since you take this serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. celebrations on the streets of liberia with the announcement that football legend george waya will become the country's next president.

i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a little later the holy father. and i saw attack in the afghan capital kabul at least forty one people were killed it is she a cultural center. thousands marched to protest the pardon of ex-president alberto fujimori for murder and human rights abuses. and tech giant apple issues an apology after millions slam the company for deliberately slowing down the operation of older model i phone it's. because once one of the world's top football players now george way it has become his country's leader after winning liberia's presidential election way defeated by president joseph in a runoff taking just over sixty one percent of the vote so now he'll succeed ellen johnson sirleaf next month in the country's first democratic transfer of power since one thousand nine hundred four campaign. don lowering the poverty rate in

liberia ever more than eighty percent of the people live on just one dollar a day ahmed al reports in the capital monrovia was celebration in the streets of the libyan capital neutral was supporters will find some national football adored with greeted news of his victory in tuesday's runoff election with song and dance it was broke down in t. is a soon as that as old swan asked he's seen he have been consulted by his running mate if you will take that who is an ex-wife or former liberian president charles taylor who is currently serving a fifty year sentence in the u.k. for war crimes committed in neighboring sierra leone was told me any septal says it's a dream come true a struggle they say that started we back in two thousand and two us pointed to succeed because so many names that tell us that we can't check was sick

but this time in a trip to come up to it was such a chance we had to present the clear up that the electoral commission had just announced the preliminary results as energy is our c.d.c. thank you mr president is sixty one point five percent for his e d c and thirty eight point five percent for the unit body and now his opponent and current vice president joseph bloch i says he has had deep misgivings about the elections from the beginning he contested that is also the fuss around and supported a case taken to the supreme court by the county they took him out in the race we've gone into an election that we knew from stacked it had a lot of problems we were nice side as far i would wear that they had structure and of the supreme court will follow we were. constrained to go into it but why do we want to see. what we wanted we had all hoped for

a free transfer election i doubt seriously if that is where we're going to get the vice president and his unity party have not say whether they will challenge the results in court judge where he said to succeed ellen johnson sirleaf africa's first elected female president who led liberia for the past toll fees she is credited with presiding over the longest period of uninterrupted peace in liberia since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine george where played fostering all football clubs including s.c. milan chelsea and parties and german he's the only african football to have worn the feet for a while player of the georgia way as a victory in the presidential race is attributed mainly to his support base within the country's youth who are calling for up to sixty percent of the population he grew up in want to be a slums and he success against all appeals to many in what is

one of the world's poorest countries. where anti-politics up to his retirement from football in two thousand and two and is currently a senator in liberia's pilot. would be the first time since one thousand for two full plate be founded by freed u.s. slaves in the mountain century will have transfer of power from one elected president to another. one really a liberia mayor and the pan african policy analyst he says all the way and choice plenty of support many challenges lie ahead. on the one hundred yard to say he's coming it's a big surprise you know a soccer star who has come you know done his due diligence be able to winnow by the majority of the router's the support for you is pretty enthusiastic so that is on the positive side on the other hand the as you have mentioned the

problems on liberia faces pretty stark you know you mentioned the book this civil war even. you know poverty and then of course there were allegations of corruption so will he be able to tackle them yes i think he has a lot of good will and support in the country but will who solve all of them i don't think any one leader no law no matter how long this theory can solve all the problems so it's a matter of how much progress we will spectating to make as it on way in general who led efforts to push robert mugabe out of power has been sworn in as vice president constantino will share the role with ken boma heidi m. long serving state security minister trying to retired from the military last week and while former president mugabe has been granted full diplomatic status and the staff of twenty three under his pension settlement the ninety three are all stepped down last month. at least forty one people have been killed in the afghan capital

kabul after a suicide bomber stormed a shia cultural center and a news agency other eighty four people were wounded many of them suffering burns eisel has claimed responsibility natasha getting reports. the 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. we heard a huge bang and smoke rose from inside the hall my face was burning i fell down from my chair and i saw my colleagues on the ground the smoke was everywhere i don't know what happened next 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 that one had when the explosion went off we skipped from the room where we were working and went to the rooftop we sold a small in flames coming up from the basement the taliban immediately issued a statement denying involvement. an analyst tells al-jazeera 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 i says you know what is in order to make a mark media has not been providing them enough amount of coverage to have been seeking juliet activities should they have been targeting the media outlets capital kabul as well as in the region have. in order to make sure they get wisely seized.

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. orchestrated but he should first you should know your operation and a moment exactness impreciseness in your operations they do usually are targeted with little strength or lick to. create a lot of good jobs. good 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 game. and jepson soldier and five captain and five soldiers have been killed in an explosion in north sinai the egyptian army says it was carrying out a military patrol outside of the town to a roadside bomb hit their vehicle egyptian security forces have been fighting in sinai for several years and november suspected eisel fighters carried out a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in north sinai that killed more than two hundred fifty people. at least fourteen people have died in a fire in the indian city of mumbai that fire broke out late at night and a building in the center of the city firefighters have been battling that fire for more than five hours the building is near several hotels and restaurants in an area popular for nightlife the cause is not yet known. and

a new york apartment fire left at least twelve people dead including a one year old baby four others were critically injured more than one hundred seventy firefighters battled that blaze and the bronx the cause is still not clear the mayor of new york city says it could have been much worse. this is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in this city in at least a quarter century because of f.d.a. and wise quick response based on the information we have now at least twelve people were rescued and will survive. but the search of the building continues. so we know that even though it's horrible report that twelve dead or are dead already we may lose all those as well the u.s. president donald trump is accusing china of violating u.n. sanctions against north korea by continuing to sell oil to pyongyang this is what trump tweeted caught red handed and very disappointed that china is allowing oil to

go into north korea there will never be a friendly solution to the north korea problem if this continues to happen i white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more from washington d.c. . china's denying the accusations that the president made on twitter you have to sometimes decipher why and what has prompted donald trump to go to twitter and often this is when he feels that an issue isn't being covered adequately in his view in the media he will tweet knowing that then in turn we will take a look and see what he's talking about and this is a really good example of that if you go back to the u.s. treasury website last month you'll see that it first called attention to these satellite images that said that it had of chinese ships applying oil to north korean ships in the west see now apparently these satellite images put out by the u.s. treasury department were taken october nineteenth but again it didn't get a whole lot of media attention even though the united states says that this is in

violation of sanctions that were put in place specifically speaking to this by the u.n. security council in september so perhaps it's a little bit of frustration on that level and frustration too by the president that he's tweeting this given the fact that when he first came into office in january he immediately began to address the situation of north korea's nuclear program by investing heavily in the relationship with chinese president xi hosting the mar-a lago speaking enormously about the investment that was being made in the hope that china would use economic leverage to limit the north korean program but in recent weeks and months we've seen some frustration with that while the treasury department says there has been some success with china helping to isolate north korea from the global financial system again there is some frustration by the united states with examples like this of these satellite images so well china is denying these charges saying that there have been no u.n.

security council violations as far as it's concerned the u.s. sees it differently and now we see the frustration playing out on twitter by the president donald trump. still ahead on al-jazeera and. scientists are about to sanity's underwater drones far below the ice in antarctica. and how a nineteenth century form of entertainment has transformed into a modern more cars. welcome back as we look at the weather across the levant and western parts of asia it's all looking pretty quiet at the moment a fair amount of cloud around but dry conditions brighten not back you and i suppose john tehran should get a decent temperature there fifty closer in baghdad but dry dry run the eastern side of the mediterranean for most part we have got this low pressure system pushing in across parts of turkey and we will see some snow developing across eastern areas

but jerry not too bad temperature wise beirut there at nineteen degrees heading down into the arabian peninsula we've got a result temperatures here into the mid twenty's celsius but a cloud across northern parts of the potential but on the other side of the arabian peninsula is also looking fine mecca there thirty three degrees celsius heading down into southern portions of africa we've got some heavy rain across parts of zombies and bout y. and through towards mozambique a malawi also for madagascar some heavy rain here not just on the eastern side but also further towards the west one of the eastern cape otherwise generally looking try and find twenty five as a high in cape town as we head up into central parts of africa here we've got some showers affecting more central areas sorry for d.r. congo and towards gabon but in the west plenty of sunshine with highs of thirty one in accra ghana.

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commission says former football star george waya has won the country's presidential runoff way to feed a vice presidential suppose will take over from ellen johnson sirleaf next month. an attack on a shia cultural center in the afghan capital has killed at least forty one people and injured more than eighty others all had gathered at the center to mark russia's invasion of afghanistan in one nine hundred seventy nine the site is also home to the news agency afghan boys eisel has claimed responsibility for that attack. president donald trump is accusing china of violating u.n. sanctions against north korea by continuing to sell oil to pyongyang the satellite images appear to show chinese ships transferring cargo to north korean vessels china has denied the accusations. back on the streets of capital lima to protest against the pardon granted to form or president albert if it you morry on sunday the decision by embattled president. has prompted his culture minister to resign as

reports it is also drawing international condemnation. brewer has been forced to revisit a painful a not so distant past the presidential pardon of alberto fujimori who led lots of american nation with an iron fist from one thousand nine hundred ninety two two thousand has sparked outrage in the country and beyond a group of un human rights experts has joined the critics calling it a slap in the face for the victims and witnesses who stylists commitment brought fujimori to justice an apology from the bed ridden seventy nine year old former president has done little to ease the sense of injustice who killed my song in this pretty cowardly and cruel way not president powdrill public could chimpsky has finished killing the entire family with this pardon of. they have called for more protests and inter-marry can court of human rights to examine the legality of the decision all we can do that of the pardon which has the appearance of

a humanitarian pardon to be a pardon of a political nature. president. he has justified the christmas eve pardon on medical grounds but the timing of the decision has caused deep suspicion that's because just a few days earlier fujimori loyalists in parliament prevented a vote on could choose ski's impeachment amid allegations of corruption. the former president has served twelve years of the twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights violations these included extrajudicial killings enforced disappearances and kidnappings as he used death squads in a ruthless war against the maoist shining path. the group's leader abu male guzman now eighty three has been serving a life sentence on terror charges and in a sign that proves too fresh wounds may have just been reopened his lawyer to me is now asking for a pardon from the silver zero. and israeli military court has extended the

detention of a palestinian teenager who was filmed kicking and slapping as regular soldiers earlier this month sixteen year old had to me was arrested by israeli troops last week along with her mother and cousin all three are now being held for an additional five days on thursday a court looked into several charges against him amy and her mother including insulting soldiers distracting their work in them and participating in acts against israeli forces the teenager has become an icon of resistance among palestinians very fostered reports on the offer military court and the occupied west bank. we're inside the off a military prison compound inside which are the prefab buildings which make up the military court rooms here and we spent the last few hours inside one of those listening to arguments in a case which is gripped palestinians and israelis for very different reasons it's a case of i had to meet her cousin or and her mother mary man they've been in custody since december the nineteenth after the emergence of

a video which showed i had on a cousin challenging two israeli soldiers near their village in the occupied west bank i had slapping one of those soldiers the palestinians for many palestinians it's an act of defiance against military occupation for many israelis the debate has been about the apparent lack of reaction by these heavily armed soldiers to such a challenge inside the courtroom the lawyer in the define the defense side has been arguing that they should be released i had in particular presenting no danger being a minor being well known not a flight risk and also arguing that the military prosecution which has been trying to find other things in her past with which to charge or shouldn't be acting in that way that that is that those potential crimes should have been dealt with at the time and that what they're doing now in retrospect is purely in reaction to a video that went viral on the app. video went out and it was fire and then just act itself bad about it then they decided to act and you let them go kill the only

if because you see a man. with able to breach. the occupation is everybody's have and this case isn't just being seen in isolation just on wednesday another young teenager fauzi alginate he he was released from custody on nearly three thousand u.s. dollars bail he was the young man who was pictured blindfolded being surrounded by more than twenty israeli soldiers as he was detained his lawyer is released his testimony in which he says he was beaten. both during that arrest and in private afterwards he suffered a broken shoulder as a result and so his legal team is now mounting a challenge against the israeli military and it's also being seen in the context of the very large number of detentions of young palestinians both regularly and particularly in the last month since the dea the declaration by donald trump about jerusalem being viewed by the u.s.

as the capital of israel in the protests that have followed there have been one hundred seventy young palestinians minors who've been detained i mean in gaza have rallied in support of a head to me and against an israeli m.p. who hardly abused families of palestinian prisoners or and has and as a member of benjamin netanyahu government on monday he boarded a bus carrying families visiting off a prison with israeli police officers he shouted at mothers of prisoners calling their sons dogs and terrorists for the money it isn't sold or to tell me and again as to joke patient will be told we support what she did it also had a duty to mother of to prison then abdul rahman telling her own we are proud of what you did it again it is right a knesset member of the us the red cross to make sure that prisoners as about as their families deals with. there's really parliament has approved a new law limiting police powers which critics say is intended to shield president

benjamin netanyahu from being investigated over alleged corruption the new legislation stops police recommending to prosecutors whether to indict suspects once their investigations have finished and also aims to stop leaks to the media from investigations ok the elders senior political columnist said all monitors are he says the law attacks essential parts of israel's democracy. the law the new bill will not apply to the prime minister or people who are now under investigation because in israel you cannot pass a law that applies retroactively it will be relevant only to people especially politicians and public figures that will be under investigation in the future but you have to see this in the broader context and the timing first of all it comes after an attempt to pass the so-called french law that

does not allow the police and the attorney general to investigate and to indict a sitting prime minister and this has failed now this new bill is also kind of the last draft is a compromise because they wanted to go all the way that it will apply to the sitting prime minister and the they will not be able they were not able to convince members of the coalition from other parties other than the likud to to support it and the border context is. is an attempt to deal a just a minus the police the attorney general the media it's part of a campaign against the pillars of the israeli democracy. tech giant apple has to shoot an online apology to its customers following weeks of anger over intentionally slowing down over i phones apple initially said the slowdown was to

preserve the life of degrading batteries after heated anger on social media class action lawsuits against the company or a filed in several countries i mean online apology the company says the issue is widely misunderstood and they're offering a discount for replacement batteries i imagine as a technology analyst in california he thinks people should have just bought new phones when they're older handsets slow down it seems to me that they should have been forthcoming at the very beginning before they even slowed down the phone they should say we want to slow down your phone because it's going to help you preserve battery life it's going to avoid potential crush it is that ok and most people would probably say yes i would rather have a slow phone than a dead phone and so it actually was a feature not a bug but the way they handle it was so poor that i actually want to be coming almost a crisis with a company if you have an old phone with an old battery you can expect erratic behavior that is the nature of the battery technology they degrade over time so apple is right that older phones with older batteries are likely to hear through

all that run for as long and potentially crash unexpectedly so that's not the problem that's just the nature of the technology to probably the way they handled it in check i don't know what people would say i know i would have said yes slowed my phone down in exchange for not crashing and i would have washed out and bought a new phone or a new battery and i think the way apple with the ultimately have to look by making the batteries relatively cheap twenty nine dollars does pretty much solve the problem for most people but they irritated a lot of people in the process. scientists are sending robots under the ice in antarctica on a mission to discover more about the impact of rising sea levels the drones designed by the university of washington will gather new information about articles vulnerable western ice shelf of the three c. gliders will spend the winter gathering information under the ice before finding their way to the open water and a year or more temperatures have already caused major changes in the ice shelves in the region the hope is that we least get one of these instruments back out from

underneath the ice shelf so we get some scientific data ideally we get we get all of them back but i think we're certainly comfortable with losing a couple of these instruments if that's what happens in the hopes that we get some data back so that will be a success because it will be data that's never before been obtained by the scientific community and the art exhibition at the in the u.s. features a mix of civil war history and political commentary the artist mark bradford was inspired by a painting called the final battle to create a modern day cycle rama speaks with the curator of the exhibition. a cycler was actually one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the united states and europe before cinema would be around and then there would be a dire rama running on the inside and visitors to a cycle rama would come up through the middle of the cyclorama and they would have this immersive experience marc came to the hirshhorn which was built by gordon

bunch after and it's a unique building we are essentially a donut and so the center of the building actually makes it impossible for us to actually be a cycle raman he was looking specifically at a cycle that was made in one thousand nine hundred three by philip poto and it depicts the battle of gettysburg which is considered to be the turning point of the american civil war he got images of filipinos painting from i'm guessing from the internet it's a piece of un stretched canvas one piece about twelve feet high and forty five to fifty feet long and then on that canvas are multiple layers of paper colored papers burned papers papers that he soaked in water to give them this very different material effect and he glued together for mark he has decided to disrupt that idea by the materials that he uses so what he's using is just pieces of colored paper sometimes posters that he finds on the streets so what you have is not only this juxtaposition of figurative imagery and abstraction but also different layers of

history so things that have been embedded in the kind of the base of the painting and then you get put on top and it's kind of this metaphor i think about how history comes back over and over again and i think it's a comment on how some of the issues that we we faced as a nation when the battle of gettysburg kind of relevant today they still haunt us today and what you get a sense of as he went back in and disrupts the imagery is the sense of history and how history is never transparent there's never one version of history and that there are always these filters through which we all view history. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories by various election commission says former football star george way a has won the country's presidential runoff they defeated vice president joseph will take over from ellen johnson sirleaf next month mohammed joe has more from the capital monrovia. victory in the presidential

race is a tribute to mainly to his support in the country's youth walk up to six the front of the population who grew up in want to. success against appeals to many in what is one of the world's poorest countries an attack on a shia cultural center in the afghan capital has killed at least forty one people and also injured more than eighty others people had gathered at the center to mark russia's invasion of afghanistan and nine hundred seventy nine the site is also home to the news agency afghan voice eisel has claimed responsibility for that attack. a new york city apartment fire has left at least twelve people dead including a one year old baby four others were critically injured more than one hundred seventy firefighters battled that blaze in the bronx the cause is still unclear mayor said it was the worst fire tragedy the city has seen in a quarter century u.s. president donald trump is accusing china of violating u.n.

sanctions against north korea by continuing to sell oil to pyongyang the satellite images appear to show chinese ships transfer and cargo its north korean vessels china has denied the accusations. it's demonstrators are back on the streets of paris capital lima to protest against the pardon granted to former president of artificially moring he was freed on health grounds on sunday all serving a twenty five year prison sentence for corruption and crimes against humanity as early military court has extended the detention of a palestinian teenager who was filmed kicking and slapping israeli soldiers earlier this month sixteen year old head to me was arrested by israeli troops last week along with her mother and cousin all three are now being held for an additional five days tech giant apple has issued an online apology to its customers following weeks of anger over intentionally slowing down older i phones the company says the issue is widely misunderstood and they are offering a discount for replacement batteries. those are the headlines the news continues on

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