and say over the coming to colombo and over before going on that journey so we also have a few neighbors who have taken refuge in other neighbors' homes across the road because their houses have been partially damaged and so on dry you live in day he well what kind of a somebody is this that there can be hotels it's quite close to the center of colombo what see what kind of is what make what is the nature of that suburb so the area in which we say we really need very close proximity to the village gotten to the national zoo it being a holiday there are lots of people who. do but today it's automatically perhaps because at the end of we've just finished a thirty patient of a new year's celebration and this is just coming to the end of that situation and everyone's getting ready to go back to work to mark go back to school tomorrow and now you know that has changed so fitting in. is a very mixed neighborhood. a. different mix of different ethnicities different

communities living with a maybe a generally a people in one way neighborhood and this is truly a shock to all of us to draw you talked about people taking refuge and neighbors' homes what is the atmosphere like there now i mentioned people are very scared still. people are very scared this morning we thought the stories we thought of the churches we heard of the hotels and everyone's been talking about anything being on social media and people have been calling and you know extending that couldn't dorland people have been calling and just you know reaching out to be project is everyone's ok but you know and just as we thought that the six explosions and that was that was it and now we have to deal with. the massive calamity this happens and it's literally so close to home for all of us that like i said before and i don't think i have the words to kind of. get it together but it truly is very very shocking for all of. well that was the fry calla speaking to us from becoming

a father of his day he well and by she witnessed the seventh explosion thank you for being with us on al-jazeera well earlier we spoke to the newcomer harris chandran he witnessed bodies being carried out of the shangri-la hotel this morning . i was on my way to china in the morning for a bunch of meetings that i had planned to leave and as we were turning in to the hotel the hotel was being evacuated because of what seemed to be an explosion that happened now i wasn't there when the actual explosion took place but only during the aftermath of the explosion there were bodies being carried out you could see blood on the floor everywhere and it was. it was like an energy of chaos that was happening around. security and all of that as i was leaving and being evacuated to the hotel as i was walking into the grand is when the second explosion inside

and have been lucky i didn't get caught in the explosion but what ended up happening was like i was caught up in the aftermath again i was wearing essentially all the ashes and stuff came on to it. it was a pretty sorry sight to see but the thing about it is we've gone through a thirty year civil war which we managed to get to and you see so much positivity around like pictures being circulated off the blood donation camps being full and it's like one of those times we get together so i'm hopeful that we'll be able to get through this. well still ahead on al-jazeera the run off hotel elect a new leader begins in ukraine with president petro poroshenko fighting to hang on .

hello there we're still seeing plenty of showers over the southeast and parts of asia generally speaking though in between the showers we are seeing a fair amount of sunshine so sunshine in chad was the order of the day for many of us here stretching all the way across towards the much further north there's a better chance of a dry day but even here there's a chance that the clouds will build thick enough at times to give us one or two showers but i think the majority of us will get away with a draw a day just a little bit of cloud coming and going at times that's why it's staying then as we head through monday and tuesday and if we head down towards australia we can see the weather here really has changed and it's all thanks to this weather front here ahead of it it was incredibly hot but as the system worked its way across us the temperatures dropped away like a stone so for a maximum we're looking at eighteen in adelaide and ninety's seventeen in melbourne and then the wet weather will work its way eastwards and the temperatures will begin to ease force in sydney still the chance of a shower there a full some of i think queens of the new south wales as we head through choose day and for the west i think we'll just see a little bit of cloud making its way towards perth for new zealand the weather

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hello again i'm. reminded of the news this hour there's been another explosion and sri lanka it follows a series of bomb attacks earlier on sunday which killed at least one hundred fifty six people and injured over four hundred more several churches and hotels were targeted in three cities and police say the attacks were coordinated and the prime minister has called for an emergency meeting of his government and the scene at hospitals in the capital is increasingly frantic as casualties arrive and family and friends seek more information. we spoke to kids on raja who's a doctor in colombo where medical stuff have been calling for blood donations to help cope after these attacks. fresh ideas are keeping up keep coming and also

has among people in general it's been 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 the injuries are mostly it's a blast injuries or be born then. it's really tough to explain because most more so most of the most serious but injuries are not deep injuries from blast blast injuries the senior really horrible like at the moment there are a lot of people are forming into the hospitals and it's really really that easy at the moment for a lot of related friends especially for their friends. being miserable for the people believe it today but after ten years almost ten years of these soldiers have been people i really trusted and release. them sad is not the word to really explain the situation here and maybe it's really seems to be on the well you know i also spoke to say the shallow going to want to know who is

a former director general of government information and also a human rights lawyer he says the attack is a shock for a country still trying to reconcile with a history of ethnic conflict the majority. so we have the seventy five percent majority and just twenty five stuff we buy or things we have i was able to him to send good teams in the hell more since so doing the role they have been if you don't actually from the port sites and if you live in the game both sides for a text. massacre in the mosque in the east. attacked the christian and catholic churches by the. insurgents as well as some off we've. seen. the falseness also the glue would just exist basis back lungs the. poor

the sick of shame how bored we are there is the temple of truth in can be both are very sick pitiful bodies so we see that these effects the only conduct but to create disharmony among the. various groups so we have been repressing the stings and actually we managed to face the situations because people have been acting. with restraint so this bifida i see as a very unfortunate thing and i believe that. core concrete concrete. wall that also. happened. well to other news now and people living in libya's capital have reported hearing airstrikes and explosions overnight as the

world clear for half the tries to take control of tripoli the city's only functioning airport has now been reopened after a nearby fighting forced it to shut down fifteen fighters loyal to have to were killed on saturday along with thirteen soldiers from the tripoli based government cliff i have to began an offensive to retake the capital three weeks ago he's fighting against the un recognized government in the city but al jazeera as luck would otherwise head has more from the capital. under cover of a deliberate shelling forces loyal to libya's you could notice the government advance and where they will be so the east of the capital. they're trying to push forces loyal to world and for have to out over aims are unable. civil military units joined together in a number of flash points to form a defense called on freezing have to his forces of tripoli government warplanes targeted have to his forces locations near the area and city 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 back 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 to sit there is as good as controlled by the. military sources with the un recognized the government say they're preparing to launch an offensive in the next few days to retake the former international airport they want to push to discuss a little bit of shared a strategic supply point for have to his forces involved in the fighting southeast of the. some analysts believe forces loyal to the tripoli government have an advantage as they try to hold of have to advance the strengths. our inability to understand the area national gini backed forces on the

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 the on those locations sent. to you and recognized the 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 arrest a warrant against hefted and other military officers there to accused of targeting grizz attention 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. now several senior members of sudan's former ruling party have reportedly been arrested thousands of demonstrators are keeping up the pressure on the transitional military council they want an investigation into alleged abuses carried out by the former government the public prosecutor says former president omar al bashir is being investigated for money laundering mohamed val has wall from the capital khartoum. a senior party member of the former ruling communist party confirm that some of the top leaders of the party including the speaker of

the parliament including or some of their former defense minister have been transferred to the 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 arrest of the two brothers of the shoe a bass and there wasn't even a confirmation from the military council about the task force on a shoot to the khobar jail this has been criticized by the general public here particularly by the leadership of the protest they accuse the military council of being of lacking transparency about the process of getting rid of the remnants and vestiges. of the former regime on the other hand consultations have been help 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 zero visiting khartoum who

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 party's leadership of the opposition about. should be part of this government and also about how much power should be cast for the leadership of the protest they want a complete task of power or at least civilian transition of. sovereign presidential council towards a country instead of a military council of course in algeria has summoned the former prime minister and current finance minister in an investigation into the alleged misuse of public money hundreds of thousands of algerians are holding rallies calling for wider political change after president bush a flicker steps down earlier this month. while two saudis soldiers have been killed by rebels near the border with yemen according to saudi reports who theme media is

also reporting the attack but claims a higher number of casualties the rebels also say they fired missiles towards a border crossing well it's the second day of voting in egypt's controversial referendum which could extend president i will fasten elsie's term until twenty thirty the poll is happening over three days but rights groups say the referendum won't be free all fair voters are also deciding on whether to allow the president to appoint top judges and to expand the role of the military security has been increased across egypt. well voting is underway in the runoff election in ukraine between incumbent president petro poroshenko and comedians out of me as a landscape the latest opinion poll suggests the landscape is well ahead of. the election is a decisive one with his events keep proposing direct talks with russia to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine zero as robin forrester has the latest from the

capital kiev. and silver the mood since he announced his decision to run in this presidential race four months ago when he was a comedian and he was not a politician but he has been catapulted to the front of his race because of his successful television series in which he placed the president like no other a president who takes on ukraine's corrupt or they got a political system successfully. the candidate he's running against me incumbent president petro poroshenko says do not trust the law the new zealand is not a servant of the people and is a servant of an only god only god or a shrink who claims he's going to billions of dollars of ukrainian taxpayers' money at the problem for petro poroshenko is that his campaign hasn't really. resonated with ukrainian voters who haven't bought into his brand of ukrainian nationalists

him and many believe that he's going to tackle corruption so it can be believed opinion polls that is ukrainians are expected to deliver a resounding defeat to petro poroshenko and protest against him and the political system that a lot of music has to break out of ordinary guy who came from nowhere and turned around ukrainian politics the question is whether this presidential character can become a real president in reality. hello i'm the star in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera there's been another explosion in sri lanka it follows a series of bomb attacks earlier on sunday which killed at least one hundred fifty six people and injured over four hundred more several churches and hotels were targeted in three cities sri lankan police say the attacks were coordinated and the

prime minister has called for an emergency meeting of his government on the scene at the hospitals in the capital is increasingly frantic as casualties arrive and family and friends seek more information when alpha nando's has more from outside so antony's one of the churches attacked and colombo this latest explosion has ripped through basically a restaurant opposite the national zoo in a suburb just outside the city an area called the hubler obviously sunday a holiday weekend and a huge draw possibly to do that sort of eating host right opposite is expected to have been fairly crowded so reports just breaking that this explosion has targeted that eatery that restaurant. that there have been possibly another two fatalities and those injured. people

living in libya's capital have reported hearing air strikes and explosions overnight as warlord khalifa haftar tries to take control of tripoli the city's only functioning airport has now been reopened after a nearby fighting forced it to shut down cliff i have to began an offensive to retake the capital three weeks ago he is fighting against the un recognized government that's based there. and voting has begun in the runoff election in ukraine between incumbent president petro poroshenko and comedian brother me as alecky the latest opinion polls suggest selenski is ahead of partition. and it's the second day of voting in egypt's controversial referendum which could extend president's. term until twenty thirty the poll is happening over three days but rights groups say the referendum won't be free or fair voters are also deciding on whether to allow the president to appoint top judges and to expand the role of the military well those are the headlines next stop is risking it all more news after.

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the places infested we've been sick since. gen code the eldest of the siblings had a terrible experience and no longer use the phrase and most of the it's ethical colquhoun of the a lot imo but i bet any there a lot going on there and there. i was in which end of the one hundred one knew what on. economic signal and everybody else had been the mental and the so made the whole thing come on a little now when we fight them in the air and leave them in for the juncos wife claudia has never been bitten and still collects the shells with the batman but her great fear is torrential and that. this is much. better on. for hours the whole family works to near exhaustion collecting the shelves around the giant not. if.

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remember low water from them as i've got one of them i wanted one for the record. fly move like you're feeling well more like your mother good if. by the end of the day they filled two bags of brazil nuts but that much too heavy at this hour and they're going to haul it and us up a little credit of up above he but nature often provides solutions he flew. keep. up he walked he flew. the tropical rain threatens to raise old traces of the dry. the family decides to leave the deep forests of the sea even if they can't.

play. live. live. live. live. live. fleas. on the way home the young couple who know each other since childhood already knows that the bag of nuts will not provide enough money for the whole fun and it's no longer possible to collect any mole because the torrential rains will turn the forest into a quagmire the weeks.

since the death of his parents twenty. six year old genco is the head of the family and has fifteen mouths to feed and. he had to give up his medical studies and claudia her dream. genco younger brother roma who's eighteen will go to university in his place but there's just been some bad news there are no . thank you. this so if. you love yourself the composer. is. looking for a solution janko tries to negotiate with the village co-operative for more than the usual price. let's figure thank him for.

fifty dollars or twenty five cents a kilo won't be enough to pay for roma's university registration. lower rates ensure the bolivian harvest has continued to live hand to mouth. there's a consignment of nuts that my roth due to the moisture. to avoid losses i get must deliver them as quickly as possible to a processing plant. but he's just found out his tank is empty and he has to buy fuel from a colleague here in. london in the month of may i robot are really good people. despite his trouble. edgar is happy because for

once he won't make the trip alone. if. a taxi has just dropped off his son we haven't seen in months. to young alan his father's blue truck is amazing. for the moment between the point of view none of us can go. on the middle of the middle trying to be there but then the single message. this week amaze me out again as he says there will be another nickname. here in the gift of the motor me i made it because he had a way of. with the feeling that you. have to be. a very.

precious cargo of notes begins a perilous journey through the bolivian amazon to the capital la paz. edgar was divorced a year ago he lives alone and this trip during the school holidays is the only opportunity to see his son i love. him to make him. feel that way but yeah it was such a long time but then once you get going and what i want to feel like. in three days' time it's back to school for alan one thousand three hundred seventy kilometers away. if he's late is afraid he's ex-wife will no longer allow him to have his son. but it's the rainy season and the route through the fog. rist has

already flooded slowing the traffic. must cross a tributary of the amazon the rio beni. this year exceptional rains have caused massive flooding. just dump. more inclusion my form for. going to. the dock has disappeared underwater. there are no boats to cross the river. the long wait is frustrating.

ferry struggling against the current finally arrive. edgar is one of the first to pull but there's not enough room for every one. moment that people from boca raton are some of them but there's no. question. the bus is too long. so the sailors let the real wheels rest on the rusty fragile ramp. they usually try and get as many customers as possible on board ignoring safety. with an old engine and a very strong current piloting the ferry is tricky. thank

. you coming up i didn't make the cut thank you because i will go on a slow boat look at first in the gulf and i thank the ferries no longer being pulled and begins to drift i thank. it's dangerously close to the banks of the river. the steering cable is finally repaired and at the last moment the pilot manages to safely guide the ferry across

i. get you know the owner of the truck and once he's paid off the hire the fuel and the food this trip will hardly make enough to live on i have to be the most on him coming to the middle. yeah i mean doing a film and telling me that just because he didn't this was on the. basis of if. after three days and four hundred forty five kilometers egg it completes the first stage of his journey a river around town. isolated and near the brazilian border the small town grew as a result of the rubber gold and timber industry. today one hundred thousand people live in these muddy streets and depend on the not processing plants for their

livelihood. in this warehouse tons of the precious nuts arrive every day. because of the dam many we wrote even before they're open. to be drawing they have to be ventilated but since there's no breeze the employees are continually moving the mountain towns around. the operation is repeated of the other end of the way house. but a lot of that go live at eleven am. like to. post in this polluted atmosphere bacteria often contaminate the next. place cut. miriam the director of the factory and forces measures to deal with this

as a mother london does a lot of mom feel it is good that it was only thought of it gives you monday to look at yes i need somebody to sell like i would get out of my life. and inside a thousand workers mostly women are manually dissecting the not. a good idea because i mean doesn't that make you come in the bucket of money. ok this is the basic problem is it as if it was self-evident since i was a boy again if it was up to labs that's a possibility of was such as me yes i mean. in fact several members of the same family are taking turns on

a single machine. this family average. is less than three hundred sixty dollars a month. teacher who's only eighteen has worked here for two years good to see you then yes that was a good. thing was it was good and it was good and i was i was. the workers repeat the same mechanical action all day long i doubt if i was what. i.

paid per kilo of shelled nuts the workers hardly ever rest and quickly developed illnesses i thought it was. really well without the. rest. of the brazil nuts will continue their journey to shops around the world where they'll be sold for around thirty dollars a kilo. has just learned that the road to lipans is flooded and impassable. he doesn't know how i will get allen back in time for the new school in. the unseasonable rains continue on the river benny has now flooded.

the main road to the capital is submerge. the country is split into i think. this year the flooding has been extensive with entire cities being affected. the bridge on the main road has collapsed. the force of the waters makes matters worse. ramiro is transporting timber to the bolivian capital paths. looking at the damaged bridge he weighs up his options . i'm intelligent but i see how broke i must not see want to hold the market than the out. of the bottom.

but it's what they see is special treatment that angers those who've been waiting for a day. but i do know how to get it but i don't buy that. fed up with weighty ramiro risked everything. i get a fair bit of trouble ski industry went back to the. us how about how. he could easily be swept away by the coverup.

he must now get across a mountain area eroded by deforestation you know good stuff what about on amadeo he may go to go from we probably go with us just go go to stalin look policy at the first gulf war to keep out the stuff coming on. the good not that band of it also about. to stay at the moderate on. which you didn't bother coming. to the room as i could possible without them because you know i was going to weed out what i want what are. the right doesn't stone and

bolivia's slowly sinks into a major natural disaster. ramiro is making slow progress towards the plans. but now it's a whole hill that's went down over the road. a. civil hospital he thought he. was impulsive if i thought he did make it i will have but it does not. stop to look at any of the high. school band i have a say but get there but i believe that. a landslide has swept away the roads are one hundred metres below. together that of here's another number up at an average one for eighty so that. doesn't out of the much at least there. travelers are angry they say the road was poorly constructed. maintenance team.

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stuck on the other side the truckers are fed up and now want to try them. you know . what has been said all said that it is it was almost as if they did not don't really like it it wasn't must. want to october. november december yes i guess it's. you know my mother doesn't have a good but a little bit of fun you know. when are you going to get to know about what is going through the community could get near you john. of the company jumping on and off it with the noise you're going to hear this was a move that was ok there's no no it's been a day or you. feel me when i went up on the way that i think that's. going to connect at the ample most whether this is the one nobody that's the best in.

ramiro will have to wait he counts another four days be full being able to continue . you. are three thousand eight hundred meters above sea level. as the capital of the andes also suffers from flooding to new group young alan made it back to class but was one week late. he and his father both flew home with help from the government here. can only pull will. shutter other workers that are yesterday tell you and you're not in a house with this team with his truck stuck in the embers and edgar has no vehicle and has to earn a living doing odd jobs mobile money years old and what open or must

story asking him to hold on to years for this kind of it's made for me for stand of a bunny for me despite its natural beauty year after year the rains in bolivia continue to have an impact on people's lawns. harvesters navigating dangerous rapids from the time with the parts to the time we finished or scared to the fish and i'm dicing with death i am afraid of falling i'm afraid of dying breed if i don't go by coughing my family i meet the man who go to the extreme just to make a living last year have to be a strong swimmer otherwise and certainly risking it all vietnam on al-jazeera. this is a really fabulous news from one of the best i've ever worked in there is

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al-jazeera. you have a your. this is al-jazeera. i welcome on peter dhabi you're watching the news live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. i'll. show. and agony in sri lanka at least one hundred fifty six people are killed in multiple attacks on luxury

hotels and churches during easter sunday services. hospitals across the country scramble to care for more than four hundred people injured during the coordinated bomb attacks plus. in other news libya's government reopens tripoli's international airport after intense fighting with forces loyal to the warlords. also ahead. for us to walk in ukraine is deciding whether a t.v. comedian who plays a president is worthy of. and therefore will have the latest from the n.b.a. playoffs. performers applaud the houston rockets just one win away from this second.

it was supposed to be a sunday to mark an important christian holiday instead there's been a series of attacks that have killed at least one hundred fifty six people across several cities but police say at least eight coordinated explosions happened at several churches and hotel resorts the attacks targeted worshipers during easter sunday services and people staying at five star hotels at least thirty five foreigners are believed to be among the dead they happened at sites in the capital colombo to suburbs in a gone. and in the eastern city of batticaloa al jazeera smell fernandez is standing by for us live at the st anthony shrine one of the churches attacked in colombo will have multiple reports in real time reaction in the coming sixty minutes but first lorber manley begins our coverage with the latest. one blast so violent it ripped through the roof of this church in the heart of the capital. the floor covered remains of the roof wood and blood.

this video posted online shows the moment of the blast. sometimes his church is popular with locals and foreign tourists after the explosion shock and disbelief. three separate churches bombed on easter sunday one of the major celebrations in the christian calendar. one witness says the blast was so powerful it shook the surrounding buildings but it wasn't just christians targeted it seems to be a much wider operation and about my name today i was asked to take my ambulance to the portuguese. church because i was informed that there was a week of blast. in coaching going to church so even than we. were we were there the casualties we got them for that we transported them to the

national hospital and then we have been advised to come to their shangrila bombs also rips through five star hotels just got some information is being exploited as well three hundred something people. stay home doing trouble in your churches it's unfortunate that it's happening but just released a hole in the heart of the capital and all close together are the shangri-la cinnamon grand prix hotels and the centonze the shrine church since sebastian church in a combo unsigned church and better clothes were also targeted and the tropical in hotels and. this is the largest coordinated string of attacks in sri lanka in recent years and so far no one has claimed responsibility i was poor now ambulance crews rushed to treat hundreds of injured

people and with many people dead and widespread damage the extent of the devastation is being assessed. out of fear of. ok let's talk now to our correspondent alpha nando's who's outside one of the churches attacked in colombo seminal first off just in the past twenty minutes or so we've had these reports of a nighttime curfew being imposed and also the use of social media being curtailed slightly that's dr peter we were hearing that a police imposed island wide curfew would kick in from six pm this evening until tomorrow morning but since we heard that announcement literally within the last few minutes we've have ahead an update that the curfew has been brought forward it's literally going into place as we speak it's an immediate curfew island wide a police curfew throughout the country until further notice the only thing that we

can think of from this action or this decision by the authorities the uncertainty peter there have been reports of further explosions that we're hearing the one opposite the national zoo at an eatery or a restaurant another one a couple of kilometers down the road from here also in a suburb called damage to go to so the law enforcement authorities the police very much trying to keep a handle on the situation peter so clearly it's a highly charged atmosphere but on that idea of uncertainty would it be too much to say that the authorities are maybe worried that whatever has happened isn't over yet. that's a very real possibility peter purely because the. attacks which we had the coordinated string of attacks was something that hit me morning as you know the shine behind me sent anthony's church the three and the two other churches in

the midst of easter sunday service while at the five star hotels the big ones in colombo that were also targeted guests were in the middle of sunday easter brunch the targets of all three explosions in the hotels were the restaurants which we're hearing were fairly crowded so having finished that string of attacks even over the last hour or two we've had reports of others the one at the eternity opposite the national zoo obviously a lot of traffic moving through there given the holiday on a sunday visitors to the zoo another one again in a place called them a to go to housing scheme this time so all of these things unfolding so obviously the authorities needing to bring the situation under control prevent any sort of other incidents any issues reactions spreading and that's what we're assuming has

been the thinking behind the imposition of the curfew the police curfew with immediate effect just to sum up for a smell we've got at least one hundred fifty six people dead hundreds more seriously injured but the level of damage the type of damage looking at the latest pictures it is quite staggering. it does seem to be of a massive scale peter i mean as the visuals speak for them serves if you look at the three church explosions and we heard this morning the shift scale of the explosion and the debris from the site of those visuals that are coming out of those occasions gives you a point or an indicator as to the scale of those explosions and the damage and thereby the casualties and basically the injuries caused to human life so basically quite massive and in that respect that is one of the reasons the

authorities need to get a handle on the situation and get a handle on the situation fast there is a lot of speculation doing the rounds social media was a fire with a whole heap of reports of rumors of things that people said were related to these incidents and within the last hour or so social media seems to be restricted we haven't had any formal announcements but what there are social media platforms which are down you cannot receive or send any messages on these platforms obviously because this is part and an extension of the authorities reaction to drag and get a handle on the situation peter ok minal stay close we'll come back to i suspect in the coming hour here on the news hour let's stay with us through this bring in a similar way to your young car in delhi well on skype he was about one kilometer away from the blast a seller what did you see what did you hear. well about

an hour ago about forty five minutes ago i heard a loud explosion we were watching television watching the news about the other explosions i heard a loud explosion and just to investigate we went up to our roof top i could see quite small coming out about one kilometer away from us and immediately a few moments later we could see a civilian or military i'm not sure helicopter that that probably to assess the damage and we did not the few minutes we saw we heard about the ambulances and fire trucks coming in now fairly close by and again a few more helicopters came in possibly to we missed it i'm not sure civilian or military you are within an easy walking distance therefore of one of these devices going off is the entire area in effect in lockdown now. but well the police have announced a island by curfew initially they said it was from six pm to six am but now we've

got a fresh news alert saying that the curfew has been immediate effect so when i look outside i can't see any way killer movement essentially it's it's in lockdown and they've told everyone to stay indoors they did that a few hours ago we've also got these reports which are proving difficult to tie down that the government of taken the i guess predictable step of closing down all social media is it possible for you to get on to twitter or your facebook account right now. well from what i observe basically facebook and instagram are not available it's difficult to to access those services twitter is still active and you took communities actively tweeting and you know reporting and disputing information and tell us when you heard the blast was it one of those situations where you knew it was an explosion it couldn't possibly have been anything else. well unfortunately it's only ten years next month till we do the hostilities or

terrorism was defeated in this country so these sounds are very much still part of our memory so when i heard the noise i immediately knew it was an explosion we are guessing as always happens with this kind of situation we are getting a a trickle of information when it comes to the number of explosions for you your friends and family are you expecting this are you expecting more of the same in the coming hours or do you get the sense from the authorities that whatever it is has happened has now come to a close and the authorities are dealing with it as best they can. get a boat i think there's a bit of uncertainty around it because the scale and size of the need to the attacks has not been seen even when there worked at least in this country in the war so there is a certain degree of i'm easy to assess.