this is d.w. news live from berlin the standoff at the venezuelan border intensifies opposition leader won by joe valves to end the blockade of aid supplies but soldiers loyal to president nicolas maduro remain firmly at the bridge marking the border with colombia the duro has vowed not to let in what he called fake humanitarian aid from the united states also coming up tens of thousands of people gather in lagos in support of nigeria's president it's mohamed to hari it's the last major campaign

rally and of next week's elections will go live to our correspondent to find out some pain issues dividing the country. and the u.s. says it's confident real progress can be made with north korea as president donald trump prepares for his second meeting with kim jong il and he predicts the country will become a great economic powerhouse. welcome to the program omarion evans dean venezuelan opposition leader and self declared interim president says a team of volunteers will be sent in next week to bring an aid which is currently held up at the border with colombia president nicolas maduro meanwhile said venezuela is not a nation of bankers and blames the united states for the country's ongoing humanitarian crisis. in venezuela medicine electricity

and food are all in short supply. at this market hyperinflation means that even vegetables are barely affordable. as people struggle to put food on the table trucks carrying humanitarian aid arrive at the venezuelan border. anxious citizens wait in hope for food and medical supplies to be let through. when i saw the trucks with aid arriving i felt very emotional i felt deeply nostalgic i couldn't help but scream and cry. by calling venezuela's armed forces to be on the side of the people. and allow this aid to get to where it's needed. but the gates are closed. and closely guarded by venezuela's military under the orders of nicolas maduro.

in the capital caracas the embattled president denied a humanitarian crisis exists and said the shipments are part of a u.s. led cooler tempt me minister. venezuela won't allow the spectacle of fake humanitarian aid because we're no one's beggars it's that simple. he also lashed out at european and latin american ministers who to nearly a meeting in your ago i called from the douro to hold free and fair election but. meanwhile thousands of disparate venezuelans continue to stream across the border to colombia hoping to access the aid arriving there. and now look at some of the other stories making headlines this hour the white house has missed a deadline to report to congress on the killing of saudi journalists come out at the saudi consulate in istanbul last october republican and democratic lawmakers

have given the administration until friday to present findings on who was responsible and official says president trump didn't feel the need to submit a report. to the greek parliament has approved a measure for macedonia to join nato after the two states resolved a decades old name dispute last month lawmakers in athens and doris in agreement with macedonia changing its name to north macedonia. a canadian man who gunned down six members of a québec city mosque and twenty seventeen has been sentenced to life in prison the judge said alexander be so now that it would be eligible for parole after serving forty years behind bars the canadian prime minister justin trudeau denounced the shooting as a terrorist attack last week. in lagos nigeria supporters of the president have gathered for a rally in the run up to next week's elections the all progressives congress party hopes to see president's muhammadu buhari reelected to

a second term the president is scheduled to address the crowd this afternoon and next saturday the country will also vote for a new parliament. w correspondent adrienne critias at that election campaign event in lagos and joins us now for the latest so adrienne tell us what's going on where you are. well i mean you can see the little bit of the back right hopefully in fairy loud here it's very on here to thousands of people who came to see president obama who are you from the party a.p.c. you came here for one of his last rally just before the elections next saturday and lagos is of course a very important it's a crucial state it's the biggest city in the country and more than five million voters are registered here alone. all right so along with the incumbent who else is running what can tell us about the candidates and their supporters.

so there's more than seventy presidential candidates who are running for the for the seats but actually it's only two people who have a chance and a neck and neck race is expected which we one hundred the president and i had to do i will back up from the party p.d.p. you so well mike why are you he's trying to tell people that he has to continue the good work that he's claims he has been doing so far especially in fighting corruption that is one of his lecture topics but i suggest we bring in one of his supporters right now we're here with me mistah you this voting for a.b.c. that's what he told me before i go why you say why have you decided to vote for the president you guys i'm so excited to do what a new what do you think coming. president which is going to be. because nobody who had been the president had done that was in the love changes yeah develop. a structure in everything yeah i don't so much and do with much more food . for thought for everybody that i think clearly you know caught my eye was about

the bully thank you very much i used to you can you are you is of course a diehard support off president mamadou power but honestly speaking in lagos you also find a lot of his critics the especially in lagos because many here are saying that in terms of the economy and the progress that was made was not good enough nigeria's been going through economic crisis in the past years and many people here are complaining about the hardship they are complaining that nothing really has changed and that is why a lot of people will probably also vote for the opposition candidate for i think well bill baka he was the vice president before then he later was also a very successful businessman so many people you know if he would be elected then the economy would also improve you give us a sense of just how democratic these elections are going to be this time. i'm sorry i didn't hear your question we want to hear about how democratic these elections. going to be. well this is of course

a big concern for observers certainly it is a big care debate whether they will be fully democratic or not we have seen in the last elections here we had a peaceful transition of power which was to many a big surprise but definitely a very good sign so i think there's hope for optimism that we can really see a democratic election here all right i did have a correspondent adrienne krishna in lagos thank you so much. now a u.s. envoy for north korea has expressed confidence that real progress can be made at a summit later this month between donald trump and kim jong un but the special envoy stephen begun also cautioned there was still work to be done ahead of the talks trungpa said the second meeting between the two leaders will be held in the vietnamese capital hanoi. it's the seventy first anniversary of the korean people's army and something to celebrate for north korea's leader kim jong un while the u.s. was buzzing with anticipation about the forthcoming summit he was saying nothing

which was you know in june unsure what you wanted them to do or in washington president trump was convinced the great times lay ahead for north korea if the summit is a success it will become a great economic powerhouse he tweeted it will become a different kind of rockets an economic one. tribe believes there are grounds for optimism returning from pyongyang is envoy doing the groundwork for the summit met south korea's foreign minister and said talks with the north had been productive but he added a note of caution. the president is very much looking forward to taking the next steps we have some hard work to do with the d.p. r. k. to tweet now and then and i'm confident that if both sides stay committed we can make real progress or is. he going to stall to have discussed specifically just all movement steps that north korea could promise of the vietnam summit and what corresponding measures the united states would be willing to take that would be an

advance on the first summit where kim jong un pledged to work towards the complete denuclearize ation of the korean peninsula but did not provide a clear timetable. for more let's bring in a correspondent stephen burrow a quick joins us now from the south korean capital seoul so stephen we just heard from the u.s. special envoy he sounds optimistic but just how much progress was really made in those preparatory talks the talk to accomplish their main goal in that they set the stage for this second u.s. military summit to go ahead so you have confirmation that it will take place in a location and presumably they were able to work out its all of the kind of diplomatic minute the rank of the officials involved in iraq engender the skies how long the meetings will go ahead for it was possible that at this stage things could have hit a snag involving might have been called off that apparently didn't happen but now

the real work of negotiation has to begin. all right so stephen just what are the issues that still need to be resolved between the north and the u.s. what are the sticking points. there is still a long way to go and for all the talk we've heard over the past several months about how things aren't quite good between the two sides they still haven't addressed the big questions which are north korea still has just as many of their weapons as they did before all of this started and they still haven't provided a roadmap or timetable as to how they will get rid of the earth craze of course not going to just do this for no reason they're going to put these their nuclear program ahead as a kind of bargaining chip and they hope to get from the us what they've been calling corresponding measures which basically means that they want to be relieved of the you trade international media and it's north korea wants to develop their economy and it remains to be seeing whether or not the few sides will be able to

come to some kind of agreement where north korea will commit to nuclear station in some kind of binding way and the u.s. will do something to make that work there while well as far as these upcoming talks are concerned we've heard a lot from the u.s. from president trump himself also from the special envoy but what about north korea what has it been saying about these talks and the summit they remain pretty quiet it's you know they haven't come out and said much about it which is not entirely unusual for korea you know they don't have. the twenty four hour news cycle with the free press as we in the west needs to do it's kind of normal for them to really bide their time and pick and choose the right moments to notice these types of things when they decide that it has real propaganda value a lot of times they don't announce anything until after it's actually happened because only after something has happened and they designed if this is something that they think paints them in a lighter not so they'll say something of actually because their leader is going to

china and vietnam but they're probably waiting for the right moment and waiting for the time that they feel like they can spin this to their best advantage. all right stephen barwick reporting from south korean capital seoul thank you. well one of the world's most iconic aircraft is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its maiden flight the boeing seven forty seven nicknamed the jumbo jet took off for the first time on february ninth one thousand nine hundred sixty nine in the us state of washington it was the first wide body plane to be built and it held the record for carrying the most passengers until the twenty first century seven forty seven series was originally to be phased out after four hundred planes were sold half a century later more than fifteen hundred have taken to the skies. let's get a reminder now of the top story we're following for you. venezuela's opposition leader

is a foundling to end the blockade of supplies that's a border with colombia. doe's says a team of volunteers will be sentenced next week to bring the eight across to president nicolas maduro meanwhile called the aid fake and blames washington for the country's ongoing humanitarian crisis. don't forget you can always get news on the go just download our apps from google play or from the apple store they'll give you access to the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and of course you could also use the d w it out to send us your photos and videos. your watching to delhi news coming soon from the birth of lent we'll have another update for you at the top of the hour course in the meantime you should always check out our website for updates just go to. an area i haven't seen from all of us

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