when changing to. digital. this is news live from berlin a political crisis escalates in venezuela as border clashes over aid erupt into violence. a convoy sent from colombia by opposition leader. pushed back by venezuelan troops loyal to president nicolas maduro they fired tear gas to keep the border close to emergency supplies also coming up. a vote counting is underway in

nigeria's presidential election surveys suggest a tight race between incumbent. and his main challenger. the terrible deeds. those responsible for destroying. great german cardinal rinehart remarks make so frank admission as the roman catholic church digs into its history of sex abuse by the clergy. spicer thank you for joining us. the showdown over aid to venezuela escalates at least two protesters have been killed in clashes with security forces near the country's border with brazil nearly twenty others were injured tensions are also

high at the border with colombia as trucks carrying humanitarian aid try to enter venezuela opposition leader has vowed to deliver emergency supplies. venezuela's embattled president nicolas maduro ordered the military to push back a truck convoy and announce he's breaking diplomatic ties with colombia. aid 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 quarter cave the go ahead. here manage tarion 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. eight has become the focus of the unrest with the opposition claiming as many as three hundred thousand venezuelans are entire in need of supplies obama let's 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. and we're joined. in colombia right on the border there as well have there what is the situation now. well we can definitely

say that those seeking to get humanitarian aid into venezuela are still having a very rough time we're still monitoring three border crossings the three bridges that mainly connect as well here in the city one is the so-called the and the thousand bridge where the base camp was established for him in a chair and it was stored we understand that this bridge is still closed and blocked by the venezuelan government but the situation is very different at the scene one believer to bridge the bridge that that is used as the main port of entry there is a villa cation where we have seen many injured at least twenty from reports that we're hearing right now although we have to be careful one of them would be severely injured so far and police clashes and clashes with the armed forces continue there and the most critical situation seems to be right behind me in the third crossing there we have seen injured we also hear the shots of tear gas that have been going on for hours now and where two of the containers that contained

that humanitarian aide were burnt down one of them that survived the attack got back and is now at the first bridge that the and the bridge that is the situation right now it's a very tense critical situation for those trying to get humanitarian aid in and we don't know how this is going to unfold as it is still the afternoon here and as we know the situation could get worse during the evening hours ok thank you reporting from the scene of the stand up and for the view from the cry of the crisis from inside venezuela we have correspondent oscar schleicher joining us from caracas oscar what does this mean for this whale. particularly its president nicolas maduro who has broken off diplomatic ties with colombia why did he do that. well ok. last week longer because of the help that along is getting to that as well in the border but let's remember that well known yet it's already recognized one way the us president in terms of the us where and why when i was already in the diplomatic

representatives to colombia for a minute or so times were pretty much broken off when colombia recognized one way to go as president and that is why it's officials in colombia are going to try and stress now what that doesn't apply is that a lot of them don't manage personality here in minutes when that might have to leave the country and that puts a lot of tension in the border at this point and we've seen huge pro and anti video demonstrations across venezuela today as you know how do things look for him at the moment. well supported i don't have any concentrations we have to evaluate them there's a lot of buses that are coming to caracas from different parts of the country there have been again and. other demonstrations and he used old footage of these

massive protests in favor of motherhood on. the opposition is also rally not only in caracas but also in different cities simonis way that there's also have been injured and we've reported some deaths in different cities over the well where it's protests against motherwell are happening at the moment now all these protests against my we're asking. if humanitarian aid to allow the military to that humanitarian aid in the country. protests in favor of motherhood or just simply are asking for the u.s. not to interfere or intervene in venezuela ok thanks for that w.'s oscar schrenker reporting from the capital caracas. vote counting is underway in nigeria where people have been electing a new parliament and the next president the elections were postponed for a week with

a delay causing tensions in the country to flare after four years of economic stagnation and failure to deal with a jihadist terror group boko haram president who him out it will hari is under pressure from challenger a t.q. i will back or long lines of border voters formed outside some polling stations that opened 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 happy with diddley as this was the worst of what they did because. they'll cross the bridge it's a soft predator strikes and it's us i'm not such that. the others are who feel that the election will bring about real change. as illuminists and they tear this and show me so much as to me he means the future and the. future

of my children. and that she too chose. to have travel that's what sustains an. incumbent president who hamadou bihari voted in his northern home town of daraa where he brushed aside the prospect of defeat. you know even if you lose this election when you accept defeat and congratulate that we haven't done all you can over the bridge with. his main challenger actually to abu bakar has pledged to accept the results if they are credible he and his peoples 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. both counting is underway in a jury or in fact of this particular pulling station the nation's capital in a one part of that counting has already finished and that's about the candidates for president according to their result challenging p.d.p. party won by fifty nine votes now there's a say anything about the result of the selection of course not given the fact that this is just one of almost one hundred twenty thousand polling stations across this huge country but i can certainly tell there is excitement and anticipation of course about the result these people here are waiting even though they have cast their ballot because they want to hear themselves the results they want to hear themselves as votes being counted which of course also has to do with the fact that the selection has been delayed by one week and it was time therefore that skepticism and doubt could grow about whether this election is going to be fair free and transparent. to some of the other stories making news around the world.

a u.s. judge has set a bail of one million dollars for the singer r. kelly he's charged with sexually abusing four people including three miners the r. and b. star appeared in court in chicago after handing himself into police prosecutors say they have d.n.a. evidence against. thousands of anti-government protesters known as the yellow vests have taken to the streets across france for a fifteenth straight weekend at the eiffel tower in paris police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators the movement has been losing support after some members were involved in violent incidents and verbal attacks on a jewish intellectual. in india nearly one hundred people have now died after drinking tainted alcohol and at least two hundred more have been hospitalized officials say the illegal bootleg liger liquor contains toxic amounts of methanol to increase potency most of the victims were teach plantation workers in the

country's north east. 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 clergy victims of the crime say they find little comfort in the admission. i'm asked and the third day of the vatican conference on child sex abuse the mood was somber as pope francis reflected on the proceedings. but if. we spoke to each other we listened to the voices of the victims who survived the crimes you've suffered in our church. to enter the future with renewed courage we need to say to the prodigal son father i have sinned. so it was earlier pope 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 me after his predecessor failed to address the subject at all german cardinal reinhard marx admitted to a shocking lack of transparency over the years flies that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed or not even created. instead of the perpetrators the victims were regulated and silence imposed on them. every cardinal marx's words created outrage outside the vatican protesters some of them victims of sexual abuse within the church insisted that simply admitting the problem wasn't enough. cardinal marks. and he answers to me well francis he got up in front of me and everybody else and he

said we just destroyed i know we've destroyed evidence of child sex crimes i would have stood up and i want to said. janet. when did they know it and i know in the room. while many have applauded pope francis is willingness to take on the subject for others it's too little too late. earlier i spoke to our correspondent martin in rome i asked him to elaborate on the revelations 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 one piece cases to go international courts because they don't want to go through the process but you know 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 crime sin not the

place of the church given the fact that what today cardinal mark's point it 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 at birth to traders of sexual crimes you are up to date thanks for watching. hey listen up. video game music sounded like thirty years ago.

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