The worlds richest men is reported to been released from detention in saudi arabia. In syria a fragile ceasefire in the south of the country as a Turkish Military offensive continues in the north. Plus chinas battle ivory forces autisms to find new ways to use their skills. At least forty people have been killed more than one hundred injured in a blast in afghanistans capital kabul the taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that used an ambulance near the old interior Ministry Building it comes a week after Taliban Attack on the citys Intercontinental Hotel sirus jennifer glass reports now from kabul. The emergency vehicles there taking off the dead and wounded in this bombing it happened just around the corner at the second checkpoint this is a heavily guarded street the target appears to be the High Peace Council thats where the gate is that area is also home to the Anti Corruption agency here as well this is a very very busy part of town normally this road would be jammed with cars in addition to the government offices down that down that street this is a hospital just behind the camera as well is the Governors Office the kabul Mayors Office and these are all businesses and as you can see Security Officials still doing their jobs. This is the second major attack in kabul in a week of course last saturday the Intercontinental Hotel that siege lasted more than fifteen hours and killed twenty two at the security has been tight around the city but still Afghan Security forces unable to stop this latest car bomb iraqi Army Official say the u. S. Military across mistakenly fired at a gathering of tribal fighters and civilians west of killing at least seven people and wounding eleven others instant came off the u. S. Back to rocky forces arrested and i saw a fight at his home an investigation is on the way. A cease fire has come into effect in syrias perceived area of eastern the capital damascus it was brokered by russia the area is the last remaining rebel stronghold near damascus and has been under siege by Government Forces for almost five years it comes the Syrian OppositionMembers Meeting in vienna say they will boycott talks that russia is hosting in sochi next week but they did say that they are ling gauge with russia if moscow genuinely works towards a solution meanwhile Turkish Forces continue their operation against kurdish fighters in a free in Northern Syria forcing thousands from their homes the violence has increased tension with the u. S. Which supports the kurdish y. P. G. Forces in the area as they battle eisel lets go live and taqiyya unpack all of this with syria Stephanie Decker stepha stop with the cease fire the nice and is it holding it is for now agent but it is early days we do see the ceasefire is coming go in syria. Is also a deescalation zone what that means that was agreed upon a while ago that it would not be an area of conflict but we have seen intense air strikes from the Syrian Government and russia on the areas there there are several different rebel groups some of them have signed up to this others havent but the main thing is age and when we talk about east a new day yes it is the last bastion of rebel control around the capital damascus but the humanitarian situation there is so bad the u. N. Estimates around four hundred thousand people in there are saying because of the seas the lack of food and medicine is making the situation for people there what they say is the worst malnutrition in the syrian conflict so just gives you an idea of just how desperate still pockets areas are inside syria as the politicians fail to reach any kind of agreement step Turkish Forces are continuing their operation against kurdish fighters in africa in Northern Syria just across the border from from you whats the latest on that. Yes well its the first day in that all this for so that the sun has come out so there could be a relative perhaps move on the battlefield when it comes to ground offensive even though again it is fluid we had this morning a village confirmed by the f. S. A. The Free Syrian Army that they had taken that back from the y p g weve just had a statement from the white p. G. Saying thats not the case it is very difficult terrain as well we were in syria yesterday with turkish authorities on an organized trip we were close to one of the front lines speaking to Free Syrian Army fighters all seeing them why they were involved in this operation which certainly is more of a cause for turkey and them telling us that basically some of their villages which are arab villages were taken by the kurds is a very complicated situation also for many of these f. S. A. Fighters it is personal it is the eighth day adrian and it is again a new front that further complicates this war that has so many different elements to it stephanie thanks indeed down to zero stephanie deck of their lives in kentucky lets get more now on those u. N. Back talks in vienna al jazeera is one of the hobby that has been speaking to the opposition delegation and they explained their position. This round in vienna was meant to be a real test for the commitment to the implementation of us you could go solution two to five for. The details in it unfortunately this test has been. They failed that both the regime and those who are supporting that he deemed to continue surviving now based on that is all its all the vote that there could be a commitment the citizens could have been made regarding what russia is proposing unfortunately the test was where is this going to go i mean how many times are you guys going to attend talks way to geneva or anywhere else and each and every time theres no outcome absolutely all right but you have to think of the person who was trying to obstruct the political process from the very beginning of the g. M. Has selected the military solution to be the strategy for just silencing people however the world quote a political solution should you once you could at the Council Resolutions that is somebody who is working against these political attempts of the because of the russians and finding ways and means to obstruct the yuan from just doing its job it is a challenge not only to the study and people it is a challenge to the un its its good it comes as a nuisance this is the problem one of the worlds richest men the billionaire saudi prince sal believe bin talal has been released from detention just before his release he gave an interview to the Reuters News Agency inside the Ritz Carlton Hotel in riyadh where hed been held since november along with around two hundred other cities are some of the first images from inside the complex a saudi attorney general says that many have already been released after paying settlements of billions of dollars will defend study professor Andreas Krieg says that saudi arabias government is using prince talal as an example to invest as. Having someone like prince talal for example speak out publicly as he did yesterday shows that you know the saudis are trying to use him as somewhat the poster child of liberalism theyre trying to appeal to investors overseas saying we realize that what we did and the way we did it with that courage last year we completely undermined the Business Confidence and Investor Confidence in saudi arabia because lets face it there is a country that says we want to fight corruption and we does just misappropriate or nationalize certain. Certain privately owned acids and privately owned Company Companies and that obviously undermines Investor Confidence now theyre trying to come back and say its actually all not that bad we came to a settlement the problem with all of this is there has not been a Due Diligence process there has not been a process that follows the rule of law thats seen until now it seems everything that has happened there seems to be absolutely abba treasury and based on the cushion and bullying thats obviously not how you deal with such problems and i think that is the big problem. With this entire affair and now the saudis are trying to pull back saying look actually its not been that bad a using tell all to say actually weve come to a mutually beneficial agreement in the end of it and it wasnt all that bad but lets be honest you know i mean if people especially billionaires are being added truly detained that has an impact on international Business Confidence and Investor Confidence obviously African Union leaders are gathering in ethiopia head of a major summit. Set to discuss ways to tackle the flow of refugees and migrants to europe as part of a series leading up to the a summit picklers hoc reports now from dakar why people are so determined to leave yusuf in the us doesnt want to be here hes tried twice to go to france and failed both times. Now he wants to go again he says he deserves a better life. For me im a father my family depend on me i decided to leave senegal because my degrees and diplomas seem useless here. As a child he thought he would play professional football in europe instead he went to university and became an i. T. Engineer hoping to find work at home but here in senegal he never found a full time job. My parents sold whatever they want to pay for my education theyve never asked me to pay them back but i know i owed them because they have suffered for me and im ready to suffer for them and so is preparing to travel again by road and see to the shores of europe despite joint efforts by Police Forces and coast guards from both european and african countries the trafficking of migrants and refugees continues. The u. N. Estimates the people smuggling trade to be worth more than thirty five billion dollars a year and its booming. More than three thousand people died last year most of them were africans and. There are no official numbers of migrants that actually made it to europe some have drowned in the mediterranean others have died of thirst hunger in the desert and then there are those have been taken as slaves. He was sold by senegalese traffickers not arabs our own brother has sold us to the arabs my family had to pay fifteen hundred dollars to free me. This isnt just his brother a cynical eavesdropper who made it to france he paid for us to be freed and sends money back to his family in this zone he explains why so many want to leave africa he says its the shame of not being able to support your children your parents is the shame of seeing your loved ones are able to eat the shame of lead unable to provide for their family that pushes them to leave. And i feel like a slave here to feel stuck unable to get out of my Current Situation all i want is to be like my brother to be someone my family can depend on most africans wanting to go to europe legally get their visa application rejected and so yes his family agreed to pay traffickers for his latest trip through veronica to spain its a journey worth the risks he says once again he packed his bag ready to go because hawk aljazeera the car. Were going to weather update next here on out zero then. On lawrence three on the river every rock its the land border between turkey and greece but its also the new frontline in the European Unions attempt to keep refugees out. Hello there the weather is all quite quiet for us in the northern parts of asia at the moment were just seeing the winds feed down from the northwest thats picking up a little bit of moisture so some of us in the northern parts of honshu and through into hokkaido may just see the a flurry of snow that many of us see dry weather not warm though because up four degrees of the maximum in tokyo minus five is a maximum a bit young young foresee paging will only be getting to minus three will get above freezing there was we head into monday this time all the way up the dizzy heights of positive one degrees now a bit further south and were seeing cold air digging in here as well so you can see lots of rain with us and lots of snow as well for the temperatures there shanghai four degrees thats your maximum dropping to three as we head through monday very call for us and for hong kong twelve its going to feel very chilly for us here there for the time was a sound weve seen a lot of heavy rain over many parts of the philippines recently the heaviest of that is trying to move away on sunday so still plenty of showers for us if youre in the southern hof but gradually the worst of it seems to be clearing elsewhere and towards the south across many parts of java lots of cloud lots of rain here because of looking wet once more but its not looking as wet force in singapore or k. L. K. Else getting to thirty two. Rewind returns with new updates on the best of aljazeera is documentaries. And the moving story of two young turk men girls in afghanistan. At last able to get an education after years of repressive taliban occupation. Five years on what has become of their dreams. Rewind pencils and bullets at this time on aljazeera. Again the top stories this hour on aljazeera at least forty people have been killed and more than one hundred injured in a blast in the Afghan Capital kabul the taliban says that it was behind the suicide car bombing near the old interior Ministry Building. A cease fire brokered by russia has gone into effect in the rebel held area of eastern syrias capital damascus eighty four hundred thousand people live in the region thats been besieged by government fighters now for almost five years. And one of the worlds richest men the billionaire saudi prince already been tell all has been released from detention just before his release he gave an interview to the Reuters News Agency inside the Ritz Carlton Hotel in riyadh and. Been to the houses that hell be cleared of corruption charges within days he gave an interview to. The russians here im sorry ive just told you all that lets move on. Well get more on our top story the blast in afghanistans capital. Is a lecturer at the abu rehan University Joins us now live from kabul to tell you this president ashraf ghani has expressed confidence that a new more aggressive military strategy is succeeding in pushing taliban insurgents back from a major provincial Center Centers on the evidence of todays blast that that confidence is misplaced isnt it. This i believe is in response to that aggressive strategy that the government of afghanistan is undertaking the government of afghanistan is pounding the taliban in remote areas namely in him on. The lawn and other remote areas but this is a response to the government by taliban they took full responsibility for this attack and you might have been updated on the latest on this tragic attack which took lives and. Wounded more than one forty ok so if this is in response to the governments strategy. Last weeks attack on the Intercontinental Hotel todays attack indicative of what could be to come a week and we can we expect more like this. Well its sad to say that but i think we can expect more to come because the taliban the group is responding today to the sanctioning of six of the members which. The United States put six high level members of the taliban in. Global terror blacklist and also the government of afghanistan and ally of the u. S. Pounding the a group so they are also responding this is a this is an impasse its not a neither side is winning so theyre also pushing to win the government and its allies are also pushing to win and. Yes this is a response and we can expect more to come from all right so how can that and past be broken. Well. Only time can tell us but i think its it cannot be broken so soon we cannot expect to win i mean if we talk on behalf of the government we cannot expect to win so soon because the group the group resisted the. Aggressive strategy of the us with the United States out more than one hundred ten thousand troops and now they have around twenty the group. Is not going to surrender or give up they they want to take areas mo territories and also the government is trying to control the Populated Areas but this impasse cannot be broken so easily and so soon but i thought he could still see so many thanks indeed for being with us all remaining members of the u. S. Gymnastics board have agreed to step down after former team doctor larry nasa was jailed for sexually abusing female athletes the Athletic Director at Michigan State university where nasa works also quits the university is now the focus of a federal investigation Diana Estabrook reports one day after the u. S. Olympic committee sent this letter demanding the resignation of the full usa gymnastics board all remaining members stepped down the u. S. O. C. Threatened to strip the group of its power following wednesday sentence of dr larry now sorry i just find you get boring the physician for the u. S. Womens Gymnastics Team and Michigan State university pleaded guilty to sexua