our south east asia correspondent boston hard to going to be now with more boston what else do we know about this attack. well we know karl that this wasn't the first time that this particular church was targeted we know as you said that there were two bombs one going off as the mass was going on and then the second one about a minute later near the entrance of the church as the people were fleeing the building and security for forces were coming in to secure the perimeter is now we understand that the majority of the victims are in fact civilians although there are some army personnel among the wounded as well most of the casualties were taken to the local hospital in holo some however were also airlifted out to zamboanga city which is on the neighboring island of mindanao which is the main island in the southern philippines karl president. is calling this an act of terrorism but what do we know about who might be behind the bombings. well so far there are no group has claimed responsibility for this attack the filipino authorities however are focusing on one group of several armed is

population put together that report as well of course boston good morning to you what it would is the chances that this referendum is going to lead to and autonomy this region for the muslims in mindanao. brian the chances of this referendum turning out positive for this law being ratified through this referendum are in general really really really great what you see behind me here is a bit of a commotion that's been going on in front of one of the polling stations here in court about the city for the last fifteen minutes or so the people around me here are in favor of this autonomy law but they are suspecting this vote to be expecting voter fraud and that goes to show how high the tension is and how high the mistrust and the suspicion is here around this referendum but nonetheless it's very likely to be accepted because it's only being held in the muslim dominated areas here in southern lebanon now and in western mindanao. and so the question really is brian what not if this is going to be accepted but if what happens after that if the new leadership is going to be able. to to admini

was ousted by the coup in two thousand and fourteen remains traditionally strong amrita and briefly boston was has been the record on this current military government because the military has a long tradition of benign intervention in thai politics. i think critics would tell you that. given the fact that this government has enjoyed almost unlimited power over the almost past five years. they haven't really managed to bring the country forward in the way they had promised critics will say that they focus mainly on holding on holding onto power and that critical reform projects like education reform for example haven't been tackled or take for example the country's daunting social injustice where one percent of the population holds two percent of the country's. those are going to be critical issues to sort of come to these elections anytime soon everyday right boston hartig in bangkok a real pleasure to talk to you. now for some sport and tennis news and high drama on the first day of the australian open where former world number one andy murray has just crashed out of the tournament in wha

could have auto city in the philippines thanks so much for your interview and for your report today boston. well millions of stargazers got a treat just a short while ago that thanks to a rare lunar eclipse it's being called the super blood wolf moon the lunar treat was visible in north and south america across the atlantic and western and northern europe as you can see here the moon appeared to turn the stunning shade of red and if you missed it while you have a way to head here in europe it will be twenty twenty nine until we see another total lunar eclipse. ok let's get some insights on this from anna greene she's a planetarium manager in st louis in the u.s. right now though she's with the zeiss major planetarium here in berlin good morning and thanks so much for being with us and a stunning pictures there of that. blood. yeah yeah it's always a beautiful thing to say it's truly stunning all eclipses are amazing to experience i always always recommend trying to get out and see one if possible can you walk just through a what exactly we were seeing blood moon sure so all of blood moon i

south east asia correspondent boston hard to thank you very much. now look at some of the other stories making news around the world the u.n. says more than fifty mass graves have been found in the democratic republic of congo after a string. killings there the graves in the west of the country are believed to be related to deadly violence between two ethnic groups that erupted in december investigation is now under way. under the thousands of pilgrims have gathered to attend pope francis world youth day mass in panama city on sunday the service marks the end of the pontiff first trip to central america. huge protests are expected today in the venezuelan capital caracas as demands are growing for fresh elections meanwhile the country's top military envoy to the united states has announced he's turning his back on president nicolas maduro government and recognizing opposition leader one as venezuela's in term president he's urging the rest of the military to follow his lead the european union is also calling for fresh elections but president maduro s

a cow or you cheat does but after studying the athletics world by winning last year's prestigious a boston marathon he's finally decided to focus solely on his sport. yukiko is known as the citizen runner in japan the thirty one year old never stops running and can be seen doing what he loves to do in the streets and in the city park of his hometown on a daily basis today he's run in about eighty races including marathons and half marathons all over the world winning the boston marathon last year was his first major marathon victory becoming the first japanese winner since one thousand nine hundred eighty seven it was his seventy night under the two hour twenty minute mark since then he's added a few more marathons to that record all while maintaining a full time job at a high school his love of running isn't about collecting medals it comes from within. i simply like running since i like travelling it gives me such a pleasant feeling to go all around the world while running you know for me it's perhaps the only meaning of running i think many of the runners would answer they run for the o

obvious boston hartig was there to hear their demands. they've had enough enough. terri rulers enough of seeing their rights curtailed enough of promised elections being pushed back time and time again. now because protesters in the heart of bangkok say they won't back down until the government makes good on its promise of people have their say we're living with the parliament that has no opposition opposition by the last five years without any you know good governance are. no opposition working in the parliament so the busy election is a very important part thailand not only to go back to democracy but also to phone the country back again after five years. and to get their rights as citizens back in the past five years the military government has used its powers to stop critics from speaking out. until recently protests like this one were prohibited by the strict assembly a lot of that's military dictatorship put in place now that law has been lifted but in spite of that demonstrators are still telling me that they're being harassed by the authorities that if i ca

journalist some cow is with us from brazil's biggest city sao paolo give us a sense of the preparations for boston are as integration today. well there's a heavy security presence in the capsule brazil yesterday mr paulson are a very calm for controversial politicians to say the least and more likely go on to be a controversial president he suffered an assassination attempt at a campaign rally when he was stabbed by a mentally deranged man and so yes we've seen heavy security presence in the capital brasilia and mr wilson are now is going to congress where he will make his speech of the day it's likely we understand it's going to be a speech. with themes all national unity some give us a sense about what this day means for well i suppose those two brazils those who are off or both are not and those who are against him. yes people are for also noro this is you know this is a great day for them they see it as the dawn of a new. story brazil was ruled by a censor left government for sixteen years basically. and yes. we will we will be the. we will we excuse me this is noise in the background. for mos

following sars arrest her college classmates campaigned for her release organizing protests in berlin boston athens and other cities her defense team is calling for greater protection for humanitarian workers but you're not going to do these you know we're going to go overseas right now because they recognize that a hospital is the good if you will for financial benefits. of the gulf war he. required in order to do you know to stop the use of the crime wolf might become smart because you cannot cover the smugglers without benefits and these izzo because you have to exclude them from some shows and organization of the provides for money. until such safeguards are in place greek authorities can claim that such i was helping migrants enter the country illegally she's currently waiting for her case to go to trial she hopes it won't go that far but is determined to prove her innocence and that saving lives is not a crime. which you watching t w news coming to you live from berlin we have more for you at the top of the hour sumi will be with you then don't forget you can always get the latest news

but boston are also has his critics and amongst the toughest of them is left wing congressman john willis he's openly gay and says he's receiving more and more death threats. only that was able he ever said and will really do is hunt minorities i consider him a political fraudster and a threat to the world with me. on twitter also norah has already announced plans to liberalize gun laws part of the effets he's making to show his supporters he won't delay implementing his campaign pledges. we will make sure that proper citizens have the right to own weapons and to defend their property for the fields of. sonora is the face of brazil's political shift to the right many appending their hopes on him while others fear he threatens democracy. let's bring in journalist sam cowan he's been following the story for us from south paulo sam good to have you with us so jarba also now has now taken office what are his first steps and one of the challenges that he's facing. well he faces many challenges of course because despite being a popular president he's also a divisive president so he will face ch

and how long that so-called will last boston or has. traditionally horse trading over resilient politics which usually involves you know a favor for a fight and he said that is encourage corruption at the top level he's promised and it's and you know one of his campaign promises what was really cracking down on corruption in politics now whether you'll be able to get things passed in congress is another matter because if he's not going to give the congressmen anything then perhaps they'll be less likely to give anything back and brazil is in a very tough economic situation at the moment and he really needs to pass a pension reform quite quickly in order to get the economy to help get the economy back up and running and he's going to need a lot of support in congress to do that so what would you remember as well as a very divisive character. he would go into his presidency in a very divided country divided congress you know without as much political capital as presidents have gone in. at very briefly was it a speech that will bring the c

report by the deadliest basti and how tickell now joins me live from the quarter bottle city welcome boston a big day for mindanao what we're still in iraq like and tell us why this vote is so significant. it's significant because for the first time in a long time in this area there's real hope for peace in a conflict that's lasted for fifty years and. this is not only that also the leader of the biggest rebel group in this area said today he said if this works out then it's going to be a move away from a revolution towards a democratic process if that's important if it actually works out because then it could be a blueprint that might also be applied in other parts of the country and then. to change the political system of the philippines towards a more federal a federal state and that of course is one of the key political projects that president the territory has put forward and one of the strategies that he's following and one of the main election promises which on the grounds of which he was elected back in two thousand and sixteen and we don't and thus it doesn't detail to is himself f

one of the super bowl of american football is set for this sunday with the team's los angeles and boston set to play in one of the biggest spectacles in sports it is also time for the national football league to talk about international expansion and at this time of year and fans in europe wait to hear about a possible n.f.l. team relocating to london the league stages three games a year where at wembley stadium and next season there will be four but as for london based teams in the n.f.l. don't hold your breath they have shown passion. they have. shown the same type of knowledge and interest in our game that we we experience right here in the united states i think the issue for still is can we do this competitively for the team that is based in london but also for the other thirty one clubs. that involve scheduling involves a lot of other matters that you don't want to compromise to we can get comfortable with that i don't think will be necessarily n.f.l. ready in london. quick reminder now the top stories we're following for you here at w. german lawmakers have held a commemoration cer

following sars arrest her college classmates campaigned for her release organizing protests in berlin boston athens and other cities her defense team is calling for greater protection for humanitarian workers are you going to do this you know we're going to go overseas right now because they recognize that a hospital is there because if you will for financial benefit. god will be. required in order to do in order to establish the crime with my gun smuggling you cannot have smugglers without benefits and this is obviously you have to exclude from the sanctuary. and organization of law provides you want. until such safeguards are in place greek authorities can claim that site i was helping migrants enter the country illegally she's currently waiting for her . a case to go to trial she hopes it won't go that far but is determined to prove her innocence and that saving lives is not a crime. well two thousand and nineteen is off to a rocky start if you're netflix the streaming giant has come under fire for withdrawing an episode of the popular comedy show patriot act in saudi arabia perhaps under

printing machine maker is intensifying the corporation with its chinese anchor investor master work group boston burke is buying a large chunk of hyderabad that's what machine is shares they are going to have a large corporation in terms of sales worldwide and the news push title bag machine and the share price up nearly twenty percent today mark this is the german pharmaceutical company merck announced a corporation with ten cents the large high tech for in china they are going to work in order to have health services installed in china obviously what's not a problem there is that we're talking data business they're very sensitive but not a problem for merck and ten cent. good news for merck and how about holder's there from congo a boost. in frankfurt thank you. mexico's president has announced a series of social programs for poor communities which he says will stop people from stealing fuel fuel theft is a common problem in mexico and dozens of people were killed in a pipeline explosion last week. this was the aftermath of last week's deadly explosion in the state of pitt algo in central mexi

extra time to past bahrain two one south korea will face qatar in the next round a second half go from boston hisham was enough to secure a narrow victory over iraq. while superstar footballers yana were not although has pleaded guilty to tax fraud in spain the thirty three year old you ventus and portugal forward signed autographs after leaving court in madrid believe it or not in a deal with the court he agreed to settle the case by paying a nineteen million euro fine and accepting a suspended jail sentence for all charge dates back to his time playing for real madrid. russia has avoided a new ban from the world anti doping agency wanted despite missing a deadline at the end of december to hand over data from its moscow laboratory water it was able to collect the data last week rue saw that which is russia's anti doping agency was reinstated less september on the condition that one it was given access to that data risotto was suspended back in twenty fifteen after a state sponsored doping scandal in russian sport. are business news now stephen is here to talk about the opening day of the wo

robotic arms and the one that is most promising maybe is the one we saw in the animation just now it in boston apt is much like a fishing net so we would shoot up a satellite into orbit which would deploy and that catching bigger parts and dragging them to our own into the earth's atmosphere were. in a controlled manner and how much at risk be from space junk well we are at risk because there's about seven hundred fifty thousand objects orbiting space earth right now and they are all larger than one centimeter so one centimeter doesn't seem like much just much like a coffee bean but if this hits you with the average speed of forty thousand kilometers per second it can do some real damage the same damage to the hand grenade would do so it would break satellites would break down obviously it would affect world markets g.p.s. wooden wouldn't work anymore where the four cars wouldn't be possible and even people at home would be effective because they couldn't watch a life broadcast like this one anymore and that of course would not be good for us but you know it sounds attractive is potentially ve

following sars arrest her college classmates campaigned for her release organizing protests in berlin boston athens and other cities her defense team is calling for greater protection for humanitarian workers are you going to do this you know we're going to go overseas right now because they recognize that a hospital is the cathedral for the brain and so benefit. for the. required in order to do you know to to establish the crime of my gun smuggling you cannot have smugglers without benefits and this is obviously you have to exclude from some shows. and organization of law provides for one. until such safeguards are in place greek authorities can claim that site i was helping migrants enter the country illegally she's currently waiting for her. a case to go to trial she hopes it won't go that far but is determined to prove her innocence and that saving lives is not a crime. now for german chancellor angela merkel twenty eighteen was one of the toughest years of her career it took her months to form a new government she faced stiff opposition from populists at home and abroad and after taking

of an auto now this move comes after their title challenge fell apart last season with germany's to boston federal settling for second place or even been a taking over at the end of two thousand and fourteen but failing to secure a title for ferrari who last won the f one drivers championship in two thousand and seven the team looked on track to end the drought in the first half of twenty teens but a series of errors led to fettle losing the crown to lewis hamilton of mercy it's. good our business was christophe now and one of the world's biggest auto executives has had his say in court brian and former nissan boss caro's golan insists he is innocent and a hearing in a tokyo court mr goen said he has been wrongly accused and unfairly detained it was his first public appearance since his arrest in november carlos ghosn faces on occasions of financial impropriety including tax avoidance and on to declaring his salary and documents investors he calls the accusations against america mr gold is credited with turning around carmakers run zero in the sun and creating a successful three way allian

director materia been also this move comes after their title challenge fell apart last year with germany's boston federal settling for second place or even a bandaid took over of the end of twenty four team but failed to secure a title for ferrari last won the f one drivers championship back in two thousand and seven the scene looked on track to end the drought in the first half of twenty team but a series of errors let the federal losing the crown to lewis hamilton proceed. to football's asian cup now and around dealt yemen five no defeat on monday the rain ians are looking to end their forty three year title dry. out some of their main rivals look pretty shaky china barely avoided a major set up clawing their way back against debutantes kyrgyzstan a late goal sealed a two one victory for the chinese term in favor of south korea all they were made to sweat in their opener against the philippines but their resilience finally paying off the game's only goal from we go. over to christophe now at the los vegas tech show while you can leave the driving to the robot i guess that's right friends of dri

following stars arrest her college classmates campaign for her release organizing protests in berlin boston athens and other cities her defense team is calling for greater protection for humanitarian workers are you going to do this you know we're going to go overseas right now because they recognize that. has to recognize the good if you will for financial benefit. we've got for the. required in order to do you know the established the crime of my gun smuggling you cannot have smugglers without benefits and this is obviously you have to exclude from sanctuary. and organization of law provides for one. until such safeguards are in place greek authorities can claim that site i was helping my kids enter the country illegally she's currently waiting for her case to go to trial she hopes it won't go that far but is determined to prove her innocence and that saving lives is not a crime. the president of world football's governing body fifa is considering expanding the twenty twenty two world cup to forty eight teams at a sports conference in dubai gianni infantino announced he has commissioned a

at a time when autocratic strong men dominate the world's political stage this year's davos gives boston r.-o. an air of legitimacy. and we'll have of course more coverage of the world's economic forum in davos throughout the day including the appearance of the german chancellor angela merkel will address the forum in a keynote speech later today. now it has turned chilly here in berlin in recent days but not quite as truly as in the northeast united states a winter storm there has taken temperatures down to minus twenty five degrees celsius and transformed the niagara falls into an icy spectacle a majestic waterfalls of partially frozen over providing a stunning sight for visitors. you're watching t.w. news coming to you live from berlin we have more coming at the top of the hour in the meantime you can always check our web site for all the latest news and information around the clock that is v w dot com for now thanks for watching for ever to. the wrong strange. it's a highly controversial business. when there are a multi-billion dollar industry then made to destroy and protect. i'm fa

backup plan by muslim separatists and the government to create a new self administered area is fine boston hadzic traveling to the region and sent us this report. has been a muslim rebel for half his life. for him like for so many other men in this part of the country not becoming a fighter was never an option. joined the rebels because of my religion but it's more than that i also saw the injustices and the oppression against my community that's why i decided to join. he and his comrades are part of an armed struggle between muslim insurgents and the philippine army that has marred this part of the country for fifty years. as in many areas of southern mindanao here in the village of two can only powell the majority of the population is muslim in a country that otherwise is almost completely catholic. the main reason for the conflict is oppression we're defending our rights our land we feel that we're being occupied by outsiders nothing is ours and they're taking away what's ours and they're not giving it back we always lose out this is our home and we have nothing. now many here have real

following stars arrest her college classmates campaign for her release organizing protests in berlin boston athens and other cities her defense team is calling for greater protection for humanitarian workers are you talking about unity is an ongoing conversation right now because they recognize that. has to recognize the good if you will for financial benefit. or believe god's will be. required in order to do you know the established the crime of my gun smuggling you cannot have smugglers without benefits and this is obviously you have to exclude from. people and organizations of provides for one. until such safeguards are in place greek authorities can claim that site i was helping migrants enter the country illegally she's currently waiting for her. a case to go to trial she hopes it won't go that far but is determined to prove her innocence and that saving lives is not a crime. let's take a closer look at this event so mcallister from a human rights watch welcome to dublin why does it seem so difficult for the law to differentiate between volunteers saving migrants from from drowning and

to reconsider its position on the backstop because obviously everybody is boston because of that should the ira say ok for example limit the backstop to five years no because that puts a gun on. the head of the european union and go through to negotiation of a trade deal but it's better than having a hard border no other fall because there's our brains or no again the country created by the good friday agreement is a come strange that applies to the united kingdom and to ireland to the country to decide they truly know actually to put in danger of the good friday agreement was the united kingdom they have to deal with it why should we we can just see a market and we can only go as she will all trading the seating position juice true peace a country that had the unilateral. decision i mean they put themselves into a cooler particularly by opened up a void a hard border between northern ireland another because if there is no new york automatically there is a hard border and then what happens that means that basically you. freedom as you fall into you know markets or you want to do that i

following sars arrest her college classmates campaigned for her release organizing protests in berlin boston athens and other cities her defense team is calling for greater protection for humanitarian workers are you going to do this you know we're going to go overseas right now because they recognize that a hospital is the good if you will for financial benefit. we've got to be. required in order to do you know the to establish the crime of my gun smuggling you cannot have smugglers without benefits and this is obviously you have to exclude from song shows. and organization of law provides you want. until such safeguards are in place greek authorities can claim that site i was helping migrants enter the country illegally she's currently waiting for her case to go to trial she hopes it won't go that far but is determined to prove her innocence and that saving lives is not a crime. let's get more on the story with condi a google she is a researcher on greece for amnesty international can delia thank you for joining us i understand that you know sarah martini personally what can you tell us ab