culture we will have a chat about the elton john biopic rocket man with our man at the cannes film festival scott roxboro in just a minute and also. that's 11 year old tail gap who's a standing concert goes with his virtual city. and viewing the city berlin as well as germany and europe through the lens of photographer annette i'll shave. but 1st we're off to the glitz and glamour of the coat in the south of france yes it's the film festival than 19 new films vying for the palme d'or and of course hollywood is there in force but it's not all about the red carpet all the competition can is a great place to premiere your movie and one of the big debuts there is a biopic about the life of elton john called rocket man for all let's go straight over and join oh man scott rocks brother hi scott now rocket man isn't in the competition but it is it's the biggest film premiering this year isn't it yeah definitely got caught how can you out glam.

culture we will have a chat about the elton john biopic rocket man with our man at the cannes film festival scott roxboro in just a minute and also. that's 11 year old tail guess who's a standing concert goes with his virtual city. and viewing the city berlin as well as germany and europe through the lens of photography and then i'll shave. but 1st we're off to the glitz and glamour of the coat in the south of france yes it's the film festival inc than 19 new films vying for the palme d'or and of course hollywood is there in force but it's not all about the red carpet all the competition can is a great place to premiere your movie and one of the big debuts there is a biopic about the life of elton john called rocket man for all let's go straight over and join our man scott rocks. i scott's now rocket man isn't in the company.

is the 72nd cannes film festival where someone who knows the festival very well although he is nowhere close to being 72 himself that is my colleague in the w.'s own film guru scott roxboro it's got joins me now from cannes good evening to you sky so the film festival is underway yet again what are you expecting this year. well actually expected quite a bit this year can been on a bit of a low of the last couple of years and they've come under a lot of competition from the venice film festival which had a lot of great oscar contenders last year giving roma so cannes had to up its game a bit and they've done so with a couple of a really impressive films there next week we're going to have quentin tarantino's new film once upon a time in hollywood that everybody wants to see i'm desperate to see and tonight we have the opening night film by an indie film legend jim jarmusch called the dead don't die sort of a 2 i don't know what call it a zombie film for the trump era definitely definitely worth catching. when you know you just mentioned but we're going to next kicking off the cannes film festival this year is a zombie comedy the dead don't die here's a sneak peek. peacefu

and celebrities gather on the red carpet one last time as the cannes film festival draws to its climax are still in critic scott roxboro defines a downpour as he tells us to mind when a company town door. thanks for joining us. cyril ramaphosa has been sworn in as president of south africa after being returned to office elections earlier this month has promised a new dawn for south africa the country suffers from high crime slumping economic growth and high unemployment his presidency follows a corruption scandal that brought down his predecessor you know curation took place in a stadium in pretoria with regional leaders in attendance. earlier i spoke to our correspondent on the increase in cape town i asked him what message sarah has for the country's disillusioned voters remember more than 6000000 of young voters did not even registered although they were eligible to vote in this election so there's a lot of frustrations especially amongst young people and try to address them try to tell them well we're still working very hard to make this nation a better place he promised that he's trying everything to end poverty i