nick paton walsh, cnn. >> our coverage continues throughout the morning. nick paton walsh is there and he will join us live where protesters broke out yesterday and we are speaking to a young man who left his home in venezuela and he says socialism destroyed it and it could also destroy america gradually. we will ask him what he means by that. >> he had words of warning for our political leaders. >>> later this morning, don't miss secretary of state mike pompeo talking to jake tapper about the crisis in venezuela on "state of the union" coming up at 9:00 a.m. here on cnn, eastern time. >>> this is cnn breaking ining >>> pope taking the church scandals head on. >> speaking on the final day of a four-day summit on clergy abuse, he calls them tools of satan and vowing the church will protect the children from, quote, wolves. what else did you hear that might have struck a cord with you? >> reporter: from listening to pope francis on day four of this summit, and also listening to his remarks on day one, it really doesn't appear he is delivering on his own messa

cnn's nick paton walsh is on the border right now, isa soares is in caracas. saw you and your crew in the middle of complete chaos earlier today. explain the situation right now. >> it's significantly calmer, but bizarrely, we still hear the regular firing of tear gas. you can hear it now down there on the other side of the bridge. that's because the protesters trying to get across found more luck going under the bridge, across the river, trying to get to the venezuelan side proper. and there are intermittent clashes on the bridge down here. although strangely, a venezuelan singer who fled the country called nacho just caused pandemonium when he got on and said everyone should rest. the chaos still persists. that is being replicated in two other points along the border. to the extent that john bolton, the u.s. national security adviser, and very much the loudest beater of the drum against nicolas maduro within the white house has tweeted that it's quite clear today that the maduro government, i'm paraphrasing here, treats its civilians, shoots them with live r

let's get to cnn senior international correspondent nick paton walsh where he is in columbia. what are you seeing there this morning, nick? good morning. >> reporter: the border crossings will be closed today and tomorrow while they take stock of the damage done here in colombia. that is one of the busiest crossings and a life line to hungry venezuelans in the past year to get food in to them. yesterday, the attempt failed. some of the organizers say they got what they wanted with the terrifying scenes of clashes there andduro government did little to help their penal. 60 venezuelan soldiers defected during that violence. here is what we saw yesterday. the images are troubling here so i should warn you. >> reporter: refuges would take their homeland back across the busiest board bridge with colombia. but it was closed. blocked physically by venezuelan riot police. behind them, violent pro government gangs. the young police taunted or begged into changing sides. i'm venezuelan, she said, holding off her i.d., and my father was a sergeant. how can you stop me from crossing? today

nick paton walsh was there at the scene as chaos unfolded and filed this report. >> reporter: it had been billed as a new dawn, when the opposition planned waves of venezuelan refugees would simply take aid back into their homeland, across the busiest border bridge with colombia. but it was closed. blocked physically by venezuelan riot police. and behind them, violent pro-government gangs. the young police taunted or begged into changing sides. i'm venezuelan, she says, holding up her i.d. and my father was a sergeant. how will you stop me crossing? but they were venezuelans too and also here hunger, heat and thirst. the water you're drinking, she says, it is colombian, because your president doesn't give you any. bring him out here to us. i eat or drink soda whenever i want here, he says, but the hardest pain is how my grandfather died because he didn't have medicine. for a brief moment, the anger dissipated. the police lowered their shields, talked calmly. but down the road, the promised aid convoy arrived and a huge crowd, intent on pushing through. tension mounting here, the shie

nick paton walsh, colombia. >>> now to the vatican where pope francis is presiding over the final day of the extraordinary summit on clergy sex abuse. these live images in vatican city now where the pope will be speaking. the catholic church openly addressing the problem of priests sexually exploiting children at the four-day event marked the first time the church acknowledged it destroyed evidence of sex abuse, a practice that went back many decades. delia gallagher is following the story live in rome. what are some of the main points to come out of the final day? >> well, george, the final day is the mass, which you are seeing right now. and then after the mass we will hear from pope francis. and, you know, going into this, the pope was saying he wants concrete steps to come out of this summit. so now the pressure is on them to actually produce those steps. we don't yet know what they will be, but based on the way the discussions have been going, one point might be lifting the pontifical secret on these cases, that is something that victims have been pushing for because it means mak

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cnn correspondent nick paton walsh has details for us. >> reporter: an extraordinary day of symbolismconcert put on by billionaire sir richard branson. it's coming to an end here. a lot of here staying here to be a part of tomorrow's bit for the aid at the border. it shows the festivities, the music, it's not really been being pat of it, it's about getting people here to show unity and force humanitarian aid across the border tomorrow. so the key that we've seen in the last hours really here, the opposition leader, the self-declared juan guide dough guaido, and he's posed for a family paragraph. a remarkable show of regional unit around this opposition leader. but also a key sign of defiance by juan guaido who has been banned by maduro's supreme court in venezuela from leaving the country. regardless, he came here. we don't know his plans for being here. whether he plans to cross the border tomorrow. or bring aid across or plans to stay here. tensions are going to rise overnight. this stage behind me should be dismantled very quickly in the hours ahead. and the feeling now is whether

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our nick paton walsh reported from amid the clashes all weekend and joins us live from bogota, colombiaard to get our hands on an exact number. the u.n. commissioner for human rights saying four people dead, 300 injured. and the question now becomes, where do we go from here? what does the u.s. do next? >> absolutely. that's the key question about a street away from where i'm standing here. mike pence heading into meetings with regional leaders. the initial mood music, there has to be a peaceful solution. but one they say in which involves juan guaido, the self-declared president running the country. it's clear in their minds maduro is finished. the point is after the scenes of the weekend where a peaceful passage of humanitarian aid designed to boost guaido's support simply didn't get anywhere. and you saw those awful scenes of how that was prevented. the question is what's the next step in the american arsenal? mike pompeo, john bolton, the secretary of state national security adviser talking about sanctions, further isolation. are we going to hear more of that today or is there a nex

. >> reporter: nick paton walsh shows us the desperation fueling those deadly clashes. >> reporter: itbilled as a new dorm when refugees would simply take aid back in their homeland across the busiest border bridge with colombia but it was closed blocked by venezuelan riot police. i'm venezuelan she says, holding up her i.d. my father was a sergeant. how would you stop me crossing? but they were venezuelans, too, and also knew its collapse, its hunger. the water you're drinking, she says, it's colombian, because your president doesn't give you any. bring him out here to us. >> translator: i eat or drink soda whenever i want here, he says. the hardest pain is how my grandfather died because he didn't have medicine. for a brief moment, the anger dissipated. the police lowered their shields, talked calmly. but down the road the promised aid convoy arrived and a huge crowd, intent on pushing through. shields have gone back up again and the protesters are recommending people start to move back. >> reporter: this was why. slow march of opposition protesters. peaceful in as far as they would

nick paton walsh. t of the groups here are now more terrified of those, sort of, crazy islamist radicals across the border in syria than they ever have been of each other. >> anthony: what would you call this neighborhood? what is it? >> nick: i mean, it's now one of the kind of very mixed refugee areas that beirut has. >> anthony: close to two million people from syria alone. >> nick: yeah. >> anthony: that's a hell of a lot to be absorbed by a tiny little nation of, what, four point five million? >> nick: it's just loads of people, far too many people, with nowhere to go. you see it in how the cell phones don't sometimes work the way they should, how people have to ship water into their own homes. that's part bad infrastructure, but it's also just the sheer demand on resources. >> anthony: we'll follow you? >> najem: okay. for the first time in history a palestinian leads an american. that's nice. >> nick: don't let the neighbors know about that. >> najem: yes. >> anthony: in syria mr. najem was an en

nick paton walsh has more from bogota. >> reporter: vice president mike pence's visit on monday to bbout sharing as much solidarity as possible after the violence of last weaken and e violence of last weaken ankend came with many am lies to express that solidarity. in fact assuring the opposition leader juan guaido here on a rare tripies to express that solidarity. in fact assuring the opposition leader juan guaido here on a rare triplies to express that solidarity. in fact assuring the opposition leader juan guaido here on a rare triplies to express that solidarity. in fact assuring the opposition leader juan guaido here on a rare trip that optino options a taken off the table. >> what we've seen in the last two days wasn't a bold stroke by a triumphant leader. it was the desperate act of a tyrant clinging to power with violence and intimidation. our efforts will not only continue, they will be increased. despite maduro's brutality, we will press on. >> reporter: the question is, with this renewed statement of solidarity, what next. there is no new time table for trying to get human

. >> the singing has started there again with nick paton walsh is. thank you for that report.ing patriot's owner robert kraft -- new england patriot's owner robert kraft was caught in a prostitution crackdown. a warrant for him has not yet been processed. but the "herald" business reporter jonathan ahn nathan am us. they said they categorically deny he is involved. do bostonians believe him? >> reporter: right. so right now a lot of folks we spoke to are holding a wait and see attitude. they want to see, wait until all the facts come out before they make a decision. locally, you know, is influential in the area, greater boston area. he has a philanthropy foundation. they've given over $400 million by his own account to a lot of non-profits in boston. a lot right now still are having this wait and see attitude. >> the human trafficking component is what's so pivotal here. let's be very clear. can you clarify for us, is not particularly being tied to the human trafficking element of this, correct? >> reporter: that's correct. so he's right now being charged with two campaign 200

. >> cnn's nick paton walsh has much more on this.this has on maduro and the worsening crisis in venezuela? >> reporter: well, this is sort of of a two pronged thing here for juan guaido. he just held a minute's silence inside there with mike pence especially for those who lost their lives in the violence over the weekend, five by one count, 300 people injured. that is not normal in this particular crisis at all. this was a symbolic day where it ended in violent scenes. this meeting today is good for juan guaido because here he is with all of venezuela's regional allies and the united states pledging their full support. many of his supporters referring to nicolas maduro as the former president of venezuela. he is still in charge inside the country thmpt second problem for juan guaido is getting back because he is here in colombia. he left for the first time since he declared himself president on friday to declare an aid concert. does he become a leader in exile or try to go back in? we have heard from the united states that more measu

cnn's nick paton walsh is on the venezuela/colombia border right now and cnn's isa soares is in caracas, let's start with you. tear gas and clashes involving riot police earlier today. you were in the middle of all of it. what is it like there right now? >> reporter: i have to tell you, iran, we pulled back from slightly the border area, but literally in the last half hour or so, there were some really quite violent scenes, i must say. still about nine hours or so after the first standoff began there, we continually heard tear gas. the aid trucks that were trying to get across, they pulled back, but the clashes are still going on and the scenes we saw were ugly, i must say. they seem to have found a couple of the pro-government protesters, thugs, and they dragged them out, heavily beaten. and the colombian police had to step in, frankly, from being lynched by the opposition protesters en masse there. but that sense of standoff, stone throwing, tear gas were carrying on until now, which is almost dusk, although thing the feeling on that particular crossing is they won't be able to get th

nick paton walsh, colombia. >>> let's talk about this with jennifer mccoy.fer, a professor of political science at georgia state university. joining us far from atlanta, georgia, in budapest. >> thank you. >> juan guaido, set to meet with mike pence in colombia. this is on the heels of welcoming dozens of military defectors from his native venezuela. how strong is guaido's hand right now, compared to nicholol madu madu maduro? >> maduro controls the security forces and the government institutions. but guaido has strong international backing. and the population is med up and frustrated. i think he will continue to receive their support for some time, until they -- if nothing happens, they may give up. maduro, i think, showed weakness over this weekend because he seemed to have to rely on the gangs, as well as reports that he may be preparing prisoners to help turn back protesters. so, that shows a weakness if he does not have faith in his national guard and in his military, or if the deflections continue to grow. >> that would be significant, turning to priso