What can we do for you . And now, bbc world news. A suicide bomber kills at least 40 outside a mosque in northern afghanistan on one of the holiest days of the muslim calendar. More than a dozen policemen are among the dead as the violence spreads ever wider cross afghanistan. Welcome to gmt. Also, relief and joy for the father of malala yousafzai, the pakistani schoolgirl shot by the taliban. They wanted to kill her, but she felt temporarily. She will rise again. These pictures from spain and show Hurricane Sandy is threatening massive destruction against the east coast of the united states. It is midday in london, 7 00 in the morning in beijing, 3 30 in the afternoon in kabul, where afghan officials are once again faced with the news of violence in a country once considered stable. A suicide bomber targeted at a mosque in maymana, capital of faryab. 40 people were killed, almost half of them policemen, and 50 were wounded. We will cross over to the Afghan Capital of kabul and join our correspondent to get the latest. What is the very latest news you have about what happened in the mosque . Their work he added scenes as a suicide bomber at managed to get your elise four through at least four lairs of security. Worshipers had just left the mosque and were standing outside the provincial government. Many highranking officials and Police Chiefs were still inside when the blast went off. They managed to escape serious injuries. But the worst affected were afghan policeman who had been guarding the mosque and civilian or shippers who had just come out civilian of worshipers who had just come out from prayers. The attacker may have gotten past the checkpoints by being dressed in police uniform, because there was feared that there might be an attack in the province. The attack has been strongly condemned by president karzai. He put out a message calling on the taliban to stop the violence and join the political process and to live in peace and build afghanistan. We have also seen a reaction from nato, the International Security assistance force. General john allen also putting out a message strongly condemning the attack and sending condolences and sympathy to the families affected. This Faryab Province was, relatively speaking, one of a more stable areas of afghanistan. There is an impression gathering in the last few days and weeks that the security situation is beginning to unravel in a part of a country we had not expected. Is that fair based on what you are seeing and hearing from the capital . It does seem to be sporadic and somewhat unpredictable where the violence appears. Faryab province traditionally has been one of the most peaceful, has seen an increase in violence probably since april, when there was an attack. Local officials said there have been lower level attacks as well, and over the past few weeks, that has gathered pace. They saw only recently the assassination of a former senior taliban official and his son because he had gone over to the government side. It seems as though, yes, the insurgency there is gathering pace. A lot of thoviolence going on ad it may be connected to the fact that nato troops are leaving by the end of 2014 and people are struggling jockeying for position, if you like for the battle. Thanks for joining us. The father of the pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by a taliban gunman has visited his daughter malala at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in birmingham. She was attacked as punishment for providing the education of girls and criticizing taliban militants. Chirac in the u. K. To received specialized treatment. She arrived in the u. K. Last week to received specialized treatment. Encouraging speed, and we are very happy. I will tell a few more things. When she fell the person who attacked her, shhe wanted to kill her, but she fell temporarily. She will rise again. She can stand up. When she fell, pakistan [indiscernible] anthony, it was wonderful and heartwarming to see at malalas father after he had seen his own daughter in the hospital. What was the message he brought with him . The message in the clip you just play it, that malala will rise again, and what a turnaround for this family. He spoke at the beginning of the press conference as having seen his daughter being medevaced out in a helicopter, and other family was preparing for her funeral. They arrived and how the family was preparing for her funeral. They arrive at the hospital with tears in their eyes and found that she was walking and talking to you can see why he described this as a miracle for the family. He said that right here in birmingham, she has angels at all sides of her, talking about the work of the nurses and doctors who have been treating her at the Queen Elizabeth hospital. While they have been in pakistan, the family says they have been glued to bbc news on television for updates, saying it was their life i do hear from the doctors about malalas progress. The medical director here said he was very optimistic that she would make a full recovery. Clearly there is a long road to take before that actually happens. She is going to need reconstructive surgery. They want to remove part of her skull to allow her brain to swell without causing significant brain damage. They really need to work out how they are going to catch her up again. We are watching powerful images of how grim it really wise. Obviously the family has to make a big decision of how high a profile she will add up when she does return. Can you give any clue as to what the answer is going to be . He was quite insistent that as soon as she recovers, she will return to pakistan. Clearly, as you say, they will need to make serious decisions about her profile. However, he said very much like father, like daughter, that the key was education and, and a peace activist, and his daughter is following in his footsteps, all by it dangerous footsteps. She has already asked to want to continue with schoolwork and exams that she was doing at the time of the attack. She is a very determined little girl and wants to carry on with her school work, which she sees as hugely important and the right of every girl in pakistan. Thanks for joining us from birmingham. Thats look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. China has called for calm after the latest outbreak of Ethnic Violence between muslims and buddhists and muslim riotin royhingas. Thousands of homes have been destroyed over the past four days of clashes. A russian activist has been charged with planning mass riots against president vladimir putin. Mr. Udaltsov could face up to 10 years in jail if found guilty but he denies the charges. The owners of a cargo ship that ran aground on a new zealand reef, called the countries worst maritime environmental disaster, have pleaded guilty to distributing carpal substances. Tons of oil into the sea, killing 2000 sea birds. Hurricane sandy continues to head towards the east coast of the united states, having killed some 20 people in cuba, haiti, and jamaica. It is currently sweeping across the bahamas, where schools and offices and airports are closed. And the storm could pose a major threat to the coast as it moves northward, potentially reaching as far as new york city over the next week, bringing 90milean hour winds and torrential rains. At florida is under a Tropical Storm warning already. Joining me from miami beach in gingera is abc news zee. The rain has been on and off but it is pounding at times. We will see 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour gusts. The churning wave action is not normal in south florida, and the ocean has been coming up and all the way to the edge of the beach and will likely push beyond the ropes here. That will be one of the major problems for at least the florida coast. If this goes through the atlantic, it starts to take a curve back and at almost looks like a spoon into the u. S. The midatlantic, parts of washington, d. C. And even new york city, that is where part of deterrence and makes an impact with another system hitting the seen, and youll likely this be a historic storm. Keep your feet dry but to continue with that thought, because i have heard doomladen scenarios for new jersey, new york city, with the seriousness of flooding and all sorts of weather friends coming together at the same time. How worried are they up there . In my time forecasting, we have only seen this once. In 1991, we had a superstar with two systems mixing together the. Energy intensifies as it gets close to the coastal areas, and you push water on top of having six inches falling from the sky, and i dont know that a lot of the cities and lowlying areas will be able to handle it. That is where the doomsday current comes from. We dont see this happen very often. It is a going to go east to west and shove into the u. S. , going as far west as even ohio. You will have some snow on the backside of this thing. 80mileperhour wind gusts possible. And because of flooding, the storm surge, that is what im most concerned about. We know that weather and politics dont always mix easily thinking of george w. Bush and katrina. I would imagine that obama is making sure every single preparation is made up for possible difficulties in new york and beyond. The state out that these cuts are already telling people that it is time now, to get your kits and plans in place. President ially that would be the advice as well. Thanks for joining us along the coastline, and to keep out of the water. China has hit back at the New York Times, which claimed that hugeiabaos amassed a fortune during his time in office. The website has been blocked in china. Former political star bo xilai has been expelled from parliament, setting the stage for a criminal prosecution. He was one of chinas most powerful and charismatic politicians, but now stripped of immunity from prosecution, bo xilai faces the prospect of jail. Chinese state tv announced that he had been expelled from parliament, paving the way up for charges. It is is remarkable fall from grace for a man who had once been tipped as one of chinas future leaders. The political scandal had this that police chief trying to defect from the consulate in january. Bo xilais wife was accused of killing a british businessman. Kailai was later convicted of the killing. Premier wen jiabao has been outspoken on this issue, saying that corruption poses the greatest threat to the rule of the communist party. The New York Times alleges that wens relatives have amassed huge fortunes while he was in powerr. Power. China will start installing new leaders in just two weeks. It was supposed to be smooth process, but it has been marred by scandal, and damaging revelations continue to emerge. Still to come, over before it began . Reports start to emerge that syrias fragile truce may already have been broken. A british Oil Executive has been shot dead in belgium in an assassinationstyle killing. It happened in brussels two weeks ago, but details are only emerging now. The victim, nicholas mockford, work for exxonmobil, and he was shot leaving a restaurant with his wife. Police in brussels thought that the shooting was part of an attempted carjacking. The details of the shooting are extraordinary in themselves. First, the details. This british a Oil Executive was dining with his wife in an Italian Restaurant in one of the northern suburbs of brussels, the capital of belgium. They left the restaurant. As they were crossing the road, he was attacked, he was shot three, possibly four times, and that the perpetrators ran off. His wife cradled him in her arms for some time, shouting for help. An ambulance arrived, but he was taken to hospital, and on the way he actually died. Exxonmobil has confirmed that this happened and has expressed some of these for his family and friends expressed sympathy for his family and friends on one Flemish Television station, there was news about this after the crime took place in which there was quite vivid witness testimony, one witness saying he tried to resuscitate this man and managed to do so and brought him back to consciousness. He thought he had been the victim of a hitandrun accident. But when the ambulance crews arrived, he said they cut open his shirt and he saw a bullet wound in his shoulder and in his stomach as well. Archaeologists in western guatemala say they have unearthed one of the oldest my entombs list maya oldest mayan tombs ever. This is gmt from bbc world news. The headlines in afghanistan, at least 41 people and died after a suicide bomb attack in a mosque in the Northern Province of faryab. The father of the pakistani schoolgirl shot by the taliban has described her recovery as a miracle. Malala yousafzai has been recovering in a british hospital. Time for business news. Economics with politics looming over it in the united states. I keep ps of Economic Data about to, a key piece of Economic Data about to come out. Gdp and payrolls. The figure of gdp, probably a continuing growth, around 1. 8 . Important to understand that these figures are annualize, so it shows what the growth would be over the whole year if growth continued at the rate it does during this quarter. It is expected to be about 1. 8 . It is coming from good figures in retail and housing spending on houses. There is a bit of a bounce in the housing market. Whether it can be maintained is a very different question. What people are thinking is that growth has gone up a little bit, but it is not going to go up much further. The chief economist at schroders is what he said about it. The areas of strength in the gdp report, probably in the consumer and housing side, areas close to the electorate. Although the headline is not very good, the details might be a little bit better from a political perspective. What people are expecting next year, probably growth of about 2. 2 , 2. 3 . Not bad for europes point of view. [laughter] but compared to china, way down. Of course. Ftse 100e female is losing 1. Burberry, of course. We are losing Cynthia Carol from angloamerican, the big Mining Company. The share price was struck by Something Like 25 . However, she has achieved quite a fair amount. One of the things she stepped into when she came into the business is bad the accident frequency within south africa was almost twice what it is right now. So she has done a tremendously good job of reducing the number of accidents and fatalities in the mines in south africa. That was extremely important for them to still have what they do have as far as production rates in south africa. Otherwise, it would have created some early large problems at this point in time if they had not done that. If youre not getting the kinds of returns they expect from a Mining Company they should have been doing particularly well. Im afraid, as i say, they dont take any prisoners. All about the bottom line. Thank you very much. Spain as economic crisis has passed another grim landmark. The Unemployment Rate has hit 25 . In parts of southern spain, one in every three adults as jobless. Our correspondent has been to the southwestern region. Very few people live in these flats. They are a product of that spains property boom. Others on the same development are cordoned off an empty. This is where they were going to build the school. This is a region with a hangover from spains construction bubble are being acutely felt. Take this company. Five years ago, they employed at 180 people. About and worked here. If the firm ifails to get another contract in the next few weeks, they will have to close. The government has not just cut investments in buildings. This business receives public money to train the unemployed. Income from the Regional Government has dropped by half. The government cuts are increasingly unpopular, and hard fell in this region. One in four people in spain are out of work. In this region, one in three. Since the Public Sector is so important for the economy, austerity and the cuts to Government Spending mean there are even fewer jobs and less money in this part of spain. 1 3 of the work force are civil servants, who, with austerity, the Public Sector is shrinking, and if, as expected, spain asks for a second bailout, therell be more cuts to come. A temporary ceasefire between the syrian army and rebel fighters has started, but theyre already reports of violations and several areas. Although the unmonitored five day truce is expected to last through eid aladha, clashes have broken out near a military base and the district of damascus and homs. This video posted online claims to show a suburb of damascus and attack after the truce started. We cannot verify it independently the. Is their version of a cease fire, the account says. Opposition activists blame the government for breaking the truce. Some protest to the armys promised to stop fighting by holding a demonstration. One banner reads, our eid religious holiday will be when you, assad, or overthrown. He tried show that life goes on as normal. His army has promised to break the truce if it is attack or even if the rebels tried to resupply. In the province of homs, and women have used the promise of a ceasefire to visit the graves of their sons who were killed fighting government forces. We pray to god to avenge a desper avenge us. May god burn your heart, assad, like you have burned ours. They show how difficult it will be for all violence to stop even if it is just for four days. Before we go, a quick reminder of our top story. A suicide bomber has killed at least 41 people who gathered at a mosque in northern afghanistan. That is it from us. Stay with us here on bbc world news. Make a sense of International News at bbc. Com news. Funding for this presentation is made possible by the Freeman Foundation of new york, stowe, vermont and honolulu, newmans own foundation, and union bank. 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