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Aid convoy stalled on Venezuelan border

Trucks laden with food and medicine are waiting at the Venezuelan border.

Trucks laden with food and medicine are waiting at the Venezuelan border. The aid convoy is needed to tackle a growing humanitarian crisis. But the trucks are being held up by the political crisis in the country. Dany Bahar is an economist at the Brookings Institution in Washington, and outlines the country鈥檚 economic troubles.

Providing a basic income to unemployed Finns did not help them find work, research finds. Minna Ylikanno is one of the team who led the ongoing trial for the Finnish social insurance agency, and explains her organisation's findings.

Also in the show, Leo Barraclough, features editor of the entertainment paper Variety gives insight into the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, from the effect of the Me-Too movement to highlights of this season鈥檚 films.

The 大象传媒鈥檚 Emma Simpson follows a tomato from Spain to the UK to find out how Brexit might affect the availability of fresh produce after the UK leaves the European Union.

Plus we look back at the rest of the week's big business stories, with Eshe Nelson, reporter for Quartz in London, and in New York, Sujeet Indap, US editor of the Financial Times Lex column.

And all throughout the show we鈥檒l be joined by Colin Peacock of Radio New Zealand.

(Photo: Boxes with US humanitarian aid goods in Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Tachira, Venezuela. Credit: Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images)

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