And. Also coming up unicef says global humanitarian law fails to protect children in times of war. Hundreds of prisoners exchanged in ukraine and one of the biggest swaps agreements between moscow and kiev. Were getting reports of multiple explosions in the Afghan Capital kabul at least forty people have been killed dozens more have been injured one of the blasts hit the office of the News Agency Afghan voice. Heard is on the line for us from kabul abdullah tell us more about what you know. We heard from most posters that there were when explosions in the west of the city targeting an afghan wise news agency now this neighborhood is unable to vote it happens to be the net the next. The second bomb happened to be next to this Media Organization now she did Ministry Spokesperson here speaking to us saying that at least forty people are dead among the forty people that are women and children and journalists as well now this comes just after an attack that happened. In kabul targeting. As
Of the remaining twenty nine critically ill people have been evacuated from the besieged rebel area near syrias capital and from football star to president george ware is set to take on the top job in liberia. And tech giant apple apologizes after a million slam its deliberate slowing down of old i phones. That have you with us here on the news article first were going to bring you some breaking news coming out of egypt there are reports of an attack at the amman mean a church that south of cairo not happened in the hell one district its all there are casualties but the exact number is not yet known well bring you more on that story as it becomes available lets meet our other top stories at africas top court says parliament has failed to. Old jacob zuma accountable over allegations of corruption now the court ruling follows its conclusion last year that zuma violated the constitution when he use state money to upgrade his private home but the court says its up to parliament to come up
Samis a than this is aljazeera live from don hall so coming up a log just policy in israels governing Coalition Calls for the antics ation of parts of the occupied west bank land the palestinians want for a future state. Irans president breaks his silence off the days of demonstrations saying people are free to protest and not to commit violence. While coming in the new years spectacular fireworks around the world as people celebrate the arrival of two thousand and eighteen. Well south korea is welcoming a new year message from north koreas leader those raised the possibility of reopening talks about reconciliation and reunification kim jong un said the path to dialogue is open and improving ties is an urgent issue can also said hed only use Nuclear Weapons if threatened that the launch is on his desk. We should actively create an atmosphere to move forward with the National Reconciliation and reunification improving ties between the north and the south is an urgent issue that not only
Release or a Controversial Book about the u. S. President which suggests close connections between the Trump Administration and songe arabias crown prince also this hour pakistan says its disappointed by the u. S. Decision to suspend millions military assistance and im Peter Simmons with all the base sports news as defending champion Serena Williams pulls oh its of the Australian Open the full details later in the program. Thank you for joining us after two years of silence north korea and south korea are set to reopen the lines of communications tuesdays talks will initially focus on the north this participation in the Winter Olympics in south korea next month but so say is the discussions are expected to move on to what it calls other areas of common interests france three reports from seoul. In a few days the truce village of panmunjom on the Demilitarized Zone that separates north and south korea will be a hive of activity representatives from the two countries will hold high level
A more balanced access into the Chinese Market china braces to prevent environmental disaster is feared an oil tanker which has been on fire for three days may explode and sink and we meet the nigerian migrants forced to return home from libya who arent giving up their dreams to get to europe. North and south korea have been holding their First Official meeting in more than two years with a few diplomatic breakthroughs kyung young says it will send a high level delegation to next months Winter Olympics in the south seoul is considering temporarily lifting sanctions against north korea and has proposed military talks it also wants every union of thousands of families that were separated after the korean war senior officials from both sides met at the Demilitarized Zone in on one john on the border now people from both sides of the borders say they are optimistic about the talks. And you know every korean really wants relations between the north and the salty prove its origin its an impo