you cover the often ignored you don't wear your coverage towards one particular region or continent wide joins all just. venezuela turns into a battle ground as government troops fight with opposition supporters trying to get a day. back to this is al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha also ahead a wave of excitement north korea's leader heads for a second summit with president donald from. nigeria begins counting the votes out to millions of people go to the polls to elect a new president and we look at the nominees for best foreign language film at this

year's oscars and how the movies draw on reunite. thank you for joining us venezuelans trying to get aid across the border from colombia a face of violence violence resistance from security forces a trunks were fired at and in some cases even set on fire can be as defense minister says sixty venezuelan soldiers have defected and on the brazilian border side at least two people were killed has more on the day's events. 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. in 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 the ship 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. algis e to. meanwhile venezuela's opposition leader will meet with the u.s. vice president mike pence on monday in colombia foreign minister says on the lima group of latin american countries will be holding an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis you can face eleven. madeira 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 ramat valencia specializes in latin american affairs he believes material isn't going anywhere anytime soon time is of the essence here the opposition and injured national community that is rylan rally behind one will like to see mother to step down as soon as possible next remember the director 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 order that they will ship the order they should leave much. to his own devices however we haven't seen that yet i mean we've seen some defectors crossing the colombia venezuela border but here we're seeing that the model is still empowered the top brass of the military still supports majority and we haven't seen the change that

some of the opposition and the international community wants to see so right now what model wants is to really gain some time so that he could just stay in power which is basically he's ultimately all. in other world news north korea's leader kim jong un is on a train heading to vietnam for a summit with u.s. president donald trump it's a second round of talks between the two leaders they're expected to focus on denuclearization efforts on the korean peninsula at the meeting in hanoi in four days tramp in met for the first time in singapore last year and 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. the old counting is underway 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 car electoral commission extended voting hours in some places where polling stations open late or ballot machine malfunctioned reports some make 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 lassies delay has cast doubts on the electrical machines credibility and competence. in long was. the only disagreement.

with. the race to govern the country with africa's biggest economy pits incumbent president mohammed to bihari against main opposition candidates and former vice president a tickler backer. emotions are high they are feeling it is peace result could lead to violence although they were delays in foreign parts of nigeria election officials say they genuinely happy with the turnout not just 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 book a hard time fighters but that didn't seem to deter the voters in rivers state in the south incidents of violence mean some people went able to vote whoever wins in nigeria will have to deal with a precarious security situation and the challenge to turn around in economy struggling to recover from the twenty sixteen recession how to. make less and

al-jazeera is john hall is in nigeria's capital 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 all 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 to hear. and we'll know 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. in other world news saudi arabia has replaces some bastard to the u.s. with its first female envoy princess rima been to bandar takes over from the king's

son prince khalid been someone who's been appointed vice defense minister the princess is a daughter of a former ambassador to the united states and previously worked for general sports authority promoting women's participation in the next best moment is a professor of political science at the university of waterloo in canada she says the appointment is about improving saudi arabia's image. well i think the message they want to send is that there are serious about making as much advancement they can for women that they're committed to the progress of women and bit by bit and they're going to get better and that it's very i think prominent individuals who knows the united states very well who is well spoken and can do probably good for her country but of course the way it's received this probably one about 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 she's 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 very much americanize for lack of a 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 senegal's president as he seeks reelection blasts what's got religious groups op in arms ahead of a vote on cuba's new constitution.

hallow its possible loss but a significant winter is gone through can't guarantee it but that was it a significant amount of snow that fell in kabul for example in the cloud above my head now this coming out of europe now that is cold air but it's going east is not coming sachs and so the prospects in for example beirut are of a warming trend there are a few shuster around iraq running into western iran which will probably stay as rain given the temperature regime once they've gone up into the low twenty's terra not so they route certainly the stormy weather in the mediterranean is quite a long way from the event so for the time being we can ignore it sars so this will the wind direction is critical here at the moment we're picking up and increasing normally rain down the gulf so monday still twenty five degrees be a bit more breezy and then some of this southerly is warming up in mecca and medina

up into the low thirty's in both cases maybe dusty but i think dry somewhat cloudy quite often. now after heavy downpours recently in madagascar towns near and for example zimbabwe it's a dry looking picture couldn't rule out a few showers and some mozambique well the eastern side it's not africa they are certainly there and that sort of weakness but otherwise zimbabwe is zambian even tanzania sees far fewer showers than of late. at the time it was the worst environmental disaster in brazil's history but this was also a tragic for pace to follow. people in power investigates warnings of. the disturbing between lawmakers and the mining industry to. try to. just brazil.

and watching al-jazeera reminder our top stories venezuelans trying to bring in aid across the border from colombia have faced violent opposition from security forces at least two people were killed in clashes along the border with brazil as police trying to block the aids president nicolas maduro has close several border crossings 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 and saudi arabia has replaced

it some abbas it and the u.s. with its first female envoy says rima binns bandar takes over from the king's son prince khalid bin solomon who's been appointed vice defense minister. now 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 nicholas hogg reports from the car. so they go. prosperous. did and with the booming economy it's this vision that president like you said he's promoting to get reelected i. am the candidate continuity and progress the one that will bring prosperity to all senate at least during his time in office new company registrations tripled among them is impact a car in incubator for startups but i think it's a great time for a youngster it was really to take

a number of risks because very lot of things at least in my field an intrapreneur a lot of things that are here now going to appear before inauguration after the other side is changing the capitals landscape promoting and narrative of a rising senegal just a few kilometers away from downtown the car is a tool billion dollar construction site it's called junkyard you present my case 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 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 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 the titians unless it's election time when we both want to go mobile sinegal sinking in debt riddled with corruption in unemployment this is the narrative shared by the four opposition candidates among political newcomer. months sancho. this is all decisions on star nothing because this country's huge have decided to take responsibility and to take their destiny into their own hands fifty nine years of noise and betrayal. with conflicting narratives to choose from it's no up to the six million voters to decide which word rings true it which set a goal to vote for. dickless hawk al-jazeera decor. people in japan's okinawa prefecture are voting on a plan to relocate a u.s. military base campaigners say landfill work out ahead of kobe to expand the base

threatens coral reef where 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 were killed in the battle of okinawa the one thousand nine hundred five gang rape of a twelve year old girl by three u.s. servicemen spawn protests against the u.s. military presence barrels containing toxic chemicals were found buried at the u.s. for ten months and base for much of station their cues the military of using agent orange which they say cost quite a kill list for them and their descendants jeff kingston is professor of asian studies at temple university he says polls suggest people will vote against the u.s. base. if the polls are right people are going to send a very loud note to tokyo but tokyo's been hard of hearing and has said as played north the democratic loyce thousand people last autumn the new governor tomake a one

a very decisive victory running on it can't hide the ace platform. the okinawan people are fed up with the. over presence of the american military forces they host about host 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 terms of american crime and also they don't think the bases are there to protect them they see them as bull's eyes that in danger them in the impact of a conflict they're always talking about how shared values are the foundation of the alliance but by steadfastly nor in the democratic voice of the okinawa people it seems that tokyo and washington are undermining those democratic values so i think a lot of work you know and feel it's time that washed in tokyo began to take their concerns seriously. in france so-called 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 the march is also about standing up to anti-semitism last weekend's yellow vests demonstration saw some breakaway protesters harassed a prominent jewish academic. new concerns about the catholic church is true commitment to ending sexual abuse have surface at a meeting in vatican city some victims wonder if church politics is getting in the way of making real change it's a third day of an unprecedented summit on sexual abuse rory chalons reports from rome. watch bishops and cardinals talk in the vatican sexual abuse survivors have staged events like this and repeated that among 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 fears 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 mainly africa and asia and they are denying over 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 ought to yes but we have to define what zero tolerance means and i want to be well we. we have to decide where to 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 mean one is means of the crimean getting. getting a present of to preach to or whatever we have to definitely say that the archbishop

of luxembourg 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. countries design wall why women are raped nearly every day so. 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. al-jazeera. nearly eight million cubans will go to the polls on sunday to vote on

a new constitution the government says it represents a series of reforms in socialist cuba but it's attracted plenty of criticism. for some have ana. protestant and cuba pray for divine guidance. and for cubans to vote no on sunday's constitutional referendum. don't stay home don't leave your vote blank you know what you have to put on the ballot. groups say the new constitution may eventually allow same sex marriage. but the proposed constitution has not respected the people's opinion on the issue of marriage and family only. this sort of dissent is unprecedented in cuba and it's not restricted to moral values the draft constitution brings in more freedoms to trade buy property and attract foreign investment it even sets presidential term limits but

communism remains an try and as cuba's guiding force many here say the changes are the most significant since the cold war era but critics say ratifying the proposal will only serve to perpetuate the communist one party system for those pushing for a no vote the shadow of fetal castro remains in these pages is the message by qualifying it has the stage and society's guiding force it puts the party above the rest of the institutions recognized by the constitution and that's a threat against any democratic process. the no campaign complains it hasn't been given enough time compared to its government financed opponents. i am voting yes cuba is voting yes we are voting yes for the only way this would be the best constitution cubans ever had was as. the foundations for socialism have to be there we fought for that many years and now there are new things like private property

it's the best in every way. it's thought close to twenty five percent of cubans are likely to vote against the draft but win or lose sunday will be a historic day it will be the first time cubans can say no to a government proposal out in the open in the sun just just see the havana cuba gale force winds have battered croatia's coastline toppling trees and overturning vehicles wind speeds of up to one hundred ninety kilometers an hour where recorded causing disruption to traffic and ferry service is the worst affected areas included the city is a great and dubrovnik. train captured in the war in syria carrying weapons is making its way across russia it's part of an exhibition commissioned by president romney a portent it's called the syrian turning point and features more than five hundred exhibits including artillery guns armored vehicles and uniforms the train will make

sixty stops and travel more than twenty eight thousand kilometers during his two month journey. we hope that this exhibition will not only give the opportunity to russian people to learn about the achievements of the russian army in the phone to get its global terrorism but also an opportunity to learn about the modern russian army its daily life and the achievements of russian military factories. now one of hollywood's biggest events the oscars is coming up on sunday but beyond the glitz and glamour the ninety first academy awards ceremony may prove a little different to previous years foreign language films often overlooked in the past could dominate the show thanks to digital streaming forms reynolds has more. level headed in capernaum lebanese director need of a key focus is on twelve year old scene who stands as a representative for the hundreds of millions of children worldwide war neglected abused and exploited zayn is

a tough foul mouth beirut kid played by seen all rough eda 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 kore it is shoplifters multiple generations cramming into a ramshackle tokyo house we soon learn 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 it was 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 the team of artists transforms the culture into full throated stalinist propaganda jazz pianist victor played by thomas caught fall. hopelessly in love with teenage singer zula the luminous joy in a coup league 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 quare road 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 phone donors 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 capernaum are not currently available online robert oulds al-jazeera. hello again i'm pretty bad to go with the headlines on al-jazeera venezuelans trying to bring aid across the border from colombia face violent opposition from security forces and these two people a candidate in clashes along the border with the president as police try to brawl

the aids president nicolas maduro has close several border crossings that is founded on pity isn't on the colombian side of the border. the protesters here were full of energy and optimism in the morning when four trucks loaded with the american arrived at the entrance of the bridge on the colombian by now but the protesters face of barrage of rubber bullets and tear gas a true out did they respond the throwing rocks and molotov cocktail bottles but that wasn't enough to open the bridge and so the mood throughout the day turned sour meanwhile venezuela's opposition leader will meet with the u.s. vice president mike pence on monday in colombia foreign ministers from the neem a group of latin american countries will be holding an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis in venezuela you can basically wouldn't you and his supporters

a celebrity in the massacre of people you celebrate that today venezuelan hospitals do not receive humanitarian aid you celebrate the death of movement as whalen's 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 the u.s. president donald trump they are 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 saudi arabia has replace its ambassador to the u.s. with its forest female envoy princess rima bin bandar takes over from the king son prince khalid bin soundman has been appointed vice defense minister those are the headlines on al-jazeera people in power is next. everything doof is being analyzed it's being weighed and it's being measured under the school this

month. and it's not just i phones that's almost like things i mean most small things out of the state at the moment we are in a state of the universe let's start and did something that was x. rather take the risks of democracy to the risks of dictatorship digital dissidents on al-jazeera. at the time it was the worst environmental catastrophe in brazil history in late twenty fifteen the foot down mind you just get a state burst killing nineteen people and causing widespread devastation in the off tomorrow he said to me on the roof of this was why the time of fire and if it could happen again and last month. it to and so now we're showing her investigation

again as you say good to remind people can go wrong.