this is bbc news. the headlines: at least two more people have been shot dead in venezuela as pro—government forces opened fire on opponents of president maduro who were trying to get humanitarian aid into the country. two aid trucks were set on fire. colombia said more than 60 members welcome to bbc news. of the venezuelan security forces have deserted. votes are being counted in nigeria after presidential i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: and parliamentary elections. in some areas, the authorities clashes on the venezuelan border, extended polling past as the opposition tries move the official closing time. aid into the country. security forces open fire on protestors, and at least two are dead. the electoral commission said it was "generally satisfied" with the vote — the biggest in african history. the votes are being counted in nigeria, after millions of people a chicago court has set a $1 million cast their ballots in the biggest bail bond for r&b singer r kelly, election in african history. a court in chicago sets who's been charged with ten counts a $1 million bail bond of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. for the singer r kelly, he was asked to surrender his who's been charged with ten counts passport and not to have any contact of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. with anyone under the age of 18. and hitting the right note — india's first and only professional orchestra makes its uk debut this week. now on bbc news, inside out.

hello and welcome. pro—government militias have used teargas and rubber bullets on civilians in venezuela, as they attempt to prevent foreign aid getting into the country. at least two people were killed in the clashes at the brazilian border. on the other side of the country, two lorries carrying food and medicine from colombia were set on fire. reports from colombia say that 60 members of the venezuelan security forces have taken advantage of confusion at the border to desert the army. the growing turmoil comes as us vice president mike pence confirms he will meet the opposition leader juan guaido on monday. our international correspondent orla guerin reports now from cucuta, on the venezuela—colombia border.

holding the line, president maduro's troops on the bridge between colombia and venezuela. from early morning, face to face with their own countrymen, desperate for aid to get through. this former officer in the venezuelan army addresses the young troops. "when the orders are unconstitutional", he tells them, "you don't have to obey." "i am venezuelan myself", says nicola gonzales. "think of your children." "open the doors, let venezuela be free." a short distance away, the opposition leader, juan guaido, giving the aid convoy a personal send—off. he said it would travel peacefully to venezuela to save lives. but when his supporters converged on the bridge... crowd chanting ..they found it wasn't going to be that easy.

as we filmed, we were engulfed in tear gas. soon, demonstrators were being hit with rubber bullets. a few tried to fight back. but as violence erupted at the border, this was the scene in the venezuelan capital, caracas. the embattled president, nicolas maduro, playing to the crowd, rallying his supporters. but his isolation is growing. he has broken off relations with neighbouring colombia because of its support for the opposition. back at the border, guaido's aid caravan was approaching, laden with supporters and

with hopes for change in venezuela. well, the convoy is on the move now. it's pushing forward towards the border. this is what the opposition has promised and it's about far more than food and medicine. if the opposition manage to push all this through the border, through president maduro's defences, it will be a real challenge to his authority. but on the bridge, the trucks ground to a halt, blocked by troops and clouds of tear gas. organisers plan to keep trying, here and at other crossing points. president maduro claims the aid convoy is just a cover for a us invasion. but some of his men are no longer listening, like the soldier in the black cap. we watched as he abandoned his post for the embrace of the opposition. he's one of at least a dozen who have deserted today and are now, according to juan guaido,

on the right side of history. but this could be just the start of a long battle. orla guerin, bbc news, at the colombia—venezuela border. votes are being counted in nigeria, where millions of people have cast their ballots in delayed presidential and parliamentary elections. officials say logistical problems that forced a week's postponement have been solved, but some polling stations were kept open because of long lines. the president, muhammadu buhari, is being challenged by the main opposition leader, atiku abubakar. there have been reports of sporadic violence in some parts of the country. our africa editor fergal keane reports from the capital, abuja. many have been waiting since well before dawn, voting in the open air, each individual part of the biggest democratic exercise in african history. do you think it will

change things here? hopefully. hopefully, it will. but you're not sure? i'm sure it will. with the number of people that are here, i'm sure, and in every other voting centre. i'm just... i have the feeling it will change things. gone are the days where people felt that our votes don't count. this time around, as you can see, the people all came out en masse to ensure that they exercise their civic right. and we believe after the vote, we are not leaving here — we are going to stay here until the vote is counted. you can't be but heartened to see people's patience and their faith still in the democratic process here. but the big question is whoever they elect, will they bring to an end the corruption that has disfigured public life here? when several voting machines broke down, some assumed corruption was the cause. billions of naira for this thing, and you are telling me that is not corruption. there were 73 million eligible voters, 120,000 polling stations, and in some places,

there was violence. this was a polling station in lagos, allegedly attacked by ruling party supporters. far to the north in maiduguri, displaced people came out to vote despite an attack on the city by islamic extremists. there are nearly 2 million displaced people in this region. the election isn't just about machine politics and the power of two big parties. these are young civil society activists recording reports of incidents around the country. they're working to create a genuine culture of accountability. people are hopeful that with every effort that is made, the process will improve, and if it improves for young people, of course, it means that the country improves and their hope and expectations of a better future will come.

now, we count together, please. by evening, the sorting of votes. the official counts each unused ballot. six... the voters call back. seven... they want an honest result. nobody can say they don't deserve it. fergal keane, bbc news, abuja. let's take a look at some other stories now. opposition groups in sudan have called for more protests, following the declaration of a year—long state of emergency by president omar al—bashir. the main organisers of the demonstrations described a tv address by the president on friday as a "miserable attempt to cling to power". the head of the roman catholic church in germany has admitted that files on priests accused of sexually abusing children were destroyed. cardinal reinhart marx was speaking on the third day of a vatican summit, convened by pope francis. north korea's state news agency has confirmed that kim jong—un has left the country to attend a summit with president trump in hanoi next week. it's the first public

acknowledgement that the talks are taking place. mr kim left by train on a 4000 kilometre journey. a court in chicago as set a $1 million bail bond for the r&b star, r kelly, who has been charged with ten counts of sexual abuse. he handed himself into police on friday and was asked to his passport. he is faced decades of allegations of abuse against women and children under the age of consent, but has a lwa ys under the age of consent, but has always denied the allegations. his lawyer, steve greenberg, says the bail amount is fair and reasonable. this is what he had to say earlier. you know, right now, he's presumed innocent. we haven't seen anything, any reason to believe that these allegations are credible. i heard about them,

i heard about sort of the narrative of them for the first time today, the same time all of you did. and i can tell you that in listening to it, there certainly are problems with the cases. one lady coming forward a decade plus later claiming she had nonconsensual sex. no outcry, nothing like that, the things we look for in these cases. earlier we spoke to our correspondent aleem maqbool, who's in chicago, about the details of the charges r kelly is facing. as was indicated there by the lawyer, this court hearing today was not just to set the terms of r kelly's bond, it was to, for the first time, hear details of these ten counts against r kelly, relating to four different women, and we heard one case where — which relates to a video in which r kelly purportedly is shown having sex with a 14—year—old girl, there were details about another case relating to another woman who was a girl at the time

she was allegedly abused by r kelly and met him actually as she was celebrating her 16th birthday, and the details that were given suggest that r kelly even knew that. another one of the victims, apparently r kelly met as she asked for his autograph as he left court during a 2008 trial on child pornography charges. very disturbing details as the judge himself described, and in the courthouse were actually relatives of some of the alleged victims, who had to sit through and listen to those. officials in india say around 100 people have died after drinking bootleg alcohol. more than 200 others are being treated in hospital. it happened at a tea plantation in assam's golagaat

district, about 300 hundred kilometres from the state's biggest city, guwahati. it follows a similar incident in northern india earlier this month. as shaun hassett reports, officials have already started an inquiry into the tragedy. most of the victims in this hospital are tea plantation workers. they'd been celebrating pay day by having a drink. but the bootleg liquor they consumed turned out to be toxic. they came to hospital complaining of severe vomiting, extreme chest pain, and breathlessness. in many cases, it resulted in organ failure. translation: they bought bootleg liquor. i said, "don't drink it," but they drank, and after drinking, they didn't have their dinner and they slept. in the morning, they said they had a headache. we took them to guwahati hospital. then we heard that they died in the hospital. we demand the government protect our people and give responsibility to the authorities, and the clothes and ban the bootleg liquor shop.

—— close and ban. police say they found a home where the alcohol was brewed and recovered 1.5 litres of liquor. one man has already been arrested for selling the illegal hooch, while two excise officials have been suspended for failing to take adequate precautions. the excise department has started their operation. the police are helping them. it comes less than two weeks after tainted alcohol killed dozens of people in the states of uttar pradesh. in those incidents, people continued to report to hospital with similar symptoms for days. drinking bootleg liquor is common in india, especially among low—paid workers. there are very high taxes on international alcohol. it's beyond the reach of lots of people. and even domestically, brewed alcohol is also very expensive, so that's really where the bootleggers come in.

red lake is in india often add methanol to their mix to increase its strength, although doctors say they are baffled by the ingredients in this case. while there authorities investigate what caused this tragedy, the people here are left to mourn the dead. shaun hassett, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: calls for a delay to brexit. three cabinet ministers say it should be postponed, if parliament fails to approve a withdrawal deal in the coming days. prince charles has chosen his bride. the prince proposed to lady diana spencer three weeks ago. she accepted, she says, without hesitation. as revolutions go, this had its fair share of bullets. a climax in the night outside the gates of mr marcos‘s sanctuary, malacanang — the name itself symbolising one of the cruellest regimes of modern asia. the world's first clone has been produced of an adult mammal. scientists in scotland have produced a sheep called dolly using a cell from another sheep. citizens are trying to come to grips with their new freedom. though there is joy

and relief today, the scars are everywhere. not for 20 years have locusts been seen in such numbers in this part of africa. some of the swarms have been ten miles long. this is the last time the public will see this pope. very soon, for the sake of the credibilty and authority of the next pope, benedict xvi will, in his own words, "be hidden from the world for the rest of his life." this is bbc news, the latest headlines: at least two people have been shot dead in venezuela, as opponents of president maduro try to get trucks loaded with aid into the country. mr maduro has broken off diplomatic relations with colombia for helping his opponents. the counting of votes is underway in nigeria, after millions of people cast their ballots in the biggest election in african history.

well, a little earlier, i spoke to venezuela political analyst dimitris pantoulas and asked him whether the venezuela opposition managed to get much of the foreign aid across the border. it hasn't worked. i think it was a big mistake in the opposition of guaido's strategy as february 23 for the final day of the venezuelan regime. he tried to put through the aid, through the colombian border, ina very aid, through the colombian border, in a very simplistic plan, that he managed to go through. he was expecting a massive defection from the army, the venezuelan army, so we can say that guaido, his plan didn't

succeed, but at the same time we can say that the venezuelan government suffered a defeat as well. it is a com plete suffered a defeat as well. it is a complete stalemate. the venezuelan government suffered a defeat because the whole world saw in venezuela it is the army together with some thugs and militia that are governing, and they will not hesitate to fire against civilians. as you say, some soldiers have dfat did, but certainly not high—level military defections that guaido wanted. —— soldiers have defected. does this mean the opposition‘s attempts to oppose president the bureau have failed? —— attempts to depose president maudro. i think this will all be over very soon. it is just one month afterjanuary 23 when guaido said that he was the president of venezuela. and it is

very, very early, i don't know why this strategy to pretty emotional slogans before any strategy. it is very early. maudro is controlling the army, it is a government and a regime. —— maduro. this whole state is controlled by people who are close to president maduro. i think the best strategy for the opposition and the rest of the world is just to wait and see. it is a small signal, it can be more small today and tomorrow. does it also suggest, though, that perhaps support for president maduro in the country has been underestimated 7 president maduro in the country has been underestimated? it has been underestimated, even when he had 60%

of the opposition, he used to say he had the popular support of 10%.m is always very short term plans by the opposition, which normally, as you have seen, do not bring any results. but to be honest, 80% of the population is a dense to president maduro. —— against. venezuela is under a humanitarian crisis and maduro governs with army boots and militia. here in the uk, the prime minister has said she will not allow the vote to leave the european union to be frustrated. in a speech to party activists in oxford, theresa may said the government's focus on delivering brexit must be absolute. her comments came after three senior ministers threatened to vote

for a delay, unless a withdrawal deal can win support in the coming days. our political correspondent alex forsyth reports. they are part of theresa may's team, meant to be her closest colleagues, but today three cabinet ministers went against the government line and warned brexit might have to be delayed if there's no deal. greg clark, amber rudd and david gauke wrote in the daily mail... "it would be better to seek to extend article 50 "and delay our date of departure rather than crash out "of the eu on march 29th." it's infuriated brexiteers. one suggested they should quit, claiming it was a plot to force them to back a deal, rather than delay brexit. if ministers or cabinet ministers cannot support publicly government policy and vote with it, then they have to resign, and government policy is very clear. the prime minister's said on over 100 occasions that we're leaving the european union on the 29th of march, with or without a deal. most mps, though, don't

want to leave without a deal. this week, they'll vote on a plan to give parliament the chance to delay brexit if there's no agreement, and some ministers have said they could resign to back that move. downing street says the prime minister is working hard to try to get the eu to change the current brexit deal so she can bring it back to parliament, in the hope of getting mps to support it. but it's not clear when that will happen. and in the meantime, these three cabinet ministers have publicly added to the pressure she's already under from so many of her backbench mps. we've had a democratic vote. i understand the chaos it's caused... one of them, who left the tory party this week, was out campaigning for another brexit vote, still critical. itjust says the complete chaos that's now existing at the top of government, that you have three cabinet ministers who go out into the press because they can't win the argument in the deeply divided cabinet, and i'm afraid to say a prime minister who

is just not listening. but here, there was a very different message from grassroots tories today. theresa may addressed their national convention, where members voted not to delay or thwart brexit. for the prime minister, protestations on every corner. alex forsyth, bbc news. the american film director stanley donen has died at the age of 94. his works included musicals such as singin‘ in the rain, funny face and seven brides for seven brothers. donan once told vanity fair magazine that watching fred astaire when he was nine years old had changed his life. he was given an honorary lifetime achievement oscar in 1998. india's first and only professional symphony orchestra is making its uk debut this week. it started its tour at the symphony hall in birmingham, and our reporter satnam rana was there. orchestral music plays. the symphony orchestra of india in rehearsal

at the symphony hall in birmingham. it is one of six concerts they will be performing in theirfirst uk tour. this, the berlioz roman carnival overture, part of the regular western repertoire. personally and the orchestra after the sound check, because they haven't been here before, haven't. .. they have not played in a russelljohnson artek building like this before. and it is going to knock their socks off so to do the concert here and start of the tour in this house is a great moment of excitement for us. accompanying the 90—piece orchestra, grammy award—winning musician zakir hussain. he has performed in the city since the ‘70s. this time though, the specially commissioned concerto, pushkar. i take the rhythm, i put a melodic element onto it so instead of da da da, you're hearing melodic notes.

but they are doing exactly what the tabla is doing but now in four different layers. so the violin is doing one layer, the viola is doing different and so on. so a harmonic element is established but the basic repertoire is a tabla repertoire. the orchestra was founded in 2006 in mumbai. since its inception 13 years ago, it's performed 25 seasons and four international tours. but its remit reaches beyond performance. based at the national centre for the performing arts it is training up the next generation of classical musicians. when many people think of india and music, bollywood comes to mind, the indian film industry, equally famous for its soundtracks but this orchestra is a response to the growing appetite for western classical music in india and, of course, with the long and strong connection between the uk and india this tour is a musical milestone.

it's always exciting to hear any orchestra and finally the uk gets its chance with the symphony orchestra of india. the duke and duchess of sussex have arrived in casablanca. it's the start of a three—day visit and the couple were greeted at the airport by the british ambassador to morocco and his wife. harry and meghan will meet girls at a school house in the atlas mountains which aims to reduce school drop—out rates. they will also attend an equestrian event in the capital rabat, which offers horse therapy for children with special needs. a reminder of our top story. security forces in venezuela use lethal force, and appeared to have prevented aid from being moved into the country. two lorries full of

food and medicine have been set on fire. moron website. —— more on the website. hello there. part one of the weekend was a bit disappointing across the north and the west of the country, thanks to a weak weather front that introduced more cloud and spots of light rain and drizzle. the best of the sunshine across central and eastern england. today i am hopeful we will see more widespread sunshine in the north and west. another chilly start to the day. a touch of frost across parts of the south—east and the north—east of scotland. like saturday morning, we will have some patches of mist and fog. some of the fog could be quite dense, further north this time into parts of the midlands and into northern, north—eastern england. it could take quite a while to clear across parts of east of the pennines. if it does linger, maybe into east of scotland, it could stay quite chilly and grey throughout the day. elsewhere, we should see widespread sunshine developing, more across the north and the west.

after that chilly start the temperatures will respond. looking at highs of around 15 celsius, perhaps 16. a couple of degrees down on what we saw on saturday and friday. as we had through sunday night it looks like we could see something a bit bolder move off the near continent, particularly the south—east quadrant of the country, with a blue hue showing it is not as cold further north and west. don't be surprised if you wake and see this across the south—east and into the midlands first thing on monday. a chilly start to the new working week. a little mist and fog around. it could be quite slow to clear. eventually it will. this weather front will bring thicker cloud, outbreaks of rain the far north of scotland, elsewhere, across the bulk of the uk, a glorious afternoon with widespread sunshine. temperatures 16 or 17 celsius. high pressure in the driving seat as we head into tuesday. this weak weather front bringing more cloud to the far north—west corner of the uk. a little bit of light rain for the north—west scotland. elsewhere, after a chilly start, maybe mist and fog, which again should quit through the morning. it is looking like being another

glorious day with lots of sunshine and temperatures well above where they should be for the time of year. it will be warmer, 17—18 celsius, perhaps, in the south—east. further into the week, the temperatures fall away, closer to the seasonal norm. as we head into the weekend we will pick up atlantic weather 00:28:13,020 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 systems, so a bit more unsettled.