return of the president on al-jazeera. sri lanka imposes a state of emergency following sunday's bomb attack that killed at least two hundred ninety people. hello and welcome to al-jazeera life for my headquarters in doha with me it is a product also ahead military leaders and saddam order protesters to remove barricades but demonstrators say they go nowhere until there's a civilian government. fears of a global ys an oil prices as the u.s. says it will sanction all countries buying oil from the iran and scientists sound the alarm of the pollution levels of the world's largest and oldest play.

three minutes of silence for the two hundred ninety people killed in the worst attacks and sri lanka since the end of the civil war a decade ago bombs ripped through churches and hotels and worshipers locals and tourists on easter sunday a limited state of emergency has come into effect across the country from colombo florence knew it begins our coverage with this report. soldiers back on the streets of colombo a decade off to sri lanka's long running civil war and 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 the to the load 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 have still not been found i come base of think i 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 cop parked near one of the churches that was attacked in colombo it exploded as bomb disposal squads tried to defuse it. questions are being asked about whether this could have been prevented especially since some in government haven't met at 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 made. a name so i. suspect that there is very very saudi 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 louis. colombo. let's go to our correspondent michelle fernandez now she's joining us live from the capital the national day of mourning starting with a three minute silence menow. he.

that's right elizabeth i mean we are here very solemn moment just a few beaches from the sun am phonies church which was ripped apart by an explosion on easter sunday however looking at the larger issue of bringing a focus and a light on this story we were on air at this time is a three minute silence as part of the national day of mourning that the government has declared to mark the huge loss of life in the carnage in this country marked by a series of coordinated explosions six explosions in the three churches and three five star hotel and two other incidents on sunday followed up by again more explosives detections found yesterday but also having a number of barriers and just by me you can see people in this locality close to the cemented his church begin in

a joint prayer that all holding candles in solemn remembrance of those who died elizabeth. well we've also had overnight unlimited a state of emergency coming into effect tell us what that means for sri lankans and also how the government hopes that the measures taken under that limited state of emergency could help the investigation. the declaration of the proclamation of that state of emergency has been brought into effect as of midnight on monday now where hearing that's going to come into effect is that particular clause is under prevention of terrorism. being introduced under that state of emergency rather limited state of emergency the details of which the exact regulations to be brought in. to see in the sort of details that we've come out. a view of the government that they need these tighter regulations

basically to drop in and give a broader palette of activities to the police possibly the out the security agencies to address to question suspects particularly in this difficult time but the government must crack down and find out what exactly goes on so they're hoping that these powers which we will hear more details of as the day goes through will give them that in for in extra an added capability and there's a bit thank you very much man alpha now that is an alpha and is live in colombo thank you. want to move on to other news now sudan's when the tree council has war protesters against blocking roads in khartoum signaling that it may take action to remove them but urging demonstrators who have been outside the heart on the headquarters for more than two weeks to take down their barricades a coalition of political parties has suspended talks with the military council for

failing to transfer power to a civilian authority saddam's military leaders say they're working to words forming a civilian government soon as possible. the bigger the harder you know our views offered by the groups including the forces of the declaration for freedom of expression are full of picher tism and national interests this made us at the transitional military council more optimistic that's an imminent political solution based on consensus is possible have a morgue and has this update from cattle. the coalition of the declaration of freedom and change which includes twenty two political parties and the sudanese professional association the body that has been spearheading calls for protests in sudan for the past four months have said that the military council is not keen to hand over parts of civilian government they've also said that they don't want the council to include anybody from the former government and from the former ruling party in the upcoming transitional government when that is formed the coalition

suspended talks with the government and with that with the military council on sunday saying that unless the council says it is ready to hand over power and recognizes the fact that it's time to hand over power to a civilian government then they are not going to continue talks obviously the military council as we've heard from them say that they want all political parties to be in consensus when that transitional government is being formed and not just a single coalition and meanwhile this is all happening where thousands of protesters continue to gather in front of the army headquarters despite the council saying that the barricades that the place there should be removed those barricades are still there and protesters are saying that the barricades represent their resistance to any four is that is going to try to disperse the sit in there saying that they will not move and they will not remove their barricades until an independent transitional government formed of course at the moment the political parties and the sudanese professional association as well as the military council are yet to decide how that transitional government would look like and how it would be formed so it looks like the sit in front of the army headquarters is not going

to come to an end anytime soon. the u.s. is demanding all countries stop buying iranian oil or face sanctions iran exports a little more than a million barrels per day with the majority going to china india south korea and japan washington announced last year that it would impose sanctions on any country important oil from iran but it offered waivers to some key trading partners secretary of state why pompei are now saying is that those waivers what would be the new twin they expire next month south korea has since reactor two pompous announcement saying. negotiations with the u.s. to extend the waiver are under way while the u.s. secretary of state also said the united arab emirates and saudi arabia went on shore sufficient supplies of oil but in riyadh the past to contradict that saying it won't immediately step up put. out and has more from washington the u.s. says its efforts to impose a worldwide embargo on iranian oil is already working in the last eleven months the

trumpet ministration says iran has lost about ten billion dollars in oil revenue all this says washington to punish the han for what it calls the government's quote aligned ways the top administration and our allies are determined to sustain and expand the maximum economic pressure campaign against iran to end the regimes destabilizing activity threatening the united states our partners and allies and security in the middle east these demands are not just coming from the united states government and many of our allies and partners they are similar to what we hear from the iranian people themselves the u.s. imposed oil sanctions on iran in may two thousand and eighteen after it withdrew from what president donald trump called the ineffective iran nuclear deal the u.s. wanted to cut off iran's ability to support hezbollah and who the fighters as well as send aid to governments in syria and venezuela last fall when oil supplies were

tight the u.s. gave several countries permission to wrap up their existing iranian oil purchases by no later than may second but now the u.s. says supplies are plentiful and so the five countries still importing iranian crude china india turkey japan and south korea no longer have a reason to keep buying from terre han. to conduct these transactions one almost always needs to participate in the financial markets and we intend to enforce the sanctions we don't lay out sanctions that we don't have any intention of encouraging countries to cooperate with analysts say it's important to look at the impact sanctions could have on ties between the u.s. and other countries for example how sanctions could derail current chinese american trade talks but analysts say it's just as important to consider why the white house considers saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and not other oil producing nations key to making the iranian embargo work i think that actually feeds into

this narrative of this very close relationship that the president trump has a with the saudi royal family and of course the united states is again this is the president who looks at issues from a transactional standpoint state department officials won't say just how soon after may third that the u.s. will impose sanctions on countries still buying oil from iran but they are adamant they say the only way to get iran to change its behavior is by imposing an embargo and the only way to make certain that the embargo works is to impose sanctions on other countries even if those countries happen to be the u.s. as friends rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the state department and all mcbride has more on south korea's reaction to the u.s. pressure to cut revenues. as a country which imports one hundred percent of its oil south korea last month was the second biggest importer in asia of iranian oil products in particular specialty

products called condensate now the u.s. has said that countries have had sufficient time to find alternative sources other than iran but south korea argues that it has been difficult finding an alternative condensate source at the same quality and price south korea has been in continuing talks with the u.s. and the business community here has been lobbying for an extension beyond may the first now of course south korea is already involved with the u.s. in dealing with another country with nuclear ambitions and with sanctions and that is of course north korea south korea has been edging to try to get an easing of those sanctions so it can continue into a korean dialogue but as a faithful u.s. ally south korea finds itself in a difficult position with north korea as with iran and in both cases it does find itself seemingly at the difficult end of u.s.

sanctions policy. to head down the problems in mexico to taint hundreds of asylum seekers and the biggest crackdown called i can count that start arriving from neighboring countries. and a new prime minister takes charge of. patient violence and an economic crisis. we've got another weather system that's pulling itself together even north america the last one is only slowly moving away from its here over the eastern parts and still bringing us a few showers a canada. and the northeastern parts of the states as well here's the next one made its way across the rockies it's now over the northern plains they're bringing some wet weather around the great lakes region but it's further south that we can see

the intense rains as we head through the next few days so texas particularly is looking very very wet they could even be some localized flooding out of this system even further towards the south of this court a few showers around i think a lot of them over the southern posit and of course has been yellow and jamaica there for choose day those gradually ease there as we head into wednesday so wednesday is looking like a dry a day for many of us here towards the west it should also be largely dry for many here think kind of model see one or two showers now argentina has been incredibly wet recently there's been a lot of flooding in the north that system responsible has just moved a little bit further north which we're seeing parts of paraguay and into the southern parts of brazil it's still there as we head through the day on wednesday so there is still a risk that we could see some more severe weather out of that to the north and generally some showers as you'd expect at this time of year and for the south a lot of dry weather but it is cooler.

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multiple suicide attacks on these to someday the government has declared a limited state of emergency and has blamed a little more and suspected forelegs for the attacks twenty four people have been arrested so far saddam's military council most want to protest against blocking votes and form signaling that it may take action to remove them a coalition of political parties has suspended talks with the military council for failing to transfer power to a civilian authority and the u.s. has demanded all countries stop buying iranian oil washington announced last year that it would impose sanctions on any country importing oil from iran bods offered waivers to some key trading partners secretary of state mike pompei arnelle says that those waivers won't be renewed when they expire next month. mexican police have detained hundreds. refugees and migrants who are trying to make they wage the united states they were detained in pity upon in the state of chop us president has

ordered the what had promised move humane treatment for my quince but he has been facing pressure from washington to stop the crossings john heilemann has the latest from mexico city. hundreds of people detained then in this caravan of about three thousand people it's being called the biggest mass detention since these caravans heading through mexico most of them from central america trying to get to the united states began and it's been seen here is quite a surprise and that's because president and raise money well lopez obrador of mexico for a long time has had a sort of softer line on migration he says that it's cause really by a lack of opportunities back home in the south of mexico or honduras el salvador salvador guatemala and he says that the all sorts of this really is for more investment in those countries for a long time he's been trying to get president donald trump to sort of join in investment attempts and schemes for those countries but this seems to be

a sort of shift in the policy when it comes after in the beginning of the month of april president donald trump saying that he'd give mexico year and then if they didn't stop the problems of migration or drugs coming through the country and heading to the united states by metzger's north of the border that he thought more terrorists on cause and then it back to work then he'd shut the border now mitch chris president has really tried to avoid any sort of confrontation with president trump and it was sort of of that that we started to see a couple more arrests happening in migrant caravans trying to get through mexico. ugandan police have arrested a pop star turned politician bobby wine after shutting down one of his concerts and firing tear gas at his fans please pull the musician and. speak to fans about the cancelled show wine is a well known critic of long time president. authorities have frequently stopped him

from performing. the president of mali has landed a new prime minister after the government resigned last week former finance minister. would form a new government in the coming days he is under pressure to improve security as the country faces a rise in violence and heart reports from the capital bamako. twelve year old feels like he's being spun a tale every day adults tell him his school will reopen tomorrow he's here at the same story for almost a year but schools have remained closed with striking teachers demanding to be paid . it's just seriously their words don't really count when things really matter to us this. year mr. keeping promises is still on the blackboard mr good day waits to hear from the newly appointed prime minister hoping that he will keep his word and make education a priority because there may be enough funds for the one billion dollars a year u.n.

peacekeeping operation in mali but not enough to pay mr two hundred dollars monthly salary. the government doesn't care about schools this is a setback for the future of young people if we cannot invest in young people then the future of our country of mali is in jeopardy. former finance minister forty one year old. newly appointed prime minister after the government was forced to step down last week following a mass demonstration on the streets of of mostly young people they're unhappy with the state's inability to keep safe from attacks the price of basic necessities are shot up by twenty percent strikes affect the education justice in transport system crippling the capital bamako is one of the fastest growing cities in africa it's also one of the youngest with the. under the seat and so the challenge for this new prime minister is to form a government that will be accepted by all and address grievances of this young

population. the young municipal council on monday. attacked his town killing scores of soldiers it took hours before reinforcements arrived. but it's not that i feel betrayed by. the state. there is no police. no prisons to reassure them. and make us feel like we are part of mali with a new prime minister these government is at a crossroads waiting for the state to deliver the promises made at stake is the country's future. that's news just coming into. highest court has rejected the final appeal. present for breaking an official secrets in the war. has spent more than sixteen months and detention they were

arrested in twenty seventeen while working on an investigation into the killing of ten muslim men during a military crackdown is scott hyla he is tracking that story from bangkok and he's joining us from there the court once again rejecting their appeals court what happened. yes elizabeth you know we just heard within the last couple of minutes now this is a very short supreme court session in myanmar's capital navia door now this is you said was the last step for these young reuters journalists in their appeal process to try to overturn a conviction last september that put some behind bars keeps them behind bars for seven years now there was a lower court appeal in the end gone to court where this was the first initial trial was heard that was rejected and then we knew that they were going to step that up and they did so last month when they had a hearing in front of the supreme court presenting their case saying that this

should be overturned and then today on tuesday we are now hearing that the supreme court has rejected that no specifics why they rejected but they just said they're going to uphold that conviction of september last year liz what happens now to the two journalists who just i think last week won the pulitzer prize it's a case that has gotten a massive international interest and one that really raised questions about the country's transition to democracy what are they chances now. exactly what you know as you know even well before the trial started and we heard the the conviction last september there was an overwhelming support obviously within journalist communities but also human rights communities the international committee the united nations has also chimed in about their case and that it steadily increased in up until september in their trial after their conviction and throughout this appeal process and yes obviously because of the way it's believed

that this trial went forward there are great questions growing questions about that nation's transition to democracy because you have these two journalists they contend that their side contends their attorney contends that they were set up by police actually in fact one member of the police force in myanmar a whistleblower came forward and said that he. he had heard that there was a set up in process in the police department to have this go forward so obviously very sensitive for me and more but right now the highest court in the land the myanmar rejecting this appeal process so now as it stands for these gentlemen they'll be behind bars for the next seven years elizabeth scott thank you very much for that for now that is scott hardliner with the latest live in bangkok thank you . motion has begun of third largest phase of india's staggered general election promised in that interim order void in his home state of gujarat morty is aiming for a second term in office the election seen as

a referendum on has five year of all polls now almost half way through for five hundred and forty three seats in the lower house of parliament. a powerful earthquake has struck the northern philippines killing at least eleven people and injuring sixty others the six point three magnitude quake hit northwest of the capital manila damaging buildings and knocking out power officials in the town of paul that say three bodies have been pulled from a collapsed building rescuers are continuing to search for victims. now space x. has suffered a serious setback in its effort to launch nasa astronauts and to all but this year over the weekend the dragon crew capsule that through to the international space station was engulfed in smoke and flames on an engine test stands basic says it was testing the dragon's abort trust is that cape canaveral in florida when saturday's accident occurred the company says the test area was clear and no one was injured.

there is a growing alarm from environmentalists at the russian government's plans to allow an increase in toxic materials flowing into the world's largest freshwater lake lake baikal contains twenty percent of the parents fresh water and around three thousand species of plants and animals scientists are urging the government to consider better technologies and steps last reports. the fragile line between water and ice marks the entrance to the world's largest and deepest lake when the ice melts the water is so clear that fish and freshwater seals can be spotted with oxygen one and a half kilometers down near the bottom that by karl has a unique ecosystem found nowhere else on the planet but human activity on its six hundred thirty six kilometers long shores has increased and so has pollution every year more than one and a half million tourists visit the baikal natural park which lacks a proper sewage system to deal with their waste all actually and has lived here for

nineteen years he recalls how not long ago he would drink water from the lake without boiling or filtering it. before i would go to another village and i would see one or two birds now i can see twenty or thirty if not more if there are tourists on every boat who need to go to the toilet i don't think disposing of it in the right way it all goes into the lake therefore it's not recommended to drink water an area what a treatment plans around the lake are outdated or broken the ministry for natural resources sas it wants to build twenty one new ones but to make the plan feasible the amount of harmful waste discharge into the lake needs to be increased greenpeace's among environmental groups concerned at the potential harm to the lake so are some russian scientists. we sorry the norms they are proposing are unacceptable and they should review them according to the latest technologies there is only one way you still need to build clean them for cities but better ones.

researchers are trying to find out why sponges unique to buy are dying at an alarming rate and if large amounts of and wheat are changing the fragile ecosystem russia's government didn't respond to our requests for comment but the website of the ministry of natural resources sas the new wastewater standard is based on scientific research and by callous better protected than any other lake in the world mabel were drinking this water straight from the lake just a few years ago but drinking this now with definitely make you sick scientists fear that what is known as the world cleanest lake and its largest freshwater reserve is rapidly losing its value for humankind scientists say it's not too late to turn to tight they say while water by the shores is polluted water deep into the lake remains as pure as it was millions of years ago urging the government to invest in

better technology so the levels of harmful substances don't need to be raised not only for russia's future but to preserve one of the planet's important sources of water stop bassam al-jazeera led by cal russia. i don't get on as a proud of and of the headlines on al-jazeera sri lanka is observing a national day of mourning after nearly three hundred people were killed in multiple suicide attacks on easter sunday the government has declared a limited state will merge and see and has blamed a let alone armed group but suspected foreign links or people across the country observes three minutes of silence in memory of those killed when alpha manned as well outside a church which was attacked. solemn moment just a few beaters from the same anthony's church which was ripped apart by an explosion on easter sunday however looking at the larger issue bringing

a focus in the light of this story we were on air at this time is that three minutes silence as part of the national day of mourning that the government has declared to mark the huge loss of life of the carnage in this country marked by a series of coordinated explosions six explosions in this three churches and three five star hotel and two other incidents on sunday. i must highest court has rejected the final appeal of two voices journalists imprisoned for breaking in official secrets law and choice who have spent more than sixteen months in detention they were arrested in twenty seventeen while working on an investigation into the killing of ten hunger men during a military crackdown. so don's military council has warned protesters against blocking roads and khartoum signaling that it may take action to remove them a coalition of political parties has suspended talks with the military council for failing to transfer power to a civilian authority the u.s.

is demanding all countries stop buying iranian oil a six month exemption for iran's biggest customers like china india south korea and turkey will expire in may and want to be renewed beijing in ankara have both criticize what they call washington's unilateral decision the united nations says tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes as fighting around libya's capital tripoli enters its third week explosions and shouting continued on monday as troops aligned with a u.n. recognized government targeted warlord hurley for half his forces. well those are the headlines on al-jazeera what this is coming up next thank you very much for watching. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the wound. so no matter what you call him i'll just see international bringing the news and current

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