we're in for you. as witchcraft is sorcery killing spreads across papa new guinea when used exposes shocking human rights abuses. of the specific missions darkstar it when used at this time on al-jazeera. at least ninety five people have been killed in a bomb attack in the afghan capital with the taliban claiming responsibility.

alone barbara sarah this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. protesters rally against the president's inauguration in honduras they say the election was stolen. it was understanding and is being clear. one of the richest men in the world saudi prince our well lead been released from detention in riyadh and we'll tell you why thousands of albanians are accusing their government of links to organized crime. a bomb attack in afghanistan's capital has killed at least ninety five people and injured more than one hundred fifty others the explosives were hidden in an ambulance and that allowed the bomber to get through security in the city's green zone which is the most heavy. protected area in kabul the taliban says it carried

out the attack and that it was targeting police but most of the dead are civilians from kabul jennifer glass reports. another day of carnage on the streets of kabul this time the bomb was in an ambulance the driver pretended to be taking someone to a nearby hospital but instead he detonated his device on a crowded street the taliban said it was targeting policemen having lunch but as so often happens here afghan civilians going about their daily lives are among the victims including people lined up outside the interior ministry as human resources department. i was in my office we heard the explosion we didn't know what was going on so many people were injured i myself counted at least forty wounded near me everyone was on the ground and i couldn't tell who was dead or who was wounded the street was already heavily guarded with a number of checkpoints protecting government offices embassies a hospital and a school the area is usually bustling with people emerge and the services evacuated

offices shops and agencies perceptor blocks can hear the security vehicles going by . taking away the wounded and the dead there have been casualties here this is a very busy part of town in addition to the high peace council the anti-corruption commission is also down there just down the streets at the u.n. mine agency and this is normally a very very busy part of kabul it's the second attack in the capital in a week taliban fighters battled security forces for more than fifteen hours at the city's intercontinental hotel in a siege that killed twenty five people last saturday security has been stepped up around the city but it wasn't enough. the police on the army of afghanistan is a really young it's just seventeen or eighteen years old and they need more training they need more practice they need more experience but the taliban on the other hand they are very devoted to fight this cobbles in the. the hospital was

flooded with patients it's a scene that's been repeated many times the president says the uptick in attacks is because of increased military pressure on armed groups and political pressure on pakistan maybe the case but it's the people here who continue to suffer the most jennifer glass al jazeera kabul well saturday's attack is just the latest in a recent wave of violence on december twenty eighth and i saw suicide bomber targeted the shia cultural center in kabul killing at least forty one people last saturday one of kabul's most iconic of heavily guarded hotels the intercontinental as we heard earlier was also targeted the taliban claimed responsibility for the gun battle and siege which sold twenty five people killed and the hundred fifty guests desperately flee including some who used the bed sheets to hang from the building and that on wednesday i saw fighters a storm the offices of save the children in the eastern city of jalalabad four people were killed in that attack and the aid agency announced it would suspend its

operations in the country well off so ashraf is a visiting fellow at nottingham university's center for conflict security and terrorism he says this latest attack is intended to remind the world of the taliban's power. much more importantly scared a message out to the international community is that notwithstanding the left. over many years of us and our governments or the. a lot. of the taliban are trying to send out messages that the last two or three reckon we likely suspect but today's the coming exactly a week after the attack on the who. is it intended for the audience that geragos. or a large collection as you know or board leaders and these people are thinking the

little leader thinking internationally while there is no military or political or even what we do in our own raising or listen to it or. that's part of honduras now where opposition groups are calling for protests and the general strike to coincide with the president's inauguration that mr a tears gathered on the streets of the. president when a language non-visible sworn in they say there were irregularities in the vote count during november a general election which saw a non-desert reelected over the opposition leader salvador knesset around them well john holeman is in the capital for us john no one a man that's actually finished speaking not that long ago what was his inaugural message to the country. well he spoke in some detail about his plans to come back call the t.

his plans to reduce unemployment in the country his plans to keep bringing back security that's something he's been successful on but one thing that was really all of us in the speech that was just a cursory mention about the deep division that's been soaked by the election itself two months ago that divide has resulted in big protests in the country especially at the start it resulted in movement thirty deaths and even as he was speaking those protests continued they dispersed now but you can see that the military police which has been part of the strategy of cracking down on protests protesters still in the street so this is obviously something that the president just doesn't want to get into and for those the cooling the reconciliation for him to get involved in a persons of diallo go dialogue and to heal this country that would be a promising sign he did pledge to get involved in dialogue but again it was a very brief mention in a longer speech. and that john was seeing

a ride police just behind you there in the shot what's the latest when it comes to the protests that have already been happening and certainly were promised to coincide with that man this is you know he ration. well protests just to come out early on saturday morning they tried to get to the national stadium where one and this was giving his inauguration address they didn't really get very far there was a big line of police tear gas from one side rocks from the other and that's now dispersed must be said from the tens of thousands that turned out just after the elections and now the protests have really gone down i think there's a sense among many protesters that this ship has sailed that whether they like it or not they do have the president for the next four years but the anger really does continue just to take you back very briefly to that election night there was a problem a crush of the system that lasted for a day and a half before the crush president and on this rifle was in the lead after the crash

the president won the election so the wrong thing to continue in questions to be asked about that i think that's going to have to go to one side now and the country will be moving forward so you mentioned moving forward and you mentioned the anger that a lot of people feel certainly about the election but a country like can do is faces a lot of challenges that the go well beyond the electoral irregularities so what next for the country and what next for the reelected president who obviously doesn't exactly start under the best light. exactly as you say and as well as the electoral problems as you say there are a lot of other concerns we spent yesterday with a man who struggled to get a college education and ended up selling ice is on the street three cents a go so the people like him the protests would just about the status of the president there also about long term problems like

a huge campaign finally of rule the country for quite some time in the rest of home durance who are very poor there are problems as unemployment which the president spoke to their problems of security the president has actually taken a step with these monies to reduce it requires a hard line strategy just a few years ago from duras was seen as the deadliest country in the world outside who was so eager to post things his place to continue with his made plans with some detail to deal with those problems especially poverty and unemployment and he's got another four years now whether the country or some people in the country like it or not to prove himself to try and unite the country in trying to as he says leave it a better place for his successor john heilemann with the latest from to john thank you. the top aide to the bar the egyptian presidential candidate sonny and none has reportedly been stabbed and badly beaten in the capital cairo guinean now was the

running mate for a nun and the man was arrested on tuesday for incitement against the military now this happened shortly after he announced that he was standing in marches the election egypt's interior ministry says give me now was injured in a dispute related to a car accident. one of the world's richest men the billionaire saudi prince been has been released from detention and says he'll be cleared of corruption charges within days that he's been held in the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh since november along with about two hundred others and it's all part of what the government is calling an anti corruption campaign ordered by the crown prince mohammed the bin some men have a hoax that reports. just hours before billionaire saudi prince and waleed bin talib was released from the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh he conducted an interview with the reuters news agency from the suite where he'd been confined been tile is one of saudi arabia's most prominent business men and one of the world's richest

men but he'd been held for more than two months accused of corruption in the interview he described the entire situation as a misunderstanding not charges ok just some discussion between the government you know i mean but the rest assured that this is this is a clean operation that we have and we're just in discussion with the government on the various matters and i can't divulge right now because we are in the discussion with them the mark perry and his likeness was just one of the many objects known as the prince gave a tour of where he'd been detained been teller's arrest in the van that was part of what the government called an anti corruption campaign ordered by crown prince mohammed bin. the government says one hundred twenty four billion dollars is expected to be seized for more than two hundred individuals a group that is said to include the owner of the n.b.c. television network as well as several other senior princes observers say the crackdown has allowed been someone to do far more than simply consolidate power i

think there are two things here it's about money because the saudi. government is facing financial difficulties because of the collapse of the oil prices over the past few years. mr man is having very ambitious economic plan actually three from the kingdom so he needs the cash money in order to carry on with this project but this is not the only issue the other issue in my opinion here is that he's trying to create a popular base of support for him because all these people are in fact corrupt. intaglio his firm hold stakes in companies like twitter citi group an apple is estimated to be worth seventeen. billion dollars his release could potentially reassure investors but analysts believe the timing of his interview with reuters as the world economic forum met in davos was no coincidence having someone like prince

to allow for example speak out publicly as he did yesterday shows that you know the saudis are trying to use him as somewhat the poster child of liberalism they're trying to appeal to investors overseas saying we realize that what we did and the way we did it with that courage last year we saw completely undermined big business confidence and investor confidence in saudi arabia entirely has told reuters he expects to remain in full control of his global investment firm without being required to give up his assets to the government how to help out as there is still to come on the program one man in senegal tells us why he's prepared to risk everything to make the journey to europe and the struggle to piece together the files kept by east germany's notorious secret police.

hello there things have been rolled away is for some of us have recently particularly over parts of turkey we've had this system with us for the past few days and slowly now it is releasing its hold and edging away towards the east behind it it won't be warm they look at that one career as a maximum just four degrees of force in beirut only around fifteen on sunday that area of cloud and rain though is edging its way east with thirty more and more wintery that makes its way across parts of iran and then eventually across into parts of afghanistan there on monday still giving us some very heavy snow in places and that cooler weather is also making its way a bit further south as well the winds here in doha will be quite fresh on sunday a blustery day then with a fair amount of dust at times and twenty one degrees will be maximum that it could even drop to just twenty is the maximum as we head through monday so a real change for us we've been enjoying around twenty seven or twenty eight the temperatures are still staying around twenty seven or twenty eight though in salalah here they will be fine sunshine down to was the southern parts of africa

lots of wet weather here and you can see that area of cloud of rain stretching down into the eastern parts of south africa we see it's a fairly shop showers here recently more still to come this still with us for sunday and on monday still more showers and i think some of those are going to be lively with the old rumble of thunder to.

now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera a bomb attack in afghanistan's capital kabul has killed at least ninety five people and injured more than one hundred fifty others the taliban is claiming responsibility protestors you know endure a circus lashing with police on the streets of the capital opposition groups are calling for a general strike to coincide with president one orlando and wonders is inauguration . and one of the world's richest man the saudi prince elderly bin talent has been released from the tension he says he'll be cleared of corruption charges. mali's army says at least fourteen of its soldiers have been killed in an attack on

a camp in the book two it says at least seventeen of the attackers were also killed and the army is now back in control of the base it's the worst attack on mollie's security forces in over a year african union leaders are gathering in ethiopia ahead of a major summit on sunday they're set to discuss the continent's most pressing issues including the refugee crisis and ways to stop the flow of migrants to europe as part of our series leading up to the summit reports from dhaka on why people are determined to leave yusuf in the us doesn't want to be here he's tried twice to go to france and failed both times. now he wants to go again he says he deserves a better life. i'm a father my family depend on me i decided to leave senegal because my degrees and diplomas seem useless here. as

a child he thought he would play professional football in europe instead he went to university and became an i.t. engineer hoping to find work at home but here in senegal he never found a full time job. my parents sold whatever they want to pay for my education they've never asked me to pay them back but i know i owed them because they have suffered for me and i am ready to suffer for them and so is preparing to travel again by road and see to the shores of europe despite joint efforts by police forces and coast guard from both european and african countries the trafficking of migrants and refugees continues. the u.n. estimates the people smuggling trade to be worth more than thirty five billion dollars a year and it's booming. more than three thousand people died last year most of them were africans. there are no official numbers of migrants that actually made it to europe some have drowned in the mediterranean others have died of thirst hunger

in the desert and then there are those who have been taken as slaves. we were sold by senegalese traffickers not arabs our own brothers sold us to the arabs my family had to pay fifteen hundred dollars to free me. this is against his brother senegalese rapper who made it to france he paid for us to be freed and sends money back to his family in this zone he explains why so many want to leave africa he says it's the shame of not being able to support your children your parents is the shame of seeing your loved ones are able to eat the shame of bed unable to provide for their family that pushes them to leave. and i feel like a slave here too and i feel stuck unable to get out of my current situation all i want is to be like my brother to be someone my family can depend on most africans wanting to go to europe legally get their visa application rejected and so yes his

family agreed to pay traffickers for his latest trip through for rocco to spain it's a journey worth the risks he says once again he packed his bag ready to go. it was hawk al-jazeera the car. thousands of a rally against the government in the capital tirana they want prime minister eddie brahmas center left government to resign accusing it of having links to organized crime. is in tehran a and said the subject. from the early morning hours people from. gathering here in the center of capital tehran in an under government protest accusing the government of links to the organized crime and calling for his resignation the opposition has been preparing for today's protests for a month blaming the government also for the lack of economic development which according to them is the main the reason why so many old binion's are leaving the

country on the other hand will be a new prime minister has told for decided not to respond to opposition that legations political analysts here in tehran are say that there is no evidence that the prime minister is involved in organized crime. or you that the binion's have many reasons to protest the protest is also considered a test of support for the main opposition democrats who suffered a landslide lost in the last two years parliamentary elections. in the political scene could make old been years road to european union more difficult when you was granted e.u. candidate status in two thousand and fourteen and hopes to launch negotiations this year however during today's protest no incidents reported and police security was tight near the main government offices where the rally took place a group of iranian m.p.'s is due on sunday to visit some of the demonstrators being

held in prison after the recent wave of protests that they're promising to investigate reports of torture and death simple custody while calm has now returned to the streets the frustration felt by many remains the same bus driver has more now from tehran. in the weeks that followed anti-government protests in iran security forces and police detained thousands of suspected demonstrators most have been interrogated and really just some made to sign a pledge promising never again to participate in unrest or damage public property almost everyone tried to contact even those who marched in favor of the government declined to speak to us many said they worried they might say the wrong thing and lend themselves in a prison cell by coincidence or by design government actions following opposition rallies have created an atmosphere of fear and speaking publicly is seen as an act of courage. is the secretary of the justice seekers

a student movement with members from universities across to run the advocate for public housing and better economic conditions and took part in protests last month but stopped when protests became violent. long as problems exist protests will happen and they happen in every country these kinds of protests are something normal and it is the people's right and it's something natural he said iranians are frustrated after enduring years of hard times but violence was something most anti government protesters did not want. for all things happened that we didn't want some people died in different parts of the country also in tehran some students after these incidents were arrested and there were news reports that someone was killed during an interrogation but it just to seek a movement wants without any judgment is transparency on these kinds of incidents he also said a lack of transparency about the deaths of protesters and people in police custody

was making many iranians distrust their own government. and the government leaders blaming outside forces with no evidence was unacceptable even though they admit that the demonstrations were started by people who have legitimate economic concerns the official position of the government is still that the protests were overtaken by foreign enemies so instead of framing the anti-government rallies as a domestic disturbance of civil rights the government is framing everything that happened as an external threat to iran's national security iranian leaders say they live in a tough neighborhood and maintaining internal stability must come first and. we have some enemies that never hide their animosity america the cia and global imperialism and international zionists have never hidden their animals to towards us and this climate any protests could actually compromise our security while an organized and peaceful protest in the streets can give us insight it shouldn't be

in a way that our enemies could be so use no rosy added that any iranian is welcome to seek out people like him and demand their rights but they would have to play by the government's rules. those who hold rallies and protests there are children i've been in parliament for two years most days we see thousands of people in front of parliament protests they come to hold banners chant slogans sometimes the silent we see they've written but as we speak to them they agree we agree we legislate some laws for them i don't think there is a country that has the kind of freedom we already have in iran while president hassan rouhani continues to publicly defend the rights of protesters earlier this week that the one provincial governor's office denied a request by the city council to designate a part of the capital specifically for peaceful protests critics say it's an example of government double speak. in germany a ten million dollar project to reassemble the so-called stasi files has been

abandoned because of inadequate equipment the top secret documents were shredded after the fall of the berlin wall they've achieved reports on the sometimes painful stories recovered from some of the files it's being called the world's biggest jigsaw puzzle six hundred million bits of paper are now having to be put back together again by hand there is still fifteen thousand bags of them to go through an urgent search is now going on to find sophisticated new software to try and cope with the task without a cutting edge computer scanner it will take many decades to finish victims of the secret police might now go to their graves without ever really knowing these missing pages of their own lives and says it is at risk and looking into your own starting file is something very personal i felt it myself it allowed me to regain some control of my past of the relics of communist rule beyond the iron curtain in

berlin can give those include of what it was really like to live through those dark peers these archives contain some of the names of the collaborators and files that have been successfully pieced together men like could not schmuck code named jack colby who spied on fellow border guards all informants had to make a hand-written avowal of loyalty i pledge to support the ministry for state to pure ity in in it's in service of its great tasks regarding the protection for to vacation of east germany with all my power this is a star's expenses receipt showing payment of seven thousand five hundred one darien foreigns to an informant here a photograph of an undercover surveillance operation and this a letter of commendation for a senior spy code name shefa stationed abroad is reward three hundred german marks and a bronze medal. the stars izo unshown house and prison in east berlin is now

a memorial it's been estimated that nearly one in six of the population of the german democratic republic collaborated with the secret police thousands of lives were torn apart by the stars e. and nothing can put them back together again but nearly thirty years after the fall of the berlin wall the victims might find some painful comfort in finally finding out the name of the person whose betrayal put them behind bars thomas is now a tour guide in the prison where he spent more than two years in the cells for trying to escape to the west. for many there were situations where people were surprised learning that maybe even their best friend was an informer that happened to other for some people want to know about this but others don't go with what they stole two years from my life or this will have consequences until the very end of it some lives and of

a david chaytor al-jazeera eastern berlin. in paris flooding of the river saying is getting worse levels are expected to hit a peak by sunday six meters above the normal level it follows weeks of rain with overflowing water a single thing riverside walkways some paris residents have criticized the government's response as inadequate. clearing up all the rubbish as you can see there's rubbish everywhere and it brings in rats and things and so we're doing the city's job because as you can see there's no one from the city or any city representatives or anybody to oakland so it's the residents handling things clearing the rubbish and putting them on the side so it's not a dump because for the. take a look at the top stories on al jazeera a bomb attack in afghanistan's capital has killed at least ninety five people and

injured more than one hundred fifty others the explosives were hidden in an ambulance allowing the bomber to get through security in the city's green zone that's the most heavily protected area in kabul the taliban says it carried out the attack jennifer glass was there i can hear the security vehicles going by. taking away the wounded and the dead there have been casualties here this is a very busy part of town in addition to the high peace council the anti-corruption commission is also down there just down the street at the u.n. mine agency. protesters in honduras are clashing with police on the streets of the capital opposition groups are also calling for a general strike in protest against the you know gratian of president one of those they accuse him of stealing of embers general election and allege that they were widespread voting irregularities the top aide to the barda gyptian presidential candidate sami anon has reportedly been stabbed in the face and badly beaten in the

capital cairo egypt's interior ministry says the aide was injured in a dispute related to a car accident one of the world's richest men saudi prince bin talal has been released from detention and says that he will be cleared of corruption charges he has been held in a hotel in the capital riyadh since november along with about two hundred others as part of what the government says is an anti corruption drive. mali's army says at least fourteen of its soldiers have been killed in an attack on a camp in the northern city of timbuktu it says at least seventeen of the attackers were also killed in the army is now back in control of the base it's the worst attack on security forces in over a year. thousands of people in albania have been taking part in protests against the government in the capital tirana there calling for the resignation of the prime minister eighty rama's government accusing it of links to organized crime and flooding of the river sand in paris is getting worse levels are expected to hit

a peak by sunday six meters above the normal level some paris residents have criticised the government's response those are the headlines inside story next i'll have the news hour for you list. america first it's not me in america alone it's business leaders at the world economic forum in davos but can a man who's promoted protectionist policies and scrap trade deals convince the world the u.s. is open for business this is inside story.