humanitarian aid to colombia a symbolic gesture to show what he calls is a hypocrisy by the colombian government giving aids to in as well an organizing at the spite the fact that the country has problems of its own i have here in conclusion what about one. going to turn up where you are. he has been traveling for about four hours he is planning to arrive this evening to the van as well inside where the venezuelan concert is going to take place let s not forget that he cannot leave his country despite the fact that he has proclaimed himself president of venezuela authorities are still not necessarily obeying him and that is the risk here we do not know how events are going to unfold because there is uncertainty about what orders the military will have both in venezuela and colombia. get us reporting thank you. back here in germany the issue of abortion is currently the subject of a fierce debate abortion is
situation on the border intensifies shortages of essential foods and medicines have already driven millions to flee venezuela. and a short while ago i spoke to deal with his latin america correspondent javier i get us he s in town in the town of kuta right now and i asked him to tell us what s happening around him. pilot i will we are located at the cmon believe it a bridge is one of the bridges connecting colombia and venezuela back there what you can see is venezuela colombia at the border is just a few steps in the front and what you re seeing here is the face of the crisis in venezuela people going back and forth crossing the border into colombia to get food and medicine that they can either not afford or simply not find in their home country authorities here have reported that in the last few days there has been an increased influx of migrants that are trying to get these products they are stockpiling afraid of what could happen during the weekend and dad has let the
a trace mexican police blame local criminals and believe the weapons. that got caught showed leniency to five defendants accused of being involved in the illegal arms sales to were given suspended sentences while three were acquitted. activists who want germany to scale back the highly profitable arms manufacturing sector say the case shows that the country is too cavalier about selling guns throughout the world germany approves some six point two billion arm sales in the year twenty seventeen. british billionaire richard branson is organizing a concert in colombia in an effort to raise funds and awareness for crisis stricken venezuela some two hundred fifty thousand people are expected to attend the concert in the small colombian border town of kuta president nicolas maduro is we re portably planning a rival concert on the other side of the border in venezuela on news comes as the
military intervention is also considering closing the border with colombia now and meantime rival concerts are being planned at that very border one staged by british billionaire richard branson on the colombian side the other an across mother up on the venezuelan side by comes as the situation on the colombian border intensifies shortages of essential foods and medicines have already driven millions to flee venezuela and earlier i had the opportunity to speak to you he is a latin america correspondent have yet to get us he s. in the colombian border town of kuta and i asked him to tell us what s happening around him. pilot i will we are located at the seimone border leave out of bridges one of the bridges connect in colombia and venezuela back there what you can see is venezuela colombia at the border is just a few steps in the front and what you re seeing here is the face of the crisis in venezuela people going back and forth crossing the border into colombia to get food