counting the cost on al-jazeera. devastation in somalia's capital a truck bomb blast kills at least 78 people many of them university students. hello again on come all sons of maria with the world news from al jazeera anger and defiance in hong kong as protesters stormed a shopping mall near the border with china. also we will meet the parents demanding the return of their children who they say were kidnapped by kurdish fighters in turkey. and locked and

loaded russia says its newest weapon is operational and it goes $27.00 times the speed of sound. so a huge bomb blasts killed and injured dozens of people in somalia's capital mogadishu it is one of the worst attacks there in years and i'm going to officially 78 people have been killed but 125 others were injured and many more casualties are feared him or tossers following this story from nairobi in neighboring kenya where. they tack was carried out joining morning rush hour as many people going to work and university students heading to campus the bombs exploded at a security checkpoint east by many coming into marketing. guys with. a truck loaded with explosives was detonated at a busy to. point the explosion lead to many deaths and injuries most of those died

here students who were going to the schools and universities official say many of those killed by the truck bomb. explosion was very large it was close to where the 2017 bomb happened many people died here especially students i saw many dead bodies lying on the ground. some of the dead were police officers but also students were killed. officials believe the target was a building next to the checkpoint by government troops the group was pushed out of mogadishu several years ago but is still targets high profile areas such as checkpoints and hotels. also carried out attacks in neighboring kenya and uganda. it's trying to stop attacks like this from happening for those caught up in the blast and those who lost family members and loved ones that's a little comfort now. what. are often claimed.

and it does raise some concerns about the readiness of somali troops to take over from the african union force which is there in the coming months has been wracked by conflict going back to 991 when clan warlords overthrew the former leader and then turn on each other. it was formed around a decade ago tried to topple the government and it wants to create a state under its own version of strict islamic law already controls parts of somalia southern and central regions it was pushed out of mogadishu several years ago but as we see continues to target high profile areas such as checkpoints and hotels it was blamed for that double truck bombing in mogadishu in october 27th seen which killed more than 500 people though we should say didn't actually claim responsibility for that the group's also been blamed for at least $200.00 deaths this year alone including that of the mayor of mogadishu.

back in august the thoughts now about the hakim who is a researcher at the heritage institute for policy studies in mogadishu he believes this attack is the work of al shabaab i think we need to understand that that initial happen has been one of the most successful target incision in the wall and then they have been able to actually exploit the security witnesses in the country and they have been actually. waging a symmetric and sort of war especially in an era but area and there are 80 is actually to inflict as many casualties as possible so that they can manipulate the psychology of the people so that they can really feel are among the people so i think you need to understand deep in the society i think as you can disappear over all it has been that if including over the last 3 or $0.04 a large elite the government really tried to reorganize is security architecture

but there has not been sound policy to really not corrupt out of there see. also need to know that shabaab has been effective government the structure of the government in somalia will just get a quick update from how to reach us or as we said she's following this from from nairobi an update on the death toll 1st of all. listeners are saying dozens have been killed and dozens more have been injured right now it's said it's a recovery mission they're trying to get as many in just people to the hospital so they can get help and then they say when they have had time to tally everything figure out who's did these missing in the release the official death toll it's been a scramble on the ground we've been told because when the initial explosion happened you can imagine there was chaos but now it seems it's getting dark and

most people have been taken to hospital those who have been injured all the bodies have been removed from the scene the issue now people are asking is what is security like in somalia why can't people get things right for example this checkpoint where the attack happened was manned by police officers and government troops who were by in a nearby building and the still the attack happened despite all the security took a service and now how capable is the somali army to protect civilians you also have the african union soldiers in somalia as well and sometimes they've also been ambushed and attacked by several groups and sometimes by al-shabaab so a lot of uncertainty tonight in mogadishu but right now the project for the government is to help all those who've been injured and then the release in the face of death toll when they already ok we made mention of the surly and you did as well how do the african union troops who are in somalia at the moment is there no bigger question the somali government being able to handle things if and when those

troops go. that is the big question i mean the somali army has come a long way think about it i mean they've managed to in a way kind of reorganize themselves tried to be more professional but because these attacks keep happening in well the dishy at security checkpoints people and i'll ask you once at the beginning and she was doing leave will they be capable of saying no. some are saying yes the government are saying that they are trying to do whatever they can to stop these attacks from happening but the question of course is now is not happening so what is the way forward it may mean they could be a delay of the african union troops leaving but if they do leave of course all eyes will be on the somali army the somali government will they be able to protect their civilians and people from any further attacks if they happen how do thanks for that update how tosses in nairobi. to other news and more than a 1000 people been arrested across india over the last 24 hours in protests over

a new citizenship law hasn't deterred demonstrators there from setting more around even sit ins across the country we're looking at 15 days now of protests over the controversial which has been criticized as anti muslim opposition leader raul gandhi visited assam on saturday when the protest movement began as a new delhi for us where hundreds of protesters have been staging their own sister the 100000 people who were detained in general there's a strange you know they may be i guess to be right one would retain the international capital and yet they're still gathered across several sides in a number of testing against google because. this university just going to guess that we are as we go to the epicenter of these protests groups and these will be really be coming out from all over the night now during watergate some of the what they describe as a disco in a tree don't you know they say they don't want us know. and they will keep

dancing will continue their protests on monday or the government does not ever give me a member now most of these protesters as you did see you know women and children they were not part with their infantry and got 100 of those they braving the cold because i'm placing them down with police atrocities against everybody is sort of you know this the temperature of the of this university and that is in the city that's not the remotest people that they're not safe in their. neighborhood so that today the old soviet missile fell down even leading role in the field position party the congress party fundraiser sandwiches whether this began several other political leaders have flown the army i don't want different stages to protest against the moment there's great distrust toward our leaders really under the same group they're not putting to house the man leadership would look like this is nothing i think them for you but they're not happy with this i'm going to see her. police sound violently cleared hundreds of protesters who stormed

a shopping mall in hong kong close to the border with mainland china the areas popular with traders who cross over to buy goods and then sell them back home demonstrators blame them for overcrowding pushing up prices these protests have disrupted hong kong for more than 6 months now mainly against china's increasing influence over the territory florence though is among the protesters in hong kong and tells us this demonstration is a little different to other cities in the past 6 months. this protest here is hardly an offshoot of the main protest movement that's gone on for 6 months in hong kong but it's also partly to home turf against the practice of our now trading compound all trading is a practice where shoppers traders come and buy goods in hong kong in bali and then resell them for profit in mainland china a majority of these traders are mainland chinese it's a practice that locals here if you disrupt their social and economic life it's course shortage of goods it's driven the prices of goods and hong kong people i'm

happy about this practice so this is what this protest is about now we've seen the shutters in the shopping malls shut as soon as protest is moving it's really not had protesters the views that mainland chinese now in these protests that have gone on for the past 6 months the anger against the hong kong and chinese government and now is the window into anger at the moment and trying these people as. well and we've also seen why it really is moving to the shopping mall and to a rest stop and now the whole idea of this protest is to cause economic disruption in a bid to force the government to take notice of this protest movement and to meet the protesters demands now it's also aimed at forcing disruption to an economic activity that protest is seen as mainly beneficial to mainland chinese and not people of hong kong. the u.n. general assembly has condemned human rights abuses against rohingya muslims and

other minorities in me and my 134 member states voted for the resolution calling on me and miles government to combat the hatred and violence against minorities me and i was also facing a charge of genocide of the international court of justice thousands of her who were killed in a government crackdown in rakhine state back in 2017 and nearly a 1000000 more fled to bangladesh aleksei from benjamin's or back you know southeast asia analyst who tells us this u.s. u.n. resolution is too late and lacks the legal ways to trigger international action. you haven't 9 non-binding non legally binding general assembly resolution 2 years late that simply expresses condemnation for something that's now 2 years in the past and urges the myanmar government to take actions that it has repeatedly indicated that it is unwilling to take so no it's very difficult to see how this resolution could be of any concrete benefit to either the. refugees who fled into bangladesh or for the some 400000 or so estimated ranges who remain in myanmar and

remain at risk of further genocidal attacks the sad part about him is that the u.n. general assembly the same body that issued the resolution recently passed the responsibility to protect unanimously in 2005 which makes abundantly clear that when a country is either unable or unwilling to protect its people from genocide crimes against humanity and other great international crimes that it is the collective responsibility of the international community of member states to take appropriate action to ensure that these crimes are not committed again and yet issuing a resolution 2 years after the fact does not constitute the kind of action that the general assembly should be taking the resolution should be stating that if genocidal attacks continue that you know rational community is prepared to take military forceful military action to stop and punish the genocide in the end but unfortunately the the resolution didn't say that and sadly few member states of the

u.n. are willing to take that action. in the news ahead the $1000000000.00 avocado industry in mexico that the gangs are now battling to control and putting the wheels in motion how the finishing touches of being applied for the latest mission to mars. hello again or welcome back to international weather forecasts well across china particularly down towards the south more rain is in the forecast of the next few days and it's going to be quite hard as we go towards sunday as well as into monday so for hong kong that's where the rain will be to the north not really lucky too bad for joe is going to be plenty of sun in the forecast with the temps there of 20 but as we go towards monday you'll notice that rain really begin to extend not only for joe but towards taipei as well we do expect to see some very heavy rain

possibly some localized flooding tempter staying into the low twenty's across much of the area down towards the philippines though some good news there much drier conditions for the recovery and the relief efforts that need to be going on as we go into next week well here across india really not looking too bad across much of the area we have seen a break in the rain particular down towards southern india as well as sri lanka really no clouds around but we could see some rain coming back here towards chennai that's going to happen here on sunday really lingering as we go towards monday as well up towards the north though it's going to be chilly in the mornings rebounding into the mid teens for new delhi but over here towards kolkata and i stay few with a temperature of $23.00 degrees and we are watching some rain here across parts of southern oman that's all due to a lingering tropical system for sala expect to see some more rain in the forecast with a temperature of 29. i

. fly a cancer place and experience the world is like never before cats are always going to places together to it. and these are our top stories this hour a huge bomb blast which killed 78 people in somalia one of the worst attacks in years the explosion happened near

a security checkpoint in mogadishu 125 others were injured. more than a 1000 people been arrested across india in the past 24 hours during protests over the controversial citizenship law hasn't deterred demonstrators though from staging more rallies and sit ins right across the country. and police have also violently cleared hundreds of protesters who stormed the hong kong shopping mall they were chanting against traders from mainland china accusing them of overcrowding and pushing up prices. criminal gangs in mexico they are notorious for cocaine trafficking but they're not all switching their attention some of them to something with a more healthy reputation avocado farmers say their $1000000000.00 business has been wrecked by kidnapping and extortion gangs profits are growing along with u.s. consumers appetite for mexican avocados john heilemann has the story. the western world and in particular the united states is go mad for avocados within the last 20

years the average consumption there has more than tripled but if you are an american 18 minutes can have a car that's on toast or in your guacamole dip it's possible not all of the profits are heading to the right hands. michu a can make the heartland gangs a hijacking the industry extorting and kidnapping produces stealing trucks with their crop. it's widespread in lucrative there's a reason they can this gringo. but most grows it too scared to speak out it took weeks for us to persuade this man before they started by asking me for more money perfect hair they came to the farm and said who's the boss we want you to contribute that was 8 months ago he stories coleman eventually different groups were all asking him for protection money and paying them couldn't keep him safe political role some guys grabbed me and kidnapped me in their truck they beat me and broke my head open i told them to stop hitting me that i would get more money

together the state anti kidnapping unit rescued him but after more than 40 years of growing of those now everything has changed over routes through a lot of my workers my children my family we don't have any protection now i can't go to the orchard because there are many more people that beat me. to a kind has increasingly become the battleground of a collection of criminal groups. as in other parts of the country they branched out from complicated transnational drug trafficking to something is simply preying on the local economy. it's affected mining lines local businesses i mean talk comes pacifically is a mutation of what was once trucks trafficking m.d.f. mutated into a model where the control territory within the territory you get to. he's out any type of commodity that's locally available so it still includes drugs but it's also about extortion kidnapping it's useless it seems for the victims to turn to

authorities you cannot be sure if you talk to mexican functionaries if you talk to the mexican state that you doing so will not be leaked to the criminal forces because in many times the criminals are in court with. the state forces. it's a bleak outlook for an avocado industry that should be enjoying the current blue. john home and how does it a city. customs agents knew to acquire have seized a $1000000000.00 worth of cocaine their record all was found in saw a flour contain is the port of montevideo a 4 and a half tons was destined for togo in west africa and even your requires describing the seizure as the greatest blow to drug trafficking in the history of our country flags are at half staff in kazakhstan on a day of mourning for the victims of friday's plane crash the beck air flight went down soon after takeoff from al maty airport 12 people were killed 54 injured some

of them critically airlines fleet of a 100 aircraft are now grounded while air accident investigators examine the wreckage. actually when the plane began shaking severely it was a nightmare inside i put my phone in the pocket in tightened up the safety belt tightly in the plane and leaned forward it was clear that we would crash into the ground the bang was strong and the lights went off some were alive some were not. for 4 months now protesters in turkey have been calling for the return of their children and relatives from the p.k. k. the kurdistan workers party they claim the group has been forcibly recruiting them to fight muhammad are reports now from. security is tight outside the pro cuddy's people's democratic party or which the peace headquarters in southern turkey these policemen are getting a peaceful protest by men and women demanding that it tunneled the children who

they say have been kidnapped or recruited by the kurdish workers party p k k. holding the pictures of the missing children they call for their quick return there is this they took my daughter away and we haven't heard from her for the past 5 years we don't know if she is still alive this protest was taught that in september by 1 mother but now others a metal family members of those they say i'm now in that arms of the p.k. k. have joined a common claim among the protesters is that their children one last seen me here at the offices of the head to b.p. . and they say that's why they've continued the sit in outside the 2 offices but you'll visuals however deny any links to the p.k. k. and say they've also never actively recruited for the. some form of pick a fight as of a time to their families since the protests began and that is giving hope to people

here who sneer mickie recent livid time from iraq where she fought under the p.k. k. she is telling custody awaiting trial for being a member of the group that's outlawed in tikki but some of us say stick god less of the shoes that live to xbox live on door to us and doesn't my daughter was 14 when she was kidnapped and i thank god that after 5 long years she surrendered 3 days ago i'm so happy my daughter is out of the hands of those tyrants 2 weeks ago jaffer to jail and also to tom to his family he says it is out that the b.k. cain company's syria after seeing his mother the protests in media reports on in won't kill the enemy that life is difficult you will constantly fighting and have little time to miss home or family life finally throw you get disgusted by all the death and destruction and you start missing your loved one isn't. that be k.k. has been designated a terrorist organization by a techie the e.u.

and the united states it launched a separatist insurgency is sought is to key in $1008.00 to $4.00 says that more than full to 1000 people mostly kids have been killed in fighting with turkish forces cads account for roughly 20 percent of techies population of about 18000000 people. of the decade so much english and by the turkish state have been demanding create a rights and more autonomy but for many here they had to d.p.n. p k k have drugs that are litigious into fighting that's more to do with the group's interests that it is with the plight of the kurdish. mohamed atta the advocate of southern turkey. there are fears an attack on a military base could lead to more violence in iraq which is already engulfed in its worst political crisis in decades a u.s. contractor was killed when rockets were fired into the base nicko cook on friday it houses both iraqi and u.s. troops and 7 americans and iraqis were also injured it is rodger shanahan now

a research fellow at the low institute for international policy in sydney who told us iraq needs a political solution if these sorts of attorneys have to stop well as you point out you know i have a well functioning government with that for withdrawal over. security within the country out we've made these kind of attacks if not impossible then very difficult to to take we say in a ratcheting up in the number of. attacks directed against u.s. targets in particular from iranian backed militia groups in iran until we get some kind of. so lucian to iraq's political problem that he's said goal to population in general till we get a reduction in that groove crushing iraqi politics until we get some kind of unity

in the country and the reality is. we're going to have to expect more fracturing around the edges is the same today russia says it has deployed a new hypersonic weapon which some defense analysts say is the latest sign of a new arms race it reportedly flies at 27 times the speed of sound and can carry a nuclear warhead. the russians say the oven guard weapon to make invasive turns after it's fired making many defense systems useless because it's impossible to intercept them as they come back down to earth russia says they haven't got secures its position as a world leader in hypersonic weapons that the u.s. and china do say they are developing similar systems defense analyst pavel felgenhauer tells us that russia is pushing this announcement for political reasons . the chair no a master just going very strong on all the russian t.v. and other propaganda out 'd that this is russia's number one in the world that we

have and no one else has which the sonics and is true and that. this sounds good for the russian people. but also. the actual military properties how much of this rush we had the russians who were the are somewhat questioned by experts but with the public it goes down well and also of course in the united states many experts on the fed that you're a little bit also were waiting out of proportion the russian the chines meds because they have their own agenda they're presenting congress and to the public that there is a russian threat the russians are ok and that means they should get more money from the budget so catch up. now work on a nasa robotic rover is nearing completion ahead of its journey to modest next year to search for any evidence of life it's even hard to the mission could lay the

groundwork to one day send humans to the red planet to silva's our world. a small step in the lab or a trip before a giant launched into space if all goes to plan this rover will touch down on the red planet in february 2021 its mission to collect samples from mars and try to find if there are any traces of microbial life back billions of years from here on out it's it's a test test test we're testing everything we possibly can and shaking out the bugs to make sure that we've got a reliable system saying to mars. to mars 2020 row police currently 3 sections and being constructed in the sterile environment outside of los angeles it will be sent to the jazzer crater which scientists believe was once the bed of a lake and could hold my. fossils if they exist what we do in this room is we make sure we have a strict clean room protocol so that we are not sending not contaminating our

vehicle so that we can preserve the science that we are interested in learning about as well as searching for life it will also prepare for possible human exploration if successful it would be nasa's 5th soft landing of the martian rover he landed as a rule we're going to use a new landing capability that gives us a hazard avoidance. function that allows us to land safely which future missions. can also take advantage of. china also has its eyes set on space it has successfully launched one of the world's most powerful rockets saying it's a big step in its ambitions for the moon and mars it's a mission is to have accrued space station by 20221 of the things that people really learn from the apollo era and the space race in the 1960 s. is that if you try and compete directly both sides lose out so it's all about working together or at the very least doing collaborative complementary missions

working together or alone the space race is about to reach new frontiers join the silver our dizzier. finally extremely rare visitor literally from out of this world is about to get as close as it can to comment borisov is due to be around 290000000 kilometers from earth any time now and that far it's only the 2nd object from another solar system ever seen in this one for us already sped past the sun and now hurtles off past mars on its lonely journey back. into deep space. i'm kemal santa maria these are your headlines a huge bomb blast has killed and injured dozens of people in somalia one of the worst attacks in years an ambulance official says 78 people have been killed 125 others are injured and many more casualties are feared a truck bomb went off near

a security checkpoint in mogadishu during morning rush hour 2 turks are among the dead that await. a huge explosion was heard when the lorry exploded at the checkpoint here it killed dozens of people most of them a students from the university. the explosion happened just a few steps away from where i was and it knocked me to the ground with this force i have never seen such an explosion in my entire life. there were headlines more than a 1000 people have been arrested across india over the past 24 hours during protests over a new citizenship law it hasn't deterred demonstrators however from staging more rallies and sit ins across the country now been 15 days of protest over the law which has been criticized as anti muslim. police have violent lee cleared hundreds of protesters who stormed a shopping mall in hong kong near the border with mainland china there is popular traders who cross over to buy goods to then sell back home the demonstrators blame

them for overcrowding and pushing up prices you know in general assembly is condemned human rights abuses against range of muslims and other minorities in may and 134 member states voted for the resolution calling on man mars government to combat the hatred and violence against minorities mean maher is also facing a charge of genocide at the international court of justice. and flags are at half staff in kazakhstan a day of mourning for the victims of friday's plane crash but back to air flight went down soon after takeoff from the airport 12 people were killed and 54 injured some of them critically the airline's fleet of fokker 100 aircraft are grounded while investigators examined the wreckage and those you headlines up front with many haasan is next. to al-jazeera we were told to get to that between russia has this been addressed by turkey we listen what is the proposal. for

a couple on you know we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter how does it. this year millions hit the streets across the world to protest the climate crisis in this op from special ops 2 prominent activists from indigenous communities around the developing world whether we're winning or losing the battle against climate change. it's an issue often overlooked by politicians in the media but the united nations says climate change poses a potential threat to the very existence of indigenous peoples well indigenous mexican american activist martinez has been campaigning against climate change since he was 6 years old as a teenager he's given speeches at the u.n.

and headlined a town hall with senator bernie sanders and is even suing the u.s. government over it in action on climate change he also.