this is g.w. news life from for lent national elections are under way in nineteen polls indicate a tight race between incumbent president mohammed laurie and his main challenger a sequel out with the car about is taking place after a one week postponement that prompted questions about the elections credibility i'll talk to our correspondent and lagos also coming up. for you so it could have documented the terrible deeds and name to those responsible were destroyed

or not even created. instead of the proper traitors the victims were regularly in silence composed of the german cardinal reinhard marx with a frank admission as the roman catholic church digs into its history of sex abuse by clergy all go to our correspondent at the vatican for the latest from the pope's conference on preventing abuse. i'm going to frolic welcome to the program. and ariens going to the polls today to vote for a new parliament and for the next president elections were postponed by a week but the delay causing tensions in the country to flare after four years of economic stagnation and failure to deal with the jihad as terror group boko haram president mohammad. is under pressure from challenger.

nigeria's president. 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 actually to 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 biharis 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.

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. first for a as an appalling station and nine jarius commercial capital lagos flourish has the week long delay had an impact on the election. yes it has people were expecting that since the ice the extended the election by a week that they were going to fix the law just to cause problems that they said was the reason it was wounded but they're still saying that they had lost not just the issues for example we are right here in this polling station by eight o'clock

when they said they were going to start the election but they didn't start until like three hours after and we've also received reports that in some places the card readers that people wait made to use to vote were also not working so there's still a little bit of logistical problems here and there and actually we have a voter here who actually just finished voting just share experience with us so thank you for joining us as you just finished casting your vote tucker you say your experience has been trying go for today for no good supporter it's not going to post. to show your plans for the funds that we came. before his time here of course the officials are nowhere to be found at all points where ted concede that is what you meant to do have to have recently became really almost after some time and are starting to have to go for the not start to who are trying words and who to screen says you know. ok and do you think that this

postponement of the election affected you in any way like the death obviously it didn't stop you from within but do you think that we have stopped some of africa from virtually the first time this was supposed to vote was conducted many people did not even move to the city. as of course not every can which was on the wings are wise people bring in not markets and shouldn't this hour have you know it's god's own surprise so that's really stopped some people from coming out and even make them to lose interest more earn. points off from the. who's supposed to be around. for you have to throw ok so that's the mood in and i see a lot of people were frustrated but they're happy that they were. less back to. learning and now as we can see underway but there have been reports of violence

tell us what you're hearing over there. yes so this morning we have reports of explosions in may do agree and if you recall the degrees the part of the country that has been hits the hardest by boko haram the islamic militant groups the group although we haven't confirmed the security agencies haven't confirmed whether or not it's actually a terrorist attack but it is in the same mind that the attack even last week when there was supposed to be an election there were reports that people died as a result of an exclusion. so just that's what we're hearing for now. action day over there are nine. in lagos thank you. top roman catholic cardinal has a knowledge that the church destroyed records on priests who sexually abused children reinhart marks made the statements in a speech at the vatican conference on preventing sexual abuse by clergy on friday

marks met with some of the victims and hundred first hand testimony of their traumatic experiences. starts to move my legs. but i had no idea what. my. it will never be the same. people are told that jesus saves and when the priest is on top of the base cross or taking off my shoes. it was the only thing i could focus on to take me out of what was happening. and watch the families or. both you or your grandmother. you know was also. there but for the poor the border patrol country thank you let's go live to our

correspondent in rome. wanting to know marks of germany in just a minute that search destroyed files on paedophiles that most certainly allowed for more children to fall victims to accused given what we know does that come as a surprise. it does not come as a huge surprise however it does this confirmation of not just the problem of sexual abuse which is one that i think that has captured most of the attention of international public but this actually talks quite directly to the church of a massive cover up i mean the files have been destroyed what we're talking about is no longer sexual abuse but no we're talking about direct evidence of essentially a church or institutional are going to say should for the protection of abusers and criminals. the spokesman of the german bishops conference just send in an interview to w. that they're still trying to define one thing around tolerance means rather shocking

considering that we're talking about serious crimes about children about lives being destroyed what do you think about this. it seems to be that case after essentially five years of talking about zero tolerance it is twenty minutes at least to late to have this caution about what zero tolerance might mean especially given the fact that we're not just talking about generic and theoretical crimes and abuses but we're talking about sexual crimes against children very soft cores so this gushy and that would have to be had which he savored the jury tickle aspects of to zero tolerance whether priests that actually engage in this behavior would be defrocked or would be turned to national authorities that i mean it is it is really quite remarkable to hear officials of the church talking about the phoenician of zero tolerance specially after having talked about it for four years . and about an hour right there where you are there will be

a global march of zero tolerance. what do the participants expect from the catholic church. i mean it's hard to say what he's seen the mind of for an entire set of people engage in demonstrations nonetheless i think that there are some very very clear pictures that particularly american conversation should take tims the main one i think is the time for talk has now come to and talk and he sending it's no longer welcome what many of this victims want is actually very concrete actions part of the problem is that actions of course require protocols and protocols to mend discussions so we are in a bit of what feels really like a tale of chasing competition and really i think that this is to recently why we continue to see so much frustration expressed also with demonstrators as the one that is supposed to take place here understandably so much in rome thank you. as

well and security forces have fired tear gas to disperse protesters gathered along the bank as well colombian border self-proclaimed interim president has called on supporters to flock to a key border crossing between the two countries polis to help humanitarian aid trucks bypass a military blockade that has been in place for weeks president nicolas maduro denies the need for aid on friday two people died in clashes with the military at the brazilian border. for more we're joined by and large a man as from w. latin america a lot of the as we heard self-proclaimed interim president blanco is 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. interest president said i will go and i will return that would be possible for me personally hey god help from the military to get out and his intention is at least he said he and his

intention this. to return to been a sort of also helped by the military by working with the military with the humanitarian aid that's his part of his game for today the problem is i mean the world the border is closed so if you're really has to support with the military would be easier is not. 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 the situation is really really tense and the outcome it's really open we don't really know i mean he's optimistic that 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 activity in

a way that could happen 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 well it's really. intention this dude to return to venezuela and to pass this border today the risk is really high say you talked about the military possibly helping him in the military a story glee has backed president maduro how much backing does he still have today is that likely completely switched. not easily he really backing in the higher ranks that's what he is having in a lot of years all the time the lower rungs are suffering from destroyed every day and we had an episode some weeks ago with a small group. in. between the hearings of lowering they they claimed

the situation they said to the hearings we are suffering and. so you could never predict what will happen say with a lower brings a position of the border but you only need one or two here to turn into violence and you will have a situation that could easily turn into into into a red problematic. violent situation all in the situation in venezuela and don't mind us of w.'s latin america. sports now match day twenty three in the but mostly got kicked off on friday night with mint table invent a brain at home to a lowly got finishing in a one one draw home fans were shocked when stephen soon busts slotted in the opener after just two minutes on the clock i reckon supporters had to wait until the stroke of half time for the equaliser david class on the hammered home and unstoppable shot the result late start got languishing in the relegation zone for

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