this is deja news live from berlin somalia's capital mogadishu was rocked by a massive car bomb blast took place during morning rush hour at a busy checkpoint authorities say at least 70 people were killed and many more injured also coming up a mass exodus from northwestern syria after 2 weeks of some syrian and russian forces the u.n. says 30000 people have been displaced most of them women and children. and recycling comes to russia moscow is introducing trash separation time recycling to

reduce the amount of garbage it sends to places that don't want to we have a report from moscow correspondent. i'm good to have you with us authorities in the somalia capital of mogadishu say at least 78 people have been killed by a truck bomb explosion hit during morning rush hour at a busy security checkpoint it's the deadliest attack to rock the somali capital this year. it was survivors of a massive truck bomb explosion being ferried to hospital out of all the attacks the capital suffered in 2019. this is the worst. i've been here all the beauty of it knocked me to the ground with its force i've never seen such an explosion in my entire life with him but i hope that even with the mention

of that violence a blast took place as i was getting off a minibus. off what i was on my way to work the opposite my leg got injured some of. the tangled wreckage on saturday morning the people of mogadishu were gearing up for the new working week when the bombers struck. the right their truck loaded with explosives was detonated at a busy control checkpoint the explosion led to many deaths and injuries. that it was. most of those who died here were students who were going to school or university. in the middle of it a bus ferrying students to classes and lectures. no one has claimed responsibility for the attack yet but scenes like this of quickly familiar on the streets of the

capital the un backed government in mogadishu is struggling to take control of the country the militant islamist group al-shabaab has carried out deadly attacks here in the past now once again the people of this city are mourning their dead. joining me now on the line from mogadishu is somali journalist abdul aziz below abdulaziz tell us what's the latest on the ground you're seeing there. well the country has some of the police come into town with the dust of a striker in the alley hours of saturday morning in the heart of the capital mogadishu on social media grief is out forming people are calling it the movie shoot massacre and the blaming of ortiz for the constant number of attacks that have happened all over the years in mogadishu the fact that they can. freeze the security personnel from the somali side other from the international partners that

is african union troops still been able to secure mogadishu so that on the ground but the feeling of course of trying to ask authorities to come up with answers but overall hospitals have been filled with people trying to find. the source. for them he shaded by the prime minister to coordinate on the number of people have died those of the injured so they can be 1st kentucky or specialized treatment and the rest so that they can coordinate the number of casualties on the bottom process of the overall the mood on the ground is very very fact the promise the country is coming to town to perhaps one of the last. 21000 and is there any indication yet of who might have done this and either way what kind of purpose does an attack like this serve these groups. based on the exact targets and location was a security checkpoint on the outskirts the mogadishu that is the last

a defense position for some other security posts and there will be 4 vehicles coming to mogadishu and exiting. this conducted to ensure the vehicle on a plate into the explosives so they don't breach that burning and come to city but these or the truck one there was absolutely no way for the government. if both to control the 4 to contain. any cause massive civilian casualties. strategic time during rush hour when students and 7 and members of the public were going about their business on saturday is that the weekend that issue because that's what it was like a commotion at that particular junction. somalia has been wracked with this kind of violence and instability for it for decades really what needs to change in somalia on the ground there for some amount of peace to be felt by people. exactly that's what many in somalia are after what little does the government does

to create a this insurgency because that sort of insurgency is that he's. not more than a decade and the decade itself somali government forces of being supported heavily by the international process otherwise by a multinational african union peacekeeping forces under some that has been very strategically acknowledging the militants live our. lives of the country are still again the problem lies in major capitals including a look at issue where al shabaab continues to carry out regular bombings and regular attacks on civilian targets otherwise on government installations all over authorities say that they're doing their level best to boost security in the capital they've used all surveillance cameras all over the cities and that created a buffer zone like a control of a weather today to limit the number of vehicles entering movie to shoot and to know which is laden with explosives but still the militant group using different tactics

always finds a way to create havoc in the city all right journalist idolizes bello thank you very much for your your sights and perceptions on the ground in. now more than 230000 people have fled the province in northwestern syria as russian backed syrian government forces intensify their military campaign there the province is the last major area held by anti-government rebels and their jihad is allies it's also home to $3000000.00 civilians many of whom have already fled other war torn parts of syria the u.n. estimates that 80 percent of those fleeing now are women and children to refugee camps flooded by heavy winter rains which has raised concerns of a humanitarian disaster along the turkish border the syrian russian bombardment is part of a new offensive to return the region to syrian government control. and following this very complicated messy story for us is in for him from our newsroom

thanks for joining us so what what impact is this military campaign having the humanitarian situation there i mean you have to imagine this is a heavily populated province and it's witnessing a full scale ground offensive so far the government has taken over government forces have been able to capture over 40 villages people are fleeing but largely they don't really have a place to go some are going into syria into places like aleppo which is nearby but we are talking about a country that has been torn apart by war for almost a decade so they don't have a lot to run to some are fleeing as you mentioned to the turkish border but just the camps at the turkish border with syria already have 1000000 people living in them and the united nations has warned that this could you know explode into a full scale humanitarian crisis just at the border and turkey has already said

that they are just not ready to take on more. refugees you know they've been a fuel shortages that have been happening poor weeks before this offensive even people trying to get to safety. they are also in danger so that's the kind of situation that we're seeing on the ground at the moment so this is offensive by russian syrian forces it's been intensified with any efforts being made to to deescalate while there have been attempts in the past i mean just earlier this year russia which is backing these forces that are scavenging through the province was actually the sponsor of a deescalation attempt which has obviously followed through they seem to fall through quite often and this region but turkey earlier this week has sent a delegation to moscow to try and negotiate a deescalation deal the united states president trump has also warned. of this carnage but the united states has withdrawn all of its troop earlier this year leaving its kurdish allies basically on their own and faced

a lot of course and so the united states itself doesn't have a lot of leverage on the ground it seems and this will just have to be left to the regional powers and russia to deal with so as you mentioned a lot of different players here put this in a bigger context forces offensive in italy problems what does it mean for the syrian conflict overall i mean it's hard to keep track of who is fighting who in syria this is a very very long winded cons of the just to give you some context this region this is where some of the 1st anti assad regime protests broke out almost a decade ago so it has huge symbolic value for the regime and there's also a highway that has been blocked by rebels since 2012 that the that needs to. homs which is the biggest town in syria so it could really be a turning point for the conflict my colleague jim thanks very much for those details. now let's take

a look at some of the other stories making news around the world india's main opposition party has been holding rallies against the disputed new citizenship law congress party leader raul gandhi says the government was ignoring the will of the people by pushing the law through a fast track to citizenship for non muslim migrants from afghanistan bangladesh and pakistan. and hong kong undercover police have made several arrests during a protest at a shopping mall the plain clothes officers lashed out at protesters with batons and restrained participants the protesters are calling for chinese shop owners to leave hong kong activists have been demanding autonomy from china since june. people in the cars like city of amati have been mourning the 12 people killed in a plane crash near their city on friday the back air jet with 98 people on board came down shortly after takeoff from the international airport the flight recorders

have been recovered. russia has a trash problem just 5 percent of the country's estimated $70000000.00 tons of household waste is recycled every year moscow is looking to make a dent in that starting in january it plans to put sorting bins in every building the new recycling program may quell some of the protest in other towns that moscow dumps its trash on. when it comes to recycling big tortoise all of you over and maxime's of us are ahead of the curve for around a year now the 2 muscovites have had separate bins for recyclables at home they try to avoid creating unnecessary waste and signed up to an environmental newsletter for advice on recycling. and it's not just muscovites well worried about garbage i see it in my friends and my colleagues to the issues getting traction because it's become impossible not to notice the problem is using the chat. up until now

recycling bins like the one in the couple's courtyard have been the exception rather than the rule but from january 1st moscow thora tees promise that there will be separate containers for plastic glass paper and metal outside all residential buildings the reform will go into effect in 2020 across the country but critics say many garbage dumps aren't properly equipped yet and in moscow not everyone is so sure about the changes. that we don't have separate containers in our building yet so even if you're a cycle at home it all ends up together but. not so much recycling bins and out for a while now we separate plastic and cardboard. of course it's difficult at the beginning you need to front bins and you need to separate everything. moscow's garbage problem has made waves far beyond the capital the city produces around one 5th of the entire nation's garbage up until now moscow has shipped out its waste to

dumps all over the country sparking protests like this one in the northern city of . trash has become a political issue in russia one that its leaders can no longer afford to ignore at his recent annual press conference flooding here putin said russia needs to change its approach to. the sector of household waste processing never existed in the soviet union and it never existed in russia we're going. having it from the ground up and now we've taken the fundamental decisions to stop that process is still a pretty good. surveys show that most people in russia are ready to recycle more at home but as the garbage continues to pile up critics worry that russia will just keep burying its problem. you're watching news from berlin coming up next shift living in the digital age with more news at the top of the hour don't forget you can get all the latest news information around the clock on

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