elim you know this really do cuban people. or president a matter of policy or scene or has vowed to overhaul state security after the country's intelligence agencies didn't act on several tip offs and there are fears others associated with the easter sunday attacks are still at large on our finance joins us live now from columbus some you know our parliament is reconvene we understand and is debating those intelligence failures what are we hearing out of that has and some strong views expressed as parliament reconvene once again for a debate on the happenings since sunday the state of emergency as well we've been hearing from the for me army a former army commander field marshall. who was highly critical of the lapses in intelligence the fact that this information fell through he had some

harsh words some strong words about how this whole thing had been handled he also pointed to the fact that he hadn't been consulted despite his vast experience in the security field also the leader of the house to nish going to war the know speaking. to the parliament and saying the government must accept full responsibility for the security breaches the lapse of intelligence so awesome this debate is likely to continue for the better part of the day every quite a long list of speakers should go to address the house we heard from the defense to defense minister before he took many questions elaborating on the state of the investigations nine suicide bombers involved at least eight identified and investigations continuing them so what's the mood there are today now because of the more funerals taking place for the victims.

as the funerals continue there is. sadness that pervades the entire country because they keep sort of you know harking back to what unfolded on sunday but amid that frustration and mounting anger that this sort of absolute tragedy and carnage could have been prevented the worst part about sunday and the next couple of days basically has been that now there's a situation where there is concern there's fear that it's the worst is not over that there can be further incidents explosions just within the last two hours we've had a number of cases where suspicious packages were identified the authorities called

in controlled explosions were carried out and ultimately it was found that there was no explosives but people are beginning to get concerned to become scared as to what's going on on a day to day basis this morning when we got to this location i've met a hotelier he has a string of what he generally walks every morning on this seafront promenade called face and he said it's quite sad that we have had to come to this that despite coming to the end of the war ten years since the end of the war we've come to this but he said and it reflects the story says i'm of sri lankans we've lived with this before it's sad but we might have to just get on with it so that is the general we that people are coping as you know the information and the incidents. unfold as i'm alright for the moment now for now and for us

there in colombo. protests are growing in sudan against the country's military rulers hundreds of people arriving in packed trains to hard to join thousands more outside the army headquarters as they continue to demand civilian african union leaders in cairo gave the military council a three month deadline to hand over power to a civilian government has more from khartoum. sudanese protesters keeping up the pressure on the military council. and the sheer force of numbers two weeks since they managed to push the little thirty to topple the regime of formal bashir they're still here demanding the power to a civilian government as they have gone by skepticism in among the protesters until this minute the national congress party of 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 ruling us and i didn't have any i mean we want to completely civilian government to be appointed right now in our demands to be it away from the shias hegemon and away from any politicians whatsoever 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 abroad to be returned if you'll be the one you might ask a fresh attempt by military police to remove the road blocks around the city on tuesday appear to only exacerbate tensions in the card and the african union summit in cairo didn't help matters. the most. 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

authorities regarding the transitional period we have agreed to give more time to the. just over two years and sudanese parties to implement these measures. have condemned the outcome of the operation union summit in cairo specially the decision to give the military council the months before it gives power to civilians and they have called for the biggest mass protests to be held today in reaction i think sisi should get out of our lives this is our country and our revolution it's us who got killed or rested and tortured no laid out or any foreign country has the right to interfere in our affairs sabotage our revolution. the calls for more volleys continue to bring to the streets a trail loaded with protesters of right from the northern city of are now regarded as the cradle of this uprising it was there that the first person was killed during

a government protests in december their arrival of the activists appear to give a morale boost 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 they are a struggle continues they don't want anyone to derail their revolution. or does iraq come to. our north korean leader kim jong un has arrived in russia to meet president vladimir putin on thursday kim has been traveling to the city of lagos stuck on a private train it's thought to be part of north korea's efforts to build international support after the breakdown of talks with the u.s. in february russia is also came to play a role in any peace plan on the korean peninsula let's go live to step vasant who is in of light of our stock for such that when is kim expected to arrive there. well after brown rehearsals and security sweeps everything here in florida at the

rail station is ready to receive any minute now expected to arrive in the next hour maybe two hours from now as you said he's traveling on a private train and he has crossed the border to small border with russia earlier in the day it was a small welcoming ceremony there as well and he said he was very glad he arrived in russia he had been looking forward for a long time it's his very first visit ever and he also said that it was be is going to be the first time it will be other times as well so he is set to meet president putin only tomorrow so today is only the arrival here inside. and after the failure of kim second summit with president trump in hanoi what was he trying to achieve with this visit with vladimir putin's. well nobody seems to expect a lot of concrete results but the timing of course is very important it's just two

months after this talk with trump in hanoi has completely collapsed so visiting russia and talking to president putin will show and send a signal to the united states that he is not isolated that those are the people important world leaders he can talk to and hopefully that will sort of persuade the united states to resume the talks maybe even lower their demands and for president putin he has been waiting for a long time for kim jong un to arrive he has invited him for over a year ago already but now it seems to be the right time for kim jong un to come and put in once of course two races international reputation he wants to be involved he has not been in the loop he hasn't been involved with any korean talks so this is his moment and it's been reported that he wants to try to revive the six party talks that collapsed in two thousand and nine but that still seems to be quite a long way off. and lie for us there in of lot of austar by step. asked

the head on al-jazeera the deadly cost of war the u.n. report that shows the afghan military and u.s. forces have killed more civilians than the taliban. told change on the show and that leaves a grand developments planned for one of the world's most famous avenues. hello again and welcome back to international weather forecast or still has some very messy weather here across much of south western europe and you can see all the clouds on our satellite image extending all the way from the u.k. down through france and they have been peninsula unfortunately the next few days things are going to remain quite wet as well as windy for many locations in the temp is going to be going down to london we're going to start here on wednesday at eighteen degrees for ferrous at eighteen degrees as well the rain continues across

much of the area the winds that get worse as we go towards thursday but those temperatures do drop to about fourteen degrees for london and paris at about fifteen degrees for you where are seeing those warmer temperatures though are oh here towards central parts of europe we are looking at berlin at twenty six and vienna at about twenty seven degrees for you well we did see some messy weather across the northern part of africa things are getting a little bit better still some winds to deal with here across parts of libya as well as tunisia tripoli at twenty seven degrees there over here towards been gazi it is going to be a cloudy day for you with about twenty nine degrees but as we go towards thursday the clouds really begin to dissipate winds come out of the south that means some warmer air coming into play there the guys he is going to be about a thirty degree tape for you in cairo about thirty two degrees but we could see some rain over here towards morocco with her but see some clouds at about twenty degrees. the latest news as it breaks well this is

a training exercise. the dangers are real because the situation in mali is slowly deteriorating with detailed coverage and this is donald tusk to raise them a makes it clear that the current political impasse simply can't go on from around the world aid agencies are warning people of the dangers of cholera and distributing vaccines many are still using the. thing and. i don't again you're watching i did a reminder of off top stories this hour on the death toll in sri lanka after sunday's suicide bomb attacks has risen to three hundred fifty nine people

including thirty nine foreign nationals the state defense minister says eight of the nine suicide bombers have now been identified sixty people have been arrested so far. another day of protests expected in sudan thousands of demonstrators are conducting a sit in outside the army headquarters in khartoum. north korean leader kim jong un has arrived in russia to meet with president vladimir putin still to be part of north korea's efforts to build international support after the breakdown of talks with the u.s. in february. in hong kong leaders of the occupy democracy movement have been jailed on a public nuisance charges. supporters of the twenty four thousand protests which also became known as the revolution gathered outside the court where the sentences were handed out two of the nine activists were jailed

for six. in months each two for eight months and others got suspended sentences during the protests which lasted nearly three months hundreds of thousands of people have blocked roads in hong kong demanding open elections emily lau is a former democratic party member of the hong kong legislative council she says the sentencing will not change people's minds in hong kong but the message we want to send out to the world is the hong kong people will not rest we are not going to give up we will continue the struggle you get the impression that hong kong people are disillusioned and they are disappointed that state is not the true picture i think many hong kong people still now most of us are not asking for independence we are part of the people's republic of china but we want beijing to keep the promise that they made to us that we can have a democratic government we can have

a system separate from that of mainland china but beijing is not keeping its words so people are very frustrated they're angry particularly the young people and i can tell you we will continue there will be elections coming up we will take part and the fight for democracy will go on. of for the first time in ten years a u.n. report says the military and u.s. forces have been responsible for more civilian deaths in afghanistan been the taliban and i saw air strikes and military raids killed more than three hundred people in the first three months of this year according to the report the taliban i saw and some other fighters are blamed for two hundred twenty seven civilian deaths but the number of attacks has gone down and they have also been fewer taliban suicide attacks between january and march in twenty eighteen there were nineteen suicide bombings this year there have been four shiela ballasts has more on this from kabul. for the first time since records began the un has recorded that

pro-government forces have killed more people in afghanistan so far this year than anti-government forces pro-government forces be the afghan military u.s. forces and pro-government militia known as the cost protection force compared to taliban and isolate combined it's a thirty nine percent jump on the pro-government side three hundred three people killed compared to two hundred twenty seven killed by the taliban and i saw the leading cause of civilian deaths is coming from airstrikes the vast majority of which are conducted by u.s. forces one hundred forty five people killed any or strikes if those children and that number is continuing to climb it is not necessarily a freak number over the last year we have seen civilian casualties can't.