{"id":309773,"date":"2025-12-10T23:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309773\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T23:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:37:09","slug":"follow-live-us-releases-video-it-says-shows-troops-seizing-tanker-off-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309773\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow live: US releases video it says shows troops seizing tanker off Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump has watched a ship seizure beforepublished at 23:02 GMT<\/p>\n<p>23:02 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a1462f87-b5c0-43b2-8a08-2f7c7a8f1bff.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Bernd Debusmann Jr<br \/>Reporting from the White House<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Naval commandos fast-roping onto the deck of a ship in October\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/53ce3878-79af-42e1-b182-c05d528d1769.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1290\" height=\"736\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Bernd Debusmann Jr\/BBC NewsImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US Navy Seals landing on-board a vessel to &#8216;seize&#8217; it during a demonstration that Trump watched in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watching video of the ship&#8217;s seizure, my mind went back to October, when I accompanied the president on a trip to watch a demonstration of naval capabilities to celebrate the US Navy&#8217;s 250th day birthday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After being flown by helicopters and Ospreys to the USS George HW Bush &#8211; an aircraft carrier &#8211; President Trump, and the press that joined him, watched an impressive display of naval firepower for well over an hour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Part of that demonstration included what is known in the US military as VBSS &#8211; visit, board, search and seizure &#8211; and saw heavily armed Navy Seals fast-rope from helicopters on to the deck of a ship, which they then methodically cleared with weapons at the ready. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the same time, another helicopter circled overhead, machine guns blasting away. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That procedure is similar to what we&#8217;ve seen in the latest video of the Venezuelan tanker. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump spoke to sailors during that visit, and was clearly impressed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now, it seems, a VBSS has been carried out on a real-world mission. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump has watched a ship seizure beforepublished at 23:02 GMT 23:02 GMT Bernd Debusmann JrReporting from the White&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-309773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}