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World Business Report: First broadcast 2016/12/19 01:06 GMT: Hundreds arrested in Venezuela after currency protests and looting

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First broadcast 2016/12/19 01:06 GMT

First broadcast 2016/12/19 01:06 GMT: Hundreds arrested in Venezuela after currency protests and looting

Hundreds arrested in Venezuela after currency protests and looting

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Hundreds arrested in Venezuela after currency protests and looting

Venezuela arrests after days of protests and looting; tensions run high in the DRC

The economic and political crisis in Venezuela has intensified with the government announcing hundreds of arrests after days of protests and lootings. We speak to Caracas-based journalist Noris Soto, plus we hear from the country's planning minister from the 1990s, Ricardo Hausmann. Tensions are running high in the Democratic Republic of Congo as President Kabila refuses to give up power. William Clowes, a journalist in Kinshasa, explains the country's political and economic situation. Independent economist Michael Hughes discusses the continuing rally of the US dollar. Plus Mariko Oi discovers how farmed sturgeon is helping a caviar boom in China and Japan.

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