we're joined now in the studio by ophelia harms a receipt from our lesson american desk ophelia just returned from colombia tell us the majority government is blocking delivery of aid from colombia it's piled up there at the border what is the government's justification for blocking that aid well my dear oh says this is a power show from the opposition a show that is backed by u.s. powers powers that he things are interested in the oil reserves of his country and he also keeps denying the humanitarian crisis that is becoming evident has been becoming evident for years he has been denying it for years but now we see two point three million people fleeing the country and three hundred thousand in risk of death that is why this humanitarian help is becoming more. and more urgent that's what the u.s. and the opposition are saying now the opposition leader who is backed by a number of foreign governments including the united states and germany he's called for more protests ophelia just how likely is that that we will see a showdown at the border well why don't has put up a website he has

the clergy to justice the pontiff was speaking at the end of a four day vatican summit to stop it ophelia in the church the gathering took place amid an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests and evidence that their superiors concealed their crimes in his address francis promised the church would end its culture of cover ups and decisively confront perpetrators zero point two reaffirm that the church will spare no effort to do the truth all it is necessary to bring to justice who. has committed such crimes. the church will never seek to hush up to take seriously any case but. let's go right away to our religious affairs correspondent in rome the pope has promised decisive action against abuse what's your reaction to his speech today. well i mean it was really it was really quite impressive mainly because i think it amounts to essentially a there to ration of war you know when to to a large degree of the collation of a civil war within the church so it's very important to see into consideration that this was a statement made in this hell of a would only for journalist press and

clergy to justice the pontiff was speaking at the end of a four day vatican summit to address head ophelia and the church amid an avalanche of allegations against catholic priests and evidence their superiors concealed their crimes francis promised the church would end its culture of silence and decisively confront perpetrator. evil is within the catholic church according to pope francis and the time for apologies is over. no explanation suffice for these abuses involving two men. in front of an audience of international bishops francis spoke not just of human sin but of intentional crimes and the need for justice. and i would like to reaffirm that the church will spend no effort to do all that is necessary to bring to justice whosoever has committed such crimes as. the church will never seek to hush up or not take seriously any case but. pope francis says an all out battle is necessary to rid the church of a culture of sexual abuse and cover ups but survivors criticized how much time the pope spent pointing out that child sex abuse wasn't limited to the catholic church . one said his spee

threatened by this as well w's ophelia herm's a rudy thank you for. the next we're going to turn our attention to madagascar and fish the island lies off the coast of east africa and is surrounded by some of the continent's richest fishing stocks for generations a traditional community known as the these old was fished has fished the waters rather of the indian ocean but they say the arrival last year of chinese fishing trawlers off the coast now threatens to disrupt the already fragile balance between man and see. the fisherman and a cow holes in his net. the small community in southwest america has been fishing like this for generations but now their way of life is under threat. several huge chinese fishing trawlers started casting their nets of the sure of on a cow last year the local fisherman with a small wooden boats can't compete with his industrial fishing operation. feel like it's bad for us it's a tough competition because the chinese nets a huge galloping catch many fish as for me i'm just using a small net i can't get that many fish. and t

latin america desk with us a covering the story for us hi ophelia we just heard one of those say they're a peaceful democratic transition is that really possible when in the same interview he's essentially accusing president maduro of making moves that lead to genocide well we all we all hope that it's going to be a peaceful transition we have been very tense in the past couple of days following this story because of the crisis at the border calling it a genocide i think is a bit difficult it's certainly been a myth mismanagement of the oil resources in venezuela for years but. calling it a genocide is going a bit far but as you mentioned before there are three hundred thousand people that are in of risk of dying if the medicine doesn't come in early and we have seen two point three million people fleeing the country because of this economic crisis that has been going on for years now so people in the country also feeling facing a dire situation we know the mother of government is blocking that aid at the border at the same time we also heard though in that interview say that they had di

and help explain what's at stake i'm now joined here in the studio by correspondent ophelia harm cerruti who has just returned from the region who has reported for us from venezuela as well always great having you here what is so threatening about aid well it's not the aid itself it's where it's coming from it's the u.s. and mr munder all is sure that our arcus trading a military intervention in his country and he things because of the interest they have in the big oil reserves in manila he keeps denying there's a humanitarian crisis and so he has said that as well as our no beggars to be accepting this what are you hearing from your sources about what's unfolding right now along the border well we know the blockade is still on the convoy though has left the capital bogota with thirty to forty tons of humanitarian aid and it's about to arrive in the bordering town but that makes the urge for this blockade to end even even more urgent because well it has to eventually will probably just there. right yeah exactly so what's so striking about this power battle at the heart of the crisis righ

landmark four day meeting in vatican city pope francis says concrete measures are needed to use bite at ophelia and tens of thousands of people have rallied across the baki accusing the government of inaction over the death of a journalist it's been a year since investigative reporter jan was shot along with his fiance and what prosecutors say was a contract killing. the rescue missions been called off after fire tore through several buildings in bangladesh's capital dhaka at least seventy people were killed and more than forty others are injured and japanese ferric spacecraft has landed on an asteroid thought to be as old as our solar system or celebrations of the exploration agency and it's where the protests down explore is expected to return in two thousand and twenty with samples of the asteroid for the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more to come out as her world is up next. yet. in two thousand and six a serial killer or killers had moved undetected around germany for six years killing seven ethnic turks and one ethnic greek since the murder of envy in nuremberg in two thousand