well this really confirmed well this really in a way confirms what security officials have been saying they've say the defense minister we heard from the defense minister couple of hours at a press conference that they have been able to identify eight of the nine suspected suicide bombers who carried out the attacks and the the video that we've got the latest video that we've seen now and shows to men at the shangri-la hotel one of those hotels that was attacked on sunday we see these two men walking up to the third floor taking a lift to the floor and then going into a restaurant mingling with the people at the restaurant and then we see a white flash and that's purportedly the moment of when the blast happened now this is also this is also really in line with what the security officials have been saying carried out by suicide bombers and this really is also really quite close to what we've seen in a video footage taken at the church in november which also shows a man carrying

a backpack just moments before the last happened he walked into a church carrying a backpack it was very calm and also people allegedly beat one of the this suicide bomber who carried out the attack at the church. and florence what are you hearing from the community because you are outside this buddhist temple where as you're saying people there have been been remembering the victims of sunday's attacks. that's right so i mean the last few days we've had christian mass funerals mass burial prayers for the victims of the blast today there's going to be a press center sorry many blessings for those who survived the attack to pray for this recovery and also to remember the dead and earlier this morning that was a meeting between the archbishop and bastien's from muslim countries it was a meeting facilitated by the leader of an interfaith organization here in sri lanka

so really this shows the leaders of the other religious communities coming together to show their support to show their solidarity for the christian minority who were targeted in the attacks on sunday now but of course this still remains a country that is extremely tense on very high alert on the face of it things appear to be slowly returning to normal the schools are still closed shops and offices businesses have reopened the streets are slowly returning back to normal this heavy traffic but then you see armed guards on street corners guarding buildings you see sniffer dogs you know going through bags really calf really and just today we know we've known of at least three controlled explosions. detonated suspicious vehicles that were parked in the side streets because they were not taking any chances so while you have the community coming together to show

their support the solidarity the country is still very tense but of course the street lankans a very stoic people have lived through decades of civil war that ended a decade ago people don't want to return to that but this is not a normal situation and the country is still operating under a limited state of emergency and the political fallout of course continuing over these intelligence failures what we've been hearing from government officials and the. well the defense minister at a press conference earlier today he is just he has now become the minister to say that he was not given information about the warnings about the tip offs we've heard from government officials how there were warnings given that more than two weeks before the attacks took place but now we've got the prime minister the president and now on the defense the statement of stepha defense saying that isn't this

information was not passed on to them so then released really long guns asking themselves then you know who can they trust to protect this country to protect them f. citizens of this country the politicians now are coming under heavy questioning that's been a debate in parliament looking into how this massive intelligence failure happened and the some suggestions that it's a rift between the prime minister and the president that caused this to happen this breakdown in communication the prime minister did not address this directly he said that they are working together. but you know ultimately it still begs the question really how did this intelligence failure happen and that is what sri lankans offering themselves and they're trying to hold that politicians to account. all right for the moment florence louis life which they're into lumber thanks much. now a train with north korea's leader board has arrived in russia for thursday's

meeting with president vladimir putin. in ruddy will stalk two months after the breakdown of the second denuclearization talks with the u.s. president donald trump in vietnam or didn't putin says he's keen to have a say in any peace plan on the korean peninsula let's get more than now from step busson who is in light of all stock force so step kim is given we understand what's still to be his first interview two to four media interview with russian television one reach say. yes very interesting just when he arrived here in florida are stuck to news came out that he has given his first exclusive interview with a foreign media channel and it's a russia twenty four it's a state owned channel here in russia and somewhere between his arrival at the border with russia in the city of the town of karzai and his arrival here and try

to stop this interview has taken place we've seen some images of it it's basically a standing up interview the only thing that has been released so far of the interview is that he has said that he came with warm feelings to russia and that he has very high hopes that the meeting with president putin will be very successful and that the situation at the korean peninsula will be discussed as well as bilateral issues the whole interview is about to be aired on sunday so dan we're going to find out what else he had to say but of course this is a very significant development because this shows that kim jong un is actually opening up to the outside world that he wants to sort of restyle north korea into a more normal country doing these kinds of interviews i was already assigned in hanoi after he was meeting a resident donald trump he actually took some questions from reporters as well so it is a sign here that there are some things are changing and this interview which we all

of course are very keen to see is one of those significant signs and after the failure of that second summit with the u.s. president in hanoi what is kim trying to achieve them with this trip. well it's all very interesting because president putin has invited kim jong un already a year ago to visit russia but he never came forward because of course he had these talks going on with donald trump but after the last talking. noid collapsed. sees the time right for this meeting with president putin of course also as a sign to the united states that he is not isolated that there's other people he can talk to other world leaders basically making his bargaining position better make maybe even hoping that the demands of the united states will be lowered and that another meeting with trump can be can be accomplished basically it's meeting

put in but also talking to trump at the same time on the other hand of course for putting this is also a very good time because he wants to reach out also to east asia he doesn't only want to be involved in the middle east that he's been focusing on so much so this is his time now to get back into this korean discussion so for both of them it's a way to improve the bargaining position. all right step in life first there in a stock of the united nations says the afghan government and u.s. forces have killed more civilians this year than the taliban and i saw at least three hundred civilians lost their lives to air and ground strikes in the first three months the same time the u.s. says the taliban isilon other fighters killed two hundred twenty seven people the number of suicide bomb attacks has fallen for this year compared to nineteen in the first quarter of last year which bennett richard bennett the un afghanistan human

rights chief who put the put out a report says any civilian casualties are too many. while the reduction overall in civilian casualties is positive. it's too soon to discern a trend and secondly. this is still a very intense conflict and way too many civilians are being harmed by this conflict the answer to that is partly precautions but the bigger answer is a ceasefire a spokesman for u.s. forces in afghanistan says we reserve the right of self defense of our forces as well as the afghan security forces the best way to end the suffering of noncombatants is to end the fighting through an agreed upon reduction in violence on all sides of the border that is a founding member of the group transparency afghanistan he says u.s.

forces have not been acting in self-defense. there's no fact there d. that did the other side of the conflict is that the taliban are focusing on ruler of cornerstone whereas dice is focusing on urban of on its own we have had a suicide attack on the ministry of communication the other day and the report also says that the that the amount of suicide attacks has has decreased and when its ruling taliban order into hibernation it's the afghan government is the u.s. led coalition that gets into oftens to go and reach out to taliban in their hideouts across through afghanistan and most of the time this led to civilian casualties in collateral damages. it's now i don't know why do you call it sort of self-defense when they are going into hideouts of rural villages of taliban across the country i don't understand is this does not just make sense to me lots more ahead when we come back a constitutional change that could see president abd in fact that he sees rule in

egypt extended to twenty thirty. we got the usual lash out across southeast asia but some lovely sunshine in between looking pretty good for much of the philippines in the china largely fine and dry sense and southern parts of vietnam cambodia laos and thailand polluting a lot of the sets come down to indonesia postell seeing some rather heavy rain and twenty one millimeters of rain here in just twenty four hours and we'll keep that in the distribution of showers as we go on through the next twenty four hours or so russia showers there on the by potentially pushing out into the indian ocean usual russia shows that coast much of malaysia jakarta could see want to see showers there on. nothing a little further north which as we go on into friday you can see philippines gentle

. fondant tried it with a fair weather cloud coming through well she thought it right see a straight yeah this area cloud table some useful rain into parts of new south wales just like the house of central areas of queensland high pressure in charge across southern parts of the country temps is really falling away now nineteen twenty celsius that for adelaide and also for melbourne warm up in perth at around twenty seven on the friday that was temperature over the next couple of days but turning to the southeast.

flight catamaran ways and experienced economy class like never before qatar airways going places together. again you're watching at zero amount of our top stories this hour new video has emerged reportedly showing two suspects with backpacks entering the shangri-la hotel in sri lanka's capital moments before an explosion the hotel was one of three . luxury hotels and three churches targeted on easter sunday. the death toll from the attacks in sri lanka has risen to three hundred fifty nine people state defense minister says eight of the nine suicide bombers have been

identified. sixty people have been arrested so far. north korea's leader kim jong un has arrived in the russian city of leave our stock where he'll meet president putin to visit for to be part of north korea's efforts to build international support. in hong kong leaders of the occupied democracy movement have been jailed on public nuisance charges. i. support of the twenty four thousand protests which also became known as the umbrella revolution gathered outside the court where the sentences were handed out to the nine activists were jailed for sixteen months each two for eight months and others got suspended sentences family law 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. the business 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 this evolution 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 democratic government we can have the 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 japan has apologised to tens of thousands of victims forcibly sterilized under a now defunct law politicians unanimously passed legislation to compensate those

affected by the nine hundred forty eight law it was designed to prevent the birth of those considered inferior descendants in their words about twenty five thousand people with physical or mental disabilities were sterilized the law remained in place until one thousand nine hundred ninety six at least fifty one people have died in floods and mudslides in durban south africa the heavy rain started on monday night hitting parts of the city president cyril ramaphosa has arrived in the area to assess the damage military forces are helping rescue workers search for survivors is life first in johannesburg so what more you hearing there on the floods. well risky work a say is sore reining in some parts of the air which makes race gifford's very very difficult we're told that some areas are hard to reach and the terrain in some areas is also a rust and difficult for the rigs workers to access and also being told that

community holes they are now forcing anyone who's lost their homes or shelters been encouraged to either try and find a place to stay with family or friends the poor drainage system in the area isn't helping matters as well now this region southern africa has been affected by heavy floods recently the most recent being cycling a day which affected mozambique malawi and the bar where more than a thousand people died many people are still missing namely who are displaced the problem with that. money has to be raised to help people who still need assistance and that's when government is saying that's also the problem is facing in durban is that they have released an emergency fund to help people affected by the floods but it's not enough and that of course will hamper rescue efforts the longer the rains continue hasn't and. as you said visiting the area what's been the reaction there to that. well his supporters are happy

to see him on the ground he's just arrived egypt waited a summit there in cairo and they had ladies on the ground is a good the president is around looking like he's concerned about his citizens but his critics say remember this is an election year elections are in may the eighth and it's chris is saying he's just campaigning trying to get votes durban isn't causing a tell province of very important vital influential province in south africa the a.n.c. needs to win the province to win the elections it has lots of issues the case it in with germany is for example there are political killings a lot of grace of us living protest to complain about jobs etc so it is a huge a place with is a lot of potential for violence if it does lead to that coming to elections so here's chris is saying while the goodies on the ground they do suspect a lot of this is because elections are just around the corner and this is just the

ruling a.n.c. party campaigning to try and win votes in that region as i'm all right having with us a lot of first. hand. a protests are growing in sudan against the country's military rulers hundreds of people arrived in packed trains to the capital khartoum joining thousands more outside the army headquarters as they continue to demand civilian rule african union leaders in cairo have given the military council a three month deadline to hand over power to a civilian government one hundred of our has more phone call to the sudanese protesters keeping up the pressure on the military council chants and the sheer force of numbers two weeks since they managed to push the little thirty to topple the regime of model bashir they are still here demanding the task of power to a civilian government as they have gone by skepticism in among the protesters like 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 directly i didn't have any i mean we want to completely civilian government to be appointed right now and 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 will be the monument . 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 an 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 sudanese. over to sudanese parties to implement these measures. have condemned the outcome of the article the union summit in cairo 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 the reaction i think you could see see should get out of our lives this is our country and our revolution it's us who got killed oh rested and tortured no laid out all 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 are from the northern city of now the guarded as the

cradle of this uprising it was there that the first person was killed during a government protests in december arrival of the opera 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 they are destroyed going to continue they don't want anyone to derail their reform. or does iraq. or saudi arabia is being condemned for executing a further thirty seven people one of them crucified after his killing say media said they were convicted of adopting extremist ideology and forming terrorist cells to spread chaos and provoke sectarian strife some were convicted of killing security forces in a bomb attack activists say it is the largest ever mass execution of shias in the kingdom amnesty international is among human rights groups speaking out more than one hundred saudis have already been executed this year last year's total was one

hundred and forty nine. egyptians have approved major changes to the constitution which could. keep a president under fire to his c.c. in power until twenty thirty the results of tuesday's referendum also gives military leaders a bigger say in politics rights groups are condemning the vote as being neither free nor fair priyanka gov takes place believe me there are many out there many would not let go to many mayor filmy the numbers the government says reflect the triumph of egypt's democracy. official figures but the turnout at little more than forty four percent and almost ninety percent of those who voted approved constitutional changes that extend president of the fertile cc's rule and had to agree to power didn't fluence the judicial system the changes also formalized the

role of the military in egyptian politics. leading religious as them relying on the armed forces and the security services. will continue to do so it's more. aggressively so that we were all. armed forces are now control of the state through see through through with their own merits your power this is diary square in twenty nineteen sisi supporters celebrate overturning changes that were hard one by thousands of anti-government protesters during the twenty eleven arab spring. after thirty years of president hosni mubarak's rule the constitution was amended to limit future presidents to two four year terms to used his referendum results change that to three six year terms which means c.c. can now rule egypt until twenty twenty four and perhaps even to twenty thirty he

will also have control over the appointment of judges and public prosecutors these constitutional amendments were rushed through very very quickly i'm not sure egyptians even knew what exactly they were voting on in fact the text wasn't even finalized until four days before the referendum was held preston says his supporters did everything they could to get people to the polls the even all free boxes of food in exchange for votes and some people queued up for them across the country was president sisi says his room means a stable and secure egypt in the face of turmoil in neighboring countries the referendum results were announced on the day when he was hosting two summits one in sedan where longtime president omar al bashir was deposed recently and people one

the military leaders out. and the other on libya a battle ground between rival governments eighty years after his dictator moammar gadhafi was ousted. emboldened by his victory in the referendum critics fear sisi may be uses new powers to make sure any threats to his rule are kept from under control priyanka gupta al-jazeera. around two thousand students have protested in algeria the capital to pay tribute to the five victims who died on monday after a building collapsed residents say the building in the unesco listed district should have been renovated or destroyed protesters also continue to demand change because of the interim government's links to for president. scientists believe they have recorded the first ever seismic tremor on another planet and they've been quick to label it a miles quite faint rumble on the red planet was picked up by nasa as robotic probe

inside the first spacecraft designed to study the interior of mars in sight is on a two year mission to the planet. around them now of our top stories new video has emerged reportedly showing two suspects with backpacks entering the shangri-la hotel in sri lanka's capital moments before an explosion it was one of three luxury hotels and three churches targeted on easter saturday. the death toll in sri lanka after the attacks has risen to three hundred fifty nine people state defense minister saying eight of the nine suicide bombers have been identified sixty people have a been arrested so far as you know fernandez has been following developments for us from colombo as the funerals continue there is

a certain sadness that pervades the entire country because they keep sort of you know harking back to what unfolded on sunday but amid that frustrate 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. north korea's leader kim jong un has arrived in the russian city of lady of a stock where he'll meet president putin is thought to be part of north korea's efforts to build up international support the united nations says afghan government and u.s. forces have killed more civilians this year than the taliban and i saw at least

three hundred civilians lost their lives to air and ground strikes in the first three months at the same time the u.n. says taliban i saw and i saw fighters killed two hundred twenty seven people or both the number of suicide bombings and other attacks has for at least fifty one people have died in floods and mudslides in durban south africa the heavy rain started on monday night hitting parts of the city residents still ramaphosa has arrived in the area to assess the damage army soldiers are helping the search for survivors those are the headlines we're back with more after radicalised. china is the problem has become famous for its large number of elderly many age one hundred years or older one i want to investigate the raid you hold the secrets to a long and hold the line on al-jazeera.

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