located in the heart of europe if you are connected to the world. experience outstanding shopping and dining offers and try our services. be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by frau bought. it. this is you know we news live from berlin multiple blasts rocked the afghan capital kabul dozens have been killed in a suicide attack targeting a shiite cultural center and a media outlet also coming up. it's the biggest prisoner exchange since

hostilities erupted ukraine am pro russian separatists swap two captives in an unusual break from their recent escalation and the ongoing conflict in ukraine's restive east. plus premier league club liverpool paid a one world a record free to sign virtual bank making the dutchman the most expensive defender in soccer history. and a portrait of an artist will take a look at an animated movie called loving vincent it brings to life the great painter vince that i'll go with sixty pounds of images painted by hand in bangor distinctive style by more than one hundred artists from a plan around the globe. great

to have you along we start off this broadcast in afghanistan where officials now say at least forty one people were killed and dozens more injured in a series of blasts in the capital kabul a suicide bomber is reported to have detonated a device at a gathering in a shiite cultural center witnesses say many of the victims were students in an online statement so-called islamic state is claiming its supporters were behind the attacks. all right let's bring in afghanistan specialist to florian wang gonta from our asia desk of florrie and i asked claimed responsibility why did they target this venue well that it's quite obvious that the extremists from i guess the talking cio because they think they're not real muslims the infidels and this is a view which is shared by a lot of other sunni extremists and it brings us to an interesting twist of the story an afghan expert told us that the real target was not the shia community but

the taliban because and taliban they're both fighting over there are legions of this sunni extremists and in the past has conducted a lot of attacks against shia community in the intention to get this the extras on their side all right what can you tell us about the presence of i.a.s. in afghanistan how big of a threat is that group now. well that is a very touchy issue in question because. the real numbers around thirty thaws the insurgents in afghanistan according to sources in afghanistan and the people who say like russian media that ten thousand s. supporters in afghanistan i don't believe his numbers the reality is that as operating in very small pockets in the east of afghanistan and recent the old city

and north of afghanistan and it's very difficult to see who is taliep and who is and i support it because those of many groups who are a taliban groups and going to i as the satisfied with their own leadership and they go also back then the leadership of the target but meets the requirements of the smaller groups so i think it is a minority in afghanistan very interesting a back and forth there between those two groups what this attack does do is reveal the continuing security challenges the end of gotta stop germany's defense minister recently said that the withdrawal of international groups from afghanistan is happening too quickly and that a longer term commitment is needed so and do you think members of the international coalition currently in afghanistan will be receptive to her message. well actually there's little choice with it to national community but to continue with the engagement in afghanistan i'm not sure the long run

a military engagement is the right thing we have to see how to combine the civil to gauge men and military engagement but at the moment at the time being it is almost impossible for the civil development organisation to. kabul to work outside the offices because the security situation is so bad so i think the presence of the international groups is required for a long time enough on its them for am i going to from the desk thank you art want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. a massive wildfire on the spot by your car has forced evacuation of around sixty homes it broke out on wednesday night near the popular resort of party ends up and spread quickly due to the high winds the blades has destroyed around one hundred hectares of woodland that cause of the fire remains unknown. russian president vladimir putin says an explosion in

a st 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 explosives was traced to a luggage locker. a court and man maher has dropped additional charges against two foreign journalists arrested in october for illegally flying a drone over the country's parliament the pair were working for turkish broadcaster t.r.t. and are due to be released in january ukraine and its separatist rebels have exchanged hundreds of prisoners in the largest swap since hostilities broke out in the country's east and three years ago the deal followed months of negotiation and as part of the minsk peace accord signed in two thousand and fifteen the hope now is that the exchange could help deescalate a conflict that so far claimed over ten thousand lives. in the dark and the cold seventy four people came home ukrainian 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 with them they told me they would send me my mother cut up in pieces. and some point the beatings began to 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 the hanscom donetsk both of which are allied with russia. many of the prisoners had been held for more than a year. as orders for the group they were in the critical.

most miserable 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 a. prisoner exchanges like this one where 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. well next there's been movement in a drama surrounding the insolvent carolina nikki garrett as rights according to the administrators is only one new owner left in the running industry sources say i agee the owner of british airways is to acquire and they keep the final should be struck in the deal the final deal will be struck in the next few days about nicky

has slid into insolvency not long after lynn went belly up. of course that that's all part of the fallout of the bankruptcy of beilin which left tons of the last airline standing in germany and that has prompted fears of rising ticket prices rightly so says the german competition authority accountable shawcross analyze prices for all of those towns as booking classes and concluded they were unduly raised up to thirty percent new fans or says it was merely the airline's algorithm that came up with these prices titian authority said it does not buy that excuse possibly opening the door to punitive fines and even cost them a lawsuit against loved. well let's bring in a really bad financial correspondent in frankfurt only is the fans are really abusing its monopoly already. well the the argument with the algorithm is really absurd if you take that to the full extent of tons could for example ground to half

its planes and the algorithm would say that oh there's less supply let's double the fair price is that the passengers have to pay it was the algorithms that figured that out but even if you wouldn't calculate something like that in something willful of course you can reprogram the algorithms to suit the current market situation and above all to meet the law and to meet regulations so that's kind of a childish argument and i don't even know if c.e.o. for a believes that himself what is true is course of. as the as he says of the original one hundred forty planes that used to fly for air berlin ninety are grounded now and of course there's demand and with higher demand and if there's no other competitor there then there's some justification to demanding higher prices really competition authority and customer complaints aside lufthansa has done very well this year hasn't it. they've done super well it was

a record year for them they've never made as much profit as they have it was quite an expected one factor our oil prices were ok for the airline but they also were successful in cutting costs and they also were successful in cutting the deal with their pilots it was a year long years long struggle several years it cost the many millions and now that's out of the way and it also clears the way with new schemes for retirement and for concert and station to become more competitive in this very competitive business of the airline business not just in europe but around the world and the share price reflects that success is coming up by a whopping one hundred fifty percent this year by far the biggest gainer in the german market and probably in europe as well. frank but on move time those great performance in d.c. i thank you very much. well this week we've been taking

a closer look at the new silk road china's attempts to revive a one thousand year old trade route that used to draw caravans of camels to bring porcelain spices and silk to the western world but today it's not pepper on camelbacks it's ships and trucks trains and planes carrying steel electronics and agricultural goods so china is investing hundreds of billions of dollars in ports railways roads and bridges across asia africa and europe today in greece at the port of pure radius last year china's state owned shipping and logistics firm cosco spent more than two hundred eighty million euros to secure a majority stake in the port company they do to pour another three hundred fifty million into port infrastructure in the next decade for the greeks encouraging chinese investment has paid off large telecommunications companies like that t. and who are away from china or hewlett packard from the u.s.

using pyrrhus as a heart for their goods to enter europe the traffic volume has increased twenty percent compared to last year. this is the port of parade yes since chinese shipping giant costco took over the port has been an operation twenty four hours a day freight volumes are four times what they used to be and one of the two container piers is being extended costco's plan to turn pariahs into a gateway to europe is well underway its local executives are upbeat so far pereira says the only large private sector project making headway in greece by it is will be the first at that on an up. and very big these to be assessed and they submit that out now and we hope to be offset of this the sense that this if you think out of us by a by a. companies like sony and hewlett packard shipped their products from paris to

eastern europe costco has invested up a billion euros in the container terminal. the passenger terminal is next on the agenda already the largest in europe it's going to get even bigger along with a massive facelift. old warehouses are also being converted. to give these to develop four and five star hotels that we did not have maybe you know you can see by the beach and to provide good he said he said he sees we thought there i mused. areas like restaurant cafeterias costco also wants to attract cruise ship passengers primarily from china and paramus would be more than just a flying visit costco wants it to become home base for the luxury liners big plans but the unions are skeptical they fear costco is farming out contracts to subcontractors and working conditions will be undermined. it's an important

question is that and if necessary we'll go on strike yet we want a collective agreement and long term secure jobs that's what we demand from costco and also from our government. as part of the deal with the greek government costco has to invest three hundred fifty million euros and pereo sarber over the next ten years it's hoped the district around the harbor will also benefit. it would be good if the tourists were in the harbor for long most just want to see the acropolis. there is the beginning even greeks would come here more often oh. i hope that the past and the passing years there will be a development more stores will come where people will invent all this to the hard work to give life again and greece certainly needs the kind of economic stimulus the chinese hope their vision for prayer will deliver. a gallery of computer nerds

is on the way and. we've got more on that care. thank you very much a major meeting of hackers is underway in leipzig here in germany with mass surveillance and data security among the key points of discussion here as biggest hacker collective the chaos computer club is hosting the congress which is also looking closely at the spread of fake news on the air nets edward snowden the former us intelligence contractor who exposed goldman surveillance programs in two thousand and thirteen is also due to make an appearance via video link. electric cars have been tell to does the next big thing for transportation because they are considered better for the environment but experts are already warning that some of the technological infrastructure forty cars is vulnerable to being hacked in germany customers of public charging stations are exposed to fraud because tons action data isn't encrypted researchers say that's because companies are placing other priorities ahead of security. these companies are growing very quickly simply

because they want to have the best location for their charging infrastructure and they are trying to. build the infrastructure right now and have the profits later so they are for growing more quickly instead of focusing on the security side of things while charging stations are one topic but of course the chaos communication congress is about online security internet security and data protection in general and the question of course is always is enough being done by the regulators and that is something that definitely needs to be looked at because a lot of the criticism is that governments in europe are not doing enough to protect consumers experts say companies don't have a major incentive to protect their customers data they want corporations that suffer customer data breaches to face heftier fines. it's not expensive enough for companies if they fail security wise when you look at the internet of things the

so-called i like this many video camera us toasters network toasters smart smart old application that come with like zero security. measures just because it would companies those companies would think it's too important it's too costly it's too expensive to have. to install security measures and some experts suggest that the solution would be hefty fines for firms that do not keep customer data safe. and are on you know hasa is at the hacker can be. i can join her right now i mean i got to say here we're going to focus for the purpose of this discussion on fake news because it's such a hot button issue right now around the world how is that being discussed to at the convention where you are. what is interesting layer is that fake news is actually a word or that people here don't like using because they say we've always had the

problem of people reporting. facts or presenting facts as something. that was not the truth and so i think news or something they say the u.s. president came up with and we just have to find a way of dealing with what is happening i.e. people with interests are disseminating their own truths to influence their groups that they want to targets and there are various ways that can be done but of course one big topic is social media and how to tackle and regulate and find the right balance between privacy and regulate our well let's talk about that what can internet users people on social media do to distinguish between misleading contact content and authentic information that surfaces on their feeds. that's something that people have been telling me here that's what they think is going to become more important in. two months is that people will begin to trust

their sources again that they will try and identify sources that they can believe and that the individual trust element is something that is going to become more important so that people don't just reach something or like something where they just read the headline that people will try and dig deeper to find out whether the source is actually reliable that something then of course we're talking about hundreds of words in troops in an agency cetera death that these the discussion that's only just beginning and this congress is here to also give it a bit more of an impetus. aren't you nasa reporting for us from life thank you. liverpool broke a world record transfer fee for a defender when they announced the signing of virgil farm day from fellow premier league club southampton for some eighty four million euros marketers from sports is

here to break it all down for us let's take a moment and let that sink in eighty four million euros really it's a lot of money isn't it especially for defend especially for defender who's never played for a top european club so that let's be honest we're a middling premier league club and he's got a bit of baggage as well because actually this season he's not in playing that well last season he hardly played at all because he knew little paul wanted him so he basically said is as i don't i want to leave as a temp and said well if you want to leave we're going to put you in the reserves and not play you ok the season before that you probably was the best defender in the premier league to be fair but it's a bit of a big risk lupul to take that amount of money who knows in two years' time the same situation might happen when real madrid come calling for him i think the reason why they've paid so much as i think all the teams are looking at him maybe manchester city so they felt they had to get in there early before the transfer window even opens and bag him for a massive amount of running a massive amount of money i wiring amount of money and of course your own club is trying to now find

a right balance now by signing him what what does he hope to achieve with this new acquisition well basically everybody who knows european football knows at liverpool that one of the best teams in the world going forward but that absolutely dreadful at the back so he needed a new defend and it's a lot of money but i actually think it's more a cultural thing within the kind of defensive unit i'm not sure one man can make such a difference klopp likes his attacking football maybe doesn't care so much about you know developing defensive strategies in training and also they really need to goalkeeper there's no point having four of the best defenders in the world if you've got a useless goalkeeper no disrespect to seymour minya lead but he's not a top goalkeeper the other premier league big sides have great goalkeepers so they might have to be ten spending. the same goalkeeper this time next season for the going to be pretty scary mark met her i was thinking so very much. from the british we were going to go to china in our clubs from the domestic league are also spending millions on european and south american players that may make the game

more attractive it hurts homegrown players chinese club. has approached that problem by sending its young talents to presume to learn from a soccer mad country. china and brazil have a football friendship dating back a few years in fact brazilian players make up the largest contingent of all the foreign players in china's super league back in two thousand and fourteen shang don't know what was it inside baseball tivo and now they've sent chinese players back to brazil the aim to learn some trade brazilian skills like fancy footwork and dribbling. i want to play in europe but now i'm here i have to work hard to improve my football. on the international stage china hasn't achieved much the seventy first in the fever rankings and did not qualify for next year's world cup but this latest venture isn't

a quick fix for chinese football real change takes time. ok she's. more time on the. short term thing. maybe more. brazil isn't the only partner china has approached to help develop its players the chinese national on the twenty team has played friendlies with german fourth division clubs but fan protests over tibet brought that experiment to an end. back in brazil chinese players a soaking up the sun and maybe the old football trick or two. now and vincent van gogh died at the age of thirty seven he was unknown to the art world but since then his paintings and the story of his unhappy life rafts fascinated our lovers all now an animated film unlike no other brings the tortured artist to life we have this report on how the movie loving vincent has made was made.

for man in space i wouldn't know it's late and i wish you a good night and good luck with a handshake and love you. since. the story of vincent fungus life told with the help of his own pictures this polish english co-production is one of a kind. movie painted in oil with real actors the true challenge of them is just. since we worked with the green screen most of the time i had to know what the space around me looked like and the painting and how to move in it. a crime story that seeks to shine a light on the mysterious circumstances a fungus death and to explain his character with the help of his work. he was very lonely as a human and as an artist despite him having a very good friend in his younger brother who understood him well but he still was

lonely and that made him very sad he felt under appreciated all. immersing oneself into the world of the great painter with the help of high end computer software and cameras with the real vincent have appreciated this the production took four years and consists of more than sixty thousand paintings twelve individual paintings for each second of the movie. and this is where they were made more than one hundred painters from all over the world later recreated every scene that was shot on canvas. right now and painting the scene with the policeman i use a projector to put the outlines of the scene on my canvas then i compare it with my painting. i also have a tool to track my hand movements. working

on thousands of paintings for months takes its toll. what with seems that don't have a lot of movement and we basically draw the same picture over and over again sometimes while doing this i had to go out for fresh air or to screen and release my emotions. by the way some of these oil paintings are going to be all should all . look the complete artwork can only be seen in cinema. art a number for let you know when i remind you of our main headline this hour. the so-called islamic state has said it's responsible for a series of blasts in the afghan capital kabul in which at least forty one people were killed in one of the explosions a suicide bomber targeted a gathering in a shiite cultural center but as a say many of the victims were students. on little rock in berlin i'll be back at the top the hour for now on behalf of all of us here thank you so much for spending

this part of your day with us. into the conflict zone confronting the powerful. history called green zone is in warsaw where the polish government is facing mounting criticism from the e.u. over its record of democracy and human rights my guest is the deputy prime minister matteo mara is his government ready to address the concerns voiced by brussels will continue rejecting them out of the. news on t.w. . the fight against crime in a criminal era. crime fiction set during the third riot that ensued.

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