and where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle. is this radical transformation. i mean. to me that if you want to shedding light on the remaining pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people at this time i'll just zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero. zero zero attack and kabul at least forty people

killed in the afghan capital and dozens more injured. another this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. unicef says global humanitarian law fails to protect children and times of war. crisis intensifies leaving drivers keurig for petrol for up to ten hours plus. if people have the leisure to do whatever they want to. be less frustrated by the hassles they have that we're. preparing for a world where robots take over and do most of the labor. at least forty people have been killed another thirty injured and multiple

explosions in a compound in afghanistan's capital kabul its act happened in a shared district in the west of the city the blasts hit the office of the news agency afghan voice has been no immediate claim of responsibility but the taliban says it was not involved in the attacks. joins us live now from kabul up to update us on what we know about this attack. well we know now that. there were two attackers involved according to the government here they said that the suicide bombing has kids at least forty and out on thirty people were wounded but some some sources putting the figures much more higher because some of the wounded people were shipped were carried out by the family members to to their homes or maybe to private hospitals but the government

gives only figures of what they have received in there in the government hospital now the hospital that is dealing with the wounded people is overwhelmed there are many injured people that are in serious in serious condition requires blood and a number of people have rushed to the hospital trying to do now this center that has become the target of this suicide bombing is a center believed to be back by that you down in government it was established off to the taliban regime fall now. today this attack happened when there was a ceremony or an event taking place they vent was about. they invaded celebrating the thirty eight and the versity of the soviet invasion into afghanistan they called it the black death of again this time now that this event

was taking place in a come pounds basement and we know that the attacker. have entered the compound and that's why it has caused so much casualties the government says that these casualties are all civilian president ashraf ghani has put out a statement by strongly condemning this attack and he said that. this incident will be totally investigate. now the united nations mission in afghanistan has also condemned this. but the team of human rights worker on the ground or on the ground trying to find out what happened ok many thanks for that update we'll come back to you as and when we get more information about claims of responsibility and start for the moment thanks very much for joining us now in conflict zones across the globe children are being used as both targets and as weapons and that's the conclusion from

a report by unicef most children of long suffer during war time the report says the situation worldwide has weak shocking levels as children have become front line targets and often used as human shields many are recruited to fight for the slaves meant to become standard tactics the conflict in yemen has been one of the worst for children in two thousand and seventeen with five thousand killed or injured u.n. agency says there is widespread disregard for international laws designed to protect young people. i'm just tired has more on the dire situation for refugees around the middle east. winter in the moderate refugee camp in lebanon's eastern because valley is not easy. last year for several months shelters which are made out of bits of wood and plastic sheeting were blanketed in snow warm clothes are often in short supply and fuel can be expensive or hard to find. really to help vulnerable refugees prepare for the cold temperatures the u.s.

refugee agency offers cash and other assistance to those who most need it so far around six hundred fifty thousand refugees have received some form of help but many others are still doing without they need more c one in winter to keep warm they blankets they need more food they need medicine because of the diseases that spread more easily in the winter season. according to the u.n. h.c.r. more than three point eight million refugees and internally displaced people in syria lebanon iraq turkey jordan and egypt need winter assistance a cold weather program which began last month is aimed at helping the most vulnerable families they receive a mixture of cash assistance building materials to repair and weatherproof shelters and winter items including thermal blankets gas heaters and warm clothes but of the two hundred twenty eight million dollars needed to finance this year's winter program so far only one hundred forty three million dollars has been received

a shortfall of nearly forty percent today we are facing funding shortfalls which forces you and other aid agencies to target the assistance that we are able to deliver to the families who are most in need the poorest of the poor unfortunately we know that many other families who are also do not have access to this assistance today and while syrian refugees and internally displaced children face another winter away from their homes according to unicef children have been used as human shields trapped under siege targeted by snipers and lived through intense bombardment and violence unicef is demanding all parties involved in the fighting abide by international laws so that children like bees don't have to suffer in. well one place where the report's findings can be seen to take a dramatic form is lebanon which has just under a million syrian refugees conditions are especially bleak with the oncoming winter then one hundred has more from the camp and the back. conditions are miserable for

syrian refugees in lebanon during the winter it becomes even more difficult for them to survive according to the united nations many of them are vulnerable many of them live in extreme poverty many of them are in debt and they need really help to survive that this takes released by the united nations shows that there are less than one million registered refugees with the u.n. now this is the first time since two thousand and fourteen the number dropped below one million according to the united nations many of them approximately fifty thousand have been resettled in third countries under the u.n. program while thousands have returned to syria they don't have exact figures but thousands have returned now many people here will tell you we want to go back home but we can't either because there are towns and villages and cities are are destroyed they have nothing to return to and there are many others who are scared to go back because they are wanted by the government and the government really has been taking over control of recapturing a lot of territory so the question is how are these people who are wanted by the

state or who are afraid to be forced into the army return home this is an issue that is not being addressed by the international community. because of evacuees a second group of critically ill patients from eastern guta a rebel held area and syria's capital damascus four people were taken from there on wednesday at least one person is refusing to leave arrest by the assad government the u.n. called for five hundred people in need of medical care to be allowed to leave but only twenty nine cases have been given approval at least eighteen people have died . un says sixty eight yemeni civilians have been killed in just in just one day from two saudi led air strikes the coalition has intensified its air campaign against the positions following the death of former president ali abdullah saleh earlier this month the first air strike on choose day has a crowded market entire province killing fifty four civilians including eight children the second killed fourteen people from the same family in the red sea

province of hard data. a teenage palestinian girl recently found slapping israeli soldiers in her village is about to pen israeli military court had to mean he was detained understand the nineteenth in a raid on her home and he is now is how he forces his outside the off of prison how does what's likely to happen in court today. where the question is whether her detention and out of her mother and her sister will be extended or whether she will be freed obviously her legal team is arguing that she should be freed there is we have to wait and find out exactly what happens in this case which starts in less than an hour if it starts on time as you say this was a video which quickly went viral here both in terms of palestinians who were celebrating her actions and out of her sister all of this captured on video by

their mother. as the slapped and challenged these israeli soldiers near the village of not be sally. as it's also really gripped the israeli society as well have been debating the reactions of the soldiers who didn't carry out any retaliation at that time although obviously some time later in the dead of night all three of them were arrested and they've been in detention since how you got the only tyler c going the military the israeli military court and guessing lots of attention from the media. no that's right there's the other case of another teenager from hebron fozzie the young boy who was seen surrounded by more than twenty israeli soldiers as he was arrested the day after the donald trump declaration about jerusalem part of the protests of that against that and he was there blindfolded being kept being taken away now he is out of custody he was released on bail yesterday on

a bail of nearly three thousand u.s. dollars and his testimony is being real. by his lawyer is he saying that he was beaten as he was arrested after his arrest he suffered a broken shoulder his legal team is now. mounting a legal challenge against the israeli army as a result and really it's part of a wider narrative that activists are trying to to make clear here that a lot of young palestinians minors are arrested as a matter of course by the israeli military hundreds every year one hundred seventy just in these december protests since the donald trump announcement and that is something that that they say needs to change that two thirds of those in a recent survey of young palestinian miners say that they've suffered some kind of physical abuse at the hands of israeli forces during these detentions have a force that thanks very much for the update. still ahead here on al-jazeera two

years after it was first reported the true costs of brazil decal break and legend. and despite protests argentina's government moves ahead with sweeping economic reform. hello there we've got yet more snow falling in japan it really has me very very wintery here you can see the area of low pressure though beginning to spiral away towards the east but still plenty of winds coming from the northwest at the moment and it's those that are picking up the moisture and giving us all a snow so most of the snow then forty across this western side and that's where we're going to see the snow again on friday mostly in the west a mostly in the news from parts of honshu elsewhere though she draw a force in tokyo ten degrees where we are maximum force in beijing some will be around five some clouds working its way across us not really bringing us much in

the way of wet weather is talk quietly that will be working its way through the korean peninsula there as we head into saturday and then further towards the south of here is generally quite quiet for us at the moment twelve degrees the maximum in shanghai so fairly mild you can see the cloud a building here and that's going to be a developing feature as we head through the next day or so so do expect some rain on this as we head through saturday and that's going to intensify as we head into sunday too i mean further towards the south and for some of us in borneo it's been very wet so we've seen a lot of prolonged rain over the past day or so that's still going to be a feature of the weather as we head through friday the wettest of the weather there i think is in the north this time. to be a. teacher or draw strucken likely to be. cut

down the blood. flow. to somebody new she was the weapon of choice the stronger the bullets with documentary but this time on zero zero. zero again you're watching out of there has reminded of our top stories this hour. at least forty people have been killed and another thirty injured after multiple explosions in a compound in the afghan capital kabul the blasts hits a shia muslim cultural center the news agency afghan voice. you know as nations as

warning the scale of attacks on children in conflict zones worldwide as weak shocking levels and says there is widespread and blatant disregard for international laws designed to protect the young. and aide workers of a second group of critically ill patients from eastern guta a rebel held area near syria's capital damascus these one person is refusing to leave fearing arrest by the assad government. by geria is in the midst of a severe fuel shortage causing large queues at petrol stations across the country is that to a thriving black market where some vendors are selling petula double the approved government prices. reports from. the queue is more than a kilometer long i need to come in future like most stations across nigeria. this one is directly opposite nigeria's oil company yet it's not dispensing fuel to motorists some have been waiting ten hours i've been going to see is the last night

on algae does money there is no even sign of viable moving from this position to even hope of getting if way for decades official corruption has crippled the country's four old refineries the nigerian government imported what it needed through a subsidy system but that was hijacked by corrupt officers and businessmen at the heart of the current crisis is the demand by retailers for any of you in costs and increasing supplies in two thousand and sixteen when the government stopped subsidizing petrol the cost of a liter jumped by sixty percent the queues disappeared at least for a year now they are back and nigerians are seeing big increases in full and transportation costs. the government blames the shortages on marketers which says one to force up prices by bit double as you had a source their products said that they were good to include as a populist orbital approach because of the level of this country has moved from

about the to me only does but the fifty meter lead does but the question arises where is this extra oil no one had in along the major streets and highways caucus have plenty of petrol on offer but at three times selfish and price market to say there is a shortfall and most cannot import enough to meet the demand they deny they are holding the country to run so there is a government a shot for where and because you have come to salt in fourth or fifth or long problem there is no we're. an independent medical we import everyone product which we know the lending causes the bad one seventy one. which is eight cents more than the government approved price of forty cents a liter. the impact of the crisis has a knock on effect at the markets. for muslims everywhere they are alarmed by that the cost of everything has gone up from transportation to other's presence up

double everyone is affected by the problem. the government says it's flooding the market with more petrol but right now most nigerians are worried about how to get from one point to another and the rising prices of food. committee al-jazeera object. a form as a general who helped push out of the garbage has been sworn in as vice president constantino to ngo share the row with kember mahdi a long serving state security minister during a retired from the military last week as her version and that of other army generals and deepening concerns about the relationship between the military and the new government the outbreak of physical virus two years ago cause a global health emergency many cases were in the northeastern brazil where the illness was linked to an increase in babies born with a condition that's a very limited that development their children and now toddlers and the extent of their health problems is becoming painfully clear as john heilemann reports from a safe parents are getting little help from the government. two years after

the sikh epidemic brazil and the world moved on. but not just and elisei still here. she's one of almost three thousand babies who were born with microcephaly and underdeveloped head and brain cools. the majority likely say we're in the north east of the country we're now just zero first visited receive thing in two thousand and sixteen and i just said the government was yet to help them let's what's changed. no the government assistance for a few families i know some of them in my case i've never received anything it's been more than two years and we haven't got a thing. he leases medicine is so expensive the family's income can't cover it they have to rely on donations from friends niger nurses have around the clock but her

conditions getting worse by seeing the mill caught up in the meeting i don't have too much hope from the bottom of my heart is hard for a mother to say that but i can imagine alison ten years time in fifteen years time i don't dream about it that is why i like to make things happen today. yes it is. elise a and others ecosoc to children receive receive free rehabilitation from a foundation partly funded by the government but it's overwhelmed one hundred fifty is stuck on the waiting list all the time getting deeper amazed in the semi blindness and muscle stiffness that typifies the condition wife camilla ventura says they need more funds we try not to let people forget about seeka and because you know we still have all these children and we still have a burden and it's and it's involves the government but also a public health. issue that has to be addressed and never forgotten the government

says that it hasn't forgotten as well as engaging in a massive campaign to eradicate the mosquito which carries you seek a virus it since are infected about fifty million dollars in rehabilitation centers like this one and next year it's promised eight million dollars more. at a christmas party for children with red diseases we met not to gain with of the mothers who say they haven't seen enough money they feel they're struggling alone enjoying small moments in the midst of a lifelong battle for them and their children. john home and i would visit a receipt say presume. so. experts in artificial intelligence say the world is unprepared for the enormous changes automation is bringing to the global economy the world bank is warning that

economies of developing countries could collapse because of the rise of automation and robotics but some say artificial intelligence could help us create an almost perfect world explores their concerns in the final part of our series brave new world. the future is coming and it's going to affect all of us it's widely accepted that millions of jobs are going to disappear but we may not have to work we might get paid for having fun and in this future the robots and algorithms that will replace us could either reduces to poverty or set us free this is the time of apocalypse and utopia and this is a time where we have to start thinking concretely about how so in vision a better world out of the kind of. the collapse of this world. optimists say things could be wonderful machines do nearly all the work money disappears as things a creative force automation science negates climate change crops are grown in the

deserts we create meet in our own homes. and as a species we develop because we no longer spend our time doing boring tasks to feed our children i think we might well experience a near a nice arms of creativity and of social interaction in a very positive way if people have the leisure to do whatever they want to do very will be less frustrated by the hassles they have at work. they will be more fearful because they'll be doing the things that interest them. it may sound a long way away after all at the moment robots only do one thing at a time like this one making car doors but what if one can do all the things that week in previous industrial revolutions change was measurable people call it live. the difference with the fourth industrial revolution is that change is exponential which means it goes faster and faster all the time and it's expected that within

about a generation from now a machine will be built which is better than a human and that changes everything futurologists point to a problem where all the world politicians discussing these things with their electorates artificial intelligence is barely mentioned in western election campaigns yet already jobs are disappearing as the robots take over. the global tech giants who in future will control vost resources are discussing privately what their responsibilities to us will be but they would rather not talk about it in public. every ai expert believes the transition to worklessness that we as humans are in barking on must be addressed now we all understood this was coming i suspect the shocks will be lower and we can start to try to mitigate against it immediately if you understand that eventually most of the population will be unable to do traditional work then you can start introducing systems to cope with it was at the moment that you sound like saying let's spend more benefits which when you have

that linear view of the world isn't really an acceptable way in british or western european politics to think the question is what we're going to do about it and so for us we believe that we need to organize citizens worldwide to recognize first of all this is actually going to change a lot of things and already is but crucially where do you stand on this what do you believe and how are you going to get involved in debates actually needs to progress in in how you perceive it. artificial intelligence could be the best thing ever to happen to humanity but in the absence of a global political debate about its benefits the risk is that it's seen instead is a terrifying a direct threat to us. the world will be a very different place in a generation from now it is surely time for the people to be involved in what it will look like. al-jazeera. south korea says it will be anonymous trading in

digital currencies the government wants to crack down on money laundering schemes using them two weeks ago so this financial firms from dealing in virtual money after price of a big coin in other currencies soared sparking fears of a bubble software accounts for around twenty percent of global bitcoin transactions . argentina's president is pressing ahead with a reform agenda that includes tax and pension reforms congress has approved his two thousand and eighteen budget plan which he says will spur growth but as traceable. opponents warn the changes will only hurt the most vulnerable. three vegetables in front of congress when a site is well senators gather to vote inside in the last session this year farmers brought twenty thousand kilos of their produce to give away to those in need of us all like we are here so that senators know the what they vote for has an impact on people's lives costs have gone up for everyone inflation transport energy what we

want to share and draw attention to the demands that this government needs to do a lot more. was elected two years ago with a mandate to rein in government spending and rejuvenate argentina's lagging economy after years of the center left presidency of cristina fernandez the commissioner the government of the so market has pushed to have a series of laws that it says will make argentina's economy more competitive like reforming the pension and tax system but there are many here who disagree they say that the government reforms are benefiting corporations and north the country's most vulnerable. among them i people. she's retired and says she couldn't miss the opportunity of getting some free food for us you know you find the pension i get is not enough and what i'm buying now would cost me a lot i worked all my life and now i can barely survive. despite scoring

a resounding victory in october's congressional elections mackey spent reform sparked a violent protest last week in one of scientists that left dozens of people injured and new legislation changed the way pension increases are calculated which could end up hurting the elderly and those who depend as. social security. the government said they were for him to restore order to argentina's chronically imbalance fiscal accounts it's in italy and what the the path of the argentinean economy is very tight with the possibility of crises along the way but for now i believe the government has a clear idea of what it wants to do it's trying to open up the economy to the world after years of financial isolation. argentina has a history of economic crises that have left millions living in poverty even though the government insists economic reforms will lead to a brighter future there are many who doubt that the government's plans will turn

out well. how will. this. culture minister has resigned following the controversial pardoning of ex-president alberto fujimori salvador del sol it was a fierce opponent of the decision for jim murray who is serving a twenty five year term for human rights abuses and corruption was last week moved from jail to hospital present had republican since he denies the pardon was part of a deal to avoid his own impeachment on corruption allegations but it hasn't stopped thousands of people from taking to the streets to protest the decision it's been more than a white christmas in the northeastern u.s. state of pennsylvania with a record breaking one and a half meters of snow in forty eight hours the city of areas had to declare a state of emergency residents have taken social media to post pictures and videos of a winter wonderland of sorts topping the phenomenon snowmageddon on twitter. this

is out there these are the top stories at least forty people have been killed and another thirty injured after most clicks patients in a compound in the afghan capital kabul the blasts had to share muslim cultural center and the news agency afghan voice a pillar so hood has more from kabul what we know now that. the two attackers involved according to the government here the suicide bombing has killed at least forty and thirty people were wounded but some some sources putting the figures much more higher because some of the wounded people were were carried out by the family members two to their homes or maybe two of progress hospitals the u.n. is warning the scale of attacks on children in conflict zones worldwide has reached shocking levels in

a report unicef says there is widespread and blatant disregard for international laws designed to protect the young aide workers evacuated a second group of critically ill patients from a rebel held area near syria's capital damascus that is one person is refusing to leave fearing arrest by the assad government the u.n. says sixty eight yemeni civilians were killed in just one day from two saudi led as strikes coalition has intensified its ad campaign against the positions following the death of former president earlier this month the first airstrike on tuesday had a crowded market and entire province killing fifty four civilians including eight children a second killed fourteen people from the same family in the red sea province of data. a teenage palestinian girl recently israeli soldiers in her village is set to appear in israeli military court. was detained in a police raid on her home on the nineteenth of december the video went viral and

she's being seen as a symbol of the palestinian resistance former zimbabwe in general who helped push has been sworn in as vice president. will share the role with kember mojave a long serving state security minister retired from the military last week. those are your headlines more news continuing here on al-jazeera that's after inside story to stay with us. journalists know war the us is the united nation's budget by more than a quarter of a billion dollars but why is washington squeezing the u.n. and what's the long term implications of this this is inside story.