cinnamon brown as well. all right a national in hemet a farmer thank you very much indeed for your time let's cross back we can. which is senior in colombo via skype and to help us understand the broader security situation he's a former member of parliament and a former head of the liberal party of sri lanka. these attacks were clearly coordinated given this tale and timing what's your reaction first to what's happened this morning. what exactly makes three minutes chilling we've never had anything of this sort before and i think probably it without freedom to have a terrible time under. terrorism for about twenty five years and then there was a great sense of relief early time that i'm afraid the west has been eating with that's about when we got rid of the tiger terrorists but the police but never with all the guys that this never quite is such a brilliant synchronization and they get obviously something on a much larger scale which is tragic way terrifying and you know the reaction is

a bad out of the lumber when it happened and i drew back in and the reaction player had to just that people are moving into panic mode again and that is understandable because the range of the is that tax the concentration first on the christian church earth and then the second on the deals as well suggests that we're dealing with something really quite horrible and of course one of the problems is that the prison government frogger you know demoralizing the forces that were not of attacks on the intelligence we now i don't think we bear birth expressed our gratitude to julie diligence for dollars. in the last years of the tigers and really kept the city safe then i think there's a good sense of the. river i mean nobody yet claimed responsibility for these attacks who is likely to be behind them do you think then who would want to do this and what message would that be trying to send. well to be quite honest i don't

think anyone has the slightest idea if this is the has this got to do with the upgrade lugol's that looked at these motives really carefully and given the i didn't play bingo fable six possibilities but none of them really at all important that one shouldn't really speculate i think very interesting is that tax on the christian churches. are we got the effect of of that in a different sort of attack that took place in iraq in the last week and the government i don't think was firm enough about it but there was an indifference getting didn't didn't lower the loss of life and your family reminded of what happened in one thousand a good street where initially the government sponsored riots attacked tamils which were those bridges and there was a loss of life and there to dish. and there was but it was a little too ok it was. richard garcia and i think that part of her

commission can happen is what is very clear if that the government which of the largest functionals of the last couple of years has a rig up to get its act together then. that's an important point yeah that's an important point to make because the scale of the attacks is big two hundred eighty three hundred injured over the nearly fifty dead those figures could obviously rise and how worried when the government be about a resurgence of violence on this scale. well knowing this government it will uncover damage but it should be very widely it shouldn't take radical measures you know even though. what i would call a simulated context there would be an admission of failure and the lead to the change several personnel but as you know in sri lanka no one ever resigns so in which this bunch i mean or they're concerned about for the next election many

government bodies are not extended as the president had been going off the temples approval given the guidance to people that's pretty good you know in a very very sad situation ok rejuvenate me let me get a final question from you i mean how do these attacks then play into the overall the security situation in the country i mean you've painted. a picture of what the government needs to do but trying to has been relatively quiet since the end of the civil war i mean this is taken everybody by surprise has no. no i think part of the problem was very firmly and well with the tamil tiger unfortunately are the world we have been absolutely persecuted by western countries for a look to the recent of the event part of the us and sadly the present government or rather the prime minister and his thoughts have been pandering to the west and on this consulting the security forces learned to be in much. they've been vast

attacked especially on the intelligently and you know of this is they have not been functioning i mean it's astonishing that there's a new awareness that this sort of the rewards of building up but it's also understandable in a context in which the government sort of seem to think back to doing that as a whole all right and where the where you were trying to dismantle the security force ok. we have to leave it there for the time being thank you very much indeed for your insight. thank you and we'll have more on those events in sri lanka a little bit later in the program but next let's move on to libya because at least twenty eight fighters have been killed in fighting between forces loyal to libyan warlord and he for half hour and troops fighting for the u.n. backed government have to us forces have lost several locations since they launched an offensive to take control of the libyan capital tripoli the u.n. backed government said it would seek the prosecution of after at the international criminal court under the u.s. market up the wire head begins our coverage from tripoli. under cover of

a deliberate shelling forces to libya as you could know as the government advance in what it will be so the east of the capital. they're trying to push forces loyal to world and for hefted out over aims are unable. civil military units joined together in a number of flash points to form a defense called on facing hefted as forces of tripoli government warplanes targeted have to his forces locations near the area and city and around eighty kilometers south of tripoli that. your forces providing fire support to our ground operations you know me is trying to flank our forces from the beck but they have failed in the face of the strength of our fighters and the experience of our fighters it has become a war of attrition so the sicht as good as controlled by the.

military sources with the un recognized government say they are preparing to launch an offensive in the next few days to retake the former international airport they want to push to disguise has been a shared a strategic supply point for have to his forces involved in the fighting southeast of the capital some analysts believe forces loyal to the tripoli government have an advantage as they try to hold off have to advance the strengths. out in the bill. to understand the area national gini backed forces under stand tripoli southern parts of tripoli the western parts of tripoli where the clashes are taking place they understand. the local the local roads the local deserts the backyards off of the battlefield and as we've seen there hasn't been. any long or stable. advance by on those locations

since. the you and recognized government is accusing pastors forces of committing war crimes by targeting residential areas with heavy weapons. two weeks of fighting has forced thousands of civilians to leave their homes. the military general prosecutor in tripoli issued an arrest warrant against hefted and other military officers their i.q. was deployed to think or is it in areas including an airport the only operational airport in the city the latest move on tripoli by have to his forces has derailed a peace conference that was due to be held this month in the city over the dermis libya has two competing administrations since twenty fourteen and violence has followed among their raver armed groups many libyans now fear that the next few months could bring even more interest ability. tripoli to

saddam now where several senior members of the former ruling party are reporters have been arrested thousands of demonstrators are keeping up the pressure on the ruling military transitional council they want inquiries into abuses by the former regime the public prosecutor says ex-president omar bashir is being investigated for money laundering mohamed violence more from the capital khartoum. a senior party member of the former ruling communist party confirmed but some of the top leaders of the party including this. because of the parliament including or saw the former defense minister have been transferred to the cobra jail after being arrested. however the military council has not confirmed that there is no official statement from the military council in that respect the only confirmation that came over the last few days was the rest of the two brothers of the shoot a bass and there wasn't even a confirmation from the military council about the transfer of all of the shoes to the khobar jail this has been criticized by the general public yet digitally by the

leadership of the protest they accuse the military council of being of lacking transparency about the process of getting rid of that evidence and vestiges of the former regime on the other hand consultations have been held this evening between the leadership of the protest and the military council this has been the third round of talks to words the creation of a civilian government the chairman of the african unity is here visiting khartoum he has been meeting with the two sides to ask for a speedy handover of power to the civilians but there are differences both among the parties and the leadership of the opposition about who should be part of this government and also a lot how much power should be tossed for them in the sheeple the protests they want a complete asshole of power or at least as civilian transitional. sufferance

presidential council towards a country instead of a military council were able were reports now from khartoum where people are still demonstrating. the sounds of sudan's uprising made loud and clear in front of the army headquarters in the capital shots and these protesters have been here for nearly three weeks demanding change. meaning don't want me to get we are continuing with our sit in so that we can guarantee that our demands will be achieved demands that we can. i'm out and that people have to sacrifice their lives if their demands are not met that mr tenet will not and let them tell us they're demanding that the military council the body that ended president obama to the shoes thirty year rule handover of power to a civilian government and to hold all former officials to account for alleged corruption and the lives lost during the three decades that bashir and his ruling party were in power the military took over and eleventh of april in a move that was condemned by the african union which gave the council and till the

end of the month to transfer power to the people foreign diplomats have expressed similar demands and the united states stated that it will not recognize the council if that doesn't happen. on saturday the head of the african union commission. council leaders and political parties in hearts on the council had stated that forming a transitional government was a task for the parties but some say they need more time to make that's happen. reid told them the political parties must meet regardless of our vision and number we must meet with the a you and agree on transitional government and we've asked the e.u. to extend the deadline they gave for handing over power for the consultation. a position that is not held by all sides the sudanese professional association which led the calls for protests that started in december continues to encourage

the sit in in front of the army headquarters along with twenty two other parties it wants power to be handed immediately to an independent transitional government for a period of four years a proposal that shows that's not all parties are united and that forming a transitional government may not be an easy task something they'll hold on to their demands hoping for a different sedan for a future generation that going to. victory when there is a civilian government because through a civilian government who will have a pen and constitution to preserve the rights. they didn't have any rights for. what happens now will largely depend on these protesters and those leading the military council for more than a week and the democrats are going to go on what it was here done and without the government and the military council is under pressure to hand over power or pressure a little. bit. internationally as well as we. don't want the military to deprive them of

a victorious revolution you know morgan under. the jetsons or become voting in a three day referendum that could open the door to president sisi staying in office until twenty thirty voters are also deciding on whether to allow the president to appoint top judges and to expand the role of the military rights groups fear the referendum be free or fair well the proposed changes the constitution are widely seen as a step towards autocracy under sisi. president of dilfer to has sisi was sworn in last year after winning his second term in office the vote was marred by claims of irregularities a crackdown on activists and potential challengers a few months earlier sisi had said. he would not seek a third term but the egyptian leader seems to have changed his mind beginning on saturday voters will take part in a referendum that could extend cc's term in office by two years and allow him to

stand for another six year mandate effectively keeping him in office until twenty thirty the movie's a departure from the two thousand and eleven constitutional declaration that limits presidents to two four year terms egypt has completely eliminated opposition it's an environment of repression and fear people are terrified to to to vote to express dissent just in this in the lead up to this vote more than one hundred twenty people have been arrested for campaigning for the for the no vote sisi rose to prominence after the two thousand and eleven uprising in two thousand and twelve he was appointed minister of defense by egypt's first democratically elected president mohamed morsi a year later sisi deposed morsi in a military coup and eventually became president while consider dating his grip on

power his government has a rusted thousands of activists and opponents many facing death penalties the trials were widely condemned by human rights groups as a travesty. over the last few years a predominantly loyal parliament has introduced a series of reforms expanding the militarist influence the referendum is also asking people to vote for a provision that declares the military the guardian and protector of the state the opposition is calling for boycott our dream and hope to have a president elected once every two turns i've come to an end but since his will is not without challenges he faces armed groups in the sinai peninsula who have launched attacks against security forces and international calls for political reforms but the general turned politician seems defiant he's launching mega projects across the country and hoping to be able to fix an economy in tatters and

win the trust of the people. back to our breaking news story and those wave of bomb explosions in sri lanka the death toll is rising with at least a hundred people dead and two hundred fifty injured churches were among the targets during easter sunday services mel fernandez joins us again on the phone from the capital of colombo so what are the latest details you have about the attacks it seems that they spread as well outside the capital. that's right daryn initially what we had was the only explosion of attack that we heard of was indeed gumbo about one off outside colombo close to the international airport but also now hearing of an explosion in a church in the east of the country in back a little weak as many as twenty five people dead in that explosion so it's not just

limited to the number of locals to be channeling those supporting a statement issued by the police of putting the death toll at over one hundred basically a hundred and five c. for one hundred five feet ality according to that police spokesman does not say hearing so far seven and just talk us through in the capital at least where the church is in the hotels are and which hotel the talkative man elf. and basically he talked of colombo the city of colombo that is sort of a precinct if you like that has all these five star hotels dotted around them it is also the way you have sort of the conventional district many of the big businesses the banks all of those things in that gender d.b.'s and this is where we're finding that the pros and the assassin against the czechs the finance and he just a resisted catholic shrine bought one that holds resonance with

a number of states in the country many people are flocking to that church on a regular basis but the other hotels all five of those obviously the real known brand of the shangri-la and to the five star. sort of owned by local business partnership king very has been the cinnamon brand any resistance in recent years to colombia would know the need very much to sort of top hotels of chinese in recent so those are the patients and you know which have been positive on this on their status and minal the casualty figure just keeps rising where when with the casualties being taken and what's happening to them. all the injured have these out to would be colombian national this is basically that the number next to the cockpit to the government not just toss it in the number it's the best

the grip the the biggest. and you know hospital that during the conflict in greece and. the more expect even dealing with that casualty we can imagine we have a huge amount of. if we can we did you even read. this kind of injury and treating people on the nod to more of the casualties and this is one of the reasons why the numbers sort of different from the numbers right you think sometimes the numbers because or of the even being taken to the good amber national capital all right i mean elf and is there in columbus thank you for that you are just joining us you're watching the latest pictures on the screen the breaking news story bomb attacks in sri lanka are reported to have killed at least a hundred people and injured at least two hundred fifty more police a coordinated explosions happened at several churches and hotels. is up next with

more on our breaking news story that's it for me down in jordan want to what he does next. al jazeera where ever you are. in australia more women are in prison than ever before most of them have been physically or sexually abused with many turning to drugs before falling into a lot of crime. one i want to east investigates why so many women going to prison in australia and maids to women who know exactly what it's like inside. ok i've been to prison four times i was in prison for drug dealing. the hardest

thing about staying out of prison is dealing with the isolation the judgement. the stigma. it. says before her world came crashing down putting her on a path to prison fran was busy juggling work and family in sydney i had the perfect life. i had two beautiful children i had a husband that window should hire nine to five job we had there a little house not far from the school. and i thought i was just woman in the world. things to charing. and my son passed away when he was nineteen we were holding each other up from the death of us. and my husband was darn nice tweezed.

thank passed away and we buried him with my son. and it was actually one of my. kids' friends. introduced me to us not long after. i. saw it i was just following it and i was an absolute mess and the more i took on this the more i wanted to tell you go as. soon took a lot. of friends would come out with all three of money and then i'd get it and then we. do feel it all out you know and in essence that made me drugs. i was the drugs for that about it i would say and then of course stuff that

defrayed it's. got my friends told their friends and then their friends told other friends and now friends told other friends and before. my half was sinful station it was it was absolutely and i was getting more and more sick. and it was aiding me from the inside out literally and sepsis in my in my blood several months in your arms but i think that was from the sepsis. yeah the poison in my whole blood because. it was literally toxic and i mean we've reached. i would be wondering today that i'm either going to die or i'm going to be arrested monday and i want to be arrested you know and each time it was that i knew one of those would happen. and i was praying that it would just happen so you know. fran

was convicted of drug supply and sentenced to three years in prison when i came out i had no. change of underwear. but that was basically. where i'm leaving now is not something i am absolutely desperate. today friends going to make gloria lama from the women's justice network she's helping her find some way to live. to see. you looking well. we'll go in and to. see what the housing is all about. power. and see. if there's something what will become. clear is it you think you know. so you can fix washer you ram's toshiyuki the very week of catherine rice works for an ngo to provide short term

accommodation the single women over forty five. there's a kitchen here we provide a microwave and fast reach because you know we've got the kitchen downstairs and the. bouncer you know. she's beautiful. so it made it. i think. but actually it's. quite small so we got started and i do have a pet i'm going to. yeah because. we actually have a paper question dogs which said it's not really suitable for me. because it's so small and i sort of got really excited and i said i have a little dog and she said we can have dogs here. and i just saw her.

fran it would be lovely to be able to help her she's a person that's in housing they'd it's really sad and if you want to help everybody but you can't do you have any other any sort of accommodation that you know. it's really difficult for people live friend to fail rate a site you need health things like everybody just somewhere that they can put their head down every now and they'll say and for most people coming out of prison that doesn't happen but. i've been to prison five times i've been to prison for breaking into driving while disqualified driving under the influence of i and a skate place custody the hardest thing about coming out of prison being homeless and the stigma. it's a big day for becky she's just got her out of jail and the mother is here to grace

a. lot of. these. forms so it's all wintery i'm sure that their lives were saved from i do i only feel it amazing if you. think in a couple of the. letters. which are just from everybody. but yeah. we got there some. not so great. a lot of so excited i nanny so i'm going to be lighter in the wake. of the song only song now i'm going to start. i've got some money. some papers my release papers and fifty dollars but yeah that's it yeah that's only coming out right. not much bikies to six months in prison for resisting arrest. driving while

i'm qualified and stealing petrol anyway i'm out now and. he may be getting a new beginning. and i've been inside for six months now so it's great to be here that's fabulous like i'm seeing the top but i mean that it really and it's so good to have my mom yeah thank you mom. but the world looks good and it has killed today i feel really excited i guess there's a little bit of anxiousness there but. you know it's new beginnings for you and and for us as a family so yeah. every time i get out. there and try to get accommodation for me because i couldn't go home to dad's because that that's where a lot of rope is yass really say that. it's to the point definitely last four

years. before that really since i was sixteen they're sad and when i drink i have diminished capacity so i might really poor choices take that i get drunk on hang out with people that are in austin and i get on the os and i don't sleep for days and then i'm a drunk again and. it makes me and i stealing cars and. really dangerous behavior. this is the last time i have to talk to you on the fact that what you say and what for the impact it's almost so for the big he's prison terms has been the toyman cost and. i don't want to but mostly it's been the hardaker around you know having to. talk about the with your friends so you know i'm going to visit my daughter in prison today it's a real shame going. and. leaving her.

when you leave your. it was really hard i'm never going back to prison i have had enough i've i've definitely growing from this experience and i. just i'm not going back i can't i cannot go back there it's just there is. the light and it's not going back. two weeks later becky and her mum moved into a new you. becky and i have just moved into a new place on the south coast of new south wales. and i guess if i didn't think she'd turn over a new leaf and was ready to make some positive change in how awful i wouldn't have done. this in discover this is what this was when but he was using because she was such an opportunist thief she would i would hard things like my car keys my

wallet my phone laptop under my pillow whenever you know i went to bed and. i have had a very tense relationship with my mom in the past but i am revealing that. mom has given me more than a few chances i have let her down more than a few times more. in. a few days ago nell stahl so precious and irreplaceable things from a house that i was looking after and for me it really got at me at that particular time she'd start on lots of things before in the past to that particular question it was mother's day and we'd been out for a lovely lunch but that not when i went off to work she came back to the house and and took those things and with it my trust. she stole the trust that other people hurting me and that was really really tough and i went into a bit of a spiral myself at that point. you. have done

a lot of personal growth. my self-esteem was shocking like in my and i'm pretty good now. i was six when i was actually be used effect that had on my life. i was like devastating. my dad wanted to buy me my mum's flat out and i did not believe me which was really hard and then my parents actually got divorced not long after that i don't even know if the abuse affected me as much as not being believed. i went from the little happy go to a really i started to compulsively i know up to a little fact. i just saw everyone loved me because they had to love me. i feel a lot of regret and shy around that i didn't believe she told me she was sexually

abused as a young child i had no reason to believe that that could possibly happen you know i just didn't know it was very annoying if i do wonder if. we as parents had. believed to early on and acted on that that maybe just maybe it would have gone as badly as it has. if i could trying one thing in my life and hers i would go back and fix that and make sure it never have an. effect you had a brain six i'm sure her life would have been better she wouldn't hang around with the paper she did. such low self worth or i was unlovable i didn't really get to do things that sixteen year olds did because of my involvement we've have a pretty violent relationship. he was attracted to volunteer people to protect us because on one of our own person and all the so i didn't protect i have

one hundred percent easy go against them. for sorts of things from justify stealing a car. to just find them to give me money. so i'll go to jail i would use that against them like this is your fault. she's broken into my house at least fifty times just all and to get into the house she's broken windows she proclaimed walks she is going through walls we spend about ten brain on the ground floor to put security screens on doors and all the windows and doors put a four thousand dollars camera system in we put blotched a lot up north it's just horrendous called when he noises when. it's just inches bad news all around. security screen that they put on

how. to see that one's yard bunch bulletproofing yet owns a fairly our own anyway the man abounding back you stone for me i have the how it is to my one hundred thousand possibly more is actually that the door to my bedroom so i used to have a case of that but i've broken through the interior walls of the house everyone in our family has got a cave lock on their door because i had. a deadlock and it came up a deadlock came up because i had actually. broken into everybody's rooms. i would pick the lock but then also i. i cut through the possible order from one room into the other room yes. it's a killer drug. oh really.

who's what it's all made me look good i'll be very happy with and or. my sister was silently she refused to come to the giles the last couple of. i was in she'd had a gutful. and sorry she wrote me letters said you know you are not the only person that's been abused you're not the only person that's had trauma yes i feel for you and yes it sucks but you actually in a just get over it because you can't do nice and all i really can't keep doing this anymore there's no point holding on to it and maybe in your victim of it because it was actually destroying my life. women's prisons are filled with stories of people. like me. people that have had trauma. abuse really violent relationships. and like

and i said to the girls actually this awesome i said you know we're actually pretty lucky that we get the job because a lot of women die and even get he a lot of women. killed through to mystic ballance a lot of women brother came and and are in prison in their own house. for me. it's really sad and i could actually very sad to think that. that we end up. in prison after such a dick. you know. mine inspector how are you getting here next week so i really need to find a job so i have decided to be proactive have you guys been looking for anyone or

are you completely actually like a cool site worked. in back and have never worked with me and not so well to the bank so i. would be good please don't know how suicidal i am right here right after the so so it's a really good question because they are literally i mean for me and i can't i so this thing is we have actually just had a cruel history. being released from prison so i'm still claim i haven't used in seven months so for me. this is about getting back on my feet and that's my story and if so if you would like to have think about it that would be religious i'm going to give you a trial ok phyllis thank you think her take a saying was nice to meet you. thank you.

i'm having a trial is to die. i'll do fine i'd like a week people. up and when you're still in work he's got to fight like a limp women coming out of prison do you find it hard to find jobs because a lot of people do do police checks but i think that if you're up front and honest about it first that people give you a guy i mean won't do stupid things sorry i feel like everyone deserves a second chance by. ten cents train make things she looks great she's very friendly and to be honest i don't really care about people's history i care about what they're going to do without him in the future. i feel regret getting the job so amazing. are just like there's a lot of why i lifted. my boss is amazing.

fabulous she has given me the chance to really have a new lives. just. like he has been convicted of morbid driving you. know drive and twenty forty. so i'll be almost sixty i can get my license back. my driving record is horrendous so i've lost my license about eleven times this is suspended from spinning away in pay pli it's pretty radical stuff when i was writing to my mind thirty one so i chose about twenty eight probably really about is horrendous driving record and then i got done driving under the influence so the inflow to miss. i mean so i.

was picked up five times that. maybe i have to go to court at the end of january today becky is going to see her lawyer bikies facing four charges related to driving while disqualified and two called take a drive to vibes which basically means that you driving a stolen vehicle or you're a passenger of one what a different place to make since but he's been released in november she hasn't committed any more offenses the offenses we're dealing with actually like two before she was incarcerated the last time so there is potential that i could go back to jail. that's that's a certainly a real possibility if you have been in jail on a thing for. me so very similar offenses to what you plead guilty for on this occasion so that there is a. big he now is going back to prison would just be absolutely horrific for. sending him back to jail again is going to be another band-aid it's not going to

help the long term in fact it's just going to make her career prospects and her chance of fitting in society so much less successful. meanwhile transponding received some good news. today i'm moving into my new hire you it's a dream come true. what a journey not to count white. thank. you. chapter my life is absolutely it's only good things can come from here i've got such a good feeling but such

a good feeling. it's given me hives. so to say i thought i've made up of at least just everything that i could've drain and it was absolutely everything. that thank you. but i'd like to share my emotions but i just couldn't hold back the tears it was just. space. since you know i did i felt. i belonged that i belonged if you can imagine that. there. might be feeling feeling. you know what the

outcome's going to behave life. great to. have dropped. i am pleading guilty to one draw a lot of school thought and one stealing my vehicle. today's offenses happened before i went to prison so i happened early my. from a to guy back to prison would be devastating. i caught a baxley imagine that like i actually cannot even think about that because for me it's not an option i am not a menace to society anymore. i say that how you feeling. a little bit anxious. as i think. you'll be good but this is where.

she's worked so hard this time to try and show off i don't think you do this type and even five years for the government can cause russian because it's not going to help. just bricriu solve. everything lovely making love to get the seriously ill year. i received in intensive corrections or else the twelve months if i step out of line i'll be going straight back to jail. so i'm not going to say no more jail time that's i. know nothing so he can shut it down. now from the family very good. luck.

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over one hundred people are dead in multiple explosions in colombo the targets include hotels and west of the east a charge that this is true police say the attacks were coordinated the prime minister calls for an emergency security council meeting.

hello i'm the italian this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up in hospitals as medical staff struggle to cope with hundreds of victims. and in other news fighting intensifies in the battle for tripoli as the world khalifa haftar pushes to capture the libyan capital. well bomb attacks in sri lanka are reported to have killed at least one hundred thirty eight people and injured hundreds more police say six coordinated explosions happened at several churches and hotel resorts the attacks targeted worshipers on easter sunday and tourists. let's take a closer look at the places targeted in these blasts that took place in six locations three churches and three hotels five in and around the capital colombo the hotels hit include the shangri-la the cinnamon grande and the kingsbury an

explosion took place at santander needs church also in the capital then in just north of columbus since the bastions was hit in the east in the city of better cloaca there was an explosion at zion church the blasts at the three churches all appeared to be during easter sunday mass. well to help us understand the medical needs after these attacks let's bring in dr katherine rodger who's on the phone with us from colombo dr we here in the numbers of casualties are huge and rising are there enough resources. almost two hundred people once exceeded all of people really. we're hearing that there are three on one hundred to go through to people and two hundred people at least four people are injured if you have a shortage of blood. at the moment talk us through some of the biggest challenges

that we're we're seeing in the hospitals at the moment you mentioned blood how acute shortage is there. casualties are still coming in and no we're really having a really good we didn't comment on it more blood at the moment because. you're really having a very big sort of a moment you also mentioned beds are there enough it's not as well for people to be actually seen to in hospital. well now we need to have you know that but the. casualties are keeping up keep coming and also the column has multiple generals between so it could have been people have the range of people have been divided to two or three different hospitals so for as of now it's manageable we've been seeing pictures of casualties arriving at the hospitals and some of the the aftermath of the scenes in churches and it looks like these were very violent attacks what what is the nature of the injuries that you are seeing the injuries are mostly it's

a blast injury so. it's really tough to explain because. most of the most serious but injuries and deep injuries from blast glastonbury's and in terms of the numbers you expect them to rise further i i would i would imagine although a large number of people already being seen to a hospital. it's almost sixty people have paid. extra to write for. casualty reports for that order to find out what we're expecting and all people still arriving at the hospital. we have been people have to be voting for those people through emergencies and image and so i imagine there are also lots of friends and family who are gathering at the hospitals to try to find out what's

happening to their loved ones how how do the jena problems there. that seem you believe or even like at the moment we have a lot of people are forming into the food and it's really really that he'd be at the moment a lot of really key friends with the four different. be miserable. can you talk me through a little of what you're feeling at the moment i mean you're physically there you are surrounded by these casualties and the people who are concerned about what's happened what's the atmosphere like. for the people. after. these. people are really. really. emphatic not a word really it's going to situation and mary it's really i'm going to be on. it sounds like a lot of people there are in the shop people who don't leave the field this moment how they don't feel they have any more that's what they're feeling at the moment i

believe you so also had a friend who went to church this morning. one of my friends went to church this morning because you go to church you know they were the main block up and i haven't heard from any point yet so a huge amount of uncertainty and shot how it how are you personally feeling this morning i don't know i really can't really because. the country just came out of war and being ten years and again being collected. it's really boring and no good to like the idea and really look forward to really explain it while we will let you get back to seeing some of the casualties thank you so much for being with us and we wish you all the best with what said about to come let's bring in sort of going to one in colombo via skype he is a former director general of government information and he's also a human rights lawyer so tell us

a little more about how you're feeling this morning and what you're hearing on the ground which. would be a feat in the prosecutor actually what happened in the you can be. used to fund the morning attack against the christian minority in this country and also you know. the. country was suffering from what thirty or three people as we have witnessed so many extortions and the restoration so. they leave for the free for twenty s. but this came as a shock for all of us. we obviously put the victims and the two families. you mentioned and you believe it's an attack on the christian minority obviously we don't have any confirmation yet on who's claiming responsibility or their motivations and your human rights lawyer talk us through a little bit about the history of attacks against minorities in sri lanka behave because that has been an issue. actually that is

a country where. the majority of the families. so we have been for the five percent majority and just twenty five years of the stuff we buy or the cameras that we can listen to legal motions. sure will be happy if we don't actually on the both sides and we're going to give both sides for he said a text. message to the mosque in the east there was at back to being the christian and said look churches by the. intruders has allowed from off we will be in the. false names also the cool buddhist elites of. the attack on the

ground that will be sick of jihad bordley yeah divine is the simplest who can be both thousand and eighty six beautiful bodies so we see that at that moment we conducted to create peace harmony among the. various groups so we have been witnessing the film cynically we managed to save the situations because people have been asking. with this trip. if you don't. see as a really unfortunate thing and i believe that cold concrete really concrete the wall and then also to resolve that suit will happen to be in a lot of disc. sudeshna you mentioned that the country is in shock and the scale of these attacks is really huge and the figure is in terms of casualties and the death toll is rising how worried with the government being at the moment about

a potential resurgence of violence given that this is these are coordinated attacks is a review the record of the attack and the fact that this happened on this very holy do for the catholics and who steals the preferred conservative clowns and also if you look at the fact that the factory colombo it's deeply major her peers will. have been one of the very good. series of world she's been achieved. illegal movie i believe. the attack happened like people are readers of it from my or. it's very it's a locality you have the catholics and you have the beliefs and also they will simply really close by so it's a potential. and also his life but the closer we see the sins and

families side by side. so will. has done this for. we don't know hip and the government is actually looking at very seriously believe. but i believe that this has created two if not to create harmony among the fifty. five people have been acting with the strength and also all the political leaders schell come out to ask for the. restraint the president has issued a statement he felt of the country and the more when the prime minister has from the second sharon. security calls him at the moment because we are still he says he had a. meeting the leader of opposition and full authority in my garage possibly include

the us to do and also. shored. pardon for this and also our people who at the disclaimed and everybody else to get a. couple of minutes ago the hospital from colombo the cardinals will come around he also made a very strong statement hosking almost to conduct that coddle into the least efficient and make sure that the perpetrators. begin to justice but all parties asking people to suspend and people who have undergone. situations like this for thirty years i believe that all people will act with restraint the people really at could be sought at this point and really. allowed government to conduct an impartial inquiry and english tradition because it's all.