nico he's in germany to learn german. physicist why not move him. it's simple online on your mobile and free. south. d.w. zealand in course speak german made easy. this is the news live from berlin a suicide attack hits the capital kabul authorities say dozens of dead after a series of blasts one target the shiite cultural center we'll go to kabul for more

also on the program a major prisoner swap after months of negotiation ukraine and its pro russian separatists exchanged captives in the biggest. broke out in the country's east. europe. on the agenda cyber threats and data security and artificial intelligence. christopher spring it thanks for joining us. we begin in afghanistan where an interior ministry spokesman says at least forty people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a series of blasts in the capital kabul a suicide bomber is reported to have detonated his device at a shiite cultural center witnesses report that many of the victims were. there's

been no immediate claim of responsibility but the taliban issued a statement denying involvement on the line now from kabul journalist. here do we know who might be behind these attacks. well first of all let me add that today the people resent of the capital kabul they started really a day with such an use while i mean most of the streets and roads are today actually very not crowded as general and i think it was a pre-planned attack on a cultural and religious place here in kabul on the shia. religious sentence she had a students so far as we know the taliban as you say have denied any kind of involvement . recently over the last few weeks whatever happens here in afghanistan especially especially here in the capital kabul the isis state take responsibility for it and let me add that most of the people who are there and there is just time they were talking about the suv you envision anniversary here in afghanistan the number of

the forty plus number which i talked to my reliable sources they say that the number that they toll is rising so it could be more than fifty and sixty people. here you know we've seen a series of attacks in kabul light place how fragile is the security situation in the violent. well the security situation has always been quite fragile here and the capital kabul even though over the last few weeks the capital only witnessed one attack a couple of days ago as a result ten people killed so it was much more calm a lot with this one i think now it will put everyone on a kind of a long again for the second of the next time because it's not the fire fighting season here in afghanistan but then with the emergence of isis and what the afghan media before that ten thousand isis troops are coming to afghanistan we've already come from syria one front for example the fighters so that is you know footing

everyone a lot of the security situation is quite fragile the afghan national unity government is so much under pressure both by the afghan citizens and by and by the political parties here that they say that you need to focus on ensuring security of your second rather than you know other party politics are kind to him and he thanks for that time to come to a reporting from kabul. time now for some of the other stories making the news around the world russian president vladimir putin says an explosion in a cent petersburg supermarket on wednesday was an act of terror at least ten people were injured in the blast the homemade device containing two hundred grams of explosive was traced to a baggage locker. the man who led moves to oust zimbabwe's longtime leader robert mugabe has been sworn in as the country's new vice president former army chief constantine she went recently retired in order to accept his new job but critics have accused president amazon manana of drawing too heavily on the military for

government appointees. a spanish humanitarian group has rescued more than one hundred thirty migrants in the mediterranean as they attempted to reach italy from libya dozens of miners were among those rescued the spanish ngo was responding to an emergency call from the attorney and coast guard. the united nations children's agency unicef is warning that children have become targets in conflicts around the world at a shocking level this year and its latest report the group documents cases of children being used as human shields being raped and being forced into marriage unicef has urged warring parties to respect international law governing the treatment of children in conflict zones now ukraine and its separatist rebels have exchanged hundreds of prisoners in the largest such swap since hostilities broke out in the country's east three years ago the deal following months of negotiation is part of the minsk peace accord signed in twenty

fifteen hope now is that the exchange could help deescalate the conflict but so far claimed over ten thousand lives in the dark and the cold seventy four people came home he created president petro poroshenko greeted former prisoners held by russian backed separatists. but. one former volunteer ukrainian fighter said he faced daily threats and beatings in captivity. in the beginning there was strong psychological pressure they threatened me and my relatives. they told me they would send me my mother cut open pieces. it's some point the beatings began. look what's left of my teeth but it's ok i'll buy new ones. earlier in the day ukrainian authorities send two

hundred thirty three people back to the self-proclaimed separatist republics of new hanscom donetsk both of which are allied with russia. many of the prisoners have been held for more than a year. or so but as for the group they were the critical. the most original it's emotional i talked with my wife on the phone. through a little what do you want most now just to see my son and my wife is. like prisoner exchanges like this one were envisioned back in two thousand and fifteen as part of the minsk agreement but the final details of the deal were only agreed last week authorities are still waiting to see a full implementation aimed at resolving the conflict. europe's meeting in the german city of lights at the moment to grapple with some of the tougher questions of our digital future how can we protect our data for instance

and how can we stop cyber criminals will talk to. us all of them also do something some fifteen thousand participants are attending the annual congress of the chaos computer club. normally this c.c.t.v. cameras at the leipzig conference center record everything but right now they're switched off one major theme at this year's chaos computer club congress is privacy including house state surveillance and spices tems and danger it vendor. those who want to be able to hack an entire population need to find a unique vulnerability on every single device but that doesn't mean that this point of axis will only be exploited by authorities fighting crime. and. chaos computer club members have warned that such vulnerabilities leave users open to being spied on by criminals or even foreign governments but digital rights groups also warn users that they're handing over too much personal information voluntarily

including to big businesses like facebook and google. is a document of and this data is used to build the most accurate user profiles possible this is then used for business and sometimes even to manipulate us is not always for profit but very very often it is the chaos computer club says it's expecting about fifteen thousand attendees from all over the world at the forty congress and with speakers covering issues from it security to artificial intelligence there will be plenty for hackers and computer experts to talk about. that's right plenty to talk about as far as the subject is concerned with me now. who's been spending time chaos computer club congress in light to ponder what are the most disturbing threats that we need to worry about well the most disturbing threat is actually sitting in a pocket it's just smartphones there's

a lot of apps and i was smartphones and those are the most threatening aspect of security today because always that we give a lot of axis terms of tracking and in terms of basically the data that the companies that own those apps have access to so this is the biggest threat and why a company's not doing more to make those up secure well there isn't enough of an incentive for them to do a lot in terms of fines they don't face hefty fines when it comes to data breaches so that's something the government should work on exactly this something government needs work on and fortunately government is not forced to do that because consumers are largely unaware of some of the dangers and so it's like events like the chaos communication congress that help us realize what some of the threats are ok so government should work on have to find because otherwise companies don't have enough of an incentive to to make those apps secure and of course they're in competition with each other what can we do as individuals to protect us as

individuals we probably should just be well informed and we should be giving access to apps just you know in terms of like your contacts for instance when you fall you should just get access to the i. always ask exactly and they always won that access because for them it's like you know they know if you can i mean of course they are instances when you need to do that but think about it just sort of ask yourself why a company wants to get access to some information that you just give it for free just think about it at least that already is a good step forward so say no now the congress is looking ahead into the technological future you know what what. one of the main challenges that they're looking at well the main challenge is the internet of things so basically devices that are connected to the internet that could be a smart watch that could be a fridge could be well host of you know household devices as well so anything that you can control via internet and that's what they are afraid of because of course

is not enough security safeguards in place already for smartphones and the fear is that there's not going to be enough for the technology that most of us or if they want access to because it's cool it's interesting we can always least show off to our friends and that's definitely the biggest fear right now and again that's a case of companies not putting enough safeguards in place because they're in competition with asia exactly everybody wants to be first and so that's one reason to ok japan are good to talk to. him bellow on the dangers of the digital future. after a relentless summer pursuit premier league club liverpool have finally signed southampton defend virgil van dyke for eighty four point five million euros that makes him the world's most expensive defender the dutch international will be moving to anfield on january the first he was expected to join liverpool with the start of the season after he requested a transfer but the move fell through when the poor were forced to make

a public apology after accusations of making an illegal approach for the player. now in sailing the final outcome of the sydney to hobart yacht race has been changed comanche awarded first place after a jury agreed to penalize the wild oats eleven team by one hour for failing to follow competition rules during the race the two yorks almost collided missing each other by just one metre after that near miss comanche immediately raised the red protest flag both yorks crushed the existing race record by more than four and a half hours. it. is. meanwhile in international cricket england's alice to cook has been the outstanding performer during the fourth ashes test against australia on day three in melbourne cook not chewing up a first inning score of two hundred and forty four knocked out that propelled

england to four hundred ninety one for nine handing them a lead of one hundred sixty four runs over the hosts australia though already have an unassailable three nil lead in the competition that competition of course one of the oldest rivalries in sports you're watching d.w. news in berlin more from us at the top of the hour we're going to leave you now with some of the pictures of our planet that astronauts on the international space station take from their windows this is what they see when they're looking out from their office windows thousands of images to choose from here are some of the best this year stay with us if you can.

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