sure. change. this is d.w. news live from berlin another deadly attack on egypt's coptic christians at least nine people are killed outside a cairo church filled with hundreds of worship burst 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 triple talaq on its way out in india in a win for women parliament inches closer to stamping out the contentious islamic practice of saying divorced three times to end the marriage. and welcome to the program egypt's coptic christians are in mourning after another attack by suspected extremists authorities now say at least nine people were killed in a gun fight after an attacker attempted to break through security outside a church and a cairo suburb the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility for the

attack islamic militants have repeatedly targeted egypt's christian minority in recent years. bullet holes on the cup the 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 that door had been opened. in a lot of here there were crowds god save those 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 accuse 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 is attack came ahead of christmas for the copes who 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 which group even of now there 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 last december and then not upon sunday or two churches one of the nicest guys the other one is not exams we have we forty five people that. i think that the numbers of victims this time is you know what is the reason for this is because not many extra enter the church because he was even be gauged by security guards of the church as the hallmark they were claimed by his

which of course carries on a military horsehide to christians but christians are also a relatively soft target for them like more difficult attacks on security forces this attacks all to ensure more in connection with the attention it's a way forward at the dickens to prove that there exists and then strike wherever they want to be detected with maybe they also hope to split egyptian society but clear up in no such pranks i would say that the anger about it is more unifying that you've just recited 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. wasn't was always a topic specially when they entered 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 period after the military announced that

they also created some kind of record deployments courses for the christian upcoming holy days 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 and more than seven decades international soccer star turned politician george weah 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. to the chairs of general and supporters liberia's new president visits his party headquarters to professor government george where his wife of the long

time for this moment after previous election defeats this time he's won a landslide victory was supporters in the streets celebration the triumph of the candidate with a rags to riches story. was sorely missed according and there's not a cat that was out of it but that's the man that it tripped the two of the two up was such that was that we had a president who was up there on that western as a candidate of change running against outgoing vice president joseph bokhari 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's been active in liberian politics for more than

a decade with 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 pull out of the top of his to do list. was standing by for us in the capital monrovia as. a sad day avalon it's good to see you it's a landslide victory for george weah what gave him the ads why did you. just you know would simply because the liberian people decide that they don't want

had no other units a party that didn't feel that this is the time but judge. with over eighty percent of the young people. what's in judge we are in doubt he'll intimacy as them so they will want to you know you need to potty that was exactly what what the vice president and this event is teaching compared to kind of judge we're ok so young people voted for him for change and he's relatively new to politics and he's chosen ex-wife of imprisoned warlord charles taylor as his running mate is there any concern about jewel howard taylor's role in the new government now. every round is that she has a wealth of experience in politics she has been elected twice as the senate in zero four nine years each so she's completing a second term now that would be complete eighteen years so she has

a woman i guess feelings when it comes to politics unlike george weah so she brings experience on board with that of choice and touch we have who has not had any experience in politics until you got elected in twenty four to you as a senator he is still trying to learn your vote has been there for a very long time but are people concerned of the fact that she's involved considering she's the ex-wife of a warlord and has been imprisoned. there has been a real stick at issues here in when we were here and across the country so when it can't be there with people using that word thanks even they can it's a body that when judge we know wins the presidency to how to let influence the influence of judge i'm just a local come back to life is an issue here and i'd be well into in the campaign but this idiocy of we're has continued to clarify that in no way is we genius government ask how it's a boon to love back to liberia because he's not in jail because of what i do but

it's an international kill so do you so mean ok and so what's at the top of his to do list now that he's in government. right now we are pretty sure it is how liberia from property is a few stunts is difficult this is huge work ahead of him but punchy l.u.v.'s education where now with the difficulty in the economy that is what he has in his agenda but he has said many i just did was a sexual. advance president. to experience people to make his governments a cesspool just coax him in a civil. and the liberian capital monrovia thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world dozens of palestinians have been wounded by israeli gunfire during fresh clashes in the west

bank and gaza thousands were protesting against u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital officials say at least forty people were wounded in gaza and now there are 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 stroke caused 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 has argued he was too old and sick to

be imprisoned he was convicted in two thousand and fifteen. to india now where the lower house of parliament has passed a bill proposing jail time for muslim men who tried to divorce their wives through a 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 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 cut 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 log for a long time but what their issue with this law is that it it criminalizes it and it's a big 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 has 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. it's the final trading day of the air and investors are taking the time to reflect

on two thousand and seventeen got more on that for us that's right abby in germany investors expected a nice kick at the end of the year they didn't quite get it but that doesn't mean they have to be disappointed in a muted final trading session twenty seventeen on the frankfurt stock exchange went out with more of a whimper than a bang the main index the dax was noticeably down from its record high this year ending at twelve thousand nine hundred and seventeen points but investors still have plenty of reasons to be cheerful it seems they ignored the potential political risks here in germany which still hasn't formed a new government three months off in the election germany's benchmark closed this friday some thirteen percent up on the year's opening our markets man has this assessment of the year that was twenty seventeen. what a surprise twenty seventeen practically no one had high hopes for the market but instead there was one record after another in new york with the dow in frankfurt

with the dax the dax for the first time over thirteen thousand five hundred points during the course of the year the central banks pumping out money at super low rates still and company's earnings also improving the world economy clipping along rather nicely much better than expected politics not a damper neither the nor the conflict with north korea nor donald trump in the white house in fact the u.s. president one of the main drivers of the market with his tax breaks twenty eighteen further potential seen the dax here in germany could reach over fourteen thousand points for the first time that's what not a few analysts expect of course there are also the political risks they could play a bigger role in twenty eighteen than they did in twenty seventeen people say. it's wrapping up twenty seventeen forus their bus has finalized a formal order for full one hundred thirty jets worth almost fifty billion dollars

now that's its largest ever single order the deal was first announced that the dubai asho last month american private equity firm indigo partners bought the a three twenty neo planes indigo has stakes in four carriers among them u.s. company frontier airlines and mexico's valorous the order is a significant boost for us which is like behind its rival boeing in deals this year . around one thousand years ago long caravans of camels transported goods from china to the west among that cargo precious silk which gave the route its name the silk road the chinese government now wants to revive it investing hundreds of billions of dollars in ports and roads railways and airports between china and its western trading partners this week we're looking at some of the stops along the route and our series finishes in the german city of boost book it's home to the largest in one port in europe handling three point seven million

shipping containers a year and that makes it an ideal hub for china's new silk road project the rail link bringing freight here from china is already up and running it's served by more than two dozen trains a week and the transit time of just under two weeks is four times shorter than the traditional sea route giving the rail link a competitive advantage because as we all know in trade time really is money. but europe's largest in one port most containers arrive by ship but not all. that might look and spectacular but this is one end of the new silk road a freight rail route stretching eleven thousand kilometers and connecting duis book with chongqing in central china. instead of silken spices typical cognos today include household electronics and textiles. with the balance simple

mostly because we're part of the largest connotation in central europe. the chinese want to sell masses of consumer goods. and the best place to sell them is where you have a lot of consumers. combine that with a dense network of roads and rail links at this end plus the rhine river connecting with rotterdam and also the burger on europe's west coast it's ideal. coming this will. turn out twenty five trains a week to do is book from china carrying both goods and hope for the future. located in germany's industrial heartland duesberg used to be a wealthy city but it's been in economic decline for decades. the city's representative for chinese affairs still remembers the steel plants lighting up the nighttime sky when he was a boy today like the coal mines across the river valley to most have been closed down. in the last twenty years we've lost around thirty or thirty five thousand

jobs in the steel industry. which is why he welcomes trade from china. and the new silk road will boost the influx of investors such as ya mean one who has big plans for do is book. beginning here and china and we will be building a china trade center here. on this line behind us we will have one hundred twenty thousand square metres of office space over five stories. hundred twenty thousand metre. the center is set to accommodate around two hundred companies which will have excellent access to the european market from here the construction is being subsidized by the chinese government as part of a long term strategy. that also includes the new train link it may not be making any money for beijing yet but the financial commitment makes

do is confident that when it comes to the new silk road and future trade the chinese really do mean business. and you can tell it's nearly that time of the year again fireworks manufacturers are set to cash in this week as millions from the new year festivities global sales last year reached almost two billion dollars according to market research firm q why post those sales being at the end of the year europe's biggest economy germany will fork out more than one hundred thirty million euros on new year's eve fireworks alone imported products will account for three quarters of the bang flash and whistle that midnight here on the thirty first . i'm heading back over to abby now for some sport on serina williams is back she is indeed danielle if you can even call it a comeback serena williams is set to hit the courts yet again now after winning the australian open open rather earlier in the year that thirty six year old american took a break from her tennis career for another milestone in her life the birth of her

first child she's now due to play french open champion yelena asta penco on saturday in an exit bishan matters at the move blood doll a tournament. and the organizers of the australian open believe williams will be back to defend her title in melbourne in january. now the winter olympics are on the horizon and host nation south korea is facing some sporting dilemmas 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 score line 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 cab there are proud to be canadian and you know in a sense i'm representing you know canada to 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 him priya. you know being candidates but. it also feel the need to know where korea was you know and. i am and some people are asking and 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 asia 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 news live from berlin we'll leave you now with some moments featuring a few people who passed away this year thanks for watching. you know.

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