it's been badly damaged in fighting with russian troops, ludovic lensky says, the situation in russian held parts of eastern ukraine is extremely difficult. a former secretary at a nazi concentration camp has been found guilty of complicity in the murder more than 11000 people. 97 year old am god who hello, got a 2 year suspended sentence for jim. on the death toll from a fuel tanka explosion, a navy afghan capital has risen to at least 96 people. dozens of more have been injured. it happened when a truck transporting fuel overturned in a tunnel along the mounted us salon pass. now in the g, blah, soil and afghan journalist, and joins me now on skype from a cobble. it's difficult to underestimate how important this pass is, particularly now when we're in the wintertime right? yeah, exactly. it is one of the basic highway is one of the most important high. we've got that connect the central carbon capital cobbled to the entire northern province of gotten it done. it is not very high. import is not only for the passengers to pass from college to northern provinces and back from northern

that's important because when ludovic lensky goes to the hell he'll be speaking to a joint session of congress. and we know that on january, the 3rd congress will become a republican run house. and there are many people on the republican side who said that they need to think again about the support that they are given to let him use zalinski and the ukrainians. or this is let them use the landscape going in person to say thank you very much for your support, but it's got to continue to keep coming. and so the white house are saying this is sending a message, not just to republicans, but to vladimir putin and the rest of the world that the united states is behind the ukrainians. and certainly, that some things the lensky will be keen to push. because while he knows that he's going to continue fighting the russians, he doesn't want to keep fighting the americans for the financial support that he desperately needs. all right, thank you so much. alan fisher reporting from washington to see so president zalinski strip comes as the russian leader vladimir putin has been meeting senior defen