migrants' your platform for reliable information. this is g w news life from berlin polls have opened in nineteen rio plus the elections and africa's most populous country are taking place after a one week postponement that has prompted questions about the elections credibility talk to w.'s correspondent in nigeria's commercial capital lagos also coming up. a critical day for amanda's loyal opposition leader one point zero has called on supporters to help the trucks enter the country the duros soldiers trying to stop

them by force. pope francis has roman catholic cardinals that met systemic failures and calls for a new culture of accountability to stop sexual abuse by the clergy will report from the third day of the vatican's extraordinary conference on a deep seated problem. nicol for all it good to have you with us. nigerians go to the polls today to vote for a new parliament and for the next president the elections were postponed by a week with a delay causing tensions to flare in the country after four years of economic stagnation and failure to deal with the islam is terror group boko haram president mohammad who will hari is under pressure from challenger atiku abubakar.

nigeria's president hari voting in his hometown of daraa in the northeast the country's electoral commission blamed logistical problems for the week long delay. that led to accusations that the two main parties tried to manipulate the vote heightening tensions between rival supporters these boiled over on friday when supporters of bihari and of his closest rival at abu bakar clashed leaving two people dead. analysts say the election will be tight alongside widespread corruption and a lackluster economy a bloody insurgency by the jihadist group boko haram caused to haris popularity to slide in a refugee camp in the northern city of yola those displaced by the insurgents are fed up with the government but many won't be able to vote for change. or not my voters card was burned when we were chased by vocal her around the entire

village was torched we couldn't salvage anything and we had to flee for our lives if i had a card i would have voted. the last elections held in twenty fifteen were postponed a full six weeks they resulted in good luck jonathan becoming the first incumbent president to be voted out of power. will hope that history does not repeat itself. clashes outside a polling station in nigeria's commercial capital lagos and joins me now loading is underway but there have been reports of violence tell us what you're hearing. right not from here and legacy everything still scarred but the reports are coming mainly from the northeast of the country in maiduguri the regional capital explosions were heard in the morning several explosions between five and six am in the morning we still cannot confirm if it wasn't a terror attack or not the security forces have an issue with any statement and also apparently there were fights breaking out into other towns in the north east

of the country and it's very likely that book is behind it because they have threatened before that they're trying to disrupt these elections and then the week long delay led to concerns the vote might not be a santa one hundred ninety three and saying that well right now there's no indication that this is going to be the case but a lot of speculation has been going on in the past days after the elections were postponed both major political parties were blaming each other for rigging the elections but they did not come up with any clear evidence but certainly people here are angry that the elections were postponed you know the business activities were disrupted for one day last week already now it's the same thing again on saturday because you have to know that there's no movement of vehicles on the election day in nigeria people can't go about their businesses they just have to focus on voting and a lot of people are not really happy about that and right now at the polling station where i'm here in lagos people are also not happy because voting was supposed to start at eight o'clock already and just now the election material

arrived we went to other polling stations as well voting hasn't started at eight o'clock as was promised by the electoral commission so some people are a bit confused but as i said there's still no real reason to believe that things are not going to be free and fair here at this point. what about the candidates how big a challenge as article i will block aren't telling president hollande the hard. right the major opposition candidate certainly will have a good chance in places like here in lagos because people here are angry about how he handled the economic situation the country has been going through a crisis for a very very long time an economical crisis and people here say that the reaction of the government was not appropriate on the other hand has a lot of supporters in the north of the country this is where the majority of nigerians live and this is where many people believe he could still win this elections but we are expecting a neck and neck race. then fish and lake thank you very much. and men as well

as self-proclaimed interim president called on supporters to help trucks loaded with humanitarian aid cross the border from colombia incumbent president nicolas maduro has ordered soldiers to stop the deliberate on friday two people died in clashes with the military at the brazilian border a charity concert to raise money for venezuela was held in colombia concert organizers hope to raise one hundred million dollars in aid for men as well meanwhile a blockade guarded by soldiers loyal to mentor role is prohibiting any aid from entering the country. w a correspondent coming out of the us is following the story for us in the city at the colombian venezuelan border. the surprise appearance of one by doing colombian territory changes things a lot here at the border between colombia and venezuela why do is technically not allowed to leave his country and it's hard to imagine how he will get back in that means that according to the plan two elements will have to enter venezuelan territory by force this saturday humanitarian aid and why don't himself thousands

of volunteers prepare for a dangerous journey for more we're joined by an argument as from d.w. latin america a lot of the as we heard self-proclaimed interim president in colombia even though he wasn't allowed to leave venezuelan soil how was he going to get back into the country first he wasn't allowed by by the regime so yes in terms of president said i will go up and i will return and that will be possible for me personally hey god help from the military to get out and use intention. at least he said. and his intention is to return to venezuela also helped by the military by working with the military with the humanitarian aid. part of his old game for today the problem is meanwhile the borders close so if you're really has to support with the. military would be easier if not the. you know

a certain situation that could be threatening for civilians especially yeah it seems like a critical moment at the border today especially how dangerous is the situation really situation is really really tense and the outcome is it's really open we don't really know i mean he's optimistic he will get in but we have civilian there and we have military in position so we really don't know any outcome what we had yesterday at the border with brasil with killing syrian military reacted in a way that could help an easily today so we would really have to wait the problem is the humanitarian aid is kind of politicized right now and this is used as a political instrument and that's a huge risk huge risk especially for the civilians was the really. intention is do with the returns are in as well and to pass this border today the risk is really high so you talked about the military possibly helping him in the military

historically has backed president maduro how much backing does he still have today is that likely completely switch sides. not easily he really backing into higher ranks that's what he is having and a lot of years old the time. lowering was suffering from destroyed every day and we had enough to selwood some weeks ago with a small group. and. between the hearings and lowering they claimed to situation they said to the hearings we are suffering and so you could never predict what will happen say with the lowering positions of the border but you only need one user to turn into violence and you will have his operation that could easily turn into into into a really problematic bylane situation all in a situation in venezuela and the argument us f.t.w.

slaton america just very much they do as in the roman catholic church has called for a new culture of accountability to stop sexual abuse by priests and clergy they want to take steps against church officials who protect perpetrators instead of their victims cardinals have been hearing testimony from victims at a four day vatican conference on preventing sexual abuse the chairman of the german bishops' conference cardinal i'm hot mox met with some of them and was confronted with their traumatic experiences start to put me on the back starts to move my legs my sags. i had no idea what this is about. my whole life. it will never be the. people of the jesus saves. preachers on top of

a cross or taking off my shoes. it was the only thing i could focus on to take me out of what was happening. but you're. also. thank you very. nice there let's now go live to mathias cop spokesman for the german bishops conference is that thing peter square in the vatican mr kopp we just saw cardinal law not monster president of the german officials conference listening to survivors of sexual abuse at a meeting of the human rights organization and clergy abuse but listening is not longer enough when will these perpetrators be punished. but first of all it was very important that cotton mark swings to those people on the friday to understand to listen and to hear and i think now it's a question and he would put it on this speech is on the saturday what is the kind

of transparency and the boy is a question of zero tolerance and we had a discussion yesterday for the question of zero to zero tolerance what does it mean and there are different meanings of that's what's mean is different it's zero tolerance so we try to look for a solution in those days in rome i hope there will be a result on sunday morning. how can there be different interpretations and then term zero tolerance there should be no tolerance when it's the lions as children of women at stake. of all this rights this should be no difference but you know the experiences of the question of sex abuse of minors a very different from the united states to germany to france to africa to asia and i think this is turk meetings vatican is most important to understand so here to listen to understand to get the level of knowledge of each other and then there has

to be defined what is your sort of words of course as i'm church is absolutely clear as bishop among his responsible for the question of sexual abuse and germs issue from ferns that six is it's the returns means zero tolerance and we try to practices in all sorts of punishment methods. and the church going to turn evidence over into civil authorities like police and prosecutors from now on. whether this question ever come through because conference has to foods jump shots conference tarsus to work with police i was judges since two thousand and two as we define in our guidelines in two thousand and ten this is not a church law over the civil nor the civil law it's always of the church. and this was real work in germany and sweden tried to continue it exactly this way and surely cut the mox would talk about is about our experiences of church and of civil

war in germany and our experiences with this. this is what you're doing in germany but how are you going to make sure that that the catholic church around the glow sticks to what you're talking to now and and setting down as ground rules for the entire time to. persist for france is not responsible for the whole globe box so we try to put in this assembly our experiences and i hope so that the ends the holy see maybe it was in some we saw some months we'll make a follow up with this question to explain and to define what is necessary for the whole globe but you know the problem is we have different experiences from africa asia america europe and with to put those experiences together which is this music . that has come thank you very much. thank you. now wanting to w. news from berlin on nicholson like world stories is up next don't forget you can

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