Oil reserves in the world is in economic meltdown. Venezuelans queue for hours for bread. The sick cant get the medicines they need. Violent crime is thriving in the chaos. Caracas is now the worlds most dangerous capital. Hugo chavezs Socialist Revolution has lost its charismatic leader, but not yet its grip on power. Opposition to chavezs successor, Nicolas Maduro, is mobilising. The National Assembly is at war with the government. Venezuela is on the brink of a terrifying descent into darkness. Can anyone pull it back from the brink . Foreign journalists are rarely welcome in venezuela, so we charter a small plane to the countrys caribbean island of margarita, where overseas visitors can still slip in with little fuss. This used to be a buzzing, prospering tourist town. Now, the flow of people, money, and jobs has dried up. Many local businesses have closed down. More are likely to follow. The beaches have not lost their allure, but venezuela has. A broken economy, Inflation Spirall
Oil reserves in the world is in economic meltdown. Venezuelans queue for hours for bread. The sick cant get the medicines they need. Violent crime is thriving in the chaos. Caracas is now the worlds most dangerous capital. Hugo chavezs Socialist Revolution has lost its charismatic leader, but not yet its grip on power. Opposition to chavezs successor, Nicolas Maduro, is mobilising. The National Assembly is at war with the government. Venezuela is on the brink of a terrifying descent into darkness. Can anyone pull it back from the brink . Foreign journalists are rarely welcome in venezuela, so we charter a small plane to the countrys caribbean island of margarita, where overseas visitors can still slip in with little fuss. This used to be a buzzing, prospering tourist town. Now, the flow of people, money, and jobs has dried up. Many local businesses have closed down. More are likely to follow. The beaches have not lost their allure, but venezuela has. A broken economy, Inflation Spirall
important to me because it is that feeling ofjustice to be done in a world that kills people who just go on holiday. thatjustice is not being done, then your whole we will never get our children back, we know that. some people sometimes tell us. why are you still fighting for this, for this case? you will not get your children back. we know that. but we need the truth. we need the truth. and we need justice. this is a small part of ourjustice. in the days and weeks following the crash, the priority was to recover the bodies. the wreckage was strewn around fields in the donetsk area of ukraine, territory controlled by russian backed separatists. it took intense political
the fifth name, the fifth individual is andrew hale, so those are the five freed, two had been under threat of a death sentence. so a prisoner exchange has happened with prisoners going going to various destinations from being held by russian backed separatists and also prisoners returned to russia. we understand that saudis were involved in a prisoner exchange, what was described as a very complicated diplomatic architecture in order to make this happen. the turkish president, erdogan, is also thought to have been involved, along with a number of other countries and individuals. so five britons now backin individuals. so five britons now back in the uk after being held as prisoners by russian backed separatists. you are watching bbc