Winning the election runoff. At least forty one people died. In a shia Cultural Center and the Afghan Capital kabul. A teenager whos become an icon of resistance for palestinians has kept behind bars by an Israeli Military court and protests continue in peru over x. President Alberto Fujimori pardon for murder and human rights abuses. He was once the worlds top Football Player now george waya has become his countrys leader after winning liberias president ial election where defeated Vice President joseph in a runoff taking out just over sixty one percent of the vote as well hell succeed Ellen Johnson sirleaf next month of the countrys first democratic transfer of power since one thousand nine hundred forty four he strongly campaigned on lowering the poverty rate in liberia where more than eighty percent of people live under one Dollar Twenty Five cents a day mohamed the reports now from the capital. The supporters of georgia way are aha p. And the been thinking about holding a Victory Party the in the capital monrovia but theyve been asked to do it because the final results will be released to morrow these are provisional results for again where an unassailable lead over hes contend is the other the other candidate just of walk the man whos been prez Vice President in liberia for the past hold three years old way of course very hopeful with the youth of this country who for up to sixty percent of the fashion of this country they have been seen relation. With this chance but nothing as much as what the supporters of george were hoping planning its as good as done that now george where is set to become the next president of liberia he will take over from Ellen Johnson sirleaf in mid january peace is the main thing liberians want right now with widespread support indonesia among the pollution of this country many people feel party house what it takes to bring the country together in reconsideration and moving forward from a post conflict situation to the. Development and prosperity. Well lets get lets get more on this now were joined by equating independent africa policy analyst whos joining us live from washington d. C. Very good to have you with us on aljazeera before we get to whether georgia way of will be given an opportunity to address some of many of liberias problems do you think from what youre hearing so far mr equation a that these elections were free and fair will just contest the result. You know those two quest two separate questions yes i tend to believe it was pretty fair why because you know the Supreme Court looked the. Objections by their Vice President and by the candidate who came in during defense round in five this runoff was delayed for a month because the Supremes Court took its time and i am a big funnel tura disputes go in through the courts and of course taking their time so from my point of view yes i think it passes my test of free and Fair Elections on the other will the Vice President. And challenge the results again thats why i dont for me to arkansas remember he challenging the last results even though he is a member of the ruling party in the deputy to president Johnson Sirleaf so if the results do stay as they are and as liberias president we know that hes been a phenomenal sport style and has been extremely successful but can he can solve the countrys problems as leader you know as weve mentioned poverty a nation still recovering from two civil wars movie certainly the ball outbreak hundreds of thousands of children out of school i mean these are just some of the challenges just some of them facing life here. Well you know on the one hundred yards to say hes coming its a big surprise you know a stock in stock who. You know done his Due Diligence and be able to winnow by the majority of the routers the support for him is pretty enthusiastic so that is on the Positive Side and on the other hand the as you have mentioned the problems that liberia faces pretty stark you know you mention the boom this civil war. You know poverty and then of course. Of corruption so will he be able to tackle them yes i think he has a lot of good will and support in the country but will his solve all of them i dont think any one leader no law no matter how long this thing can solve all the problems so it is a matter of how much progress we will spectating to make and his running mate another will be Jewel Howard Taylor what are we to make of her she is the and this role shes the exwife of the former president convicted will for the no child taylor she is a very respected said to ted bought as she had on politician or a she working for her exhusband you know whos in prison and the u k. I can tell you from washington and from what i read from around the globe. You know the International Community and the opium if there is such a thing there an easy about that because yes former president taylor was tried and hes in jail and mr weir actually acknowledged that yes he has had communication with him so in many peoples minds outside of liberia this is going to give a lot of influence to sort of the Charles Taylor faction in liberia that makes them very easy giving his history and what he was tried for so i think that is an important issue too to watch and it is in stark contrast to the outgoing president mrs Johnson Sirleaf who had a great. You know image in the International Community shes give me a lot of credit for helping to end the war and she won the Nobel Peace Prize so there is that to stark contrasts said essentially a lot of goodwill to was Johnson Sirleaf as there is towards george way and perhaps not so much to was chill howard tayla so how do you see this very Interesting Partnership between where and working out. Well i think that you know that taylor faction is grassroots support and also you know mrs the current president mrs johnson said live stay twelve years she has made so many gas company for for liberia even after the war money given to bring stability get democratic elections held and hand over i am reminded that when when Winston Churchill won their british i mean the Second World War for britain she was quickly voted out so often the Voters Decide we want to try Something Else no matter how good a leader has been we want to go to the other side and see so what im saying is yes the chance there are connections made the International Community an easy but my read is that there are a lot of liberians who want to try that because this see him sort of us a man of the people and connected to the grassroots. Is great as always to get your thoughts on this thank you very much for you tommy acquainted joining us live from washington d. C. Thank you. Were going to move on to other news now at least forty one people have been killed in afghanistan to suicide bomb a storm to share Cultural Center and a news agency in the capital another eighty four people wounded many of them suffering burns eisel has admitted responsibility. Name 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. We heard a huge bang and smoke rose from inside the hole my face was burning i fell down from my chair and i saw my colleagues on the ground the smoke was everywhere i dont know what happened next the interior Ministry Says suicide 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 that when the explosion went off we scapes from the room where we were working and went to the rooftop we sold a small in flames coming up from the basement the taliban immediately issued a statement denying involvement. And endless tells. Given that this attack was in a shot neighborhood this appears to be the work of eisel. He says the armed group has been targeting the Shiite Community this year as well as Media Outlets. In order to make him our media has not been providing them enough amount of coverage he had been seeking activities. Have been targeting the Media Outlets got. But to kabul as well as in the region how in order to make sure they get wisely seized. 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. Orchestrated by the sophistication of the operation and amount of exactness impreciseness in your operations that do usually target with little the strength or little amount of import it creates a lot of good jobs achieving good 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 zero. A fire in the andean city of mumbai has left at least fourteen people dead the blaze broke out late at night in the City Center Building the a several hotels and restaurants in a popular and light life area at least a dozen people were injured at the course of the fire as unclear. An Israeli Military court has extended the detention of a palestinian teenager who was filmed kicking and slapping his veins soldiers any of this month sixteen year old i had to meet he was arrested by israeli troops last week along with her mother and cousin all three and are being held for an additional five days on thursday a court looked into several charges against her mimi and her mother including assaulting sometimes disrupting their work she merely ate in them and participating in acts against Israeli Forces the teenager has become an icon of resistance among palestinians and a force that reports from the author military court in the occupied west bank were inside the often military prison compound inside which of the prefab buildings which make up the military court rooms here and we spent the last few hours inside one of those listening to arguments in a case which is gripped palestinians and israelis for very Different Reasons its the case of i had to tell me her cousin or and her mother nariman theyve been in custody since december the nineteenth after the emergence of a video which showed i had on a cousin challenging two Israeli Soldiers near the village in the occupied west bank i had slapping one of those soldiers the palestinians for many palestinians its an act of defiance against military occupation for many israelis the debate has been about the apparent lack of reaction by these heavily armed soldiers to such a challenge inside the courtroom the lawyer in the on the defense side has been arguing that they should be released i had in particular presenting the danger of being a minor being well known not a flight risk and also arguing that the military prosecution which has been trying to find other things in her past with which to charge her shouldnt be acting in that way but that is that those potential crimes should have been dealt with at the time and that what theyre doing now in retrospect is purely in reaction to a video that went viral on the after. Reading your went out and it was viral and its very distracting from the am that it is on then. Decided to act in the arrest them so the real reason is because this young woman. Was able to bring. The other patients to everybodys house and this case isnt just being seen in isolation just on wednesday another young teenager fozzy older needy he was released from custody on nearly three thousand u. S. Dollars bail he was the young man who was pictured blindfolded being surrounded by more than twenty Israeli Soldiers as he was detained his lawyer is released his testimony in which he says he was beaten both during that arrest and in private afterwards he suffered a broken shoulder as a result and so his legal team is now mounting a challenge against the Israeli Military and its also being seen in the context of the very large number of detentions of young palestinians both regularly and particularly in the last month since the dea the declaration by donald trump about jerusalem being viewed by the u. S. As the capital of israel in the protests that have followed there have been one hundred seventy young palestinians minors whove been detained. A woman dancer have rallied in support of the me me and against an israeli m. P. The verbal abuse families of palestinian prisoners are in house and as a member of Benjamin Netanyahu government on monday he boarded a bus carrying families visiting nuff a prison word Israeli Police officers he shouted at mothers of prisoners calling their sons dogs and terrorists the mother of one president ended up in a verbal confrontation with him. Well the money it isnt so there are two with tammy and a guinness to start ok patient will be turned to support what she did also should be an alternative with the mother of the prison and of the rock. Hitting her own we are proud of what she did again it is ridiculous that members of the us the red cross to make sure that prisoners as about as their families are to deal with in what way. The Israeli Parliament has approved a no limit Police Powers question said the moves intended to shield the Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu from an Ongoing Investigation into alleged corruption under the new legislation place can no longer make recommendations to prosecutors to indict suspects the law also aims to stop leaks to the media which have been a fixture of the investigation into the ethanol her critics say the little muscles police and other institutions well a caver elder senior Political Columnist of the news website al monitor and he says the law attacks essential parts of israels democracy. The law the new bill will not apply to the Prime Minister or people who are now under investigation because in israel you cannot pass a law that applies retroactively it will be relevant only to people especially politicians and public figures that will be under investigation in the future but you have to see this in the broader context and the timing first of all it comes after an attempt to pass the socalled french law that does not allow the police and the attorney general to investigate and to indict a sitting Prime Minister and this has failed now this new bill is also kind of the last draft is a compromise because they wanted to go all the way that it will apply. The sitting Prime Minister and the they will not able they were not able to convince members of the coalition from other parties are within the likud do to support it and the border is. Is in the term demise the police the attorney general the media its a complaint against the. Israeli democracy saudi arabia has released two sons of the late King Abdullah had been arrested as part of a purge by crown Prince Mohammed bin some on the says its targeting corruption while the saudi attorney general approved the release of the princes saying that reached financial settlements with the government there were among around two hundred businessmen ministers and royals who are being held in riyadh ritz carlton hotel. But we have plenty more ahead on the news hour including unicef says the global humanitarian law is failing to protect children in times of war. Fighting femicide we meet the Mexican Community trying to tackle violence against women and one of the worlds most dangerous places and on the way in sport the first two gulf cup semifinal confirms tatyana will be here to tell you who they are. U. S. President donald trump is accusing china of violating u. N. Sanctions against north korea by continuing to sell oil to pyongyang trump said on twitter caught red handed very disappointed that china is allowing oil to go into north korea it will never be