children up on health. the german aids foundation is supporting dream in mozambique you can do something to give a baby a future without a. make a donation safe a life. the state of really is coming to you live from berlin for soccer star george ryall wins liberia's presidential one all defeats the country's vice president was more than sixty one percent of the vote now liberia is set for its first democratic

transition of power in decades also coming out. its own prime minister apollo gentil only sets march fourth as the date for a national election for president sergio much of that lughnasadh parliament will bring you the latest from rome. and carnage in kabul multiple blasts rocks the afghan capital a suicide attack on a shia cultural center and the media outlet killed. i'm sara han and welcome to the show former soccer star george weah has won liberia's presidential election provisional results show we had taking about sixty one percent of the vote to defeat vice president tells us. we have supporters in the capital city of monrovia at the cheering his victory the fifty one year old

reece warnin next month in was said to be the country's first democratic transition in more than seventeen years. correspondent evelyn pot a sikh is in monrovia forest evelyn why do you think people in liberia voted for. well the language since the campaign has been a change sheet from a units of parts of government to in new governance that has been in one way to since the start of the company days the need to change the unity of parties so it has really been a trouble for vice president yourself so that is the online factor not another unity party. and one of the biggest challenges that hall now be facing as president we are has a huge challenge ahead of him especially when we talk about you when you plug meant and chop creation the country has to challenge with the high or you climb into and

the issue of poverty over eighty percent of the country's population still leer live below a dollar a day so judge we government to have this as a reason not to crack liberating a country from poverty which many believe he i mean is just in the president has not really been able to adequately address since her two six years of twelve years he toured to. where was a football star in the ninety's who played for italy's ac milan do you think he's going to succeed as a politician. will he has not had experiences in politics for the time he started it was just football a lot of people have known he. could pour but others are saying analysts in the country as say his sausages could be tied around the people he puts in his government to people he gets appointed into different positions and ministers and agency who are going to make the work happen so simply people could see it could be

possible he has a successful government just depending on who he wants in what position. thank you that's evelyn. well george weah grew up in a slum in the capital monrovia he went on to become a star soccer player for clubs in italy france and england after retiring from sports he got involved in liberia's politics making his first bid for the presidency in two thousand and five he says election fraud cost him the race but he didn't give up here's maher. it was on football pitches like this where liberia's most famous son forged his reputation as a winner. george where began breaking the mold in his early twenty's when he left war torn west africa to score goals for europe's elite clubs. he never

lost touch with home. almost. all of. it as well as winning a slew of team trophies she became the first african to win the prestigious balon dog. after a life in football where turned his attention from the paper to politics tasting his first defeat in the two thousand and five presidential election. but as a footballing superstar standing out from the crowd came easily a decade later his time had come. there bird flu on the political. side preparation that was marred when he chose the wife of x. president and now convicted war criminal charles taylor as his running mate it

triggered accusations that taylor pulled the strains in weir's campaign for liberians grateful for peace but desperate for work it didn't seem to matter come polling day where again was confident his promise of roads jobs and prosperity was enough. i'm not associated no reason to do this. they said that i'm going to win. old habits die hard no fifty one george weah is watching the goals go in. but he keeps making history of his own becoming the first liberian president to take power democratically since one thousand nine hundred forty four. it's time government says the country will hold a general election on march fourth of next year the president has dissolved parliament to make way for the vote earlier prime minister paolo genting on and

defended his government's record and said he would stay in office until a new government is in place election is set to be a three way contest between gentle nani's democratic party the populist five star movement lenin alliance headed by former prime minister silvio berlusconi of. the let's go to philip willing in rome philip promise been dissolved a new election is going to be held in march was this expected. yes this is part of an orderly transition phase the rough date of the dissolution of parliament had been in and out some weeks ago the date of the four that march was already penciled in in many calendars and in particular they deserve was to avoid dragging out the legislature to the bitter end with the risk that the government could lose

a confidence vote in parliament and therefore be you know weak a position or a caretaker role that particularly if there's no knee bend uncertain outcome from the election three main competing groups in roughly the same number of votes or what happens next far better to go from here. well i think we'll see a very likely election campaign. several months or italian no politicians to offer their burying formulas to the electorate and there's been really an election campaign dragging on for many months now with the legislature. moving towards its end and already we're seeing some fairly vocalist. promises from people such as prime if own prime minister silvio berlusconi and from

the five star movement a universal way or poor people in italy and out of this sort of sweetness of the electorate and their questions about toward extent the country could afford the measures former prime minister my tail raincy responding at various going to lee saying that the country would be bankrupt if his rivals won by the us philip willem reporting for us from wrong thanks very much here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making news around the world at this hour the u.s. and turkey have agreed to resume full v says services for each other services washington said i had kept to assurances that no local staff would be detained or arrested the u.s. halted services after a turkish citizen employed at its consulate in istanbul was detained in october. more than one hundred fifty migrants from iran and iraq have demanded the alpha

name of the border in the serbian border town of shared they want to enter the new mother stayed away shop and continue their journey to western europe the serbian police broke up a similar protests of the same spot yesterday. dozens of people have been killed in a suicide attack in the afghan capital kabul so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility multiple bomb struck in shia culture center enemy outlet at least forty one people were killed dozens more were injured security challenges continue to plague afghanistan and recently there's 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 use agency. that one hell of a car when the explosion went off we skate from the island and we were working and went to the rough top we saw the smoke and flames coming from my basement we went to help and see what was happening there when we got there the situation was very good of us that we felt our 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. while we were moving the wounded to the hospital a second explosion went off. 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 well. i was there from to create on it. during the talk there was a huge bang so the in his own smoke rose from inside the hole as well to get us to . my face was burning. i fell off my chair and i saw other colleagues around me on the ground although the smoke was everywhere. i don't know what happened next. and what they go on after minimal. armed guards patrol the area where the explosions happened so called islamic state has claimed responsibility for the attack afghan president as. afghani cool didn't unpardonable crime against humanity he pledged to destroy terrorist groups. and. children on the frontlines of the world's conflicts face shocking levels of violence as according to a statement by unicef's director of emergency programs in new york today manuel

fontaine said combatants were blatantly disregarding international laws to protect the vulnerable and in many cases deliberately targeting children or using them as human shields. the war is hardest on the most vulnerable those who survive are often marked for life. in syria death and violence are part of growing up. unicef says snipers there even used children as human shields in many war zones there's no regard for children at all. for years we have seen brutality and many wars and crisis regions but when the iraqi city of mosul was recaptured from the islamic state children were being used as human shields in northern iraq children were recruited and then in order to carry out suicide bombings. and it's children who suffer the most the result is often deep psychological scars in south

sudan and yemen children face not just violence but severe shortages of food and medical attention. in that in myanmar in ukraine in many conflicts you see the situation the way kids can see detents and you know weapons and munitions to be part of their lives so when the other kids would be drawing butterflies and did bears kids who grow in conflict their daily. tents and they eat as long as peace is out of reach unicef says children in war zones have no future. world and european champions real madrid have dominated the globe soccer awards and divide forward crystal rinaldo won the best player award while his ryall madrid boss saying the deal is a den was named best coach madrid scooped the best team award having won their second successive champions league title back in june.

where also did every news more to come from us at the top of the hour i'll leave you now with some pictures of our planet that the astronauts of the international space station took from their windows in july. stories that people the world over t.w. on facebook and twitter to date and in touch follow us.

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