Carried out an attack on a shia Cultural Center in kabul which has killed at least forty people. Targeted in their homes schools and playgrounds unicef warns that attacks on children have reached shocking levels. And why experts say Artificial Intelligence could lead to an almost Perfect World or to the collapse of civilization. And im with all the news including saudi arabia that knocked out the gulf prop ill have all the details later on in the program. Former football superstar george weah is set to become liberias president provisional results have been released from tuesdays president ial runoff with more than ninety eight percent of the vote now counted the Electoral Commission says with secured sixty one point five percent of the votes he will succeed Ellen Johnson sirleaf when he becomes president next month this will be the first democratic transition of power in this west african nation in seventy three years im going to devote joins us from liberias capital monrovia and if you can describe the mood there the atmosphere over the past few hours as its emerged that george ware is set to take over the presidency. Well marty im celebrations scenes of jubilation of both the purty head who waters of c. D. C. Pertti as well as his residence he himself had the news with tears he broke down crying and was being called faulted by his running mate jewel. Who happens to be an exwife of the former president of liberia Charles Taylor currently serving fifty years sentence in the united kingdom. And he supports us think about this is a dream come true a struggle of all these thought that in two thousand and two when he joined politics and top of the presidency then he was defeated in the second round by Ellen Johnson sirleaf the one hes going to replace. And for good when his supporters this is a dream come true hes a mom whos got immense respect among the youth of this country and many believe that the volt starts solo winning tonight mainly from the youth he grew up in a slum in mumbai and people respect him so much for what they see as him succeeding against all odds could there potentially be a delay in the confirmation of his victory or indeed the inauguration if there are challenges to the final result. Well it depends on what Vice President of walk these unity pertti take from now on woods he has had misgivings about the whole process of contest the results of the phosphate round and joining himself in a case taken by the man who came. Around and saying that there was. A lot of his including the use of fake Identity Cards and volta Identity Card some also being the final volta that we just have been fooled people who have died and people vaulting move them once tonight hes spoken again and say that he had only put dissipated in the process because he off respect for the supreme courts decision but he didnt specify what action hes going to take everything from here on in depends on what action he takes in the context of liberia and the civil wars and the conflict of the past what does it mean for the country and for the people that see the attention of the peaceful transition of power in that country. Well yes it will be for the fos time in seventy three years a democratically elected leader will be hunting all over to another one now this is a huge deal for a country that has had a very volatile history of military coups and president s being killed in office now president Ellen Johnson sirleaf the outgoing president has presided over what many laid billion see the longest period of uninterrupted peace stole the is since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine and peace is what these people need more than anything else they have so many problems that a quantum is suffering because of. All prices of the commodities that. Liberia exports outside including rob and i own all as well as the economy has been bought up by the outbreak which killed thousands of people in this country so they have so many problems and poverty is up on all time high more than fifty percent of the population of this country leave under the poverty line but more than anything else what liberians need is someone to minaj the peace and thats why many people feel that george well with his support across the country is the man who is. Most suited to replace city thank you very much mohamed. Suicide bombers in afghanistan have stolen Cultural Center and news agency in the Afghan Capital killing at least forty people and now that eighty four were wounded many of them suffering the attack came as the send out of state a Panel Discussion on the anniversary of the soviet invasion of afghanistan i still has claimed responsibility for the attack youre going to reports. 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 rid of them would after i saw many dead in the area i was looking for my cousin but i couldnt find his body im not sure what happened but the number of dead is increasing. The interior Ministry SaysSuicide 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 the middle of a cover 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 from the basement. Taliban immediately issued a statement denying involvement. An analyst tells his era 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 the isis you know what is in order to make him our media has not been providing them enough amount of coverage that they have been seeking juliet activities and so they have been targeting the Media Outlets as here in capital kabul as well as in the region in order to make sure they get y. C. Is raised. 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 saw lacks the numbers it makes up for in tactics. An orchestra but the sophistication of the operation and the amount of exactness impreciseness in the air operations that do usually target with little the strength or little amount of import that create a lot of their jobs achieving their 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 aim to zero. Well news from yemen the United Nations is saying that sixty eight civilians were killed in two separate strikes by the Saudi Led Coalition in just one day the first irate on tuesday as a crowded market province killing fifty four civilians including eight children the second killed fourteen people from the same family in the province of how data in to gather saudi led as strikes have killed one hundred nine civilians in the past ten days according to the un humanitarian coordinator in yemen he accuses all sides in the war showing complete disregard for human life now children are increasingly being used both as targets and weapons of war according to a report by unicef it says the suffering of children in conflict zones has reached shocking levels the report says children have become front line targets and often used as human shields rape and in slave meant to become standard tactics an increasing number of being recruited to fight in west africa the Group Boko Haram used an estimated one hundred thirty five child suicide bombers in twenty seventeen the conflict in yemen has been one of the worst for children this year with five thousand killed or injured in a sample so says there is widespread and blatant disregard for International Laws designed to protect young people on a hoax. This school in mosul stands empty this street makes for dangerous playground as snipers threaten overhead this is what childhood looks like for these families over the course of this year children in conflict zones like here in iraq have been singled out and attacks unicef says those involved in conflict a blatantly disregarding International Humanitarian law is designed to protect the most Vulnerable Children as normal now that you can target a hospital a group of doctors in syria told me recently when i was in northern turkey how the armed groups wouldnt even come near the hospital because the hospital was more of a target than the armed groups so hospitals and schools are being deliberately attacked children are being brutalized and it feels like all the rules in war as you say that used to at least protect civilians and children in particular in these terrible wars have all disappeared finally some light relief for people in rebel held eastern go to in damascus after four years of being trapped in middle of the fighting a few patients with Urgent Medical needs have been allowed to leave. Unicef warns millions of children are also become in direct casualties of conflict from being displaced as well as being made homeless this refugee camp in bangladesh is home now for him to refugees from my ma of which four hundred thousand children children who stood by while our soldiers are right on their mothers or shot their father even brutalizes children or selves and theyre saying to those children that they deliberately doing this. In Eastern Ukraine many children live by the frontline they share the scars of living in one of the most modern contaminated place on earth. The situation is worse in yemen where aid agencies struggling to help. Forty thousand children have been killed or injured and many more severely malnourished risk of death a similar situation is unfolding in the democratic republic of congo where violence has driven hundreds of thousands of kids from their homes unicef is appealing to all parties involved in conflicts around the world to stand together and protect the rights of children. As there are. So discuss this further im joined by karen who is unicef humanitarian spokesman he joins us live from new york thank you very much for speaking to us now you report spans conflict zones all around well but one place we dont hear about often enough is the democratic republic of congos were hearing just at the end of that report that in the case i read you have some eight hundred fifty thousand children whove been driven from their homes i think three hundred fifty thousand have suffered from acute malnutrition these figures are staggering how has the situation becomes so if the children in this part of the day aussie. This first of all twenty seven has been a nightmare year for children in conflicts and as you or incredible reporting just just showed been in the d. R. Congo in the castle region this was a rapid. Escalation of violence early this year where we saw more than four hundred schools attacked we saw clinics attacked and overrun and people just simply had to run into the bush to avoid being killed we saw many deaths Sexual Violence and children and their families left without any food and hence that terrible moment you trish and right and again what weve seen there is that those who take up the fighting are deliberately attacking children and families or just not caring and moving ahead with their military tactics whatever the cost to children so in the deep sea where as you say we dont hear about it very much people are incredibly Vulnerable Children are incredibly vulnerable when the dogs of war on least in afghanistan almost seven hundred children were killed in the first nine months of the year what was the main cause of that. Well in afghanistan again you see a return of conflict if it ever ended in and people around the world will not necessarily think that violence against children and families is almost at an all time high in terms of the numbers of children being killed and so this is a continued insurgency renewed insurgency as we we heard on your recent reports of bomb attacks even today in built up urban areas with families our students were at this event that was bombed today in afghanistan so again targeting students targeting children and taking military action with where parties know that civilians will be and children will be schools hospitals Community Centers being targeted children are being targeted in afghanistan or worst the worst year on record for children in south sudan another place that really doesnt get the attention it deserves you have a very bad Economic Situation that you have famine thats been declared in parts of the country youve got thousands of kids that have been killed and or injured but then you have nineteen thousand children that have been recruited into armed forces and armed groups tell us about that. You know weve weve just marked more than four years of this conflict in south sudan the worlds newest nation and it has an enormously young population and should be the source of great hope and rather than the then protecting children rather than giving them hope for the future theyre being attacked the being abducted forced into by the armed forces and the armed groups and there is a plethora there are many armed groups across south sudan and that conflict has been reported in many places often has an ethnic dimension to it so children are being forced into these armed groups have been forced into brutal conduct and his extreme lee hard when families lose lose their children because they are often abducted into these groups and their childhoods are being stolen from them this is not inevitable governments around the world are sometimes involved in this and armed groups are involved in this they must be required to stop instrumental lies in children abducting children forcing them to become fighters they are children not soldiers and this can be stopped and thats what unicef is appealing today to those parties fighting the wars but also to the Security Council of the United Nations into any powerful member state supporting fighting groups and governments protect children make fighting groups and governments abide by their obligations under the law protect the most Vulnerable People in the world children yeah and that obligation is that perhaps the most crucial message from this report thank you very much caring to wire for unicef and new york thank you very much. Are you watching the news hour much want to tell you about on the Program President trump china on twitter saying its been caught redhanded allowing oil into north korea. The palestinian girl who went viral filmed slapping Israeli Soldiers appears in military court. And stripped a victory one of sailings most famous races has a new wenna laughed the details ahead with tatiana. Also news from syria now aid workers are evacuating critically ill patients from eastern besieged rebel held area near the capital damascus sixteen people have now left as part of a deal with the government under which the rebels are releasing a number of their prisoners but at least one person is refusing fearing arrest by the Assad Government last month the u. N. Calls five hundred people in need of Urgent Medical care to be allowed to leave but only twenty nine cases have been given approval so far and at least eighteen people have died whilst waiting. Hundreds of thousands of children are among the more than one million syrians whove been sheltering in lebanon after escaping the long war in the country most syrians sheltering in lebanon are living in refugee camps and a holder of ports from one of these camps in the bekaa valley. Tells her grandchild that they will return to syria one day but she doesnt know when that will happen four year old i was born in a refugee camp in lebanon the family is from the city of brick which was reduced to rubble in the war. And we cant go back to syria our home has been destroyed our fields are littered with mines we want to return but how can we survive there. Surviving in lebanon is not any easier the United Nations says many refugees are more vulnerable than ever more are falling deeper into poverty many depend on aid to survive and most are in debt their numbers have not increased in years lebanon has tightened its borders and made it harder for syrians to enter the country in two thousand and fourteen the number of refugees surpassed one million a year later the number increased by two hundred thousand by the end of last year that number dropped by around one hundred ninety thousand and now the number is below one million until today about fifty thousand Syrian Refugees have already travelled have already departed from lebanon to third