recovering from rehab on al-jazeera. we did not investigate thoroughly and carry out the necessary action against these organizations and their members. president says he wasn't given intelligence reports warning of possible attacks plus. the. the. lankans mourn as they begin to bury some of the victims of sunday's attacks. hello i'm nineteen danish or without jazeera live from doha also coming up disturbing i was ashamed of my belly of the questions and when i had to baby i did

not want to see her. there prepared for another legal challenge to its tough laws against abortion. me a man supreme court rejects a final appeal by two journalists jailed for reporting on a massacre against the ranger. the. president released a tape statement in which he declared intelligence warnings of possible attacks with not shared with him my three palace city center said he will now completely restructure the police and security forces within the coming days adding he expects to change the heads of the defense establishment within the next twenty four hours . city center also indicated he'll take stern action against officials who didn't share any prior intelligence with him. guard because we have

been receiving information about trainings the terrorist were having the security department has received so much information regarding their activities we did not investigate thoroughly and carry out the necessary action against these organizations and their members unfortunately we have experienced this incident innocent people have been killed due to the horrific incident. riving go live now to our correspondent who is in the sri lankan capital colombo florence louis and florence earlier we heard from sri lanka's prime minister now we've heard from the president neither of them accepting that they got the information the intelligence information that was in the country which was warning of an imminent attack what on earth is going on in sri lanka. but is exactly the question that sri lankans osting themselves i mean we've had government officials saying that some of them had received information or at least security

and into and intelligence officials had received information even as early as more than two weeks before the attacks took place there were warnings that there was that they were going to be possible attacks on churches in sri lanka now and there is this all indication that these warnings were not acted on these warnings were not shed we've got the president saying that he didn't receive any of the information he's putting the blame on his office saying that that these people who did not act on the information will be held responsible but he's not taking responsibility himself and the prime minister as well saying that yes there has been an intelligence failure or not in not in those exact words but really admitting as much but also not accepting full and final responsibility for it now at a press conference earlier he did say that if they had known about the attack they could have put more security in the hotels and churches they could have prevented

some of the attacks but ultimately nothing was done and now we've got a death toll of more than three hundred people and five hundred people injured in sri lanka now there are suggestions that it was a rift between the prime minister and the president that caused the breakdown in communication but take a listen to what the prime minister said to that i am with the president i hope with the president of the day to please and we agreed. that the parties got a few and don for it to come out and we discussed this on monday and he started reading the magazine for certain purposes only limited purpose. we had a meeting at that really i mean we are different so read him but really crashed out and somehow look we've got to get the country out of this problem i don't think we can start pushing for affinity she was in front. and so that was prime minister. singh earlier from the president but both of them and all of not just the prime

minister and the president actually but other ministers of government as well they seem to be pointing out words they simply pointing abroad some suggesting that this was in direct retaliation to what went on in christchurch new zealand what five weeks ago and others talking about there being foreign. organization at least if not actual being part of the perpetrating all of these acts so looking abroad when it comes to the the attacks that happened on sunday. that's right now the defense minister had suggested earlier on thursday that the attacks on sunday when retaliation to what had happened in new zealand where there were shootings at mosques in new zealand which killed about fifty people now the prime minister when he was asked about this said that they were looking into this but we've also spoken to terrorism researchers who say that benny's to be more caution in making this link simply because the level of sophistication and

coordination involved in carrying out the attacks would have taken weeks months of planning and there's only five weeks between what happened in christchurch and between what happened on sunday in st lanka so really badly it gets quite a tenuous link but having said that officials say they don't believe that the local organization national tell he a very small little known extremist muslim organization in sri lanka could have carried out the attacks on their own so they believe that they had help from abroad the prime minister also said in a press conference earlier today that some of these suspected bombers are believed to have traveled abroad and police and on looking to see who they met when they were overseas and perhaps what sort of training that they could possibly have received to help them carry out the attacks that took place on sunday having said that though. this is still an ash this we can't forget but this is still an

intelligence failure on the part of sri lankan security services and many people in sri lanka are questioning how this could have happened especially when officials have said some in government had received information and warnings prior to the attacks taking place all right florence thank you for that florence very a correspondent there in the sri lankan capital colombo. well the to the point the point of it being outside into fair is outside help for these attacks have been perpetrated in sri lanka i've been speaking to colleen rowley is a full f.b.i. special agent she says the scale of the bombings shows of foreign assistance was given 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 ah 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 lore 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 all and that's that's proven as our troop will say today mass funerals were held on sri lanka's national day of

mourning al-jazeera is channel stuff it has more from just outside of the capital. me. a community in mourning. thousands came to pay their respects and remember the men the women and children killed at the san sebastian church example if families of victims stand by the coffins of their loved ones over car and grief. at 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 that i know some people had been there i know . literature and. i. am

a schoolteacher very said students many students are they in this church so i felt very sorry and i can explain my. very painful how does going to fare. in a gumbo is often referred to by locals as 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 for me to really know what is going on right now and really no one doing the killing us. so. even though they killed us

we need to tell them those who did this before gurira because our lord says to do so we are we are we are believe in. one true god. jesus christ of nazareth he is our god he said when he was crucified for all of them so we do forgive them but those who have done this. and and to be accountable before god remember there are one of the priests didn't want to be named because he is afraid of being targeted by those who killed so many people here are. the cries for his dead sister. see fernando was forty four years old she tried to go to church every sunday she leaves her husband. and the daughter behind chance trafford al-jazeera the governor sri lanka.

the u.n. special envoy for libya has renewed his appeal for all armed groups to stop fighting after three weeks of trying to take the capital tripoli has called came of forces led by the warlord holly for half the flowed their advance on the capital at least two hundred sixty four people have been killed thousands of others have been injured since the battle for control of the city began a couple of weeks ago. right egypt is hosting two emergency meetings of african leaders to talk about on the one hand fighting in libya and on the other the political uncertainty in sudan they've given the military in sudan three months to hand over power to civilians mohammed val has more from the capital khartoum. this is well 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 he 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 ours you can't just come and make us good 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 . again largely because all the generals who are in the council now were sitting around bashir including seen elop at dean who is now the head of the council political committee all of them are islamize and they have to be removed. as i

speak now a number of protesters have organized a counter movement are mobster words where the military police are standing another checkpoint in this direction trying to drive the message home but they're 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. and egypt's national elections authority is due to announce the results of the referendum the referendum on a series of constitutional amendments one of which could actually allow the president's term in office to remain until twenty three this is a scene live in cairo as i say the results will be announced any time now since we get. those results on that referendum of course will let you know nobody is really expecting there to be much of an upset we're expecting all those constitutional changes to have been approved with a handsome majority should we say. we will come back to that of course as soon as

they start and we get an idea of the numbers. still to come here at al-jazeera the sister but he has no pity for the people of iran he's just after his own interests iranians react to donald trump's claims that u.s. sanctions are not meant to hurt politicians. they are meant to have politicians but not the people that's what he claims. we should see some improvement in the weather across the middle east over the next couple days he crossed more than areas of the middle east still with a fair bit of cloud just around the black sea the caspian sea but for many for much of iraq for much of iran it should be dry and settle something cloud over towards

afghanistan having said that i just woke up all over the high ground yet we are looking at some bits and pieces of snow before much of iran as you can see is dry and sunny to run at fourteen degrees celsius baghdad twenty six celsius temperature starting to just rampart now across these northern areas of the region twenty eight in baghdad the day i was getting up into the low to mid twenty's across a good part of the levant by the time becomes a thursday even kabul will get up into the twenty's twenty one celsius. the wintry mix making its way away as we go on through the remainder of this week meanwhile across the robin peninsula well it is. possible around the gulf of aden southern end of the red say twenty five celsius in doha quite a brisk wind just freshening things up and it'll stay that way as we go on through the next day out so let's get out into southern parts of africa some showers coming into the eastern cape again just watch out for cyclists the attends in.

on this take a look at the top stories here it out. president month three policy the senate has released a statement declaring that intelligence warnings of possible attacks were not shared with him he said to restructure the security forces in the coming week. the u.n. special envoy for libya has renewed his appeal for all groups to stop the third week of fighting around the capital tripoli at least two hundred sixty four people have been killed. rejected the final appeal of to john this who would jailed reporting on a massacre of people while. they've already spent sixteen months in prison after being convicted of breaking an official secrets law. the last appeal for word is journalist. has been rejected by the supreme court's in me and more 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 upheld 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 and word 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 setup. croly key is the asia editor for rice and he says the families of the jem this will we knew the appeal for

a pulse from the government. well it's very clear there is no evidence that while on and show so our reporters were guilty of any crime the evidence at trial was very clear however that they were the victims of a police set up intended to silence their reporting that are hoarding which was truthful and consequential and so we're determined and will continue to work to secure their release myanmar's legal process would allow for an additional appeal to the supreme court while an intro sort of themselves to and through their lawyers have indicated. for them they want this to be the end of the legal process and the m.r. and we have made it clear. both at the trial and in the subsequent appeals that there was no evidence of a crime that is instead there is ample evidence of putting testimony from a police official that this was a set up so for us this is the end of the legal process in myanmar will be

regrouping now and the families will be renewing their appeal for a pardon to the government of myanmar china says the united states demand for countries to stop buying uranium oil off a sudden actions will increase volatility in the middle east washington has given five of countries until may the second to comply iran has responded by threatening to close the strait of hormuz that's a crucial shipping route also in jordan 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 trumpet ministration 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 nice 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 a. the united arab emirates and not other oil producing nations key to making the iranian pargo 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 the president who 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 so what's a view of this from the iranian capital tehran zain best ravi as our correspondent there. during his monday press conference u.s. secretary of state by pompei it was said that america's maximum pressure campaign was designed to hurt durant's governments not iran's people and even though there is ample evidence to suggest that that is exactly what u.s. sanctions are doing pompei will try to emphasize the point that u.s. president donald trump white house has tried to make over and over again that america cares about iran's people and that america wants only to change the behavior of the iranian leaders who pompei of said oppress the road people so we

thought we'd ask a few folks here into iran what they think happened to me but it's i think mostly it's a political game they don't care about people they just think about the interest of their own country of course all countries i like to use i mean what do you think of the idea that the american government encourages the station to donald trump is a friend to the iranian people what do you think of that idea you think it's. just enough to put off when oil is not sold no money or investment comes into the country and there is a lot of pressure on people. turn cost on the list least transactions are not honest people don't accept his policies are wrong he has no pity for the people of iran he's just off to his own interests when it comes to political thought here in iran there is a broad spectrum iranians do criticize their own leaders often intelligently and emotionally quietly as well as fiercely but the one thing that seems to unite

people here who have different ideas about their country's future even if they don't personally dislike donald trump they don't see the american president or his officials in this white house as friends of the iranian people. the debate over whether to an elbow sion in argentina as long being very controversial legalization in this mainly catholic country was narrowly defeated by said this is last chance as today's a bow reports. province activists remain determined to decriminalize abortion this specially since discovering the plight of an eleven year old girl who was raped some of you may find elements of this report disturbing. cecilio said and her husband. irene balled in a fight to decriminalise have been in argentina they leaving money northwest argentina one of the most conservative provinces in the country the fight is

a personal one as it doctors are under investigation for carrying out an abortion on an eleven year old girl who had been raised. with i wanted to evaluate what we could do in a case and what i saw horrified me in a live in year old girl playing with toys whose body is not developed to give birth with the belly she still had a baby teeth in a mouth she was being tortured the girl known only as who was allegedly raped by her step grandfather you see is eleven years old and she was sixteen weeks pregnant when her condition with the attack that she was brought to this hospital because according to doctors she requested them to remove from her belly what if the old man had put inside of her the procedure was delayed for about two months through one rights group to announce that authorities wanted to convince her to keep the baby in spite of her young age with so much time having passed hoarsely he decided as he sat in section operation was the best way to proceed however when they try to

get the operating room ready for the procedure being countered and others said back to us he goes mother was there and she was so afraid because all the hospital plus now had left because the object to the procedure those who did not want to participate wanted to film us so they could post it on social media in the end the baby was born alive only to die a few days later look c.s.k. . is not the only one in northern argentina this is a country where abortion in cases of rape has be legal for nearly a century. was abused by a relative when she was fourteen she says while law may be on her side the system works against the victims just as i was ashamed of my belly of the questions and when i had the baby i did not want to see her rejected her so badly my grandmother said she is beautiful and she is nobody will never take the pain away from me.

in general the woman impacted are poor and vulnerable. every time a woman denounces something to the police to patch a back and laugh at you they have no heart was last year argentina's congress debated for the first time in history the possibility of decriminalizing abortion in a country where women can still go to jail if found guilty of having had one the law was rejected in the senate. the lawyers in the northern part of the country say conservative groups want to ensure the law is never voided again but i live in the uk after the abortion debate they wanted to go back in time and pass a law to prohibit abortion in case of rape but they made it so complicated it's almost impossible to have an abortion once you've been raped abortion remains a contentious issue in argentina and while lawmakers are prepared to vote on legalizing it again later this year human rights groups denounce the hardships

women and girls face even when they have the law on their side. one i didn't. write it's time for us to go through the top stories here of their drug as president right through policy center has released a statement declaring intelligence warnings about possible attacks were not shared with him he said he will change the heads of defense and restructure police and security forces in the coming weeks. guard because we have been receiving information about trainings the terrorist were having the security department has received so much information regarding their activities we did not investigate thoroughly and carry out the necessary action against these organizations and their members unfortunately we have experienced this incident innocent people have been

killed due to the horrific incident. the un special envoy for libya has renewed his appeal for all armed groups to stop a third week of fighting around tripoli. is called came as forces led by the warlord hurling for half the slope their advance on the capital at least two hundred sixty four people have been killed oh yeah yeah well 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 for 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. and this is the scene live in cairo where we're expecting the gyptian national elections with already to announce the results of the country's referendum on constitutional amendments one of which

could extend the president's term until twenty thirty. if approved the changes would also allow abdel fattah el-sisi the current president to appoint senior judges as well as expand the role of the armed forces rights groups say the referendum is neither free nor fair since we get those results of calls we bring them to you here at al-jazeera. mia miles high school has rejected the final appeal of two jan this jailed while strip posting about the range of ethnic cleansing crisis wallow in and kelso have already spent sixteen months in prison after being convicted of breaking an official secrets long right inside story is next.

stop buying iranian oil or face sanctions will the u.s. ultimatum stoke tensions in the gulf and does donald trump risk alienating friends and antagonizing god this is it's story. hello and welcome to the program on iran con oh prices are on the rise of the united states announced a new crackdown on iran's oil exports aimed at reducing them to zero the iranians say that will never happen there again threatening to block the strait of hormuz the well.