or if you join us on saying you know you will for just wakes up over the morning and says i want to cover the world in darkness this is a dialogue and that could be what's leading to some of the confusion online about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera is no one way of telling a story key thing is to write and to respect us about this is great we have to get to know the person for he tells. her. i still says it carried out an attack on a shared cultural center in kabul which has killed at least forty people. and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up targeted in their homes

schools and playgrounds unicef warns that attacks on children have reached shocking levels a severe fuel shortage in nigeria these motorists queuing as many as ten hours for petrol. and why experts say artificial intelligence could lead to an almost perfect world or to the collapse of civilization. we begin in afghanistan where suicide bombers have stormed a shia cultural center and news agency in the afghan capital killing at least forty people and eighty four people were wounded many of them suffering burns came as a center hosted a panel discussion on the anniversary of the soviet invasion of afghanistan i still have claimed responsibility that reports. explosions followed by a rush to assist the injured and count the victims. it's become

a familiar ritual especially in kabul where the afghan capital has seen its share of bombings this year this time the target was a shiite muslim cultural center and the neighboring afghan voice news agency that often goes your blood after i saw many dead in the area i was looking for my cousin but i couldn't find his body i'm not sure what happened but the number of dead is increasing. the interior ministry says suicide attackers set off an explosion outside the center then stormed it and set off more explosives in the basement it was midday on thursday and a group had gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the one nine hundred seventy nine soviet invasion of afghanistan the middle of a cover just when the explosion went off we scapes from the room where we were working and went to the rooftop we sold a small in flames coming from the basement. taliban immediately issued a statement denying involvement. an analyst tells his era

given that this attack was in a shiite neighborhood this appears to be the work of eisele. he says the armed group has been targeting the shiite community this year as well as media outlets the isis you know what is in order to make a mark media has not been providing them enough amount of coverage that they have been seeking juliet activities and so they have been targeting the media outlets as here in capital kabul as well as in the region in order to make sure they get weiss is raised. in may a truck bomb killed more than one hundred fifty people in kabul in what has been described as one of the worst attacks in recent memory afghans are trapped by violence from eisel and the taliban and what critics say is the inability of security forces to protect them. anger has led to protests and calls for

resignations in the government analysts say what i saw lacks the numbers it makes up for in tactics. an orchestra but the sophistication of the operation and the amount of exactness impreciseness in the air operations that do usually target with little the strength are little amount of import that create a lot of women and their jobs of achieving strategic objectives the people at the cultural center were looking back and remembering a dark time or black day as it's called in afghanistan when the soviets invaded for the families of the victims thursday's attack has become another black day natasha going to aim to zero. thanks. the u.n. says sixty eight yemeni civilians were killed in two separate airstrikes by the

saudi led coalition in just one day the first air raid on tuesday is a crowded market in tires killing fifty four civilians including eight children the second killed fourteen people from the same family in the red sea province have had died or altogether saudi led airstrikes have killed one hundred nine civilians in the past ten days according to the un's humanitarian coordinator in yemen he accuses all sides in the war of showing complete disregard for human life children are increasingly being used both as targets and weapons of war according to reports by unicef it says the suffering of children in conflict zones has reached shocking levels the report says children have become front line targets and are often used as human shields rape and and slave meant have become standard tactics an increasing number are being recruited to fight in west africa the armed group walk around use an estimated one hundred thirty five child suicide bombers in twenty

seventeen the conflict in yemen has been one of the worst for children this year with funny families and killed or injured unicef also says there is widespread and blatant disregard for international laws designed to protect young people had a huckster has more. this school in mosul stands empty this street makes for dangerous playground as snipers threaten overhead this is what childhood looks like for these families over the course of this year children in conflict zones like here in iraq can single out and attacks unicef says those involved in conflict a blatantly disregarding international humanitarian law is designed to protect the most vulnerable children as normal now that you can target a hospital a group of doctors in syria told me recently when i was in northern turkey how the armed groups wouldn't even come near the hospital because the hospital was more of a target than the armed groups so hospitals and schools are being deliberately

attacked children are being brutalized and it feels like all the rules in war as you say that used to at least protect civilians and children in particular in these terrible wars have all disappeared finally some light relief for people in rebel held eastern go to in damascus after four years of being trapped in middle of the fighting a few patients with urgent medical needs have been allowed to leave. unicef warns millions of children are also become in direct casualties of conflict from being displaced as well as being made homeless this refugee camp in bangladesh is home now for him to refugees from my ma of which four hundred thousand children children who stood by while our soldiers are right on their mothers have shot their father even brutalizes children is out and they're saying to those children they're deliberately doing this. in eastern ukraine many children live by the frontline

they share the scars of living in one of the most modern contaminated place on. the situation is worse in yemen where aid agencies are struggling to help. five thousand children have been killed or injured and many more severely malnourished risk of death a similar situation is unfolding in the democratic republic of congo where violence has driven hundreds of thousands of kids from their homes unicef is appealing to all parties involved in conflicts around the world to stand together and protect the rights of children. is there. a way as we just heard aid workers are evacuating critically ill patients from eastern guta a besieged rebel held area near syria's capital damascus sixteen people have now left as part of a deal with the government under which the rebels are releasing a number of their prisoners but at least one person is refusing to go fearing a site arrest by the assad government last month the u.n.

called for five hundred people in need of urgent medical care to be allowed to leave but only twenty nine cases have been given approval at least eighteen people have died while waiting. the u.s. embassy in ankara says it's lifted all restrictions on visa services and during a month long route it says turkey has met all assurances that local us embassy staff were detained or arrested the us stopped issuing visas in turkey after two staff members were detained at the u.s. consulate in istanbul during a state of emergency in ankara turkey responded by lifting the restrictions it put in place on us citizens but denies now giving any such assurances will was in jordan his life was in washington d.c. to try to make some sense of this so can he just threw that obstacle at the moment rolls we're hearing the u.s. and turkey have lifted these restrictions but the u.s. says it's down to turkish assurances turkey says they were given. well

if you had to basically take a guess as to which country might be telling the truth let's put it this way the u.s. government decided not to issue new visas back in october because of the case involving two of its locally based employees inside turkey the u.s. government would not have decided to resume full. operations at its facilities inside turkey if it did not have these guarantees so the turks may be able to say that they're not offering such assurances but again the u.s. would certainly have the right to go back and stop the visa issuance process again if it felt that it was not actually keeping its word this is of course a dispute that has been going on against the larger backdrop against the tensions

between washington and the two employees who had been arrested had been accused of essential trying to assist in the failed coup that happened in turkey july two thousand and sixteen and that of course is something which the u.s. has strongly denied this is also against the backdrop of the u.s. still refusing to extradite to turkey the cleric the tool of google and who has been living in the united states for some twenty years a man to which the government of president aired one accuses of being behind that attempted coup so this is a significant development but if it comes down to who is telling the truth on whether garrets years have been offered i would say it's probably safe to assume that the u.s. feels that it does have these assurances but at least they seem to have put this to back now but it's don't really showing us that the tensions have eased between at

least trump and i do on sadly the recent tensions are still there. no i mean you still have all of these other problems for toula glenn is still living at his compound in the northeastern united states and the u.s. government has repeatedly said that the turkish government has not presented any evidence that would justify starting the legal process of extraditing mr ghoul and for prosecution there are still the outstanding court cases assault cases here in washington d.c. against a number of security officials with the air to one all to raj they attacked protesters and some members of the media outside the turkish embassy in washington last year those cases are still being perceived continued even though the turkish government says that these security officials had diplomatic immunity the u.s.

said no that's not the case and they need to be prosecuted there is also the ongoing concern about the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel president aaron one has been very critical of that and so all of these issues still outstanding you're still going to see these tensions just the real issuance of visas alone isn't going to be enough to make things one hundred percent ok between the two governments great to get your thoughts on that rose jordan to speak to us from washington d.c. . and israeli military court is deciding whether to extend the detention of a palestinian teenager who was filmed kicking and slapping israeli soldiers this month sixteen year old on how to mimi was arrested last week by israeli troops and faces challenges of attacking soldiers video of the confrontation went viral making to mimi an icon of a new generation of palestinian resistance to israeli occupation. the israeli

parliament has approved a law limiting police powers which critics say is intended to shield prime minister binyamin netanyahu from being investigated over alleged corruption the new legislation stops police from recommending to prosecutors whether to indict suspects once their investigations have finished it also aims to stop the leaks to the media from the investigations an issue which has affected netanyahu is corruption case critics say the law muzzles police and other institutions. had to still to come in this half hour fighting from our side we need the mexican community trying to tackle violence against women one of the world's most dangerous places. and friends and families of slain please offices demonstrate against violence in brazil second city of rio de janeiro.

hello there the weather is all quite quiet for us in the southeastern parts of china at the moment there's plenty of fine weather to be found it's also fairly marked force in shanghai a top temperature of around twelve degrees there is more in the way of cloud here that's ever growing she stretching up through sean ching and that will be intensifying as we head through the next day or so so it looks like we're going to see a fair amount of wet weather on saturday and then watch the system develop over the next few days out towards the west a for many of us in pakistan and through india it's falling and dry and not a great deal of clouds either just the outside chance perhaps of a shower on friday or saturday but i think for most of us it is going to stay dry twenty to the maximum currently in new delhi if we head out towards the west and here in doha it's generally fine into i was a little bit chilly first thing in the morning but i think over the next few mornings it won't be quite as cold so we're looking at around twenty four by the

time we get to the maximum temperature of the day elsewhere we're looking at twenty five there in abu dabi but head down tools and it is a little bit warmer here i think our maximum will be around thirty but with a bit of a breeze it will feel a little bit cooler than the temperatures mainly to expect to out towards the west always molder here meco up at thirty three degrees and force in medina will be twenty eight. contract is gone because you keep shining a career in building full glory. shift our attention to the disaster stricken regions of pakistan building upon traditional techniques and people with the knowledge needed to sustain their societies. architecture the traditional future of this time to see a. welcome

back reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera at least forty people have been killed in a suicide attack on a shia cultural center and news agency in afghanistan's capital kabul children are increasingly being used as targets and weapons of war according to unicef it says the suffering of children in conflict zones has reached shocking levels and the u.n. says sixty eight yemeni civilians were killed and two separate by the saudi led coalition on tuesday included fourteen people from the same family. one site in mexico has classified the murders of more than ninety women this year as acts of femicide

intentional killing of girls and women simply because they all female mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women because of organized crime and human trafficking manuel reports from states where communities are trying to address the issue of gender violence. gabriella molina is a single mother in pueblo mexico who says she lives in fear less than a month ago her younger sister was brutally murdered the victim of a sexual assault the body was found on the side of the road in order for a mentor for her because of the way my sister's body was found at first sight it was deemed and as the newspapers reported she had been strangled. like many places in mexico blows facing a crisis of gender based violence that keeps personal safety in the back of every woman's mind. to help create awareness the government has enlisted the help over

one hundred seventy tortilla shops across the state and wrap up warm tortillas and pamphlets with information about femicide and a number to call if violence against women is suspected somewhere this is a good thing and it benefits us all to help women be informed that last month a prosecutor invade a cruise was murdered outside her work some believe she was targeted because of her efforts to protect women and young girls still experts believe that impunity is the biggest obstacle against dampening the crisis the problem however is also deeply ingrained in the culture it was previous was mostly it's male privilege violence is a male privilege men kill each other on a daily basis and men are also killing women because of their gender because they believe women are worth less or they believe that their lives belong to them and. protest denouncing violence against women are becoming more common in mexico which has among the highest rates of femicide on earth the common slogan among demonstrations is not one more activist in mexico have launched initiatives aimed

at reducing levels of violence against women projects that include everything from gender workshops for cab drivers to interactive database maps like this one that track and catalog cases of femicide all over the country. sister was killed on november eleventh it was the ninetieth case of femicide this year since then there have been five other women murdered have women shouldn't have to end up as a number or as some case file women have a face we don't deserve to be killed or to be hurt or to be threatened or rape not one more not one more women killed in play of or in mexico or in the world. where the mexico. the brazilian city of rio de janeiro is held a memorial to honor the one hundred thirty two police officers killed there this year friends and relatives of the slain officers attended a demonstration in honor of their loved ones as well as placing plaques with their

names along a popular prominent they also displayed uniforms stained with red paint over the past year police in rio de janeiro have faced a surge in criminal gangs and street violence at the same time as department budget cuts yes i'm a formidable as you pointed out this is the way we feel to say the following to society but by the human rights has no side we cannot be selective this is a way to embrace the police corp our solidarity to the relatives of the victims of . brazil's top prosecutor has launched a legal challenge against pardons made by president michel tema just before christmas the traditional pardons are applied to war criminals meeting certain conditions but tenure has been criticised for broadening the rules to include those convicted of corruption related crimes the prosecutor general has requested an injunction to stop parts of the presidential decree she said it would grant impunity to those found guilty over the carwash scandal the country's largest ever

corruption case zimbabwean general who led efforts to push robert mugabe out of power has been sworn in as vice president constantino chiwenga will share the role with cambodia hardy a long serving state security minister when they're retired from the military last week his promotion and that of other army generals is increasing concern about the relationship between the new government and the military. in nigeria many motorists and community commuters have been stranded over the christmas period because of a three week fuel shortage that to a thriving black market where some vendors are selling petrol at double the approved government prices from the capital of richer address reports. the queue is more than a kilometer long and it's a common feature at most pick or 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 through says that's night after 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 that's all 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 forward and transportation costs. the government blames the shortages and marketers who each says want to force up prices by bit double if 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 on these ladies does. or no i have a lot of the major streets and highways caucus have plenty of petrol on offer but at three times the official 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 god on his show for and against you have come to saul in fourth or fifth along problem there is no we're. an independent medical we import everyone photo which we know the london causes the bad ones seven twang. 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 what are those areas where there are a lot more about it the cost of everything has gone up from transportation to

others presence up double everyone's 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. one hundred degrees al-jazeera object. in today's ears narcotics agency has destroyed millions of dollars worth of illegal drugs at a ceremony in jakarta hundreds of kilos of marijuana and millions of narcotic pills went up in smoke thousands of people have been arrested for drug crimes and they'd seen executed in a crackdown under current president yoko widodo more than six million indonesians are believed to be jug users. u.s. president donald trump has been falsely trumpeting the progress he's made while in office. but while he did sign the most urgent station in his first one hundred days in office

he signed the fewest spells in his first year in the white house since dwight eisenhower in the eight one nine hundred fifty s. . defeated alabama republican senate candidate roy moore has made a last ditch effort to challenge the result more lost the race to doug jones who will become the first democrat to hold a seat in twenty five years or more has not conceded defeat and says voter fraud denied him a chance of victory he's found papers challenging the result just hours before jones is due to be sworn in. experts in artificial intelligence say the world isn't prepared for the big changes automation is bringing to the global economy some say artificial intelligence could help us create an almost perfect world but the world bank is warning developing countries could face economic collapse honestly 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 linear the difference with the force. 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 are 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 day i experts believe the transition to worklessness that we as humans are embarking 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 just sounds like you're 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 that 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 so that actually leads to progress in 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 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. thank you. it's give you a mind of the top stories now in al-jazeera at least forty people have been killed

in an attack in afghanistan's capital kabul a compound housing a cultural center and a news agency was targeted in a shia district in the west of the city interior ministry says attackers set off an explosion outside the center and stormed it and set off more explosives in the basement the taliban has denied responsibility the u.n. says sixty eight yemeni civilians were killed in two separate error by the saudi led coalition just one day the first airstrike on tuesday as a crowded market in tires province killing fifty four civilians including eight children the second killed fourteen people from the same family in the red sea province have had eight or the saudi led coalition has intensified its air campaign against toothy positions in response to missile attacks children are increasingly being used as targets and weapons of war according to a report by unicef it says the suffering of children in conflict zones has reached

shocking levels with an increase in rape and slave went and children being used as human shields group baccarat mused an estimated one hundred thirty five children a suicide bomber's twenty seventeen this deliberately targeting of children to make them part of the call to brutalize a is a is a is a new development yes it's always happened in part but it seems to be growing and growing is normal now that you can target a hospital or a group of doctors in syria told me recently when i was in northern turkey how the armed groups wouldn't even come near the hospital because the hospital was more all the target than the armed groups so hospitals and schools are being deliberately attacked children are being brutalized. a memorial has been held in the brazilian city of rivers an arrow to one of the one hundred thirty two feet officers killed this year rio is facing a say criminal gangs and street violence at the same time as department budget cuts

say with us up next rebel looks at traditional building techniques in pakistan i'll be back in about twenty minutes with another bullet. architect has own ways defined the human. from the simplest structure to the greatest money. box rebellion is underway. led by a new breed of aki tank that puts people in the store i call. on the tax using the tools of their training to lease structure their surroundings. and to reduce.