Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hi, I'm Kim Vinnell in Whanganui, New Zealand. It's Thursday, January 8th. Today, an ICE agent fatally shoots a woman in Minneapolis. The U.S. seizes a Venezuela-bound oil tanker bearing the Russian flag, setting up a potential showdown.
Chapter 2: What happened during the ICE shooting in Minneapolis?
Saudi Arabia says Yemen's UAE-backed separatist leader has reappeared. And the baby gorilla twins giving a boost to an endangered species. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week. We start in Minneapolis and a warning, this contains details and some foul language that some may find distressing.
This is the moment 37-year-old Renee Good was shot while in her car by ICE agents in Minneapolis. This guy has a gun, they're firing guns. Get back here, get out of the way.
Chapter 3: How did the U.S. seizure of a Venezuela-linked tanker escalate tensions with Russia?
The shaky footage shot by a bystander moves closer, showing a car crashed into a tree and agents surrounding it. They just killed that lady right there in that car, y'all. A woman nearby is crying. She says the woman shot was her wife. Hey, was you riding with her? Did you... Another witness films paramedics attempting resuscitation, but Renee Good does not survive.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of Saudi Arabia's claims about Yemen's separatist leader?
The shooting drew protesters onto the streets, where they were met by heavily armed federal agents wearing masks, who later fired irritants at them. The shooting is reigniting anger over President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. U.S.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says ICE agents had been working in the area all day with people harassing them and the woman was blocking officers in with her car. ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the car and to stop obstructing law enforcement, but she refused to obey their commands.
She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle, and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over. Mayor Jacob Frey rejects the government's account. What I can tell you is the narrative that this was just done in self-defense is a garbage narrative. Blaming the Trump administration for sowing chaos and issuing this blunt message to ICE. Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.
Democratic Governor Tim Walz agreeing with the sentiment. What we're seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines and conflict. President Donald Trump has weighed in on social media, saying the woman was a professional agitator and that the, quote, radical left are to blame for targeting law enforcement and ICE agents.
Reuters reporter Renee Hickman is in Minneapolis and says bystander video challenges the Homeland Security's version of events. In it, we can see the ICE agents approach Good's car. One of them tries to open her door and then another one approaches, looks like the front of the car. And as she's driving away, he fires his weapon at her.
the car then accelerates and then crashes a little way ahead. It's not totally visible whether or not she made any contact with that agent who fired his weapon at her, but he is still standing when the car drives away. There have been more protests and vigils tonight in Minneapolis and in other cities in the U.S.
I think that this is going to provide another flashpoint in what has been a fairly violent immigration crackdown by the Trump administration that has seen a lot of resistance. The U.S. has seized two Venezuelan linked oil tankers in the Atlantic. Notably, one of the tankers bearing a Russian flag was being shadowed by a Russian submarine.
American forces had been pursuing the marinera for more than two weeks. The ship was reportedly empty, but U.S. officials are saying it's been used to move Venezuelan crude. This comes just days after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and, as Trump announced, a deal to bring up to 50 million barrels of the crude into the U.S. Here's national security reporter Idris Ali.
Anytime you have a superpower taking over something that belongs to another superpower, in this case, the United States and Russia, it does risk sort of tensions faring. It does risk, you know, a diplomatic demarche. The Russian Transportation Ministry put out a statement saying this is unacceptable. We request and really demand our citizens from the ship to be returned to us.
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Chapter 5: How are protests in Minneapolis responding to the ICE shooting?
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