Im on a welcome to the program we begin with breaking news this hour reports are coming in of a large explosion a Police Checkpoint in the Afghan Capital kabul the blast is believed to have been caused by a car bombing near a foreign embassies and government buildings its also being reported that there are several casualties at the scene. Well be bringing you more on that story as it comes and police in the german city of cologne are preparing for a large protest by kurdish groups against turkeys ongoing military offensive in Northern SyriaPolice Expect more than fifteen thousand at the rally which german intelligence say has been organized by groups close to the banned Kurdistan Workers Party the offensive by Turkish Forces against the militia in Northern Syria has also drawn protest in neighboring lebanon. The Turkish Embassy was the target of the protest in beirut while the battle with guns and tanks goes into its second week in Northern Syria the kurds have now started the campaign to win hearts and minds in other parts of the world. But street protests song going to stop turkeys president ratchet type. Hes announced his forces will now push further east to a town called man beach no one should take issue with this because the real owners of man beach arent these terrorists there are arab brothers there. Afterwards we will continue to fight up to the iraqi border until no terrorist is left. Other one threat to attack the entire kurdish controlled area of syria is in direct contradiction of the interest of his nato ally the United States just hours before a senior white house adviser had called on everyone to take his troops unarmed fighters out of the conflict zone he appealed to other one to focus on the longer term strategic goals of ending violence in syria but the turkish president seems to be in no mood to heed the call. Staying with the syrian conflict to Syrian Opposition they say it will boycott russian sponsored peace talks next week and opposition Spokesman Says that the meeting is an attempt to sideline the United NationsPeace Process yeah was speaking after two days of bilateral talks and helping the un syria envoy and representatives of both the Syrian Government and the opposition we believe that. Is. Good to get. To actually get it to you. If we wont break. Into some of the other stories making news around the way out. Germanys being party has said goodbye to cochair. And when it pays to head up a Party Leadership post as a mere lead the party for nine years and was a lead negotiator in the failed three Way Coalition talks last here are selling its arse that elects to new cochairs later today. A u. S. Trade commission has ruled against pianos have tariffs imposed by the trumpet ministration on canadian aircraft on the d n c series was facing three hundred percent import charges after u. S. Plane maker boeing complained its competitor had unfairly received government subsidies. Philippine president. Has voiced support for myanmars embroiled leader aung san suu kyi. Has said the nobel prize there is whos facing International Condemnation for failing to address the atrocities committed against her hinge on muslims in him are. Facing corruption is topping the agenda the African Union which is underway now in ethiopia its capital. Over the weekend african heads of state and government are jews to join the discussions on whats seen as one of the key challenges facing societies across the continent our correspondent in nairobi brings us this report corruption affects peoples daily lives. Police checkpoints in nigeria have been part of everyday life for us. But here theyre not about maintaining security theyre little more than pay outstations of corruption. Although the chief of Police Outlaw them long ago his colleagues continue to stop cars and money. We are on the road from lagos the economic capital of nigeria to the neighboring country deneen and we observing what traders and travelers go through here every day although were still more than one hour away from the border weve been passing several checkpoints of the Police Immigration and customs in many cases drivers for bribes. More than ten checkpoints on an eighty kilometers is how unusual. Anyone who refuses to play along and fork over cash will need hours to proceed but. Many people here say that nothing has changed since he was elected president of nigeria. The big issue is. The. Right well we asked but. There was something very. Drastic changes. During the campaign he promised to combat corruption. But a recent after a barometer study shows that more than ninety percent of nigerians still believe officials are corrupt. On the other hand fifty nine percent of nigerians think the government is making a serious efforts to fight corruption three years ago that figure was just twenty one percent experts have praised the governments initial measures and people began to fear getting caught Steve Manning bribes but theres been no sign of change at the institutional level and little evidence of a shift in behavior in other Words Business as usual we have the example of a president who is said to be you know. Somebody who is detached and doesnt seek. Wealth but a person who is really disciplined and understands his mission to make sure that everybody around him is clean. The most of us dont feel that rightly or wrongly there must be around him actually thats been. Despite indictments and arrests of several high ranking politicians no final convictions have been delivered. The government says it has to abide by the rule of law. It is i mean the judicial process which sucks a bit to do with a lot of technicalities that. The press would not. Do. A good thing when this flag. Crosses. A snails pace is what people traveling the roads to be know all too well its one of the most important trade routes in nigeria where the rubber hits the road is still a far cry from the end to corruption referring in the halls of power. Today if International HolocaustRemembrance Day marks every year on the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp nazi germany murdered more than six million jews in the Second World War one of those working to uphold the memory of the victims is ninety five year old survivor market meisner in the us capital washington. Market meisner was born in austria and race impractical slovakias in one nine hundred thirty four the growing anti semitism in her city became more and more noticeable so markets mother sent her to paris and joined a year later. At the influence of the nazis was soon felt in france as well. One day markets mother received a letter so i went to the Police Station with us the will you take since none of your business go and were you to. Go home so here i was burma served my mother was gone we had no money markets mother was deported to girl internment camp in Southern France margaret was eighty years old alone and had to find a way out of europe she fled paris on a bicycle. At the same time her mother succeeded in escaping the internment camp by some miracle the mother and daughter found each other just child kilometers from. Together they made their way to spain where they found a way to travel to america but he was not to be they were picked up by the Spanish Police and thrown in jail so after or this we were going to be held to the germans in spain but you see im here so we had good luck good friends who helped. The exactly three years after i left my room will we came to the you know thats the bubble time i was ninety my good meisner regularly tells visitors to the Holocaust Museum about her memories and experiences this is one of the most visited museums in the u. S. Capitol many people come specially to hear the sorry survivors have to tell that her generation is quickly vanishing this current of industrialization of death has never happened and the person so this is one of the reasons why one should not forget that and more than and the thing else were untrue. These arrows from ruby repeated to Margaret Meissner these issues have gained a new sense of urgency in todays highly volatile political climate. Certainly some of the some of the moves of the American Government right now is very similar to work her in germany in the nineteen twenty s. And the mountains and trying not to be a bust the. Market is determined to remain active as long as she can. She splits her story into book so that people in the world can read it and that future generations are aware of this part of history. And the states twenty got off to a thrilling star says im talk frank face to face said fellow european hope to mention god back to no kevin prince poet sang but the holes ahead on the forty third minute before noon if it feels victory in injury time is the on lone striker is heard go in as many games the winds are on track to move up to second in the table ahead of the rest of this weekends extras. As in the blunder say if thats how appear again hamburg have sacked another coach theyve made a habit of bringing in new blood jury in the season and despite plenty of poor results in recent years theyve managed to avoid the drop with at work one more time on saturday the new coach will face leipsic in his first game in charge. It was all smiles from new hamburg coach. The one time no frills defender hopes of back to basics approach can steady the ship the troubled club. From the table tells a clear story we need to improve across the board we know that and were working to make it better this is what appears a number of fans have heard this sort of thing before over the past ten years no less than thirteen coaches have tried their hand at improving the clubs Fortunes Well several of him bergs relegation rivals brought in new players in the winter break the Northern Club stood pat their middling roster will stay as it is a potentially risky move. The Coaching Staff got together and we came up with a plan. Which well see whether it works on saturday. That of kate is among some to say one part of all of us plan is apparently welcoming a once out of favor player back into the fold one was looks set to make the start in central midfield a tough assignment in leipsic. Just as good it is we know its going to be tough to take points off them you know but i think as long as we play as a unit you know you have a chance and out of that and well do that to win emberg have got a lot of practice pulling themselves together and beating the drop in three of the past four seasons theyve gone down to their final game before safety was assured. Here watching video of the news coming to life and renoir coming at the top of their stay with us. Germany is a strong country. That we have achieved so much we can do this and if something hinders us we must overcome it in the. Going where its uncomfortable global news that matters j w made for minds. To. Change our drinks are ready