Will Grant

Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, had told him that Nicolas Maduro has been arrested by US personnel to stand trial on criminal charges in the United States. And that, as he put it, the kinetic action we saw tonight was deployed to protect and defend those executing the arrest warrant. And further down he added in a comment to that post on social media, he anticipates no further action in Venezuela now that Maduro is in US custody.

We are yet to get, as it were, more detail, the full story of these points being raised on social media by senators and by other members of the administration. But we do know the US has been massing military forces off Venezuela for months and threatening military action. What more do we know about the sites that were targeted overnight?

No, niitä on kaksi. Ne ovat militäriset installaatiot Karakassan sisällä. Ensimmäinen on nimeltään La Carlota. Se on militärinen airstrippi, joka on oikeastaan hyvin keskustelussa Karakassa. Sitä menetetään, kun otat yhden tärkeimmän tarifeen kautta kaupungin ympärille. Ja se on vain siellä.

The other is called Fuerte Tiuna. That's the most important military base. One of the most important military bases in the country. Certainly the most important in Caracas. Very large, important military base. We don't know what the damage, the full extent of the damage has been to those two sites. We do know that power went out to both of them and to surrounding communities when those strikes took place. You're in Washington. What will Americans make of this after President Trump promised not to get involved in foreign wars?

Luulen, että se on yleinen kuvauksena. Tietysti Venäjä-amerikkalainen ja kuban-amerikkalainen yhteisö, jotka ovat konservatiivisia, konservatiivinen osa niistä yhteisöistä, voivat kiittää ideaa, että Nicolas Maduro on poistettu ja hänen isänsä on saanut Yhdysvalloille haittaa. Joten jos yhdysvallojen kohdalla Yhdysvalloissa on jotain, jota voidaan tehdä, niin vain noin 30 prosenttia votoja tuntuu, että Yhdysvalloissa on Yhdysvallan militiaalinen tehtävä.

President Trump has a lot of his constituency still to win over by the idea of this. Now, that polling was taken before there had been any military action and before it could be deemed as it were successful or painted as being successful by the Trump administration.

One will be interested to see exactly what the reaction is now that Nicolas Maduro has been removed. And if the Trump administration can show that was done with no harm to civilian population or to US service personnel, then he will be able to more easily portray it as a victory.

There were numerous sort of near simultaneous explosion, reports of explosions in several places across Caracas.

They include military installations, including La Calota.

Now that's a military airfield right in the center of the city and the main military base called Fuerte Tiuna.

It was a very warm welcome for Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, the president's Florida residence.

Donald Trump describing him as a wartime prime minister and even a hero.

And in return, Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel had never had a closer friend in the White House.

In the afternoon, Benjamin Netanyahu said that Donald Trump was a man who bucked convention.

So Israel would too like to buck convention.

They awarded him the Israel Prize and he's the first non-Israeli to receive that.

for his support of Israel.

The two leaders discussed a variety of issues from Iran.

Donald Trump said if the country rebuilds its nuclear programme, that threat would be eradicated.

Donald Trump pledging that he would sort it so that the leaders of Syria and Israel get along.