Concern across Latin America after US strikes Venezuela

US President Donald Trump says he intends to run Venezuela and its vital oil sector following the capture of President Maduro in a military raid on Caracas. Venezuela’s neighbours are already expressing their concerns.

Also in today’s programme: Why Kenya struggles to convince the global athletics authority, World Athletics (WA), that its athletes are not drug cheats; and we hear about Quartet for the End of Time, a piece of chamber music that was first performed in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp.

(Photo: Protest in San Francisco against US military action in Venezuela, USA - 03 Jan 2026. John G Mabanglo /EPA/Shutterstock