acceptable we demand the immediate release of all colleague mahmoud to same and old journalist attained in a gyptian jails free mahmoud's and all his colleagues we stand for press freedom. venezuela's opposition leader leads a convoy of aid trucks he says must cross into the country. and opposition activists confront venezuelan troops on the colombia border. have them seek and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. at

the voting booth as polling hours are extended in nigeria. anger in sudan the president declares a yearlong state of emergency after months of protests. and from street kids to war romance how this year's oscar nominated foreign films draw from real life. we begin with breaking news from venezuela it has been a day of fast moving developments on both sides of the border with colombia riot police have been facing off with opposition protesters in the town of or ania in colombia near the border with venezuela protesters threw rocks and burning tires troops responded with tear gas soldiers loyal to president nicolas maduro are stationed along the country's edges to block a deliveries for members of the national guard have defected to the opposition side

kwan why does sent off an aid truck convoy of trucks from colombia towards the border with venezuela it was a pivotal pivotal moment in the opposition leader's ongoing showdown with president nicolas maduro before the convoy departed why don't spoke from the border town of cuckoo town. and i mean to them. this is a landmark point in our history to allow the humanitarian aid to get in and to allow perspire say we must respect the human rights of the venezuelan people to the generals and the countries that are full in this coalition the aid this being sent in we are ton lee great food. at the friendship bridge and this is where all of our people have come together to help venezuela this humanitarian aid is going into the country peacefully to save lives we've been a lot of. is on the scene on board involved bridge which is between in venezuela

and colombia so on a sunday bring us up to date on what's been happening now on the point. that i'm in the middle of this year long gone these are grades and thousands of supporters developed with an open question i'm difficult for me to know just how many but i leave that few thousands of occupy the bridge all the way through the middle of it right on the border between macro long and very well and they're now in a. standoff with a number of national guardsman. who are expecting them right inside. the bridge and they are you know the people will be gassed forward but they're not going to answer until their truck arrives here at the entrance of the bridge that it hasn't happened

yet so that's a few to ation that right now nothing get violent has been so far fortunately their homes being venezuelan flags chanting freedom freedom for many and some of them i were confronting in that directory the national guard commander staring into . true that a that for their families as well so that's the situation right now on the bridge and out of sounds well we heard a little bit earlier there from one the opposition leader one go i don't mean the town of kuta on the colombian side talking about so the need for getting the aid in and he was saying he was sending some of that aid in is any more you can tell us about those absence to get through to the venezuelan side. well my daughter said that they were able to do some of the a on the border with

israel and we know that ten trucks filled with the aid sent by the u.s. and she loaded with the food and medicine by far on the move to reach the entrance of the four bridges connecting colombia and venezuela here in the border city. so this is happening the volunteers on both sides are trying to reach the bridges and form a human chain and then they will try to move back to sides of the bridges and the trucks will be able to get in through. there why they're telling us that they will try to move the boxes in by foot that everybody will get one or two boxes and try to move it across across the bridge to venice when something is happening with the crowd running as if. anything

on guys were attacking and we. hear gas being thrown past the. running back into the loan then side. with the people. all right out of some to thank someone p.f.c. lifeless on the seam on boulevard bridge stand between. in colombia and venezuela we've got correspondents covering this on old signs are latin american and it's in the newman is in san antonio on the venezuelan side of the border and when we last spoke to you it was things at ten quite chaotic and what is the situation right now all right unfortunately we've lost our connection to lucy let's go to brazil now mohammed jim dumas lifeless from. brazil near the venezuelan border and mohamed we understand a couple of aid trucks were able to get in what more we are hearing on that.

white house and i walk you through what we've seen the past few hours if you look behind me i don't know if you can see it exactly when this vantage point but not too far from where we are there are people standing kind of obstructing the view but there are two white aid trucks these trucks have venezuelan license plates these trucks belong to a humanitarian group from venezuela and we're told that these trucks crossed on officially sort of around the official border checkpoint from venezuela into brazil in the past twenty four hours they then went to a supply center picked up some boxes of aid came back in this direction we're right on the brazilian side of its border with venezuela and then they crossed into venezuela they stopped just a few feet after they crossed into the border here on the side of the road a few hours ago it was that first truck then it was a second truck in the last hour you have these volunteers that are on top of the truck they have been distributing water to some of the migrants who have gathered here now as each truck has passed and gone across the border we have heard cheers

from the venezuelan migrants assembled here they've all oftentimes also also chanted in unison calling for the ouster of an israel and president nicolas maduro now let me try to explain why this is different than what we were expecting we have been told by brazilian officials the past forty eight hours that they were going to be more trucks possibly brazilian. being from bolivia that's a city that's about two hundred kilometers south of where we are it is the capital of northern haute i'm a state where we are we are in pocket i mean which is the city directly on the border this is the main entry point for venezuelan migrants trying to cross into brazil now if you if you look again behind me and you see these trucks several hundred feet beyond where those trucks are on the venezuelan side you have a line of security forces perhaps ten perhaps twenty that are blocking the road that is to prevent any attempt by this opposition led aid convoy coming into brazil officially through venezuela that's what complicates things here but we must

remember that even though this is the official border crossing and even though the official border crossing is closed on the venezuela side and blocked well is a very vast border and so even on a day like today we're seeing still hundreds of migrants come in they go around this area around the hills through the brush and come out on the other side where they are then assisted by members of the army they've been given water they've been given food they've been taken to a shelter here for venezuela migrants where many of them try to process asylum claims now all that being said we're just not sure at this hour what exactly is going to happen next we spoke to some of the volunteers the venezuelans with this humanitarian organization they say they believe that there are going to be even as whalen's that are coming by foot here that they are going to get some of this aid medical supplies and food stuffs they are then going to try to take it back into venezuela but things are getting tense on the venezuelan border side we've spoken to members of an indigenous group that has been getting into clashes with venezuela's military in the city of santa elena which is

a border town on venezuela side and we know that yesterday there were clashes because many members of this indigenous group they have been supporting the efforts of the opposition of venezuela to get aid into venezuela so they've been clashing with members of it as well as military to members of this is that in this group were killed many others injured and brought actually into brazil for treatment where they're still being treated at this hospital now the. the head of this indigenous group who was here on this side of the border earlier today he said he's worried things are going to get much worse he's worried they're going to be more confrontations when we speak to brazilian officials here they say they're not as worried they don't expect that anything is going to bleed over into this side of the border they have been clear from the outset members of the military we've spoken with keep saying that they are going to respect the sovereignty of venezuela that it is up to the venezuelan opposition to come here to get this aid to take it back into venezuela and that's about as far as they will assist in this endeavor. mohamed thank you mohamed. in brazil near the border with venezuela and we're going

to try and get back to lucy in newman again now let's in america and it's a see she is in san antonio on the venezuelan side of the border with colombia there see what are you seeing and hearing there what are. the back i do to get your i mean our group what are you are. thanks for. all was this the auction people can. agree actually go on the parliament for good. and when it was oh i'm fine what was going on. when well. all right apologies we're going to have to leave that unfortunately as you heard there was it was very difficult to make out what newman was saying obviously a chaotic situation around that border region of venezuela we're joined now by i say a smith dinner in cambridge in the u.s. state of massachusetts he is

a form of venezuelan diplomat who resigned last year of what he considered great human rights violations by but due to its government thanks very much for being with us so obviously a very few fluid situation there in venezuela what do you make of what is happening there right now days of standoff in which nothing much really happened. well first of all thank you so much i mean thanks i'll just be here for only support from the get go since two thousand and seventeen we've been working on this and of course this humanitarian it's not spread into the hearts of many nations we see the diary of our friends and allies like venice well that was part of the i lays to find the nazis now we see our allies standing are rising up together in solidarity we've seen presidents from. why raise your hands from chile secretary general roussel magra standing beside our injury in constitutional president we see

brasil and he not be a united states of america stands under its. belt ons of humanitarian aid and this is a feature he's a victory of music so he diary and a nonviolent resistance movement that has broken the meaning of a military intervention bring aid to the people in need we have been imposed any news that humanitarian crises for a very harsh and criminal regime just the ones hanging by our well today is i tell you state they always seem from three different areas in venezuela huta who are and but i'm a. very close to the border in brazil where already well to at least places i've opened they have entered and brought some of this symbolic humanitarian aid because these fourteen or sixteen or not even five hundred tons of humanitarian aid would

be enough or so flies in seoul the shoe in venezuela and then on the other hand we also see how yesterday it's completing clashes with the native indigenous population of the manas on the border where already casualties two are dead fifty injured and still marries a very difficult times are going on there also you know. and you know this is this . has been trying to bring me terry and me and it's clashing with the national forces because there is no force and violence and these regimes you can see on the other hand are enduring because you just know president always building bridges or he's bringing a misty with the national assembly and more than ninety percent of the population are standing behind him you have noticed that two sergeants of the national guard to date the border and. there are so many directions to pick up on just to pick on

pick up on some of that i mean you mentioned the the the officers who defected. just a tiny percentage of this point and it's going to need a lot more than that a lot more offices than that to to defect if that the tide is going to turn in your favor and as you you say as well it's only been a few trucks that have gotten to the border so in practical terms is all of this really making a difference inside venezuela you're right has it has not been obvious very slowly that you know eight percent of their major areas are also on there are a lot of stress their families are being bred at least we have two hundred military prisoners being torture as we speak as much as one thousand civilians made every prisoners and this is not. come to a stop this is a symbolic show or how nonviolence resistance is trying to open up

a discussion on negotiation because in my understanding when you have forty percent of the country already taken over by fired and. this is a very difficult situation. of course it has become an international conflict i must say that needs resolution preferably peaceful resolution but we have the economic clout of china we have a military for the brains of russia but we have the human. agency in six trillion armed forces and making decisions it was a. i don't know if you heard this recording today although human beings given the structures to our armed forces don't berries absolutely i agree with you there is a very complex situation this is a great start we are showing a different way for dispute resolution it is not violent it has become a peaceful force also the mass display around the world on how. all their

countries around a lot you know where you get them together you show a different way out and i think today peace has become a very for the world to see what is going on and this is a time for there in jeanne rethink their strategies and come to a serious and we're going to we're going to have to later we're going to have to leave it there pretty shocking to a say say a semi d.n.a. in cambridge massachusetts former finest wine and diplomat who is now supporting opposition leader why not quite oh thanks very much for being with us last more head on al-jazeera when we come back. instead of the perpetrators the victims were regulated and silence composed of the sensational details of a cover up but the first ever conference on sexual abuse by catholic priests.

and or the snow has formed afghanistan in kabul in particular and there is the cloud. repeats the story if you like but he's gone and then west of all that which is where the weather is coming from it's looking fine looking fine more or less through iran towards the eastern side of the mediterranean the occasional showers can't be ruled out particularly in syria and these inside turkey and the next close develop in the central med but it's staying out there in beirut you've got twenty degrees the breeze is coming off the land is feeling quite warm same in baghdad apart from occasional clouds it is looking sunny for was all this area we're looking at and the same is true for the sas in the arabian peninsula they may well be a shower or two with their only light on the streak of cloud here the breeze is picking up again by look there on monday down the gulf still give twenty five and twenty five three out of it rough in the middle thirty's on the western side of saudi we

have seen significant rain in the last week in tanzania madagascan certainly madagascar's to go to showers but otherwise it's a dry looking picture occasional showers in the eastern side of south africa or even mozambique otherwise you can go out through zimbabwe and it's drawing most a zombie is now dry the showers are becoming fewer and fewer. rewind returns i can bring your people back to life with. trees in libya i was the first. and the others to the green one continues. year of fear and hope this was my return to kosovo and the little village of one decade on i've come back to find out what happened to those hopes and dreams rewind on al-jazeera.

again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour soldiers in venezuela opposition protesters and politicians trying to cross into colombia despite president nicolas maduro closing the border hundreds of demonstrators are staging a campaign to bring in foreign aid. opposition leader sent off a convoy of trucks carrying aid from colombia towards the border of venezuela it was a pivotal moment in his ongoing showdown with much. more on that latin america to machine human is in san antonio on the venezuelan side of the

border to see what see it brings up to date on what's been happening there. possibly we are right where huddled under a cement structure to safety it's been a typically violent. there are so opposition members had tried to move on from work. and so that's a try if you could last opposition members on that side tried to pass them a would have been trying to pass the need for if they were met by resistance that will give them that by the national guard with tear gas and rubber bullets but about an hour or so ago the national withdrew after the opposition members were able to push down the first and now we have been hearing over and over than and seated next to some complete people to leave all the paramilitary groups wearing masks and i'm sorry sami on.

the let them test to see. if we couldn't believe it was at the home anyway it was gunfire having business going around and around the front of his . position call from could not leave the mother approach at the village. and we don't know exactly where the rest of the opposition members are whether the deputies were we were separated in the rush to safety but we do know that there is an area somewhere and it is a standoff at this moment the houses and the ca's are easy to tell us about some promo doing rallies that have been taking place in support of the the venezuelan president. all right doesn't appear that you can hear me apologies for that there are some live pictures that you're looking at right now from cooking tar. in colombia on the

other side of that border with venezuela as we've been reporting there been trying to get that foreign aide in to venezuela opposition leader one guy i don't know we're speaking from there earlier in which you talked about getting that aid in these are live pictures that you're looking at right now. now the votes are being counted in nigeria's presidential elections some polling stations stayed open later to deal with the long lines of people wanting to vote the election had been delayed a week president mohamed to hardy is facing former vice president and businessman. attacks in the northeast blamed on the armed group boko harm threatened to disrupt early voting. reports from a ducati in borno state. early morning confusion of this polling station and way to

greet voters are angry at officials for failing to start the poll one hour after. the voting machines and reading fingerprints were. a problem was eventually resolved. to fibro him was able to vote but he needed assistance at the polling station he wants an improvement in facilities for people with disabilities and i bet on that with who'll be exposed to danger if the person helping us has party preferences privacy should be protected better the early morning turnout in many areas of the city was good despite reports of attacks sixty five year old want to keep a walk up to the sounds of explosions in my degree but was determined to vote obama had a little we've seen and heard worse from around the cannot stop us from voting only die once you can see how eager the people are always after the explosions the

police say the city is safe and the civilians were not targeted but in the neighboring your base state hundreds of residents and potential voters fled the town of go down after suspected broke or on fighters attempted to infiltrate the city the army which acknowledged that attack say calm has been restored. six hundred kilometers from here president obama body votes in his hometown in. the seventy five year old is aiming to avoid the fate that befell these protests good luck jonathan. one elected term in office he sounded upbeat and. very hopeful indeed. a little bit you know if you live like. that we are not. going to be there enough. what a blowhard as close as rivals are to work are also cast his ballot hoping to return to the corridors of power he left twelve years ago. although delays were reported in many parts of nigeria election officials are hopeful of

a good turnout what is not clear is if the postponement of the vote last week will affect the final number will cast their ballots decrease. way to. a protest this in sudan's capital have denounced the president's state of emergency on one of the shares said he was dissolving the government but just hours later he appointed six new ministers it's part of a series of measures to deal with weeks of protests against the government. there calling for an end to their president's will. and denouncing his latest move only hours after omar bashir made an announcement that reflects how much these protests have shaken the government. ought to clear the following to impose a state of emergency for one year to dissolve the national unity government to dissolve the provincial governments and we will continue to take measures to

implement what i have resolved our country requires us to stand together it demands us to remain united patient and tolerant i am certain we will be an example to follow. for over two months people in sudan have been taking to the streets their anger ignite. aided by an economic crisis they've demanded that omar al bashir step down according to sit downs constitution a state of emergency would allow security forces to arrest those deemed as a threat to the country and its political and economic stability. and you government will be formed which the president says will work on fixing the economy as he called for dialogue some say his announcements are far from what those who have been demonstrating want to see happen nothing of the demonstrations are likely to continue in defiance of mistaken radiancy for two reasons they cannot make situation is not going to improve and the demonstrations are basically based on

economic cashiers so it's not just for him to say calm down it's hope that when the . economy has not been addressed. the most patients are likely to continue regardless of the state of emergency. al bashir has ruled for nearly three decades he came to power in a bloodless military coup in one thousand nine hundred nine overthrowing a democratically elected government. since two thousand and twelve anti-government protests grew over rising costs. security forces responded each time using tear gas and live ammunition hundreds die. the protests that started in december last year have become the long this wave of anti-government demonstrations since the country's independence with a state of emergency declared protests may be harder to sustain. and bashir may have found a way to end the biggest challenge to his presidency. dorsetshire pari al jazeera.

top catholic cardinal has admitted the church files on priests who sexually abused children were destroyed or never even created a german collar reinhard moxon speaking at a meeting in vatican city have been calls for a new culture of accountability in the catholic church which led pope francis to call this four day conference he is expected to speak on sunday the sexual abuse of children and youth is in no small measure due to the abuse of power in the area of administration in this regard administration has not contributed to fulfilling the mission of the church but all the country has obscured discredited and made it impossible for those that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed or not even created instead of the

perpetrators the victims were regulated and silence imposed on them the stipulated procedures and processes for the pro prosecution of offenses were deliberately not complied with but instead cancelled overridden. on the streets of rome some of those abused by clergymen including some deaf victims marched towards vatican city to demand justice. this is al jazeera time now for a roundup of our top story soldiers in venezuela fired tear gas at opposition protesters and politicians trying to cross into colombia despite president nicolas maduro closing the border hundreds of demonstrators are staging a campaign to bring in foreign aid opposition leader one of why dose sent off a convoy of trucks carrying aid from colombia towards venezuela it was

a pivotal moment in his ongoing showdown with my daughter demo day glenn i mean that i'm in so many predicting it this is a landmark point in our history to allow the humanitarian aid to get in and to allow prosperity we must respect the human rights of the venezuelan people to the generals and all the countries that have formed this coalition the aid that's been sent in we are turned lee great food so you know we're here at the friendship bridge and this is where all of our people have come together to help venezuela this humanitarian aid is going into the country peacefully to save lives. of votes are being counted in nigeria's presidential elections some polling stations though stayed open later to deal with the long lines of people wanting to vote the election have been delayed a week president mohamed who will hari is facing former vice president and businessman article. protesters in sudan have denounced the president's state of

emergency ahmed bashir announcing he was dissolved in the government but just hours later appointing a new minister. a top catholic cardinal has admitted that church files on priests who sexually abused children were destroyed or never even created a german called no reinhard marx was speaking at a meeting in vatican city they've been calls for a new culture of accountability in the catholic church which pope francis which led pope francis to call the four day conference the saudi crown prince says china has the right to fight against extremism to protect its own national security one had been said man made the remarks during a visit to beijing is being seen as a reference to china's crackdown against the leader muslim minority rights groups say china has detained about one million weakness in what beijing says are reeducation camps those are the headlines inside story is.

and to settle it has been said to be on the rise in europe and that its worst level in decades some countries are promising a crackdown but are they doing enough and would noodles be sufficient this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program of the current french president emmanuel mccall says anti semitism.