The other hand i saw attack in the Afghan Capital kabul at least forty one people were killed it is she a Cultural Center. Also has marched to lima to protest the pardon of expresident Alberto Fujimori for murder and human rights abuses. Tech giant apple issues an apology after millions slam the company for deliberately slowing down the operation of older model i phones. He was once one of the worlds top Football Players now george weah has become his countrys leader after winning liberias president ial election where you defeated Vice President joseph in a runoff taking just over sixty one percent of the vote hell succeed Ellen Johnson sirleaf next month in the countrys first democratic transfer of power since one thousand nine hundred four campaigned on. During the poverty rate in liberia far more than eighty percent of people live on just one dollar a day mohammed at our ports in the capital monrovia was celebration on the streets of the libyan capital neutral was supporters will find some National Football adored with greeted news of his victory in tuesdays Runoff Election with a song and dance was broke down in t. Is a soon as that as old swan asked hes seen he have been called filtered by his running mate if you will take that who is an exwife or former liberian president Charles Taylor who is currently serving a fifty year sentence in the u. K. For war crimes committed in neighboring sierra leone. Holy any supporters its a dream come true and a struggle they say that started we back in two thousand and two just pointed to succeed because suddenly names like tell us that you cant check was sick but this time in a trip that you cannot do it was such a disaster we had to present the clear up that the Electoral Commission had Just Announced the preliminary results as energy is a c. T. C. Thank you mr president is sixty one point five percent for his e d c and thirty eight point five percent for the unit body and now his opponent and current Vice President just a block i says he has had deep misgivings about the elections from the beginning he contested that is also the fuss around and supported a case taken to the Supreme Court by the county they took him out in the race weve gone into an election that we knew from stacked it had a lot of problems we were now side as far i would wear that on that day as trucks and of the Supreme Court will follow we were. Constrained to go into it but why do we want to see. What we wanted we had all hoped for a free transfer election i doubt seriously if that is where were going to get the Vice President and his unity party have not say whether they will challenge the results in court judge where he said to succeed Ellen Johnson sirleaf africas first elected female president who led liberia for the past told fees she is credited with presiding over the longest period of uninterrupted peace in liberia since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. Played faustino football clubs including s. C. Milan chelsea and parties and german hes the only african football to have worn the feet for a while player of the georgia way as a victory in the president ial race is attributed mainly to his support base within the countrys youth who are calling for up to sixty percent of the population he grew up in want to be a slums and he success against all appeals to many in what is one of the worlds poorest countries. Where antipolitics up to his retirement from football in two thousand and two and is currently a sin attain liberias pilot. Will be the First Time Since one thousand poor to be haunted by freed u. S. Slaves in the mountain centuries will have transfer of power from one elected president to another how to divulge his era when really a liberia near and dependent africa policy analyst says all the way our enjoys plenty of support many challenges lie ahead. On the one hundred yard to say hes coming its a big surprise you know a soccer star who has come you know done his Due Diligence be able to buy the majority of the route is the support for you is pretty enthusiastic so that is on the Positive Side on the other hand the as you have mentioned the problems on liberia faces pretty stark you know you mentioned the book this civil war even. You know poverty and then of course there were allegations of corruption so will he be able to tackle them yes i think he has a lot of good will and support in the country but will who solve all of them i dont think any one leader no law no matter how long this the console or the problems is a matter of how much progress we will spectating to make as if and when general who led efforts to push Robert Mugabe out of power has been sworn in as Vice President constantino showing i will share the role with ken boehm hotter a long serving state security minister schrenker retired from the military last week meanwhile former president mugabe has been granted full diplomatic status and a staff of twenty three and there has pension settlement the ninety three year old stepped down last month. At least forty one people have been killed in the Afghan Capital kabul after a suicide bomber stormed a share Cultural Center and a news agency another eighty four people were wounded many of them suffering burns eisel has claimed responsibility parts. Explosions followed by a rush to assist the injured and count the victims. Its become a familiar ritual especially in kabul where the Afghan Capital has seen its share of bombings this year this time the target was a shiite muslim Cultural Center and the neighboring afghan voice news agency. We heard a huge bang and smoke rose from inside the hall my face was burning i fell down from my chair and i saw my colleagues on the ground the smoke was everywhere i dont know what happened next the interior Ministry Says suicide attackers set off an explosion outside the center then stormed it and set off more explosives in the basement it was midday on thursday and a group had gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the one nine hundred seventy nine soviet invasion of afghanistan that had just when the explosion went off we skipped from the room where we were working and went to the rooftop we sold a small in flames coming up from the basement the taliban immediately issued a statement denying involvement. And analyst tells aljazeera given that this attack was in a shiite neighborhood this appears to be the work of eisele. He says the armed group has been targeting the Shiite Community this year as well as Media Outlets. In order to make him our media has not been providing them enough amount of coverage to have been seeking juliet activities should they have been targeting the Media Outlets capital kabul as well as in the region have. In order to make sure they get wisely seized. In may a truck bomb killed more than one hundred fifty people in kabul in what has been described as one of the worst attacks in recent memory afghans are trapped by violence from eisel and the taliban and what critics say is the inability of Security Forces to protect them. Anger has led to protests and calls for resignations in the government analysts say what i say lacks the numbers it makes up for in tactics. An orchestra but he should First Edition of the operation and amount of exactness impreciseness in the operations they do usually are targeted with little strength or little amount of. It create a lot of good jobs achieving good strategic objectives the people at the Cultural Center were looking back and remembering a dark time or black day as its called in afghanistan when the soviets invaded for the families of the victims thursdays attack has become another black day natasha going to zero. A fire in the indian city of mumbai has left at least fourteen people dead the fire broke out late at night in a City Center Building there several hotels and restaurants and a popular nightlife area at least a dozen people were injured the cause of the fire is still unknown and egypt a roadside bombs killed an officer and five soldiers in north sinai at happened in the town of where suspected eisel fighters carried out an attack on a mosque in november killing two hundred fifty people. Demonstrators are back on the straight separatist capital lima to protest against the partner granted to former president Alberto Fujimori on sunday the decision by embattled president had republican since he has prompted his culture minister to resign as out of reports it is also drawing international condemnation. Peru is being forced to revisit a painful a not so distant past the president ial pardon of Alberto Fujimori who led the latin american nation with an iron fist from one thousand nine hundred ninety two two thousand has sparked outrage in the country and beyond a group of un human rights experts has joined the critics calling it a slap in the face for the victims and witnesses who stier less commitment brought fujimori to justice an apology from the bed ridden seventy nine year old former president has done little to ease the sense of injustice who. Killed my son in this very cowardly and cruel way now president haddrill public could chimpsky has finished killing the entire family with this pardon of fujimori. They have called for more protests and intermarry can court of human rights to examine the legality of the decision all we can do and of the pardon which has the appearance of a humanitarian pardon to be a pardon of a political nature. President. He has justified the Christmas Eve pardon on medical grounds but the timing of the decision has caused deep suspicion thats because just a few days earlier fujimori loyalists in parliament prevented a vote on could choose keys impeachment amid allegations of corruption in. The former president has served twelve years of a twenty five year sentence for corruption and Human Rights Violations these included extrajudicial killings in forced disappearances and kidnappings as he used death squads in a ruthless war against the maoist shining path. The groups leader abu male guzman now. Ive been serving a life sentence on terror charges and in a sign that proves to freshmans may have just been reopened his lawyer to me is not asking for a pardon from the suba zero. Still ahead on aljazeera accuses china of secretly selling oil to north korea violating un sanctions against pyongyang. And the teenager has become an icon of resistance for palestinians is kept behind bars by an Israeli Military court. Hello again as we look at weather conditions across the america plenty of cold air in place across north america with that minus eight is a mix of the chicago minus twenty two up in winnipeg and some snow some fairly heavy snow across the rockies so you can see there we see rain for seattle temperatures of eight for the so fine for los angeles and twenty six as the high so move the forecast through twenty four hours that snowfall continues to fall over the rockies were going to see some big accumulations across the Pacific Northwest region elsewhere the cold air still in place extending over down to wards Atlanta Georgia and dallas texas fine conditions though for Miami Florida heading into the caribbean the islands are much as you would expect a lot of sunshine just a few showers and temperatures of around the thirty mark again up through the isthmus we have heavy showers in the caribbean side of panama costa rican the curator and honduras also some showers pushing through towards billies in the yucatan peninsula and those are still there during the course of saturday but it should be fine for the north in mexico city there with highs of nineteen as we head into south america here weve got plenty of heavy showers across parts of peru and bolivia and then some rain across parts of paraguayan into brazil not continuous ahead on through into saturday further search should be fine and when a series from expected a high here of thirty five. An underground fire has been burning for over a century beneath indias largest cofield. Now open coast mining has put the flames to the surface would devastating consequences for the local population. As communities are destroyed and thousand suffer from toxic fumes what lies behind this human and environmental disaster. People empower the burning city at this time on aljazeera. And watching aljazeera lets take a look at the top stories this hour liberias Election Commission says former football star george way a has won the countrys president ial runoff where defeated Vice President joseph will take office next month an attack on a shia Cultural Center in the Afghan Capital has killed at least forty one people and injured more than eighty other people gathered at the center to mark russias invasion of afghanistan in one nine hundred seventy nine i saw has claimed responsibility for that attack. Demonstrators are back on the streets of paris capital lima to protest against the pardon granted to former president all part of the g. Mori he was freed on Health Grounds on sunday while serving a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for corruption and crimes against humanity. Tech giant apple has issued an online apology to its customers following weeks of anger over intentionally slowing down older phones apple initially sled the slowdown was to preserve the life after creating batteries after heated anger on social media a class action lawsuits against the company were filed in several countries and the online apology the company says the issue is widely misunderstood and theyre offering a discount for replacement batteries every Magazine Technology analyst and he joins us now from that Mountain View in california we appreciate your time so first apple said that it was a bug now its potentially a battery issue what do you say about how they handled this about how forthcoming they have or havent been it seems to me that they should have been forthcoming at the very beginning before they even slowed down phone they should say we want to slow down your phone because its going to help you preserve battery life its going to avoid potential crash that ok and most people would probably say yes i would rather have a slow phone than a dead phone and so it actually was a feature not a bug but the way they handle it was so poor that it actually want to be coming almost a crisis said larry let me let me ask you do you think that most people would have said all they would have heard was youre going to do what to my phone do you think that that really would have gone over well. Well i think it might have irritated people but look if you if you have an old phone with an old battery you can expect erratic behavior that is the nature of the Battery Technology they degrade over time so apple is right that older phones with older batteries are likely to run for as long and potentially crash unexpectedly so thats not the problem thats just the nature of the technology the probably the way they handled it dont know what people would say i know i would have said yes slowed my phone down in exchange for not crashing and i would have rushed out and bought a new phone or a new battery and i think the way apple would to ultimately have a look by making the batteries relatively cheap twenty nine dollars does pretty much solve the problem for most people but they irritated a lot of people in the process does apple ever suffer from irritating their customers all the time look apple with hilde of a pedophile but when it falls off the pedal still it falls very hard i remember a few years ago they called it an candidate with a minor problem with an end canon on the phone and it was not working properly and it became a huge issue and apple had to apologize for that they dont apologize very often but again when there is an issue it usually the huge issue is there a way for android to capitalize on this well to some extent but i think at the end of the day people who love i phones are going to buy i phones i dont think its going to have a huge impact on sales and of course android phones can have the same problem to be the same Battery Technology thats just the state of the art right now its not perfect but any phone problems its a better get sold at least apple is making it out of your cheap thats thats a good thing that theyre doing it in the result of all the other crisis and criticism theyve gotten all right larry maggie thank you for joining us in california we appreciate. You. U. S. President trump is accusing china of violating u. N. Sanctions against north korea by continuing to sell oil to be young. This is what trump said on twitter caught red handed very disappointed that china is allowing oil to go into north korea there will never be a friendly solution to the north korea problem if this continues to happen White House Correspondent kimberly how could ask more from washington d. C. Chinas denying the accusations that the president made on twitter you have to sometimes decipher why and what has prompted donald trump to go to twitter and often this is when he feels that an issue isnt being covered adequately in his view in the media he will tweet knowing that then in turn we will take a look and see what hes talking about and this is a really good example of that if you go back to the u. S. Treasury website last month youll see that it first called attention to these satellite images that said that it had of chinese ships applying oil to north korean ships in the west see now apparently these satellite images put out by the u. S. Treasury department were taken october nineteenth but again it didnt get a whole lot of Media Attention even though the United States says that this is in violation of sanctions that were put in place specifically speaking to this by the u. N. Security council in september so perhaps its a little bit of frustration on that level and frustration too by the president that hes tweeting this given the fact that it when he first came into office in january he immediately began to address the situation of north Koreas Nuclear program by investing heavily in the relationship with chinese president xi hosting the mara lago speaking enormously about the investment that was being made in the hope that china would use economic leverage to limit the north Korean Program but in recent weeks and months weve seen some frustration with that while the Treasury Department says there has been some success with china helping to isolate north korea from the Global Financial system again there is some frustration by the United States with examples like this of these satellite images so well china is denying these charges saying that there have been no u. N. Security Council Violations as far as its concerned the u. S. Sees it differently and now we see the frustration playing out on twitter by the president donald trump. Later trump again voiced his skepticism over the existence of Climate Change because of the current cold snap in the u. S. This is what he tweeted in the east it could be the coldest new years eve on record perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our country but not other countries was going to pay trillions of dollars to protect against bundle exclamation point so just hours later the u. N. Secretary general in ten you could terrorist seem to respond to the u. S. President the official u. N. Account quoting him as saying Climate Change is undeniable Climate Action is stoppable and Israeli Military court has extended the detention of a palestinian teenager who was filmed kicking and slapping Israeli Soldiers earlier this month six single ahead to me was arrested by israeli troops last week along with her mother and cousin all three are now being held for an additional five days on thursday a court looked into several charges against me and her mother and gloating assaulting soldiers disrupting their work humiliating them and participating in acts against Israeli Forces but to new jersey become an icon of resistance among palestinians area fosset reports from offshore military court in the occupied west bank. Were inside the off a military prison compound inside which are the prefab buildings which make up the military court rooms here and we spent the last few hours inside one of those listening to arguments in a case which has gripped palestinians and israelis for very Different Reasons its a case of i had to meet her cousin or and her mother nariman theyve been in custody since december the nineteenth after the emergence of a video which showed i had on a cousin challenging two Israeli Soldiers near the village in the occupied west bank i had slapping one of those soldiers the palestinians for many palestinians its an act of defiance against military occupation for many israelis the debate has been about the apparent lack of reaction by these heavily armed soldiers to such a challenge inside the courtroom the lawyer in the define the defense side has been arguing that they should be released i had in particular presenting no danger being a minor being well known not a flight risk and also arguing that the military prosecution which has been trying to find other things in her past with which to charge or shouldnt be acting in that way that that is that those potential crimes should have been dealt with at the time and that what theyre doing now in retrospect is purely in reaction to a video that went viral on the app. Video went out of a fire and then decided else perhaps that it is then they decided to act no less than. The real reason is because this young man. With able to breach. The occupation has everything to have and this case isnt just being seen in isolation just on wednesday another young teenager fauzi alginate he he was released from custody on nearly three thousand u. S. Dollars bail he was the young man who was pictured blindfolded being surrounded by more than twenty Israeli Soldiers as he was detained his lawyer is has been released his testimony in which he says he was beaten. Both during that arrest and in private afterwards he suffered a broken shoulder as a result and so his legal team is now mounting a challenge against the Israeli Military and its also being seen in the context of the very large number of detentions of young palestinians both regularly and particularly in the last month since the dea the declaration by donald trump about jerusalem being viewed by the u. S. As the capital of israel in the protests that have followed there would be one hundred seventy young palestinians minors whod be detained women in gaza have rallied in support of a head to me and against an israeli m. P. Who verbally abused families of palestinian prisoners or has and is a member of Benjamin Netanyahu government on monday he boarded a bus carrying families visiting a prison with Israeli Police officers who shouted that the mothers of prisoners calling their sons dogs in terrorists the mother of one prisoner ended up in a verbal confrontation with them for the money it isnt sold or to tell me and again as to joke patient veto we support what she did also should have a duty to mother off to prison then abdul rahman telling her own we are proud of what you did it again it is right to knesset member of the us the red cross to make sure that prisoners as about as their families deals with. Saudi arabia has released his sons the late King Abdullah they had been arrested as part of an anticorruption drive led by crown Prince Mohammed and solomon the saudi attorney general approved the release of the princes saying they had reached financial settlements with the government they were among two hundred businessmen ministers and royals who were being held in riyadh for its carlton hotel. U. S. Embassy in ankara says its lifted all restrictions on Visa Services ending a two month route between the u. S. And turkey and says turkey has met all assurances that local u. S. Embassy staff wont be detained or arrested the rest stop destroying the says in turkey after two Staff Members were detained at the u. S. Consulate in istanbul during a state of emergency in ankara turkey has responded by lifting the restrictions that put on place on u. S. Citizens but denies giving any assurances despite the introduction of deescalation zones and parts of syria many people who fled to turkey are unsure about returning home for some istanbul has given them a new chance at life and many are now reluctant to let go of the progress theyve made sin because yolo has met with some of them not on the wall is a twenty five year old teacher from she lost both her legs during your government a strike on her School Almost a year ago no ones husband has them so yes she almost died they came to stumble hoping no one will be able to walk again with first benteke legs shes been treated for seven months of this clinic specific this list for victims of the syrian war. Not gonna stired shes been through a lot but she has one always for the new here men have a final montage i hope the bloodshed ends in my country then we can go back home and be victorious on three. Her husband has agrees he had to quit his work to take care of his wife his depressed and homesick on a percentage. Of that and he will be going back home of course that if my wife gets better physically our families are back their words cant describe this longing all syrians and muslims wish the killings and asterix in syria to and. The. Syrians who escaped the war try to cling on to some sort of a normal life but this market my hair is from damascus he has been doing the same business selling more boxes stories then a stumble for two years he complains that he has to pay a lot for rent workers and tax but he says he cant go back to his country we hope to the best certainly in syria and people released. Today and i hope they accept us as the. New people for the new home twenty seven year old mohammad left syria two years ago he says he has no family here and they want to be a village and it is good to live here in turkey everything is stable forest but when the situation gets better in syria i will go back of course i belong here i believe everyone lives more comfortably in his or her own country. Although you wish for peace and unite in the new year there is a little bit off the mask in this neighborhood of istanbul some syrians own stops here while others work or look for jobs but what they all have in common is the desire to either go back to syria or make turkey home. Aljazeera a stumble when you get a visit our web site aljazeera dot com we keep you up to date on news there from around the world again al jazeera dot com keep it here for recap of your headlines. These are the top stories on aljazeera liberias Election Commission says former football star george has won the countrys president ial runoff way defeated Vice President joseph biden will take over from Ellen Johnson sirleaf next month ahmed joe has more from the capital monrovia broadwells victory in the president ial race is a tribute to mainly to his support but hes with the countrys youth walk up to six the polls some of the population he grew up in want to. Be success against all appeals to many in what is one of the worlds poorest countries attack on a shia Cultural Center and the Afghan Capital has killed at least forty one people and injured more than eighty others people had gathered at the center to mark a russias invasion of afghanistan in one nine hundred seventy nine the site is also home to the News Agency Afghan voice i saw has claimed responsibility for that attack. Demonstrators are back on the streets of perus capital lima to protest against the pardon granted to former president Alberto Fujimori he was freed on Health Grounds on sunday while serving a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for corruption and crimes against humanity. U. S. President donald trump is accusing china of violating u. N. Sanctions against north korea by continuing to sell oil to pyongyang these satellite images appear to show chinese ships transfer and cargo to north korean vessels china has denied the accusations a fire in the indian city of mumbai has left at least fourteen people dead the fire broke out late at night in the building near several hotels and restaurants roadside bombs killed an egyptian officer and five soldiers in north sinai happened in the town and there are suspected fighters carried out an attack on a mosque in november killing two hundred fifty people this embassy in ankara says its lifted all restrictions on Visa Services ending a two month rift between the u. S. And turkey as ankara has made assurances that local Embassy Staff wont be detained or arrested and tech giant apple has issued an online apology to its customers following weeks of anger over intentionally slowing down older i phones the company says the issue is widely misunderstood those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after people in power keep it or. Head of the september twenty Fourth NationalElection Survey showed a satisfied to the state of their economy this is easily a study his biggest tech Success Story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on aljazeera. An underground fire has been burning for over a century beneath indias largest coal for two decades of under strange open calls mining has brought the fight to the surface with dreadful conspiracies for three quarters of a Million People thousands of homes already been destroyed their inhabitants forced into school to become a nation post