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doha also coming up seventy six of the one hundred schoolgirls abducted in my cheerier last month have not returned to their home village. also the suspect in a spate of bombings in the u.s. state of texas is dead were in austin with the latest. and a long walk for war to the kenyan community that's increasingly dire straits. welcome to the program at least twenty six people have been killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan's capital during new year's celebrations the attacker blew himself up close to a shrine in the west of the city near the university in a possible. chaos and confusion on the streets of kabul as a birgitte see crews rushed to the scene of the latest bomb blast the apparent target afghan celebrating no ruse the iranian new year with the number again

unfortunately once again our enemies are spilled the blood of our innocent countryman the young men were holding celebrations for nauru's but he's attacked them here far away from their chosen targets which is an important shrine kabul is being repeatedly attacked a car bomb explosion by the taliban killed at least two civilians on saturday several others were wounded in the morning rush hour suicide blast in an industrial area of the city the afghan government said a private british security company was the target it was the four suicide attack in the afghan capital in the past three weeks a u.s. general in afghanistan has said protecting the capital is the americans main effort but the attacks continue increasing pressure on president. he offered peace talks to the taliban last month as part of his efforts to end the sixteen year war but any sort of negotiated settlement appears a long way off

a dollar has continued to grow in strength since the withdrawal of the u.s. led nato combat troops four years ago and most security analysts predict its annual so-called spring offensive will be more intense this year as fighters respond to repeated u.s. and afghan airstrikes as well as ground assaults in p.s. high of al-jazeera. who's a national security analyst based in kabul. it's the new year's celebration for us for your new year for our kids. a lot of people are gathering. across various points in this weekend this is certainly one of them where people are strongly agreed to combine them all together we have had dinners of hope about any reconfiguration process that might be called blood again this is not a good sign but the real question is can ministry of. intelligence.

department. security department overall how did the press conference yesterday were distant enough security measures across the longer son to allow people to some of this. but this is the heart of the heart of compliments is just about it's just a one hundred to two hundred me just on top of university central university. despite the measures how could you have people used. to various checkpoints and make it all delivered to the heart of security and inflict damage to people. said west african i one cheeriest government says seventy six of the one hundred ton schoolgirls abducted by boko haram last month have been returned members of the armed group reportedly dropped the girls in the center of the northeastern town of the past on wednesday morning now government officials deny any ransom was paid to secure their release it was the largest mass abduction since boko haram took more

than two hundred seventy schoolgirls in the town of triple in twenty fourteen let's cross over now to evidence with a correspondent who is live for us from the city of yala in nigeria and emma i mean we have an update on the numbers that the all forty seem to have recovered all connect count full but where are all these girls right now. believe it goes we been told that they have been. in the town of the help facility as they are being checked for possible militias whether or not they need medical attention what we hear from people in that area is that they believe in some kind of right security at the else facility journalese and others including parents were denied access to the ghost until one everything is sorted out it's just clear exactly whether or not they will be transporting them out of date but we understand that the nigerian for instance he is talking about the possibility of the state

security service the department of physics your competitors briefing the nation about what transpired and what the situation is by she and around the town now schools so still some girls missing and their whereabouts are unknown that will be of great concern to very worried parents and deal for ots who have to try and justify what they are going to do next. absolutely because it's a big concern for the parents not her go spoken to that coaches who may not post could be among those that want to use. it to asian a stab phobia of some of these children somewhere else or even one journey. of the detainees into dusty because there are other reports stating that some of these goals actually cracked from where they were dropped off by four far from into

custody but that is still confined yet but what we know right now is a seventy six of them in that she not being cared for we are not sure i want to happen to the rest and whether or not to go see issues out on to the cure was a really a just briefly and with the photos came and a great deal of pressure when the two both girls were kidnapped and twenty fourteen for international viewers just describe the amount of pressure the government has been on the to try and control the northeast of the country so this wouldn't happen again. well basically when you when these girls were taken by boko haram last month there was anger towards prospering them there was a lot of comments on this from the nigerian side for from nigerians but the government and the nation have still to learn from the experience beside the experience of chibok in two thousand and fourteen now people are questioning whether or not the government when i think what we protect to build in the show landlords as security services secure boarding schools and that children all

students in those schools will be protected but what's happening is that she is alive to that that the schools are still vulnerable and that there is no i'd be good protection to the schools as you can use to go the police that they're deploying thousands of their own to secure their schools but everybody knows that all quarter army fights when these locations are most vulnerable well for the moment we'll leave it there and it's thanks for the updates we'll come back to you when we get more information thank you moving on a tour of the top story in police in the u.s. state of texas say the suspect in a series of possible bombings has killed himself they have identified him as a twenty four year old white male but say the motive behind the blast is unclear that being in the six explosions that killed two people and injured several others in the us earlier this month. we began following the vehicle again waiting to

get the tactical vehicles here so we could take this and make a stop however the vehicle ended up stopping in the bar did on the side of the road behind us. as members of the austin police department swat team approached the vehicle the suspect detonated a bomb inside the vehicle knocking one of our swat officers back and one of our swat officers fired at the suspect as well. the suspect is deceased and has significant injuries from a blast that occurred from detonating a bomb inside his vehicle well john hundred joins us now live from austin of course the president was just a short time ago john but authorities will be breathing a sigh of relief but certainly asking real questions about the attacks themselves on the individual behind the. that's right

these bombings mysterious bombings may have ended as dramatically as they began the at the hotel you can see it behind me over there and over my other shoulder perhaps you can see those police lights where they remain at that scene of course they're going to be cleaning that up and gathering evidence at that scene but they knew who this man was he was on their list of people of interest and they had video surveillance of him and apparently witness reports of this man they knew what car he would be driving so when officers located that car they tried to keep it in place standing by but in the end that driver tried to move then they fired upon the car to stop him and he detonated the device that is what the story is by police but the reason i say it may be over it because we don't know how many other packages might be sorting their way through the mail system today there have been six bombs

found five of them detonated one of them at a fed ex facility that was destined for here not far away and another one was found here in austin unexploded we talked to people at that facility you said they were quickly rushed out in the morning on tuesday so this is an investigation that will continue to be underway but of course the biggest question that nobody knows is why the bomber did this. to them in the for the moment thank you. it's moved to syria now where at least sixty civilians have been killed in the last remaining rebel held parts of eastern ghouta they were killed in attacks by the syrian military and its allies now the syrian government says another thirty five people died when a rocket fired by rebels landed at a market in government controlled damascus it happened in the cash cool area close to the front line in the fighting between government and rebel forces but this makes it one of the deadliest attacks in the capital since the start of the war has

more from beirut. reports of an agreement between one of the rebel factions in eastern and the russian military. controls the town of because right now the enclave has divided into three pockets controls one of those pockets and there are reports that it has reached a deal with the russian military those fighters agreeing to lay down their arms in exchange for going to get safe passage to leave to other rebel controlled areas in the north of the country you know there are three rebel factions in eastern talks with the other two have not really made much progress so the deal with this reported deal will undoubtedly put pressure on those two rebel factions which have vowed to continue to fight until the end but their bargaining power really they do not have much bargaining power because their pockets the pockets that they control are surrounded by pro-government forces and according to the united nations hundreds of thousands of people are trapped inside and many of them have been

appealing for a way out a lot of the civil defense volunteers as well as activists who are wanted by the state they have been appealing to the united nations to open poor doors safe passages for them to leave that are monitored by the united nations because they fear that if they cross into government controlled territories they could come arrested or even be executed so there's this fear among civilians who are trapped inside so reports of a possible deal the first such deal of its kind we know what the pro-government alliance wants and they want a surrender and this is since they they launched this bombing campaign over a. sting in the area the israeli military has confirmed the first time that it bombed a suspected nuclear reactor in syria eleven years ago it's released a previously classified cockpit video struck the they were in two thousand and seven israel's intelligence minister says it should be a new war should be a warning to iran but it won't be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. still ahead

here. civilian president is been more. half a century quits we look at what he writes in court. and an african powerhouse in the making leaders of the continent to me to sign a new trade deal with stories after the break. welcome back a look at weather conditions across asia this time and starting in northeastern areas you can see this massive cloud moving across japan this weather system is going to give further rain pushing up from the southwest jury in the next forty eight hours so as a look at a snapshot for thursday rain for tokyo sendai looks pretty wet and not particularly warm either temperatures of just ten degrees and a great blanket of plowed across much of the region extending into parts of the korean peninsula certain looking more for beijing at eighteen degrees and then through into friday see that weather system clears in towards the northern pacific

so we should see brighter conditions but cooler conditions to sendai just eight degrees into central and southern parts of china and here the weather's looking largely dry and fine if it stays that way through friday the hong kong that twenty four hanoi in vietnam twenty three in showers generally across indochina few and far between into southeastern parts of asia but a few showers for lose or manila may pick up the odd downpour further towards the south looks quite wet for parts of java maybe into bali was certainly jakarta will see some heavy downpours we've had some large rainfall totals being reported through sumatra it looks like remaining fairly wet here for twenty four hours also some showers pushing into the gulf of thailand and we could see the odd shower in bangkok. a key figure of the early twentieth century arab literary scene.

and a feminist writer and her time. so why did her story and in such tragedy. al-jazeera welland expose the life and why of maisie ida at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour at least twenty six people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the afghan capital the attack of gloom self up close to a shrine in the west of the capital some afghans are marking the no rues holiday

a celebration of the start of spring. nigeria's government says seventy six of the one hundred ten schoolgirls abducted by boko haram last month have been returned members of the armed group the portly drop the girls in the center of the northeastern town of baiji early on wednesday morning. police say the suspect behind a series of parcel bombings in texas has killed himself they've identified him as a twenty four year old white male but say the motive behind the blast is still unclear. to me to understand suchi is without her right hand man after the sudden resignation of the country's president in a statement on facebook president in shore said he wanted to take a rest from his current duty become trees vice president is expected to fill the void until a new president. is selected martin short took office in twenty sixteen becomingly a mass first civilian president says nine hundred sixty two he was hand picked out

and sent to chief for the largely ceremonial role but he was nonetheless me a mast head of state and a key domestic ally for suchi within her party now he has stood firmly beside her even as she came under international criticism for failing to stop the ethnic cleansing of wrecking goble slim's florence louis has more from kuala lumpur. the myanmar president is supposed to be the head of state as well as the head of government but ten char occupied a largely ceremonial role he had been handpicked by aung san suu kyi to be the president while she became the actual leader of the country and she couldn't become president under the military draft of the constitution even though she had led her party the national league for democracy to a landslide victory in the election in two thousand and fifteen so she picked her trusted friend to fill that role now and there have been some suggestions that could have ruffled some feathers in the military after he called for constitutional

reform in a speech made on independence day in january of this year constitutional reform is a particularly sensitive topic among the military because it is the military draft at constitution of two thousand and eight that secures such a powerful role for the military having said that tin child's health we know has been quite bad in recent months we know he's been suffering from ill health has been seeking medical treatment abroad so this resignation shouldn't come as too much of a surprise it does however take immediate effect now analysts have said however that it shouldn't affect the day to day running of the country because he occupies a largely ceremonial role and because the government has said it will pick a successor within the next seven days the african leaders are meeting in rwanda to sign a new free trade deal the african continent called free trade area would allow unrestricted

movement of people goods and capital across fifty five countries providing the all sign on the dotted line though it's part of the african union's long term vision for a wealthy and conflict free africa let's go straight over to mohamed atta who's live for us in the rwandan capital kigali of course is potentially a huge trade deal with huge economic ramifications for large parts of africa i mean what sort of benefits do the. countries hope they will gain from signing on the dotted line. while a lot of benefits the whole fost of all according to the united nations economic commission for africa this agreement once it is implemented will improve. trade between african countries by which will increase by more than fifty percent within just small years this will see more and more good sping exchanged

with in the african continent africa is not treating us much as it should at the moment because of all these a colonial legacy is inhabited by this continent following colonialism and there's been suspicion between even the regional trading blocs that have not been trading so much and now this is going to remove all body as to trade and we will see one point two billion people brought to one market and that is going to increase the combined d.d.p. of africa to up to two million dollars something many people can see the here to be huge indeed it is huge and they are very high hopes but africa has as you know and as we know internationally has been fraught with political instability and ethnic tensions which can destabilize the area very quickly we've seen this historically how do these countries intend to address that issue it's because it's a very big one across africa. well for

now this is a walk in progress the convenience of the summit will tell you that they do not expect miracles happen overnight there's going to be a whole process where the agreements signed by almost forty countries today will have to be done misty came to the whole issue over to fix kitchen making it in adler meant with national polls there would be negotiations with the union some of them who are very wary about the whole idea of the free movement of people and the biggest opposition to this agreement so far is coming to the mall has published a comic in the african countries like nigeria and south africa some of whom have been all pending complaining against it the trade unions in this country is a saying that there would be the possibility of people from poorer parts of africa

good of the teaching to its knees because a quantum is in such a jobs and also trading opportunities and they say that will spell doom for their local markets and their local workers and something they say is why they all post to this agreement in the first place mostly what does happen when these countries do sign on the dotted line of what comes out of this free trade agreement for the moment term habitants joining us from kigali. now france's former president nicolas sarkozy is facing a second day of questioning over allegations his two thousand and seven election campaign was illegally financed police are looking into claims that libyan leader moammar gadhafi gave sarkozy as much as sixty million dollars when he was running for office psychoses denied any wrongdoing. the facebook bosses are under mounting pressure from politicians in the u.s. and europe to answer questions over a major data breach the company at the center of it all cambridge analytical is accused of misusing the data to help rig elections worldwide so you're going to get

reports not from london. a virtual world with a very real money making data trail uses of social media platforms unaware how profitable the information they have is for those willing to access it the scandal involving facebook may make many of us reconsider that. cambridge i litter is accused of misusing the data of millions of facebook uses we've had quite a few with a whistleblower who worked at the british based data mining firm says the information was used to build a system which may have influenced voters in the us presidential election as well as all the votes and how a company even had dealings with russian interests we made it pretty damn clear to a lot of people in russia that we had this giant data site and that it was all sort of prepackaged with you know predictions about what's going to influence people and

their political you know orientation. and that that can like plug right into you know like online display networks and advertising networks. and and that that data was being modeled by somebody who was also working in russia on russian projects that were very similar to some politicians the advantage of using information harvested from social media be used as a try and get into the minds of potential voters but there's been little questioning of the consequences which is now why the information commissioner wants that search warrant to get into the opera. and to get an order abbess. the details of millions of facebook users were reportedly gathered by a university professor using a personality testing out he'd created called this is your digital life while users gave their permission for information to be used by him it's alleged the data was

then sold to a third party cambridge analytic are in violation of facebook's own policies but cambridge analytic denies doing anything wrong and says it deleted all records when it discovered how the data had been attained from facebook not only is britain's data protection watchdog after proof of data was wiped facebook says it wants that proof to the social media giant has since hired a digital forensics firm to find out how the data was leaked and assurances that it was destroyed but its response may have come too late facebook share price fell almost seven percent wiping nearly forty billion dollars of its value the company's chief of security alex thomas is reportedly to leave because of internal disagreements at how facebook should deal with its role in spreading disinformation politicians in britain and the u.s. are now pushing for facebook's chief executive mark zuckerberg to appear before

them to answer questions over the massive data breach meanwhile the accusations against cambridge analytic are rapidly growing since. an undercover investigation by britain's channel four secretly taped a cambridge analytical executive appearing to boast about the firm's ability to sway elections by entrapping politicians in compromising situations. and conducting fake news campaigns something facebook's accused of enabling and failing to tackle effectively sunny day ago al-jazeera london. the kurds along with iranians and afghans are celebrating the persian new year tens of thousands of people are in turkey they're back here for the festivities but this year's celebrations on the first day spring have been overshadowed by the military defeat in the syrian city of a friend. now more than half of kenya's population and we have access to safe

drinking water from shallow wells and rivers. reports from what. causes conflicts between farming communities. there has been some rain in what jackie county for the fast time in months. and her neighbors in the village of. their train water that collects in paddles on the main road. they have no clean water source and often rely on deliveries trucked to them by the local government from a borehole more than forty kilometers away it's been a week since they last saw the truck. and we don't have anything else to drink right now we cook food to feed two children come from school they drink sometimes they get sick but we have few options. but the rains iraq and drought frequent forcing hiding communities to walk longer distances in such for food and water and

fights often break out as resources become even more scarce this come all the being taken to another far away area where it has rained but most conflicts over water and pasture happen during drought seasons where there's not much to go around elders we talked to told us that the traditional ways of solving problems over resources somewhat ineffective now because of political interference. here the elders discuss reason territorial clashes between two communities claiming rights to an area where trains more at least eighty people have died in a dispute over land since more than a decade ago four of them including its pregnant wife were killed in the most recent conflict she's left behind six children. from the other community need water or food they should come and ask but by force that's what leads to conflict. the government and other development partners have been sinking boreholes building

dams and constructing water pans to bring water closer to higher doesn't that anyone else but even then finding it is getting more difficult what used to be very popular for shallow wells were not only the drop what the egyptians used to call. to collect water. in perth but the fits all well so used to have what now you did sixty fifth know what. back at the village one day and her neighbors have had their feel and it's time for the goats to drink the village as a hope that what a truck will soon come knowing that even when it does arrive there's never enough for all of them catherine so i would not eastern kenya. so robert these raw top news stories at least twenty six people are being killed in

a suicide bombing in the afghan capital now the attacker blew himself up in a shrine in the west of the city some afghans are marking the route holiday a celebration of the start of spring nigeria's government says seventy six of the one hundred ten schoolgirls abducted by boko haram last month have been returned members of the group reportedly dropped the girls in the center of the northeastern town of earlier on wednesday morning and with interest as more. we been told that they have been. found not. to help facilitate as they are being prepped for possible illnesses or whether or not they need medical attention what we hear from people in that area is that they've been kind of what i secure facility journalists others including parents were denied access because under one everything is sorted out we're not sure what happened to the rest and whether or

not because it is now on you that your other really people say the suspect behind a series of possible bombings in texas has been killed now they've identified him as a twenty four year old white male but saying the motive behind the blast is unclear near mass the president to call cho has announced he's stepping down in a statement on face book choice said he wanted to take it the rest of a rest from work the country's vice president is expected to fill the void until a new president is selected in syria at least sixty civilians have been killed in the last remaining rebel held parts of eastern q two in the tanks by the syrian military and their allies the syrian government says another thirty five people died when a rocket fired by rebels landed at a market in government controlled damascus and african leaders are meeting in rwanda to sign a new freight train free trade deal the african continent free trade area would

allow unrestricted movement of people goods and capital cost fifty five countries those were the headlines inside story is next to stay with us. making his debut in the united states the saudi crown prince promotes a prison of the form for his country and his foreign policies have left the gulf divided and yemen on the brink of what impression as mohamed been making on the international stage this is inside story.