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a religious school comes under attack in northern afghanistan. at least 15 people have been killed. ah, i'm 0 then. yeah, it's great to have you with us. this is l 0. live from doth, also coming up. china's for a former leader is young and meg libby communist party. after the gentlemen square crackdown has died at the age of $96.00. i came, jeffries is poised to succeed. nancy pelosi is democratic leader in the us house of representatives. he will be the 1st black person to lead a major part in congress and researchers. haley breakthrough in the treatment of the early stages of alzheimer's. ah, at least 15 people been killed in

a bombing in northern afghanistan. this happened that a religious school in a back, the capital of some mangan province, at least 20 others were wounded. the interior affairs ministry says students are among the dead. no group has claimed responsibility for this. there have been a number of attacks and i've can't stand since the taliban take over, including the bombing of a mosque in the northern conduce province in october, last year or at least 60 people were killed. days later, another mosque was targeted this time in kandahar the death told their past 65 that in april a secondary school in cobble was rocked by 3 explosions. 6 died, dozens more were injured. many of them were teenagers. 2 days later, i so claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 31 in bulk province and in september, a suicide bomber targeted female students in couple more than 50 people died in that attack. a phase, the land is a professor of political science at cobble university. he says, the attack is a challenge to the taliban hopes of bringing security to f canister. never,

no gun is done again and passed one year. there were several such and such big tags happened on mother. i was like in missouri and also in those but didn't as someone going to the 1st time, usually such a tags in isis taken the responsibility such a touch somehow again. but i was in the country talking about a strong hold of security taliban and ninety's. they were known that they brought security with themselves while they were so many other things going wrong. but people who are happy, ordinary people this time, and you're facing a 2 year to the, to blows ation and security policy while for me and the joblessness and other problems take some as on one exemptions on telephone is government. they

have been increasing the difficulties for taliban and so many on mother says, which are the main areas of recruitment and stronghold of caliber leadership on probation level. it should be affiliated with the governor's office or the police chief of taliban out there is to go into attacking such kind of centers. again, it shows that the taliban has been challenged on this important area of improvement, which is bringing security to talk. god has done after the fall of a key figure in china's transformation to global power. status has denied for president jang. them in was 96. he came to office just after the $989.00 gentlemen square protests. i'm crackdown katrina, you looks back on his life. rare among chinese leaders, joncelyn seemed to enjoy the spotlight. he stepped into the top job during a turbulent period. he was appointed communist party general secretary in june, 1989 following the military crackdown on student led protests in tenement square.

his predecessor delta young had been removed from power for openly sympathizing with the demonstrators. john was the former mayor of shanghai, a city then at the forefront of ambitious, economical forms, slowly spreading across the country. those reforms would eventually allow china to grow into the worlds 2nd largest economy and shanghai into global financial hub. although china presents itself as a communist country, an increasing number of party members are becoming millionaires. and some billionaires. as economic growth surged under junk, foreign investment poured in. in 1997 patriotic pride sought when britain returned hong kong in 1999, john initiated a ruthless campaign against the spiritual practice of fallen. ha, human rights groups said hundreds of thousands of people were imprisoned or sent to lay the camps. under his rule, china became

a member of the world trade organization and was also awarded the 2008 olympics. but some things remained unchanged. the leadership continued to crack down on descent. china's market possession of its centrally planned economy brought dangers . the gap between rich and poor widened and corruption worsened a legacy junk successive huge and pow inherited in 2002 in chinese history only mounted on dung, shall ping and the current president. she didn't ping larger than jung. it remains to be seen whether he will receive the same reverence as china, builds its position on the global stage. a staying with china and 2 major cities grunge out, john king, have eased coven 19 restrictions. this comes a day after violent protests as frustration. mounts against the government. strict 0 coven policy. patrick falk, reports protest taking

a violent turn of the southern city of gong. jo, one video posted on social media. people tear down a cove at 19 testing tent in another protest as whole glass bottles, police officers, moments later, security forces dressing, hazmat suits advance information, holding protective shields. the reuters and air p news agencies of verified the videos were filmed and high judas trick, but are unable to confirm when they were taken all the sequence of events high jew is where the bulk of china's recent infections have been reported. much of the area's been under locked and since october the unrest marks an escalation and the movement that spread to several large cities from shanghai and beijing to cham do and will hon. i will say that the la commute party actually under estimated anger and a grass level, i would, i would not think earlier a well prepare for

a protest ah, at a curry over the past weekend. the latest developments come despite stern warnings against taking part and demonstrations. in a statement, john, as top security agency, has called for a crackdown on what it says, a hostile forces. it's not clear who or what the government is referring to, and as yet to provide evidence of any external interference, it's also reiterated confidence in its approach to the virus. duncan, to me, don't go fax over the years, have fully proven that china covered protocols have protected the security and help of the chinese people to the greatest extent, genuine and minimized impact on social economic development. some countries have made remarks on china recently. these nation have enough issues to deal with at home. we hope they would heat the weiss's interests of their own people, instead of pointing fingers at others. meanwhile, authorities have begun easing restrictions in some areas including young jo, home to the biggest i phone factory and china, reduced mass testing requirements,

and allowed more businesses to reopen, still demonstrate as fear possible retribution on beijing. some people have voiced support for the protest is for now, do whatever i can still work from home, so they're locked on. hasn't affected me too much. but seeing them fighting for freedom, i think is very inspiring her anchor about the 0 coven policies. more to people speaking out against censorship, and what they say is an overbearing government. patrick, fog, al jazeera hong kong, nato has disgust sending more air defense systems to ukraine. it was part of a meeting in romania where the alliance also pledged support to russia's neighbors . the foreign minister is reassured, moldova, georgia and bosnia and herzegovina, which all fear being d stabilized by moscow i think, is if there's one the lesson learned from ukraine is that we need to support them. now, i'm the more support you're able to provide to these countries being the front,

but under russian pressure influence in different ways. and it is much better to support them. now done, are they done to when we have seen the elephants in going the absolutely wrong direction as we saw with the innovation of ukraine or earlier this year, a democratic members of the us house of representatives are holding a vote to choose their next leader. nancy pelosi announced 2 weeks ago that she was standing aside after 19 years woke. king jeffrey's is running unopposed, so he will be replacing her and becoming the 1st black american to head a major political party in congress id show. castro joins me from capitol hill. first thing heidi, this is a completely new generation of democrats taking over that's right. and it's not just jeffrey's who's 52 years old. that's a full 30 years younger than nancy pelosi but it's also his 2 other leadership

members. we have katherine clark who will be serving as whip, and we have pete argue are who is a member of the hispanic caucus who will be serving as a new caucus chair. now all of this has yet to take place, but we are expecting a vote later in the day by house democrats that will make this hormone, but all 3 are running on opposed. so we are looking at a new group of leaders for the house democrats who are younger and more diverse, a major change from the 3 octogenarians who are stepping down in this coming congress. it pelosi had a strong hold over her caucus, right. her shadow loomed large over everything the house democrats did. what will the jeffries democrats look like? right, there is a major difference here, sir. of course, we know that pelosi is handing this baton over to jeffrey's in january, but it will be significantly diminished in power because democrats will no longer

be the majority party in the house of representatives. they will be the minority since they lost their slim majority in this last midterm election. so what will jeffrey's name? job b, as in his official title as house minority leader? well, mostly plane defends against republicans who have said that they will launch investigations against president joe biden, his son hunter, and other senior administrative staff members and appointees. but jeffries has said that he also has his own agenda for democrats, of course combating inflation. he named protecting reproductive rights, possible immigration reform, a very ambitious slate of issues that he hopes to be able to tackle. but realistically, the next 2 years will be controlled by the republicans in the house. and it will be very difficult for democrats to pass any of their own policy priorities. but

another priority that jeffries has already publicly shared with his colleagues. he wants to take back the majority in 2024 in those elections, hoping that democrats will, we capture the house, heidi's jocasta, reporting from capitol hill. thank you so much. still ahead on l 0. we've been speaking to reformer, corrosion, president and football, super fam. she's here in doha to support the national slide ah, until the patient is rising. and so is this with my cattle aways. hello. we've got an early taste of winter making its way across much of china, the korean peninsula, and indeed cross matches by a long line of cloud. here. as our cold front winds gathering from

a nor the direction, you can see how the ice a bars are all lined out. so caught a cold, normally blast, coming through here and a fair amount of snow to come. for many, a recent snow across the korean peninsula, sol, where the top temperature just minus one celsius hovering around freezing in support . cool enough in japan as well as you go on into a friday will that snow will make you swear to western parts of japan that see effects noticed drifting in across western side of han shoe. let cold, should we say for so still cool enough of a southern parts of china, and some outbreaks of rain still in place here. good scattering a shower. meanwhile, across sir se, asia, some lively showers as per usual into borneo march or seeing some heavy rain some really heavy rain for time too into that eastern side of vietnam for a time indonesia as well. of course, seeing the seasonal showers becoming increasingly prevalent, finish hours to across the south of in the eastern areas of in the are seeing somewhere to whether to along with, for lanka,

for central parts. it is fine and try, but we do have some yellow warnings for folk up to northern india and pakistan to with sponsored by catch all day ways for a ah,

you're watching al jazeera reminder of our headlines this hour. at least 15 people have been killed in a bombing in northern afghanistan. it happened that a religious school in a back, the capitalist among and province. no group has claimed responsibility for a chinese president jamming has died. he was 96. he rose to power just after the tenement square protests serving as president from 1993 to 2000. and 3 jang is seen as one of the architects of china's transformation to a global power. democratic members of the house of representatives are holding a vote to choose their next leader. hakeem jeffries is the favorite to replace nancy pelosi. he is running unopposed, japanese and american pharmaceutical companies have published results of a trial which show a new drug can slow down cognitive decline in alzheimer's patients. the drug called la cannon mather,

was tested on about 1800 people with early stage alzheimer's. it is the 1st drug shown to slow the progress of this disease, but it can also cause serious side effects, including a higher risk of brain hemorrhage. what does this all mean? as asked doctor, even coach if he's a senior clinical researcher at the university of oxford and also a clinical psychiatrist at the u. k. national health service. he joins us from ox. the doctor, thank you so much for being with us. you know, this issue is so important and so personal to so many people so explained to us please, what will this change me? this will change the change in our treatment for all time is currently what we have some suited to market treatments. so based on some of the chemicals important for attention and really they don't need to be a, we'd be underlined these process. this is a change because the drug that has be shown to, to engage with what we believe recoding out disease. in this case,

the proteins removing them from the brain and crucially the removal of the protein . it's actually reflected in some, in some clinical benefit. in practical terms, what does it mean? it means you lose your memory slower. is that correct? so outside of disease goes beyond your memory, i'm thinking skills. yes. so the trial in, in the number of people that you mention showed that people will losing the memory skills slower. but i guess what you have to bear in mind is, but time is a condition that he's 20 you 30 is in the making. so by that time, people actually develop symptoms which is when they were going to the new trial along the processes of already happened. so the very fact that we can shift the disease at that you feel like late disease in both legal terms, is already a significant, questionable could be achieved is side of the treatment these upright. well,

people are, do not have any symptoms, but the all time is that that would be valid. how long before this research trickles down to patients? i know you're not on the regulatory side of things, but that's what patients will want to know. right? well i, i do have a role with the national east to clinical actually so i am aware of that sort of side of the, the, the process. but what i can say is that the 2021, a very similar truck, comma will give an accelerated approvals seen by, by the, by the agency, by the regulator in the us. now, this particular drug had a number of problems with the data. and what it meant was that while it was available to people relatively quickly, very few people received it because there was concern about the lives of the evidence that he does what it's supposed to be doing and concerned safety. in this case i think we're in

a much more. ready stable ground and i can see this becoming available to me in the u. s. in our expect in the next 12 to 18 months given that they have already had some experience with the previous drug. and this is a naive non scientific question, because i don't know how the research works, but is this, could this potentially be a 1st step towards further improvements? further breakthroughs, if we do this, that means we can take this further down this road. by all means, i think that that's really, you know, what the code, the element here is. this is the 1st time that was showing that the mechanism that's being worked by researchers. this article says for the past that he is actually, you know, if you, if you act on this target, you get some benefit. so by all means that it's going to be incremental, incremental change is going to be evolution of this method. as we find out it could, the medication be improved so that their effect is stronger to be given to people

who are still in a stage where, where the, where the disease can effectively be stock, osi be limited. so as you saying this is going to lead to a number of improvements over time. dr. yvonne quite chef. thank you so much for breaking it down for us. thank you very much from it, but a magnitude 5.6 earthquake has been felt in southern iran. it was center at 88 kilometers northwest of ross al came i in the united arab emirates at a depth of 10 kilometers a former australian prime minister scott morrison has been reprimanded by australian lawmakers for secretly appointing himself the several senior ministries during the pandemic. it's the 1st time parliament has officially censored a former prime minister and they said, morrison's actions had shattered democratic norms and made accountability impossible. the former conservative leader is still an m p. i

acknowledge that the non disclosure of arrangements is cause unintentional offense and extended apology to those who were fin. but mister speaker, i do not apologize for taking action, especially prudent redundancy action in a national crisis in order to save lives and decide livelihoods. palla should never be abused. this was an abuse of power and attraction about democracy. ah. woke up near the winners of groups, c and d will be decided to de jan is your, are leading against her, france by one gold as an education city. australia are also goal up against denmark at alger noob stadium. it means australian france would qualify for the last 16 as things currently stand later argentina up against poland at stadium 974, and saudi arabia will play mexico. that's it. lucille stadium,

the former president of croatia will be watching her country take on belgium on thursday. oh. busy colinda grabber kit the ridge is here into her meeting football fans as they gather to support the national side. and she was on every tv in the world at the last world cup final 2018, where she hugged all the players, including the french team who had just defeated her croatia. well, i spoke to her a little earlier, lots of football fans from all over the world, recognise me, they come up to me. you know, we all fight in the field of play, but we celebrate friendship. and this is of what a sports should be all about. i'm grateful to everyone because i feel so welcome. so safe and so wonderful here at the world cup. so let's talk football tomorrow is crucial. belgium. if corey shall lose, this will be their last game, right. this is a do or die game. are you in touch with the team or the players at all in this

tournament? well, yes, of course i do send them messages of encouragement, but also i take care that i don't disturb them before the games. they are theoretical options on what will happen about i am quite confident that croatia, well when you know, i bought tickets to come back for the semi finals and finals. so i obviously have a huge expectations though, my team and no pressure whatsoever, but i have invested in them and i believe in them. obviously, i want to ask you about a specific moment from the last final in 2018. the way you comforted your team just after they lost on the biggest stage. do you remember and there's this, this now iconic, almost picture of you hugging. moderate sh was bell door. i believe that your if i'm not mistaken. what did you say to him? do you remember i can't remember what i said to him, but i remember very distinctly at the expression on his face when it was announced that he was the best player of the cup. and that was the moment that actually

broke down and started crying because he could see in his face that he would the much rather tre, that personal award for the big cup for the team, because it was really about the team. the reason why croatia want was not just the quality of the individual players. it was the team spirit that they truly played as a team. it was motivation, it was support for him. everyone in croatia and around the were because after tell you that after the world cup i received a letters and messages from all over the world. we did not win the gold at the time, but we won heart at hearts of the world. argentina has not only produced 2 of the world's most talented players, but also some of footballs. most unusual, some would say bazaar superstitions and customs for latin america to lucy newman tells us about the widespread use of what is known as the kabbalah. oh,

good old players. are notoriously superstitious. former french striker long blown used to kiss the bald head of his team's gold keeper before every match. your nel messy can't got his beard until after the world cup. argentina's national team seems to believe it's there. good luck charm. ah, anne, speaking of argentina, nowhere is football more associated with superstition charms and rituals lou, 31 year old musician whenever linkedin considers himself a rational person, why? except when it comes to cobble us. because on the world, word refers to objects, rituals, words or habits that football fanatics used before and during the game to help their team. when it telecoms, the bigger bizarre veto i. pruitt, this jersey of my club in 2014. it brought us the national championship after 41

years. i used to weird every game, but after we won that was it. now i need the new cabala, especially for this will come in, i saw, and it's a lot of you had a gunshot pelligrini the watch, the next game, with the same group of equally superstitious friends in the same place, sitting in the same order and wearing the same clothes, but that's nothing compared to this football shop called t v. cordial. it's named after a man who became famous in 1982 for putting a curse on rival teams. argent time football coach, catalyst be louder. law incorporated, dd colacho into his team, dyer k through under who are going to run a keyboard each time a student has deluxe a played, he would make could a coach or greet the routine. but each time a student has would win or draw comes in except for the one time that kid a coach or mr. game, obey. since then, the curse of kennicott, joe has become famous on, is also the kidney coach,

a spray the aroma called aroma of a goal. and a lot of parents buy this for their kids. and doesn't smell bad actually. but my favorite of all is the d, the caught your revenge t shirt. you wear this and you don't have to say a word. you just send out the vibes of p. v got you. it's even crossed the atlantic from argentina, italian captain, georgia. coline admits he put the kitty coach, of course on the english team, so it would miss a penalty that cost at the 20200 come good quadrille madness. so with the rationale that we consulted psychoanalyst marcello had flung him at the dinner vase, it has ancient rule. it has to do with ritual magical thinking that occupies our rational mind is the more you suffer more the more intensity believed in it. the woman thought, he adds that in argentina, football is a religion for and like all religions here in argentina,

football and it's cavellas, however irrational or sink to see a newman al jazeera when a site is, well, clearly saudi arabia were not cursed when they beat argentine or the curse didn't work anyway. saudi fans are rushing to do how to wash their team against mexico. the passion go name, went to hum out international airport. no matter what happens on the page with mexico today. saudis will always remember there when an over arching tina is considered one of the biggest upsides in hub history. saudis represent the largest with me to drive over the border or take a quick shuttle flight attendant. magic with a lot of people were surprised at how festive the saudi fans are. what do you want to tell people about what football culture is like in saudi arabia?

it's very important in our culture. every household watch is watches, games, watches every think it's. it's sports of ours tradition to watch football. so what qualifying for the world cup was a big deal. and for us maybe conflict to their own to succeed is also we have a good deal. so i think today we can do this and yeah, who do you guys have a chat or a song that you guys are planning to saying in a stadium? would you? would you tell us or singapore i can say them translates what can i say? it's an advocate, however, you want to listen to the jena medical medina. wilford's been a love, isn't a la head her. so if i can translated to the saudi team, we came from all from all of those, all of saudi arabia, cities, and we will, we'll run together. now these are not only.