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Venezuela Aid Impasse Continues

10/02/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Venezuela Aid Impasse Continues

Colonel loyal to opposition leader urges army to let in foreign aid stockpiled on border

Colonel loyal to opposition leader urges army to let in foreign aid stockpiled on border.

Aid is currently being stockpiled at the Colombian border as Venezuelan troops loyal to President Maduro prevent it from entering the country.

Plus: NATO's deputy Secretary Rose Gottemoeller talks to Weekend about how the regional tension between Greece and North Macedonia affects the NATO alliance and how the organisation’s relationship with Russia “is not a zero sum game”. 

Also in the programme: France and Italy’s diplomatic feud. 

(Picture: Colombian policewomen walk past boxes with US humanitarian aid goods in Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Tachira, Venezuela, on 8th February 2019. Credit: Raul Arboleda/ AFP/Getty Images)

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