other than on and off that are some isolated incidents of violence and extremism but this huge shock but clearly in this that it goes. on on a day that today easter sunday and the churches and definitely yes these kind of fagot on their. investigations are only going sri lankan civilities included that will have been been very careful not to call me anything and. of course that this finding i really appreciate the approach beach. can act. and what do you make of the government response so far there's two things that just about for me one was the decision to ban social media usage very quickly and the other is the prime minister saying in the last couple of hours that he believes them was actually some warning on this.

yeah i mean the spotlight thing that's so bad this will show the media from the last you start getting yet to see a dent in the us much and government can get back at that off the bend and bend it and that has. all sorts of real mustn't things like that by that. stool don't want to yes it's been a disappointing because these kind of on things and being there for a long period of time and straight and got engendered he has a very very good. into it again so obvious because there may be a bit train to p.s. he had to be out of. if you go to war to fight against any internationally. all going i just. saw going to. come that tiger that we had that he had and or so i had a video video sprawl and train horses and painted it and. disappointing

and you had this information might fail to act on that that you do. it i mean they ask you why you failed to do so muhammad ali sabra joining us from colombo. thank you so much for that do appreciate it. yes thank you. developing news in sudan as well the military rulers first of all have said that the former president almost al bashir and his close associates are now in jail that's one thing the head of the transitional military council has also said the formation of a joint military civilian government is being considered protest leaders have been calling of course for an end to military rule in the immediate creation of a civilian government they've suspended contacts with the ruling military council accusing it of being composed of remnants of the ousted regime of opposition groups are expected to choose individuals who will take over the transitional government

later on sunday the latest on this with mohammed vall who's following developments from khartoum this is interesting when they they say we're not having any dealings any further dealings from now with the military it shows that the two sides are still on very different parts. that's right come out of this this is a surprising twist in the process of events here because the understanding today and even yesterday evening after the third meeting between the two sides were that they agreed to continue consultations and to give themselves a little bit more time to come to come to a common understanding on how to form civilian government we know already that there are divisions of there are differences between the two sides we know that the protesters want a sovereign civilian transitional presidential council with only a limited military representation and that's not something that has been approved yet by the military side but from their statements yesterday night and even earlier

today it was understood that they come closer to each other in terms of the negotiations there was a little bit of. talking today about the possibility of a joint military council now we have this. announcement by a senior leader in the opposition side in the protester side to our desire on two other media sources that they have decided to suspend contacts with the political committee which is the body that is. mediating between between the two sides between the military and protesters accusing them of being composed of remnants of the ousted the regime they also said in that statement that this this senior off senior member of the opposition or the protesters said that this is because we deal with them in a fair manner but they deal with us in the same old manner and that's why now we have to suspend these contacts and till they show they show more readiness to give

concessions they show more readiness to listen to the demands of the people as i speak now thousands and thousands of people are gathering waiting for that statement the full statement by the protesters in which they will. they will read the new stuff. people there are suggesting to be members of this council and also of the government but it happens at a time when. tension is rising particularly among the protesters and the understanding is that this is the beginning of a more difficult phase in this process. ok more with mohamed valleyfair again as we wait to hear that announcement from the protesters and the opposition. still in studio with us. who is the founder of the president of the sudan policy forum this is what you were alluding to last hour when she the fact that there are elements on both sides who are there to almost disrupt and now the what is the line here

the accusing the council being composed of remnants of the ousted regime this is going to be a problem isn't it. my. old friend. i think. here we are being a little bit. civilians and politicians. but he has to ensure that whatever he cultured he hits brings out positive outcomes he cannot remove those. old guard from the guards from the old or the game in three weeks they have been stalling those elements in deadly game for like. we need to do we need this you know. destructive move over exchanging believes we need to design it constructive form of

engagement and make it easy between the army and the civilians but then i wonder how it moves forward while aid because the protesters have been adamant and remain adamant we don't want the old regime we don't want this this military involvement now if you will so as you are saying those old remnants need to be gradually brought out they're not going to like that are they not going to they're not going to stand for that i'm not saying it's right or wrong i'm just saying they are very unlikely to ask for it but you are right you are right but i mean they have. to be disobedience have to be very tactful they need to help hun and the vice chair of this military council rather than just pushing them pushing their back against the wall if they do that they will be demeaned losers because if to morrow some of these three there are. about five accused of being all guards

three of them. did me i mean everyone knows the three of them from all this court so if you rather than helping a baha'i and they are pushing him more need to push him. more. the more he faces the reality of having to remove those all guards in an abrupt manner than if he does that we are going to have a how helpful is that i mean to everybody the president's just been deposed it's not it's not helpful at all i think they ought to be very tactful they need to be very constructive and this design mechanism of engagement well they will again come back tonight hopefully we will get this announcement from the opposition at some point in the hour thank you. here's what else we've got a head on this news hour how iraq is planning to improve facilities for millions of tourists who are visiting one of its biggest religious sites also more political

uncertainty in mali years attackers target an army post just days after the prime minister resigned and then sport a crucial win for liverpool in the english premier league as they regained control of the title race. but stop me if this sounds familiar but a television star is set to become a president this time it is in ukraine maryam namazie is in our european news center keeping an eye on the story. yeah that's right come on it certainly is turning into a very familiar story isn't it and you couldn't make it up selenski has done it he was the wild card starting out in this election he had no political experience but quickly emerged as the front runner maintaining a clear lead over his rivals now he has claimed victory in the ukrainian runoff election exit polls show he's won seventy three percent of the vote while the

incumbent president petro poroshenko has conceded defeat with just twenty five percent more shango congratulated selenski and then went on to say that he had no plans to quit politics altogether. there are hours of. we did it together thanks to everyone there will be no perfect speeches i just want to say thank you. the very. last never given this is what i was told until i saw the exit polls there are obvious and they give me the grounds to know who my opponent and congratulate to violence. and joining us now is robin forestay of walker he is an equine in capital kiev and as a landscape has maintained a commanding position throughout this election robyn but was this about his popularity or a sense of frustration with the political establishment. excellent

question i think that if you speak to the supporters of zielinski they will say many of the one certainly at the headquarters here outside where i'm standing that it was all about here about him offering a breath of fresh air to ukrainian politics. others may say that this was a protest vote against petro poroshenko the incumbent president the former president that's a now having conceded in this election well with me to talk about volodymyr zelinsky and his campaign is you've gave me a bit i got of who is one of his campaign team members you can thank you for being . here with us this evening quite an astonishing accomplishment seventy three percent you were in that campaign what was it that managed what was it that made this such a successful campaign for mr. it was amazing he. should

tell you first of all it was a difficult few months for everybody for all state it was so difficult because everybody very first for cations everybody everybody agreed to for some conflicts everybody a very first time disability asians. it's the grid that we hear of. peaceful actions and. we should say sank you for saying think you're for sure going commission and for everybody to support us. it was they weren't forceful cations but in terms of the kind of style of campaign that your. candidate led it was very different to a normal. a typical traditional political campaign we saw very little of

mr zielinski out there reaching out to voters talking about his policies. what exactly was it was it just the fact that he was a t.v. personality that propelled him to the top everybody knows him for the last fifteen years because he was a famous because he was a famous. in social area and everybody everybody knows him. as one of the most famous actor and most strains producer as is because. is because when he when he came to politics everybody was here because i was there and seventy three or seventy five persons i don't know how. hard it was but everybody was here. he said. first of december is that he. go for presidential. you say everybody was happy but

there are a lot of people who were very concerned about and still have concerns about mr zielinski his background who is behind him there's been a lot of talk that he has the support financially or otherwise of a very powerful figure in ukrainian society in politics a gold color. how do you want to that those concerns about mr zelinsky and the people behind him i should tell that first. that people for poroshenko say scare not about mr color my skis a ski. first of all about russia. but aren't for russian. or european but. about. partnership mr comiskey i should do. it as

a time. if you separate all of our birth and ship it was mr cover mostly because it was before i'd be for politics he was a famous actor and he has his own studio what's wrong ninety five and. i think we're going to have to end it there i'm afraid we're running short on time but thank you very much for talking to us this evening. there you have it at the moment seventy three percent according to exit polls for the low to mid zelinsky will obviously be keeping an eye on the results stay calm in but it looks as if ukraine has a president elect a new president with very very little political experience but he seems to have won the hearts and minds of the ukrainian electorate today thank you back to you thank you with all the latest on those developments in kiev forestay

a walkout also watching the polls very closely in north macedonia they've closed where people have been voting in the first presidential election since the country changed its name governing social democratic party candidate steve on and off skiing has campaigned on nato and e.u. membership while his main rival gordana silly and duck of a university professor is supported by the nationalist party analysts say turnout is expected to be low due to voter apathy with the government's failure to tackle high unemployment. christian worship as in paris have paid tribute to the not true don cathedral during an easter sunday mass at the same to stash church so. this was meant to be held at the not true don but had to be moved after the devastating fire earlier this week firefighters who helped save the building from complete destruction were also in attendance the archbishop of paris paid homage to the victims of the bombings in sri lanka as well. those of us reviewed agrees.

we followed christ on his way to the cross christ and each time he got up again we're brothers and sisters we will get up again like our cathedral will rise again our church will be cleansed of the blemishes that's in this and that it's responsible for we are especially thinking about produce interim coach who were massacred on just one other story to bring you from georgia where police have used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up protests against the construction of a hydro power plant around three hundred people participated in the demonstration near the village of me some of them hurling rocks at the police and hitting them with sticks they say development in the mountainous region will destroy the environment and their homes. more from london for in about half an hour's time now back to come on thank you mariam second day of voting no in egypt's controversial referendum the one which could extend the president. term until twenty thirty the

polls happening over three days rights groups saying 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 the thoughts now for of of. he is an associate professor of history at georgetown university here in qatar and says because the referendum also hastily organized many egyptians have not actually been informed about what they're voting on. this is part of a pattern of the attempt to try to consolidate authoritarian control by the sisi regime going back to the cool of course in two thousand and thirteen that overturned the revolutionary transition and then now of course he's taking many different measures to try to extend his it's his authority in a way that kind of mimics some of what we've seen under prior dictatorships there's been a massive sort of turnout campaign on behalf of the government some through sort of those kinds of inducements of trying to basically bribe their way to getting a higher turnout most egyptians don't even really know what they're voting for most

of these amendments were rushed through the parliament only a few days earlier so there's been absolutely no public debate or discussion about what are the actual things that they're voting for and instead what we're seeing really is just an attempt to try to give some sort of a facade of legitimacy for a process that's really just meant to cement sisi in power for many years to come. still ahead here on this news hour the spotlight on this year's beijing international film festival but we'll be looking at why some of china's biggest stars are absent from the red carpets and in sports when it paid a little singing the blues since there was progress to the second round of peace and a chill. hello there we've still got plenty of wet weather over turkey at the moment the satellite picture is showing all that cloud rotating

a verse also affecting us in syria and lebanon as well and the whole system is edging its way eastwards and it's bringing in some cool s.-o. we all see a fair amount of that still a turn wintery that system will so you stretches all the way off towards this link of cloud here and it's still with us as we head through cheeze day on cheese that you'll also notice that the winds that working the way down from the mediterranean the dance was q.h. in the temperatures in kuwait all dropping away as they will in doha as well so for monday then we're looking at quite a good deal of cloud. now we're also looking at a top temperature of thirty two degrees the winds will pick up during the day they are likely to pick up a fair amount of dust as well and that will really drag the temperatures down for tuesday so this time will have a maximum of twenty eight and it will still be fairly blustery at times to the south of us well his muscat thirty two degrees will be our maximum temperature and it will be rather humid here down towards the southern parts of africa and there's a good deal of cloud here particularly over parts of angola but also further south as well so we're expecting to see

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a piece of that highly or if you join us on saturday. they can speak up their mind this is a dialogue everyone has a voice to talk to us and i live you to chat and you too can be in the street join the global conversation on how to zero. in on the news on here at al-jazeera and these are our top stories eight explosions in sri lanka have killed more than two hundred people and left at least one hundred fifty injured the prime minister said information about the attacks may have been received in advance and that an investigation must look at why adequate precautions were not taken the head of sudan's transitional military council says the formation

of a joint military civilian council is now being considered protest leaders have been called. for enhanced role creation. and ukraine has a new leader the television comedian. incumbent petro poroshenko in the presidential runoff landslide win in fact he won seventy three percent of the vote and pushing to have conceded. to take you back to sri lanka now and earlier we spoke to one of. the minister of economic reforms and public distribution he says the attack is something never seen before in sri lanka even during the civil war. two absolutely coordinated attack something that you have not seen in this country before we run when. we roll our.

stipe of course again to get back at least the first time that. people who are receiving this country have also been. so. do we are hard to fight this shock and be exposed to. this kind of thing we never ever expect that. we will get to the bottom of it and we will not stop. before we do get to the bottom and find out and do the peacekeeper and we sat down face. we we don't want to exclude. anyone who didn't warn reprice based on sound but that. you know. from made up stories to to to make the situation worse

than it is feel that he said he simply had that very unusual decision. well following the attacks the government enforced a social media ban in sri lanka the mohammad's been looking at that hundreds of thousands of people have been tweeting about what happened in sri lanka the numbers are growing fast after the first attack which happened just after seven hundred g.m.t. and the story is going viral with many saying they are shocked and devastated people have been sharing the videos and pictures of the aftermath of the attacks but after enforcing a nationwide curfew shock us government issued a temporary shutdown of social media networks and messaging apps to prevent the circulation of misinformation well net dockside all monitors the internet it confirms that facebook whatsapp instagram you tube snap chat and messenger all blocked in the country for example there are cases like the red cross which tweeted

saying rumors were circulating on social media that one of its buildings was attacked adding that it's false and wrong information well roll raymond says temporary banning social media is the right thing to do today has been there's no or no ban on twitter so in the mission is still. out there and also you know normal color lines you can pick up before and cause someone you can tell them what's going on there's no there's no restriction on normal communication but there's a restriction on social media because i think the nature of social media is just passing things that are so you know that that can just cause a lot of trouble because it's so quick so quick and. can just pass so quickly between people without any kind of verification see i see where the guy is coming from let's put it that but not everyone is convinced that blocking social media is the right move. what we've seen is that people are struggling to contact friends family loved ones and from our own experience tracking this kind of it's around

well we know that shutting down social media can actually add to the fear to the impact of terror attacks so we think it's better to actually keep access on during these kinds of incidents now it's not the first time this has happened with or it is in sri lanka block social media when violence broke out in march last year members of the buddhists in hama community attacked mosques and muslim properties and there were fears that it would incite further violence and hate and that social media band lasted about a week it's unclear how long this one will be to other news at least two hundred twenty seven have now people have now been killed in libya since the fighting to control the capital tripoli began three weeks ago the world health organization says thousands of been injured more than thirty thousand have been displaced troops loyal to the warlords are fighting to take the capital from the u.n. recognize government fifteen of have to fight as were killed on saturday along with

thirteen from the tripoli based government there are reports of an army camp in mali being attacked in the town of day which is north of the capital bamako the camp was reportedly ambushed and burned to the ground and the attackers may have killed several soldiers this prime minister and government of course resigned on thursday following protests earlier this month with threats of more unrest the president is now in talks with the opposition to form a new government report from bamako. the prayer for a peaceful future from those celebrating easter in bamako as cathedral mali is without a government after its prime minister and cabinet were forced to step down on 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 is not of course where and why you are frustrated life is getting worse for us what happened to the money people and. goats has to stop it hurts us 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 that we've been waiting for developments from sudan they're coming now the s.p.i. opposition now giving its nominations for who should take the country forward. the embry six declination was a milestone. as the protesters stormed the presidential headquarters. they fail one martyr after the other. as it is the officers. soldiers and commanders of the armed

forces. the brave officers sided with the people. chanting one people one army. again the. victory was looming large and the fairest tion of victory was the former dictator stepping down and. the people continued. to chant their demands hoping for justice. and equality in a civil state x. suppressive of all the people as they are be. held the reins of

power as we have been negotiating with them so power is transferred to a civil authority. within. four years to be followed by public elections where the people will elect their own representatives. the yesterday's beating. came as a living proof that the military council is not genuine in its intention or action this came clear in the actions taken by the military karen says political barrow or political committee they claimed.

they. claim. that there is still examining the recommendations and suggestions suggestions presented by our alliance and other political parties that's as it is ultra we declare. the following. we. will have zero tolerance as to our demand for as civil authority and the thought of must be handed over by the military council immediately. two as civil authority we will continue to stage a sit in and protests and all there goes shea sions with the military

council will be suspended second we will continue to escalate our peaceful demonstrations and the revolution.