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Save the children has suspended its programs in afghanistan following an attack on its eastern offices in jalalabad three of its Staff Members were killed in the Suicide Attack and siege which is now being claimed by i saw jennifer dos has more from the capital kabul. I detect began with a car bomb at the door of the state of the Children Office in jalalabad eastern afghanistan the gunman stormed the building for more than eight hours they battled Afghan Security forces while dozens of save the children staff were trapped inside the building was set on fire eventually Afghan Police and soldiers killed the attackers and rescued the staff afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places for children to be born following decades of war insecurity and poverty for twelve years save the children has worked with afghan communities to help kids arrive but the attack on the agencys office in jalalabad suggest its becoming increasingly difficult for staff to help afghans without becoming victims of the conflict themselves its quite possible to save the children would leave afghanistan and the onus is on the Afghan Government to provide security for the latest to to stick on aid worker security show that over the last fifteen years their jobs have become much more dangerous in two thousand and sixteen there were one hundred fifty eight attacks on aid organizations around the world in which one hundred to one hundred workers were killed ninety eight wounded and eighty nine kidnapped thats almost triple the number of attacks in two thousand and three south sudan is the most dangerous country for aid workers followed by afghanistan and syria the u. N. Humanitarian coordinator calls afghanistan one of the most challenging and dangerous environments for humanitarians in two thousand and seventeen seventeen aid workers were killed and thirty two injured Doctors Without Borders withdrew from the northern afghan city of could use in two thousand and fifteen after the medical charities hospital was mistakenly destroyed by a u. S. Airstrike and last year the International Red cross which is operated in afghanistan for more than thirty years close to clinics and limited his operations nationwide after seven Staff Members were killed and others abducted now were in a very. Explosive situation i think where we note the Community Says communities can no longer guarantee also a fifty an hour roxas and thats now where its becoming extremely different. To know. Who we can rely on and thats thats the challenge today more so than in the last thirty years afghanistan is dependent on either organizations have gunmen were to drive them out the Afghan Government cant support the social Services Programs on which millions of afghans depend save the children says it helps one point four million children in afghanistan and its committed to its work here the organization would like to restart its programs but it can only do so when its sure its staff can work safely jennifer glasshouses era kabul. Thorning schmidt is the c. E. O. Of save the children she says attacks against aid workers must not be tolerated well we have for now suspended our activities but rest assured that we are still committed to helping the Afghan People and particularly children in afghanistan we have been there for so many years and we know what we do there help millions of children survive be educated be protected so we will continue to do what we are doing in afghanistan this is a setback for sure and we will take us a long time to recover from this and we should never ever accept at tax on aid workers people who are spending their lives helping children this is very innocent work this is where that all parents would want for children this is work that help children survive and learn and be protected and i have still am completely saddened by the fact that someone would try to stop this in such a violent attack this was a very violent issued never happen and of course this is a setback but we remain committed to helping the children in afghanistan and all over the world where save the children is working. Well i mean this years i mean you know i had b. B. Hes a former spokesperson for the International SecurityAssistance Forces in afghanistan thanks for coming in to talk to us so why do you think save the children has been the target of an attack in this way when this strategy to insurgents in afghanistan and the terrorist organizations law has been that you want to drive to prison self International Community out of afghanistan to disengage and to put International Community under pressure to disengage with afghanistan and leave afghanistan alone so that they can carry on with their own works or rather terrorist attacks in afghanistan i think the chief executive said that you know there are children and everybody has a child or children and why they should have targets such a center that the reason is that they want to push the International Community out of afghanistan so there is no you know its not strange its their policy and in terms of who they claim responsibility for this what what sue do you have thoughts on who might be behind it and what evidence there isnt is i see. Or rather die in afghanistan is an umbrella that they want to carry attacks in afghanistan under the name of diet its not it in force in afghanistan its not something that we should compare with you know and the middle east or i saw in india be the least in afghanistan is a proxy groups or other proxy groups that the regional countries. Intelligence service is using to to further their own aims and goals in afghanistan and this is done under the name of the. Or i still i think there are other organizations behind this and linked with some very serious networks in the region and tell me about this in the security situation more generally as we came after a weekend we saw an attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in general. How well or badly on the Security Forces coping with these kinds of attacks and i think the Security Forces can cope well but the problem is the lack of capacity in terms of how to manage these Security Forces in afghanistan where of whatever we see challenge the Security Forces go on tackle the but the problem is how to manage it i think i should point a few more things one is that these are guys asians want to challenge the new strategies of the United States as well and so they want to see whether the u. S. Will come with some actions or it will remain in just a civil a serious thing that kind of testing the water to see whether they get a reaction it is true they are testing the strategies and in the meantime putting their foreigners under pressure to leave afghanistan. A few days ago and the attack to tell in kabul the ukrainians just withdraw their self from afghanistan so thats their goal i mean in terms of to go back to the to the engineers and for instance the aid organizations as we had in jennifer report play such a big part in in afghanistan. Weve we know that the red cross has had to limit some of its operations we know that say the children are saying they were temporary spending what they do to extend these groups appear to be getting what they want i think they are pushing for that i think these you know these groups are linked with some. Intelligence services in the region the countries that do not want afghanistan to stand on its feet trying to disengage afghanistan from the International Community put International Community on to pressure that its not a safe country you know leave afghanistan its not for your base to stay here they want to drive the forces did want to drive the institutions they want to drive the chinese immigrants its just out of and just want to pick up about one of them she said earlier the protests in reaction in the United States what you think it will be if if these kind of attacks continue i think i think the narcisse if they if it wants to to show that they are serious they should go behind us i think they can find it because its not or i said its mainly to do it and it works like they are counted towards that supported by the regional countries ok i mean i have a we thank you very much i think youre putting on to torch and im just here thank you. I presume in court has upheld a corruption and Money Laundering conviction against former president not a silver the popular politician known across the country is had appealed against a nine and a half Year Prison Sentence last year for Money Laundering and corruption is leading the polls for october his president ial election but the ruling could see him disqualified from running. Outside the court in fortran angry obviously people here are very disappointed that away but theyre also telling us that they did not expect anything different that they know about the country about the government in a way the judiciary are against. That that this whole case has been fabricated that there are political motives because they dont want him to run for the presidency the most popular politician in the country at this point what many here are asking. Not going after. That have been investigated members some have been at other candidates other president ial candidates why are they not being judged. That so many people here are telling us that this is political and that obviously they believe in. So i mean i from new york is brian winter the editor in chief of americas quarterly magazine thanks for being with us what do you make of this result in terms of what it will mean for a new notice or will. It was a very bad day for lou. Everyone most everyone expected that the ruling would go against him but not this strongly i mean it was a three to zero unanimous result from the three Appeals Court judges and theyre actually increased the jail sentence from nine years to twelve years and while its still possible that he you know may escape jail he has many potential you know opportunities to see injunctions and stays ahead of him but i think its going to be a hard road for to still be a candidate in october for the next president ial election as he said is his intention and do you think you could its going to end up in another series of legal appeals oh theres no question i mean the lewis lawyers have said that theyre going to seek every opportunity available to ensure that he remains both free and viable as a candidate because you know brazilian law does say that if you if you commit a crime youre not allowed to run for the presidency or other other Political Office and so you know it looks pretty bleak for him though after what happened today because even a two one result would have opened up more avenues for appeal than this three zero result dead its interesting isnt it though that theres still some people who are very supportive of him in spite of this kind of scandal and this and this ruling i mean any and lots of countries that kind of is would be would be sort of politically it would be the end politically wouldnt it so what is it about him that means that he can still carry on and potentially even win a president ial election. Well people still have very good memories of lulas presidency which of course was from two thousand and three to two thousand and ten those were boom years for brazils economy and they were years that also saw a massive growth in the middle class and reduction in poverty it was they were years that saw brazil grow its influence on the world stage it was the time when it was granted the right to host the world cup and the olympics and the equation in peoples minds the reason why lula is running first currently and virtually every poll for the october election is a lot of people sort of make this calculation in their minds and they say ok well look you know all of these politicians are corrupt but lou is the only one who ever did anything for me and in terms of that corruption issue the car wash scandal which some of the had an awful lot of politicians getting way into is it making a difference in terms of the level of corruption in the country i do and it already has and i would actually take issue with something that your correspondent said i know that she was just repeating the view of people there on the ground in port au allegri but the notion that lula has been targeted individually by the judiciary is just factually wrong i mean there have been many other politicians including the former speaker of the house it was who is now in jail and is from a completely Different Party and what weve seen is that as a result of this jailing not of particularly individuals but really many members across the Political Class that you know the kind of the cost benefit analysis that politicians and Business Leaders make when it comes to corrupt transactions has as forever changed but im going to thank you very much and thank you you thank. Coming up on this news hour from london egypts president officially files his papers to run in march his president ial election as another rival withdraws from the race class. And james day. Is expected in the coming hours will be set. To gather here. And his supporters bron james hits a scoring milestone in the n. B. A. And hes the youngest person to do it tatiana will have the. U. S. President donald trump has warned his takesh counterpart rich in a phone call to limit military operations in Northern Syria or risk conflict with American Forces u. S. Backed fighters have already been deployed to the front lines in the Northern Syrian town of big to confront a possible assault by turkey has promised to expand operations towards the town to confront the threat he sees posed by the kurdish y p g fighters viewed as terrorists. Hopefully starting from we will continue by thwarting this game along our borders and we will completely wipe out this trouble from our region. Turkey has already launched an air and ground operation in the city of a free and because of the y p g presence there at least five thousand people have been displaced in five days of fighting turkey says some two hundred sixty eight fighters have been neutralized in the operation so far kurdish commando says thats an exaggeration or he didnt give an alternative number one story can be held that joins us live from washington d. C. Tells bit more about that conversation between trump and add on. Well as far as readouts go laura and the White House PressOffice Released a rather detailed reach out of the call that took place earlier were told between President Trump and president to one apparently donald trump relaying his concerns about the escalating violence in syria in the view of the United States undercutting what the white house calls shared goals to defeat eisel apparently the u. S. Also urging as you pointed out earlier and for turkey to exercise caution particularly around man bish given the fact that there are u. S. Forces present there and given the fact that there has been this call in fact that there may in fact be turkeys advancement towards that area that there needs to be an avoidance of the confrontation or direct contract contact rather between the two forces now in addition to that the white house says the donald trump urged closer bilateral cooperation to address what the u. S. Is calling turkeys legitimate security concerns so understanding the sensitivities of the concerns with regard to the Kurdish Forces that are being expressed by president ed want discussing the need to stabilize and bring about a unified syria that poses no threats to neighbors including turkey now the president did however express very strong concern when it comes to what the United States is calling destructive and false rhetoric coming from turkey about the United States so certainly it sounds like the call got a little heated but there is this in courting to the readout understanding that the two leaders did promise to improve their Strategic Pa