Radio National Breakfast

US President Donald Trump has announced the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a move analysts are warning is likely to further inflame tensions between Washington and Caracas

The US has been building up the largest military presence in the region in decades, launching a series of deadly strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean.

Warning: this interview includes discussions of child illness and death

Hunter was a baby when doctors said he wouldn't live past his first birthday.

He defied expectations.

In fact, Mum Ella Stratton had 12 years with Hunter, and now she's determined to help other parents who face the same path.

From a childcare sector in crisis, to new social media restrictions, the safety of children has been dominating headlines in recent months.

That makes it a big job for the new National Children's Commissioner Deb Tsorbaris who has just taken the reins from Anne Hollonds for the next five years.

Australia has recorded the highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1980.New data from the Australian Institute of Criminology shows 33 of the 113 people who died in police or prison custody in the last financial year were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

• Guest: Lidia Thorpe, independent Senator for Victoria
• Producer: Isadora Bogle 

Federal and state health ministers are meeting tomorrow amid a bitter public spat over funding.

State leaders are trying to hold the federal government to promises on hospital funding levels, aged care and disability support, while the Commonwealth argues states need to rein in their costs.

• Guest: Anne Ruston, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care
• Producer: Isadora Bogle

More than a thousand patients are stranded in New South Wales hospitals, with the state government saying that many of them are waiting for federally funded aged care or disability support.

The ANZSGM President, Sue Kurrle, warns that nationwide bed blocks require more residential aged-care beds, not simply extra home-care packages. Highlighting the complexity of a system funded by both the Commonwealth and the states and territories.

Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia has intensified, with both sides accusing each other of striking civilians.

Thailand says its tanks and jets have hit Cambodian military sites, including a casino complex used for weapons storage.

From Maria Callas to Kylie Minogue - the new Australian Museum of Performing Arts in Melbourne has launched its debut exhibition DIVA, featuring the world's most glamorous icons.

The showcase from the V&A  London celebrates some of history's most powerful - and provocative - divas, who've shaped the cultural imagination over decades.

European leaders have hit back at US President Donald Trump after he labelled them "weak" while claiming European civilisation was being eroded by immigration.

It comes as European nations are still reeling from the release last week of a new US National Security Strategy in which the White House claimed Europe was facing "civilisational erasure".

The leaders of Britain, France and Germany have held a call with U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss Washington's latest peace efforts to end the war in Ukraine, in what they say is "a critical moment".

Meanwhile, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has again rejected calls for Ukraine to give up any territory to Russia, saying neither the law, nor "moral right," allows it.