change stuff. this is news live from berlin another deadly attack on egypt's coptic christians at least ten people are killed outside a cairo church filled with hundreds of worshippers witnesses say police and the church's locked doors prevented a massacre we'll go to cairo for the latest also coming up. from world footballer

of the year to president george we will be liberia's next leader and supporters in the slums where he grew up are ecstatic but now the hard work begins in one of africa's most battered countries. and a triple on its way out of india in a win for women parliament and just closer to stamping out the contentious islamic practice of saying divorced three times to end the marriage. and and welcome to the program egypt's coptic christians are in mourning after another attack by suspected islamised terrorists authorities say nine people and a policeman were killed when a gunman opened fire outside a church in a suburb of cairo the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility for the

attack exchanges have repeatedly targeted egypt's christian minority in recent years. bullet holes on the cupcake church of insult in cairo after another attack on egypt's christian minority. a church service was taking place inside the church when a gunman started shooting at people outside the building there are conflicting reports about whether a second gunman was involved and got away. bishop and drolls who's leading prey is inside before the attack he says hundreds to have been killed if the door had been opened. in the autumn here. there were crowds god saved the door was closed i don't know but that's the way but not all of the churchgoers were lucky there was an elderly lady who was coming out of the church to see what happened and she too fell here and died her blood was here. egypt's state media

says police managed to capture the gunman hours before the so-called islamic state claimed the attack. coptic christians make up about ten percent of the population in egypt where the majority is muslim. they've often complained of discrimination and accused the authorities of failing to protect them. over the past years they've repeatedly come under attack by radical islamist just last week hundreds of muslim demonstrators stormed a church and wounded three people friday as attack came ahead of christmas for the copes the celebrated on generate a seventh. on the line now from cairo is our correspondent there karim algo hari we've been getting conflicting reports karim on how many gunmen were involved in this attack and whether they have survived what do you know. well there where that kosik to report if it's one or two attack us but here it is there are talks and

it's pavement up on one attacker who was shot and arrested and identified by name and call to one of the most dangerous terrorists in the area without identifying too which group even of now there's been several attacks on the country's large christian minority in recent years what accounts for this. first year as always attacks against christians in egypt also during for example the time of who thought of but maybe we had three particularly bloody attacks one of them on the chaplain at the cathedral in cairo with twenty nine dead love december and then last palm sunday of two churches one of the nicest guys the other one is about exams we have with forty five people that i think that the numbers of victims this time is you know what is the reason for this is because the attack not managed to enter the church because he was even be engaged by security guards of the church as the

hallmark they were claimed by his which of course carries and military horsehide to christians but christians are also a relatively soft target for them unlike more difficult attacks on security forces this attacks all to ensure more in connection with the attention it's a way for a little bit it comes to prove that there exists and then strike wherever they want in the capital with maybe they also hope to split egyptian society but there are no such pranks i would say that the anger about it is more unifying which is decisive ok and if it's unifying egyptian society do most people there feel that the l.c.c. government is doing enough to protect christian. where they cross over to topic specially when they enter the churches there are no security guards in front of churches in front of some churches the streets streets are blocked during the month to prevent car bombs and now the imperious jersey military announced that they also

created some kind of record deployment forces for the christian upcoming holidays but it's also clear clear that all this everything shooting measure has of course its limits and you cannot turn every church in egypt into a fortress karim algo hari in cairo thank you very much. liberia is poised to usher in its first democratic transfer of power in more than seven decades international soccer star turned politician george we all won a landslide victory in the west african countries presidential runoff a little while ago the country's election commission declared him the president elect receiving more than sixty percent of the vote liberia a country founded by freed american slaves is africa's oldest modern republic it will be the first democratic transfer of power since one thousand nine hundred forty four. was to the chairs of jubilant supporters liberia's new president trips to his of joy george has waited

a long time for this moment after previous election defeats this time he's won a landslide victory supporters in the streets celebration the triumph of the candidate with a rags to riches story. was sorely missed like or you know what a kid that was about it but the man i had to cut to or come up to it was such that was just so we had a president who was up there on that we're stood as a candidate of change running against outgoing vice president joseph who quickly conceded defeat in the. media captain of this ship. it is time for him. that his ship comes to. move his boat where has long been famous in liberia born in the slum he shot to soccer stardom in the ninety nine to his playing for europe's top clubs after retiring he'd been active in liberian politics for more than

a decade his promises to fight corruption and boost the economy went down well with voters well enough to dispel concerns about his running mate jewel howard taylor the ex-wife of former president and convicted war criminal charles taylor despite rumors that taylor was pulling the strings those only one name on everyone's lips when the results were announced was where will take the reins from current president ellen johnson sirleaf in january despite winning the nobel peace prize she's been criticized for not doing enough to tackle corruption where supporters want him to put out of the top of his to do list. right. now some of the other stories making news around the world dozens of palestinians have been wounded by israeli gunfire during fresh class raised in the west bank and gaza thousands are protesting against u.s. president doll trumps recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital officials say at

least forty people were wounded in gaza and another sixteen in the west bank. in new york at least twelve people have died after a fire tore through an apartment building four others are in critical condition the city's fire department chief says a three year old boy playing with a stove cause the blaze in the bronx china's foreign ministry has denied reports that it's selling oil to north korea south korea is holding a hong kong flagship for allegedly violating u.n. sanctions a south korean newspaper says u.s. spy satellites have detected chinese ships transferring oil to north korean vessels about thirty times since october. germany's top court has ruled that a ninety six year old german must go to jail for his role in mass murders committed at auschwitz and world war two oscar groning had argued he was too old and sick to be imprisoned he was convicted in twenty fifteen to india now where the

lower house of parliament has passed a bill proposing jail time for muslim men who are trying to divorce their wives through practice known as instant divorce the bill outlaws the practice of ending a marriage by saying or writing the word which is arabic for divorce three times in succession india supreme court ruled in august that instant divorces are unconstitutional more than twenty muslim countries have already banned the practice . in delhi for us ashish can you first tell us more about the idea of instant divorce and how it works in india. well instant divorce or instant triple the law is a practice whereby a man can divorce his wife just by uttering the word lock which means divorce three times in one moment this is different from another form of the lock which is spread out over a longer period of time usually about ninety days which allows for some reconciliation

between the couple instant triple to lock obviously leaves no room for reconciliation and it's a practice that already been outlawed in many muslim majority countries but in india it's continued to happen in in the muslim community and the reason that is because it was it's really because of concerns about potentially disrupting the secular makeup of india about infringing upon religious rights because the situation in india when it comes to personal law when it comes to matters of divorce and marriage is that different religious groups are allowed to have their own personal laws to govern that and so things like this can often be seen as interference from the central government in personal religious law ok but it does appear that these type of laws don't necessarily match up with the constitution the indian justice minister says that this law is now about ensuring a quality for muslim women because triple to lock fundamentally into infringes on

their rights is this step generally being seen as a positive step forward. well the movement that we've seen on this issue in the car past couple of months really started years ago i mean that it's a result of stuff that started years ago by many muslim women who have been active activists who have been pushing for this many of them victims of this practice themselves and so what we saw in august with the supreme court ruling that this was unconstitutional was really a huge victory for them but many people have actually been a bit critical of this bill which they feel goes a little bit further than that and that includes some of those activists who have been pushing for the banning of triple the lock for a long time but what their issue with this law is that it criminalizes it and it's a bit confusing to some people in the sense that since the supreme court already voided the process meaning that if a man and uses this this procedure it basically has no legal weight anymore people

are wondering why this was necessary and given that this is the it pro a government that is has pushed the pro hindu. policies or has been accused of doing such at the expense of minorities like muslims people are a little wary of their of the government's motives here and they're worried particularly that since policeman can now arrest a muslim man on this charge whether he has a warrant or not simply because someone may say that this guy said that that's worrying people because they feel that it's going to demonize muslims further and potentially be used as a tool to harass muslim men as she's my whole track in delhi thank you now the winter olympics are on the horizon and host nation south korea is facing some sporting dilemma such as how will it fare in disciplines it's not really known for like ice hockey where the country is not

a traditional power but now it's naturalized a couple of players who come from the hockey nation canada. he shoots he almost scores it's no just a team practice but koreans certainly hope he'll score when it counts or at least his other canadian korean compatriots will stop the opposition from scoring. meet forward brock redone ski. and goaltender matt dalton two canadians hoping to shore up the scoreline they play in south korea and are now also naturalized citizens just in time for the winter olympics. redone ski thinks it's a win win situation. and i grew up a cat. was proud to be crazy and you know in a sense i'm representing you know candidates whom my family and what i'm going to play for to korea so. you know i'm proud to have lived in both countries and when

i'm on the ice you know i'm going to do everything i can for it in korea. you know being candidates but. it also building to know where korea was you know and. i'm and some people are asking me thought i was representing north korea they just didn't know the difference you know were done ski has twice won the best forward title in the asia hockey league and last season dalton was voted the asian league's best goaltender. and with players like that south korea hopes it will hammer the opposition and play an impressive tournaments after all for everyone on the team south korea is now home. you're watching the news live from berlin i have to. make your small team even smaller but for small. what you want what you want to. up to date. extraordinary. steps. you decide what's all.