this is the w. news live from but with his country in crisis venezuela's president seeks a second term and on fics of with lower budget turned out predicted nicolas maduro his victory is almost certain the opposition is largely boycotting the vote for ticks according the election a fun also coming up. at this year's cannes film festival the japanese family drama shoplifted scripts the competition top prize a pound. or so ahead. in the german comp final

a shock loss to the football giant spine munich underdogs i'm trying to frankfurt being fined three one we bring you all the highlights from saturday's game. i'm going to humphrey good to have you with us venezuelans all heading to the polls and in the election that is expected to hand president nicolas maduro a second term in office madonna has already cost his vote but opposition party said val to boycott the elections will than twenty million venezuelans are eligible to vote but low turnout is predicted the oil rich country has descended into economic turmoil under my daughter's socialist government. lists year inflation has reached an all time high of more than thirteen thousand percent the rising prices have hit walk as a business owners hard but not everyone blames the government. there

isn't much cash flowing in venezuela apart from public transport and street food little is paid for with coins and notes most businesses have been forced to adapt to card payments and a reduction in sales. may no i sell less and have fewer clients because of the situation it has become too expensive for people to buy clothing or any other personal items. quite get out of the. look at us a look at an effort feel i let them pay whatever they have. because they all want to pay with cards. but because i don't have the technology for that i let them pay me in cash with whatever they are carrying. according to some experts the two main causes of inflation are a waste of oil profits and corruption at all levels of government.

a communist economy that explode pre-dated and didn't make an effort to keep the companies running led to a brutal decline in oil revenues. that has been creating shortages and pushing up inflation. so what's the figure ten thousand fifteen thousand twenty thousand percent. we don't know. we do know the prices are doubling every month. you know how many polls show that most men as well and are eating just one meal a day and to buy basic food items they have to stand in line for hours on average venezuelans lost eleven kilos last year due to food shortages and hyper inflation is so bad that you can barely buy one apple with the monthly wage. but many venezuelans don't blame the government they say the real cause is an economic war

orchestrated by the us and the bicycle going to sway a lot then venezuela helps so many countries. with a look and now because we don't cave into their demands. they close all the borders and impose sanctions without a reason you know they're sick. or not rich country nothing happens by chance. we have more than three hundred billion barrels of oil is in reserves. but you're not going to go to north american empire and the big multinationals holding the venezuelan people hostage and that's why. people are being forced to take increasingly desperate measures to survive and it's unclear what the next government will do to improve their plight. i'm joined now by g.w. zefi holmes o.t. who is in caracas good to see you ophelia now the extreme poverty that many are suffering is truly shocking my daughter is expected to win these elections what

would that mean for the country. well it would definitely mean a deepening of the crisis. what we have heard is that there will be probably more sanctions from the outside the united states for example has threatened to cut some of his oil imports from venezuela if the government was to carry through the elections but it is amazing to see that people still vote for my duro we have heard it in the piece and we have also talked to people here and let's remember that more than sixty million people are dependent on the food supplies given away by the government and also what we see is a little a lot of people still hold on to this idea of socialism of this twenty first century socialism that has been spreading around latin america and recent decades you point to a potential deepening of the crisis so what would persuade people to vote for him.

well it has to be said that maduro and his government and also chavez before him have been able to hold tight controls of the country it is believed that there is an intelligence apparatus that is advised by cuba's own intelligence and what we also see is that. they do control the media freedom of press often has been suppressed and also what we see is that. the state controlled media diffuses a lot of propaganda that says that the crisis is not told of the bad management not the fall of the of the government of it's bad management but of the international sanctions and the oil crisis that started ten years ago or it's or explain that for us then where does the truths lie between sanctions and then mismanagement in the

government. while the government relied on. the oil prices for too long they they were. spreading this these wide social programs that can be hold with the current oil prices and they never say some emergency funds now that is what the opposition is criticizing and the opposition unfortunately has been very divided so they can't they have they haven't been able to to impose an new system of government we see. an opposition that has four million people who fled the country already they they would they are against the government and so they are missing in an opposition that could make may maybe make a difference and what we see is that the only person that might be the worst big opponent which is henry focus on the former governor of last day has

been criticized by many people because he used to be a supporter of the chavez government a big friend of mr hoover chavis. reporting for us from caracas thank you very much. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the walls china and the united states appear to have backed off from their threats of a trade war the world's two largest economies say they've agreed to reduce the u.s. trade deficit with china under the deal china has pledged to significantly increase its purchases of u.s. goods and services. french film director and you could best song is on the investigation for rape according to french radio station europe one a woman filed charges with french police alleging that besought drugged and raped her in a paris hotel on thursday night vessel is one of france's best known film director is. an attack on an orthodox church in the russian

a province of chechnya has left a churchgoer and two police offices day for almost men raided the church during a service they were killed by security forces chechnya is a mostly muslim region the history of separatist violence. in hawaii fast moving lava is poor in from the side of the killer way a volcano threatening a key escape route the flows of molten rock are advancing towards homes in the coastal highway the hawaiian national guard has warned of mandatory evacuations if more roads become blocked by lava. authours he's in the u.s. state of texas say a seventeen year old has confessed to being the sole gunman in a school shooting a houston the suspect has been charged with murdering eight fellow students and two teaches his family members say they are shocked and confused and have offered their condolences. well the cana film festival kicked off over

a week ago now the moment film buffs around the world have been waiting for the awarding of the top prize or door this year going to japanese movie shoplifted is the film takes a challenging a conventional views of what constitutes a family and overall it's just festival was more politically charged than usual. it was japanese direct cause who could it who was the night's big winner nabbing the main prize the pipe bowl. his film shopping list is tells of a makeshift family trying to keep afloat by resorting to petty theft in order to supplement their meagre incomes. the film was a favorite of audiences and critics and it won over the jury to. think or feel when two american director spike lee. his film

black klansman is based on the true story of a black police officer from colorado and his white jewish colleagues who together infiltrated a branch of the ku klux klan in the nineteen seventies. for the first time in the history of the festival the jury awarded the special palme d'or it went to cinema legend. for his experimental film essay the image book. i wanted edition the me too movement made an appearance at the award ceremony filmmaker and actress asia argento gave a speech saying there were abuses sitting in the can audience who had yet to be outed that one time says she was raped at the festival one nine hundred ninety seven by disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein among. us directing legend martin scorsese was awarded to go over a couple story and ten. i'm likely to see his next film here. scorsese shocked the irishman for netflix and the company's

films are effectively banned from cannes. that's because has decided that streaming them online is more important than releasing them in french movie theaters. at last one two three it was back after a seven year absence following a controversy all press conference in which he expressed sympathy for adults had. i understand he. said. the off the cuff comments were not mean seriously but they caused a major scandal. and he managed to avoid getting into hot water at his press conference this time but he still provoked with the extreme violence of his new burpee the house that jack built. more than one hundred people felt compelled to leave the caliper media. and the plight of almost like

a roller coaster ride with everyone feel survive and it's no fun i live it only works if someone feel sick of the dying or before the door. but there was a standing ovation to it seems from say a serial killer movie has deeply divided opinion people think it's either a crude and senseless provocation or great cinema. by munich season ended in your matic and for them this appointing fashion on a saturday the gemma football giants were defeated by i'm tough frank but in the final of the german cup the underdogs came out on top and a fast paced all action game that also saw some controversy coach nico coach now takes over up behind with his head held high i wanted was a bit of disappointment for the outgoing coach you punk. it was almost time for your pint is the hand of it's a nickel but before the changing of the guard there was a finals a contest by and went close early on rob eleven dusty's free kick hitting the bar

a lot of the frankfurt and they took advantage and say ray that rob thomas and fired in the opening go. by and struggled to break down frankfurt study defense thomas miller's thirty third minute and that was their first shots on target at half time points hope sing set to go up in smoke but their day improved shortly after the break yes you're killing scores found love and dusty and the poll level the scores. but in the eighty second minute the underdogs retake the lead grade which was the hero again he lifted the ball over all right to put frankfurt in dreamland. in the last minute all right went out for a corner and when the ball broke me at kitchen of age race three to ensure a stunning victory. what's an achievement for they say. everyone said when it gets trashed. but we showed hearts and we payton by munich so it was them and if you stick together you can achieve anything in football and in life and that's what

this team has shown us they've always worked hard for success for the whole season and for the two and a half years that i fain here for frank first first cup win for thirty years will live long in the memory. and has the latest from they didn't have an easy.