he 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 mark is not only to find a new prime minister that will resurrect mali's government but one the hope is that by the opposition the ruling party and the people who are increasingly taking to the streets to get their voices heard. that the opposition rejects any possibility for unity government and is asking peter to step down that. he stole the election from a given the circumstances we should be running the country we are not going to take part in any government run by somebody who robbed us it is an uphill battle for kate 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 bamako. police in georgia have used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up protests against the construction of a hydro power plant around three hundred people took part in the demonstration they say to the battlements in the mountainous region will destroy the environment and their homes. northern irish police have released two men who were detained over the killing of a journalist lara mckee was shot dead on thursday night during a riot in london derry also known as derry political leaders on all sides have condemned the murder. they rocky city of karbala is planning to expand an important religious site to cope with a growing number of pilgrims more than thirteen million people visit the shrines of a man he's saying and i'm best each year also just barry has more 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 who say. with more than thirteen thousand employees some say it's a city and it's growing every year we take you know we saw. with the current stable security situation in general the foundation is contributing to establish more expansion projects to observe more visitors to the holy sites the house and this is in order to maintain a momentum of great services and come. at the friday prayer service and 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. motto that is one of the business owners within the grounds of the shrine's who has witnessed the rapid expansion he has been renting the store for the past twenty years. so it could muster up for those the

more expansion is done around the shrine the more visitors it will attract and that will also mean our businesses could expand it will generate more money for the whole city but it will you know let 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's security is improving that means the country's revenue is to door such a party al jazeera karbala. all right still ahead on al-jazeera in sport a day after upsets in the king of clay this italian player becomes the new monte carlo last. anti fascist anti establishment and provocative. despite the recent official

disbanding of its militarized wing a basque separatist movement just found alive and well on the terraces of a building stadia. a place where political revolutionaries share a platform and ideology with football hooligans. can read all death on al-jazeera. news is happening faster than ever before from different places from different people and you need to be part of bat you need to be able to reach people wherever they are and that means being across all social media platforms this is where our audience lives as well as in front of a t.v. they're on their smartphone they're on the tablet they're on their computer. and that's the. way out is the rise of fall due to a true media network. writes

good sport here's paul thank you very much little paul have retaken top spots as they race manchester city for the english premier league title georgie one album scored their first in the two nil when over cardiff city. being wrestled to the ground for the second james milner converting the penalty the win puts them two points ahead of man city who play their game in hand against manchester united on wednesday well city might be pretty confident of winning on wednesday after united's dip in form continued with a fifth consecutive away defeats they were thumped four nil at everton on sunday and stay six they've now conceded forty eight league goals the last time they let in more was during the nine hundred seventy eight seventy nine season manager all

are going to solve damning of his team's performance in the end plays we'll we'll know but it has to mean everything for you to play this club like it does for the fans we've got to apologize to the fans because they were absolutely fantastic and up performance is not good enough for money united team both from all the way from from me to players and we know that we. let the fans down at the clubs closed down today because. the performances. it's difficult to disprove describe because it's so bad. united's loss leaves them two points off the champions league spots with four games left arsenal remain in fourth after losing to crystal palace liverpool back on top but city with game in hand. champions league semifinalists i.x. of facing a battle on the home front as they try to reclaim the dutch title their closest

rivals and defending champs p.s.v. eindhoven took the chance to go level on points with the amsterdam side at the top of the airy division on sunday then sold them for use with the pick of the goals in a three one win over den haag i.x. do remain first on goal difference. have finally sealed their six french league title in seven years after failing to wrap it up in the previous three matches and they didn't need to kick a ball this time thanks to second place lille only drawing outs to lose early on sunday when p.s.g. later capped the celebrations with a three one win over monaco who are battling relegation. the boston celtics are the first same through to the second round of the n.b.a. playoffs after they swept the end the on a pace as on sunday meanwhile in the western conference the houston rockets are one win away from doing the same to utah so how moloch reports. they don't it's not often that someone out schools houston rockets down james harden. but that's

exactly what you told donovan mitchell did in game three. the twenty two year old had a thirty four point game thank you michel and if teammates managed to keep pace with houston throughout the game to feck up one of the title final quarter of the playoffs. and while hardly outscored overall you delivered when it mattered most. finally ended with this new. law theatre's m.v.p. fact forty eight over twenty two points in the fourth quarter forty. three. kids if it guided houston to the narrowest of victories one zero four two one zero one. so we are going through every single night in the bus our bullets in our office and i think we did. we had a chance when a recently married the rocket now lead just one more win to progress to round two as they look to a better title for twenty five years so he'll mally al-jazeera. in tennis

fabio fognini has become the lowest seeded player to win the monte carlo masters since the turn of the century fresh off his semi final upset over eleven time champ rough on the doll the italian was in complete control against sobeys dusan lie of it that was despite the thirty one year old needing medical treatment during the second set needed just over an hour and a half to secure the six three six four when his first ever masters one thousand title. governorate to say something. gives them believe it. i really don't know i mean. really earlier we. logged in to see to give god a read a good show and. thinking about about it because it is something very well australia's women have stayed on course for a first fed cup title since one thousand nine hundred eighty four after beating

belarus in the semifinal the belorussians had silenced the crowd in brisbane when victoria as a rank drew them level to beating some stars in their singles rubber six one six one to answer lanka against have kelly for my grand slam winner but stosur bounced back as she played alongside ashley party in the doubles defeating as a rank amateur playing partner arena. i australia will host france in the venice final after they overcame remaining three to the french wrapping up the time the third set of the deciding doubles match i. support and i will have more later on. hundreds of enthusiastic gathered in one of mexico's famous archaeological parks artists and drawing on the mysticism of the area to inspire their kite creations. reports from. mexico city. in

southwestern mexico an annual kite festival is underway. and some people like you. 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 an 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 walk on 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 war. with the sense commence and use them to intimidate the enemy is doing. for those less skilled at flying kites there are workshops were a couple of sticks some string and a sheet of paper is all you need to get your personalized artwork off the ground. we're flying 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 and up a look at the work on mexico. and that is it for this news hour but i'll be back in a couple of minutes with more of the day's news there. up to.

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we will not negotiate french position is that all the long winter changed things for the return of a president on al-jazeera. we are was i. was. i was. shocked when i got me in sri lanka at least two hundred people were killed and hundreds more injured in a wave of bomb attacks targeting easter church services and hotel. sri lanka police arrested several suspects as the prime minister reveals the government has warned of an imminent attack.

along have them speak of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up i. landslide victory for one of the emir and selenski a comedian who played the president on t.v. he is elected to lead ukraine ousting the incumbent. protest leaders in sudan vowed to step up their rallies saying they no longer recognize the transitional military council. alone overnight curfew is in place in sri lanka after the worst attacks to hit the island in years at least two hundred seven people were killed and more than four hundred fifty injured in a blasts me now for now and as reports from colombo. carnage in churches on one of the most important days of the christian calendar the blast so

violent it blew off the roof of this church in the gumball anon and a half outside the capital the floor covered in blood mangled use and belongings of hundreds of worshippers i this video posted online shows the moment the explosion happened. it was an entity's church is a revered catholic shrine popular among people of all feats in sri lanka. lined up in body bags the feet of dozens of worshippers who came to this sacred shrine to celebrate one of the catholic calendars most holy days easter sunday now the authorities have imposed an island wide curfew with immediate effect to find out what exactly happened and who is behind it but it was i heard the explosion and then the roof fell on us we took the children and ran out from the rear door when i

came to the hospital i saw my brother in law and son on the ground. three separate churches bombed on easter sunday witnesses say the explosion here was so powerful it shook the 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 remember that we transported them to the national hospital and then we have been advised to come to their shangrila in the heart of the capital and all close together are the shangri-la cinnamon grand and kingsbury hotels and the center of the nice church three churches since a bastions church in the gumbo and zion church in batticaloa were also targeted also the tropical in hotel in the suburb of they have. the eighth explosion was in des moines to go to killing a number of police personnel. police have descended on an apartment block there

looking for suspects several were taken away for questioning me if you do the much right i would like to express my condolences to the families of victims and those injured in particular both we will take stern action against all those who are responsible regardless of their stature. social media was restricted for several hours to clamp down on rumors and panic hundreds of injured people are being treated in hospitals which was swarmed by relatives the prime minister says warnings of such an attack were received but nothing was done authorities must figure out why. just zero. of the cardinal archbishop of colombo strongly condemned sunday's attacks he compared the attackers to animals. i also like to. ask the governments orderly. strong inquiry and find old luis

responsible behind these acts of and also to punish them mercilessly because only and the most can be here like. a thousands of washed joined pope francis for easter mass into peter's square in rome where he expressed his sorrow over the attacks in sri lanka the holy day commemorates the resurrection of jesus christ in christianity. dear brothers and sisters i heard with sadness use of the horrendous attacks which on this very day sunday have brought mourning and pain to churches and other places and true long 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 i entrust to the lord all who so tragically died and i pray for the rooted in all those who suffered because of this tragic about. american young

is the director of the united states council on sri lanka she says reports of advance intelligence warnings are worrying if it's true it's obviously very very concerning and hopefully they will be able to find out why nothing was done i understand possibly that there was not good communication among the different parties but if if there was information and nothing was done about it i mean these are absolutely tragic consequences there have been attacks on both christian churches and muslim places of businesses and mosques for some time but this the this is a whole nother level this type of an attack and i think that's why many of us are absolutely in shock that something this this monstrous and this well coordinated

has taken place it's really a whole nother level. are you crane's president petro poroshenko has conceded defeat after a second round of voting said he would not be leaving politics and promised to fight on comedian and political newcomer zelinsky one with an estimated lead of forty five percent of voters focused on the struggling economy and selenski has promoted talks with russia to settle the conflict in eastern ukraine. there. we did it together thanks to everyone now there will be no pathetic speeches i just want to say thank you. all in this device that was never given this is what i was told until i saw the exit polls they are obvious and they give me the grounds to now call my opponent and congratulate him. robin foresty

a walker has more now from kiev. i'm standing outside the headquarters of the law to me and it is a lenski his campaign where his organ elissa's and the media have been gathered to hear this extraordinary results this exit poll giving him seventy three percent extraordinary because he is a man with no political experience who's come from seemingly nowhere in just four months to being the head of this race of course we're still waiting for those final results to come in as they will be doing over the next few hours but in the meantime everyone is assuming that fellow to me is immense he will be the next president of ukraine he spoke to supporters earlier and he said he thanked the people of ukraine he said he would never let ukrainians down and he said that this election could serve as an example to other soviet post soviet countries in their

efforts to develop further that along the democratic path right now mr zinni is going to have to think about forming a government and deciding on which ministers that he's going to have he is able to select several key positions he's going to be likely to have to two deals and at some point people expect that mr z. minsky's political party which is also called seven of the people named after the television series in which he starred as that fictional president that this political party when elections were called will pick up a lot of seats and that would enable mr zielinski to proceed on the kind of reforms that he wants to achieve here we still don't really know exactly what mr zielinski has in store for ukraine because his policies were very poorly elaborated on during this campaign and how he is going to deal with the problem of russia in the east of the country where the conflict continues where more than thirteen thousand people

have died over the last few years. these are the issues that for a lot of news events now faces are under a dog is the director of communications and media for the ukrainian congress committee of america he says there are concerns alinsky does not have the experience to negotiate with russia for an end to the conflict in eastern ukraine. you have to understand that a lot of his campaign promises were just that very short sentences he proposed doing a major restructuring of the. military structure in ukraine without any explanation about how to how getting that passed in parliament a similarly he's proposed restarting the minsk agreement talks the normal process is inviting the united states and the u.k. into that however that doesn't take into account that russia as the other party in mediation needs to agree to that russia is the party in the midst process that has violated it according to the international observers so to say that he will restart

it doesn't take into account that he needs to be dealing with russia and does that mean this is what people have been asking during the campaign does that mean he will then travel to russia and try to do a tete a tete with putin as putin's advisor mr peskov announced on friday that putin is ready to meet with any future ukrainian leader who is willing to concede on terms. a coalition of twenty two parties in sudan has announced it is suspending talks with the military council that ousted president bashir earlier this month the freedom and change coalition as they call themselves made the announcement of the days of talks with the military council to form a transitional government here morgan has. in this third week of the sit in at the army headquarters in sudan's capital thousands gathered around the podium there waiting for the coalition of the declaration of freedom and change to announce names first a billion transitional council the coalition made

a different an ounce and. continue with the sit in and have suspended talks with the military council. the revolution on the streets through pro to schedules. implemented will start forming a complete transitional authority that real unknowns in a few days. the military council to. over when it ousted president bashir on the eleventh of april ending his thirty year rule it had hoped that forcing out bashir would end the sit in that started nearly a week before after months of protests. since taking over the military council has been in talks with political parties to form a transitional government but many at the sit in say the army isn't keen to hand over power to civilian government a key demand for them to end the protests and return home. as i would have most likely in a in my opinion where with the declaration of freedom and change because they got is this fall i will be.