Search for Venezuela's quake survivors continues

Venezuelans unite to aid quake victims

A former planning minister of Venezuela, Ricardo Hausmann, has told Newshour that the current government is slowing down aid effort by ‘creating obstacles.’ We also hear from a Venezuelan who has been raising money abroad to help fund the relief effort. Also on the programme: How the young in Gaza are trying to resume online careers; and why a puffer fish invasion is causing havoc in Greece’s fishing industry. (Picture: People react to news delivered by a rescue team, in La Guaira, Venezuela. Credit: REUTERS/Gaby Oraa)

Search for Venezuela's quake survivors continues

Search for Venezuela's quake survivors continues as thousands remain missing, more international aid has been pledged. Also in the programme: a statement from Russia's Vladmir Putin on fuel shortages; and the forgotten dinosaur of Antarctica. (Photograph: destroyed buildings in La Guaira. Credit: UKIsar)

Venezuela: Thousands of people are still missing

Hopes of finding more survivors are fading, three days after the earthquakes. We'll hear from the affected areas. Also on the programme: Uganda's military shuts down the country's largest independent news organisation. And the World Cup reaches its knockout stage. (Picture: Ruined buildings in La Guaira, Venezuela.CREDIT: Reuters)

US and Iran exchange strikes straining fragile ceasefire

Iran warns against any challenge to its control of the Strait of Hormuz as Tehran and Washington accuse each other of violating their ceasefire again - just how fragile is it? Also on the programme: as hopes fade of finding survivors of Venezuela's earthquakes, we'll be reporting from the city worst-hit by the disaster; and press freedom in Uganda is under threat as the army chief vows to shut down one of its leading independent media groups. (Photo: An Iranian woman walks past an anti-Israeli mural in Tehran on June 28, 2026. Credit: Reuters)

Venezuela earthquakes: Death toll passes 1,400

More than 1,400 people have been killed and 3,360 others injured in the Venezuela earthquakes, according to the government, as rescuers keep searching for survivors and families wait desperately for news. Also on the programme, an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz has been struck by an unidentified projectile, following the first exchange of fire between the US and Iran since their deal to end hostilities; and we hear from the official chef for Norway's World Cup team. (Photo: Members of the El Salvador rescue team search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building following an earthquake, in La Guaira, Venezuela, 26 June, 2026. Credit: Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters)