counts the main thing you're doing for people asking them to kill a witness seeing a sign. on al-jazeera. when i jump into the chair and i saw them i don't. know what son the full. day of mourning in sri lanka or his relatives begin to bury more than the three hundred killed in the easter day massacre. sri lankan media releases video they claim shows one of the alleged suspects. hello and welcome i'm peter dhabi you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up emergency summits in egypt african leaders

discuss the political crises in sudan and libya plus. there's camille in india the fancy for almost four million people could lose the right to vote after this general election. is a day of remembrance in sri lanka today with ceremonies nationwide after sunday's suicide bombings the police have confirmed three hundred twenty one people were killed and that number is expected to rise the parliament has held a session in colombo today with the state minister of defense so the attack was a response to last month's shootings at two mosques in new zealand threats or lanka mass funerals are taking place earlier people observed three minutes of silence in memory of those who were killed sri lankan media has released security footage of the moment they say a suspect entered the church in the gumbo before blowing himself up easter sunday explosions ripped through several churches and hotels targeting worshipers and

tourists the police have arrested forty suspects florence lui joins us live now from the parliament lawrence what else do we make what can we make of these claims that this was reprisal for what happened in new zealand. that's right so the defense minister said these were reprisals and then he also alluded to the fact but for the some of these suspected suicide bombers they had their postings on social media had become a lot more radicalized since the attacks happened in christ church now however terrorism research just say that there has to be some care when we make that sort of link simply because of the level of sophistication the level of coordination that was required in carrying out the attacks that took place in sri lanka across sri lanka across three different cities in sri lanka on sunday and these attacks the first six to six attacks happened within thirty minutes of each other leaving

church go it's very little time to warn each other the whole idea was to maximize the damage that was caused maximize the number of victims so clearly that was a sophisticated level of coordination carried out and therefore that these attacks would have taken time to plan terrorism terrorism research as believe that they would have taken more than five weeks to plan because also apart from planning you need to condition the suicide bombers and bad is something that takes time but says really that is what the defense minister believes and they've also mentioned that they believe that the national that the group here that they suspect of carrying out the attacks the national how he would have had help from abroad to be able to carry out such attacks and what do we make of these reports that the u.n. the united nations is saying there were forty five children among the dead. really this just shows just how tragic this whole thing has been the death toll has

now risen to more than three hundred people and still hundreds more injured in hospitals yesterday we spoke to a mother who was beside herself in grief saying that she couldn't she still was unable to find her two children and she couldn't bear the thought that she may have to really identify them from their body parts can you imagine just how heartbreaking this would be for any parent and this really just rosen's you like just what what a terrible tragedy this is a terrorism has no mercy it affects people of all ages and this is what people in sri lanka are saying and this is also a country that is still on edge especially given the events that have been happening in the past two days two days after the attacks on sunday happened earlier this morning a bomb disposal unit was called out to the colombo railway station because of a suspicious package that later turned out to be a false alarm as did another suspicious package at kingsbury hotel one of the hotels that was attacked in colombo on sunday and we've also got the colombo port

warning it security personnel that two two vehicles laden with explosives may try to make their way into the port so really this shows that this country is still while it's morning while that suffering from what has happened it is still very much on a edge florence thank you rodger shanahan is a research fellow at the louis institute for international policy group could coordinate such an attack in response to an event that happened five weeks ago. we'd be a bit cautious at the station till we are a lot more. in operation like this holly coordinated complex attack against multiple targets on both coasts of sri lanka that takes quite sun trying inability i'm planning to do the christchurch attacks running five weeks ago and given what we know of the organizations of likely put these together this is probably playing quite some time in advance of that we also wear away that one

hundred kilograms of explosives and a hundred at night is for discovered in northwestern sri lanka. in january this year and i'm not sure that there's a causal link between the two pieces you know on the face of that this kind of operation would take a look lot longer to plan and to logistically support the five weights if it was a local. sri lankan organization inspired or supported by a larger external jihadist group you would have expected that neither on pressure at the moment that they would have. done all the pretty suicide videos and released responsibility around the same time as the attack if it's if it's a group that has had support from an organization like islamic state for instance that group because it's lost its caliphate that would be looking to maintain their

relevance and to tell the world that they're still capable of the mess casualty attacks so they'll be looking to claim responsibility so there is quite puzzling. group has done it so far. the u.n. special envoy to libya has renewed his appeal for all armed groups to stop the third week of fighting around tripoli haasan solomons call for came as forces led by the wall or telling her how to slow their advance on the capital two hundred sixty four people have been killed and thousands more injured since the battle for control of the city began two weeks ago earlier in the year with as i was the task i've been charged with despite its difficulty is to return to negotiations i call for a peaceful solution to stop the war for the reunification of the libyans on a unified resolution to save their country whatever the work of the international community it will need

a special libyan will to stop the war. egypt is hosting two emergency meetings of african leaders to discuss fighting in libya and political unrest in sudan things are changing in sudan after months of protests and the ousting of the president a coalition of political parties has suspended talks with the military council for failing to transfer power to a civilian authority has more now from khartoum. seventies women have been i thought forefront of the march for change and recognition of their old female protesters now the nickname in dhaka named after her fabled movie the queen known for her courage and the little guy named lady that you live for thirty years sudanese women have put up the strongest resistance against injustices and violations committed by a despotic racist and aggressive regime they were stripped of basic rights of equality and even the right to live at times they were killed and wounded or sent

to jail and crackdowns on anti-government protests that's why we decided to be part of this uprising. and women are only one of the many groups here not to feel united by a common cause from a distance these masses loop and sound the same on close inspection it's a complete human spectrum of faces and acts on this from the four corners of africa's third largest country. believe this man is from one of the most marginalized and oppressed communities in the nuke amount and is reminding his people of the many wrongs they've been subjected to and his calling for a free sudan where all enjoy equality and dignity and the same yearning for a better sudan despise this man from the southern regions. of the protests gave me a new life and a new spirit after decades of desperation and justice that's why i decided to join

. people from darfur. and the east war rebel groups for the government for years have suddenly found a more efficient means to achieve their goals. for the first time in the history of this country a movement has brought together all sudanese people if you look at the protest you can say all types of faces from every region and every ethnic group there their old united around the same goal which is to change the regime and create a new sadat and there is no changes have given way to an explosion of public expression aside from charts and speeches young artists here are using their tool for a couple walls and pavements with things celebrating freedom so we'll see that in its colors basking in the bliss of this newly found freedom. going after long suppressed dreams we will mostly afraid to take photos or paint outdoors we face

tremendous difficulties in that respect especially protests painting on walton particular presented a challenge for us i was arrested and harassed because of my support for the uprising but this is my best way to contribute they tell us uplifting the poor is the goal of these protesters an idea they for represented through a portrait of this homeless boy who collects garbage on the streets radiating with happiness mustafa tells us his plan is to study first and within ten years to become the president of sudan. or does iraq. still to come here on al-jazeera our supreme court has rejected a final appeal by two voices journalists jailed for reporting on the writing a cracked or. are you a us citizen by this question on a census survey has undocumented workers afraid they'll be deported those stories when we return.

we've got the weather going downhill across japan for a time little bits and pieces of cloud a rolling out of the yellow sea the east china sea pushing across the korean peninsula in this massive cloud it will run into our area of high pressure and become a little more active as we go through the next day or so says some parts of japan will see some rather wet weather along with south korea then we'll see that pushing further east which as we go on into thursday brought skies to come back a bit high temperatures do get up into the mid twenty's and babbling to some right and also some snow there just stick around north korea pushing up into that far eastern side of russia temperatures around eighteen celsius in beijing is largely dry and settled one cent cloud and rain goes through wash it dry and settle to across southern parts of china of the central areas we have got some rather lively

showers this because through wednesday and on into thursday the showers sink a little further south which shanghai gets up to twenty five celsius hong kong stays in the sun temperatures here remaining at around thirty to grace and glorious weather coming through here not too bad see across the philippines always a chance of one or two heat of the day showers the usual little rattling of showers there into malaysia coming into indonesia the southern parts of indonesia losey fine i'm dry. how if you changed since you is since. charting the lives of the children of apartheid over twenty one years each story reflecting a history of dramatic social and political. twenty eight hour south africa part one

on our. welcome back you're watching al jazeera live from your headlines a national day of mourning is being held in sri lanka of the victims of the easter sunday bomb attacks of churches and hotels mass funerals are being held for some of the three hundred twenty one people killed the u.n. says forty five of the dead were children. the u.n. special envoy to libya has renewed his appeal for all armed groups to stop a third week of fighting around the capital tripoli at least two hundred sixty four people have been killed and egypt is hosting two emergency meetings of african

leaders to discuss fighting in libya and the political unrest in sudan. voting has begun in the third and biggest phase of india's seven phase general election now the prime minister narendra modi voted in his home state of gujarat mr modi is aiming for a second term in office the election is seen as a referendum on modi is five year rule tuesday could be the last time millions of people in india get to vote there in the northeastern state of their names are not on the list meant to separate citizens from illegal migrants they could now be stripped of their citizenship as jamil reports now. under charge a higher limit is voting in this election maybe for the last time despite his family living in the region since one thousand nine hundred thirty s. his name is not on the national register of citizens a list created to distinguish between indian citizens and illegal migrants from

other countries. a completed draft of the register was released and twenty team and its wife was on the list but he and his daughter weren't. when we found out names weren't on the list b. would be ready if we don't find our names on the list we will lose all our rights as citizens if we lose our rights we will lose everything that we have. it's a problem facing almost four million people in this region who could face imprisonment even deportation if they're not on the register many ethnic bengali hindus and muslims live in villages and towns like this one in assam generations of their families have been here for centuries but more recently new migrants have arrived illegally from bangladesh. that's become a political issue this election with the prime minister saying the government will act against illegal migrants. are full effort is to make sure that.

the name of no outside treats the national seat isn't just a. rights groups say the governing party the b j p is targeting people based on religion and ethnicity and turning the citizens register into a political weapon the government is definitely trying to get people because you need to understand that this process isn't wanted by the on the table supreme court but it is by this. government right away that it was this independent candidate has been campaigning to keep the migrants out saying they don't fit in you become a threat trying to do the same thing but they just piss off from all the common numbers. and then they just visit. them and checked in at the polling station and goes to cast what may be his last vote is an indian citizen he's appealing to get on the citizen's register even fails he worries he and his family will lose everything clued in the right to live in their own country says jimmy.

assam. the police in northern ireland have arrested a fifty seven year old woman in connection with the killing of a journalist last week liar. he was shot in the head during the riots in londonderry a dissident republican group called the new ira admits responsibility for the killing of the twenty nine year old award winning reporter two teenagers also arrested were released without charge. highest court has rejected the final appeal of two reuters journalists while reporting the regime the ethnic cleansing crisis. who spent sixteen months in prison after being convicted of breaking an official secrets scot hyland from bangkok the last appeal for word is journalist wallow and has been rejected by the supreme court in me and maher that coming down on tuesday now they heard the argument from their attorneys just a couple of weeks ago this comes three months after

a lower court rejected an appeal they said the sentence would be held that also coming down from the supreme court on tuesday and that was their last appeal possibility now what happened since the verdict came down in september sentencing these two gentlemen to seven years behind bars and international outcry over the sentencing and also just the process particularly as myanmar marches its way toward democracy a lot of criticism for that and also just last week the investigation the two gentlemen working on one of pulitzer prize for international reporting or it is news agency their employers coming out almost immediately after this decision by the supreme court saying that they will continue to fight for their journalist behind bars and that they are part of a police set up. algeria's wealthiest businessman rob rob has been detained in jail in a financial probe operads detention follows the arrest of four other algerian billionaires who appeared in court on monday as part of an anti corruption inquiry

the five are all said to be close to the former president abilities but if the resigned earlier this month. china says the u.s. demand for countries to stop buying iranian oil or face sanctions will increase volatility to lety across the middle east washington has given five of its key trading partners until may the second to comply iran has responded by threatening to close the strait of hormuz a key oil route ross jordan 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 trouble 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. 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 trumped hassle with the saudi royal family and of course the united states is again this is a 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. has more now from the south korean capital on reaction to the u.s. pressure. 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 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 iran and pakistan have agreed to set up a joint security force to tackle armed groups operating near the border now that decision was made during the first official visit by the pakistani prime minister imran khan zain bus robin from tehran. a handshake that could signal the beginning of a new power dynamic in the region. pakistan a nuclear armed nation iran one of the biggest oil producers in the world they both

have problems that together may be easier to solve because perhaps the most important agreement reached was a pledge to fight armed groups along their border together and. we are going to form a joint rapid reaction force to fight terrorism at the borders of two countries. both countries have experienced attacks this year that both said were carried out by groups based on each other's soil and both of accuse the other of not doing enough to fight armed groups han defended his country's record said he would not let attacks divide the two nations and pakistan we have suffered more terrorism than probably any other country and the pakistan military and pakistan intelligence agencies. for appreciation must be made to do these. security agencies the way that deck of terrorism in pakistan and overcame it he also promised closer intelligence cooperation that we would not allow assad to

be used by anyone against anyone in running first trip to iran as pakistan's prime minister was an opportunity for both countries to lay out an ambitious agenda. energy rich or ron will supply pakistan with natural gas and more electricity they'll expand trade with a barter system even plan to build a rail link to connect iran islamabad and istanbul. this kind of public display of diplomacy is uncommon between iran and pakistan islamabad has for decades been a closer ally of saudi arabia and the united states but this prime minister even as a candidate has been an open critic of washington's foreign policies. and despite continued warm relations with riyadh pakistan's pivot to to her own signals a desire to make a new friend of an old neighbor on khan's invitation president rouhani said he intends to visit islam abad as soon as possible following nine eleven pakistan emerged as one of america's closest security allies but after taking office u.s. president donald trump said he considers pakistan

a safe haven for terrorist organizations iran and pakistan have both had strained relations with transamerica but even still prime minister khan's bold and public embrace of iran is likely to raise concerns and the white house is a must rob the old jazeera defra. human rights groups in the us are going to the supreme court to stop changes to the national census they say plans to add a question asking whether someone is an american citizen is a deliberate attempt to intimidate immigrants elizondo now with more from new york the question seems straightforward enough are you a u.s. citizen and for the first time ever the u.s. government wants to force everyone to answer that question on the two thousand and twenty u.s. census but yet siri tovar is not a citizen and is worried about answering at the time when the station has showed me not to trust the twenty six year old was brought to the u.s.

illegally by her parents when she was just two years old and even though she's lived in new york all of her life since then she's worried a no answer could make her a target for deportation. it's happened before and in her neighborhood people have put up signs on the doors cautioning immigration officers known as ice agents not to enter without a judicial warrant. so the fear is real the fear in our communities is real i for that out as being undocumented person i can be targeted i can have agents outside of my house because in the census i said i am undocumented and i gave them my apartment number but it a congressional hearing last month republican lawmakers said they supported the idea of asking everybody if they are a citizen on the census i cannot understand what universe our leaders would not want to know who's a citizen or who's not we actually ask whether you're

a citizen or not in order to get a firearm in the state of california should we take the citizenship question off and make it easier for people to get firearms an estimated eight hundred eighty billion dollars a year in federal tax dollars for schools and public services that is tributed to local communities around the u.s. based off census data immigration advocates have filed lawsuits trying to block the citizenship question from being asked on the census saying it will lead to cuts in federal funding for communities with a large number of immigrants if many of them do not fill out the census we could have a reality where places like new york city do not get their fair share of resources for things like roads for hospitals and political representation siri tovar she isn't backing down she says it's not about one question but one more attack against immigrants from a hostile white house one she is determined to fight gabriel's on to al-jazeera new

york. grand duke of luxembourg has died at the age of ninety eight he was known for his role in transforming the country international financial center the grand juke recently been admitted to hospital suffering from a lung infection and passed away surrounded by his family according to a statement from the country his oldest son becomes his successor. this is al jazeera these are your top stories a national day of mourning is being held in sri lanka for the victims of the easter sunday bomb attacks at churches and hotels mass funerals are being held for some of the three hundred twenty one people killed the u.n. says forty five of them were children lawrence louis has more from the capital colombo the defense minister said these were reprisals and then he also alluded to the fact that for the some of these suspected suicide bombers they had their

postings on social media had become a lot more radicalized since the attacks happened in christ church now however terrorism researchers say that there has to be some care when we make that sort of link simply because of the level of sophistication the level of coordination that was required in carrying out the attacks that took place in sri lanka across three different cities in sri lanka on sunday the u.n. special envoy to libya has renewed his appeal for all armed groups to stop a third week of fighting around the capital tripoli at least two hundred sixty four people have been killed. egypt is hosting two emergency meetings of african leaders to discuss fighting in libya and political unrest in sudan a coalition of political parties there has suspended talks with the military council for failing to transfer power to a civilian authority. voting has begun in the biggest phase of india's seven phase general election narendra modi voted in his home state of gujarat modi is aiming

for a second term in office the election is seen as a referendum on his five years in office police in northern ireland have arrested a fifty seven year old woman in connection with the killing of a journalist last week lyra mickey was shot in the head during a riot in londonderry at a certain republican calling itself the new ira admits responsibility for the killing of the twenty nine year old award winning reporter and we're just hearing that queen elizabeth in the u.k. has indeed confirmed the speculation of the past couple of days she's inviting the u.s. president donald trump to make a state visit to britain in early june that's according to buckingham palace he did you remember pay a visit to windsor castle last summer that was not a state visit it involves different pomp and ceremony inside story is next.

he told jokes about the president now he is the president comedian love him a. slight victory in ukraine's election but with no previous political experience how will he tackle the many challenges ahead what's the punchline this isn't. 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.