yeah. i'm. just. a truck bomb explodes during rush hour in the somali capital killing $79.00 people including many students. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching out for a live from london also coming up. police used pepper spray on protesters who stormed a shopping mall near mainland china mothers in turkey call for the return of their children who they say were forcibly recruited to fight for the p.k. k.

and why america's growing appetite for other cardozo has made its growers a target for mexico's criminal gangs. a massive truck bomb has exploded in a busy area of mogadishu killing at least 79 people in somalia as deadly as that tac in 2 years and ambulance official says 149 others were injured and the death toll is expected to rise how to metastasize more now from nairobi in neighboring kenya. the attack 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 mogadishu yet again that arise where they were a truck loaded with explosives was decimated at a busy checkpoint the explosion led 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 were university students i think that are going to hockey so the 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 in my eyes so. of the dead were police officers but also students were killed. officials believe the target was the building next to the checkpoint being nice by government troops the group al-shabaab was pushed out of mogadishu civil years ago but is still targets high profile areas such as checkpoints and hotels al-shabaab is also carried out attacks in neighboring kenya and uganda smiley's government says it's trying to stop attacks like this from happening but for those caught up in the blast and those who lost family members and loved ones that's a little comfort now how title. or loved he had came is a researcher at the heritage institute for policy studies in mogadishu no one has

claimed responsibility for the attack but he says it is likely to be the work. i think we need to understand that there is no habit has been one of the most successful terror organization in the wall and then they have been able to actually exploit their security witness in the country and they have actually are waging a symmetric and sort of 70 percent well especially in an era where area and there is actually to inflict as many as what i was possible so that they can manipulate the psychology of the you called so that we can we are all of the people so i think you need to understand what was deeply rooted in the society i think in a 2nd discipline over all has been i will it if we're going over the last 3 or 4 on our thanks to largely to the government really tried to reorganize the security architecture but there has not been sound policy to really are corrupt out of there

see. also need to know that has been effective government in the structure of the government in somalia. protesters in hong kong have clashed with police at a shopping mall in showing sure near the city's boundary with china more than 100 protesters chanted go back to china in reference to traders from the mainland who buy duty free goods in hong kong and then resell them back home they blame them for overcrowding the city as well as driving up inflation and rent saturday's demonstration was an offshoot of the main pro-democracy protests which abrupt hong kong for almost 7 months lawrence louis is in hong kong and says the demonstrators hope to disrupt economic activity to force the government to meet their demands.

this protest here is partly an offshoot of the main protest movement that's gone on for 6 months in hong kong but it's also partly to protest against the practice of our now trading unparalleled trading is a practice where. 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 is used to stop the social and economic life it's called shortage of goods it's driven the prices of goods up and hong kong people are unhappy 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 the protesters oh i didn't see at main one tiny now in these protests that have gone on for the past 6 months the anger against the hong kong and chinese government and now it's still down into the anger at women and nice people as well and we've also

seen by these move into the shopping mall and 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 causing disruption to an economic activity that protested at langley beneficial to mainland chinese and not people of hong kong. iraq's human rights commission says that at least $490.00 protesters have now been killed in anti-government protests across the country since the start of october and officials say says that there to include $33.00 activists targeted in the liberal killings on saturday demonstrators broke into the necessary oil fields in the south of the country and forced them to stop production protesters are demanding the appointment of a new prime minister with no party affiliation but they're still deadlocked after the president refused the suggestion from politicians hundreds of people have been

out in istanbul protesting against russia and its escalated bombing of syria's province the demonstrators were mostly syrians living in turkey they waved their national flag and chanted slogans in arabic the united nations is warning of devastating consequences for adlib the only remaining rebel controlled province in syria tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes with the border to turkey now closed they have nowhere to go mykola gauge reports. tents go up in the syrian town of dunn are now a temporary harm for families with nowhere else to go if they fled martel newmont in the south of italy province as syrian government forces advance many leaving most of their belongings behind. we fled from the bombardment and came here it's a small camp that doesn't really fit

a lot of people and the people just keep coming the situation is not that. since the start of december nearly 250000 people have been displaced from you'd leave the last rebel held area of syria most women and children many have fled by road for others fuel shortages have stopped them from getting a why some are trying to seek shelter in turkey but they're not being allowed to cross the border and this comes on top of the displacement figures that we had from the end of april to the end of august where more than 400000 people have been displaced so what we have is a displacement crisis on top of another displacement crisis. president bashar al assad has vowed to recapture rebel held areas. shelling in airstrikes backed by

russia have intensified forcing aid agencies to suspend operations in the area unless the fighting ends there are fears that the supply of humanitarian aid will stop as soon as next month in my mind it's neither the russians nor the turks that are the key to the solution the key to the solution is the international community getting involved in this and putting pressure both on the syrian regime in russia and turkey for a resolution that doesn't cause massive human loss of life or a humanitarian catastrophe. a lot. the violence goes against an organist ceasefire deal and international calls for deescalation but the syrian government says recapturing the province is just a matter of time because the gauge al jazeera the u.n. special envoy to yemen is making his 2nd visit in 10 days to the capital sanaa watching griffith's arrival coincides with more fighting at the port of call data

the main entry point for much needed aid for millions of yemenis threatened by family the un's pressing who the leader is to agree to talks aimed at ending the almost 5 year war talks have stalled stalled since the stockholm ceasefire agreement a year ago the former leader of india's opposition congress party has branded the prime minister's controversial citizenship law and attack on the country's traditions culture and history thousands of people attended rival gandhi's rally in guwahati in the northeast state of asylum the new legislation fast tracks citizenship for religious minorities in neighboring muslim majority countries protesters say the law goes against india's secular constitution by not including muslims something. you will all have to unite until the government but you can't attack our traditions culture or history. and investigation has

been launched into a hospital in northwest india after 10 infants including newborns died in the space of 48 hours it happened at the government run j k lol in hospital in the city of. state according to local media reports $77.00 children died at the hospital this month and a total of $940.00 have died this year and initial investigation revealed a lack of infrastructural immunities in the hospital doctors have denied negligence and say the infants were admitted in a critical condition. officials in kazakhstan are considering technical failure pilot error and weather conditions as possible causes of a plane crash which killed 12 people on friday where than 50 people were injured when the back air jet jet with 98 people on board crashed just minutes after departing from a lot he airport's airplanes flight recorders will be passed on to the interstate

aviation committee in moscow from alice. ukraine's president says he expects to swap prisoners with russian backed separatists in the war torn east of the country on sunday both sides agreed to the exchange earlier this month during high profile peace talks in paris and the d. escalating the conflict of the other me as alinsky and russian president vladimir putin failed to find a solution to end of the 5 year old boy that's killed more than 14000 people separatists from donetsk and luhansk are expected to swap 55 ukrainians for 87 rebels. still to come in this half hour. striking workers in france say that they'll stand defiant into the new year as they were joined by yellow vesper testers marching in paris and fears thousands of koalas have died after wildfires destroyed up to 30 percent of their habitat.

i am. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well here across the eastern part of the mediterranean we are still looking at that very windy wet scenario that has been going on for days now and unfortunately as we go through the rest of the weekend into monday more of the same if not even heavier for some locations so and you were from greece all the way over toward syria including cyprus turkey you can be seeing some more heavy rain so the ground is already saturated that means anywhere rain will probably likely lead to some flooding scenarios across much of the area we're also going to be bringing some very windy conditions by the time we get towards monday and for athens it's going to be a chilly wet day for you with temperature there of about 6 degrees to the west though things are looking quite nice mostly dry mostly sunny across much of the

area you may see some morning fog but that will start to dissipate as the heating of the day begins but up towards paris it is going to be a nice day on monday at 7 in london at about 11 degrees there well for the northeastern part of africa we are dealing with that same weather system i just mentioned we're going to be seeing some very windy conditions all across the coast of libya over here towards egypt as well and we are going to see even more rain as we go towards monday extending all the way up towards tunis so expect to see some localized flooding across the region but gazi a wet windy day at 13. what happens when plans for a new life are brewed idea railed by committing serious crimes from drug trafficking to robbery to. what it is i don't remember how many times i've stood up there the way her boyfriend spoke to me and even her al-jazeera world goes inside

an italian prison meeting men and women from north africa who left home only to face life behind this double exile on al-jazeera. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera a truck bomb has exploded in somalia's capital mogadishu killing at least $79.00 people injuring around a $150.00 more on the attack happened during the early morning rush hour in a busy area near a security check. protesters in hong kong of clashed with police at a shopping mall and sharing near the city's border with china around 15 people were

arrested during the demonstration against mainland to tourists and shop. and hundreds of syrians have been out in istanbul protesting against the russian and syrian government's escalating bombing of the profits the united nations as warned of a humanitarian crisis on turkey's border as thousands flee the fighting. for months now protestors in turkey have been calling for the return of their children and relatives from the kurdistan workers party or p k k they claim that the group which is the 2nd age of a terrorist organization by anchor of the us and the e.u. has been forcibly recruiting them to fight from jab occur mohamad the reports. 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 their children who they say have been kidnapped or recruited by the kurdish workers party p k k.

holding the pictures of their missing children they call for their quick return they say this is an insult 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 and metal family members of those they say i'm now in that arms of the k.k.k. have joined in a common claim among the protesters is that their children one last seen me here at the offices on the heads of the people. 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 united nations. 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 mickey sent little town 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 or leave to xbox live on or just in 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 city up to seeing his model of the protests in media reports on in won't kill them into the 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 the p.k. k. has been designated a terrorist organization by a techie the e.u. and the united states it too long to separate it is insurgency itself is to key in

1008 to 4 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 80000000 people. of the decade so much in by the turkish state have been demanding create a rights and more autonomy but for many here they had to d.p. and 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. southern turkey. libya's state oil for him says it may shut down some operations after several attacks and o.c. says the port in zawiya will be closed and the refinery evacuated after it was hit by airstrikes multiple times in the past few days it's also considering shutting a nearby oil field the latest airstrike targeted an engineering institute in

a residential district of the city the attack by warlord highly for half that us forces in the 4 is the force in zawiya in as many days elsewhere libya's internationally recognized governments as military vehicles were destroyed as its forces repelled half tyra's forces at the main airport in tripoli striking workers have been joined by yellow vests protesters for them stray sions in paris which led to clashes with police who fired tear gas the strikers are angry about president mccall's plans to reform public sector pensions nationwide walkout is now in its 24th day train services have been crippled with the national rail operator losing more than $400000000.00 in ticket revenue they get a vest activists have protested on the streets of the french capital every weekend for more than a year against a number of president policies one of the yellow vests most prominent members who

was blinded in one eye in a demonstration earlier this year says the same i was injured by a police officer earlier. i don't know. what happened what happened when the authorities stopped demonstrators from leading forward through the police to be backwards they get beaten out of truncheons we have the policeman yes he's badge number with the commission 150 give us his badge number just a reality now where you can see who is going to rise up against violence burnet smith is at the protest and says them and strangers aren't showing any sign of giving up. there are a few more trains running now than the were at the start of a strike on december the 5th but still public transportation across france remains severely disrupted the strikers the protesters maintaining that demand that the government rejects shows a plan to reform france's complex in some cases generous pension system

particularly the railway workers benefit from early retirement they want to keep those benefits but government says it has to reform the pensions very still public support for the protests despite the major disruption many people particular here in paris having to use scooters or use bikes instead of the metro public transportation there is another major protest planned for january the 9th at the same time that's when the government and the unions will meet again to try and come to some sort of resolution. you're a wise navy has described the seizure of a record $1000000000.00 worth of cocaine at montevideo sports as the biggest blow to drug trafficking in the country's history for sawyer flour containers were found packed with 4.4 tons of cocaine destined for the west african nation of togo your guy is increasingly being used as a transit point to drugs from south america to africa and europe while

criminal gangs in mexico notorious for cocaine trafficking are switching their attention to something with a much healthier reputation avocado farmers say their $1000000000.00 business is being wrecked by kidnapping and extortion and there's americans appetite for mexican avocados grows so does the gang's profits john heilemann reports now from mexico city. 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 80 minutes can have a car those on toast or in your pocket it's possible not over the profits a heading to the right hands. in 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 call this green gold. 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 the bill will roll 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 up 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 new truck comes to sufficiently is a mutation of what was once trucks trafficking i'm def mutated into a model where the control territory within the territory you get to school. 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 confession or if you talk to on the mexican state that you doing so will not be leaked to the criminal forces because the many times the criminals are in court with. state forces. it's a bleak outlook for an avocado industry that should be enjoying the current boob.

job homan now does it a bit scarcity. it's feared that thousands of koalas have been killed after bush fires ravaged areas north of australia's largest city sydney thousands that survived with burns are now being treated by vets and volunteers up to a 3rd of the marsupials habitat has been the story along the new south wales coast which was home to about 28000 koalas a heatwave gripping several states has also left many hydrated including this thirsty koala who approached cyclists in the state of south australia firefighters battling wreaks of catastrophic fires across the country have also been held in desperate kaunas a t.v. news crew has captured the terrifying moment that a truck crashed into an earlier pileup on the side of a highway in texas. wow the

video shows a state trooper running for his life as the truck plows towards him in thick fog he had been investigating a 2 car crash in lubbock county when the truck lost control a police officer and the person in the truck were both injured. space agency at nasa planned plans to send the robotic rover to mars next year to star in the in search for evidence of life it will gather evidence for future human missions to the solar systems 2nd smallest planet the robot is nearing completion ahead of its journey to the dry bed of a lake believed to have existed around 3 and a half 1000000000 years ago. reports. a small step in the lab or a trip before a giant launch into space if all goes to plan this rover will touch down on the red planet in feb 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 test everything we possibly can. to make sure that we've got reliable systems on the mars. the mars 2020 rover reese currently in 3 sections and being constructed in this sterile environment outside of los angeles it will be sent to the jazz a crater which scientists believe was once the bed of a lake and could hold martian 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 will be not his 5th soft landing of the martian rover he landed as rule we're going to use a new 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 the mars it's a big is to have a crude 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 al-jazeera the u.k. government has accidentally published online the addresses of more than a 1000 new year's owners recipients the list includes the singer elton john and

hundreds of other high profile celebrities senior police officers military figures and politicians the sensitive information was visible for at least an hour before it was written the cabinet office has confirmed the addresses were uploaded in error and has apologized for the new year list as part of the british honor system which recognizes the hard work and contributions made by people in a range of areas. here's a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera a truck bomb has exploded in somalia's capital mogadishu killing at least 79 people and injuring around the 150 others the attack happened during the early morning rush hour and targeted a busy area near a security checkpoint witnesses say that many of the dead were students that are going to the 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 in my eyes some of the dead were police officers but also students were killed. protesters in hong kong have clashed with police at a shopping mall in shanghai the city's boundary with china more than 100 demonstrators chanted it go back to china in reference to traders from the mainland who buy duty free goods in hong kong and then resell them back home saturdays them astray sions was an offshoot of the main pro-democracy protests which of rock hong kong for almost 7 months iraq's human rights commission says at least 4 $190.00 protesters have now been killed in anti-government protests across the country since the start of a job or an official says the dead include $33.00 activists targeted in deliberate killings on saturday demonstrators broke into the in the city oil field in the south of the country and force them to stop production. hundreds of people have

been out in istanbul protesting against russia and its escalated bombing of syria's leader province demonstrators were mostly syrians living in turkey the united nations is warning of devastating principal consequences for it lives only remaining rebel controlled province in syria hands of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes and striking workers have been joined by yellow vests protesters at demonstrations in paris which led to clashes with police who fired tear gas the striker strikers are angry about president mccall's plans to reform public sector pensions their nationwide walkout is now in its 24th day. that is it for now we're going to have more news for you in half an hour coming up next the listening post.

this documents is an official cia memorandum dated september $970.00 and it's innocuously titles discussion of the chilean political situation but its contents what it exposes is pretty incriminating. on the 14th of september mr holmes met with edwards the owner of the independent newspaper. mr edwards expressed the following view on the chilean political situation. until 2017 nearly all of this paragraph was brought out without it meaning that for more than 40 years o'steen edwards the owner of the most influential newspaper in chile and mid-point you kept to a story that you.