our economics correspondent andrew walker will bring us that and put the week's big news into perspectivey we want to know the tip that ‘beer before wine and you'll feel fine‘ has been debunked by scientists. so in your experience, what — apart from abstinence — helps you avoid hangovers? let us know — just use the hashtag bbcbizlive welcome to the programme. we start with the crisis in venezuela — as ministers from more than a dozen european and latin american countries call forfree presidential elections — and a peaceful solution to the struggle between president nicolas maduro and opposition leaderjuan guaido. but there are complex financial issues to resolve: the eu—backed international contact group does not include russia and china. for years they have lent money to president maduro‘s government in return for cheap oil — making them two of the country's biggest creditors. estimates for venezuela's total debts vary — moody's puts them as high as $143 billion dollars. china alone is thought to have lent more than $62 billion since 2007 — a third of which is still outstanding. russia's

they resembled racist caricatures of black people we got the thoughts of political commentator andrew walker and body confidence advocate joanne morales. i think the fact that it was released during black history month in america shows that it's very intentional toward something i mean this isn't the first major brand to do something so silly so i think they didn't learn from prada what they feel is actually we can use that as a marketing strategy will apologize it doesn't matter if we have people speeding's it doesn't matter if it's racist and i think that they they planned every step of the way completely well you would have received the backlash if you'd of had the idea that this looked like a black person which of course it did not just explodes those your viewers who haven't seen it it's effectively a black turtleneck that goes up just to around here and then has a an opening for your mouth it doesn't look like a black person i've ever see the my life i cannot see any connection firstly with black history month as we were just talking about a second but also ridiculing black people in a

friday issue a partial gagging order so as not to jeopardize any future trial they call commentator andrew walker told me he's skeptical about the supposed evidence always remember the system allegation in the center of the case is where the donald trump colluded directly with the bush government to try to undermine democracy in america and time and time again there is really no evidence left that i look you know on the west i don't support the activities of the russian intelligence services who i think i'm proud to poll the quick vote it is not true to say that donald trump or any of his colleagues have had very real evidence to the projects them that they would any way involved everything the reason would be a lection of the reason that the british voted for frags it is not because of lack of food so it is because hillary clinton's terrible and says president of the european union those are the reasons why people voted the way they think the idea of the plot to me if it's a matter how critics and dangerous he thinks he is the idea that he can make the election change in america is nonsense all

andrew walker our economics correspondent is here.the report and you've read it, what does it tell us? it tells us an it, what does it tell us? it tells us an awful lot of businesses are not ready for a no—deal brexit. to give one particular example, the report estimates that there are 240,000 businesses that trade only with the european union. and they have not... of those, they've only had 40,000 or so that have gone through the business of getting the necessary registration for exporting their goods to the eu. bear in mind that, as things stands, those nearly quarter of a million businesses don't need to do any kind of registration procedures, just for the business of exporting, because they are only eu. suddenly, when they are only eu. suddenly, when they become exporters from a third country, they would need to have done all these procedures and they simply haven't. why do we think businesses are not preparing in that way? the bank of england governor mark carney has been warning about this for a while and others within governmen

the bbc‘s andrew walker...around the world. in the case of the european union, it is the biggest single export market, accounting for 38 billion euros. those are the most recent figures. germany particularly, german car—makers have big operations in the us but they still ship an awful lot of stuff from germany. at the time that the commons department started this investigation, they did put out a document for consultation, inviting comments, and they indicated a number of areas where comments would be welcome. at a punch, you could see some of them having national security implications in terms of the contributions that research and development and the motor industry might make to the wider us industrial research and development operation, you could see some technological moving across, but some don't look at all like they have security issues, like the implications for employment in the us, very important. why would this have any implications for security? i must say i find it very hard to see. let's turn to j