you. tube. this is the w. news live from berlin aid is on the way the words of venezuela's opposition leader juan wado as he sends up a truck convoy from colombia bound for his country a troops loyal to president nicolas maduro are intent on keeping the border closed to stop the deliveries. also coming up the polls close in nigeria's national elections surveys show is a likely to be a tight race between incumbent president mohamed who bihari his main challenger i've. talked to our correspondent and i put

a. forced budget deal to move the barrier proved to you just maybe those responsible for destroying well not even greater sanctions i'm pretty sure that was german cardinal ron howard marks with a frank admission as the roman catholic church digs into its history of sex abuse by clergy. i am. a mass waiter thank you for joining us bracing for a showdown at the border a truck care convoy carrying humanitarian aid is on its way to venezuela from colombia venezuela an opposition leader why don't has vowed to deliver the emergency food and medicine over the objections of embattled leader nicolas maduro this follows violent clashes between soldiers and opposition supporters outraged

over a blockade of supplies here's what i don't had to say as he sends the aid off. you'll need independent humanitarian aid is on its way to venezuela right now it's a calm and orderly process which will save lives it will mean the images that i want us. to believe we have our correspondent how they are go at us at the colombian border for us have if you can hear me said the self-proclaimed interim president says the trucks carrying aid are in their way on their way into venezuela how are his supporters planning on actually getting the aid in because there are these blockades at the border that have been ordered by nicolas maduro yes it will be a very difficult task and it's not going to be easy especially because of most of the border is closed by the authorities that still a little from what we know so far we are here at the base where the humanitarian aid was actually collected and we saw the trucks just leaving with people that are planning on breaking those barriers they're going to use cranes for that they're

also going to use equipment from the military to try and pass through the border despite the barricades that we've seen set up by the regiment of the cross model so it is going to be difficult for sure but the equipment is there and it is a very big crowd of people who are desperate to help their country to find their families back and to have a political change in venezuela they have also been some reports of four venezuelan soldiers defecting across the border to colombia can you tell us more about that. yes it is for soldiers indeed that have not only crossed the border and show their support for one way door but also lead this movement they are at the very front line of the humanitarian aid group that is crossing one of the bridges connecting colombia minutes where there has been a report of another military personnel from the venezuelan side that crossed over

to colombia but through the so called the in the thousand bridge where the main operation has been taking place this bridge is the one that is blocked with trailers of the venezuelan government so there seems to be a fraction in the military and there seems to be increased support for a one way door but let's not forget that this is only a very small fraction of a large military operation ongoing invent as well at the same time right it really seems to come down to who the venezuelan military decides to support how much support is there still for a minute all. well it is difficult to tell what we can say is that the military is certainly divided and probably what we could distinguish is between high ranking officials and the lower ranking officials high ranking officials are privileged to they're connected to the government they're even personal friends of nicholas another in certain cases and they are of course at least in theory the ones who have to give the orders but if you look in the lower levels there is suffering by the people by the families of these soldiers and

they are the ones who are showing support for one why don't especially those who are either close to the age of retirement the weaker ones the ones who are not seeing the privileges of the government those are the ones supporting quite also far we'll see if their force reaches to the people and helps. get that military and aid and his people and himself back into it as well in territory. reporting for us on the colombian border with venezuela thank you so much. polls are beginning to close in nigeria where people have been electing a new parliament and their next president the elections are postponed by a week but the delay is causing tensions in the country to flare after four years of economic stagnation and failure to deal with a jihadist terrorist group boko haram president scuse me president mohammad to go hari is under pressure from challenger. long lines of voters formed outside some

polling places that open their doors later than planned. after a long wait at the gates of this polling station in the capital of voters rushed to cast their ballots it opened two hours later than scheduled some were overwhelmed by the crowds and upset at the lack of organization. not type who would. as this was the worst award because. it's so awful and it's a sign. lots of. others are hopeful that the election will bring about real change . as a woman has a nigeria and show me so much to me in the future of. the future of my children. i think she future health care climate that's what explains an. incumbent president who hamadou bihari voted in his northern home

town of daraa where he brushed aside the prospect of defeat yet if you lose my selection would you accept defeat on congress lead that we've got i told all of our children to read for them from and we. his main challenger actually to abu bakar has pledged to accept the results if they are credible he and his people's democratic party have vowed to quote get nigeria working again saying that the president has wasted the last four years mugari promise to crack down on corruption and the jihadist group boko haram but the problems still persist. high unemployment is another issue affecting nigerians. many are hoping the election will be a new beginning for the country. i spoke earlier today w.'s correspondent find a char in the tourist capital of buddha and asked her if that areas are concerned that the vote might not be fair after

a week long delay. exactly due to that fact that there is one week delay days of course skepticism and doubt that could build up over that week whether everything is going to go according to plan but there are many many people ation is going to be involved whether any vote rigging is going to be involved in this election now at this point of course nobody but even of us to have a bottom line whether this election will play out fairly and that it's going to be transparent and this is quite interesting people are actually discussing politics much more openly i've spoken to a few people at a polling station and they very opinionated about the current government something that would have not been possible possible at that extent just a decade ago so yes some change is actually taking place but as i say there is a skepticism that is surrounding this election because it has been delayed by one week as you pointed out and quickly as you can funny how big of a challenge or how much clout. actually have against president obama the.

well especially the southern part of this country is rather poor especially around the niger delta and that's where actually has a base but in the north. president will harvest from that's where he will be able probably to collect a lot of votes but then again you have to make a a difference here between the northeast and the rest of the world because in the east you've got boko haram you have a lot of disappointed people who did not receive what they had hoped for what they had expected from this government and that security is going to going to come down to a very to cut to horse battle here between the two and is probably going to be a very narrow result. following the elections and i geria coming to us from a good just thank you so much. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world sudan's president omar al bashir has declared a year long state of emergency and dismissed the federal government. took a step amid growing protests against his administration he's calling opposition

forces to engage in dialogue. thousands of algerians have joined demonstrations against president. because for a fifth term in the capital algiers police used tear gas to stop marchers approaching the presidential palace the crowd of mostly young people shouted slogans like no fifth term and no to corruption. in india nearly one hundred people have now died after drinking tainted alcohol and more than at least two hundred more have been hospitalized officials say the illegal bootleg liquor contained toxic amounts of methanol to increase potency most of the victims were teeth plantation workers in the country's north east. south korean media reporting that north korean leader kim jong un has set off for vietnam on his armor train next week he will meet with u.s. president donald trump and honey the three thousand kilometer journey is expected

to take at least two days. top roman catholic cardinal has admitted to that the church destroyed its records on priests who sexually abused children ron howard marks made the revelation during a speech at the vatican conference on preventing sexual abuse by clergy victims of the crime said they find little comfort in the admission. sex abuse survivors marching through rome determined not to let the vatican off the hook for some german cardinal reinhard marks his admissions were unsatisfying we've destroyed criminal evidence of child sex crimes. well that sounds like illegal is what that sounds like how do you find out about it. so who did it so those questions weren't answered earlier inside the summit francis looked on as church officials reckoned with a decades long legacy of sex abuse some have criticized francis for moving too

slowly to address accusations after his predecessor failed to address the subject at all and german cardinal marks spoke of an institutional culture of secrecy that protected abusers. instead of the perpetrators the victims were regulated and silence imposed the way in which church at the station was struck to carry out did not contribute to unifying the whole human race and bringing mankind closer to god but on the contrary while you lay to these aides. back out on st peter's square reactions were mixed visitors from ireland divided on the urgency of reform every institution in history has been infiltrated at some stage and it's depends on how do you read them all this and the curia is doing that at the moment it will take time and it takes centuries probably i don't know i know it

a lot of young people have turned away from the church and a lot of the old people who are still quite still into capek are dying out so i don't know unless there is a very fast reform and a huge apology i don't think so at least as cardinal marks pushes for a new culture of openness the question for many is whether this comes as too little too late. earlier i spoke with our correspondent martin gak in rome i asked him to put karl marx's revelation in context he did not explain exactly what he stakes tent of the structure of files he said that this is something that had happened inside the church we do not know if yet if this was actually church policy or this is actually the purview and the doing of particular bishop reese of particular congregations around the world nonetheless i mean this most certainly essentially increases the program exponentially because what we've been talking about for for

this many years it's really about turning information to justice systems i mean police et cetera to investigate cases of abuse no a new layer is really laid on top of that which he's there will be presumably a call to bring police and national authority. investigate the church itself for the cover up of people committing sexual abuse so it really confirms many of the suspicions that people had it really makes the problem old the more all the more important to be here. and on more to sports now here are the results from a state twenty three in the modestly guess so far by an eunuch as out heritage believe in blood back drop points at home to both spec minds defeated shaka freiburg thumbs augsburg taking off soon we'll see dozens of us take on number on friday bremen share the spoils of a stuffed art on sunday hung over will face frankfurt and dortmund will host later close and on monday my fish entertain hoffenheim just

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