but the timing of the attack is very crucial in light of the peace process that we have heard the moment it is one of those complex attacks and it is just outside what we called the green zone where the embassies the ministries of the afghan government and perhaps the presidential palaces look at it within a two kilometer radius the u.s. embassy is located perhaps less than a kilometer away this is just outside the green zone. so what we will never take i understand that you say no one has taken responsibility but when you describe the location of where this is clearly someone would have to be trying to send a message to do something so close to the things you just described this is we have had these kinds of attacks in the past as well. and dietitians been very. sort of effective in carrying out these kinds of attacks and called border over the

past two years now having a car explode and then you have your gunman go inside these drill cations be an international n.g.o.s be it a government ministry we have had similar attack on one of the military hospitals that is just located four hundred meters away from where we had this complex attack today my assumption is described being diagnosed but haps you say that this is coming at a crucial time for where for where the peace talks are where are the peace talks so we have had the taliban representatives. speaking to u.s. special envoy and abu dhabi last week and they are set to meet again and the saudi capital of riyadh next month we have had representatives from saudi arabia from pakistan. attend those meetings as well in fact we had

the pakistani foreign minister coming in visiting the afghan government today and discussing this quadruped quadrilateral meetings so this is a very. sensitive time yes there are some difficulties into the peace talks as was given that the taliban are still not willing to talk to the afghan government the afghan government has a peace plan and is hopeful that they will be able to talk with the taliban in the near future. this attack could well sort of jeopardize this whole peace process we have had the president bringing reforms in the security sector just yesterday bringing in two veterans and the six of the security sector to the key positions of the ministry of interior and the ministry of defense to try and change the tables. as for us the afghan war is concerned this could jeopardize the relations of one

a son with pakistan again it could be become problematic in the peace process that we had but this is still very much premature we don't know who who has done this because nobody has yet taken responsibility for the knob silently and that's a perfect place to end it and as they get more information on this they will bring it to r.p. or i said a bardic security analyst in kabul thank you very much. plenty more ahead and the news hour. calls for a general strike in sudan as more anti-government protests player out overnight. almost in kenya bollen tears are helping those in need more government programs fall short and in sport the n.b.a. take over on christmas day and that's what braun versus golden state once again details coming out and it.

is another very bad day for investors on wall street the dow jones is trading down about six hundred fifty points or almost three percent extending the worst week of losses at almost a decade healthcare technology bank and industrial stocks took some of the heaviest losses and the broad sell off just a day before the markets closed for christmas day. is treasury secretary's been on the phone with the bosses of america's six largest banks checking in that all of them have enough cash to see out a period of market turmoil they told and they do stephen is also bringing together a working group known as the plunge protection team that was set up after the market crash of one nine hundred eighty seven last met during a two thousand and nine. and close the chairman of the federal reserve drone paul who donald trump has reportedly been thinking about firing a term a new and has denied this but it's still added to the markets woes. and president on tweeted this taking another swipe at the federal reserve he said the only

problem our economy has is the fed they don't have a feel for the market they don't understand necessary trade wars or strong dollars or even democrat showdowns over borders that is like a powerful call for all for that is you can't score because he has no touch he can't share bhutanese joins us live from washington d.c. that is not a way to stop sell offs and project calm to the market you have. to didn't say yes as you say the markets although close are just off the day of trading because it's christmas eve it's actually the worst christmas eve for the dow in the dow's history clearly the markets were already having a bit of a sell off as a result of fears of the global economy the trade war with china the government shutdown all sorts of different factors where you know investors minds but what really was a catalyst was that cool those calls made by steve neutron from his mexican holiday

resorts in kabul his son luke us on sunday with the c.e.o.'s all of the six biggest banks in the u.s. to get assurances about liquidity good shortages about liquidity and i think the problem is that they weren't actually any questions about the quality banking liquidity in till he made that announcement about cool so people are wondering well is there a systemic problem with with banks is there something else that we need to consider now to need to factor in or was managing just doing it just to seem like he's doing something perhaps just to please don't try and no one's entirely sure actually what this is about but something added to that to the fear as we had the sell off that we that we have now witnessed ok and throw into that the tweet that i reference from from donald trump what did that do to the market. you know you can look at the graph actually it weirdly just in the twenty minutes before donald trump tweeted the dow was having a bit of a recovery actually and then he tweeted and you can just look at the the graph just

plummet basically so he didn't do well because it did we restore those fears that despite the statements from the neutral and others over the weekend of the administration that even if trump had been thinking about firing drew has now decided he doesn't necessarily have the the right to do so it's a bit of a legal gray area this suggested that trump is still blaming everything on him he said the only problem with the economy is the fed he said so that didn't didn't help things at fool the fact that he is still thinking about it makes people what wonder what you call these can't rule out the fact that he may try and replace paul that would add to the instability because no president's ever done that before. you know we're back in that situation where people get very very worried so yes rather textbook case in not dealing with the markets which is particularly interesting given don't trump always talks about how he and his team of great business minds like steve newton you know they really understand the markets i do right now i'm not sure what the drone policy going to be boring or steve we're going to be. oh my goodness. i've been washington thank you. trade unions in sudan are

calling for a general strike hoping to pile pressure on to president omar al bashir it's the latest development almost a week of protests which have spread across the country police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators in the capital khartoum on sunday night i gather in the city center after a football batch chanting demands for additional freedom and calling for the president to go protest again over rises in prices of bread and fuel in the last few hours president bashir has promised to step up economic reforms which he says will get people about a better life and his first public comment since the protests began he also warn the public not to respond to attempts to sow discord and the country met with the security aides on monday according to state media. fadel is a spokesman for the opposition sudanese congress party it says that the president is offering is too little too late but the people of the sudan have been suffering

quite a lot especially in the past three years. would be different government from the stool by the national congress party which. they will be extended. villages on the war in the different parts of the country it is not they move. even. if you. national movement governing the whole country we see it usually down. and in that sense it is a protest not only for improving life but it is a protest against the system and oppressing the people and in research. the d. the presently you have been in power for over the past thirty years it had never given a penny to explain this area and has the occasion or any one of the services

it has privatized everything in the contesting they have the best. buy the i.m.f. and the world bank the business of the visit government. all of this the whole country i think is morally and what we need is a case you know government again you know direction after years of instability kenya's economic outlook has been getting brighter lately but more than forty percent of kenyans still live below the poverty line many of them living children after survive on the streets. that charities and here are stepping in to help the government fall short. for kenyans living on the streets celebrating the holidays is probably the last thing on their minds. nearly half the country's population lives below the poverty line. and young people trying to survive are often the most vulnerable to abuse crime drug addiction and police harassment. in nairobi

skyscrapers are set against slums that are home to millions of people. david's life on the capital streets began eighteen years ago when he was twelve he says it's a fight for survival. i ran away from school because of the horrible teachers who pitas all the time i gave up and came to the streets that's where i have been ever since. after years of political unrest kenya's economic outlook is said to be brighter the latest government figures suggest poverty is down but they might not tell the whole story volunteers working with underprivileged communities say that for. their vantage point the reality on the ground looks very different and that the number of kenyans who are homeless kids and adults might actually be going up. economic migration from rural areas a rising cost of living and overall lack of opportunities aid groups say these kinds of things mean entire families are ending up on the streets and

a new generation of kenyans is being born into poverty. some attempts are being made to improve literacy among children. the idea is with their heads in books their minds may not stray to drugs and crime it's the kind of learning space that can make a difference. on the streets now he's a model student with hidden talents and an ambition to be a doctor. when he started his day job as a school principal clifford all watch runs a rescue shelter. getting kids putting food in their stomachs and a roof over their heads trying to get them back to school. leaving themselves.

so they. can feel. accepted and. the government is trying to improve the situation but charities and volunteers say the scale of kenya's homeless problem is overwhelming. for now it's time to leave those troubles at the door. as a family. in the occupied west bank. around the world have gathered a war. at the place for christians born. catholic cleric will deliver a mass later about four hundred palestinian christians from gaza have been given. many other. israeli authorities. still ahead.

worst. by the. spectacular. hello there there's plenty of joy weather across the middle east at the moment the eastern parts of our map is all looking for an unsettled is further west going to get more cloud drifting its way towards the caspian sea that's breaking up there

when it's not really giving us a great deal of wet weather is the next system we've got to watch and here it is on tuesday making its way into the northern parts of turkey and that will be giving us a very wet and windy weather that will be telling increasingly wintery as well as we head into wednesday so wednesday's looking very snowy for some of us here and then that ray will be trickling its way further south so we could see a fair amount of rain in parts of lebanon as well during the day to the south of all of that and here in doha it's fairly breezy and it is fairly to cool for us at the moment temperatures around twenty three degrees but the winds should be easing as we head through wednesday and that will allow the temperatures to just climb a little bit higher so we should get to around twenty four down towards the southern parts of africa plenty of rain here particularly in the northern parts of our map stretching from angola all the way across into the northern parts of madagascar and this is the region where it we're expecting the worst of the weather as we head through the next few days as well as a very heavy downpours out of this rain belt to the south of that there is more dry

weather but still the risk of just seeing one or two showers at times during the day. a policy imposed decades ago woman part but she would still look to be goods and when he boards changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences you're creating a pool of socially disadvantaged young men so you have the system where people at every level will be get being given money money to agree distro zation our money to get other people to be the services out there examines the politics of population control when the news breaks and the story bill it's the fight against isis is still continuing in the desert when people need to be home. and the story needs to be told by families status and wealth has benefited from their choice to

enslave people al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you moolah lewd winning documentaries and life news on air and online. this is al-jazeera and these are the top stories at least three hundred seventy three people are known to have died in the tsunami that swept along at a nation's sundra straight crash twenty meters in length the long haul still area's volcano blamed for causing this inobvious to low rotting stoking fears of more destructive waves thousands of people are trapped on a government compound in the afghan capital kabul less pain security forces and gunmen continues attack began more than four hours ago started with the car bombing

at least six people are injured two attackers have big hills. and the u.s. stock market has close call fighting the worst. in almost a decade the dow jones lost almost seven hundred points on the day's trading. the pentagon has signed off on the withdrawal of the us troops from northern syria it comes after turkish president right to tie protocol to shore donald trump people are radical whatever is left of eisel in syria but there is concern that a turkish offensive into northern syria could result in a major conflict with the kurdish y p h e y p g's enjoyed u.s. backing but is considered by turkey to be a terrorist organization syria. why are we in syria to restore freedom to our arab brothers kurds and turks not just her to keep the terrorist organizations and to leave syria arabs in the grip of eisel we will not leave the arabs of syria under the injustice of the units of protection of the kurdish people

and the p.k. case and we will not leave our arab brothers at the mercy of these terrorist organizations. saying no to reports now from. its border with syria on the unfolding political drama it's thirty percent of syria's territory that can tip the balance of power the north east was america's zone of influence in this divided country it will soon pull out its forces about having longtime allies to wipe the syrian kurdish are group. truck decision to force. not only to see. the characters. perhaps a closer relationship with russia. under the syrian government. the y.p. g.

dominated syrian democratic forces is reaching out to the syrian government and russia the main power broker in syria to prevent a possible turkish military offensive or takeover of territory the u.s. has said it is going to coordinate its pull out with turkey a signal that turkish troops or its local allies will move in there is a new relationship between the nato allies after years of disagreement over syria but the warming of ties is testing russian turkish cooperation u.s. withdrawal from from syria and that puts at risk relations between russia and turkey because if that is states and turkey managed to reach the deal on syrian kurds in some way or another that puts at risk. russia turkey. agreements on it or russia's plans on friday was also.

it's not clear how turkey will further behave itself in boston the forum but. russia turkey and iran have been closely working together on syria within what is known as the astronaut format over the years the u.s. has repeatedly tried to pull away from that alliance. if the u.s. hands over the area to turkey it will not be good for iran so now turkey will be on a collision course with iran. the u.s. decision to withdraw could result in shifting partnerships and a cease fire deal in syria's opposition controlled northwestern province of idlib could be enter pretty that deal was the result of russian turkish cooperation despite opposition from the syrian government turkey wanted to prevent a military action that could destabilize its security and create a massive refugee. now russian diplomats tell us it will be hard to constrain syrian president bashar assad from launching an offensive if turkey takes territory

in the north east. the bargaining has begun zanuck. southern turkey. turkey says it's working with several countries to take an investigation into the killing of saudi journalist to the united nations in ounce and came from the foreign minister at a news conference in tunis has also demanded riyadh share its findings on the case with the international community shows he was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul nearly three months ago. u.n. monitoring team has arrived in the many city of who they are there to monitor a shaky cease fire which was agreed to to the surprise of many the government and who the rebels two weeks ago the team is led by retired judge general patrick amar there's been sporadic fighting in the area in recent days but it's hoped the truce will see more aid passing through data support to alleviate yemen's dire humanitarian situation the presidents of belarus and russia are meeting in moscow

on tuesday with the hope of repairing a strained relationship with long time ruler of belarus alexander lukashenko was has accused rather russia of using its oil and gas reserves to deepen its control over the country naif parker reports. when the soviet union crumbled rusher impeller roofs remained symbolic in strategic partners but in recent years and the g. supplies and economics revealed where the wheel pounds of power. earlier this month live on russian state television president lukashenko interrupted president putin's bid flow as he outlined a new tax regime for russian oil imports the price hikes could cost the ballet russian economy billions of dollars they can't afford. compensation russia's refused a heated exchange continued on camera tensions eventually subsided but in later interviews appears to suggest the tax hikes were deliberate to push the country

further into russian control what has been upset about is what he perceives as a threat to serenity here and the challenge to sovereignty is how russia reacted to his demands for compensation there are basically one option you can pursue this is advanced integration is not the first time look at his question bellerose his ties with russia was in georgia ukraine on the twenty fourteen an extension of crimea have prompted the president to stand up a belorussian sovereignty. something that belarus is a part of the russian world most rusher itself forget it belarus is a sovereign and independent state. it's a difficult dilemma for look at how to be an independent state last remaining all the favorable terms with russia if you want to get up to do so you need to give something back the kind of a trade or if you don't want to get up to this you may be very independent but in this case economic wonder will disappear and maybe we will face some kind of

political disaster or oil like it was in ukraine this is one way bellaver used to sweeten the relationship. in twenty seventeen russia staged joint military exercises code names meeting west a clear message for nato ukraine has since accused russia of using the exercises as a pretext to station troops in belarus the kremlin denies this one thing moscow is wary of though is the attraction of europe for many young belorussians is the only leader they've ever known it's led to pro e.u. anti-government protests but currently any challenge to look at those twenty four year leadership is quickly silenced. walking a geo political tightrope valorise even tried buying oil from venezuela to ease its dependency on russian supplies but right now nothing quite beats the help it get

some its old friend russia and the occasional outburst look at shank has left with little choice but to keep calm and carry on. al-jazeera joining me now via skype from state of virginia former american ambassador to ukraine and director of the racist center at the atlantic council we appreciate your time very much what russia specifically what. you want. he would like control too for russia for gas from to own the pipelines going to be a ruse he would like to have a military base. things would go well willing to be partners with with putin does not want to be subordinate to solution who is pushing back as both of these things first explains the ten ok. there's a really have a choice like what are his options israel options well. who has at least

some ability to maneuver because there are countries around him who want to encourage his independence he has not fully suborder to crumble so says the poor that they know. well that includes members of the e.u. blue shadow does have another issue which gets in the way of better relations with his neighbors and that is he wants of or turn regime the political opposition there is under tight control and so this makes his relationship with many countries especially in the e.u. and also with united states were difficult hooshang who are trying to maintain his authoritarian control over his country and in and avoid putin's embrace it would make him so clearly subordinate to the criminal that's a very tough thing to do it is and how much longer can he do that well who didn't i think is too reluctant to show all the things that he could do i mean for example

to insist by military force that russia have a vase envelops but it proves what changes martin decided to do that. he will auction because his relationship with the west is limited wise authoritarian style rule ok has certainly something to keep an eye on and john hart say appreciate you with your expertise explaining all this so thank you thank you paula. the united arab emirates has released photos of the daughter of one of the country's rule worse after rights groups raise concerns over her wellbeing the pictures show shakila tipo with former u.n. high commissioner for human rights mary robinson a state run news agency says the pictures are dated from december fifteenth and that is at home living with her family and dubai and marks the princes have released a forty minute video that went viral where she claimed she was imprisoned and abuse for several years accorded me and maher says it will rule on an appeal by two

reuters journalists next wallonia who were given seven years behind bars for breaking the official secrets act earlier say the two were set up it been investigating the killing of ten muslims and rakhine state the trial is from recorded around the world as a sham. my husband and i married in this current two years ago and we were full of joy but this time it is different as it came from my husband's post-process i hope for the best and to hear good news it's a coincidence that i've come to where i once had a happy time and now again i have my husband situation. over the past two years more than two million venezuelans escaping from deepening economic crisis resettled in countries across south america and argentina some are using music to cope with the difficulties of being away from whole story suppose that some of them about my size. a tradition an argentine tango music with

a venice will end twist. the news came to win a scientist who escaped the crisis in venezuela now a member of this band it makes her feel just a bit closer to home everyone said i'm out of my left because when my baby was born i was afraid he could die because we couldn't find medicine that's why we came here now playing here helps to stay united and we will all take care of each other as a family. this is the latin box machine the band members met him when a site is by chance in venezuela they were part of a program known as the system it was set up. in the one nine hundred seventy s. and used to music to attract thousands of innocent children away from a life in crime and poverty you know can i don't say much for the message of this bad is that in spite of the difficulty and the suffering of all the problems we face we never have to stop fighting for what we love and we are all musicians at heart. it is food many of those in the band got their

start in argentina playing in they want to cite us metro system six months ago sis had arrived in the capital he still plays in the metro to help make ends meet but it was part of my destiny we all left for different reasons but finding ourselves as part of the miracle in the bonds no there's also people from other countries we all learned to see things differently since we left our old. musicians who came to argentina from venezuela arrived here with little except their instruments the sound they make has made it possible for them to start a new life millions of venice wayland's are fleeing the direct anomic situation in their countries and coming to argentina brazil parole and quite a lot of the members of the band say that they're working with the united nations refugee aid. easy to shed light on the problems faced by those who are forced to leave their countries behind. argentina has an open arms policy towards migrants

but the situation is not the same elsewhere as the time has come once again for latin america and the american system continent to continuing on or in the tradition of so here are plenty of brother and sister hood in the sense that we wouldn't stamp affection toward those who need it either if they come from venezuela nicaragua or their countries or the north of santorum or. music is a universal language and those venezuelans who make it have found a way to sustain themselves in argentina but they say they dream of the day they can again be their music back home. he's having to see that when the sound of. millions of people across the democratic republic of congo should have been voting sunday to elect a new leader a poll to replace president joseph kabila has been put off for a week blamed on

a fire that destroyed voting machines and ballot papers there have been protests of the latest away with the election already two years behind schedule choice in the capital kinshasa with more on the logistics needed to hold the election. those four million ballot papers meant for the city are in the country now which is a big relief to many people the voting machines that had been recalled from the different problems is pulled are already here technicians are reprogramming them now the materials are meant for other parts of the country are in the different regional headquarters will be arriving transported to the various centers. eventually the polling stations as well but that's another problem logistically this is a country that has a very poor infrastructure we're talking about places that you cannot get use of

you call or even a bicycle you have to walk this is also the rainy season as some parts of the country face. out break. all the school.