the president came to go to end apartheid in south africa. and the brooklyn bridge to free. dance defections and destruction venezuela turns into a battleground as government troops fight with opposition supporters trying to get aid in. and i'm fully back to watching al jazeera live from my quarters in doha also ahead a wave of excitement north korea's leader heads for a second summit with u.s. president donald trump. nigeria begins counting the votes out to millions of people go to the polls to elect a new president and saudi arabia points its new m basura to the united states and

cheese making history. thank you for joining us venezuelans trying to get aid across the border from colombia or face violent resistance from security forces trucks have been blocked from getting through but the opposition is determined to get it in security forces fired tear gas at protesters injuring almost three hundred people there were also confrontations at the entry point with brazil in one border town at least two people were killed but not everyone's saying noyo to president nicolas maduro colombia's defense minister says sixty members of the armed forces have defected opposition leader who remains defiant despite many trucks being turned back he will meet the u.s. vice president in colombia on monday to discuss the deepening crisis. mature . and his supporters are celebrating the massacre of

a people you celebrate that today venezuelan hospitals do not receive humanitarian aid you celebrate the death of more venezuelans that is why the entire country has risen up here's al jazeera as gable elizondo with more. 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 did it to pin the blame on president nicolas maduro one incident and a day of confusion and violence. and venezuela there were clashes between supporters of opposition leader. and security forces several people were injured. earlier venezuelan soldiers commandeered armored personnel carriers and ran them through their own barricades the ship and set up to prevent the u.s.

aid from coming in 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 gave. out. jason is director of the latin america center at the atlantic council he says the military defections are a big windfall. for twenty third was an important day both for motto and for. whose recognize the in term president by at last count fifty two countries around the world this day was a day to start to see did military with keifer one by doa see military defections seeing the humanitarian aid that's coming in from the us from colombia from brazil from from many other countries as a way to bring the military forces to recognize that that they should they should move toward the allegiance with long white oh sixty military did cross over the border to colombia and the fact that that's that's significant but it's not the

numbers that the the interim government wants i fully expect tomorrow in the days ahead to see continued action at the border both of the colombian border as well as the brazilian border most of the attention right now is focused on the colombian border but. an aid convoy did make its way across the brazilian border earlier today i do expect more defections to come from the venice will military the questions could be how many and to what scale and also recognizing the fact that many promo duro armed paramilitary groups are also at the border and those groups are less very unlikely to to defect across the border in other wild news north korea's leader kim jong un is on a train heading to vietnam for a summit with the u.s. president donald trump it's a second round of talks between the two leaders they are expected to focus on denuclearization efforts on the korean peninsula at that meeting in hanoi in four days john been came met for the first time in singapore last june rob mcbride has

more from south korea's capital seoul. confirmation that this epic journey is now underway has come from the north koreans themselves the state run news agency releasing photographs and also video of kim jong un inspecting a guard of honor in pyongyang before departing on his especially armored train with his delegation which includes can young child his chief negotiator interestingly this is the first indication that anyone in north korea has that there is a summit in the offing we have known of course for the past couple of weeks that it would be. the dates of this a trump summit there has been no such indication until now for north koreans interestingly it is also being reported as he leaves north korea in the past given the obsession with secrecy and security north korean leaders might have been expected to conduct a foreign trip return to pyongyang safely before even letting go of koreans know

a trip like this has taken place so it does seem to indicate a growing confidence by kim jong un as he starts his latest diplomatic foray we know from restrictions put in place all rail networks in the south of china that his train will likely go all the way to the border with viet nam and then road restrictions in viet nam that have been put in place seem to confirm that he will then take a motorcade from the border to hanoi itself to begin this trip. vote counting is under way in nigeria after saturday's presidential election incumbent president mahmoud abbas seeking a second term in what start to be a tight race with former vice president at a club a car electoral commission extended voting hours in some places where polling stations open late or ballot machines malfunctioned how much faster has more from lagos. many nigerians are watching election officials closely these

voters in the commercial capital lagos say they want to make sure there's no rigging losses today has cast doubts on the electrical machines credibility and competence. in long. distance from 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. there were delays in 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 went able to vote whoever wins in nigeria will have to deal with the precarious security situation and the challenge a turnaround in economy struggling to recover from the twenty sixteen recession how to. make us. and down just here is john hall is in nigeria's capital abuja with more on the election. but i'm standing in the situation room the headquarters of one of the main civil society vote monitoring groups here in nigeria yaga 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. saudi arabia has replaced some bastard to the u.s. with its first female envoy princess remember bandar takes over from the king's son prince khalid bin someone who's been appointed vice defense minister. the princess has a daughter of a former ambassador to the united states and previously worked for saudi arabia channels for supposing promoting women's participation in the lamp makes face memo mani is a professor of political science at the university of waterloo in canada she says the appointment is about improving sancerre e.b.'s image well i think the message they want to send is that they're serious about making as much advancement they can for women that they're committed to the progress of women and bit by bit things are going to get better and that it's very i think prominent the visual who knows very well who's well spoken and can do probably good for her country but of course the

way it's received this probably one of the p.r. exercise an attempt to deflect attention away from a very tumultuous year after the murder of jamal khashoggi and certainly a lot of continued criticism of the saudis and their worn yemen and other policies within washington and of course beyond really see very eloquent she certainly understands the united states very well she's lived there for a very long time of course her father was the ambassador prior and so she's very much americanised for lack of better term probably understands the culture knows how to be a valuable interlocutor all the things you want and a good diplomat particularly in a post like the united states but of course i think there are many people who will see this totally for a p.r. exercise i have no doubt that the saudis want this to be a p.r. exercise they need good p.r. frankly but make no mistake she is very successful eloquent and is deserving of the

job. still ahead on al-jazeera putting on a show the prosperous same age being portrayed by finnegan as president as he seeks reelection process we know that the nominees for best foreign language film i bet you'd ask this and how the movies draw on real life. well we've had record snow in arizona in flagstaff in particular and flooding rains in for example tennessee the snow has stopped in front of movie of across the plains states now towards the midwest the rain however has got another few hours still to go and give this already flooded it can only add to it however daylight on sunday should see most of the rain finished and the snow that came through from the midwest of the great lakes is then stuck in ontario but the backwash cold weather

wise see the temperatures drop to manas fifty to me minneapolis and moms eight in chicago and snow return to the pacific coast well from washington eastwards through montana and see the rain which is far from cisco south of all this it's so much quite if you in the caribbean enjoy yourselves no more than a breeze and a few building showers they may well build on the coast of guatemala and honduras but they seem more likely to be in mexico even briefly in yucatan and you also see showers coming out of colombia and panama now as the sun goes north so do the showers there's also a massive rain currently in buenos aires drifting north across the river plate the sea that are sinking year ago are in the southeast of brazil on both sunday and monday and it looks fairly concentrated particularly in brazil. this week. exposed to the.

screaming. i really still liberated as a journalist while. getting to the truth. you're watching live from a reminder of our top story. to bring aid across the border from colombia have faced violent opposition from security forces at least two people were killed in the clashes along the border with police tried to wrong president nicolas maduro

has closed the crossing north korea's leader kim jong un is on a train heading to vietnam for a summit with the u.s. president donald trump they're expected to focus on denuclearization efforts on the korean peninsula at the meeting in hanoi. and saudi arabia has replaced the u.s. where the. boy. takes over from the king. who has been appointed. now people in japan's okinawa prefecture are voting on a plan to relocate a u.s. military base campaign a say landfill work at henoch obey to expand the base threatens coral reef but there's long been resentment of u.s. troops said during world war two hundred fifty thousand people about a quarter of the island's population at the time were killed in the battle of okinawa in one nine hundred ninety five gang rape of a twelve year old girl by three u.s. servicemen sponsored protests against a u.s.

military presence barrels containing toxic chemicals were found buried at the u.s. for ten my abbes former troops stationed there accused the military of using agent orange which they say calls chronic illness for them and their descendants jeff kingston a professor of asian studies at temple university says polls suggest people will vote against a u.s. base if the polls are right people are going to salute very loud. to q. has been hard of hearing. this week moore the democratic. loyce thousand people last autumn the new governor tamaki one a very decisive victory running on an anti base platform. the okinawan people are fed up with the. over presence of the american military forces they host about seventy percent of the u.s.

base facilities and about half of the american military personnel so they think that they have suffered too much in terms of american crime but also they don't think the bases are there to protect they see them as bull's eyes that in danger them in the embed of a conflict they're always talking about how shared values are the foundation of the alliance but by steadfastly knowing the democratic voice of the okinawa people it seems that tokyo in washington are undermining those democratic. so i think a lot of work you know and feel that it's time that washed in tokyo began to take their concerns seriously. senegal's president is banking on a booming economy as he seeks reelection in sunday's vote but opposition candidates are focusing on poverty and unemployment which are pushing people to seek a better life abroad. reports some of the car.

sinegal rising prosperous educated and with a booming economy it's this vision that president like you said he's promoting to get reelected he. didn't continue to progress the one that will bring prosperity to at least. during his time in office new company registrations tripled among them is impact to car incubate or for startups but i think it's a great time for a youngster it was really to take a number of risks because very little things a person mayfield's an entrepreneur things that are here now going to go through before inauguration after the other cell is changing the capitals landscape promoting a rising senegal just a few kilometers away from downtown the car is a two billion dollar construction site it's called junk president. wants to turn this into a silicon valley for west africa but if you travel away from the cranes and

building sites there's another cynical 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 sicko 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 was one moment sinegal is sinking in debt riddled with corruption and unemployment this is the narrative shared by the four opposition candidates among them political newcomer. you could win your. politicians understand nothing because this country's youth

have decided to take responsibility and to take their destiny into their own hands fifty nine years of lies and betrayal. with conflicting they're at it to choose from it's no up to the six million voters to decide which one rings true it would set a goal to vote for. dickless hawk al jazeera to car south africa's largest opposition party has launched its manifesto of the democratic alliance his vote share has steadily increased since the end of apartheid in one thousand nine hundred four and it's always been much less popular than the ruling african national congress mark and webb reports from johannesburg. credibility mcatee says she's tired of being jobless and scared of rampant crime here in a neighborhood in soweto. doesn't hate people when they're coming for 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 looking to even see. was. that it was our. democracy that got like. maybe tired of this that rupture thousands of them have got to yeah this idea was that yes yes there was that the general election was serious that. corruption scandals and economic stagnation during the nine year rule of former president jacob zuma placed 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 for your back in sweater solomon malloy does what he can to help his community like sell 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 levy in control so therefore i simply person will still be at the end of the stick whereby

i was. in spite of the collapse and of doing we still get his opinion polls suggest that come may be a will get more votes than ever before the union see fewer between a and c. majority is still expected and the possibility of it the government still seems a long way off malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa french yellow vests protesters have been demonstrating in paris for the fifteenth weekend in a row hundreds of people gathered at the arc de triomphe monument on saturday to rally against the government's policies which they say favor the rich organizers say saturday's march is also about standing up to anti-semitism last weekend's yellow vests demonstrations or some breakaway protesters harassed a prominent jewish academic. new concerns about the catholic church's commitment to ending sexual abuse have surfaced at a meeting in vatican city some victims wonder if church politics is getting in the

way of making real change. while archbishop some cardinals talk in the vatican sexual abuse survivors have staged events like this and repeated that among to zero tolerance throwing abusive priests and those that cover up for them out of the priesthood but a founder of the group ending tragedy abuse says 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 and they are denying all of our minimizing the issue and they do not want a law on the books i asked liberia's mohseni a bishop whether african and asian clergy supported zero tolerance to share what we do we are doing this but we have to define what zero tolerance means and i want to

be well we. we have to decide where zero tolerance means zero tolerance you know we stay discussing 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. countries. it's more difficult for them to hold. it's 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 is 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 are demanding now for each island's al-jazeera right. one of hollywood's biggest events. coming up on sunday but beyond the glass saying glamour the ninety first academy awards ceremony may prove a little different to previous its foreign language films often overlooked in the past could dominate the show thanks to digital streaming forms reynolds has more. but i haven't heard it in capernaum lebanese director need to focus is on twelve year old zene who stands as a representative for the hundreds of millions of children worldwide who are neglected abused and exploited zayn is a tough foul mouthed beirut kid played by seen all rough fida 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 that isn't bad unless a different kind of family lives in director hirokazu corrie it is shoplifters multiple generations cram into a ramshackle tokyo house we soon learn this is a family born from necessity of the members are actually related but they've banded together to survive. so that's the way it was when a crisis explodes the family the consequences are dire for all but korea to shows how to. are the bombs 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 caught false hopelessly in love with teenage singer zula the luminous joanna league he plots their escape to the west but she did choose 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 is florian

henckel phone daughters marks never look away a three hour long epic exploring art love and politics an artist played by tom schilling's 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 are not currently available online robert oulds al-jazeera. plans for these are the top stories on al-jazeera venezuela is trying to bring in aid across the border from colombia and face violent opposition from security forces at least two people were killed in clashes along the border with brazil as police tried to block the aid president nicolas maduro has closed numerous border

crossings. three hundred model if i mean i hold the reins and i will continue and keep them in my hands and uphold the constitution as a pious and will govern and democratically freely for the well being of the majority of this nation this is my commitment to. the opposition leader who will meet with the u.s. vice president mike pence on monday in colombia foreign ministers from the lima group brock of latin american countries will be holding an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis in venezuela. you mature and his supporters a celebrating the massacre of a people you celebrate that today venezuelan hospitals do not receive humanitarian aid you celebrate the death of more venezuelans that is why the entire country has risen up. 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 hanoi in four days a vote counting is underway in nigeria's presidential election several polling stations stayed open longer to deal with queues of people wanting to cast their ballots on saturday saudi arabia has replaced it some basser to the u.s. with its first female envoy princess rima been to bandar takes over from the king's son prince khalid bin simon who's been appointed vice defense minister friendship of s. protesters have been demonstrating in paris for the fifteenth weekend in a row hundreds of people rallied against the government's policies which they say favor the rich organizers say saturday's march was also about standing up to untie semitism those are the headlines counting the cost starts now. he was sent to jail under two different prime minister is. now he is set to become the next prime minister of malaysia. and want to bring him discusses want

direction and his country will turn. on talk to al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for they give me this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week briggs it and cambodia why the u.k.'s exit from the e.u. is having an impact as far away as southeast asia. lebanon has a new government but can it fix what some are calling a zombie economy. also this week why samsung has launched a very pricey folding smartphone and live awards a sacred waterway comes under threat in the philippines. cambodia has been one of the best performing economies in the world over the past two decades but there are a.