this is a few news live from berlin is on its way so says venezuela's all physicians. as he sends off a truck convoy from colombia bound for his country but troops loyal to president nicolas maduro are firing tear gas to keep the border closed to stop deliveries also coming up. vote counting is underway in nigeria's presidential election surveys suggest a tight race between incumbent. and his challenger. fires

that could have documents the terrible deeds named those responsible destroyed. german cardinal reinhard marx makes a frank admission as the roman catholic church digs into its history of sex abuse by the church. thanks for joining us. a showdown at the border a truck convoy carrying aid to venezuela from colombia sent off personally by one why go has been pushed back by then is weight and troops but the opposition leader is not giving up he says he will deliver the emergency food and medicine despite objects objections from the embattled leader nicolas maduro. trucks aiming to breach the border between colombia and venezuela crowds of jubilant venezuelans cheered on the emergency food and medicine colombia's government says people are prepared to take the supplies across in human chains opposition leader one quite ok

the go ahead. humanitarian aid is on its way to venezuela right now it's a calm and orderly process which will save lives. but the situation on the ground in venezuela is far from orderly protesters demanding work and age clashed with national guardsmen who reacted by firing tear gas. and this dramatic footage apparently shows a small group of deserted venezuelan soldiers using an armored vehicle to smash through a security barrier on the border with colombia. ages become the focus of the unrest with the opposition claiming as many as three hundred thousand venezuelans are in dire need of supplies obama hats get the humanitarian aid through where unarmed the only weapons are medicine and food. the country remains divided pro-government

supporters of president nicolas maduro rallied in the capital caracas maturer has rejected the eight calling it a pretext for a u.s. invasion. our reporter have your our greatest is at the colombian border now have you what is the situation there. while the situation seems to be quite critical we have three. fronts that we're following right now and there are on the three bridges that mainly connect colombia and venezuela here in the city of the first one is this the bridge where the first confrontations began because that was the first one to be reached by those who wanted to get that humanitarian aid into venezuelan territory you can hear the helicopter of the police by the way right now so just in case you can't hear me that well from what we've seen so far the most critical point seems to be right behind me in the studio . where confrontations have been taking place we can hear shots especially off tear

gas and it smells like burnt tires i don't know if you can recognize the smoke behind me but the situation has definitely not been at all what first was imagined and sold to the people by one why do an orderly entrance of the humanitarian aid certainly certainly sounds and looks like a show of force on the side of the venezuelan government as we saw the report however several that is wayland soldiers defected today what can you tell us about that we have some more pictures of them driving trucks into the barricades. yes well we have to be very careful when you see that type of information because we don't know if these soldiers where with why go from the beginning and just simply decided to show it today or if they actually change their minds in some way but it is going to be the critical question today what does the military do will they follow the orders of the whole world will they stand by in order to get the humanitarian aid and one way to himself into the country because as we saw he's

technically not allowed to enter anymore and how much backing does he have president maduro have as far as the military goes are we seeing any kind of split in the army. well i think what is fair to say is that there is a split in the army but what we do not know to which scale to what extent because in general we can say that the superior commands of the military are with an equal as another with those who are supporting why do are the weaker ones to poor ones the ones who have to fight the battle every day that are not privileged that are not connected with the government and that definitely see their families and those next to them suffering the consequences of the economic crisis and of the policies that have brought in as well a down ok have there a great as thanks very much for that. the polls are beginning to close in nigeria where people have been electing

a new parliament and the next president the elections were postponed by a week with a delay causing tensions in the country to flare after four years of economic stagnation and failure to deal with the jihadist terror group boko haram president mohammad who will hari is under pressure from challenger a teco i will back are long lines of voters formed outside some of the polling stations 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 i'm not talking with diddley as this was the worst of what they do because. they'll cross the bridge it's a soft predator strike and it's as i'm not certain. how others are who feel that the election will bring about real change. resoluteness and they do

this and show me so much as to me it means the future of the financial future of my children of. which future health care plan and. that's what he's doing it's an. incumbent president who hamadou bihari voted in his northern home town of daraa where he brushed aside the prospect of defeat. you know if you lose this election but when you accept defeat on that we're not and i don't. know children. are not going to mean we won't look at 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. a top roman catholic cardinal has admitted that the church destroyed its records about priests who sexually abused children reinhard marx made the revelation during a speech at a vatican conference on preventing sexual abuse by the clergy victims of the crimes say 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 marx's admissions were unsatisfying we've destroyed criminal evidence of child sex crimes. that sounds like illegal is what that sounds like how do you find out about it so who did it so it was those questions weren't answered earlier inside the summit pope francis looked on as church officials reckoned with

a decades long legacy of sex abuse some have criticised 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 public traces 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 why these apes. 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 catholic 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. let's go live now to our correspondent martin in rome martin today cardinal marx of germany admitted the church destroyed files on paedophile priests what do you think of the timing of the announcement is it a coincidence. well no i mean clearly it was a perfect opportunity to put this directly in front on the table and you know in a way i mean the german church has been one of the main you know propellers of free form within the vatican there are some wings of the church that are certainly very

conservative and that follow the former pope pope emeritus benedict but there's also people like you know like cardinal marx who were actually you know a bold chorus of as initially reform so it was really very telling. both the way in which it was delivered which was in a sense you know i made a clip of it at the very same time was very accusatory and it was actually a call for action perhaps one of the most remarkable and one of the loudest ones we have heard in a very long time. is there any chance of the church will be turning over evidence the files that do remain to civil authorities like the police or prosecutors. well there's been a bit of this caution about one of the things that was remarkable to hear quite disheartening to be quite honest was you know some church members pointing out times victims do not want these cases to go international courts because they don't

want to go through the process is but in a sense to us not address the basic question which is how we said that the church is planning to deal with crimes and i think most people in society would understand that you know it is the place of justice systems to deal with crimes and not the place of the church given the fact that what today cardinal mark's point out was not merely the sexual abuses that are certainly serious enough but now we're talking about a culture officer actually cover up and criminal association then we have a second layer to this which is whether we will need justice systems to actually look at the church cover up operation not just a bird to traitors of sexual crimes so a whole new level listen day three of the conference is over what has pope francis achieved so far. well there is no to law that you know there is to show yet for it there's been a lot of talk there's been some very engaging presentations. you know we need

nigerian. cardinal marks as we said before there he says if you had no concrete plan i think that the point remains that the question boils down to one single issue and at least whether the church will bring justice system seen that can actually adjudicate this case and investigate them because it's quite clear after twenty years that the church itself that's not have the trust of many of the people and of communities but on the other hand might simply not have the means to investigate crimes is there any chance then that they will lay the foundations at least where you are given the undertakings that will lead to an improvement at least of the image of the church if not it's functioning. well there's been an enormous amount of talk about penance and great talk about learning to listen and the church listening but a smidgen of the victims we talked to many of the survivors we talked to said you

know they're pretty tired of talking they have told their stories over and over again and now it's really time for the church to act there is no sense at least among the people i talk to daddy something that will happen immediately though of course there's always hope. i can roam thanks for that. they're welcome. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you. a truck convoys carrying humanitarian aid is on its way from venezuela to venezuela from colombia this follows violent clashes between soldiers and opposition supporters outraged over president maduro orders to block their supplies. you're watching news from berlin make spicer don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's dot com shift living in the middle digital age is coming up next stages.

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