this is d.w. news live from berlin a massive suicide bombing rocks in kabul officials say at least ninety five people are dead more than one hundred fifty others are wounded and we'll talk to a correspondent in the afghan capital also on the program. german police shut down a huge kurdish demonstration in cologne protesting against turkey's intervention in syria we'll find out why. and germany's greens are like two new leaders and unusually they're both from the party's centrist wing and we'll see

what that could mean pretty green future in german polish tanks. and maya schwager welcome to the program. at least ninety five people have been killed in a major explosion in the afghan capital kabul the country's interior minister also says more than one hundred fifty were injured in the suicide bomb attack which happened at a police checkpoint on saturday morning that's how the band have claimed responsibility . the attacker made it past the first checkpoint posing as a paramedic transporting a patient in an ambulance the bomb was detonated when he was identified by police at the second checkpoint one of the crowd was sitting in much shop when there was a powerful explosion only windows. you know i'm from the bottom of. the casualties

a very high with bodies were everywhere near the hospital and everywhere. a hospital coordinator described the attack as a massacre the blast happened on a busy street during lunch hour the area is home to several foreign embassies and government buildings. this is the second major taliban attack in kabul in the past eighty. that's despite reassurances from the government and its u.s. allies that their joint offensive against the taliban was succeeding. earlier i spoke to journalists. in kabul i started by asking him how people there are coping with the situation. for people in afghanistan are shocked horrified and

everyone is actually possible because it is not the first attack which happened in kabul over the last few days actually for it is one of the facts which happened here for the people we talked to on social media as well everyone is really proud of criticizing a lot of people of course you know i think the government or for you some of the senior afghan officials the security opticals and speaking of the officials on calls for firing how are the authorities in kabul dealing with the aftermath of this. well you hear nothing actually except some very. serious remarks understatement from both the president and so what they are doing is only condemning the attacks which if people believe that only one what changes its statement says the date and the days they told such attacks and nothing very fair use actually the afghan government normally sit down the number of the date in afghanistan but the health ministry that we spoke to he confirmed over sixty people

were killed but let me remind you that the numbers really high because the afghan government always does that in order to actually not panic people. it seems like there's been an uptick in the number of attacks happening in afghanistan lately is there any truth to that feeling and if so why is that. well there's no money because the afghan well afghans when you speak on the street they believe that the afghan government is so much busy with the politics and accusing the neighboring countries that they forget to ensure the security of afghans that isn't as they should be in the capital kabul for example any in a few days i could say that probably is under siege but it is not only called but as a whole afghanistan is under siege i mean over the last few weeks here has been a serious of attacks across the country in the north of the country for example in south yesterday was in kandahar and today as well i think in one of the thousand

provinces as well so it is actually the total failure people believe it is a total failure of the afghan security forces even though the number is to money but it's because not the professional and competent people are appointed to senior full so that's why i mean process also because of the you know to failure in your intelligence services even though to bring it to the audience attention that hewitt's embassy couple of days ago they issued a warning saying that there might be an attack against a restaurant or hotel or some of the busiest places in kabul that we have been actually witnessing at least two attacks in kabul. here because you are a for us in afghanistan thank you very much for your insights. police in the german city of cologne have broken up a demonstration by kurds protesting turkey's offensive on kurdish fighters in syria authorities took the decision after protesters refused to mance to stop waving

flags showing band symbols security was tight at the protests but fears that violence could break out between kurds and turks who support the military operation the demonstration comes a week after turkish troops launched a ground an air assault against a kurdish region in syria turkish president tayyip erdogan has criticized german authorities for allowing kurdish protest while not permitting turkish pro-government election rallies. and correspondent causing mcgill was at the demonstration and sent us this summary of what happened. we here in the city center off his own behind us the police they are now actually about to leave this place but they were here with about two thousand policemen because twenty thousand kurdish demonstration came to condone to protest they wanted to protest against the policy and intervention from out on in the northern part of syria they wanted to show their solidarity with the kurdish people in this northern part of syria

another part of this protest was that they wanted to say that it's not ok if german weapons german tanks are used in the northern part of syria so twenty thousand people came to cologne today this was the hot spot of demonstration today in germany and as you can see behind us the police was ready for intervention the police stopped the demonstration about two thirty this afternoon because demonstrate and used flags from exxon and. the flag is forbidden in germany because he's a former leader of the p.k. cane. and that's why the demonstrations were not able to continue the protests because they didn't take down the flag. now to some of the other stories making news around the world check president militias a man has been reelected to another five year term officials all show him winning

around fifty three percent of the vote in today's runoff election the euro skeptic president has frequently warned of what he calls the dangers of islamic mass migration he defeated economic theory of the rock who is seen as friendlier to brussels. saudi arabian billionaire prince ali one lead bin tell others has been released from detention this comes more than two months after he was confined to a luxury hotel during the kingdom's crackdown on corruption the prominent businessman was accused of money laundering bribery and extortion all of which he has denied. south korea's president in has visited the scene of a hospital fire that killed dozens and injured more than one hundred the building in the southern city of mir a young caught fire on friday authorities ordered an investigation into what into the cause of the blaze. germany's green party has elected to new leaders

the vote was part of a reshuffle triggered after the failure of the party's coalition talks with chancellor angela merkel's conservative bloc and the pro-business free democrats robert habeck will now head up the greens alongside on and then. both belong to the greens preg mitt pragmatic wing bringing a tradition of electing bringing to an end a tradition of electing a leftist centrist duo. and our political correspondent fabienne vandermark joins me in the studio now obvious let's start with the very basics what role does the green party play in the german political landscape we're hearing so much now about the the conservative bloc and the social democrats of where do the greens lie well the unique selling point was originally the environmental policy the fight against climate change that is still at the very core of the greens they have started in the eighty's of last century as a traditional opposition movement a grassroots social movement then became an opposition party but in the last twenty

years they were again and again in power both on the federal and on the state level and as you just mentioned there were one step away of forming a coalition with americans conservatives and the liberals the so-called john mica coalition that failed and now they ended up being the smallest of all the six of the four opposition parties in the german bunds talk and this new leader talking about robert ha back very simply who is this guy. the greens have very high hopes in this forty year old man he's a philosopher he's a writer of fiction and at the same time he's a minister in the state of the cause and minister for environment energy and agriculture he's a person who when you see this biography minister has no problem taking over responsibility that's why he's seen as a political realist in this pragmatic field special about him is his style he's the one hand this intellectual person with visions about the future of the labor of

future of globalization energy does but the same time he's very much down to earth you know you would never see him wear a suit he has no problem to sit down with a farmer and chat about ordinary things so a pretty interesting figure there the chairman politician not wearing a suit is definitely very unique out how back and they're about both along to the centrist wing of this party this is a break from tradition as we've said they usually take someone who's very leftist what does this mean for the greens political future do they want to be a future government yes they make themselves their mind how they could end up in a government again because that is a long time ago that they were governing in germany and they don't believe that there will be in the near future as a left majority in germany social democrats are too weak so in other words their only option to get into power would be another coalition with the conservatives so they want to be prepared for that and they believe that they can better make this

with the two people and then again the same time they believe that. the most attractive people at the moment for the greens and being the smallest opposition party for them it will be very difficult to be visible at all in germany and they believe with these two they have something to offer. our political correspondent thank you very much for your insights. french capital paris is on high alert for flooding as the river sand threatens to overflow its banks all the traffic on the river and upstream of it has been stopped authorities have shut roads train stations and rail lines hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes in the region around the french capital the water level in the river is expected to peak at around six metres and that's at least four metres above its normal level. now let's get a check on all of the weekend's bundesliga results so far by undefeated hoffenheim

drew with hamburg easily handled current dortmund scored late to draw with freiburg cologne and augsburg each got a point bremen about all the billion on saturday's late game on friday frankfurt on sunday at leverkusen will need mines and hanover will host. poland now where the central character in our next story can't help but stand out from the herd a cow has been making headlines after running away from her farm to join not the circus but a group of bison the suspicion is she may have left home following her libido. she follows them wherever they go. it's an unusual mix but this brown cow seems perfectly happy with a new family a herd of wild bison. which will have time to start when she joined them she may

have been made advice on spice and she just likes to spoil them so she states that what i think taking her away from them will be impossible so they're horrible bunging your morphing all but things may become more serious than just in the field if the domestic count gets pregnant it could kill her a hybrid could be too big for her to give birth to b. c. it is it she took her there's a risk that it was pregnant she could die during delivery. and we still have a few months though. which more perhaps when the winter is over someone will react properly and catch this because just by the fact that the risk to her is low it does exist for girls or does it go use this gift i did not hear. but in touch runaway cow may not be necessary when the snow is gone the bison will move into the forest and that's not the kind of fun farm cows like spring might spell the end of the romans. here watching the news from berlin more coming up at the top of

the hour and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website at c.w. dot com thanks for joining us. he takes it personally are you ready with a little wonderful stories that make the game so special. for all treif. sure that's a long line. about. small .