WATCH: Nicolas Maduro transported to New York court from detention centre

coming down against a man who was once all-powerful in his own country

I do want to bring back in Alistair Burt, the former foreign minister, who is on the line still, because, Alistair

Charlie was just talking there about what might happen elsewhere in the world

Are we seeing a strangely, perhaps unpredictably, interventionist Donald Trump? Yes, I think that's clear from what he's already done and what he's been saying

And one of the mysteries is that he came to office pledged not to do this

He had very strong backing from his America First constituency that was tired of the so-called never-ending wars

He bitterly criticized the actions of the United States administrations in Iraq and Afghanistan for what they had done in trying to take over and run sovereign countries

and here he is doing exactly that. So I think there will be some concern amongst his own base

about what's going to happen next. Apologies there, we seem to have cut to another feed

Just we can see there, Nicholas Maduro is stepping out of the helicopter

Charlie Peters is with us in the studio. Charlie, what are we looking at here? Well, Nicholas Maduro now in Manhattan

I think it's interesting to see the DEA being involved in this transfer, the Drugs Enforcement Agency

when we saw that what will undoubtedly become an iconic image of Nicolas Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima

hours after his capture. A DEA agent was also pictured alongside him

The US very keen to project this theory, this hypothesis behind their intervention that it was due to drugs due to drugs trafficking The DEA will be front and centre through all of this activity as much as possible Now we also hearing now from our producer Lewis McKenzie

that it appears the other passenger of that helicopter is a woman, so likely his wife, Chilla Flores

who is also being transported to the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan later today

That Brooklyn jail complex is about five miles away and moving across now

The couple has been at the jail, which has, of course, housed many infamous detainees

including Ghislaine Maxwell and Puff Daddy and Sean Coombs, since Saturday. Now moving with the support and the convoy of armed personnel

from the DEA and as a heavily armed manoeuvre. But it doesn't have to be this public

This is a perp walk really like no other. The US is putting on a show here to ensure that he is as visible as possible

They could just as easily, as we see him now being put into a vehicle and taken away towards that courthouse

they could have just as easily done this in a slightly more private fashion without as much time of him out in public as possible

He seems to be struggling getting into that armoured vehicle now in cuffs, as you'd expect

with more DEA and armed officers surrounding the deposed president. They are now going to head by vehicle to that Manhattan courthouse

He's been charged with narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, among other charges

according to that unsealed indictment, as the doors close on that armoured vehicle

His wife is also charged with that cocaine conspiracy