1st some breaking news out of afghanistan theres been an explosion at a mosque in the capital kabul police say at least 4 people have been killed and many more injured in the blast they say the mosque official leading the prayers is among the dead theres been no immediate claim of responsibility lets speak to feel confident in kabul she is a freelance journalists in the Afghan Capital joins us now live what more you hearing about this attack and how significant is it. Well thats right and this is a story that still developing here in kabul everything is still very fresh as the attack happened about a couple of hours ago famous mosque in the west of Kabul Ministry of interior spokesman did confirm that so far 4 people are dead and at least officially 8 people have been injured who have been transferred to different hospitals. Here spokesman also said that confirmed that explosives have been put inside the mosque during the main prayer and this is on a friday thats when mosques are pocke
Returned to the streets of lebanon as the currency tumbles to you know it. And im here to say majority sports news for me the one races in azerbaijan singapore and japan become the latest Sports Events to be canceled because of coronavirus. But 1st we have some breaking news out of afghanistan there has been an explosion at a mosque in the capital kabul police say at least 4 people have been killed and many more injured in the blast and they say the mosque official leading the prayer is among the dead there has been no immediate claim of responsibility but lets get more of it find out much so we can we can speak to have wardak who lives close to the mosque where the blast happened and is also an analyst on National Security matters joins us now via skype happy but so you live nearby what did you hear and see. When i saw people walking out of the mosque and rush. Ambulances going to the mosque and perhaps nice sound of the explosion it sound like it happened right when you leave for a g
A huge crowd of people from the neighborhood areas were attending the friday pair 10 days ago we have had a similar incident where he was you know what you know but one mosque which is located in the green zone of the city. Was targeted in a similar incident that was perhaps pretty pleased i eat dean and a similar incident happened today and another serious borsch any of coupler which is the car to charge. And interestingly just now you have had escaped be taking the credit for it in a way the responsibility for it every time you have this Peace Process between the Afghan Government and the movement of the taliban gaining some momentum and because you have these kinds of attacks. So these are live pictures from hong kong where protesters are gathering its a controversial nor comes into effect the legislation makes it a criminal offense to chinas National Anthem violates their freedom of expression they see it as another sign that beijing is doing away with hong kong autonomy it is one
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