read death on al-jazeera. eisel claims responsibility for the easter attacks in sri lanka as the prime minister warns more attacks could be imminent. there again i'm agin the initial with al jazeera live from also coming up. african leaders meeting cairo and to complete its transition to civilian rule within three months. the man who wants another five years in office india's prime minister col seeds vote in the world's largest election. and are you a us citizen why putting this question on a census form has set off

a political storm in washington. but first as prime minister says those behind sunday's attacks that killed three hundred twenty one people may have had links to eisele ron elving raima singer says some of the suicide bombers may have travelled abroad before the attacks it's a day of national mourning for the victims of sunday's suicide bombings the victims included forty five children mass funerals have been held throughout the country shrunken media showing security camera footage of the moment that one particular suspect entered a church in the go blowing himself up the explosions ripped through several churches and hotels targeting worshipers and tourists police have so far arrested forty suspects. all right let's go live now to our correspondent michelle fernandez

she's there in the capital colombo and first of all. mr. singer the sri lankan prime minister has dealt head on after a fashion at a news conference where he was asked by journalists was the about this communication misstep if you like between the arms of government which ended up with these attacks being carried out and obviously not being prevented by security forces. that's right martin the prime minister actually facing a broad beret of questions from foreign correspondents earlier this evening he did speak at length about the sort of security breaches that have brought us to where we are today with this massive sort of breach of security he did say that investigations right now are focusing on apprehending suspects there are a number of people who are already in custody under interrogation he referred to

the emergency regulations basically that are being strengthened that have been brought in as of midnight on monday that will help in terms of helping the law enforcement authorities with for the power of detention of arrest of interrogation he did say that lots of avenues of questioning and investigations are being pursued that there are further leads that are coming up he also did admit to the fact that there are a number of those involved in this coordinated attack that are on the run he said the authorities are doing their utmost to find them to bring them back within the security net he when pressed also admitted that some of them might be armed or might have explosives on them and said that the security forces are very conscious of the fact that have they have to act quickly now i asked him about the

issues surrounding tensions between the prime minister and the president that the entire country knows about after that constitutional cool few months ago where the both were at loggerheads and i asked him whether and how that had affected the situation and maybe led to this miscommunication or this this vacuum of communications that had led to this attack in the first place let's take a listen to what he had to say. i am with the president i spoke with the president that he took place and we agreed i mean that the police curfew and downforce will come out and we discussed this on monday and decided to bring the emergency for certain purposes only limited purposes. we had a meeting and yeah i mean we are different so medium but that's been thrashed out and somehow look we've got to get the country out of this problem i don't think we can start putting first and he was in front and so there we have the prime minister

sounding pretty sanguine to be frank about the whole issue of non-communication or lack of communication we're expecting to hear from the president as well quite soon now we do the people of sri lanka feel given the suffering that they've endured five hundred people are still bad many of them badly injured i mean how do they feel when they're hearing their leaders talk. for to be honest martin i think there is mounting frustration even anger among the people because at the end of the day no matter what politicians of which political hue or across the political divide no matter what d.c. ultimately it's three hundred and twenty one families at the moment which have lost loved ones i mean some families losing four five six members within

a moment a split second when explosions ripped through churches hotels so they are trying to come to grips with why this had to happen particularly when they hear their leaders their representatives saying yes there were warnings yes these were around as long as as much as two weeks before these things happened precautions could have been taken but. there were a few you know lapses and you know not enough was done is that going to actually help in any way if you've lost someone in your family nor so there is mounting frustration and anger among the people as they hear that these attacks could have been prevented martin all right for now thank you very much indeed and as i say we are going to be hearing from the president there is a pretty recorded address made by the president that is going to be shown shortly

and of course went to this show we will be taking here and out of there but in the meantime i've been speaking to colleen rowley she's a former f.b.i. special agent and she says the scale of the bombing shows that foreign assistance had to have been given to the perpetrators of the attacks. the knowledge of how to make bombs except drought usually get shared and this is one of the reasons why terrorism has gone up the war zones are the fertile ground of the training and i think there's actually been some mock attribution they usually put out a video that shows that there's some truth and in this case it's not surprising at all but when you get this what the united states said they didn't want to do after nine eleven was to have a war on islam you now have that problem because you have radical islamic extremists attacking. christians and whatever and you also have radical christians extremist christians in area and you know groups attacking

mosques it's almost like this is going to do nothing but ratchet up the problem and make it worse and worse unless the you know people return to a saner approach to terrorism the united states has been misled to believe that there are computer programs that can somehow filter and glean the relevant info that they are vacuuming up from the non-relevant and and that's that's proven as our troop well some of the funerals have been held them as a part of tuesday's national day of mourning more than one hundred people were killed at st sebastian church in the gumbo alone and that's just north of the capital there is charles stratford is there. the. community in mourning. thousands came to pay their respects and remember the men the women and children killed at the san sebastian church

a couple of. families of victims stand before the coffins of their loved ones overcome with grief. but least a hundred and ten people were killed when the suicide bomber detonated the explosive vest. police say the device was packed with ball bearings and metal objects so as to kill and maim as many people as possible some people here believe the bomber had lived and often been seen in the vicinity of the church a couple of months before the attack there i know some people had been there i know . so little children. and i. am a school teacher there is. to dance many students are they in this church. where felt very sorry and i can explain my. very painful. gumbo is often referred to by locals the sri

lanka's row it is the country's catholic heartland now so many people were killed in the suicide attack at this church on easter sunday that there is not enough room in the main cemetery to bury all the dead a priest leads the funeral procession to the grave yard. there will be many more people buried here over the coming days. we really know what is going on right now at reno one day when they killed us so. even though they killed us we need to tell them those who did this before geary were because our lord says' to do so we are we are we are believing. one true god yes. jesus christ of nazareth he is our god he said when he was crucified for you all of them so we do forgive them but those who have done this how to answer and to be

accountable before god remember that the priest didn't want to be named because he is afraid of being targeted by those who killed so many people here. the man cries for his dead sister. the fernando was forty four years old. she tried to go to church every sunday she deaves a husband a song and the daughter behind chaunce trafford al-jazeera the gumball sri lanka. african leaders meeting in cairo heard should hands military council to hand over power to civilians within three months a coalition of political parties is suspended talks with the council accusing it of wanting to remain in power now we're going to stop right there and we're going to go and take that statement as being made by my three policy center the sri lankan president let's listen to him.

today i'm to. i'm afraid we haven't got translation for your palace city center but this is him making his address to the nation as far as i'm aware this will this will be his first address to the nation since the incidence on sunday of course in which three

hundred twenty one people are now known to have died five hundred people have been injured now the great issue surrounding this whole tragic event obviously is the issue of communication between that man the president and the prime minister his prime minister who appeared in front of the media earlier in the day the hour q. zation the allegation is that the intelligence services of sri lanka had information perhaps coming from indian intelligence agents and that that information was not shared and certainly no action was taken on the basis of that information of there being an impending attack planned specifically against the christian minority so this is the issue as far as i can work out from what the president has said is that he's denied having seen any intelligence reports which would have warned of attacks he's saying that no no intelligence report was shared

with him now i'm not entirely sure of the patient position of the prime minister mr . singer but this is the core issue that the people of sri lanka will no doubt the focusing in on. he has also said that he expects to change heads of defense forces within the next twenty four hours we do have translation now let's listen to what my three palace siri center is saying. industry comes in the. the things we have experienced in the last few days we did not expect this. to explain this situation is important because. it's my this false ability so they explain

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those schools but families and the people who have been killed was really something a man. needed the patience of. a lot of people in farnham from have formal or don't have to of people aboard a little more appreciated. get on. the damage some of what our american left damaged our as remus on the home some never even saw the couple limiting could be the good it will be won over non-sale up or move made up a lot better little bit the muslim people with the governing. people are people are being very calm down the organization the political parties and i'm really. glad she's being calm and carrying out this call

for the. situation so i have to. reality. police here really dumb down arabs and answer man some who are known for the song you know is very subtle but the liza and the defense department and it's the hospital and production where everyone are free to get together and work to was to develop a peaceful environment for their people. and also i'm hoping to. hoping for more change in the circumstances. well please and the oh me god will have. survived this incident. i need to tank them.

muslim and single. shot. all right we're going to leave the sri lankan president by three palace city center as he makes a national address because listening to that with this is our correspondent now fernandez who is in the capital colombo. what strikes me first. is the president saying that this intelligence reports of there being imminent attacks in sri lanka did not come across his desk he wasn't aware of it. martin the increasing statements to be very honest of the leaders of this country is becoming harder and harder to swallow we had the prime minister who said that neither he nor his government had heard that now we're hearing in this twenty minute recorded address by the president by the palace or saying or that that

information didn't come across his desk so who exactly is in charge of the security of pirates of the intelligence of this country i think the people of this country really would want to know that now present my policy to say no we need to go back to the constitution of the sack the prime minister and there was a lot of uncertainty for two months and finally he reappointed him there was a cabinet reshuffle and the president retained police powers he is also the commander in chief of the armed forces so if he any did not come across his desk or he's appointed sort of representatives that filtered back to him one wonders where that vacuum or where the breakdown in communications was one of the pointed things that the president referred to was the fact that the entire security establishment would be restructured that he would look at that in the coming week also saying

within the next twenty four hours that there will be some significant changes now obviously for people with that sense of frustration and building anger there has to be some form of accountability who is going to take responsibility for the three hundred twenty one and counting loss of life that we have seen so far so these are questions that must be answered the president will continue with that address of address the nation but these are questions which this country's leaders will have to address at some point of time and increasingly. something needed by. the people of this country marty yes i mean i was actually going to ask you i mean it's always the early days and sri lanka as a whole country must be in a state of shock and be grieving not just for the who have lost their lives but for families who have been affected everyone must know somebody is being affected in

this small country but at some point grieving and anxiety turns to anger doesn't it they haven't reached that point yet but they're going to be demanding answers aren't they from the leadership. it seems the logical progression of this tragedy martin we had today declared a national day of mourning a three minute silence as the sri lankans walk to this tuesday and there was still that sense of disbelief we saw gathered around churches and in communities there were people you know coming together trying to sort of unite in that grief and very much it's still curious of some people not being able to fathom what went down on easter sunday here in sri lanka i mean when you look at families that have lost four people or six people i was outside this in anthony's shrine yesterday the church where you had sensually dozens of body bags being loaded on to trucks but

before that there were people gathered to identify the dead and there was one young man who saw his brother his sister in law his one year old niece and. uncle who had all died and they just cannot come to terms with it but as this shock returns to realisation and they keep hearing the authorities talk about the fact that some of these warnings were prevalent that the admit that nothing had been done apologies doesn't mean anything does it bring back the the loved ones that these three hundred twenty one lives the families have lost it doesn't so as that realisation begins to sink in the frustration the questions why how did this happen keep coming back martin and the authorities are going to have to be ready with some some decent answers as that frustration begins to boil over martin or i may now thank you very

much in for that for giving us a sense of how the message from the president is going down in from ankara today for now thank you so much we're going to look at some other news now and we're going to go back to the issue we were talking about before we went to the president's address and. of course was the african leaders who are meeting in cairo under the aegis of the egyptian president of pastoral c.c. and the group of african leaders has decided to urge the military council in sudan to hand over power to civilians within a period of three months now a coalition of political parties in the sudan has already suspended talks with the military there accusing it of wanting to stay in power mohamed a valve has this report now from the capital. this is where these protesters told us not just a few minutes ago forty members of the military police came here and try to clear these roadblocks they told the protesters to move away from this place and to go

closer to the center of the city protesters told them that they categorically refused to move from that place and they have been telling us that this is a fresh attempt from the military council to clear the protest following statements from the deputy head of the military council in which he said that the military will not allow what you called chaos to reign in sudan under the litani council is doing what it can to speed up the process of transferring power to civilians but people here are very skeptical about that as just the last. forty members of the military police came here on foot they said we have half an hour to clear the roadblocks we told them that we have demands as they receive orders from their leaders we also received orders from our you can't just come and make us go and we are now sure that britain is not a clean man and between is worse than him either they go or we continue to protest . like i was all the generals who are in the council now were sitting around bashir including samael up at dean who is now the head of the council political committee

all of whom are islamize and they have to be removed. as i speak an hour a number of protesters have organized a counter movement on mobster words where the military police are standing another checkpoint in this direction trying to drive the message home but they are not going to move from this place until the all the demands of the revolution are met they are saying that even if it takes a year to stay here they will stay. the u.n. special envoy for libya's renewed his call for armed groups to stop the fighting three weeks into the battle for tripoli. call came as forces led by the warlords after their advance on the capital so far at least two hundred sixty four people have been killed thousands have been injured since the battle for control of tripoli began a couple of weeks ago oh you could be here with us i was with 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 or the reunification of the libyans on a unified resolution to save their country whatever the work of the international community will need a special libyan will to stop the war. of aging is begun in the third and largest phase of india's month long general election prime minister narendra modi voted in his home state good gerard he is running for a second term in office and this election is seen as a referendum on his five years in power. well the last time that millions of people in india do get there in the northeast. and then names are not on the list meant to separate citizens from illegal migrants they could now be stripped of their citizenship.

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. if you 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. 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. the national register. 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. is definitely trying to get people to understand. but it has been executed by the state government and the central government right without. this independent candidate has been campaigning to keep the migrants out saying they don't fit in the economy running the genocide but they just piss off on the common numbers the last goodbye and the dismissal of. emmett checks 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 as trivial al-jazeera part better a sample. of the top stories here it is era the sri lankan president says he didn't receive intelligence reports warning about an attack my three palace city center also said the head of the defense forces will be replaced in the next twenty four hours the prime minister ronald wickramasinghe revealed that those behind sunday's bombings bombings that killed three hundred twenty one people may have had links to eisel the u.n. special envoy for libya's renewed his appeal for all armed groups to stop the third week of fighting around tripoli. coal forces led by the wall autonomy for after

slow food in their advance on the capital at least two hundred sixty four people have been killed. you know you have the years where there's always 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 or the reunification of the libyans on a unified resolution to save their country whatever the work of the international community will need a special libyan will to stop the war. egypt is hosting two emergency meetings of african leaders to talk about fighting in libya and the political uncertainty in sudan and members of the african summit are urging sudan's military to conduct a civilian handover within three months britain's royal household has confirmed the us president donald trump will go to the u.k. on a state visit india in president trump and his wife have accepted the invitation from

queen elizabeth the second this will be trump's first state visit to britain as part of a longer trip that will take him to france for d.-day commemorations mia miles high school has rejected the final appeal of two reuters journalists jailed for reporting on a massacre of people while the so who have already spent sixteen months in prison after being convicted of breaking an official secrets law or i'd have to say there is the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera i'll be back in thirty minutes or so with more news but coming up next risking util.

thanks. bill.