The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2026/01/04 at 01:00 EST

Episode Date: January 4, 2026

The World This Hour for 2026/01/04 at 01:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, The World This Hour. I'm Mike Miles. Good night. Happy New Year. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during a per block Saturday night in New York. That's sound from a White House social media post. Maduro now at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after the U.S. military invaded the country, raided his home and evacuated him and his wife.

Both are now at the MD. D.C., joining other infamous inmates, including R. Kelly, Sean P. Diddy Combs, and Luigi Mangione. The reaction to the U.S. attack on Venezuela is reverberating through capitals around the world. President Donald Trump says the U.S. will run Venezuela for now, and American companies will take over Venezuela's oil industry and sell its oil. Karen Pauls has more on the reaction in Washington and elsewhere. This is illegal. It's unjustified. Congressional Democrats say the administration didn't have

legal authority for its actions, and say Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio lied to Congress in briefings last year. Seth Moulton is a congressman from Massachusetts. When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, are you going to invade the country? We were told no. Rubio says they didn't have to notify Congress ahead of time because it's not a war. It's mostly a law enforcement mission. So it's the end of one dictator, but it is not the beginning of democracy. I mean, this is really the law of the jungle. Ben Rosewell is a former Canadian ambassador to Venezuela and a consultant with Catalyze 4, a strategic advisory and leadership development firm. The fact that the United States will enter the sovereign territory of another country sends a signal

that every president and every prime minister is potentially a target of U.S. military action. Karen Paul's, CBC News, Washington. Still and Claire, who is leading Venezuela now? Though Trump had said, it was the country's vice president, Delci Rodriguez, who was stepping in. She's rejecting the U.S. intervention. Freeland's reporter, Cody Weddle, is in Bogota, Colombia, with more. Well, I think, first of all, what was so striking about her appearance on TV was that she was surrounded by top members of the Maduro governments. These are people who, like Maduro, had bounties put on them by the U.S. State Department. So clearly, for now, that international,

circle of Maduro remains defiant and remains in Caracas. So she described that attack that happened. She called it, quote, an aggression without precedence. And she said that those who launched it will pay for it. She did not say that she has assumed the presidency. She actually said she demanded the immediate return and release of Nicolas Maduro. And that actually contradicts what Trump had said earlier in the day, he said that she had been sworn in as the new president and that they were cooperating with her. But she appeared on TV and she was certainly defiant. Freelance reporter Cody Weddell in Colombia, Venezuela's Supreme Court Saturday night ordered Rodriguez to take over as acting president, calling it necessary to preserve administrative continuity.

Venezuelans living in Nova Scotia are reacting to the American military action. Veronica Gutierrez lives in British, I'm sorry, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. She says she's still in shock, but she's holding some cautious optimism. Like, we have been living in this dictatorship for 26 years, and I lived there until I was 24. The infrastructure is completely destroyed. Yeah, the corruption was like really, really bad. We didn't have water. We didn't have power.

Yeah, the question is like, is this okay to happen with Trump? She says her parents are currently visiting Venezuela and are not sure how they'll get back to Canada. The British Defense Secretary says the U.K. has carried out airstrikes in Syria targeting an underground ISIS facility. John Healy says the facility was most likely being used to hold explosives and weapons, along with a French aircraft, the UK bombs at-bombed, access tunnels, part of what Healy describes as the UK's efforts to stamp out any resurgence of ISIS. That is the World The Sauer for CBC News. I'm Mike Miles.