it's going to be all out well the shock and also we be very much condemned what happened and we should be we out all extending our story down to go on at least your brothers or sisters because at some moment of grief at the event your should be a national rich are really there has been no claim of responsibility is that significant in your mind he is it is because now you know what these bath really needs they're never looked b.c. surely dance of a coordinated act which is that doesn't mean a surgical insane stand out and get it's also down simultaneously market will look a show on saturday in the early do you think i do believe that there is somebody in my car i mean i have a few people who are me have gotten good at what they were there really just like street ideology maybe enemy had early death i mean it's just so here aids i dish rock is for all wasn't it in canada and i don't nobody has claimed to have only sheeple of responsibility for that that we have been given recent news reports of

various german media in similar localities that out and out i mean to believe they are all on sri lanka people are told from what we believe community have let us part of being such a shameful act i mean accenture and shock to all of us is there an added dimension to this and it might be that whilst the some of the attacks were very clearly specifically aimed at the church on this easter weekend in the crowds in the number of dead there would have been muslims that would have been buddhists they would have been foreigners who were in sri lanka are in sri lanka because it's a holiday in other parts of the world and that attack has been perpetrated against people from all over sri lanka and indeed all over the globe. exactly i mean even though even if you see some of the senior secularization turning daisy to you and the muslim council all of them have very clearly said that this is not

a visit although it's an attack on the holy to a particularly just community it is a need an attack on all sri lanka you know she had to be and make you stand out i mean three churches plus there were two luxury hotels have been the you have in the east there will faisal the i mean spot of course there have been more of those and didn't kill them until there are people who are from all things at all really just backgrounds and literally fighting as i have i mean it's it's not just an attack on church or not just an adult misuse just on all of us really i'm concerned it's an attack on our problems on a unique team and i mean it's not the kind of a view not the shadow that i'm sure that we all should be really good together because that will disable our next generation of the children be convolute is kind of a thing to happen here at all and i think we want it that has to be taking your i mean

if you're in doubt there's the highest punishment and in and accountable and i mean it's just the disbelief all around everybody does this take people back in a way one in one sense to the bad old days in the years in the run up to two thousand and nine it kind of bungees the country back to a place of feeling insecure or of feeling oh there might be a device going off oh we might be under threat. yeah the fear is the satisfaction i mean i i was at i'm going to delegation created to be shot i was beat that requires my been my family was very worried that i mean you go out and what happens and it's the same concern same theory and i mean people and i knew when i got the role but what i think was the boy was to be involved but he did speak bombs to go off and i'm not just if a unit in which he was i mean it was all up to date what happened in two hundred lives and so many people feeling shock and i mean that is i mean there's

a feel for sure that there isn't concerned about well there's no safety and public space as sure but i think on above everything else is that she had this believe the shock that i don't need that feeling not that i don't want people not reliance have been taken by some people who just don't have any sense of value of like. they're in colombia thank you and. the head of the catholic church mourn the victims for the cross and thousands of worshippers who turned for the some mass and simply to square at the vatican. dear brothers and sisters i heard with sadness use of the horrendous attacks which on this very day easter sunday have brought mourning and pain to churches and other places intra longa i would like to express my heartfelt closeness to the christian

community attacked while gathered in prayer and to all the victims of such cruel acts of violence and trust to the lord all who so tragically died and i pray for the rooted in all those who suffered because of this tragic event. most come for you here on the news including political uncertainty in mali after the prime minister steps who will form the next government. of iraq is working to better accommodate millions of tourists visiting one of the biggest religious attractions that. liverpool are preparing for a crucial match as they look to become english champions for the first time in nearly thirty years details in the sports news in a little under thirty minutes. now voting has begun in the runoff election in ukraine between the incumbent petro poroshenko and the political novice the comedian of lot of me as alinsky the latest opinion polls suggest mr selenski is leading by almost forty five percent the

election is a decisive one for the country of forty four million people with selenski proposing direct talks with russia to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine correspondent rob interesting walker joins us live now from the polling station in kiev robin given how the numbers are stacking up here is this pretty much a foregone conclusion. difficult to say over there i think what we see all suspect but absolutely really it's looking like a major landslide in the direction of. the complete political arm. no not an actor and a comedian as you're saying. but it just seems as though petro poroshenko the incumbent president has been unable to really get any purchase on zealand ski's popularity and and so when the polls close at eight pm we are expecting

a. big. landslide a political earthquake in ukrainian politics i think and to talk to me about that right now i have peta zalmai of he's director of the eurasia democracy initiative peta what exactly has petro poroshenko done wrong i mean he's just not been able to do anything in his campaign to to match zielinski who's really done so very little in this on his campaign you know he's throwing up his arms and he's asking the same question that you just asked me you know he by all accounts has been a pretty successful and effective president he can show up whole list of accomplishments in not least holding down russia's attack against ukraine holding down the fortress of ukraine and boosting the army in acting certain very important

anti-corruption b. forms and yet like you said simply no protests against this candidate he is messaging has simply lost traction against again that it was a dark horse of the ukrainian politics was a complete unknown when it comes to specific policy prescriptions but yet someone and i'm talking about mr zalewski it was been successful at harnessing new media including instagram including his long running t.v. show where you place he prayed in president all of the servant of the people in order to push his popularity to come up from behind and become a very unexpected surprise for the president who was not expecting to have to lance . contest the election he. was in fact positioning itself to run against you that emotion at the mainstay of ukrainian politics and it just shows that old style politics in ukraine as in many other countries are simply dead everyone is trying to figure out where zelinsky is coming from and it's got to do to this crazy

situation where we're watching his t.v. shows we're watching seven of the people to see what's in the plot to see whether or not this fictional narrative is somehow going to play out in reality if he becomes president what we can expect from him and for ukraine that's a million who read the question so to speak you know vote for selenski is rather a vote against the russians got once again against all style politics rather than for anything so if you wins that is projected to win the election he's going to have on his hands huge chunk of the electorate that is an electorate of protest he's going to have to deal with this energy he has to hit the ground running and that strong reforms and he needs the backing of major players and he has to dissociate yourself from business interests from the oligarchy mr. who is said to be. behind his campaign he ran on a populist

a slogan of fighting corruption down with the oligarchy and unless he delivers and does it quickly he's going to have a major major problem ok thank you very much peter well there you have it is intensity the servant of the people or is he a servant of an oligarch well in ukraine truth is stranger than fiction we'll be keeping a very close eye on things and waiting to see what the outcome of this very exciting election is going to be back to you robin thank you expects to find out later on sunday that the protest leaders in sudan have chosen to take over the transitional government there doing that to put pressure on the ruling military transitional council so it hands over power to a civilian led government thousands of demonstrators. been staging protests outside the army headquarters for weeks president bashir was deposed in a coup earlier this month to morgan is out to protest in the capital. here in front of the army headquarters and for two thousand continue to gather for the third week

they're saying that today of all days they're going to be here waiting for the sudanese professional association the body that has been spearheading the calls for protests to declare the name of the members of its council that will be forming a transitional government and a transitional council now that body is not going to be the executive a transitional body itself it's going to be the council that is parallel to the military council the body that has taken over since the ousting of president all model bashir on the eleventh of april now people are saying that they want the city's professional association to take that step but political parties are not all on board some of them say that announcing that council without contents from all parties is a step that shows a division between the parties and that everything should be unanimous the military council also says that it's not going to accept such a step and that it should all be in quotes nation with parties together now obviously not all parties are on the same page some want a transitional period of one year while others want a period of up to four years this is also the issue of how the government should

look like not all parties agree and every party has different ideologies and then there's the issue of the military council which wants to be the one supervising the transitional government something that the sudanese professional association and the deflation freedom of change which it is a part of the whole nation says that they want an independent civilian government so thousands are gathered here today just like they have been for the past fifteen days saying that they're waiting for that announcement and for a council that they will recognize otherwise they will continue with their sit in until power is handed over to the civilian government. creating a force of an army in mali coming up in the tunnel which is northwest of the capital bamako the camp was reportedly. ambushed and punched the ground the attackers may have killed several soldiers and joins us live now from nicholas tell us more what else do we know. well peter i just spoke to one of the local municipal councillor of the town of gear and he's now in fact in

the town he's in bamako because he's scared for his life he's come under threat before this specific town has been attacked before why will because it's by the wagadu forus where. the leader of jemaah islamiyah mean a group that has launched several brazen attacks in the north of mali but even closer and closer to the capital is suspected to reside also the camp that was targeted he tells me is the g five so help with that means is that the g five is a group of five countries of the hell including mauritania mali needs arabic enough aso who combined with their combined soldiers are patrolling the area to try to stem out attacks but that is the camp that was attacked so far we know that most of the casualties are mali and we know that mali and security forces are deploying more forces on the ground going from house to house to try to root out any

attackers but there's a sense of growing fear here in the capital bamako as attacks are coming closer and closer to the capital targeting many millions take a look at this report. for a peaceful future from those celebrating easter in bamako as cathedral only is without the government after its prime minister and cabinet were forced to step down thursday following unprecedented demonstration on the streets of the capital. in march a militia group that had received backing from prime minister micah attacked full on the villagers killing one hundred sixty seven people the un peacekeeping operation in mali has more than seventeen thousand soldiers including french british and canadian troops despite that security forces were not deployed until seven hours after the attack and did this shocked the nation among the

demonstrators who chanted out with foreign forces and down with the government is law student. and her daughter i said to sleep in a one seat one son of course we are angry i know you are frustrated life is getting worse for us and what happened to the money people but goats has to stop it hurts us if there's no chance we will keep demonstrating. change and security is what president promised when he was reelected for a second term in disputed elections last august so far his critics say he's failing to deliver his prime minister a former intelligence chief relied on militia men instead of the mali an army to bring back stability but what started out in two thousand and twelve as an armed rebellion in northern mali is now turning into ethnic violence edging closer to the capital. is facing mounting political pressure he's holding emergency talks at the presidential palace but the challenge for president he brought you

back arcade is not only to find a new prime minister that will resurrect mali's government but one that will be that he said by the opposition the ruling party and the people who are increasingly taking to the streets to get their voices heard. the opposition rejects any possibility for a unity government and is asking peter to step down. stole the election from a city given the circumstances we should be running the country we're not going to take part in any government run by somebody who robbed the us it is an uphill battle for cater and for the million people. with the violence spreading it seems there is no miracle solution in this search for peace some pay the ultimate sacrifice. while others pray for their country to rise again. because hawk al-jazeera mco. if you weather his stuff argentina this time peter where

there's been an awful lot of rain again this is the north of argentina and it's the same place where we saw terrible flooding in january this year this area of cloud here that's also a puzzle perigal i am brazil has given us a lot of rain and it just didn't stop so the rain that we saw there really was incredibly heavy and there were reports of cars submerged up to their windows in water and actually i did see one video of a car floating down the road so resistance yeah that's where we see one hundred forty millimeters of rain just down the road there we did have far more than that with some places reporting as much as two hundred millimeters just in twenty four hours and the soil here is quite dry it doesn't really absorb moisture very well so that's why we often see a little bit of flooding here but nothing of what we've seen over the last twenty four hours now for the last for the so far this year we've seen one hundred ten millimeters of rain sorry one thousand one hundred millimeters of rain so far this year now normally in an entire year we'd see just over one thousand three hundred

so clearly this is exceptional this year and probably one of the reasons is due to the el nino conditions that we have this often causes a lot of rain in this part of the world now what we're expecting today is yet more rain across this region but actually as we head through the next couple of days the wettest place is likely to be a little bit further north in parts of paraguay peter stuff thanks very much still to come. here on al jazeera how kosovo is setting an example for other european countries bribe bringing back home citizens who went to fight for ice all. the spotlight is on this year's beijing international film festival but some of china's biggest stars are notably absent from the red carpet and the sports news the dallas stars continued to shine in the n.h.l. playoffs.

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welcome back you're watching the al-jazeera news our live from doha these are your headlines at least two hundred people have been killed and four hundred others injured in multiple attacks across sri lanka the defense minister says the police have arrested seven suspects and a nationwide curfew is now in place. the police say the attacks were coordinated the prime minister has called for an emergency meeting of his government. and the scene of hospitals in the capital is frantic as casualties arrive and family and friends try to find more information. as a former member of the sri lankan parliament he says the government hasn't dealt with longstanding security threats well it's actually extremely chilling we've

never had anything on this sort before and i do probably a western look at that terrible time understand a good terror is up for about twenty five years and then there was a great sense of relief. that i'm afraid west has been fighting with us about when we got rid of tiger terrorists and of course one of the problems is that the present government robber. you know demoralizing the fourth as there were a lot of attacks on the intelligence we now i don't think we've ever express our gratitude to elite diligence really that for starters the minion tap in the last years of the tigers and really kept the city shift and i think there's a great sense of the warm feeling and very firmly and well with the tamil tigers unfortunately after the war we have been absolutely persecuted by

western countries spoiling reasons for the event part of the time and yes and sadly the present government of iraq that the prime minister and his cohorts have been pandering to the west and on this insulting the security forces learned to be in much the modernized they've been vast attacked it specially on the diligently and you know this is they have not been functioning i mean it's astonishing that there's been no awareness that this sort of thing was building up but it's also understandable in a context in which the governments of the seem to think that it doesn't matter at all and it's the second day of voting in egypt's controversial referendum which could extend president abdullah fattah el-sisi until twenty thirty the poll is happening over three days but human 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 security has been increased across

egypt and i think is a nonresident fellow at the institute for middle east policy he joins us on skype from cairo to me think of welcome back how can he extend the role of the military in egypt beyond where it's been for a generation at least. well i mean the military has had thirty or a role in politics ninety thirty two when they overthrew the monarchy and seized the stake what we're seeing in this particular instance is an attempt to reify or in shrine in the constitution itself their political role the proposed article would. would say that their task of defending democracy the civilian status of state ironically. and basically maintaining the political order. while they definitely tast their selves about themselves or that in the past this is a bit this is just putting pen to paper and in trying the actual governing doc in the

country why does sisi feel the need to do this his his critics would say look the parliament to stacked with your supporters anyway well i think i mean the really the main issue or the main drive behind what we're serving right now is extending his rule right so the most important amendment is about allowing sisi to continue to be president until twenty thirty whereas if he had not meant the constitution and it's term would conclude in twenty twenty two. and then once they started the process of amending the constitution i think decisions taken to take care of some other things that would serve their purposes so you see an increase of the power of the presidency over the judiciary and a decrease in its independence we see an increase in the power of the presidency over the parliament and diluting power of elected members. in this article that in france the political role of the military these sort of things i don't think were the driving force behind the amendments but once you were already in there i think

that they decided to take care of all of them as well if he gets what he wants what does that mean for egyptians. but me is first that it's all in all likelihood to seize your men present egypt and at least until twenty thirty and then beyond that it's possible course that you pursue future amendments but also whenever theses time in office comes to an end we're still left with a governing document with weaker institutions a more imperial presidency and less hope for any sort of checks and balances and a more healthy sort of political system and so that means that when sisi leaves office there will be a need to either amend the constitution and bring back more balance in terms institutions or rewrite it altogether to mother called us thank you. people living in the libyan capital tripoli have reported hearing airstrikes and explosions overnight as the warlords only for half talk tries to take control of tripoli the

city's only functioning airport has now been reopened after a nearby facing forced to shut down fifteen after flight schools were killed on saturday along with thirteen of the tripoli government soldiers have to began an offensive to retake the city three weeks ago he's fighting against the un recognized government base there al jazeera is much more ahead as more from the capital. under cover of a delivery shelling forces to libya as you could know as the government advance in what it will be a area so the east of the capital. they're trying to push forces louis into 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 south 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 the economy 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 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. 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 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 there are 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 dam is libya has had two competing administrations since twenty fourteen and violence has followed among their revell armed groups many libyans now fear that the next few months could bring even more into stability. tripoli. to serve the soldiers have been killed by the rebels who the border with yemen that's according to reports to the media also reporting that a higher number of casualties if the rebels say they fired missiles towards the saudi border crossing. there is debate among some e.u. nations about what to do about women and children who've lived on the ice in syria . the government has decided to bring back more than a hundred of its people here's under schapelle. far away from battlefields and refugee camps in syria dozens of women are being given a second chance to be part of

a nation they chose to leave along with them more than seventy children who had no say in the matter. as most european nations stall in repatriating their citizens who went off to fight for i sold or at least support myself fighters the semi autonomous region of kosovo has brought back the largest group so far. and it's an important and sensitive open ration was organized in which the government of kosovo with the help of the united states president turned a hundred and ten of its citizens who were in war zones in syria four of whom were fighters fifty two woman and seventy four children including a nine lost their parents in the war. the u.s. led coalition says kosovo has set an important example to follow that's after making a name for itself in other ways. with a population under two million the tiny balkan territory produced more ice will fight as per capita than any western country ethnic albanians played some big roles and i saw recruitment efforts the most notorious of them laughed at him who had

jedi was likely killed in a u.s. drone strike in twenty seventeen. dozens of others he inspired have since been jailed or indicted as part of the government's efforts to stamp out support for the group but european countries worry that evidence obtained on the battlefield may not stand up in court and that families of isis fighters could be a security risk so i'm about news that. our aim was clear not only to make sure that our citizens are not part of foreign conflicts but to take concrete measures that the ones who already are in those zones come back to their home. we have worked for months to make this happen. these children are innocent according to kosovo's government and may have a chance at a normal childhood after all but other european governments will now face greater pressure to take back their children still stuck at camps in syria and schapelle al-jazeera. the iraqi city of kabul is planning to expand an important religious

site to cope with the growing number of pilgrims one thirteen million people visit the shrines of hussein and ichi it has more now from kabul. this is why millions come here each year to see the shrine of the most are viewed and mom and she a history a mom to say. with more than thirteen thousand employees some say it's a city and it's growing every year we take you there we sign for you with the current stable security situation in general that's the foundation is contributing to establish more expansion projects of the school to observe more visitors to the holy sites the house and this is in order to maintain a momentum of great services and come. up with. at the friday prayer service an approved representative of the highest shia authority in the country grand ayatollah ali sistani delivers a sermon. after mecca and saudi arabia this shrine is considered the second most

important place of worship for shias and mom hussein is buried in the shrine behind me and next to him lies the body of his eldest son along with seventy seven others who died in the battle of karbala in six eighty a.d. now that's believed to be the starting point of the divide between shias and sunnis that continues fourteen centuries later. this area will be added to the shrines already extensive grounds within the next two years. completing an ambitious six year project. it is being built to accommodate another ten million visitors annually. the imaam hussein foundation has also opened a hospital here where cancer patients from around the world are treated for free there is a long wait list for perspective patients but the foundation hopes with increased revenues it can also be expanded motives are.