to that in the event that the commander-in-chief decides that members of the military are needed to quell a rebellion. And that allows the occupant of the White House to either send in members of the armed forces or

Kiitos puheenjohtaja.

It's more than 30 years since the law was last invoked, in fact. That was at the behest of the governor of California during the Los Angeles riots back in 1992. And it was only implemented on the very rarest of occasions prior to that. President Trump, of course, we know, has already taken the unusual step of federalizing democracy.

We heard a bit there of some of the criticism Donald Trump's been receiving over this, but obviously, you know, if there's anyone who shrugs off criticism well, it is Donald Trump. Do you think it's likely he'll pay attention to this?

Well, that's right. And very unlikely, I would think, President Trump has made curbing illegal immigration the centerpiece of his second term in office. He's vowed to deport millions of people who are in this country illegally, despite growing accusations of authoritarian overreach. And he continues to blame state officials for, as he sees it, failing in their duty to protect ICE agents.

who were simply trying to do their job and enforce the law. Mr. Trump has threatened several times in recent months to implement the Insurrection Act in response to court decisions that have blocked his attempts to deploy the National Guard in some parts of the country, and asked if the president was serious about invoking the Insurrection Act. The Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem,

She said she didn't know, but she added that it was his constitutional right. David Willis in Washington. Families of protesters killed in Iran have told the BBC the authorities are demanding large sums of money for the return of bodies. Relatives say they're being asked to hand over thousands of dollars so they can bury their loved ones. In some cases hospital staff have been warning people to collect bodies before they can be seized by the security forces.

One human rights group says more than two and a half thousand people have been killed in the unrest. First-hand accounts of what's been happening in Iran are hard to come by, given the communication difficulties and the need for safety of those who want to speak freely. But the BBC has heard an eyewitness account of shocking brutality from an Iranian living in the UK who was back in her home country last week.

She wasn't in a big city, but had clear sight of the events in the town in which she was staying from her family's balcony on the fourth floor. We're calling her Puna, which is not her real name, and we're not giving the name of the town. We've also revoiced her answers to protect her identity. She started by describing to my colleague Evan Davis the violent events she witnessed a week ago.