The US Puts Fresh Sanctions on Venezuela

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The US has called President Nicolás Maduro's government a dictatorship, but Venezuela says it won't allow America to encourage a humanitarian crisis to develop. We get the latest from the BBC's Will Grant in Cuba. Plus, as thousands of Texans flee Hurricane Harvey, we ask what impact it will have and how oil production might be affected. And what power should tech companies have in censoring the internet? Susannah Streeter is joined throughout the programme by economist Sean Turnell from Yangon in Myanmar. (Picture: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Credit: JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)