bridge. to try an exclusive report starting june eleventh. d.w. . this deal with the news live from berlin with his country in crisis venezuela's president seeks a second term in office but with opposition parties largely boycotting the vote nicolas maduro his victory is almost certain but did venezuelans turn out in high numbers to cast their ballots our correspondent in caracas will give us all the details also coming up. a bid to win home support abroad turkish

president juan isn't very well i had a snap elections in turkey are to want to address there's a rally in the bosnian capital after being banned from campaigning in three european union countries. and drama at the rink depending i talk to you champions meeting take on what's or land in the final and it goes right down to the wire. and welcome to the program in venezuela polls have just closed an election that is expected to hand president nicolas maduro a second term in office. to 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 lloyd turnout is predicted the oil rich country has descended into economic turmoil duro 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. may no i say less and have fewer clients because of the situation it is becoming too expensive for people to buy clothing or any other personal items. that you know 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 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 but as well as 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 go in this way not there and then this will 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. 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. he always ophelia harms a roofie is following developments for us from the capital caracas of delia's good to see you polls have now closed as we just mentioned we did see some support from the door in your report but there are plenty of venezuelans who are outraged and disillusioned with him and his election it's too early to know for sure but what are we expecting anything other than a dural when. probably not it is most likely that he will serve another term after these elections that more than one hundred countries have called a fraud and said they will not recognize the opposition was very divided during these aleck. we saw two candidates who were taking away votes from each other and had no real chance to actually win and now they are denouncing

different types of frogs they say they have hundreds of reports that at the polling stations that were being committed frogs what we saw in the streets was that the government actually installed these red tends where people get can get food with the so-called fatherland cards that are given away by the government and that prove the support of the people and they were giving giving away food very close to the polling station something they had promised they wouldn't do this time. ok in the last presidential election in two thousand and thirteen eighty percent of the electorate showed up at the ballot box you've spoken about the fact there were rather long lineups for supermarkets rather than the polling stations are we anywhere near those kinds of numbers this time around. polling stations were really really empty we did see long lines at supermarkets bus stations and people are talking about the lowest participation in venezuelan

history we don't know for sure what the number of abstention will be but what we can say for now is that it was not only the opposition that didn't go to the polls it was also the government supporters that didn't go. many people say nowadays people are more worried about getting food and that's why they're standing in line at the supermarket and not at the polling station so obviously the economic situation is very dire is the next government even if it's the same one prepared to face the economic challenges the country is facing. we haven't seen tangible proposals to overcome this crisis so far. durable probably. i have to phrase more sanctions from the international community we have seen that the u.s. has already threatened to cut some of his of its oil imports from venezuela if the

elections were going to be carried out in the current situation which has happened so we could expect more sanctions more multinational companies leaving the country and therefore are less jobs more poverty and even more venezuelans exiting that country. correspondent ophelia 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

one person has been severely injured by staggering molten rock in hawaii as lava continues to flow from the killer whale volcano it began erupting more than two weeks ago and has burned dozens of homes and forced thousands of people to flee a why the national guard has warned of mandatory evacuations if more roads become impossible due to lava. and a push to secure an electoral victory at home turkish president roger erda one 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 ferry a vote this comes after several countries in western europe those with large ex-pat turkish communities have banned turkish political rallies ahead of and presidential and parliamentary elections. from the euro.

some twenty thousand. as bosnia's muslim member of the tripartite presidency but cute is it bigger which welcomed arrow on 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 there to one supporters called the ban undemocratic. there are twenty eight thousand people who came here the ban on air no one in the e.u. is not good for europe this is not democracy in a democracy you can do whatever you want there's 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 has warned it could hurt the country's aspirations to join the e.u. . joining me now is correspondent yulia han she's in istanbul yulia

everyone's visit to bosnia herzegovina is his only election campaign stop in europe as we mentioned he's trying to win over x. that's 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 companion for a controversial referendum on extending presidential powers from 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 destroy this country that was his message 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 mr 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 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

bars he 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 much majority and maybe force him into a second round of voting that's the hope of the opposition. e.w. correspondent yulia han istanbul thank you for your insight yulia. to sports now in sweden have defeated switzerland to win the world i think you championships and defend their title. the first gold went civilian the dogs you know media types of break the deadlock late in the first period. put valley did not last long just two minutes later sweden equalised seventy can vs five times eleven schools. in the second period of a swiss game for upper hand when sick and see my maya finished off a counterattack to make it to warm. but again switzerland couldn't hold on to

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