this is d.w. news live from bali with his country in crisis venezuela's president seeks a second term in office and with a low voter turnout predicted nicolas maduro his victory is almost certain the opposition is largely boycotting the vote critics are calling the election a fun also coming up. this year's cannes film festival the japanese family trauma shoplifters scoops the coveted top prize the fundamental bad aid of the german come final

a shock loss for focal giant spire munich underdog scientology frankfurt be fined three one and we'll bring you all the highlights from saturday's game. from helena humphrey good to have you with us venezuelans are heading to the polls in an election that is expected to hand president nicolas maduro a second term in office will do it or has already cost his vote but opposition parties have vowed to boycott the elections more than twenty million venezuelans are eligible to vote but low turnout has predicted the oil rich country has descended into economic turmoil under socialist government. and indeed this year inflation has reached an all time high more than thirteen thousand percent the rise in prices have hit workers and business owners hard but not

everyone is blaming 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 say less and have fewer clients because of the situation it has become too expensive for people to buy clothing or any other personal items. well get out of the. look of arkansas look at an effort feel i let them pay whatever they have. because they all want to pay with cards. because i don't have the technology for that so 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 expropriated 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 venezuelans 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 basic idea going to sway a lot then venezuela helps so many countries. and now because we don't cave into their demands. they close all the borders and impose sanctions without a reason get over it. or not a rich country nothing happens by chance. we have more than three hundred billion barrels of oil is in reserves. 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 de w.'s ophelia 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 that 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 lot of 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 if you do 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 prices that started ten years ago for it to explain that for us there where does the truth lie between sanctions and then mismanagement in the

government. well the government relied on. the oil prices for too long 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 a new system of government we see. a position that has four million people who fled the country already they they would they are against the government and so they are missing and the position that could may may maybe make a difference and what we see is that the only person that my feet were as 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 chaffetz. reporting for us from a caucus thank you very much. and now some of the other stories making news this hour health workers in the democratic republic of congo have begun shipping four thousand doses of a bone a vaccine to areas along the congo river that registered cases over the potentially deadly virus last week the congolese health ministry is set to begin a vaccination campaign on monday. a palestinian official says president mahmoud abbas has been hospitalized with a fever about was admitted following and operational choose day his recent health problems have revived anxiety in the region about a potentially better succession battle for leadership of the palestinian authority

. china in the united states have backed off from death threats of a trade war the world's two largest economies say they have agreed to reduce the u.s. trade deficit with china under the deal china's pledge to significantly increase its purchases of u.s. goods and services. an attack on an orthodox church in the russian province of chechnya has left a churchgoer and two police officers dead four armed men raided the church during a service they were killed by security forces chechnya is a mostly muslim region with a history of separatist violence. french film director luc besson was on the investigation for rape according to french radio station europe one woman filed charges with french police alleging the best known drugged and raped her in a paris hotel on thursday night was one of france's best known film directors.

and the cannes film festival kicked off over a week ago now the moment the film buffs have been waiting for the awarding of the top prize of course the person door this year going to the japanese movie shoplifted is now the film takes a challenging look at conventional views of what constitutes a family and overall this year's festival was more politically charged than usual. it was japanese director little cars who could it or who was the night's big winner now being the main prize the part of door. 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. see 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 want you to edition in 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 gentle 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 garner a couple stores and ten. likely to see his next film here. scorsese shopped the irishman for netflix and the company's

films are effectively banned from cannes. that's because it's decided that streaming them online is more important than releasing them in french movie theaters. that. it was back after a seven year absence following a controversy all press conference in which he expressed sympathy for adults had. i understand him. he said the off the cuff comments were not mean seriously but they caused a major scandal that 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 movie 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 feels for vine it's no fun live it only works if someone feel sick of the gun or before the door. but there was a standing ovation it seems from tears serial killer movie has deeply divided opinion people think it's either a crude and sensis provocation or great cinema. by munich season ended in dramatic and disappointing fashion on saturday the german football giants were defeated by and cocked frankfurt in the final of the german cup the underdogs came out on top in a fast paced all action game that also some controversy coach nico kovacs now takes over by with his head held high while it was a bitter disappointment outgoing coach your pint caps. it was almost time for your pint is the hand over it's a nickel coverage but before the changing of the guard there was a finals or concession by and white close early on robert levin tarski'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 hietzing set to go up in smoke but their day improved shortly after the break your shoe a chemical cross found love and dusty and the pole leveled the schools. but in the eighty second minute the underdogs retook the late great which was the hero again he lifted the ball over all right to put frankfurt in dreamland. and the last minute all right went out for a corner and when the ball broke me at each individual race three to ensure a stunning victory. what's an achievement for they say. everyone said we'd get rushed. so we showed hearts and we paid in by munich australia has them and if you stick together you can achieve anything in football and in life and that's what this team has shown us that they've always worked hard for success and the whole

season and for the two and a half years that i think here for frank first first cup win for thirty years will live long in the memory. and that's the latest on a d.w.i. on humphrey imbalance thanks to a company and see in the next town back. to . reporting from the white house. ground is shaking about the talk about who is your favorite. connectivity back to make the point and i'm sure he'll do fine how affecting the entire country champion free. for the last sixty years. before mine.