Chris Barrow

The humanitarian crisis is reaching extremely dire levels.

And beyond humanitarian assistance, what Cuba needs most of all is oil, the one thing that can't get in and which the Trump administration is blocking from getting in and says that it intends to continue to do so.

Now, more than a convoy of left-wing activists, I think Cubans have had their eyes on different ships.

One was a Russian-flagged oil tanker with 730,000 barrels of oil coming this direction, and another one was a Hong Kong-flagged ship.

We hear that the Hong Kong-flagged ship has been turned away to Trinidad, and of course there are fears that the Russian ship won't make it through.

But that is what Cubans most want, the lights to come back on and the lights to stay back on.

Will Grant in Havana.

Slovenians are heading to the polls today for parliamentary elections.

The centre-left Prime Minister Robert Golob is looking for a second term in office, but he faces strong opposition from the right-wing SDS and its leader Janez Janksa.

He's an ally of Hungary's Viktor Orban and a fan of the US President Donald Trump.

As our Balkans correspondent Guy Delaunay reports, the run-up to the polls has been bad-tempered and full of controversy.

In Slovenia, the protests usually come after the elections.

This time they arrived ahead of polling day.

The people at this gathering in the capital, Ljubljana, carried placards denigrating the right-wing opposition leader, Yanis Yancey, and his SDS party.

They were angry about the release of covert recordings of people close to the centre-left government.

In particular, they were furious about allegations that the SDS had engaged a private Israeli intelligence agency to dig up dirt on Prime Minister Robert Golob and his governing centre-left freedom movement.

Orška Klakočar-Zupančić is a prominent figure in the freedom movement and the speaker of Slovenia's National Assembly.

I'm talking about the recordings, I'm talking about the brutal campaign that we have been faced with in this election.

I believe that this is probably the most brutal campaign ever.

But the SDS party insists that it isn't important how the covert recordings were obtained if they show that Slovenia's current leaders are corrupt.