gives me everything the waves the wind to give something. surfers fighting against. starting january seventh. the state of the news coming to launch from berlin carnage in kabul multiple blasts rocked the afghan capital doesn't have been killed in a suicide attack targeting a shia cultural center and in media outlets also coming up no safe place for

children and young people caught in conflict zones under attack unicef says the twenty seven soon saw in shocking level of violence targeting children. and bad weather in london strands hundreds of passengers overnight authorities shut down airports to clear snow and others from the runways dozens of flights are canceled. i'm sorry harlan welcome to the show it's good to have you with us dozens have been killed in a suicide attack in kabul so-called islamic state claimed responsibility multiple bomb struck a shia cultural center and a media outlet at least forty one people were killed dozens more were injured security challenges continue to plague afghanistan recently there has been an

uptick in i asked attacks against shia targets in the country. they searched through the rubble for signs of their loved ones. but after the force of the explosion little was left behind inside the shiite social and cultural center. the bomb went off inside this building that is also home to an afghan you say agency. that i love ok when the explosion went off we skipped from the norm we were working and went to the rough. we saw the smoke and flames coming from our basement and went to help and see what was happening there when we got there the situation was very good of us that we felt students had been marking the anniversary of the soviet invasion of sunni majority afghanistan when the blast tore through the building eyewitnesses describe several explosions on the compound.

or more. while we were moving the wounded to the hospital a second explosion went off she didn't care if you minutes later the third time the films that you had to do with. the injured were brought to nearby hospitals with several wounded taken in for surgery on. the fourth well. i was there for a book returning. joining the talks there was a huge bang so the in his own smoke rose from inside the hole to get. my face was burning. i fell off my chair and i saw the other colleagues around me on the ground . the smoke was everywhere. i don't know what happened next. and what they go on the phone with. armed guards patrol the area where the

explosions happened so called islamic state has claimed responsibility for the attack afghan president ashraf ghani called it an unpardonable crime against humanity he pledged to destroy terrorist groups. let's bring in afghanistan specialist florian. asia florian i asked his claim responsibility why do you think they targeted this venue. said in the report majority of the people visiting this session of people and shia are a kind of in quotation mark natural enemy of the as they think they're. not real muslims but infidels and others of us also shared a lot of sunni extra because another another player comes into the game and then there's the know of afghanistan told us that the real aim not the shia people are really the taliban because the taliban is both this extreme

a grooved active in afghanistan they are fighting over the allegiance of the sunni extremists and the positive taliban are targeting more the afghan forces and governmental virk has no tries to make a point in this sunni extremist groups by targeting shias and getting more awareness of them ok what can you tell us about the presence of i asked in afghanistan help make a threat is the group right now. yeah well it's a difficult question because as they made the thirty thousand insurgents active in afghanistan recently russian newspapers quote the special envoy of russia in afghanistan is saying that ten thousand. fighters in afghanistan i don't think that is the real number it's very difficult because it is not so easy to say who is below the two taliban and who is belonging to as. it often happens that taliban

groups are joining us because they're not satisfied with the v the click of the. taliban and so. join the i s and it also happens then they get what they want back from the taliban then they go back to the taliban so it's very difficult to see who is belonging to whom i had that story on vigeland from asia desk thanks very much. the u.n. has said that children living in conflict zones around the world are being deliberately targeted and exposed to attacks in a statement the un's children's agency unicef called the scale of attacks on children is your quote shocking they said the children were subjected to rape forced marriages. even being used as human shields and complex from syria and yemen to myanmar and nigeria. one of the conflict regions that the u.n.

is focused on is the central african republic the african nation has been in the midst of turmoil since twenty thirteen when president francois boise's a question was overthrown by mostly muslim so lekker rebels according to unicef children have been killed raped abducted and recruited by armed groups in a recent increase in violence in ca our. danniella do is you know steps chief of communications for central african republic she spoke to us earlier from dakar in senegal and explained the magnitude of this problem says i would say in the everyday lives of children in the central african republic of many children. eventually you know that the situation in the central african republic has been there's there's been a really bad increase in violence in the past six months it's actually we now have

one in two children in the country with considering running remark and probably one in four or five now is illiterate displaced internally. or directly outside of the country so we usually say this international public is one of the worst countries and that is. now to some of the other stories making news around the world more than one hundred fifty migrants from iran and iraq have demanded the opening of the border near the serbian border town of should they want to enter member croatia and continue their joy into western europe serbian police broke up a similar protest at the same spot yesterday. a massive wildfire on the spanish. has forced the evacuation of around sixty homes it broke out wednesday night near the popular resort of points up and spread quickly due to high winds the blaze has

destroyed around one hundred hectares of woodland the cause of the fire or mains until. the bitter cold weather has taken hold of much of the northern united states and is expected to continue in the coming days to cities in the state of minnesota have set record low temperatures and some areas of pennsylvania are digging out from more than a meter of snow in britain bad weather has snarled traffic and disrupted flights. impatient confused and frustrated. these travelers didn't think they'd have to get through this right after christmas. their flights were i did delayed or canceled as extremely cold weather hits to the u.k. . hundreds of them have been stranded at london stansted airport since wednesday night but there is no solution in sight. but don't want to go home we don't know how are they getting going to find another flight if everything is too expensive

now i think was three hours after my flight was supposed to leave that it was canceled and there was no board to tell us one like that it was delayed or anything so was just literally like going back to the board the plane the one personnel that was that kind of thing. while at troubles a disrupted heavy snowfall has also made some of the roads across the u.k. undriveable. around four thousand homes and now without electricity. across the atlantic heavy snowfall has also taken hold of the north and part of the united states record low temperatures have been set into cities in the state of minnesota. us to distaste for more and harsh conditions are giving a hard time for working on the streets. really heavy

boots on today have you were close you know layered up over five layers. in pennsylvania record snowfall has covered much of the state and such wintery scenes seen across north america not expected to linger on for days. but of sports news for you now after a relentless pursuit of premier league club liverpool finally signed southampton defender for a job and dyke for eighty four point five million euros that makes him the world's most expensive defender the dutch international moves to anfield on january first he was expected to join the report the start of the season after he requested a transfer but the move fell through when liverpool were forced to make a public apology after accusations of making an illegal approach for the player. or boxing as a high impact sport no matter what level you're competing at it requires a robust physique and that's why boxers tend to be on the younger side but

a group of retirees in south africa are proving that age isn't anything but a number. seventy nine year old constant and seventy seven year old gladys aren't just best friends and neighbors they're also boxing partners. twice a week they come to the a.t.m. gym in johannesburg to hit the punching bags and keep fit constant used to suffer from high blood pressure but has already noticed improvements in our health almost by look i enjoy boxing because it makes me fit and when i go to the clinic the doctors say i no longer have high blood pressure i feel stronger since i started coming to the gym because again. the development of obesity and noncommunicable diseases like high blood pressure high cholesterol and type two diabetes is on a critical rise in south africa which is why nutritionist claudia go along welcomes

the pensioners combined cardiovascular and resistance training routine when you combine those two kind of ascertaining things like crunching runnings swimming i walking this is resistance training it is body weight exercises circuit training training exercise like that not any sports muscle mass but also cruising miscible equate to tunes you can control that develop an amazing city there's no disputing the importance of exercise but it would be ill advised for pensioners to receive inland punches to the head or body especially as preexisting conditions like aneurisms or high cholesterol could lead to fatality or strokes according to dr salis cosigner a medical supervise a boxing matches in south africa extreme force being applied to that to the head or to any part of the board. would need to some for eternity. bettering in mind that these people have not been chipped. doctor this

score some advise is a full check up before anyone can book in the meantime these grandmothers a fighting their way to fitness. of that inspiration for those new year's resolutions that are right around the corner for many of us well there's been a winner declared to the sydney to hobart yacht race team comanche was awarded the crown after jury agreed to penalize the wild oats eleven team by one hour for failing to follow the rules in the race the two yachts almost collided missing each other by only a metre. after that near miss comanche immediately raised the red protest by both yachts crushed the existing record by more than four and a half hours but in the end one must always follow the rules. you're watching dude every news coming to you live from berlin the business show is up next before i go a levy were some of the pictures of our planet they were taken by astronauts on the

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