venezuela turns into a battleground as troops president nicolas maduro clashed with opposition supporters trying to get aid. hello i missed and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up vote counting is underway in nigeria after millions of people go to the polls to elect a new president. a fast for saudi arabia princess removed and. becomes the new ambassador to the u.s. . and we'll look at the nominees for best foreign language film at this year's oscars and how the reviews draw on real life.

venezuelan opposition activists are confronting violent opposition from security forces aid trucks have been fired as and in some cases even set on fire while almost three hundred people have been injured colombia's defense minister says sixty venezuelan soldiers have defected and on the brazilian border at least two people have been killed gabriel is under reports. the four trucks carrying u.s. aid were trying to cross the bridge separating venezuela and colombia then one was set on fire. the opposition said it was set ablaze by the venezuelan soldiers but the government says the opposition didn't to pin the blame on president nicolas maduro one incident and a day of confusion and violence i. venezuela there were clashes between

supporters of opposition leader one and security forces several people were injured . earlier venezuelan soldiers commandeered armored personnel carriers and ran them through their own barricades and set up to prevent the u.s. aid from coming and four soldiers then ran across the border and defected and. watched events from the colombian side of the border he urged soldiers to defect in mass. a call on the armed forces a very clear welcome to the right side of history welcome to those soldiers who today sided with the constitution but it didn't happen. in the capital. and in bold and will save. i can't continue putting up with this we can continue putting up with colombia lending itself to an aggression against bin as well and that is why i have decided to break all political and diplomatic relations

with the fascist government of colombia and all its ambassadors and general consuls have to leave venezuela within twenty four hour as get out of here oligarchy. on the border with brazil the violence turned deadly as campaigners tried to get aid and there's fear and anger on both sides and no clear path to peace. where is the aid and what happens to it now. days four trucks that were on this bridge that simone believe a bridge where we've been all day have been sent back to another bridge the bridge where the warehouse where the there's been stored for many days now is and we understand that all the trucks have been unloaded also the trucks that were sent to

two other three bridges here on the colombian venezuela on board it were all been sent back to their warehouse and the question is what the next step will be we don't know at this point there were rumors of a possible press conference by the leader of the opposition but that hasn't happened yet what i can tell you from here is that this has been a very long day of fighting on this bridge and the protesters were off to meet him and an energy in the morning when the trucks arrived but the mood the increasingly turned sour as they understood that this action was going to fail and that they were not going to be able to cross the inside venezuela as they faced a barrage of rubber bullets and tear gas throughout the day and actually some of the action is still continuing and now so you can imagine how disappointed they

were at the end of the day many of them didn't want to trucks to be sent back to the warehouse but the opposition leaders decided otherwise. on the colombian side of the border thank you. well latin america at its head you see and human is on the other side of the border on the venezuelan side in san antonio and you see it talk us through how events unfolded today when you. yes it is very similar to what you just heard from sander except that on this side there was live ammunition because little it devos these are armed groups that support the government wearing masks driving around on motorcycles using guns pistols and even automatic. were fired upon the crowd as they tried to make it some six hundred people in fact across the bridge over to where i was sandro is to try to help that aid cup but to form a human cargo door or

a human chain to bring the food and medicine into venezuela they were repelled first by the national guard with rubber bullets and with tear gas massive amount but then the quality evils came out and they started shooting at random at will and it became very very ugly indeed and this is been happening not just by the bridge but all over the all over the san antonio area in fact two minutes from here just a short while ago automatic gunfire could be heard so it is not over yet people are very very frightened and of course extremely disappointing disappointed that they could not do this they had been so enthusiastic they really believe that somehow they were going to be able to defy president nicole last mughal and get the aid across here into venezuela but that has not happened instead they've been seeing those images of the of the a going up in smoke on the trucks which for many people especially those in dire

need of food and medicine is a shocking sight indeed. and in san antonio watching all those developments thank you nazir well robert valencia specializes in national merican i says and he says it looks like manure isn't going anywhere anytime soon. time is of the essence here the opposition and the injured national community that is rylan rally behind one will like to see my doodle step down as soon as possible next remember the direct test or rather the warning of the trumpet ministration alongside it some republican legislators said that today was the day that the military will relinquish power and will or they will should or that they should leave much. to his own devices however we haven't seen yet i mean we've seen some defectors crossing the collective israel of water but here we're seeing that the model is still in power does the top brass

of the military still supports mature out and we haven't seen the change that some of the opposition and the international community wants to see so right now what muddle what months is to really gain some time so that he could just stay in power which is basically his ultimate goal. vote counting is underway in nigeria off to saturday's presidential election and company president mohamed bihari is taking a second term and what's thought to be a tight race with former vice president a taken aback and their actual commission extended voting hours in some places where polling stations opened late or ballot machines malfunctioned having the tasa has ruled from nigeria's commercial capital a us. many nigerians are watching election officials closely these voters in the commercial capital lagos say they want to make sure there's no

rigging last easterly has cast doubts on the electrical machines credibility and competence. in long words. predicted. the race to govern the country with africa's biggest economy pits incumbent president. against main opposition candidates and former vice president a tickler backer emotions are high they are displeased a result could lead to violence although there were some parts of nigeria election officials say they generally had with the turnout managers have to wait to find out who has won and by what margin analysts say it's going to be a tight race. early on saturday there were attacks in the north east of the country blamed on boko haram fighters but there didn't seem to deter the voters in rivers state in the south incidents of violence when some people weren't able to vote

whoever wins in nigeria will have to deal with the precarious security situation and the challenge a turnaround in the economy struggling to recover from the twenty sixteen recession how to. make us. well china has in the capital a bridge out with more on nigeria's election. but i'm standing in the situation room the headquarters of one of the main civil society vote monitoring groups here in nigeria. as you can see behind me late in the evening here people still hard at work pressing the phones taking information from monitors thousands of them spread throughout the country on the situation still unfolding at the polls there are questions in this election in particular over the late opening of a number of polling stations around the country some polling stations that may not open at all they're trying to verify that still and the possibility that in those places voting may have to continue on sunday they've also been reports of

intimidation election related violence at some polling stations particularly into the evening trying to get very big case in all of those things as well but on the whole it seems to have been a relatively peaceful process two questions that they are focused on in particular these monitors the first is turnout trying to ascertain the extent to which that week long delay to this election may have depressed turn out to the point where perhaps there may be question marks over the mandate of the eventual winner and the second big issue of course is protecting the final result making sure that the tallies collected at individual polling stations one hundred twenty thousand of them are accurately transferred and reflected in the final count that's a that's a period which is traditionally vulnerable to manipulation these monitors are here to try and make sure that doesn't happen that is their job they'll be doing it possibly right through sunday possibly right into monday before we know who the final winner of this election is for some senator is the executive director of an

organization that has monitors covering the election he says there have been widespread cases of voter intimidation. attorney and this morning based on the. forty one percent of stations that were put out to me in this morning. for the time. critical incidents are quite disturbing. still detained at some point we also have the tells me of being intimidated we've seen the military history to mostly see before and so actually shuts down. to be closer to election if you. go to school instead or to leave those words. election materials were destroyed. this moment fifty and

sixty four. saudi arabia has replaced at some baskets the united states with its first female envoy princess remember banda takes over from the king son prince khaled bin solomon he's been appointed vice defense minister the princess is the daughter of a former ambassador to the u.s. and previously worked for saudi arabia's general sports authority promoting women's participation in the bits north korea's leader kim jong un is on a train heading to vietnam for a summit with u.s. president donald trump in four days time it's the second round of talks between the leaders and they're expected to focus on denuclearization efforts on the korean peninsula at the meeting and how noisy tramp and kim met for the fast time in singapore last june. whether it's next front still ahead on al-jazeera putting on a show the prosperous image being portrayed by senegal's president as he seeks reelection. and fearing their voices still aren't being had we meet people outside

of vatican musing on such an abuse. that i was running again in southern china now that the whole of the average for february for rain for in hong kong is already formed by fifty five millimeters so we don't see any more but this massive cloud gleeson far away from hong kong and they will give you something at the start of sunday otherwise it's in. and what is going through the sun is i would say good for the most part attempt to start to rise in hong kong twenty to one monday when he took over in shanghai but there is more cloud further west more funny shouting going viral and the snow from tibet and plateau she's been sporadic but it's moving east with money reach sichuan base to

higher ground west it should do but beyond that it's now dry as it should be so most of the station is dry these pockets the showers are showing some vigorous nissim places so the way sea and borneo and certainly java on those three areas i think will be the concentration of the big shot of the next couple of days you might find water to singapore but you know really that pro not a cloud in the area but shot i think a rather rare a feature we have got showers today in northern india they've settled down for a time being but this is always going to be a bit of a hint a bit of a clue i think in the next day or so you might find want to even in west bengal they'll be a rarity but they're in the forecast all the same. who was it sponsored by qatar and. oh you and for all practical purposes yes i support science and truth one of the figureheads for the new atheist movement if you believe something without evidence then that justifies anything to do except

that religion has done good things despite all of ahmad's police and all miracles who believe that science holds all the answers to be a better place religion disappeared to more of the yes men to his son goes head to head with. zero. hello again i missed a reminder of the news this hour venezuelans trying to bring aid across the border from colombia facing violent opposition from security forces at least two people have been killed in the clashes along the border with brazil as police try to block the aid president nicolas maduro has closed the numerous border crossings. vote

counting is underway in nigeria's presidential election several polling stations stayed open longer to deal with long lines of people wanting to cause the ballots president rouhani is facing seventy other candidates. saudi arabia has replaced it some bastard of the u.s. with its first female envoy princess remember and takes over from the king prince. who has been a who's been appointed vice defense minister. well senegal's president is banking on a booming economy as he seeks reelection in sunday's fires but opposition candidates are focusing on poverty and unemployment which have pushing people to seek a better life abroad reports from. senegal rising prosperous educated and with a booming economy it's this vision that president is promoting to get reelected. i . am the candidate continuity and progress the one that will bring prosperity to

all senegalese during his time in office new company registrations tripled among them is impact to car incubate or for startups i think it's a great time for a youngster it was really to take a number of risks because very little things like this in my field an intrapreneur a lot of things that are here now little known here before inauguration after the other sell is changing the capitals landscape promoting a narrative of a rising senegal just a few kilometers away from downtown the car is a two billion dollar construction site it's called junk and you present. wants to turn this into a silicon valley for west africa but if you travel away from the cranes and building sites there is another senegal with a different narrative this is. two hundred kilometers from the car and there are villages with no running water electricity or hospitals children suffer from

malnutrition. you sickout walked away from this life traveling across the mediterranean into europe with the hope to find better opportunities but he's come back empty handed there are no jobs here no opportunities at least not for us it's as if we don't exist we don't count unless it's election time and was one of the most senegalese sinking in debt riddled with corruption and unemployment this is the narrative shared by the four opposition candidates among them political newcomer anti establishment huisman sancho. if you win your. politicians understand nothing because this country's huge have decided to take responsibility and to take their destiny into their own hands fifty nine years of lies and betrayal. with conflicting narratives to choose from it's now up to the six million voters to decide which one rings true and which senegal to

vote for. nicholas hawke al-jazeera to car thousands of people have been protesting in pakistan against what they're calling atrocities committed in indian administered kashmir they rallied in karachi in support of pakistan's army as tension between the two countries increases. french yellow vest protest as a demonstration in paris for the fifteenth weekend in a row are hundreds of people gathered at the monument to rally against the government's policies which they say favor the rich organizers say saturday's launch is also about standing up to anti semitism after last weekend's yellow vest demonstrations breakaway protesters harassed a prominent jewish academic. new concerns about the catholic church's commitment to ending sexual abuse have surfaced. some victims wonder if church politics is getting in the way of real change on the fed day of the missing pope francis called

for more action against abuse. we asked each other how we can act responsibly which steps we should take to face the future with a renewed courage should we say as a product of son dead father i have sinned we need to examine where necessary concrete actions for local churches for the members of the episcopal conferences for ourselves and this requires to look sincerely at our own actions and it situations which have taken place in our countries. chalons has more from. want to watch bishops and cardinals talking the vatican sexual abuse survivors have staged events like this and repeated that demand zero tolerance throwing abusive priests and those that cover up for them out of the priesthood but a founder of the group ending plenty of abuse is church politics might be getting in the way of something pope francis himself has previously called for two thirds of the bishops that are meeting there from the developing world i mean we africa and asia yeah they are denying over minimizing the issue and they do not want

a law on the books i asked liberia's most senior bishop whether african and asian clergy supported zero tolerance to share what we do we do it yes but we have to define what zero tolerance means and i want to. well we. we have to decide where zero tolerance means zero tolerance you know we stay discourse in that you know more rigid it's easy if you don't is zero tolerance means one is means of the crimean getting. getting a present of to preach to or whatever we have to definitely say that beyond bishop of luxemburg says regardless of where they come from most clarity do you want zero tolerance but acknowledges some differences exist it's a little bit more difficult for other cultures where people are confronted to other

real problems. child soldiers. country wall why women are raped every day. it's more difficult for them to focus just on this problem but they also understand to the discipline the question is whether understanding will lead to action it shouldn't be surprising this institution as large and diverse as the roman catholic church might have internal divisions but for the victims of sexual abuse this must not be allowed to stand in the way or slow down the reform that they're demanding now chalons al-jazeera right. south africa's largest opposition party has to its manifesto the democratic alliance is a vote share has steadily increased since the end of apartheid in one thousand nine hundred four but it's always been much less popular than the ruling african national congress malcolm webb reports from johannesburg. kitty pony

mcatee says she's tired of being jobless and scared of rampant crime here in a neighborhood in so at a. just height you know top people when they're coming to the african national congress government built houses here nearly twenty years ago kitty bernie told me it's done nothing since she's always supported the a.n.c. in the past but in local elections two years ago she switched to south africa's largest opposition party the democratic alliance i voted because i was so i was just thinking maybe it's going to make a change in hoping it's going to make a change you know those things that it was a lucky thing to even see was. was. that it was our. democracy a guy like. that is the support. that he thought i had was that roger thousands of them are gathered here at this stadium was that yes that they

will want to see that general election spirit that. corruption scandals an economic stagnation during the nine year rule of former president jacob zuma case south africa's opposition a lot of ammunition so if you want the government doesn't work for you. yes you want the government that will deliver jobs for you. or do you want the government that will not steal your money and use the money for the people well yes during apartheid the da formally the democratic party was led by whites who were opposed to the system. the a.n.c. is credited with bringing an end to white minority rule the da says it'll help south africans but some are skeptical so thank you. let's zoom back in solomon malloy does what he can to help his community he collects old

clothes for the neighborhoods poorest like many here he says he'll never vote for the da should they be in power it is the white minority that was to be in control so therefore i as a player. will still be at the end of the stick whereby with agency in spite of the collapse and it doing we still get opportunities opinion polls suggest that come may be able get more votes than ever before the a and c. if you are but an a.n.c. majority is still expected and the possibility of a da government still seems a long way off malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. u.s. singer r. kelly has appeared in court in chicago on multiple sexual assault charges a judge described the allegations against him as disturbing and said ballot one million dollars the fifty two year old whose real name is robert kennedy tandem

south into police on friday he's facing ten counts of aggravated sexual abuse incidents facing back as far as one thousand nine hundred eight. one of hollywood's biggest events the oscars is coming up on sunday but beyond the glitz and glamour of the ninety fast academy award ceremony may prevail little different from previous is foreign language films often overlooked in the past could dominate the show thanks to digital streaming past forms robins has been. going to have to do. in capernaum lebanese director he's focus is on twelve year old zene who stands as a representative for the hundreds of millions of children worldwide war neglected abused and exploited zain is a tough beirut kid played by seen all rafidah he flees his uncaring family to wander through the slums you finds a makeshift family with an undocumented ethiopian immigrant and her baby the film

is a harrowing journey into the depths and yet at the very end like some impossible flower blooming amid the filth there is a brilliant flash of hope isn't there unless a different kind of family lives in director hirokazu hoary it is shoplifters multiple generations cramming into a ramshackle tokyo house we soon learned this is a family born from the ceci of the members are actually related but they've banded together to survive. so that's not the way they would hide it when a crisis explodes the family the consequences are dire for all but korea to shows how tenacious are the bonds of kindness and love obsessive tortured. love is the theme of polish director pawel pawlikowski film cold war about an affair spanning decades on both sides of the iron curtain in post-war poland a team of artists transforms the culture into full throated stalinist propaganda

jazz pianist victor played by thomas kot falls hopelessly in love with teenage singer zula the luminous joanna cooley gk he plots their escape to the west but she did she see him in east berlin decades later they meet again in paris and the spark is rekindled but their love is infected with a kind of bitterness and only mutual destruction can unite them forever. by mexico's alfonzo quar own is a dreamily paced semi autograph it story of a fracturing family and the young domestic servant cleo who holds everyone together while fighting her own tragedies shot in black and white roma is a film whose images linger in the memory rounding out the category of florian henkel fun donors marks never look away a three hour long epic exploring art love and politics an artist played by tom

shilling experiences nazi tyranny the total destruction of war and the suffocating grip of east germany's communist dictatorship cold war roma and shoplifters can all be seen on digital streaming platforms never look away and capernaum are not currently available online robert oulds al-jazeera. hello i'm the star in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera venezuelans trying to bring aid across the border from colombia facing violent opposition from security forces at least two people have been killed in the clashes along the border with brazil as police try to block the aid president nicolas maduro has closed numerous border crossings. on hold the road. and keep. it off. and

democratically. the majority of the. vote counting has begun in nigeria's presidential election several polling stations stayed open longer to deal with long lines of people wanting to toss the about. saudi arabia has replaced it some bastard or to the u.s. with its first female envoy princess remember takes over from the king some prince khaled been salma who's been appointed vice defense minister north korea's leader kim jong un is on a train heading to vietnam for a summit with u.s. president donald trump they're expected to focus on denuclearization efforts on the korean peninsula at the meeting in one way in four days thousands of people have been protesting in pakistan against what they're calling atrocities committed in indian administered kashmir they rallied in karachi in support of pakistan's tension between pakistan and india has increased since an attack in indian

administered kashmir earlier this month killed forty one indian paramilitary troops french yellow vest protesters are demonstrating in paris for the fifteenth weekend in a row hundreds of people gathered at the monument to rally against the government's policies which they say favor the rich organizers say saturday's launch is also about standing up to anti semitism. u.s. kenny has appeared in court in chicago on multiple sexual assault charges a judge described the allegations against him as just stabbing and set bail at a million dollars the fifty two year old whose real name is robert kennedy tantum self into police on friday he's facing ten counts of aggravated sexual abuse incident station back as far as one thousand nine hundred eight those are the headlines next up inside story.

to settle it is this 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 the french president manual mccall says anti semitism is at its worst level since the second world war and this week he introduced a bill that would make him isn't a criminal offense so what's the difference anti semitism hostility and project this.