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 each year has more now from kabul. this is why millions come here each year to see the shrine of the most revered and mom and she a history a mom hussein. with more than thirteen thousand employees some say it's a city and it's growing every year we take you through a side of the 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. 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 in saudi arabia this shrine is considered the second most

important place of worship for shias and mum 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. 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. to mom hussein foundation has also opened a hospital here for 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. motels are shammy is one of the business owners

within the grounds of the shrines who has witnessed the rapid expansion he has been renting the store for the past twenty years. so i'm a could muster up for those who are the more expansion is down around the shrine the more visitors it will attract and that will also mean our businesses can expand it will generate more money for the whole city oh you mean the people from around the world come to see these holy grounds in their millions each year for the iraqi government religious tourism is the second highest source of income after all oil. the number of visitors is increasing each year because many believe iraq security is improving that means the country's revenue is to door such a party al jazeera karbala still to come for you here on the news and susie asked in mexico are taking to the sky to connect with their ancestors. and the sportsmanship ventus of front italian champions again and make a bit of history the first place.

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china's film industry has grown rapidly over the last decade making it the second biggest in the world this week's beijing film festival is meant to showcase its rise but with several scandals and local censorship stifling creativity event is facing challenges as katrina you reports now from beijing. and you mustn't go on the journey of the chinese musician in one nine hundred forty s. kazakhstan opened this year's beijing film festival the navy because that wasn't chosen because of its acting or special effects but because it aligns with china's

political and economic priorities the film was produced as a part of its belt and road initiative. titles from other participant countries iran and hungary also featured. as chinese celebrities took to the red carpet be coated with names or notions that absent the capital sponsible is seen as who are the homage to communist party leadership rather than the art of filmmaking. beijing has intensified its crackdown on films which don't align with socialist values. are there censorship is that obviously a hurdle for the film industry is developing. and both filmmakers have gotten used to it it's like dangling in handcuffs you can still does well with your hands tied movie celebrating seventy years since the founding of modern china was spotlighted while canadian film in god i trust was suddenly disinvited due to political reasons many have claimed chinese tensions with canada over the detention of huawei areas

mung one. oscar winning film the favorite was pulled over its betrayal of lesbian relationships that i will not do china's movie industry has exploded into yet over nine thousand. twenty alone but in production practical power lies all thanks to a tax evasion scandal involving one country. last july actress family disappeared from public view following a group of nations of false contracts and types of asian a crippling sweep of the tire industry followed. so. many in the industry have complained some went bankrupt and had to retreat from the industry is a double edged sward it's punished those who should be and those who shouldn't be you know there were very negative impact on the industry. but it's not all bad news

for chinese cinema goers the slowdown in domestic production has led to a quiet loosening of restrictions on foreign films and at the closing of the festival it was foreign films which dominated the temple of heaven awards danish maybe a fortunate man took on best picture the wandering earth china's second highest grossing film of all time received the award for best visual effects katrina new al-jazeera beating. time for the sports news thank you very much a match winning performance by james harden is houston are just one win away from the say. the n.b.a. playoffs last season's most valuable player might have not scored the most points in game three against the jets but he got them when it counted. it was almost it's not often that someone else scores houston rockets star james harden. but that's exactly what you told donovan mitchell did in game three you the

twenty two year old had a thirty four point game on saturday mitchell and his teammates managed to keep pace with houston throughout the game to set up one of the tie to find quarter of the playoffs. and while hard it was outscored overall he delivered when it mattered most. bankable with his first few. last season's m.v.p. fact twenty two points in the fourth quarter or you would think you were kids if it guided houston to the narrowest of victories one zero four two one zero one we. were not so we are going through every single night and played the best our billets in a row and i think we did. we had a chance when everything when i replace the rockets now we need just one more wins to progress to round two as they look to in the first title for twenty five years so hell malik al-jazeera. are also one way away from progress

saying the nets on the beating at the nets all saturday they need a serious three one the bucs that got a road when all the detroit three and nothing. levelled the series with two all. liverpool manager yogen clopas says the top to raise has been crazy so far the reds will be playing catch up again as they aim to go back to the top of the english premier league when they face cardiff on sunday for their training at man city by one point after they beat top number one mail on such a day club side also have a champions league semifinal against barcelona to prepare for during their run in liverpool have just four games left in the e.p.l. as they aim to win the championship for the first time in nearly thirty years. versus positions. so it's all good but it always is only starting positions so we

have to play them and we can seize and talk about them winning them and all that stuff if you have to do it and it was a difficult that's. very much and it's cardiff i'm coming up on sunday and. need this and part of his and a lot of confidence in the last game. all right now manchester united being beaten four nailed by everton a loss would leave them soup points off the champions league spot with four games left and later on arsenal can go third with a win over crystal palace. events as have bounced back from the shock of their champions league exit in midweek get to win a record eighth italian title in a row while you ventus went behind to an early goal of from nicola milling chip as they hosted here in tina on saturday but they have managed an equaliser before christiane or another launched an attack that ended in the feeling of own goal

you've a winning it to one sitting in the squad it too with five matches to spare and makes were naldo the first player to win the english spanish and italian titles. in the n.h.l. player of the san louis blues to have become the first home team to win in the series and advance to the second round of the winnipeg jets in game six of their western conference playoff series the chosen swats scored a hat trick while goalie jordan bennington made eighteen saves helped the blues two three two when they were next face the winner of the dallas nashville series. and that's it for me back to peace of sun and thanks very much hundreds of kite enthusiasts have gathered in one of mexico's famous parks artists are drawing on the mysticism of the area to inspire the kite creations al-jazeera is manuel republic reports now from teotihuacan new mexico city.

in southwestern mexico an annual kite festival is underway. and some people. take the art of kite flying very seriously. at this year's festival showing off more than a dozen of his creations. some stand out more than others like this forty meter long depiction of look in ancient religious icon. this represents the god god of the rain it's the dragon of as we like to call it it's blue and it has a few bells in the back that you can hear when it's in the air the kite festival takes place in one of mexico's most iconic and mysterious archaeological sites. there's a mysticism behind this location. a fourth generation artisan shows us some of his handmade. ceramic whistles used

by ancient people to mimic the sounds of animals found in the region. everything from birds. to jaguars. other sounds are a bit more unsettling. before heading. to months and use them to intimidate the enemy is doing. for those less skilled at flying kites there are workshops where a couple of sticks some string and a sheet of paper is all you need to get your personalized artwork off the ground or fly one of the biggest kites at the festival right now and i have to admit this is actually quite relaxing which is after all the point of it to enjoy the good weather and have a bit of fun. part cultural showcase part carnival the tilt the walk on kite festival is ultimately about families spending time together and letting loose

under a canopy of hundreds of high flying works of art mounted up a look at the work on mexico. ok when we come back we'll have thirty minutes of news for you the place just from colombo. but i'm a fish every leaking news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump the town through the eyes of the louts jan an ace that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the end i elation of israel that is not what that phrase means at all he joined the least named post as we turn the cameras on the media focused on how they were told on the story so that not to the most in bad news a free palestine a listening post an al-jazeera. she's the head of four generations of family and the bearer of forty years of suffering fools a heart or a hinge

a refugee in her ninety's has fled persecution in myanmar three separate times in her life first in one thousand nine hundred seventy then one nine hundred ninety one and finally in two thousand seventy. one the war they'd be to as they kidnapped as they detained as. ghoul and her family span almost a century in age bonded through blood and displacement they now all live in a single hut located in the world's largest refugee camp in many ways what's happened to this particular extended family really mirrors what's happened to so many other rohinton who face decades of repression and abuse the range of aren't just the world's largest group of stateless people they're also among the world's most persecuted minority. overthrown and exiled they appoint

say through all this race meeting you i mean to much film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency you know is that the truth was forged by and we all know to go through each issue is that all along with the interesting case return of a president on al-jazeera. i mean. shock and agony in sri lanka several arrests have been made after almost two hundred people are killed in multiple attacks. alone welcome i'm peter dhabi you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up the police have arrested several suspects for lincoln

minister tells this channel the violence brings back memories of the civil war. hospitals across the country scramble to care for the more than four hundred people injured during the coordinated bombings. the runoff vote to elect a new leader begins in ukraine with president poroshenko fighting to hang on. eight explosions more than two hundred killed and over four hundred injured a violent easter sunday in sri lanka where a series of attacks brought back memories of the civil war which ended a decade ago the defense minister says the police have arrested at least seven suspects and a nationwide curfew is now in place the police say the attacks were coordinated and happened at several different locations they targeted worshipers during easter sunday church services and people 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 stay awhile and demagogue a nearby in a gumbo and in the eastern city of batticaloa more about manly begins our coverage . one blast so violent it ripped through the roof of this church in the heart of the capital the floor covered in remains. the roof board and the lot was this video posted online shows the moment of the blast. i sometimes these charges popular with locals and foreign tourists off the explosion shock and disbelief. that i was i heard the explosion and then the roof fell on us we took the children and ran out from the rear door but when i came to the hospital i saw my brother in law and son on the ground. three separate churches bombed on easter sunday one of the major

celebrations in the christian calendar witnesses say the explosion here was so powerful it shook surrounding buildings but it wasn't just christians targeted so were many other people and tourists as part of a much wider operation they are the casualties we build them for that we transported them to their national hospital and then we have been advised to come to their shangrila bombs also rips through five star hotels in the heart of the capital and all close together are the shangri-la cinnamon grand prix hotels and the centonze the shrine church st sebastian church no gumbo and zion church in batticaloa were targeted also the tropical in hotel in the suburb of to have allah and the eighth attack was in demo took. sri lanka's prime minister ronnie and vic ram

a single says here take action means you do the math right i would like to express my condolences to the families of victims and those injured in the attacks that took place i strongly condemn these attacks the targeted religious sites and luxury hotels we will take stern actions against all those who are responsible regardless of their stature. this is the largest coordinated string of attacks in sri lanka in recent years and so far no one has claimed responsibility for it was. hundreds of injured people are being treated in hospital friends and families of some victims came to this hospital in colombo to find out what has happened to them with many people dead and widespread damage people here are asking who did this and whine. about a manly algis they are. all the cardinal archbishop of colombo condemned the violent attacks and compared the attackers to animals. i also like us

us the governments stewards order any in fire shows strong inquiry and find those leases fungible behind these texts and also the punish them mercilessly because only any most can behave like let's get more now from an elf amanda sues at the st anthony shrine one of the churches attacked in colombo. emotions running high as people come to terms with what exactly has happened here in sri lanka on easter sunday from mid morning when reports of coordinated bomb explosions initially we just heard that these were explosions at a drip through three churches and three major hotels in colombo little by little the sheer scale and devastation caused by these bomb explosions became apparent we're hearing that dozens of people have died and hundreds have been injured in

this coordinated attack no at this stage authorities are still scrambling to find out who is responsible who is behind these attacks we're hearing that arrests have been made there is a police curfew that has been imposed throughout the island it will remain in place until further notice initially it was due to come in in the evening but when we began to hear reports of continuing explosions the authorities had little choice but to crack down to basically bring the situation under control we've seen a huge military police presence around the venues of the explosions sites of the explosions lot of investigations on the way yet to hear terms of the details as to what exactly went down but right now the authorities there three priority is find out who is responsible and ensure that this does not continue

earlier we spoke to. minister of economic reforms on public distribution he says the attack is something never seen before even during the civil war. lisa to absolutely coordinate that attack something that the have not seen in this country before we run when. we roll up to seeing this type of court again to get that piece the first time that. people who are receiving this country have been caught with it so. it is we are we are hearty fighters shocked to be speak to. this kind of thing we never expected. so when we get to the bottom of it and. not stop. before we get to get to the bottom and find out who did this and to meet these

people and we did decide to shut down facebook and. we we don't want the experience growing that al gore wants means we don't want to prices based on sound but. you know. from made up stories to to to make the situation worse than it is so. that the cities and we have that very unusual decision. people living in the libyan capital have reported hearing airstrikes and explosions over night as the warlords holy father after tries to take control of tripoli the city's only functioning airport has now been reopened after a nearby fighting force to shut down fifteen i have to our fighters were killed on saturday along with thirteen of the tripoli government soldiers and if i have to go on an offensive to the capital three weeks ago he's fighting against the un

recognized government base there are serious mark what our bill will head has more now 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. there trying to push forces loyal to warlords 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 have to his forces south of tripoli government to 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 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 the 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 a 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 the on those locations sent. to you and recognized the government is accusing castors 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 the residential areas including the 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 two competing administrations since twenty fourteen and violence has followed among their rival armed groups many libyans now fear that the next few months could bring even more interest to billet. tripoli

still to come here on al-jazeera political uncertainty in mali after the prime minister steps to form the next government. also ahead by kosovo is bringing back home people who fought with isis. and either.