world already. digital. storage moratorium on three w. . this is due to be in his life from berlin the roman catholic church faces its problem with peeta fall priests pope francis is set to address the faithful as the end of an extraordinary summit on how the church has covered up sex abuse by clergy we'll have live coverage from the vatican. also coming up as well as military dates back to attempts to bring humanitarian aid into the country while and clashes

border crossings leave at least two dead opposition leader one quite joe is urging the international community to keep all options open and says he'll meet with u.s. vice president mike pence on monday. on a fairly good to have you with us and a few minutes pope francis will address roman catholics to end a summit on child abuse by members of the clergy are watching a live image is or you will be seeing them in a second of their concluding mass at the sistine chapel church leaders have been meeting and the vatican to address a culture that has failed to protect children from predatory priests and clergy the gathering took place amid an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests and evidence of their superiors. covered up their crimes w.

news will be carrying the pope's speech live expected to take place within the hour . to accompany us through the speeches. in rome he's standing by there hello martin and with me in the studio is sara taylor a religious affairs analyst class there. let's go to you first mark and this summit was billed as it was billed as the catholic church coming to terms with its global paedophilia crisis what's your sense has anything actually been achieved . i think that quite a few things have actually been achieved you know one has to keep in mind that this this summit essentially offered us a conference so a lot of what happened through work groups and policy positions that were actually

offered in papers and so on. were essentially build what one would normally think of white papers in relation to the stylish men of policy. and opening proposal which were this sort of no you know no well well repeated idea of the twenty one points that the pope establish. thursday actually the first day of the summit had been so to say a base for policy positions recuperating some of the things that have already been put in place in different you know. parts of the world so you know it would be it would be naive to say that there's a silver bullet to the problem but the church is facing but most certainly i think that there has been quite a bit of the reluctant in terms of what. you know the church expects to see. let's put the summit into perspective how long has the vatican known about abuse in the church is there a way we can know is there

a date we can pinpoint well i'm not entirely sure since when the vatican but i think the public has been made very much aware at least since the boston globe spotlight especially since the movie came out it's been on the global scale and there have been different studies different reports coming out there has been a lot of effort being made and the us time cover abuse has been the germ started coming out not just in time to time but also now last year and it's made been very obvious that this is a global state problem during the last months during the last weeks especially so it's on the news now for quite a few years and i think the pressure is mounting why has it taken until twenty nine hundred for a summit like this to take place. i think that a number of reasons number one hundred on such a conference even if it's just a conference of enough it's. what can papers news progression that's one that's the easy one the other want to something that took a very long time for some officials to understand that abuse is the cause is

a problem that needs coverage at the highest level it's a global problem that's a structural problem and not just one of certain individuals and certain individuals commitments the pope has been criticized for his in action regarding this topic but as far as i'm concerned he is. that has been most outspoken on the issue of abuse in the church and also who's been more actively fighting for more transparency regarding the issue when you agree. we'll see what he actually does in the end with regard to responsibility accountability and hence also the transparency that's one of the topics that's at stake right now i think that's one of the things we really look forward to hearing. what we have to acknowledge is that he's certainly made a very big step forward with regard to contact with victims they're not present at the cut a certain conference right now the half an individual testimony is listened to.

calling such a summit i think is quite a unique step at the moment so that's something we have to go after as tradoc and everything else will be judged by the very specific measures we have been seeing this twenty one point plan that he laid out on thursday saying you know these the first introductory stops these the things we could think about in the future but is a science it's worthless on to really deliver on a very concrete steps specific measures on chemical potentially on a stranger things and this is probably what ho people are judged about. it's a historic summit and indeed let's look back on the guest or day's events and the vatican. amassed and the third day of the vatican conference on child sex abuse the mood was saumur as pope francis reflected on the proceedings. but if there's a need to show movies and days we spoke to each other we listened to the voices of the victims who survived the crimes in the youth so suffered in our church who knew

for us to enter the future with renewed courage we need to say like the prodigal son father i have sinned. open. 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 maimed those responsible were destroyed or not even created. instead of the perpetrators the victims were regulated and silence imposed. 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 well frank says 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 who did it when did they do it and i lay on the roof. while many have applauded pope francis is willingness to take on the subject for others it's too little too late. to say. and hearing devastating stories from abuse survivor as they want transparency from the church and consistency and how it treats perpetrators might in will they get that. well i mean it's

a complicated question and i think that it's sort of snow body to treat dissension of the church as a single operator with a single monolithic. system one of the main problems that you have in the forest meant of reform through a new institution that is so vast that you really need to delve through sort of an endless set of party political battles and political fields so one of the things that we have repeatedly heard from many victims but also from specialist journalism academics is that in some sense the pope is really in a quite an isolated position and in fact people like cardinal marx who had been putting this stuff on the table i mean particularly it was very telling this declaration yesterday because it's something that we actually know since two thousand and eighteen in the middle of the year the report will see should it was said that actually evidence had been destroyed but this thing kind of you know fell through the wayside and the guild for sort of this direction of this direction of

the documents and abstraction of the investigation was actually put by the investigator at the time an economic on the german church so it's quite clear that when cardinal marx comes on the scene and makes this point he's also putting his finger on a seizure within the german church itself now one would have to say to be quite clear is that disparity larry sure it's not an issue that has really only two or three years i mean we first got hold of the first big story of sexual abuse in the church in two thousand and one so we're talking now about one thousand years it is understandable that people will see this as a very very slow moving machine but one just needs to think about the sheer size of the church and the amount of people that are involved to understand that process is of reform here essentially entail major changes in the institutional culture of the church and that means many many countries many. i mean that many different cultural

spaces so you know it's a very mixed picture but in some sense i think that there are some some encouraging some encouraging elements some other that are clearly very frustrating. a lot of work ahead for the catholic church thank you for now martin and sara let's continue with some other topics that are making news around the world venezuela's opposition has failed in a bit 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 aid shipments at border crossings on monday a self-proclaimed interim president one by 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 by doe is urging the international community to keep all options on the table. in venezuelan border towns fool hell has broken loose saturday'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 into the country. my hero 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. you know. hundreds of kilometers away at the u.n. a border crossing to colombia where the 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 was set alight as they tried to cross the border so far president madeira 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 and i don't like i don't like in all fairness this is what happened over there was the repression of unarmed people. where 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 dole is weighing his next step. in minute for normal and we will not rest no we will not rest until venezuela is free. were turned away grateful to the international community and evils we ask that all options remain on the table. on monday why do will meet u.s. vice president mike pence to discuss the ongoing crisis.

here are gators in colombia not far from where those border clashes took place he says the venezuelan opposition still faces a difficult task despite international support 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 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. continue now with some other stories from around the globe. north korean leader kim jong un has left for vietnam on his armor train a three thousand kilometer journey is expected to take two days came will meet with u.s. president donald trump in hanoi on thursday. all have opened in the west african state of senegal which is holding a presidential election incumbent macky sall seeking a second term is hoping his economic record will help him avoid a runoff for challengers are vying to replace two key opposition figures were barred from running results are due on friday. vote counting is underway in one thousand yesterday as elections.