because there's so much to discover we remain curious are you going to. meet for minds. this is either of you news live from berlin somalia's capital mogadishu is rocks 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 guard meant by syrian and russian forces the u.n.

says 30000 people have been displaced most of them women and children. some way i'm glad to have you with us authorities in the somali capital mogadishu say at least 78 people have been killed by a truck bomb the explosion hit during morning rush hour at a busy security checkpoint it's the deadliest attack to rock the somali capital in yours. 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 think that the deity has knocked me to the ground with its force i've never seen such an explosion in my entire life william but i hope that even with the mention of that

was once the blast took place as i was getting off a minibus. i was on my way to work the short of it 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. by the truck loaded with explosives was detonated at a busy control checkpoint the explosion led to many deaths and injuries. that was. most of those who died here were students who were going to school or university. here job. but 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 grimly familiar on the streets of the capital for 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 is abilities below who is reporting from the region and . tell us what's the somali government's response to the attack at the moment. well there is a federal in mogadishu hunger responded to saturday's deadly confrontation and the permanence of somalia. as a constituted technical committee comprising of ministers and government officials to oversee. the just. abroad and receive a proper medical care not in this case several countries among them turkey has offered to send a medical team and airlift some of the wounded to turkey for specialized treatment

because most of them are heavy if you reserve bun and others also a lot of them like. medical and from the government but in terms of the security was the government says it does that security alone on its checkpoints because militant group al-shabaab is known to stage a deadly attack comes to an end because it wants to show that it's a formidable force under the midget's to the government forces african union troops and its international partners and what about the people there on the ground how do people in mogadishu cope with these kinds of attacks that they experience far too often. exactly that's the one last question that's making rounds even on social media people saying how will we continue living in such a condition we not see peace what's happening or why it was the government of somalia not able to end these militant intelligence we understand that al shabaab is an insurgent group that began in early 2007 so it's not that it's 12 so.

locals on the ground rather are questioning of the government's mortie as to how it has been able to contain these insurgents for all this on despite all of the support it has consumed is going to constantly receive from its international partners and all of that multi national african union troops here in somalia that allowed somalia all throughout the country so people are asking what are they going to need and the government says that it is suffering from an embargo that was imposed in 1000 men to do that. and it could be better to al-shabaab of the locals and not taking this lightly and are calling on the government to make sure the civilians especially young people are protected in the future. what impact as an attack like this have beyond somalia. well towards the end of the year militant group also is known to carry out such kind of attacks in the recent weeks it is also modest to cover similar attacks but not of these magnitude in neighboring

countries such as kenya so i'll shut up overlook what is security as the if you want to show that he is a formidable force because in recent months the united states african. militants on his african somali government has been saying time and again militant group al-shabaab is weakened on one way to these attacks by al-shabaab proves. it wants to create them all most it's a powerful force in the can that's why it's carrying out such kind of explosions to show that the 2 exist and contrary to the u.s. on this one the government offensive that it's beaten false alright abdulla's these below thank you for being there reporting for us and a reminder that the jihadist group al-shabaab is often behind these kinds of attacks but no one has yet claimed responsibility for this attack now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. algeria is president whom has named an educator and diplomat as prime minister. said his

top challenge would be to regain the confidence of algerian society protests against algeria as political establishment have persisted since t. boone was elected earlier this month jarius pro-democracy movement boycotted the election. 3 skiers were killed when they were buried by an avalanche on a ski slope in the south to roll italy the woman and 2 girls all german nationals died when a sheet of snow broke loose above the toy slope at an elevation of 2400 meters 2 other people were injured in the incident. residents of the city have been mourning the 12 people killed in a plane crash near there on friday the back air jet with 98 people on board came down shortly after takeoff from the international airport flight recorders have been recovered. the u.n.

says more than 230000 people have been displaced in 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 government rebels and their jihad allies it's also home to $3000000.00 civilians many of whom came from other war torn parts of syria the u.n. estimates that 80 percent of those fleeing now are women and children they're headed to refugee camps flooded by heavy winter rains which is raising concerns of a humanitarian disaster along the turkish border the syrian and russian bombardment is part of a new offensive to return the region to syrian government control. and following this story more closely for us is a reporter a ybor him so a very complicated situation what impact is this military campaign having on the human. tarion situation there so william what we're seeing now is

a full scale ground offensive that is taking this province by storm so government forces have captured over 40 villages so far and people are fleeing their homes and scores as you mentioned many of them are fleeing to other parts of syria but this is a country that has been torn by war for the better part of the current decade so people are fleeing to places where they're going to need more help than the people there already need help others are fleeing towards the turkish border turkey has taken in over 4000000 refugees but 1000000 just well 1000000 are in the border region so we're really looking at more refugees going to a place that is already suffering greatly and is in great need of humanitarian assistance it's also wintertime so this is not helping the situation on the ground at all and this offensive is ratcheted up in the last few weeks any talk of deescalating well president trump tweeted russia syria and iran are killing or on

their way to killing thousands of innocent civilians in live province and he said don't do it turkey is working hard to stop this carnage however the united states does not have a lot of leverage on the ground as our viewers may remember the united states with drew all of its troops earlier this year much of the criticism of of basically everyone in the world so this will be left to russia which is a huge player in this particular conflict it is backing the government forces assad regime forces and turkey which is has been supporting the rebels and turkey has already sent a delegation to moscow earlier this week and they are pressuring russia for. deescalation agreement this is however not very promising as there was already a deescalation agreement in place which has obviously not held so it's the last provinces held by rebels put this in context for us the bigger picture of the larger conflict. all over syria. what role does this play so obviously you know

it's very hard to keep track of who is fighting whom on behalf of whom in syria i mean russia which is now a huge player only came into the picture around 2015 and now they're really holding all the cards but it looked province really holds huge symbolic value for the rebels and for the regime it was one of the 1st places where anti-government protests broke out in 2011 it is also home to a major highway which has been blocked by rebels since 2012 so taking it again by the by the assad regime is not only economically a huge deal but also symbolically a huge win for assad all right you bring him thanks very much for your insights. more than 6000 families in western kenya are affected by flooding from heavy rains that began on christmas eve the residents of kisumu fear the flooding could become worse while they wait for aid to arrive east africa is experiencing abnormally

heavy rains due to the indian ocean being warmer than usual. in the kenyan county of kisumu water has crept everywhere residents struggle to find safe and dry places away from the muddy waters they are appealing to the government for help. children food went with the water in the books for the kids to my belongings outside here and i don't know where i will go to. there's no place to sleep we don't even have tents no water to drink and i have children in college as well as in secondary and primary schools. the adult court it started on christmas night has left homes and businesses sucked merged this week's floods are the latest to hit. earlier heavy rains have already forced thousands of people to evacuate many have started to return to clean up their homes but this week's poor has those hopes

residents look at the tide of brown water with anxiety and gloom. so they so angle is nearly blind and one of the fastest swimmer is his age in germany now he's beat the time needed to qualify for the paralympics as a full 6 months before it's decided who gets to go to tokyo 2020. she's 17 he's one of the fastest swimmers in germany and it is visually impaired and has a clear goal and is written as. i would be really excited to participate in the paralympics i would also be happy if i want to but i don't pressure myself too much because i don't handle pressure that well so this is a little closer to 30. and keeping a cool head pays off in september won the gold medal in the para world cup in london now he already beat the paralympic qualifying time he trains 9 times

a week to reach these goals because he sees less than 10 percent has a special way of staying in the pool lane is always here. i follow the black line on the floor and the rope on the side of the lane i can see some of the road from the corner of my ice what is hard to guess is the distance to the wall to get that flip turn right on the. tallies us mother has been cheering him on since he started swimming at 5 she's proud that he manages to balance the schoolwork while breaking one personal best after the other. but that makes me happy because i know that he's happy but we can't get too used to this he's been growing and growing in the past few years and when you're still growing your times automatically become better. now to continue training hard so that in june he can officially qualify for tokyo 2020. you're watching do w.

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