if you're a talk. show today oh. oh . oh. oh. this is video really news live from berlin and europe goes to the polls hundreds of millions cast ballots in amount of the election the promises to bring about big changes in the european parliament we'll bring you all the latest on this decisive day for you also coming up. sporting goods company knight says it will stop penalize an athlete to sponsors who become pregnant not one of 5 for juicing female

athletes contract once they became out. and on a glittering evening to wrap up the camp film festival the big names go home empty handed as newcomers make history a korean film takes upon doing a senegalese debutant is awarded 2nd prize becoming the 1st black woman really big attack. i'm rebecca riches welcome to the program millions of voices across europe are going to the polls to elect representatives to the european parliament it's the final day of voting with $21.00 countries taking part today including some of the biggest germany france italy spain and poland results are expected this evening a new citizens across the bloc have been voting since thursday with some 427000000 people eligible to cast their ballots. populist parties are expected to make

significant gains in this election let's take a look at what's at stake. they see the come not to break you up but to remake it divided by language. not being selected. united by popular people say that's it their breaks immediate did it stop us it can be. a common enemy is an example john kerry. they are europe's far right leaders and together they are appending decades of e.u. rules and norms laying siege from within. the man hoping to lead best pots work and populists it's a he's deputy prime minister macho salvini his hardline actually forced manifest to help transform his friend's party and to government material i know he wants to do the same across the continent by ending together ideological bedfellows promising

to tear up the rules. of our objective is to finally be a force for government and changing your government to bring your blood new hope a dream. by the way of. his closest ally is marine le pen. the head of france's far right political dynasty she led him to campaign with her firebrand father nationalism runs in hard blood but now she's gone her own way. the french flag iraq for attacks on the elites the e.u. and emigration in the past she called for funds to leave the union but has since you turned seeking instead to strip back to use power. you know younger ones this european union that is spreading on friday with globalization on europe globalization without regulation means having slaves manufacture to sell to the

unemployed so. helping to banish the shackles of brussels is your end of the alternative for. germany leading a party born in the chaos of the financial crisis but who found success talking about migration equal marriage and islamic extremism unlike the others they have threatened a day get a german exit from the e.u. if the bloc fails to change it can stay and we want to avoid damage will need to change of direction other was briggs's won't be the last exit. then there is viktor or ban. hungary's proudly a liberal prime minister. has combats a reputation recently and have the praise of a kindred spirit like me a little bit controversial but that's ok that's ok you've done a good job and you've kept your country safe in his youth helped tear down the iron curtain now he shows off the fences here wrecked it on europe's borders he and

salvini have formed a friendship of late seeing themselves as manning europe's front lines. if you will mr salvini says that we need a new europe and i support his concept i share his view i too think that we need a new chapter 6. but the success of the populist insurgency may well come down to whether salvini can turn friendship into partnership. was noticeably absent when solving these populist gathered for a final rally in milan last week. the rain drenched crowd testament to the scale of the populist push back. the main attraction the man casting himself as europe's salvation at his back a rising tide of anger and resentment. and joining me now from brussels is data correspondent gail mathis georg hi and i think substantial gains as we've

just heard predicted for the nationalist euro skeptic movement why have these parties been getting so much popularity. rebecca we just saw in the report viktor orban the head of hungary and when he cast his ballot this morning he said that he hopes that parties who are against migration want to stop migration rather than manage it something the e.u. commission and a lot of member states have been trying to do then that will be a great day for europe and that is the kind of explanation you have for the far right wing gains that are expected in this election we are living in difficult times we face globalization we face migrations these are challenging issues that where there are no simple solutions because just stopping migration will not be the answer it is a lot more complicated right so yeah complicated what are some of the other big

issues that parties have been focusing on. a really big issue is the environment which is quite interesting because for instance if you look at exit polls from ireland the green party was rather surprised that they got so much support in that they came out so strongly also in denmark in germany it looks like. the parties who have been rallying for environmental change really had some resonance there there was voters so some some experts have set apart from a far right wing shift we could also see in this european election a shift to a green party who could make substantial gains access and we need very complicated the e.u. elections are also complicated and traditionally but it turned out to be relatively low we're starting to see some figures come in now how big is the interest thing this year. look when i went to my polling station this morning i talked to

a number of people and many said look we find this very difficult we don't know exactly how the european parliament works yes we've seen a 3 couple of a campaign trailers that tried to explain it but then i really had to explain to some people where they have to make their process how it works who they are voting for and that is why a lot of e.u. leaders have said we need to simplify the system we need a europe white party system you can vote for we need to make clear who are the candidates like number one lead candidate you could directly vote that is the kind of reform that europe needs having said that however it looks like the turnout for this rypien elections has increased in poland the number numbers have doubled throughout the you the early figures from the from turnout looks like it has been a clear increase after decades of decreasing numbers of people voting in the european elections will have big night ahead gale matters in brussels thanks very much now to some of the other

stories making news around the world. u.s. president donald trump is spending his 2nd day in tokyo go sing with prime minister in the abbaye and attending the sumo wrestling grand finale with trump and about the winning trophy of the next 2 days there are tough trade talks ahead as well as differences over the threat posed by north korea. auto manufacturers renner and fia chrysler reportedly in talks to form an alliance that could be announced as soon as monday it would be the world's biggest home making venture would share development and marketing costs when i was ready allied with japanese made his list and it's officially. manila has ordered the return to canada of tons of rubbish that's been sitting in philippine port be used for waste this be the dispute escalated last week when manila recalled its ambassador after canada missed

a deadline to collect the trash environmentalists have campaigned for the race to turn. us sportswear company knox says it will change the way it treats its famous athletes who are returning from pregnancy mike received criticism after it was revealed that some of its athletes if a male athletes that it's been said were facing financial penalties if they became pregnant now the company says it away for 4 months based targets for 12 months to any of its pregnant athletes. now reported jonathan cranes been following this story for us jonathan tell us mall very embarrassing for night green damage control mode of memory back or i think various high high profile u.s. run has spoken out against the treatments in interviews with the new york times that leaked memo from knight via vice president said she was humbled by this event they've also released a statement saying we recognize knight can do more there is an important

opportunity for the sports industry collectively so overalls to better support female athletes the kind of thing. we're not the only ones here guys but of course we have to say that athletes track and field athletes get pretty much all of their income from commercial deal is there any kind of reduction or a contract being stopped altogether is going to hit them really hard financially feeling of it and presumably there's been sort of a backlash somewhat of a backlash yeah backlash and a lot of surprise i think because knight makes a real big deal about championing women's rights and gender issues but we've heard stories of female athletes feeling obliged to rush back to competition after they've given notably allyson felix now allyson felix the 6 time limpid gold medal she's a real big deal and athletic she had a says area it was really complicated and she wanted guarantees as well for night that her performance pay would be affected she can get those guarantees so she's saying look if someone like me can get them what about the rest of us and of course there's some hypocrisy here as well because nike pushed out an advert in february

serena williams was featured in it chords a dream crazier all about female empowerment so people say no the message doesn't quite tally with the reality i think we have a clip of that now as well. being in. changing her story. double quarter to 8. winning 23 grand slams having it be and then coming back for more. crazy crazy crazy crazy. so if they want to. show them what crazy can do. so what's the reaction been tonight saying that they can stop penalize ing pregnant women well i think it's been some really been a bit of caution as well we've seen a treat from. who was also another athlete who spoke to the new york times she said she was really excited about the decision but that it will not stop suspending women without pay or is this just about reductions night need to kind of make the

position a bit clearer as far as she's concerned they've said the future contracts will include recent times that reinforce a policy we're seeing on the social media that has tagged dreama tendency or gaining a lot of traction. better conditions for those famous athletes jonathan krane thank you very much for coming and you're welcome. well hollywood's biggest names have left the cannes film festival empty handed after a final night dominated by new faces the top prize went to highly acclaimed korean comedy and the 2nd prize to a debut feature fed by the 1st time black female film director to ever compete at the competition. because it's one of the world's most glamorous gatherings with its invitation only confound of a listers was but this year the biggest stars stayed seated as lesser known filmmakers picked up their awards bought us all but it was the south korean dark comedy parasite that claimed the top

award but. i director bang junho became the 1st korean to win that coveted prize i. am so honored french cinema has been a great inspiration to me the. parasite is a tale of 2 families. when the son of a struggling family fakes his resume to land a tutoring job in a well off household things don't go as planned. director bong called it a reflection on the reality of the times. the festival 2nd prize the company went to atlantics a film that was 1st in several ways. its french senegalese director matthew job's debut feature film it also marked the 1st time that a black female director competed at. quitting terence he knows once upon

a time in hollywood starring brad pitt and leonardo dicaprio one nothing despite being well received by critics. this time hollywood's heavy hitters were sent home undecorated. this hour we will.