this is april twenty seventh and twenty in down. sri lanka's president promises sweeping changes in the defense force after it's revealed intelligence about the easter sunday attacks was not shared this is the first funerals get underway on a day of mourning and remembrance intra leica. on our television is al-jazeera live from london also coming up. more protesters arrived in sudan's capital to add their voices to the thousands demanding a swift transition to civilian rule. and egyptian voters approved constitutional amendments which will allow president of the photos to stay in power until twenty

thirty. last rights groups go to the u.s. supreme court to challenge a new census question which they say could directly disadvantage immigrant communities. because president says he will sack security chiefs in the wake of the easter sunday bombings after it was revealed intelligence agencies were tipped off about the imminent attacks two weeks before they took place it's also being reported that they were tipped off again just hours before the first strike the total death toll from sunday's attacks has risen to three hundred twenty one pounds reports from colombo. a seemingly innocent moment a man with a backpack strolls casually into the st sebastian church in a gunboat he pats a child on the head and enters the building this security camera footage shows

a suspected bomber one of several who carried out the attacks across three cities in st lanka on sunday officials have admitted there was an intelligence failure a warning given more than two weeks before the attacks happened was not shared acted out now it's also emerged that intelligence services should have had one of the suspects on their radar much earlier hilmi ahmed the vice president of the muslim council of sri lanka says he had alerted security officials about a radical preacher said to be the leader of national. the group the government blamed for carrying out sunday's attacks both three years ago we were in turn told them that there is a muslim cleric who is bridging he had been gathering young people in the guise of conducting koran classes and radicalizing them at a news conference on tuesday afternoon the prime minister didn't cite step questions about whether the attacks could have been foiled if we tried in order

sadly we could have prevented many of the attacks in the churches and had more security in the heart of what is we could have prevented all of it back so at least reduce the number of attacks that were taken place but when it came to the suggestion that it was a rift between him and the president who's in charge of the police that led to the breakdown in communication he was less forthcoming we had a meeting at yeah i mean we are different so medium but we would crash out and somehow look we've got to get the country out of this problem i don't think we can start a family she was in front a few hours later the president in a recorded address to the nation insisted he had no prior knowledge of the attacks emma rog. specifically i would like to say that i wasn't informed by the relevant authorities. or by the responsible officers form if they had informed me i could have taken actions regardless. he said there would be changes in defense heads within twenty four hours the investigation is down looking at whether the suspects

had links abroad as officials believe they would have required help planning and carrying out the coordinated attacks there was also a suggestion from the defense minister that the bombings were in battalion patient but i must shootings. but some here say there should be caution in making such links an operation like this holly coordinated complex attack against multiple targets on both coasts or sri lanka that takes quite some trying inability and planning to. christchurch to actually five weeks. given what we know the organizations likely put this together this is probably playing quite some time in advance of that meanwhile remains on high alert fearful of the possibility of more attacks officials here say there continue to be threats to the country its institutions and businesses even the post office has now said it will no longer accept sealed packages a return to war time practice it appears no one wants to take any chances after

sunday's attacks florence louis al jazeera colombo. as for like to hold a day of mourning mass funerals are taking place across the island nation all one hundred people were killed sebastian church and they go north of colombo in the first of two services mourners pay their respects to thirty victims charles stratford reports from them up next on. the. community in mourning. thousands came to pay their respects and remember the men women and children killed at the sun sebastian churchill a gumball. hit families of victims stand by the coffins of their loved ones overcome 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 there i know some people had been there i know . 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. 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. we really know what is going on right now and really no one going to kill us so. even though they killed us we need to tell them those who did this before gary were because our lord says' to do so we are we are we are believe in the 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. and 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. he fernando was forty four years old. she

tried to go to church every sunday she leaves a husband a song and the daughter behind. that al-jazeera the gumball sri lanka. thousands of sudanese protesters have joined the sit in front of the army headquarters in the capital khartoum they're angry after african union leaders meeting in cairo gave the ruling military council as low as three months to hand over power to a civilian government. has the latest from khartoum. sudanese protesters keeping up the pressure on the military council through chants and the sheer force of numbers two weeks since they managed to push the military to topple the regime of formal bashir they're still here demanding the task of power to a civilian government as days have gone by skepticism increases among the

protesters until this minute the national congress party bashir is still around its leaders still sitting around and until now the military council has not responded to any of our demands if they think we don't understand let them know we understand the former regime is still growling us indirectly i don't have any i mean we want to completely civilian government to be appointed right now and now demand to be away from the shias here and away from any politicians what's the way that we don't need any political parties all we need is the criminals to be brought to justice and our funds that were stolen and taken after all to be returned and if you do you might. a fresh attempt by military police to remove the roadblocks are on the sit in on tuesday appear to only exacerbate tensions in the college and an african union summit in cairo didn't help matters. we

have also listened to the chairman of the african union commission about his last visit to sudan as well as his monitoring of the announced developments from all sudanese with over two years regarding the transitional period we have agreed to give more time to the sudanese just over two years and sudanese parties to implement these measures the sort of birds who wants to then the protesters have condemned the outcome of the african union summit in cairo especially the decision to give the military council for the months before it gives power to civilians and they have called for the biggest mass protest to be held today in reaction i think this is should get out of our life this is our country and our revolution it's us who got killed all rested and tortured no lead our or any foreign country has the right to interfere in our affairs or sabotage our revolution oh well.

the calls for more volleys continue to bring to the streets a train loaded with protesters are arrived from the northern city of up but are now regarded as the cradle of this uprising it was there that the first person was killed during a government protests in december the arrival of the op but activists appear to give. to those taking part in the sit in they say they have braved bullets tear gas and torture for over four months to bring about change but their struggle continues they don't want anyone to derail their revolution. or dizzy or car too. african union leaders have also called for an immediate end to fighting in libya where government forces have pushed back fighters loyal to warlord holly for have to in a counter offensive against his two week advance on the capital tripoli they say they are ready to recapture the disused international airport south of the city

after heavy overnight shelling of have to positions the government also claims to have cut off the main road to the city of garrion which has become have to regional base both sides are bringing in troops and equipment from other parts of libya despite united nations calls for a deescalation one two hundred sixty four people have so far been killed and have to a fence of on the capital oh you have been here 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 will need a special libyan will to stop the war egypt's voters have backed constitutional changes in a referendum paving the way for president of the sisi to remain in power until twenty thirty national election or thirty put the turnout at forty four percent

with nearly ninety percent of them voting yes presidential terms will now be extended from four to six years the president will also be given powers of the judiciary and parliament and the military's role in politics will be in trying to the constitution rights groups say the referendum was neither free nor fair the board of the national election commission made today and handed down resolution number thirty eight of twenty nineteen declaring the outcome of the front i'm stating that. approval of the voters a majority of the voters by the electors. twenty three million four hundred sixteen thousand seven hundred forty one valid votes representing. eighty eight point eight three percent. out of the total votes as a result it is resolved that the constitution shall be amended.

sheldan is a senior associate at carnegie endowment for international peace she says the constitutional changes could backfire for president. one has to ask why did c. c. rush this through so quickly and at this time right he wasn't even up for elections for another three years before his term was extended so you know why now i think one reason is the very permissive international atmosphere with president trump in office in the united states and we saw that president trump hosted c.c. here just a couple of weeks ago to give him the american stamp of approval as he went you know and asked for these extraordinary amendments so i think that's one reason another reason may be that there could be some difficult economic times coming for egypt and i think sisi wanted to try to get this all nailed down but it really remains to be seen whether these amendments will consolidate cc's power or whether they will become

a source of grievances against him and eventually fuel increasing opposition to him . more still to come including the united nations takes action on sexual violence in conflict but struggles to win over the world's biggest military powers. and all change on the shows is a grand development plan and one of the world's most famous avenues. again it's good to have you back here cross australia we are seeing the rain continue here across queensland in some locations we do need the rain because it has been quite dry in some of those areas there's the rain right there we did see some thunderstorms along with it but we are going to continue to see the rain up here across parts of the area and for townsville you could be seeing some windy conditions as well twenty seven degrees here as we go from wednesday and then into

thursday we're going to see those temperatures stay moderate but down here towards the south a little bit cool for melbourne as well as adelaide with the thames if you have nineteen degrees there well of towards fiji we have seen some very heavy rain as well. couple days the clouds are beginning to push away just a little bit but the rain is still going to continue a little bit lighter than what it has been over the last couple of days down here towards new zealand though temperatures into the mid to upper teens and much of the region but we could be seeing some rain approaching here across the south island as we go towards thursday and still messy weather across parts of asia we're talking about the korean peninsula as well as into southern japan the rain is going to be heavy at times attempt as though quite warm for this time via about twenty four degrees here for seoul over here towards tokyo at about twenty two but the temperatures are coming down here across parts of seoul as you get a little bit better we could even see some snow in the higher elevations of north korea but tokyo is going to be a better day with attempted there of twenty five degrees.

the fascist anti establishment and pro vine. despite the recent official disbanding of its militarized wing of basque separatist movements is found alive and well on the terraces of the bilbao stadium. a place where political revolutionaries share a platform and ideology with father football hooligan. read old death on al-jazeera. from one of the top stories here nigeria sri lanka's president says he will sack security chiefs after it was revealed intelligence agencies were tipped off about

one of the easter sunday attacks hours before it took place. thousands of sudanese protesters have joined a sit in in the capital khartoum angry after african union leaders gave the ruling military council three months to hand over power to a civilian government. and egypt's voters have backed constitutional changes in the referendum paving the way for president a defacto sisi to remain in power until twenty thirty. algeria's army chief has welcomed a move by the judiciary to crack down on billionaires linked with former president of dillard. who are accused of corruption the country's richest man is said rep rugs was amongst five people arrested on monday he's suspected of making fake statements about the transfer of money in and out of the country four brothers from the wealthy family were also arrested which if you go step down from office earlier this month after weeks of protests against his twenty year rule.

approaches to continuing on an almost daily basis thousands of civil engineering and architecture students have marched through the capital chanting let's build a new algeria they want to see a complete overhaul of the political system not just departure but demanding that all his in a circle face trial a u.s. threat to veto u.n. security council action on sexual violence in conflict has been averted after a long agreed phrase was removed certain council members voted in favor of the resolution while russia and china abstained over a number of concerns on diplomatic editor james bays has more from the united nations in new york. the german foreign minister presided over this meeting about one of the grave issues possible women and peace and security sexual violence in conflict you'd think there'd be unity and joint resolve but as ambassadors

arrived here for the meeting it was clear there was deep division this is a dark cloud and this could a concert or an issue that we supposed to be closing ranks a negative one unfortunately the politics of this if we believe in the values of the u.n. we believe in the values of women rights this is a real fight and ironed out their attitudes that we just. as the council heard from the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists and nobel laureates nardi him around and dr dennis mccuaig a tense negotiations continued about a draft resolution written by germany the u.s. authority for it to get references to the international criminal court removed but backed by china and russia it also wanted changes to the words sexual reproductive rights because it argues that phrase implies support for abortion the campaigner and lawyer amal clooney made it clear the council would be judged by its actions

this is the your nuremberg moment your chance to stand on the right side of history you owe it to nigeria and to the thousands of women and girls who must watch i think members shave off their beards and go back to their normal lives while they the victims never can in the end the german delegation rewrote their resolution it passed with the u.s. support but with abstentions from russia and china after the controversial wording was removed the council effectively caving in to u.s. pressure. thank you very much. hard work. european nations say they are dismayed by the u.s. position and believe this battle is not over yet they detect the hound of the u.s. vice president mike pence in trying to roll back the internationally agreed position on women's rights for the last quarter of

a century one diplomat described the alliance between the us china and russia and all those outside the security council including saudi arabia and the vatican as the axis of the mediæval james is era of the united nation's. highest court has rejected the final appeal of two reuters journalists jailed while reporting on the rigging a crisis while. was sentenced to seven years in prison after being convicted of breaking manaus official secrets act so far they have served sixteen months scott hardly has more from bangkok the last appeal for word is journalist wallowing has been rejected by the supreme court 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 in yangon rejected an appeal they said the sentence would be upheld that also coming down from the supreme court on tuesday now what happened since the

verdict came down in september sentencing these two gentlemen to seven years behind bars an 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 won a 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. the supreme court in the united states has been hearing arguments over a controversial proposed change to the questions in next year's census the court in washington d.c. will now decide whether to allow a question on u.s. citizenship census has taken place every ten years since seven hundred ninety but for the first time there are plans to ask whether someone is a u.s. citizen critics say it's a deliberate attempt to intimidate immigrants adding that particular citizenship

question could lead to the under-counting in communities across america particularly in immigrant communities and hispanic communities it would mean that communities entitle to resources get those resources it would deny certain communities of equal representation and so in the interest of fairness in the interest of upholding this quintessential american promise we are obligated to ensure the most accurate count in the twenty twenty census and as such we must use every tool at our disposal in our arsenal to fight to protect its integrity. dozens of british m.p.'s are trying to block a state visit by donald trump accusing him of mr racism and xenophobia the u.s. president has been invited to the u.k. by queen elizabeth hundreds of thousands of people protested against his first visit last year and many say they'll do it again in june and the hayward has more from buckingham palace well donald trump has accepted the offer from the queen to

come here to take part in a state visit between the and the fifth of june he'll be here for three days and he will take part accompanying the royal family to commemorate which will take place on the south coast to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the d.-day landings what makes this visit different to his visit to be u.k. last year though is that this is a state visit and that comes with all the privileges that a state visit and tie of a large banquet of about one hundred fifty people which will be hosted by the queen now of course everybody is happy about trump coming back to britain of course last year when he visited the u.k. there were several hundred thousand people who protested on the streets of london he didn't get anywhere near the protests and of course through a large balloon which are paid in the sky above parliament depicting trump as an angry baby we don't know yet whether that will feature in this year's visit north

korean leader kim jong un is on his way to russia to meet president vladimir putin preparations are being made in the russian pacific port of blood of ostrog where the summit will take place on thursday visit is believed to be part of pyongyang as efforts to build international support on the breakdown of talks with the u.s. in february russia is also keen to play a role in any peace plan on the korean peninsula. indians are voting in the third and largest phase of the country's general election prime minister narendra modi was among will one hundred eighty million indians eligible to vote on tuesday it cast his ballot in his home state of gujarat the vote is seen as a referendum or modis five year rule he's adopted a nationalist approach trying to appeal to the country's hindu majority voting in the state election ends on may the nineteenth. teenage environmentalist richard berke has been meeting british politicians and climate protesters in london

a sixteen year old swedish activist held talks with leaders of opposition parties or the prime minister trees of may was conspicuous by her absence has inspired tens of thousands of children worldwide to boycott classes to draw attention to climate change i took to london coincided with a ninth day of climate protests by the extinction rebellion group. their plans to revitalize france's most famous avenue the shores elicit each year about twenty million people visit but less than two percent of those a parisian local architects say it's in desperate need of renovation ahead of the twenty twenty four olympics potential partner reports from paris. often described as the most beautiful avenue in the world the shells elisei is a symbol of paris its name conjures up images of french elegance luxury and flair but the reality is quite different traffic's heavy pavements a crowded and the avenues lined with fast food restaurants schools shops and car

showrooms parisians tend to stay away sorriest are often disappointed oh is that it's not exactly what i expected and there are too many people everywhere there are so many cars people and noise that i find it hard to see any beauty here. the head of a business and residence committee says the situation's urgent he's launched a project to renovate the famous avenue plans include more green spaces more the road around the outer trio of could be transformed into a garden beach or ice rink. the of a new has lost its soul and its identity shows it is a supposed to be a place for walking if the reasons don't come in and it's not because it's not your choice enough shows it's because it's noisy and unpleasant and polluted one of the main problems with the shortly is there is the traffic is nearly always noisy and busy sixty thousand vehicles pass out there is that when you each day sometimes the

pollution isn't worth of viruses fast ring road so that's why architects say one of the solutions could be to reduce the number of lanes. since its construction in the seventeenth century the shah's elisei has been central to french culture from the allied liberation of paris from german forces in one thousand nine hundred forty four to france's two world cup wins people have celebrated here recently many people were shocked when some yellow vests protesters vandalize shops and monuments the architect behind the renovation project says it's vital to maintain the shores eases a unique place in french history but it's all we could use this to show french excellence in astronomy culture fashion and green technology the shells that he says an international symbol a myth and icon it should reveal where the nation does best the project has yet to be given the green light by a paris a city hall but those behind it say a new look. could be revealed in time for the twenty twenty four paris

a lympics and help restore some of the avenues lost glory and romance natasha butler al-jazeera paris. an iranian catch up any time and watch us live on our website dot com. one of the top stories here is here because president says he will sack security chiefs in the wake of the easter sunday bombings that killed three hundred twenty one people that's after it was revealed intelligence agencies were tipped off about the imminent attacks two weeks before they took place the country's prime minister says the bombings could have been prevented if the intelligence had been shared i mean to treat that in a window for shows as to what happened really day after inquiring treat the president at the heart of the launch an inquiry as to id information did not reach my office only eat the ventricle and it said he had

flown. really if we tried in on saturday we could have prevented many of the attacks in the churches and had more security in the heart of what is we could have prevented all of it back so at least reduce the number of attacks that were taken please thousands of sudanese protesters have joined the sit in front of the army headquarters in the capital khartoum they're angry after african union leaders meeting in cairo gave the ruling military council as long as three months to hand over power to a civilian government african union leaders have also called for and they leave you tend to fighting in libya government forces have pushed back fighters loyal to warlord holly for have to in a counter offensive against his two week advance on the capital tripoli they say they are ready to recapture the disused international airport south of the city after heavy overnight shelling of have to positions. egypt's virtues have backed

constitutional changes in a referendum by the way for president of the sisi to remain in power until twenty thirty the national election authority put the turnout at forty four percent with nearly ninety percent of them voting yes sisi and the military will both receive greater power. as army chief has welcomed a move by the judiciary to crack down on billion as linked with former president. who are accused of corruption. richest man is said rob rob was amongst five people arrested on monday there's about one step to stay with us radicalized youth is up next.