eventually for the protesters to end their sit in front of the army headquarters that has been going on for three weeks now the protesters are not giving a chance for anyone to move those barricades for them it's a symbol of the resistance that they have started more than two weeks ago they're saying that they will not let anybody remove those barbaric aides whether it's the violence or whether it's security or whether it's military police in algeria of arrested five billionaires as part of an anti corruption investigation those arrested are said to be close to the former president abilities beautifully who resigned earlier this month of the months of protests demanding change the former prime minister and the current finance minister have also been ordered to appear in court. is the third and final day of voting in egypt's constitutional referendum which could extend president of the al fatah cc's term in office until twenty thirty the official results are expected to be announced on tuesday but rights

groups say the referendum will be neither free nor fair if approved the changes could allow the president to appoint top judges and expand the role of the already powerful military as heavy security across the country. mohammed el masri is with doha institute for graduate studies. there is very little opposition in egypt the egyptian government has done a very good job of consolidating power over the last six years they've eliminated opposition parties they've shut down opposition media just in the lead up to this vote they've shut down thirty four thousand websites belonging to dissidents who are trying to organize a ball to live void campaign they also arrested political figures about one hundred twenty of them in the lead up they banned a protest that was scheduled so the really is no space for dissent in egypt at the moment and i think you know a lot of analysts are predicting that it's really

a matter of time before there is another sort of protest movement another another uprising there are sixty thousand nonviolent political prisoners in egypt many of them are in jail for expressing the kinds of opinions that you just that you just mentioned unfortunately egypt took a step forward with the revolution and then and then took about two or three steps backwards and particularly since two thousand and thirteen and these amendments further intrench military dictatorship in egypt and i think you can expect even more repression and power consolidation unfortunately mali's presidents named woosey say as the new prime minister after the entire government quits. say will now be in charge of forming a new cabinet they announce what comes after weeks of mass protests and recent violence nicholas hogg is in the capital. he's at the age of forty one young he is not from any political party and he is of ethnic pull

on the origin from the region where there was three weeks ago the mass killing of one hundred sixty seven polani villagers by militia groups so it seems that the decision taken by the president. to nominate this young man as the prime minister is he's kind of the candidate of appeasement he was the former. finance minister under the previous government building an important post with a portfolio of five billion dollars for this country and so he he essentially is supposed to be the mound that will really really resurrect the government of mali because over the weekend arcade to has been consulting various actors from civil society to the opposition to members of the ruling party to find someone who could lead a new government since come here down. the role of

a lifetime what next for ukraine now the vases of elected. as a president. mexico's oldest city hits a milestone but a diplomatic dispute costs a shadow over the senate race shouldn't. hello again we're here across the area we have been watching one particular storm you can see here on the satellite image making its way across parts of northern iraq also bring some weather across parts of turkey now in the high elevations it has been snow across that region you can see the temptress here on tuesday making it into the mid teens higher elevations just across the caspian could be seeing some snow as well tehran a day for you a fourteen degrees it is going to be a mixed bag particularly in the overnight hours not really getting too much warmer as we go towards wednesday but the majority of that system is going to make its way

towards the east we could even see some significant snow in the higher elevations of afghanistan as well here across the gulf it is going to be the winds over the next couple days and that signs we could be seeing the visibility come down because of those gusty winds down here towards much of a central amman temperatures are rising into the mid thirty's from ascott it is going to be a thirty two degree day if you staying about that but maybe coming down to about twenty nine degrees by the time we get towards mid week and then very quickly down here across parts of south africa very heavy rain expected particularly down here along the coast that is going to be a problem as we go towards tuesday you can see durban with the rain in your forecast down here towards cape town as well which could be a problem as well but we do expect to see much of that rain start to ease as we go towards wednesday we're durban at twenty seven. for drug abusers seeking to get clean one rehab option has been raising serious

questions. based therapy. a so-called treatment that is on one and no pay. phone lines investigates how people reeling from drug east's having exploitation added to that was. recovering from rehab on al-jazeera. taffeta take a look at the top stories here and they're cheering as president says he'll of a foreign help in the investigation and sunday's attacks that killed two hundred ninety people the government will also give police and the minute trick stenciled

powers to detain anyone without a court order. the u.s. has announced sanctions on any country buying iranian oil secretary of state mike palmed perry said waivers that have made it possible for some countries to avoid u.s. sanctions will not be renewed the waivers were introduced in november when the administration reimpose sanctions on iran. sudan's military councils ordered people to stop blocking roads and to let police do their job the warning comes as protesters say they'll suspend talks with the military council that deposed president bashir earlier this month. the ukrainian actor and comedian volodymyr selenski has won the presidential election by a landslide he's estimated to have received around seventy five percent of the vote his rival petro poroshenko has conceded defeat and says he won't be leaving

politics robin for a ca walker has more from kiev. we've had some international reaction to the news of a lot of music election as ukraine's new president from the european union which says it's giving its continued support to ukraine and interesting enough from russia from. prime minister dimitri made the idea who said that now there was a chance a possibility of progress in terms of talks negotiations perhaps over what to do about the ongoing conflict between ukraine and russian backed separatists and russian forces in the east of the country and also of course the question over crimea which was an extent by vladimir putin back in twenty four teams so this is perhaps one of the key challenges now facing the president elect and of course one of his key missions is to tackle corruption in the country and to

improve economic prospects for ukraine to stop the brain drain of ukrainians leaving the country he is expected to flesh out those policies in the coming days and will of course be announcing figures individuals that he wants to have in his government as president he will have the portfolio to choose his foreign minister and his minister of defense and he also will now have to think about parliamentary elections in the country and that will require getting in or great see it and then . organizing. exceptional parliamentary elections with his own new political party which at the moment only exists on paper it's named after his television show servant of the people so somehow he has to build a political party from scratch these are the kind of significant challenges facing

the new president of ukraine. well under a don't dance scenes from the ukrainian congress committee of america he says there are consensus selenski simply doesn't have enough experience. 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 norm of the 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 means 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 and one of us president donald trump's choices for the federal reserve board has withdrawn his name from consideration herman cain's nomination for a season the board of governors of the u.s. central bank had been opposed by some republican senate is thereby putting his confirmation in jeopardy he was also criticized for having no formal economics background is the former head of a pizza company he ran for the u.s. presidency in twenty twelve dropped out because of accusations of sexual harassment . america thousands of demonstrators have marched on parliament calling for the release of what they call political prisoners but the government considers the forty two activists a security threat under schapelle reports. bringing parts of the capital to

a standstill thousands of moroccans call for one of their own to be released from jail. holding placards of nasser's of sofie the thirty nine year old leader of the he dark movement the protesters chant we are all. earlier this month he and three other men saw their twenty year prison sentences confirmed by an appeals court in casablanca so. these people have protested in the reef region to ask for economic and social demands and they've been imprisoned as if they were the worst terrorists on this we cannot accept and we are demanding their release. they were joined in the streets and outside the parliament by civil society organizations and mother's. oppression it's killing us we don't accept it we want all our children to be freed they are now on hunger strike what is the government doing. i say to the

government think reasonably and find a solution for our children who were sent to various prisons that they have pity on us. along with pity for these forty two activists they want the government to release money to be used for economic development and job creation programs and chapelle out is here. now at least five people have died when a magnitude six point three earthquake struck central philippines thousands of people had to leave their offices in the main business area of the capital manila. that mexico is marking five hundred years is the first europeans arrived to settle on the american mainland the events have been overshadowed by a diplomatic spat between the mexican president andrew. manual nope as open a dog and the king of spain the puzzle that a dog has refused to attend after demanding an apology from spain for cullen eyes in his country man reports from vetter crew is. it's been five hundred

years since spanish conquistadores arrived in what is now modern day bit of news. and the residence of one of mexico's most valuable port cities the studios are in order to commemorate the event that would have him or so and that's why we've seen a lot of participation from our community which understands the difference between commemoration as celebration here in this context the city has prepared a serious of activity has. been a cruise was founded by the spanish conquistadors at nine but that is a rival signal the downfall of a thriving empire by way of european diseases and the enslavement of native peoples . officially the first township on the american continent modeled after european customers easy but it was became an invaluable port city to devise royalty of new spain. over the centuries the city has maintained its economic and cultural importance that made us all you know. favorite crees deserves

a starring role in history because the city has been a gateway in every sense of the word a gateway for peak with the trends in fashion and vera cruz became a door to the rest of the well. the founding of it it was also marked the birth of a new nation but not all ceremonies commemorating the event are the same we were at an archeological site just outside of a dr who is that was once home to the told to knock up people it's been said that it was from this mountainside five hundred years ago that eleven large ships were first spotted aboard were more than six hundred soldiers and sailors all under the command of it and then called this. the ruins of yell we saw the members of the various indigenous groups from across mexico are holding a. money of their own. here indigenous activists are hoping to shine a light on a different version of the historical narratives. today to commemorate those five hundred years that an on going to distance not let our traditions die remembering

our ancestors who gave their lives to keep our ancient ways alive for many the spanish conquest is five hundred years in the past but for a culture born of a mix between the new world and the old reconciling the history of the city could be the key to bridging a cultural divide that still exists today. india's election commission has delayed the screening of a biography of the indian prime minister pm the run to come out ahead of the first phase of india's general election but the commission and many in the country are concerned about the effect of politics on the world's largest film industry al-jazeera as far as jimmy ill has more from mumbai. pm the renderer movie is a glowing interpretation of the life of india's current prime minister it's not something everyone here would agree with and what's more producers tried to release the film just before the country seven days election began this month but the

election commission has delayed the release over concerns it would unduly influence voters the film is the most prominent in a recent line of political films and series critics say favor the government or pamby opposition it's coming out you know you almost every month specially in these months leading up to elections we are seeing more and more political science this film journalist says the political exploitation of films used to be rare in india but that's changed every life is in some way. by the movies and so perhaps the powers that be have figured out that this is one way to get your message across earlier this year several bollywood heavyweights flew in a private jet to meet the press. minister many say this photo from that meeting shows a relationship between the government and some of the film industry that might be too cozy. and with influence working both ways pushing government propaganda have

been produced in india for decades some more solid than others on the other side many in the film industry have used their fame as a platform to jump into politics erm a limit on cars openly trading on her celebrity for votes in this north mumbai constituency for the opposition congress. after starring for years and several of the different language based film industries she's become famous that fame is a powerful tool in political campaigning that it is the media that it is that right just pincus political activists all those people are somewhere down the line effect of this this kind of changes only last for another five years so i think they need to change the needle more of them this has become more crucial this is joining in atlanta with more political films and series expected to hit the screens in india in the future many people here hoping bear influence can at least be contained no matter how politically popular they may or may not be best for me all al-jazeera.

to take a look at the top stories. the president says for international assistance to help investigate sunday's attacks that killed two hundred ninety people the government is also to give police and the military extensive immersion to detain anyone without a court order. in the capital. the streets of colombo and around the country becoming deserted once again as a police curfew island wide has kicked in it will continue to the early hours of tuesday morning till four o'clock and. basically following the docilely attacks coordinated attacks that that basically came so many lives not today we're also seeing the introduction of a limited emergency according to the government bringing in clauses under the

prevention of terrorism this exists is expected to give police and the military a wider palette of options when detaining into gating and questioning suspects the u.s. has announced it will sanction any country buying uranium no secretary of state says waivers that had made it possible for some countries to purchase of from iran will no longer be a suit. mali's president has named say as the new prime minister after the entire government quit on thursday he'll now be in charge of forming a new government the announcement comes after weeks of protests and recent violence so dunn's military rulers of ordered protesters to stop blocking roads and let the police do their job the warning comes after they announced the suspension of talks with the military council that deposed president bashir earlier this month. the ukrainian actor and comedian the volodymyr the lenski has won the presidential

election by a landslide the political no this is estimated to have received around seventy five percent of the vote petro poroshenko conceded defeat inside stories coming up next. he told jokes about the president now he is the president comedian a lot of a zelinsky wins a landslide victory in ukraine's election but with no previous political experience how will he tackle the many challenges ahead what's the punch line this is inside.

hello and welcome to the program on imran khan comedian and let him as lenski played a fictional president for years now he's going to play it for real but stand up comedy is one thing standing up to russia and the myriad of other problems facing ukraine is another thing altogether outgoing president petro poroshenko says zelinsky is too naive for hard politics but it is the dissatisfaction with old faces like that's probably benefited the comedian he's campaigned on an anti establishment anti corruption platform and that seems so resoundingly with his supporters selenski one with more than seventy percent of the vote this is what he had to say. we did it together thanks to everyone now there will be no pathetic speeches i just want to say thank

you. zelinsky is going to have to deal with ukraine's numerous challenges ending a five year war with moscow back separatists in the east that's killed more than thirteen thousand people fixing a struggling economy and the government's rising debt following through on his promise to fight corruption and stamp out the influence of oligarchs and also pushing through much needed reforms zelinsky doesn't have a proper party of his own and he's likely to face stiff opposition in parliament. i let's bring in our guests joining me on skype from here valentini professor of political science at the national university of kiev academy from berlin where we broke now jon benet professor in european studies at stanford university berlin and also on skype from moscow dimitri babbage political analyst so god near newsagency

welcome to the program let's begin with valentyn yeah first it's clear that the new president has significant challenges on his hands but haps the most important one is to actually get some parliamentary support he doesn't have a political party is there a danger he could be a lame duck president for the entire of his term if you doesn't get that support. definitely the president zelinsky doesn't have support in the parliament as it is now but ukrainian politicians members of parliament there very easily change sides so there may be quite a big group of parliamentarians who will start supporting him we have this tradition after every election but i think there is also a chance that about which is alinsky is not talking and his team is not talking

maybe there will be a chance to press on the existing parliament and to have early elections he may be like not only on the parliament and not so on the parliament but on a wide movement toward ordinary people who want to get to read of corruption of inefficiency and who want to stop war so there are the possibilities for a wide movement to be created if he steam if zelinsky team is smart enough at the moment they were trying to do everything not to show what they will be doing just they wanted to have power to oust the previous president after some time they will have to decide how they will act i think they will be acting just as ordinary politicians who rely on the existing law on the procedures and in this way they will bog down into these procedures they will have to show something which the

ordinary people would like and getting rid of the existing parliament will be one of such important steps which they may undertake also mr. selenski needs some quick successful steps one of them is to release ukrainian prisoners held in russia to make any change between brazen hers of captives. in ukraine and in russia it will be a great success for him and also what he said in the beginning he said i want to stop shooting in the east of ukraine it's easy to do just give all there to ukrainian forces stop shooting and to agree with russian supporters supported separatists to do the same so with these two important steps it is possible to create it was either movement of the people and to have early elections one of the possible ways from the existing stumble block that selenski i have to

say has shied away from the media has he was declared the winner was very short he said there's no time for pathetic speeches that doesn't seem to be a real manifesto. no and he couldn't have because he had an it feel to worth people who are in conflict with the existing authority straight exactly the situation when ukrainians invited in to win even more camps so he misses the lansky have to be accepted by all sides as a person on him they want and can rely well i would want to use it biblical archetype for that archetype in genesis it is said that the first stage when the earth was created the earth was formless was without

form and was void so something like that was with mr zelinsky and in this room and the t.v. volume it is possible to pour any drug ram so now it's important to work out a viable program and it was necessary not only for ukrainians that all ukrainians think that he is our guy but for the international community as well it is very important that the united states and europe said ok mr zelinsky you can go you can be the president because with the support of outside forces it was much more easy for the for the president who is leaving to win but the west took in neutral position because for the west it was very important that there is no destabilisation the previous authorities they could use forged procedures as it is

a practice in the post soviet world everywhere and in ukraine in particular but the west said oh we don't like to use force procedures and the minister of interior of ukraine mr about of visited the united states of america and from there you received a coup. correct advice do not allow false if the caisson so ukrainian elections we're quite all honest we're quite fair and in this way this situation was created that the west was looking at mr selenski as possible their ally and russia was not against him so it is one of the best possible to knowledge is to come to power when every senator slade says he was interesting let's bring in the view from moscow and dimitri babich what is moscow thinking right now well there is hope you and i agree with

a budding team that shouldn't things can be done very easily such as stopping the shooting there were several cases in the last four years since the war started in two thousand and fourteen around there was no shooting and people didn't die right now people die every week sometimes every day on the line dividing the ukrainian army and the insurgents in the east of ukraine. and i agree that russia made every effort not to get involved in this elections not to insult there's a landscape of course in their attitude to mr poroshenko in russia is very bad because there were several crisis in our relations after all the warring donbass started on day here so he is extremely unpopular and it was basically a politically impossible for president putin to negotiate with him seriously even

to perform course even with full force there were problems because we didn't said that form of a station with him would have origin cause campaign and putin didn't want to do it . on the other hand of course there will be brought with him says you're right you're sad because in russia the perception is that that means there's a lens. you will will have to withstand real pressure from the west if he wants to ready bring peace to ukraine but until right you said just recently that it was from washington that the so-called advice to have all of that action came to the interior minister r.c.n. of arco you know in an already independent country you don't need advice from how the country is especially such a faraway country says the united states to have a normal election so i would say most course the nation is we will negotiate with anyone whom the ukrainian people elect that i'm quoting our prime minister dmitry medvedev right now we hope that the shooting will stop and from there we can

proceed further let's bring belen hair and only bruckner really this is it seems to be quite a positive reaction from both russia and within ukraine itself within ukraine itself is clearly time for a change moscow is keeping its its mind open same in the what's the european reaction do you think. well it sounds very similar because there is no reason from the european union side or from the heads of state or government and the member states to not give any credit to the newly elected president because as it stands today it looked like a very open and fair elections from what we know and if there is such a landslide victory with over seventy percent of the votes the person is there to demote and we can only you wait and see what he actually delivers given the fact that he hasn't really said much and become pain this is just

a speculative game but generally speaking he's pro west that's what he's done what he said what he actually is going to do it's open for speculation as i said let's bring in valentine back in here. here is and hasn't really set out strong policy agendas but he has swept to power because people clearly in ukraine want a change at some point he's going to have to build bridges he's going to have to really reach out to people and make some decisions that are going to be a unpopular with the the current political establishment but they will play very well with the people of ukraine does he really have the people on his side i mean the elections were very clear the people wanted a change but what did they know what they were voting for. people who are working voting in their dream and this linsky created this

dream by playing in a in a movie by in a serious but you know in fact she is absolutely not prepared for such a role as president of ukraine and now because he has education as a lawyer but his formal education and he doesn't have experience at all a lot will depend upon the team with which he will be working together and now it seems that he has an illusion that he can create a team of young unknown to the public people clean young so it reminds me something what mr saakashvili was doing in georgia when first he came to power and will he cut from power all people who are older than forty years old it's a way to know where he needs to use experienced politicians experienced. experts and gradually i think it will be combination

of two. this one using new people who are his team and involving experienced people also making compromises with the existing political forces i think he needs to have a compromise with one of the former leader of ukrainian security services who was taking part in the elections with former minister. of defense who are willing to support him and maybe even that yulia timoshenko one leader of one of the most powerful populistic. political parties so that will be first stage where mr selenski is creating his team either going one way young people new illusions and then. stop it stopping because he will be destroyed by the opposition by his competitors or he

cooperates with some part of ukrainian traditional political class that is the kind of policies which he will pursue and also in international arena now he creates the image that he is a person who is pursuing mr obama mr mrs clinton's and george soros policy him and his advisors there are many people who are called you know children of mr soros. they have already experience in running many countries in the post soviet world and it was not a success oh by the way there were yesterday in the first interview of the future former the future first lady of the wife of mr zelinsky she said when she was asked with whom he would rather meet what first lady. mrs trump all mrs

obama she said all i would rather meet with mrs obama i liked her more if this was a big mistake diplomatic mistake practical mistake but it may be she showing that the connections with traditional democrats with the former american administration stronger than with the other side but if there's less on any of the major about it dimitri you've been listening to valentyn you had to say that there may be some naivete within this new administration that they may not know how to play the politics of it this work to the advantage of russia might they be able to manipulate the landscape simply because he doesn't know is there. well as usual russia is always suspect that though there was going tensions even though i don't think it's the case here because russia is interested in that situation in ukraine

basically proving it coming down because save our lives slavic neighbor millions tens of millions of russians have family members in ukraine and i would like to remind you i will only be given your facts here after the so-called peaceful revolution in two thousand and fourteen during which thirty eight policemen were killed we heard that the new government out of mystery on a coach and killed so many people precisely because now there will be no corruption there will be new people you know young people who will bring less to practices and what was the result the result was that the ukrainian economy shrank seven percent in the first ten percent in the second year and now. seventy eight percent of the ukrainian say that the country is moving in that wrong direction ok you can blame russia for that but maybe at least part of the blame is with the west because

basically it was the european union that refused to have trial a true negotiations on the association agreement with ukraine in two thousand and thirteen when president yanukovych suggested let's let's resolve our differences by kevin try to lay throat later all the negotiations russia ukraine and they were being union so in russia we all want we will wish success to mr zalewski not because we share all his opinions i think one can very well describe his political position he is a man of soros he is a man of ultra liberals he is surrounded by the people who poroshenko fired three years ago that the so-called. foreign specialists you know they leave to a new band marvie tools formally they want to mean you're still green who was ousted by abortion or after about two years in power don't you you know the former

finance minister walked with western banks there all know in zillions of steam but we still call for the better because of the current situation is all. there is almost no dialogue between us the diplomatic relations are in fact almost nonexistent and the pushing all the talk not only about stopping their air traffic between mostly here but also cutting the really rules regarding the railway traffic which is a tragedy because it's a dual you dance of medians or famous have family members on both sides of the border let's bring in you know the work ahead you know you've heard what dmitri had to say about the european union there and the fact that they may have been a hindrance in previous years to the ukrainian government what are your thoughts about that is it time for the european union to step up and really get involved in ukraine. where the european union is involved in ukraine and it strongly supports

the western path in the modernization strategy you know of the previous governments and presidents what is wishful thinking is the idea that with a new president the country could easily need the so-called carbon hagan criteria to guide the country into a full membership this would require so many more steps that we certainly don't see anything like this happening in the term of this president most likely off the following ones so if people just hope that things would get better by the fact that he says he wants to get more western forty depends on who his team is who his advisers are and how he addresses all the high flying hopes that he created we still don't know in what direction this is moving he says it's western. but there's not much the european union can do other than supporting the government with money with expertise with guidance what the country needs to do is to do its own reforms

and not wait until the european union takes it over which will certainly not happen . again you heard earlier brooke there he said he used the words wishful thinking that this may well just be a pine sky thinking that actually the real politic dealing with the ukrainian hardliners when it comes to russia dealing with their relationship with russia any kind of compromise with russia may well be seen by the hardliners as giving in to the russians is going to challenge on his hands hasn't. he but there is an objective situation in ukraine it doesn't depend upon to what camp you belong to the poroshenko or to zielinski ukraine will have to find when we're out of the war in the east of ukraine and i would say that even the person that had done he will have to have negotiations on resolving this issue this is very

important issue to resolve the war in the east of ukraine is. over arching issue it's simply that's what needs to be sorted out first yes but you said about the hardliners we have hardliners ethnic nationalists we have even been you'll not see groups and you see what is interesting everybody both lauriston go and zielinski we'll have to get rid of the right wing extreme nationalists so we will have to overcome the period where there was fear where there was censorship in ukrainian t.v. in ukrainian press no people feel liberty they are ready to speak out what they think it is a very important step forward later we. we'll have to see the competition between different teams different tendencies who will try to influence mr zelinsky and here

it will be very important to have it very pause if you sign from the west you see what happened there mr poole i'm sorry i'm sorry here we are running out of time i do want to come to our other guests first but you raise a very important point let me begin with you just very quickly dmitri in moscow the russian relationship that seems to be very crucial very current very clear is russia open for business with this ukrainian administration will it be able well it want to do business well absolutely it will want to do business especially if while indian is their right and if mr selenski takes measures to rein in extremist ukrainian nationalists that will be appalled at russia please note that the censorship that money can describe it was not under your own accord it was under the new government that the extremist nationalist indeed appointed and dismissed

that head off television indulged in violence sometimes you know pressuring newspapers and t.v. channels we saw it in the ukrainian media we we basically speak very similar language here and powerful the media in ukraine are in russian so we forewarn their political situation there were equally and with a huge sense of sadness you know when we see the actions or extremist nationalist so if mr is against the reins in extremist nationalist he will be applauded in russia and russia will make every concession every possible move to improve relations with being certainly a challenge thank you to all of our gas valentyn your only broker and dimitri babich and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com. and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at

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emergency powers a jew to come into effect within the next half hour also in the aftermath of the devastating church and hotel bombings in which two hundred nine. people were killed the powers allow police and the military to detain and interrogate anyone without a court order a curfew is already in place earlier police defused a bomb in a van parked near one of the churches which was targeted on easter sunday and adding to the tension and confusion the health minister says the prime minister and some of his cabinet weren't even told about a prior warning of these possible attacks that police had arrested at least twenty four people no one knows so far as claimed responsibility meanwhile the u.s. state department is warning of more attacks in the country as sri lanka's government appealed for international help with the investigation lawrence louis

reports soldiers back on the streets of colombo a decade after sri lanka's long running civil war ended their presence was brought on by a series of bomb blasts across the island on sunday that targeted hotels and churches at hospitals there was confusion and grief as people try desperately to find their relatives. in the my sister is in the intensive care unit she's in a bad way i've lost my whole family my two children they've still not been found i can't bear to think i might have to identify them by their body parts and the. those with no luck at the hospitals move on to the morgue it's a grim task here police have put up slides of the victims to help people identify their relatives tuesday has been declared a national day of mourning and the country remains on high alert.

explosives were found in a car parked near one of the churches that was attacked in colombo it exploded as bomb disposal squads try to defuse it. questions are being asked about whether this could have been prevented especially since some in government have admitted their world warnings that such an attack may happen the first warning had come on the fourth of april on the ninth of april. defense ministry as seen in the situation. and they have been shown names of the suspect that there is very very sorry the government be able to see and be able to gauge to the families and. about this incident no group has claimed responsibility but the government says it suspects a little known group called national. and believes it carried out the attacks but

the support of an international network it has imposed a curfew arrested at least two dozen people blocked access to social media sites and declared a state of limited emergency florence lee. colombo grabbing go live now to another of our correspondents there in the sri lankan capital firm and . we understand the limited emergency powers are being given to the military into the police they come into effect shortly what exactly do they mean. what we're hearing from the government this limited emergency which remains to be seen when we see the actual document what the government has said a statement from the president's office has said that it is mainly the clauses related to the prevention of terrorism that will be brought and put into effect

under the emergency regulations obviously the emergency regulations having far reaching and wide ranging powers what we're hearing though is that the introduction of the even merge and see which will take place at midnight a short while from now will give the police the military law enforcement authorities sort of a wider set of options when it comes to detaining suspects questioning them into getting them it gives them a certain amount of flexibility as has happened during the time when emergency was in effect in full force so given the priority for the authorities to crack down and find out as soon as possible what exactly occurred on easter sunday here in sri lanka this will give them sort of a wider or a larger palette of options right so you have emergency powers in place for the police in the military so finding there were devices being discovered by the police

and military and being thankfully diffuse sri lanka still sounds like a very dangerous place. that's the worst part of this carnage that we saw yesterday martin this kind of continuing uncertainty doesn't have sri lankans having seen that series of explosions yesterday the coordinated attack on multiple locations towards the end of the day lankans kept looking at it and shaking their heads in disbelief but hoping beyond hope that this was over that this was the end of it however today a second day we heard a number of incidents one where a package of eighty seven explosive detonators had been abandoned close to the main private busta minister in the heart of the city another incident later on this

evening where there was an explosion as bomb disposal units worked on a vehicle that contained basically a package an explosive package now that explosion was a sizable last pictures from the site i mean one moment it was now you see it and the next moment there was no signs of the vehicle that actually. that package so very much a kid is where the sri lankans are waiting to hear that this crisis is over but given the signs and the clues that we're hearing the door and have that confidence right now and compounding it is their government their leadership telling them that yes the had heard warnings that this thing would happen but nothing or not enough was done to prevent such attacks martin thank you very much manil fernandez

reporting live from the sri lankan capital colombo thank you. now the trumpet administration has demanded that all countries now stop buying uranian oil iran exports slightly more than a million barrels per day the most of it goes to china to india to south korea and japan washington announced last year that it would impose sanctions on any country buying all from iran offered waivers to a number of its key trading partners earlier the secretary of state might compare announce that those waivers will not be renewed when they expire next month he says the u.s. and the united arab emirates and saudi arabia together they were ensure sufficient supplies of oil for global markets but the solid is don't seem to be that sure about it can contain contradicting it saying that they want to immediately step up output are this go live now to our correspondent in washington. and roll so we were

expecting this announcement to come from the state department tell us more about what my pump air had to say. well martin this is something that really has been a year in the making and it's part of the administration's efforts to exert what it's calling a maximum pressure campaign on terror on for its foreign policy for what the u.s. believes is still its efforts to try to build a nuclear weapons program and basically for trying to foment instability not just in the middle east but round the world now while the deadline for all countries as far as the u.s. is concerned to stop buying oil from iran is on may second and the secretary of state was quite adamant about a hypothetical officials normally don't like to talk about hypotheticals but might pump aoe was very adamant may third if there are countries still buying oil from

tehran they will face economic sanctions. no ifs ands or buts now how quickly this is going to happen other state department officials are backing away a little bit from mr pompei a statement but the important point here martina is that the u.s. is trying to send a message to tell han that the u.s. does not approve of its foreign policy does not approve of that security posture and that unless it changes its behavior the u.s. will do whatever is possible to make certain that iran is a global power. all right thanks very much indeed. reporting live from washington. correspondent same as ravi brings us iran's reaction from the capital tehran. in anticipation of pompei was announcement all day we've heard a statement from the oil ministry earlier today and unnamed source in the oil ministry said that the united states has been unable to reduce iran's oil exports

to zero and will be unable to down the line well into the future defined rhetoric we've heard from the oil ministry more or less for most of the day in the last hour we heard a statement from the foreign ministry let me read a piece of it to you the new foreign ministry spokesman abbas mousavi said in a statement considering the basic u.s. sanctions were illegal the islamist republic of iran it did not and does not attach any importance to these waivers yet regarding the possible negative impacts and the increased impacts on iran the government the foreign ministry will be working with domestic and international partners and crew including the european union to try to come up with solutions and the statement goes on to say that that will be fed back to the supreme authorities and a decision an appropriate decision will be passed and made public now bear with me i'm going to try to explain why this very bureaucratic government speech style statement does give us a sense of what iran is going through most of these predecessor was often known to respond to u.s.

accusations and statements and comments of decisions by saying it's not worth it to respond to those statements or accusations or decisions this is really just another way of the foreign ministry saying the same thing even with their his.