let's destroy each other. to what it could be a farming magazine. long d.w. . this is do w. news live from berlin as his country slides deeper into crisis venezuela's president seeks a second term in office with the opposition largely boycotting the vote and a low voter turnout predicted nicolas maduro his victory is almost certain critics say the election is all part. of

a bid to win at home with support from abroad turkish president era one is in fairy a vo ahead of snap elections in turkey he addresses a rally in the bosnian capital after being banned from campaigning in three european union countries our correspondent in istanbul we'll have all the details. and welcome to the program venezuelans have been voting in an election that is expected to hand president nicolas maduro a second term in office and doro cast his vote earlier in the day he's facing a fragmented opposition parts of which are boycotting the poll more than twenty million venezuelans are eligible to vote a low turnout is predicted the oil rich country has descended into economic turmoil under saddam rose a socialist government. inflation has reached an all time high of more than

thirteen thousand percent the rising prices have hit workers and business owners especially 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. lawmen oh 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. quite get out of the. look at our pricing 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 predated 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 bicycle going to sway let them venezuela help 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 a little. rich country nothing happens by chance. we have more than three hundred billion barrels of oil 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. ophelia harms the truth he is following

developments for us from the capital caracas ophelia it's good to see you despite the dire situation on the ground as we just saw in that report the duro is expected to win these elections they actually have widespread support in the country. well he certainly does we've been talking to people and they do still believe that the only way to solve the crisis in this country is to continue this program of socialist. subsidies we see that millions of families do still depend on the government subsidies for the food they receive comes from the government so that's the only way they see out of the crisis what we will probably see after this election is that the sanctions from the outside will increase we will probably see more multinational companies leaving the country this week just kellogg's left and

this will mean less jobs more poverty and probably more of an as well as leaving their home country. just mention the possibility of further sanctions what have the current sanctions especially from the united states done to the situation on the ground for the people in venezuela. well so far sanctions have been directed to certain people to certain heads of the government we saw a recent sanction just days ago from the u.s. to numbers is the second most important person in the government but the us has threatened to actually cut some of their oil imports from venezuela which will bring much more poverty into the country so far it has affected people as well but not as much as it will do if if they start cutting imports from the outside it could become a similar bar but that than the one we we saw between cuba and the united states

before. now with regard to the election it's been several hours since it began has voter turnout been as low as expected. definitely you can see behind me this place used to be full of people we they used to be lines just further away people that we've talked to here say they have never seen so little people they are already talking about the smallest turnout in venezuelan history what we have seen is that actually the lines outside supermarkets are much longer or outside. bus stations are also much longer so we will see the final result it had been said a few hours ago that about two million people had been voting this is just never happened before and this is really really surprising everyone and people actually even sad because venezuelans are very. aware of the importance of democracy and

voting actually. ophelia harms the reporting out of caracas thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president trump says he will demand that the justice department open an investigation into whether the f.b.i. infiltrated his presidential campaign in two thousand and sixteen he made the comment on twitter questioning the previous administration's role he has also been promoting a theory about a possible f.b.i. spy within his campaign though his own attorney has cast doubt on this. health workers in the democratic republic of congo will launch a vaccination campaign on monday aimed at containing a deadly ebola virus outbreak health ministry officials says floor thousand doses of experimental vaccine have been shipped to areas along the congo river where the first urban cases were registered last week dozens of people have already died in

rural areas in recent weeks one. a palestinian official says president mahmoud abbas has been hospitalized with a fever abbas was in that is following an air operation on tuesday his recent health problems have revived anxiety in the region about a potentially bitter succession battle for leadership of the palestinian authority . and a push to secure an electoral victory at home turkish president. has taken his campaign abroad as he tries to reach out to ex-pat voters in europe ahead of snap elections in turkey next month he spoke to supporters in the bosnian capital theri a vote this comes after several countries in western europe those with large x. factor because communities have banned turkish political rallies ahead of us presidential and parliamentary elections. of turks from all over europe

arrived in sarajevo ahead of president. no one's really some twenty thousand all up as bosnia as muslim member of the tribe presidency but cute is it bigger which will come down to one the turkish leader appeared unfazed by intelligence claims of an assassination plot against him but security was tight. news of this has reached me through the national intelligence service such threats will not lead us astray from our path. would it be right for so many people across europe to come here and not be able to see the leader they wanted to meet and greet . no it would not be they cannot stop us from walking our path we are on the same path like the path we were on during the coup attempt on july fifteenth. some three million expatriate turks are allowed to vote nearly half of them in

germany the bosnian capital is the only campaign stop president everyone will be making in europe austria germany and the netherlands announced they would not allow him to hold election rallies erda one supporters called the ban undemocratic. there are twenty eight thousand people who came here the ban on airline in the e.u. is not good for europe this is not democracy in a democracy you can do whatever you want there is no democracy in europe it's a modern dictatorship. june twenty fourth will usher in the beginning of a new system of governance which will concentrate more powers in the president's hands and abolish the office of prime minister but support for everyone in bosnia is not unanimous the croatian member of the bosnian presidency could hurt. the country's aspirations to join the e.u. . joining me now is d.w.

correspondent yulia han she's in istanbul yulia arrow on his visit to bosnia herzegovina is his only election campaign stop in europe as we mentioned he's trying to win over ex-pats on the continent but why bosnia. while mr atwan has friendly relations with a certain pause all of the vote political leadership and he actually doesn't have much of a choice he didn't have much of a choice because as you rightly mentioned certain western european countries germany among them who would have been more important for him actually banned him from political campaigning on their territory after we've seen political clashes last year when turkish politicians try to companion for a controversial referendum on extending presidential powers to mr so bosnia now was more willing to give him a stage and he used the opportunity he really asked people to support him in the upcoming elections and he told them my brothers my sisters my sons and daughters

that's how he addressed them he told them please remember where you come from remember your religion vote for me and my party and help to defend turkey from anyone who tries to the stronger this country that was his message so he's playing to an emotional fight of this why their support so important to him. well as you rightly mentioned the numbers are three million people three million eligible turkish waters a broad many of them in germany and they could indeed be decisive many are known to be sympathetic to miss out on in his group to take a party and we've seen last year in the referendum i mentioned that the political race could be quite tight only fifty one percent of voters back then said yes to more powers for mr advani and right now polls he suggests that if not it might not

be that easy for him to secure a fifty percent majority in the upcoming election so he needs everyone he can get he needs every vote he can get but who is playing could potentially be a threat to him now we did think that he was going to have an easy time of as you just mentioned that's not the case. well there is more of him in who is the candidate of the largest opposition party in turkey the c.h.p. he is at least known for his rhetorical skills so he could challenge missed out on that level and he clearly says if you vote for me i will change the system back again to appall you mentary democracy then there is the only female candidate who appeals especially to nationalist voters and then there is a very charismatic canada. runs for the pro kurdish h d p but he runs from behind bars he is in prison right now so none of these candidates actually can manage to secure a fifty percent majority to beat mr adam bought together they can prevent him from

from getting that much majority and maybe force him into a second round of voting that's the hope of the opposition. correspondent yulia hina istanbul thank you for your insight yulia. if you're watching news we'll be back at the top of the hour with all the latest and i'll be quite often in berlin thanks for your company and bye for now. cut. cut cut. cut. cut cut cut you can tell a lot about a society by its garbage. the first suits horseless for the rich but for many poor people it offers their only chance of survival. and i could be on for today just like that it's. the reporters travel to nairobi and the orange and

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