this is news line from berlin and with his country in crisis venezuela's president seeks a second term in office and polls are due to close just about now with low voter turnout predicted nicolas maduro thick jury is almost certain the opposition largely boycotting the vote critics are calling the election all farce also coming up. in a bid to win home support a broad turkish president the one is in theory a vote to head of snap elections in turkey or to want to dress in

a rally in the bosnian capital after being banned from campaigning to read european union countries are forced upon the istanbul has all the details. and welcome to the program in venezuela polls have just closed in an election that is expected to hand president nicolas maduro a second term in office 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 but low turnout is predicted the oil rich country has descended into economic turmoil undermine duros 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 reduction in sales. the men all i said earlier 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 the young at heart 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 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. the communist economy that explode created and didn't make an effort to keep the companies running lead 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 by sick i go when it's way not then venezuela helps so many countries where i'm ok with a little bit and now because we don't cave into their demands. they close all the borders and impose sanctions without a reason. not a 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 rupee is following developments for us from the capital caracas and feel it's good to see you polls

have now closed is there any question this hour the president maduro has won this election. well it's a bit early to give precise numbers with we're waiting for the press conference here to start to hear the first couple of results they will be giving in the next couple of minutes but it is most probable that mr maduro will win these elections that over one hundred countries have called a fraud so far what we've heard from the opposition is. if there are many irregularities they have apparently hundreds of reports of irregularities and i travelled around the city myself today and so many of these red ten's that the government uses to give away food after that people vote and they have to show this fatherland card that wasn't supposed to be used during this election. now in the last presidential election in two thousand and thirteen eighty percent of the electorate showed up at the ballot box referring to what you were just saying are

we anywhere near that number this time around in terms of voter turnout. there are no official numbers yet what we're hearing around is that the participation will probably be around fifteen and twenty percent something venezuela has never seen people are already calling it the lowest participation in the history we didn't see many people in the polling stations we actually saw longer lines at supermarkets or bus stations so whatever the turnout is it will definitely not be with the majority of the support in the population we saw the dire economic situation venezuelans are facing in your report you just mentioned the long lines in stores is the next government even if it's the same one prepared to face the economic challenges the country is facing. well all candidates have promised to overcome the crisis but we don't see specific

plans on how to get out of this crisis mr moore has promised and promised this himself but he didn't present a plan now we will probably see more sanctions if he stays in office the us has already threatened to cut oil imports from venezuela and this will definitely affect the population even further this would also mean that many multinational companies would probably leave the country something we've been seeing in recent weeks and months and this will definitely mean that less people will have a job that poverty will increase and more of an as well as are going to leave the country country building to this humanitarian crisis that we see in neighboring countries like colombia or brazil and that the government here has been denying for so long now. correspondent ophelia harms a roof in caracas thank you for your reporting. now 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 have been shipping four thousand doses of ebola vaccine to areas along the congo river that registered cases of 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 abbas was admitted following an air operation on tuesday as 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 roger heir to one has taken his campaign abroad as he tries to reach out to 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 e.u. countries and western europe those with large ex-pat turkish communities have banned turkish political rallies ahead of us presidential and parliamentary elections. thousands of turks from all over europe arrived in sarajevo ahead of president pritchett tell you there are no one's really some twenty thousand all up. as. of the presidency but cute is it big of each no one the turkish leader appeared unfazed by intelligence claims of an assassination

plot against him but security was. yes 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 or 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're 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 there to one supporters called the ban undemocratic.

there are twenty eight thousand people who came here the ban on heroin 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. that the election on 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 has warned it could hurt the country's aspirations to join the e.u. . joining me now is correspondent yulia hein she's in istanbul yulia everyone's visit to bosnia herzegovina is is only election campaign stop in europe as we mentioned he's trying to win over ex-pats on the continent but

why bosnia. well mr atwan has friendly relations with a certain pause of the bosnian 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 complain 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 abroad many of them in germany and they could indeed be decisive many are known to be sympathetic to miss out on and his. 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 as you just mentioned that's not the case. well there is more of him in two 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 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 metal action who appeals especially to nationalist voters and then there is a very charismatic canada. runs for the pro kodesh h d p but he runs from behind basi is in prison right now so none of these candidates actually can manage to secure a fifty percent majority to beat mr add on bought together they can prevent him from from getting that mint majority and maybe force him into a second round of voting that's the hope of the opposition. he w.

correspondent yulia hina istanbul thank you for your insight yulia you're watching d.w. news the way back at the top of the hour with all the way to all of us here i d w i'm not be quite often in berlin thanks for joining in. the glancing. at the curse of. the force of nature and in this scandal free. monsoon the tropical force can you. hear the song the song come to. consumers if you want. and because of its destruction.