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Top Venezuelan oil businessmen arrested

Venezuelan authorities have arrested two of the most influential men in charge of the nation’s oil business.

Venezuelan authorities have arrested two of the most influential men in charge of the nation’s oil business. Also in the programme,CVS may be nearing a deal to buy insurance provider Aetna. The Wall Street Journal’s Anna Mathews shares her scoop. And, as crunch time approaches for the Brexit negotiations, we consider the state of play with Roger Bootle, chairman of Capital Economics and Jonathan Portes, professor of economics at King's College London. Plus we have a special report from Fukushima, Japan, which examines the human and environmental impact of the earthquake and tsunami that caused a radiation leak at the city's nuclear power plant, in March 2011.

(Picture: An oil well operated by Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA. Photo credit: Getty)

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Thu 30 Nov 2017 22:32GMT

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