this is d w news life from berlin venezuela's military beats back attempts to bring humanitarian aid into the country. violent clashes that border crossings have left at least two dead opposition leader one point zero is urging the international community to keep all options open he says he'll meet with u.s. vice president mike pence on monday also coming up. the catholic church's summit on child sexual abuse draws to

a close after three days of soul searching but will it deliver on the ciro tolerance that abuse survivors demand. and then the german bundesliga byron took their chance to pull level with the table toppers dog wants to. play. good to have you with us. venezuela's opposition has failed in a bid to break a government blockade on humanitarian aid to the country at least two people were killed in clashes us troops loyal to president nicolas maduro stopped eight shipments of border crossings on monday self-proclaimed interim president juan quite joe will attend a meeting of eleven latin american foreign ministers in colombia where he's also expected to hold talks with u.s. vice president mike pence why doe's urging the international community to keep all

options open. in venice well in border towns fool hell has broken loose such a day's clashes so civilian deaths and casualties at the hands of pro-government forces near the southern border with brazil fighting erupted in a bid to let brazilian aid trucks and to the country. says the children aren't dying or starving in venezuela yes they are he isn't because he's sitting in the presidential palace while we're here in the street working like donkeys and you know. hundreds of kilometers away at the u.n. a border crossing to colombia to venezuela national guards fired tear gas and rubber bullets they are under orders not to let foreign aid into the crisis ridden country trucks carrying food and medical supplies with satellite as they try to cross the border so far president madeira is blockade is holding firm.

we are trying to get aid into venezuela but they are not letting anything in from the other side they are throwing rocks and firing tear gas. going on here and this is what happened over there was the repression of unarmed people. people who are going in peace to take humanitarian aid to those who need it. the volunteers and aid convoys have now withdrawn unwilling to risk further bloodshed to break the government's barricades opposition leader why do is weighing his next step. for normal we will not rest. no we will not rest until venezuela is free. and we were eternally grateful to the international community and. we ask that all options remain on the table.

on monday why do will meet us vice president mike pence to discuss the ongoing crisis. given as well and opposition had promised its people that they would come together as one united in their home country right after the humanitarian aid was delivered needless to say that was a very difficult task and the scenario that we saw here at the colombian venezuelan border was a completely different one now the rupture of diplomatic ties between colombia and venezuela means that those venezuelans who came here to colombia hoping to collect and then deliver the humanitarian aid in their country will likely get stranded on top of that the most important question remains unanswered who is the real commander in chief of the military forces in venezuela is it one way or is it. together with the power struggle we will have another debate the blame for the more than two hundred wounded and the deadly victims is it going to be one way or nicolas maduro who wins that battle that is yet to see but even as well in

a position faces increased pressure from a population that cannot take another disappointment. pope francis will address catholics today to conclude a summit on child sexual abuse within the church the church's leaders have been meeting in the vatican to discuss the culture that has failed abuse survivors around the world the gathering took place and an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests and evidence that their superiors of covered up their crimes ireland has seen reports of widespread sexual abuse in catholic institutions estimates that the number of overall cases there at fourteen thousand five hundred and australia more than fifteen thousand possible sex abuse survivors have come forward since two thousand and twelve. according to a national enquirer and the united states the number of survivors the suspected to be well over one hundred thousand on saturday a prominent cardinal admit at the church destroyed its records about priests who

sexually abused children. by master and the third day of the vatican conference on child sex abuse is the mood was somber as pope francis reflected on the proceedings. but. these days we spoke to each other we listened to the voices of the victims who survived the crimes have suffered in our church. to enter the 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 after his predecessor failed to address the subject at all german cardinal reinhard marx admitted to a shocking lack of transparency over the years fires that could have documented the

terrible deeds and maimed those responsible were destroyed or not even created. instead of the perpetrators the victims were regulated and silence imposed. the phrase 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. if 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. that it. well that they're doing and. while many have applauded pope francis is willingness to take on the subject for

others it's too little too late. to say. we will have full coverage of the pope's address from the vatican just over an hour from now but for now here's some of the other stories making news around the world . north korean leader kim jong un has left for vietnam on his armor train the three thousand kilometer journey is expected to take two days kim will meet with u.s. president dollar trump in the noise on thursday. polls are opening in the west african state of senegal which is holding a presidential election incumbent macky sall is seeking a second term he's hoping his economic record will help him avoid a runoff for challengers who are vying to replace saul to pee on position figures were banned from running. vote counting is under way in one thousand after yesterday's election to choose a new president and parliament following have been postponed for

a week due to look just tickle hitches the army says it killed six people and just described as a political hoodlums amid unrest in the south election results are expected in the next few days. a un report says twenty eighteen was the deadliest year in afghanistan's nearly two decades long war almost four thousand civilians were killed and thousands more wounded and attacks and bombings the u.s. and the rebel taleban hold a new round of talks aimed at ending the conflict on monday. turning to the bundesliga now and mark meadows from d.w. sports joins me to discuss byron munich closing the gap on german league leaders dortmund mark byron beat had to at home yesterday. and are now level on points with but it wasn't a straightforward when was it it was no they beat her to wall miller home but they

didn't score until after the sixtieth minute so they took the time it was kind of symptomatic of buying season not really spotting but doing what they need to do now i must add although they are now level with dortmund don't do have to play later today so dortmund can reopen that gap a little bit but it kind of took the pressure off by in that they were playing first they could get their win out there and say hey what are you going to do now dortmund and i think also what helped by is that in midweek they do newman with liverpool in the champions league that was the first leg of the last sixteen that was a good result that sort of put spine in the box seat going forward for the second leg of the champions league next month so that was a confidence booster for them and that's why they managed to kind of pull out this win let's have a look at the best of the action against her the villain. i mean my teen is was back in the starting eleven after a strong performance against liverpool the bye and struggled to find their mojo the best chance of the first half culture here to have been named in the twenty sixth minute jerome point tang saving his sight smack. during champion

struggles defensively and davies pounced this time it was yosh watching me to the rescue. nothing seemed to work out by inoffensively until this point to take my team is heading home to give i am indeed in the sixty second minute the spaniard took advantage of goalkeeper wynnie archons mistake. but it got worse for the visitors in the eighty fourth minute kanimozhi kick was sendoff after this encounter with the robert given davos i. know the free kick was a cause for concern that tomas miller was unable to take advantage on hard fought one nil victory fabiani big sister this is now the most important part of the season we have to be prepared next monday i think i think we're ready to have to see how to do it and play it but these are three important points. at three point

zero that could. be more difficult games ahead this season so we want to smash our opponents every time this season is different because everyone is playing well against us because i thought it was easy but we did it to go we still believe we can win the title. and did what they had to do now they are hoping dortmund will slip up again on sunday. so cute aust buying coach nico three or four months ago he was looking like he was going to be fired they will all over the place daulton were well ahead and things just weren't right i mean coach has never managed a big club like this before so people kind of thinking is this job a bit too big for him. and everyone expected him to be fired when they lost a home to burst months glad back for example and he turned it around slowly but surely he said look i can deal with this pressure the bosses don't find me give me time i can do this and here we are eleven points of dortmund and as i say it's not

because of great performances it's just been getting the wins they've needed when they needed to do it relying on his experienced players knowing what is basically going to get me this result rather than trying to beat every team six nil. and the pressure is now really on dalton so yeah well done to me coco not many people in world football could have coped with the pressure that he did what can we expect from doc and today well i think most people would say now buying a favorites because dortmund have one in five games in all competitions so the pressure is really on them today and they're playing late of truth and level of form side in the bonus they get at the moment now don't win our home over save that of a fortress they have not recently the one kind of plus point to dortmund is that laver cruzan. went out of the europa league in midweek with a little surprise what will that new flavors movement's confidence we don't know we have to wait and see but yeah dortmund a very inexperienced very few players in this land who've won titles before while

byron of all the titles you know they all know what they need to do and also the bad thing for dortmund is coming up in april as the game against byron munich in munich so if at the end of this weekend the still level and living and when people say well hang on by now favorite surely because they've got to go to munich and get a result so it's getting tough but at least we have a title race is the first time in six years we've had a title race but i mean if you run away with it for six years it's been pouring in for honest this is fantastic everybody suddenly looking at the owners they're going to say hey look what i great title race who's going to do it a young side you haven't won for quite a long time against a side you know how to do it with a new coach it's going to be really really interesting battle and the game later on today will play a big part i think so or is it your show tonight to see how to open the well finally some excitement in the honestly i thank you marc. don't forget you can always get d.w. news on the go just download our app from google play or from the app store they'll

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