:00:00. > :00:00.Moritz, BBC News. For Our World this week, film`maker
:00:00. > :00:00.Olly Lambert visits Venezuela and the capital's unfinished skyscraper,
:00:00. > :00:14.the Tower of David, to find a community of squatters who have made
:00:15. > :00:18.it their home. This is the Tower of David in the
:00:19. > :00:22.heart of Caracas. It was designed in the 1980s and was supposed to become
:00:23. > :00:25.the centre of Venezuelan's banking industry. Halfway through building
:00:26. > :00:40.it, the project was scrapped when money ran out. Now, it is a monument
:00:41. > :00:49.to Venezuelan's crumbling economy. ``Venezuela. Today, it is home to
:00:50. > :00:52.over 2000 squatters, a kind of vertical slalom. They have
:00:53. > :00:55.transformed the tower into a thriving and ordered society. ``
:00:56. > :01:17.slum. It is now a community where people
:01:18. > :01:31.live, work, and raise their families in safety.
:01:32. > :01:38.I spent two weeks in the tower. How could these people have built a
:01:39. > :01:45.century in the ruins of a skyscraper? In one of the most
:01:46. > :02:03.violent cities in the world? `` sanctuary.
:02:04. > :02:10.When President Hugo Chavez died a year ago, he left behind a turbulent
:02:11. > :02:15.nation. His successor, Nicolas Maduro, has been struggling to keep
:02:16. > :02:21.it grip on Venezuelan ever since. `` keep a grip. As well as food
:02:22. > :02:26.shortages and massive inflation, it is one of the kidnapping and murder
:02:27. > :02:31.capitals of the world. Seven years ago, a group of squatters saw this
:02:32. > :02:34.derelict half built skyscraper as they do it yourself solution to
:02:35. > :03:06.Venezuelan 's chronic housing shortage.
:03:07. > :18:24.With housing in Caracas in such sort supply, there is not much
:18:25. > :18:25.opportunity. The residents are on a waiting list and every square foot
:18:26. > :19:05.is in demand. But millions of people across
:19:06. > :19:10.Venezuela see things differently. They regard the government's
:19:11. > :19:15.socialist policies as the cause of the country's troubles. And many are
:19:16. > :19:21.calling on the President to resign. Clashes between the protesters and
:19:22. > :23:13.the police have left many dead on both sides.
:23:14. > :23:18.Friday was the warmest day of the year so far as we got within 24
:23:19. > :23:25.Celsius. We could beat that in the days ahead. Some very warm weather
:23:26. > :23:28.in the forecast. Our weather is never that straightforward. For some
:23:29. > :23:29.of us, there will be rain over the