Others wounded in a kabul suicide bombing. The Islamic State says it carried out the attack. Our reporter has been at the scene. This is the building where the explosion happened, and you can see the building has been almost completely destroyed. Sharanjit an easing of diplomatic tensions between turkey and the United States as both countries say they will restart Visa Services. Also on the program, the email scandal rocking the miss america contest. We hear from a former winner on where the organization is heading. Sharanjit hello, and welcome to bbc world news. We start with liberia, where it was announced a short time ago that former International Football star george weah has won the president ial election. His supporters celebrated as the Electoral Commission announced that with almost all the ballots counted, mr. Weah had won more than 60 of the vote. He made his name playing for ac milan. He was the first and only player from africa to win the coveted ballon dor award. Over the
Nearly half of u. S. Consumers are returning a holiday gift this week. Find out why retailers are competing to make returns easier. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Were here at the scene of an unspeakable tragedy. This will rank as one of the worst losses of life to a fire in many, many years. A deadly fire stuns new york city. 12 people have died. Were shocked by this loss. I hate it. I hate it. Millions are bundling up to ring in the new year in bonechilling temperatures that are gripping wuch of the upper great lakes and the northeast. Its going get worse. In an interview President Trump tells the New York Times he thinks bob mueller will be fair and believes there was no collusion. Security is being boosted around the world on new eve. Doug jones has won the special election for the u. S. Senate. Theres a one in a billion mathematical chance that was not a fraud. Apple has admitted to cutting down connection to the iphone and wi
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And the drama kicks into high gear with the return of the bachelor. Season 22 is already shaping up to be unlike any of its predecessors. Well have a complete wrap up with our Senior National bachelor analyst. It is tuesday, january 2nd. From abc news, this is world news now. Oh, we forgot the chief senior bachelor global contributor. Were going to start things off with breaking news. Passengers were stuck in long lines as Customs Computers were down for hours. This happens as travelers return from the busy holiday weekend. You see some of images were getting in there. Some of the lines were more than four hours long. Imagine facing that after coming off the long flight. Now travelers complained that they missed connections and were given little information. A Customs Agency says the disruption did not affect the standards for security screening, and it does not believe the outage was malicious in any way. The system is back on line and all airports probably have quite a bit of a backu