passport requirements for venezuelans wanting to enter the country like many fifty year old gabriele malo volta wants to travel through ecuador and then into peru but the authorities there too are cracking down on venezuelans. i'm here with my wife we're hoping for some kind of humanitarian measure from the ecuadorian government that allows us to enter so we can continue our journey to peru. we really want to contribute. if we don't work our kids will starve. we're going to stick together until we get to our destination in peru so we can work and fight for our kids. that may now be more difficult but with the venezuelan economy in tatters and no guarantee president maduro is reforms will succeed there's little incentive for would be emigrants to return home. colombia is a transit country for the thousands of venezuelans seeking work on a new life in ecuador and rule and ophelia homes there who teach joins us from the capital bogota affiliates good to see you let's begin with you giving us a sense of the conditions in venezuela that are really forcing these people from their homes what's it like

passport requirements for venezuelans wanting to enter the country like many fifty year old gabriele malo volta wants to travel through ecuador and then into peru but the authorities there too are cracking down on venezuelans. i'm here with my wife we're hoping for some kind of humanitarian measure from the ecuadorian government that allows us to enter so we can continue our journey to peru. we really want to contribute. if we don't work our kids will starve. we're going to stick together until we get to our destination in peru so we can work and fight for our kids. that may now be more difficult but with the venezuelan economy in tatters and no guarantee president maduro reforms will succeed there is little incentive for would be emigrants to return home. time now for some of the other stories making news around the world italian rescuers have ended their search for survivors from the general bridge collapse the official death toll now stands at forty three up to three more bodies were discovered overnight a section of them around the bridge gave way last tuesday with dozens of cars bunging fi