00:00Trinidad and Tobago has now become notorious for its role in rising U.S.-Venezuela tensions,
00:07so says leader of opposition business in the Senate, Dr. Amory Brown.
00:11Well, ladies and gentlemen, Trinidad and Tobago is now firmly established within the international news
00:20as a base for military operations against Venezuela.
00:25If you examine CNN, Reuters, Al Jazeera, Associated Press,
00:32we are now being routinely referenced in a significant number of articles.
00:41But what concerns him even more is the Prime Minister's rhetoric.
00:45He says her now viral statement to kill them all violently made
00:50when asked about the U.S. bombing of a suspicious vessel in the Caribbean Sea
00:54on September 2nd shows a level of indiscretion on becoming of a head of government.
01:01That strike on September 2nd is now the subject of extreme and intense attention
01:09within the United States of America and across the world.
01:15It is now the subject of a major legal controversy.
01:19It is that very strike, major legal controversy,
01:23what seems to be a political scandal involving participants in both parties in the U.S.
01:30and some degree of military controversy as well.
01:35Another reflection of the poor judgment of our Prime Minister.
01:40The international controversy he refers to has placed U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
01:45and a senior military commander under direct scrutiny.
01:49At issue is why American forces authorized a second strike on a vessel already disabled
01:56in what was believed to be a drug interdiction mission.
02:00A second strike that killed survivors of the first.
02:03The White House has confirmed the follow-up attack
02:06and U.S. media outlets have verified that those who survived the initial strike were among the dead.
02:12Legal experts and democratic lawmakers say this raises serious questions
02:18under international humanitarian law,
02:20which requires combatants to give aid to wounded or shipwrecked persons.
02:26Instead, they argue the survivors were targeted again,
02:29an action some say may constitute a violation of the laws of war
02:34and potentially a war crime.
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