At least fourteen People Killed in the attack on a shia district of the Afghan Capital. There are live from doha also coming up unicef says global humanitarian law fails to protect children in times of war. Hundreds of Prisoners Exchange in ukraine and one of the biggest swaps agreed between moscow and kiev on and. If people have the leisure to do whatever they want to do it. Will be less frustrated by the hassles they have that were. Preparing for a world where robots take over and do most of the work. At least forty people have been killed and dozens more injured in the Afghan Capital kabul focused on a show. And to stick to the says he it appears to have involved multiple explosions one of the blasts hit the office of the News Agency Afghan voice. Heard as live for us now from kabul and whats the latest were hearing about this attack. Laura now we have more information into this incident now the incident happened that a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a cultural house belonging to. The minorities in afghanistan now this neighborhood which actually consisted of a street and the media organization. And a Religious School all were together in the compound when this attack happened now this attack was a preplanned. Attack happened on a day when the the when a ceremony was being held. At the center of this Cultural Center and the ceremony was about the thirty eight and the versity of the soviet invasion of afghanistan they call it the black the of afghanistan now the interior Ministry Says that in this attack at least. Forty people have been killed and thirty others are wounded now hospital doctors telling us that the death toll may increase because there are people that are critical and they need more critical attention because theyre losing a lot of blood there are people coming in rushing into the hospital to donate blood. The scene at the hospital is described to me very chaotic ok any claims of responsibility at this point. If you could i havent heard in the can at least repeat any claims of responsibility. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the so we know that the taliban have put out a statement denying any kind of involvement in this attack. Ok so heard thank you very much that for the update from a couple of little i spoke about the motivations behind this attack by the Regional Security specialist mr tucker haim. This is the Shia Community which has been the target of the that. Isis afghanistan wing of the isis did have been targeting this Year Community to our b two thousand and seventeen and they have been targeting the larger gatherings previously they have attacked some of the religious processions and gatherings and this was yet another one the second reason for targeting this group was that it was a media outlet that was organizing a gathering which was committed commemorating the twenty seventh of december the day where russians invaded iran as a nine hundred seventy nine and the media targeted media and they have been targeting Media Outlets i mean the isis and of artists in order to make a mark media has not been providing them enough amount of coverage that they have been seeking to get activities and so they have been targeting the Media Outlets as here in capital kabul as well as in the regional hub in order to make sure they get weisss least because in numbers it must as if they dont get the amount of coverage they want to get. In conflict zones across the globe children are being used as both targets and as weapons thats the conclusion from a report by unicef while children have long suffered during wartime the report says the situation worldwide has reached shocking levels it says children have become front line targets and often used as human shields many are recruited to fight off rape and slavens have become standard tactics convoys in yemen has been one of the worst for children this year with five thousand killed or injured in an agency also says there is widespread and blatant disregard for International Laws designed to protect young people Justin Forsythe is the deputy executive director of unicef he says children are being increasingly drawn into conflicts. What weve seen in recent years and even more so in twenty seven is children being deliberately targeted i mean weve heard stories from our staff on the ground in bangladesh but also in mean maurice south about wrecking the children who have stood by us soldiers of right on their mothers have shot their father even brutalized those children the cells and theyre saying to those children theyre deliberately doing this we have stories from within syria and from a school that we worked in with snipers deliberately targeting the children in the playground i was in Northern Nigeria recently and i met children who would who had to talk to me about being forced to be im human bombs for boquete her arms and this deliberately targeting of children to make them part of the conflict to brutalize army is a is a is a new development yes its always happened in part but it seems to be growing and growing is 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 and feels like there are no rules to protect the most Vulnerable Children in these conflicts and our appeal is unicef is to all the warring parties whether their governments or rebel groups is it surely we can all agree that we need to protect the children. Children are amongst the most vulnerable Syrian Refugees facing another cold season away from the homes and says more than three point eight million refugees and internally displaced people in the region need assistance so now to joins us now live from the back. To how are people coping with yet another winter. Well life is very difficult we are in one of the many tent cities if you like informal settlements in lebanon and if i just step out of the way you can see what life is like for the thousands and thousands of Syrian Refugees who have been here really for many many years a new u. N. Report shows more than half of them live in extreme poverty extreme poverty meaning that they live on less than two point eight Dollars Per Day per person and many of them have to rely on aid on handouts to survive many of them are in debt. So the situation is theyre very vulnerable if they want to work in lebanon for example they need to find a sponsor and after finding lebanese sponsor they have to pay two hundred fifty dollars to get the government permit people just do not have that money so some of them work illegally which makes them vulnerable of course because some of their employers decide whether or not they want to pay them or not so life is very difficult and now the u. N. Saying that for the First Time Since two thousand and fourteen the number of refugees has actually dropped below one million. Says they know what the syrian war generally believed to be winding down people came to return home all of a feeling that being pressured to do so. Well now that there are less than one million refugees according to the United Nations a few thousands of them have actually returned back to syria they dont have exact figures the u. N. Doesnt believe it is still safe for refugees to return but some have returned but when you ask people here a lot of them will tell you well what are we going to return home to some of them come from towns and villages which really have been razed to the ground their homes are just rubble they dont have money to go back home and and rebuild others come from areas where there are still fighting a lot of people here from the southern countryside of aleppo which is a battleground and many people cannot return because their towns and villages are under the control of the government and theyre scared of the government theyre scared to be forced into the army theyre scared that if they return they will be accused of assisting the opposition so their fate really is unclear and they feel that the International Community is not thinking about their future there are socalled reconciliation agreements in syria but those those are not really reconciliation agreements they are surrendered so people are worried they would like to go home levanon would like to see them go home because this country is under a lot of pressure but right now according to the United Nations it is still not safe ok thanks very much for the update. Because of the second batch of critically ill patients from. Thats a rebel held area near syrias capital damascus four people were taken from when say the u. N. Called for a fight for five hundred people in need of medical care to be allowed to leave but only twenty nine cases have been given approval at least eighteen people have died while waiting. Russias president has called wednesdays explosion at a supermarket in a terrorist attack at least ten people were injured when a homemade device packed with shards of metal went off police say it was hidden inside. No one has the responsibility for the attack. Ukrainian troops have been welcomed home after the government and try russian rebels conditions. Hundreds of prisoners some two hundred thirty people were sent to rebel held areas in return for seventy four prisoners being held by pro russian rebels the deal was mediated by the Orthodox Church in moscow fighting in ukraine began more than three years ago after sept. Of the east. We will put out all their greatest efforts the maximum into pulling out a deal ones relatives or loved ones as soon as possible this is very important. Some of the ukrainian prisoners have been speaking about their release. Or should i. Go i feel joyful at the fact that we are finally home but i will be able to hug my relatives and close ones i will hug my little son i really want st nicholas to bring him home for the new year. I cant believe it at the same time i can and cant believe that we were still there in the morning and now were at home i want to say thank you to all relatives and everyone who participated in our release and i want to say that our guys are still there and they have to be rescued. More now from moscow. Well both sides are now confirms that this prisoner swap has concluded with people being handed in both directions across the front lines in Eastern Ukraine the numbers that actually did scruffs the lines a bit different from the earlier advertize figures of three hundred six people going from kiev territory back to the east and seventy four people going from the eastern regions back into kiev territory the reasons why the numbers are different is because some people were transferred earlier and some people on both sides it seems didnt actually get want to go back to where they come from this is and events that has been quite a long time in the making the final impetus though came as a recent meeting in moscow there was attended by the heads of the two separatist regions in Eastern Ukraine by the head of the russian Orthodox ChurchPatrick Carroll and by representatives from kiev but the the real political will it seems as come from both kiev and also from moscow with Vladimir Putin saying that he was going to use his influence with the with the separatist regions to make it happen its a breakthrough undeniably a step in the right direction and the sides now are talking about keeping this going theyre doing more prisoner swaps but while people are still dying while moscow is still supplying the rebel regions with weapons and hardware etc and while there doesnt seem to be a final drive for peace this is just a step in that direction we havent got to the destination that we want to get to yet which is a final political solution. See if you enjoy mccarver is a Senior Research associate at George Washington university in the u. S. He says this latest exchange as politically significant for both sides. First of all it is. One of your realisations of the minsk agreement between Ukraine Russia friends and germany that was agreed upon back in two thousand and fifteen and the article six of those agreements implied that ukraine and the two separatist republics with the exchange all the prisoners so this is the first step since then however not all the prisoners were exchanged and there are dozens of ukrainian freeze in their wrists and the separatist prisoners. Are on both sides detained and the sides dont want to give them up yet so this exchange was conducted very fast and efficient and it is very important for both russian leader put in who is running for reelection soon and. Ukrainian president poroshenko who is face in major demonstration in chillan just from the opposition it seems that there are politics behind it though its not clear but some contacts will show us that maybe somethings going on politically as as i mentioned the president ial elections that putin is facing and for promotion it was very important and this was kind of a breakthrough for him in domestic politics and even his main opponent Mikhail Saakashvili praised him for doing that. Still ahead here on aljazeera liberia waits to find out who won tuesdays president ial runoff football legend georgia where all Vice President josep archive. And despite protests argentinas government moves ahead with sweeping Economic Reforms. Hello there well quite a bit of time out over the southeast in parts of asia at the moment the satellite picture is showing plenty of cloud over borneo and that is giving us some fairly prolonged outbreaks of rain in places i think over the next few days its going to be the northern parts of borneo where we see some of the heaviest of the rains really really does look quite lively for some of us here in malaysia over the next few days meanwhile forth across the philippines more in the way of drawing weather here im looking largely draw my own saturday across many parts of vietnam as well and we had a bit further towards the south and for australia its in the northwest so weve got this huge blob of clowned here this was all cyclamen but its now disintegrating is it working as it works its way towards the south so plenty of heavy rain to be seen out of this but the winds shouldnt be too much of a problem certainly its going to inject lots of moisture across many parts of Western Australia there and down through South Australia as we head through friday and into saturday springs will have a fair amount of time to rethink over the next day or so but i think largely we should stay dry towards the east where weve also got a fair amount of what weather here for sydney looks like a wet day on saturday twenty eight degrees where we are might some of the soggy one there across towards new zealand and our area of low pressure is trying to pull away its brighter behind it eighteen degrees will be the maximum in christchurch. Underground fire has been burning for over a century beneath indias largest cofield. Now open coast mining has put the flames to the surface with devastating consequences for the local population. Is communities are destroyed and thousand suffer from toxic fumes what lies behind this human and environmental disaster. People in power the burning city at this time on aljazeera. Again you know what to get there as a reminder of our top stories this hour at least forty people have been killed and dozens more injured in the Afghan Capital kabul its hackers focused on the shia district of the city and it is sort of involved in multiple explosions one of the blasts hit the office of the News Agency Afghan voice. U. N. Is warning the scale of attacks on children in conflict zones worldwide has reached shocking levels in a report unicef says theres widespread blatant disregard for International Laws designed to protect the young. And ukrainian troops are being welcomed home off of the government and pro russian rebels completed a swap of hundreds of prisoners the deal was mediated by the Orthodox Church in moscow. Experts in Artificial Intelligence say the world is unprepared for the enormous changes automation is bringing to the Global Economy some say Artificial Intelligence could help us create an almost Perfect World but they also warn it could lead to the collapse of democracy and civilization within a generation currently explores their concerns in the final part of our series brave new world. The future is coming and its going to affect all of us its widely accepted that millions of jobs are going to disappear but we may not have to work we might get paid for having fun and in this future the robots and algorithms that will replace us could either reduces to poverty or set us free this is the time of apocalypse and utopia and this is a time where we have to start thinking concretely about how so in vision a better world out of the kind of. The collapse of this world. Optimists say things could be wonderful machines do nearly all the work money disappears as things are created