dissuade because i am responsible for the who shall fall a contract for the people who are behind the bus. shoes. guardians of truth starts february 18th on d. w. ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, grief in pakistan as a suicide bombing claims more than 90 lives in a mosque inside of a police comp out. most of the hospitalized are police officers and the search for survivors continues. now there are questions about the pakistani taliban initial

claim of responsibility. also coming up u. s. secretary of state antony blink and visits. the west bank after meeting is really politicians and calls for calm after the latest violence between israelis and palestinians. and ukraine reinforces its defenses on its a border with fellers, military intelligence says that the threat of the russian invasion there is low, but increasing as mintz closes rights with moscow. plus the democratic republic of congo, preparing to welcome folk frances, on his 1st paypal visit to the country in more than 30 years. ah, and i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. the death toll in the suicide bombing out a mosque in the pakistani city of pasha are continues to rise. more than 80 people

are confirmed dead while dozens more are injured. rescuers are still searching the rubble, but hope of finding more survivors is fading. many of the victims were members of the security forces from a police compound surrounding the mosque. while a pakistani taliban commander initially claimed responsibility for the attack, a spokesperson for the group has backed away from the claim that they were involved . a mournful prayer as, as officers are laid to rest with full police honors ah, just hours earlier and a legend, suicide bomber detonated his best at a mosque. during afternoon prayers. emergency crews raced to the scene some using their bare hands to free those trapped in their rubble. languages, there was chaos. at the sight. i rescued 7 people and put them in ambulances,

or just one portion of the mosque had totally collapsed in the blast. i cannot give you the exact figure of casualties. there were many worshippers at the time of the explosion make up any more digging the lago. wow. most of the victims were members of pakistan, security services. the mosque is located inside a police compound in a high security area with other government buildings. it's a major security breach. it's not yet clear hired the bomber was able to slip into the walls compound and blow himself up amongst the hundreds of worshippers. dozens are injured and in critical condition, hey, this is going to be a little, there are a lot of bodies here and we are transferring them. this is not the 1st time this kind of bombing has happened local to halo. sure. he who took it from 2006 to know

we have had enough of terrorism home and thousands of people have lost their lives requests. the victims were visited by prime minister, shabbas sharif and hospital after he condemned the attack. it still unclear who is responsible for the blast as the victims fight for their lives. authorities are anxious to determine who would have carried out an attack that even the taliban refuses to justify. and for more, let's bring in d w reporter venus javert. joining us here in the studio, there's some confusion about who's behind this attack. i'm sorry i thought initially a faction of taliban are back if any valuable known f d t b claim responsibility for the attack. but the mean group ttp has distance. it fell from the attack, but d t p has been attacking aka, annisa good or do officials are in federal, dedicated incidents and they have claimed responsibility of these attacks police

that the fear that us last year, more than 100 police officials were killed. but it's not on the ttp that's operating in the region. last year there was a suicide bombing in a mosque, claimed, and the, and an affiliate of the full cauliflower. instead group came responsibility for that. a dog embedded i got out 60 people were killed. 4 different groups are operating in the region, but ttp voice is the most threat to the state when it comes to terrorism. when we talk about that threat more broadly speaking, um, why has the government been unable to deal with the insurgency? the government did carry out multiple military operations against insurgents, especially after 2014. when in a school a been a school was attacked by ttp and more than 120 children were killed at that time there was a consensus among the government and multiple multi, my military operations were get it out and between 20152020 there was

a significant reduction indebted incidence, but now the government faith as have gone taliban have taken over in of understand our focus on a valuable started attacking aggressively, especially targeting security officers. the govern government also blamed the former government for initiating peace dogs with buckets on it. i live on for him. don hahn former prime minister focused on an initiative. these dogs, it, there were a facility, did by a fine taliban, a critic fear that these dogs with the deadest organization emboldened them because during this dogs to offer compensation emron hun are some of the fighters to return back to pakistan. there were, there was a plan to the heavily did them as long as they lay down their arms. but in reality it didn't happen. the choice between the 2 bodies august and the taliban broke, that truce. the govern government also blames of gone balaban for providing 5th

heaven to buckets any valuable and for not in not controlling their movement when it comes to entering into pakistan for there are multiple factors. and there is also a criticism that currently the government lacks consensus. and doesn't have a cohesive strategy to counter detritus. m theory has been a shove it with more on on this incident. thank you so much for putting it into context to us. you are secretary of state antony blinking is said to hold talks with palestinian leader mahmoud abbas in the west bank. the visit comes amid an upsurge in violence between israelis and palestinians. earlier of lincoln met with israel's defense minister of galant in jerusalem. he told golan that washington's commitment to his real security remains, quote, iron clad. he also sat down with his really opposition leader jojo le pete lincoln has been urging all sides to take steps to de escalate tension. i asked our

correspondent backorders in jerusalem, what's expected from today's meeting with the palestinian president? well, as you just mentioned, sarah march, like what was discussed here when lincoln met benjamin netanyahu here in jerusalem yesterday. of course de escalation is going to be high on the agenda. this visit does come a time of rising tensions here and escalation of violence. and a coal for calm will be the main message when he meets with the president mahmoud abbas in the west bank later today. another thing, as you mentioned, is a security coordination, which was severed on thursday after a debbie read in the west bank that something that he will urge the palestinian president to reinstate a coordination security coordination between is raw israel and the palestinian authority. that hill, no doubt, urge is very beneficial for both sides. another thing potentially on the agenda is hila urge the palestinians to stop pursuing israel in international court. that's namely the i c, j and i c c. that's something that may well be discussed along with other gender

items that were already this was a long planned visit and there were some other things that we're going to be discussed and they will continue to be discussed, including bolstering the palestinian economy, which is struggling. and of course, a strengthening of ties between the u. s. and the palestinian authority, something that was almost if not completely severed under the trump administration . and here are some other stories making headlines around the world. a new wave of strikes and protest are hitting france as opposition to the government planned pension reforms continues public transport, schools and electricity production are all effected. more than a 1000000 people joined. the 1st nationwide strikes on january 19th, according to recent polling, over 2 thirds of the french public opposed, the reforms. u. s. defense secretary lloyd austin said that washington would boost security cooperation with south korea as he met with his counterpart in sol. austin also promised that the u. s. would deploy more advanced weapon tree to the korean

peninsula and mid rising concern over north korea's weapons testing program. new zealand is bracing for more heavy rain this week, following new severe weather alerts. at least 4 people have died and flash floods and landslides. auckland is under a state of emergency order on friday the city experiencing it's worse down for on record u. s. president joe biden has rolled out sending f 16 fighter jets to ukraine. there is growing debate among western allies about delivering warplanes to keith. ukraine has been seeking modern jets to replace of soviet built air force since the war began. bela roofs and russia have announced a week long training program for officers in charge of their joint military grouping in belarus. moscow's troops invaded ukraine across the belly, mercy, and border last february. ukraine says that the threat of a renewed russian offensive there is currently low. but they are doing everything

that they can to make sure that it stays that way. are correspondent, max and reports somewhere close to the bell rouge border. under the cover of pine trees, ukrainian border guards are forcing the positions have to crunch, who does not renew preference? these trenches are designed to protect the lives of the people in the military as well as to provide defense bottleneck obama subordinate as of them. so if the enemy attacks from the nearest road, you're sure our infantry will respond as though is that i'm a little yes ma'am. let us know that i am would, unquote, that he won't go into detail about their preparations and won't even confirm that he's trenches are new. that other, but you can smell sawdust and the board seemed dry and clean. in the distance, we hear trees being felt broadly above their messages. russians won't get

past them a 2nd time. with this bridge used to join ukraine and bella, luce, the defenders blew it up to try to stop the 1st rush in advance. now they are looking across the river again, right now, the situation here seems calm, but soldiers here prepared for this to change at any moment. the worries are that the russians could push through here again in the 2nd attempt to take keith with freshly mobilized troops and lessons that they learned from last time. it's places like these that the russians moved through before. the settlement south of the border where the fighting was fierce. oh, phil had lives changed forever. alexander lived here with his wife and mother and stepfather. he wants to show us the damage to his property. took me in the moon. the regular citizens were shelled with mortars in a me. the russian artillery was firing at the farm and our tanks fired back at them

nicely. but the artillery and tank shells didn't hit our house, but the mortars did look to be mimi. a wall came down on his mother and nearly when his elbow philip dilemma. this is where my mother's grave was. me says, wake up ali visibly mc. let lucy alexander buried her here in his guard. only after the russians retreated, could he move her to a cemetery? and yet, alexander doesn't want to be of was rochelle, knew thee, i believe that people have experienced such horror that it is difficult for me to add anything. yeah, you have to live. we want to live open and panic settled. there's no sense in panicking yet. when you where to run that we have nowhere to run to liberty, we'll see what happens. i shall go live above him. most of those who are still here, feel like him. further down the road, yohina runs

a shop at her house was also damaged in the fighting. it's, i don't even know. i don't want to go anywhere. and at the moment we're not able tale. it's very scary for children and i'm very worried. every one we met here can talk about pain and loss, but it seems courage and determination run just as deep brazilian president, luis, ignacio louis de silver says that his country will not send weapons to ukraine to be used in its fight against russia during a press conference with german chancellor, olaf sholtes in the capital, brazilian. the south american leader said that brazil does not want involvement in the war. bar lula said that china could play a role in peace negotiations. schultz who has pledged more than $200000000.00 to environmental projects in brazil was hoping to rally lew,

those support and providing weapons for ukraine. but the brazilian president reiterated his sounds that russia and ukraine were equally to blame for the war. both of us. let's get more on that. we are joined by d. w. political correspondent, leon e phone. hammerstein, who has joining us from berlin, learning as we've heard there brazil ruling out what that will send munitions for leopard battle tags to ukraine. how bigger political smack is this for the visiting germans? well, all of shows certainly had hoped he would get munition. but it didn't come as much as a surprise because brazil and lula have been pretty clear on this position of the country of peace as lula said again in the, in the press conference and also m. he wasn't the 1st latin american political leader who basically told shoals know to sending weapons argentinean president, am i better fernandez had said that argentina and latin america would not send

weapons to ukraine, would, did come as a bit of a surprise and you could see it in air chances shows us face and was when lula reiterated that both countries were too, you know, share the blame for the conflict and, and didn't find, unlike as gillian and argentinean counterparts. very clear words of condemnation of russia's invasion of ukraine. and also said that china would have to play a very important part in potential peace negotiations. and the brazil, as a country without a clear stance, sort of unusual player, would help to achieve peace in ukraine and, and in working you know, helping sort of in those p piece talks indeed. and just to reiterate, i mean, what was said was he said that russia and ukraine were equally to blame for the war . tell us a little bit more about that statement and whether or not it's an opinion, shared regionally. what are we to make of it?

yeah, i mean it's important to just look at the context am in general because obviously rushes and, you know, the, the war and the sanctions, the harsh sanctions on russian of russia and, and they're in suing, soaring food prices, energy prices have hit the region of latin america, particularly hard and plus brush, i have become sort of an important player in the regions. just one example of next scenes it's sent to latin america during the pandemic, m plus in general. and, you know, in latin, in many latin american countries because of their own past chair, sort of a skeptical skepticism towards interventionism and sanctions. so that is just one part of the explanation. off, off lula statement there, the only fun hammerstein in berlin. thank you. here are some other headlines from around the world, nato chief, un thornburg,

and the japanese prime minister for me. okay. she there have promised to boost ties . the pair said that they were concerned by the growing threat to global security post by russia and china as they met in tokyo. japan is not a needle member but cooperates closely with the alliance. lawmakers in peru are considering bringing forward elections to try and weeks of violent protest if approved. polls planned for 2026 could be held this year. protesters have been demanding fresh elections since former president pedro castillo was removed from office in december. indian billionaire. good tom, donny has fallen out of the list of the world's 10 richest people days ago. he was the 3rd richest person on the planet, but his wealth has plummeted. more than 7000000000 euros in the last 24 hours. it follows allegations of stock manipulation and fraud in his sprawling business empire. the bible administration says it plans to end cove at 19 emergency

declarations in may nearly 3 years after the u. s. imposed wide ranging measures to curb the spread of the illness. the move is likely to trigger changes in charges for covey tests, vaccines, and treatments that americans are now used to receiving for free or that a 1000000 americans have died from the disease. hope francis is on his 1st paypal visit to the democratic republic of congo. the countries catholic population which the vatican estimates to be more than 45000000 has long awaited this visit, which they hope will burn comfort amid fighting between government troops and an insurgency. he w correspondent, mary miller, reports from the capital kinshasa, where large crowds are expected to greet the pope. ah, excitement is india. it's not a usual sunday mass for these church goers and concourse capital kinshasa. the visit of pope frances himself is eagerly anticipated gay corn rel

blah, in the murky murray. this is a once in a life by marin. oh, we wanted to be peaceful god, allah, it will leave a mark in our hearts and minds secret on marking. okay, you just all in kinshasa, we live calmly, but our preface in the east suffer their death every day. but in the most gives us hope. those are gone though i might spectrum to god for reconciliation among the congolese is going molar and reconciliation between the congolese under wanda's lip . you wonder in the east of the country, the congolese army and rebels from the m. 23 group of fighting what is effectively a war? the fighting has killed thousands and caused hundreds of thousands to flee. after recently broke had cease fire, the rebels were to withdraw, but then captured a strategically important town. dear c president, felix just acadia says ronda and our polka gamez is supporting the rebels. the u. s

. e u and u. n. agree and have called on rhonda to stop that pork america denies any involvement over the past months. father bless, manuel has been organizing protests for peace. he says the fighting in the east is a neglected crisis on english glass, jody. me stand in solidarity with the people that suffer logically do we stand in solidarity with the country that finds itself in a situation of an unwanted warrior and all that was enforced upon it place gameboy he says the fighting has partly over resources. the east has precious minerals like gold, cobalt and copper, suffolk list, i believe, the ability that exists in the east of the congo, or it's a bit of a problem of its soil. and probably it's riches deal. he shares the shock of every one who comes and wants to pull it from congo. her less surgical, more in a $1.00 to $1.00 or neighbor is toasty and hungry ash. laugh is fun. many here tell

us they would like to see the pope tried to broke a piece between the presidents of the dear sea and rhonda people here have high expectations are for francis. but while many hope his visits might bring reconciliation, for others, it has already had real life consequences. in preparation for his visit to the capitol authorities bulldozed, the makeshift stalls of small traders destroying the source of income street van der murphy. m bama shouldn't be selling vegetables here but says she has no other choice. does alonda? i'm afraid the police will arrest me and destroy my goods. so the pope is welcome here, but they have to let us do our business because our children have to survive when i run out of the room. but the authorities are focusing on the big picture. the prestige of the people visit while most people, on the other hand, focus on any hopes for peace. frances may be able to offer

you'd have your religious affairs analyst martin, gac joins us here in the studio. what sort of welcome can the pope expect? well, i mean, clearly enjoy in the democratic republic of congo. there is, you know, enormous excitement about him arriving. and also it's an opportunity for a country that is usually not spotlighted to be brought into sort of the word spotlight in terms of the pope really being, having become a major figure in terms of international politics, not only religion. so i think that it's, you know, that maturity assess, will reflected in the report. we've heard that there is effectively a war in the country as is said, there must be enormous security concerns. indeed. so the original plan for the pope was to actually travel to goma were 3 years ago. the italian buster was actually guild and bush. there is still sort of seeing sporadic battles and over the last couple weeks or was increase in confrontations, which meant that the vatican actually had to drop that plan. and there remaining essentially in the capital after the d r. c. when we look more broadly at the

pope's trip, he had sent to south sudan where we understand that he will plead for peace in the region. does his voice carry weight there? i think his voice does. i think that this is a pope and jesse that has really gone out of its way to sort of have an impact in traditional politics through regional sort of interaction in areas where there is conflict. but i think that that element here is that he's undertaking the strip with moderator if the journals, emily of the scottish church and the bishop of archbishop of canterbury trying to really bring together both in gesture. but also i think in practical matters, the 3 big christian groups that i actually central into the region. so i think that it will have an impact, obviously long term and something that we have to see martin, his 80 sex. he's had health issues. how was he handling that stuff like that? well, remarkably well. we know say, i mean, it seems there's been

a lot of chatter for the last 2 years about him retiring. and about he fail men's and he himself has signal in different locations that that was a possibility for him. that quite clearly. i mean, he's not taking trips to our yes, where the ground is well said for a sort of baffled trip with all that it includes. so quite clearly he still has his strength and most importantly, you feel has the political will. and he thinks that these things are important. so i foresee that in so far as the remain spoke, we will continue this to see this kind of trips, d w martin, gac thank you. you're welcome. some sports is now fire munich, have completed the signing of portuguese defender jo consuelo from english champions, manchester city on a loan deal until the end of the season. after a disagreement with coach pet party alo, conchella was given the all clear to leave manchester in search of more playing

time elsewhere he arrives in munich during a spell of uncertain form for the german champions who haven't won a league game so far this year. it's understood, the loan deal includes an option for buyer to buy child consuelo outright at a price of around $70000000.00. europe's quick reminder of our top story here on t w news. at least 9. the people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a bombing at a mask in pakistan, many victims of the attack and shower were police officers from a law enforcement compound surrounding the mosque. the pakistani taliban has distance itself from a claim of responsibility from one of its commanders. u. s. secretary of state anthony blinkin has called for com. following the latest outbreak of violence between israelis and palestinians is visiting palestinian leaders in the west bank following meetings with israeli leaders. and don't forget, you can always get the,

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