this is news lawyer from berlin a political crisis escalates in venezuela as clashes over aid erupt into deadly violence. protestors are killed and others wounded in clashes with troops near the brazilian border on the colombian border where the soldiers fired tear gas at aid trucks trying to enter the country also coming out. vote counting is underway in nigeria's presidential election surveys suggest

a tight race between incumbent. and his main challenger. the terrible deeds of. those responsible for destroying. a frank admission as the roman catholic church digs into its history of sex abuse by the clergy. spicer thanks for joining us. the showdown in venezuela is escalating at least two protesters have been killed and several more injured in clashes with security forces near the country's border with brazil tensions are also high at the border with colombia venezuelan troops have fired tear gas at an aid convoy trying to

enter the country opposition leader. has vowed to deliver emergency supplies despite objections from embattled president nicolas maduro who has announced 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 quite ok 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. age 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 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 by have your betters who is. in colombia right on the border than israel have there what is the situation now. where 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 the lumbee and one as well here in the city one is the so-called the and the thousand bridge where the base camp was established where herman acheron aid was stored we understand that this bridge is still closed and blocked by the venezuelan government but the situation is very different at the cmon believe out of bridge the bridge 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 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 to bridge that the bridge that is the situation right now it's

a very tense critical situation for those trying to get the 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. particularly its president nicolas maduro who has broken off diplomatic ties with colombia why did he do that. well ok. tell us weekly longer because of the help that along is getting to that as well in the border but let's remember that alone has already recognized one way the us president in terms of in this way and one way though is already in the diplomatic representatives to come on for minutes 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 why is that a lot of the amount of 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. we've seen huge pro and anti maduro demonstrations across venezuela today as you know how do things look for him at the moment. well supported by letter to house in 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 in other demonstrations that 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 well and 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 venice where ok thanks for that did abuse oscar schleicher 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 will come out who will hari is under pressure from challenger bachar long lines of 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. to cross the bridge it's a soft predator strikes and it's as i'm not such. others are who feel that the election will bring about real change. as a woman as a nigerian this and that should mean so much to me he means the future financial future of my children. and she she chose. to have a plan and. that's what sustains an. incumbent president who hamadou bihari voted

in his northern hometown of down where he brushed aside the prospect of defeat. if you lose this election will you accept defeat and congratulate that we. don't like i was going through the. ringer for. 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 one chicken a polling station the nation's capital in a blue one part of that county has already finished and that's about the candidates for president according to their result the 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 the country but i've gone through tell there's excitement anticipation of course about the result these people here are waiting even though they have cast a 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 now 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 self in to police prosecutors say they have d.n.a. evidence against kelley. 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 the demonstrators the movement has been losing support after some members were involved in violent incidents and verbal attacks on a jewish intellectual. a top roman catholic cardinal has admitted that the church destroyed its records about priests who sexually abuse children. made the revelation during a speech at a vatican conference on preventing sexual abuse by the 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. these days we spoke to each other we listened to the voices of the victims who survived the

crimes the youth have suffered in our church. to ensure their future with renewed courage we need to say like 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. cardinal marks his 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 pope francis he got up in front of me and everybody else and he said we've just destroyed i know we've destroyed evidence of child sex crimes i would have stood up and i would have said. when did they go away and i don't know rue. while many have applauded pope francis his willingness to take on the subject for others it's too little too late. earlier i spoke to our correspondent martin gak 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

a time victims do not want peace cases to go international courts because they don't want to go through the processes but in a sense that that's 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 marks pointed out was not merely the sexual abuses that are certainly serious enough but now we're talking about a culture office intially 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 for traders of sexual crimes. coming up after the break. it's match day twenty three fought out of managed to come away with a victory. to go to the level on points at the top of the table at least until

dortmund play on sunday. much more on the as they. are watching. spicer. thanks for watching. today. carefully. to the.