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Protests in India by farmers concerned by new laws show no sign of subsiding. We get the background from Ruchit Garg, founder of Harvesting, a company that works with farmers in Northern India. And we ask Renu Agal, online editor of news portal The Print, whether talks between farmers' representatives and the government this weekend might bring the standoff to an end. Also in the programme, efforts in the US by the Trump administration to restrict the use of the H-1B professional visa were blocked this week by a court in California. One Indian software engineer living in the US on an H-1B visa tells us how his family's life is disrupted by the threat of changes to the way they work. Jessica Vaughan of the Centre for Immigration Studies in Washington makes the case for reform to the visa system. And Sean Randolph, senior director of the Economic Institute at the Bay Area Council, argues that recipients of H1-B visas have significantly boosted the US economy. Plus, we consider the future of cinemas, as a row brews between the world's largest cinema chain, AMC, and film studio Warner Brothers, after Warner said its new films for 2021 will be available on streaming services in US homes as soon as they are released.

(Picture: Farmers stage a sit-in in Singhu. Picture credit: Getty Images.)