this was something that the foreign minister brought up himself he brought up the case of the names of direct cliff which as one who's had a lot of media attention a british woman who is held in tehran he then compared that to the case of an iranian being held in australia who's had a young baby while she was in jail he compared those two cases and then said he had the authority to make a wide ranging offer and that was a prisoner exchange of prisoners being held in iran compared with prisoners iranian prisoners that are being held in the west he would not so many more questions or not he said the questions had to go to washington but he certainly said that it was an offer from iran and he had full thorazine to make that offer and of course the former it's also really touching on the points that are become quite salient in the past few days which are sanctions oil waivers and really a defiance that they will continue to settle to whoever wants it.

yeah well he says that iran has done absolutely nothing wrong iran entered into what he describes a treaty formally it wasn't actually a treaty with the international community including the united states and it's the us that has ripped up that deal it's the us that now is removing those waivers for eight countries to still trade with iran on oil and he made the point that the iran nuclear deal is not just a deal itself it was in shrine and in a u.n. security council resolution so binding international law and he said for the first time in his view in history a permanent member of the u.n. security council was not only going against a u.n. security council resolution it was pushing others to go against a u.n. security council resolution he did say that he believed in his view that president

trump did want to come to some sort of new deal but he said there wouldn't be a new deal because iran really had given everything with the existing deal that was the best they were going to get and he was not prepared for iran to give up on its dignity he said although he believed that president trump didn't want war he thought there were those around him including his national security advisor john bolton and other influences the israeli prime minister the king of saudi arabia the ruler of the usa who actually wanted regime change in iran possibly even to destroy iran as a country or see what is the fallout of that in the coming hours for the moment james our diplomatic editor james bays there in new york thank you. still ahead here on out is there north korea's leader gives the rare interview to foreign media ahead of a meeting with vladimir putin plus. more on the tactics of the armed group boko

haram is easing in the lake chad area those. stories on the other side of the break . we've got more spring downpours coming into central parts of china at moments the cloud just rolling through here they will sink a little further south with shanghai yes up to twenty seven celsius cloudy day on thursday but it should be largely dry the wetter weather is to the south that hong kong should be largely dry temperatures here at around thirty one celsius and then you see that weather just not just a little further south which as we go on through friday say making its way towards the southeast and colder but it will take some time back into the southwest my cash sliding into will northern parts of vietnam hanoi at around thirty two degrees russia showers there across in the child the loss of sunshine as well in law

sunshine across india over the next couple of days little bit of cloud you can see just popping up into the fosse out of the country catch up shower here as is the case to into sri lanka further north well hates back on you can say that forty four celsius in that pool new delhi now getting up above foresees the forty's once again and that's say as we go on into friday a similar picture coming through at this stage time just not going up to around the arabian peninsula so we're looking at thirty celsius here in doha on thursday our wind blowing through come friday it's not quite as windy with a high of thirty. the shortest lived administration in spain's modern history has been forced to call a snap election on april the twenty eight with the polls suggesting a fragmented vote and the rise of the far right populist movement fox can the socialist alliance hold on to power stay with al-jazeera for the latest on the

spanish election. you're watching officer of the cell robin a reminder of our top news stories new video has emerged reportedly showing two suspects of backpacks entering the shangri-la hotel in sri lanka's capital moments before an explosion it was one of the three luxury hotels and three churches targeted on easter sunday sudan's transitional military council has invited the opposition coalition of freedom and change for fresh rounds of talks earlier the

opposition movement said it ended talks with the military after it refused to immediately transfer power to civilian rule. iran's foreign minister says keeping the straits of hormuz open is in the interests of iranian national security jargon sorry spoke in new york tough to the u.s. withdrew sanctions waivers to china india and iran's other major oil customers. an explosion has killed at least thirteen people in a rebel held city and northwestern syria just a. province and has been the target of russian airstrikes on the syrian army in recent weeks the explosion resulted in the collapse of several buildings most of the city's residents have fled to areas close to the turkish border north korea's leader has arrived in neighboring russia for thursday's meeting with vladimir putin kim jong un is invited all stock two months after the breakdown of the second denuclearization summit with donald trump in vietnam came told reporters that he is

keen to discuss the future of the korean peninsula with the russian president and. if your missile i came to russia with a warm feeling of our people i hope that this visit will be successful and rewarding and that during the talks with esteemed president putin i will be able to specifically discuss issues of resolving the situation on the korean peninsula and development of our bilateral relationship. japan has apologized to tens of thousands of people forcibly sterilized under a now defunct law politicians you down the misty 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 about twenty five thousand people with physical or cognitive disabilities was sterilized the law remained in place until one nine hundred ninety six. well staying in the region in hong kong leaders of the occupy democracy movement have been jailed on public nuisance charges supporters of the twenty fourteen protests which became known as the umbrella

revolution gathered outside the court were said to does were handed out two of the nine activists were jailed for sixteen months each two for eight months and the others received suspended sentences during the protests which lasted almost three months hundreds of thousands of people blocked roads in hong kong demanding open elections well joshua warmongers the founder of a pro-democracy group which played a key part in the umbrella movement demonstrations he says the majority of people in hong kong are still committed to democracy. legal professor and law maker have been jailed today for more than a year due to a deer by the year and their lead a leadership role on the movement this sunday. and we will mobilize people come to the street again have the demonstration to against the. suppression from beijing to his hong kong i just hope to urge the international community to keep the ice in hong kong to where that orginally beijing promised to let hong kong have one

country two system but now already trying to be one country one and a half sister absolutely hong kong people of citizens to stand on our side to support democracy there were ties asian today before the court hearing that is the assembly for more than one hundred citizen just called into joy and kewl listen to the court to the court sentencing at the same time i believe. this sunday will have more then people come to the street again to show their support because nowadays hong kong already become the place that political prisoners be called a common norm i would hope beijing and hong kong government to realize that it's time to let hong kong people get the rights to vote in the election is just manapul a taking and to have stirred him political screening during during selection during election. the un's as far as you libya's capital has reached

a detention center holding hundreds of miles of refugees stuff and a spokesman for the u.n. secretary general says the castle been lost the detention center was breached by fighters moved up the warhead has the latest from tripoli. another frontline has been open between forces loyal to warlord plea for help and others loyal to the tripoli base do you know recognized government of national accord the clashes erupted on wednesday morning in here the area north of the city but have there is warplanes targeted that the government forces locations in and here are the government forces say that they recaptured area north of the very end but have heard as warplanes targeted them killing and one thing several fighters from their government forces the government forces say that they have recaptured area around thirty kilometers north of the city center in tripoli the government forces say

that they continue maintaining their locations and maintaining their presence in their locations they have recently taken control of south of tripoli. where there will be and also areas near the disused or inactive tripoli international airport the government forces are accusing have the forces of attacking a migrants' detention center and gas have been a shared area killing and wondering several innocent migrants there more work whether in south africa is hampering troops helping food and landslide victims fifty one people have been killed in. the city of durban over the past week or tassel has more johannesburg. risky workers say it is still raining in some parts of durban and that's affecting risk you efforts we're told for example some areas are hard to reach and the terrain is rough and that's affecting accessing people who really need desperate help the poor drainage system in the area isn't helping

matters as well we're also being told that community halls are for people who've lost their homes and shelters they've been advised to try and find somewhere else the other with family or friends because right now they simply nor where to put them because the usual public spaces are for from people who've lost their homes already and this region has been affected recently by violent most recent being from cyclonic die which ravaged mozambique and i think to the malawi and zimbabwe more than a thousand people were killed many people are still missing many are displaced the problem with helping those people affected by that cycle and is that the money simply isn't made to help everyone not enough aid was raised that's a problem facing the surfing government right now because the president. released an emergency fund but admits that money is not enough to have it when affected by these floods in durban now he was in durban trying to see people been affected by

the floods and opinions are mixed about his visit some say yes it's great that he's on the ground people are seeing him trying to do something talking to rescue workers the army in one else is trying to assist people affected by the floods but some are saying remember this is an election critics are saying is only there because he's campaigning trying to get votes a funeral has been a key the journalist shot dead in london last week during riots because some. have chosen a protestant cathedral from. the dissidents republican group the new have admitted responsibility three people were arrested one is still in custody police in northern ireland treating the shooting a terrorist attack. to africa the group boko haram appears to be using new tactics against civilians in the lake chad region the un has documented increasingly violent and frequent attacks against villages it differ in the southeastern. iraq eighty eight civilians were killed there in march and more than

eighteen thousand others displaced brian explains. this is the village of. the people here safe isis from boca herat ambush them last month leaving a trail of destruction. and. people are killed. in nearby get. down and markets in a mosque vandalized a water tank donated by a german aid organization and style solar panels lives and livelihoods destroyed and minutes. we haven't had peace for the past four years came wreaking havoc in our village burning houses and shops killing people and destroying our water source i sent my family away because it's not safe enough here where it's possible the u.n. says as a warrior and crease in the number of attacks targeting the most vulnerable in this

region including many who've already fled fighting elsewhere this area is now home to more than a quarter of a million people who've been uprooted by conflict from inside or neighboring nigeria. boko haram and its affiliated groups have been waging war against the nigerian government since two thousand and nine but the conflict has spilled over into chad cameroon. with d. for the focus of cross border raids in the past ten years about thirty thousand people have been killed and two million displaced across the lake chad region. and the recent significant spike in unrest is deepening what was already a humanitarian crisis. while a multinational regional force has recaptured much of the armed groups territory raam is now fighting back with new tactics. i assure you there is no single inch and

a book arms control there remnants are scattered in the league chad but as a result they've now resorted to suicide attacks planting mines setting villages ablaze kidnapping and assassination on so long the young here have only known violence many are deeply traumatized and suffer from depression and insomnia aid organizations say the need is far greater than they can provide leaving millions here struggling just to survive. brian al-jazeera. for seven years is the tare refugee camp border with syria has provided shelter for thousands of syrians most of the younger people that have no memory of life anywhere else so some of the older refugees are trying to recreate the surreal culture they were forced to leave behind smith reports from south r.t. this. is trying to preserve a reminder of what has been destroyed in syria's civil war zaatari refugee camp

opened seven years ago almost sixty percent of the eighty thousand syrian refugees here are under seventeen will either have never seen or have very little memory of their homeland and its rich cultural heritage here. they made it. destroyed get the theater power mira is a two thousand year old desert city the unesco world heritage site was controlled twice by eisel fighters who smashed engine relics with sledgehammers the whatnot not destroyed. just they destroyed. it. because i love. my country syria is also remembered through paintings this is a damascus neighborhood this is a map of syria and its monuments and this is called soldiers of peace some of the

artists prefer to paint what they see now. and i prefer to do anything related to refugees show what i've been through all my relatives women's lives children's lives anything related to the camp. of not doing anything related to the tragedy we've left i hear drawing anything about that i try to escape from here by drawing european need. for those too young to remember it's a way to try and connect to a country they may never see for years to come bernard smith al-jazeera zaatari on the jordan syria border. you're watching or just their homes the whole run and these are all top news stories sri lanka's president has asked the chief of police and defense secretary to resign after security forces failed to act on warnings ahead of the easter sunday bombings new video has emerged reportedly showing two suspects with

backpacks entering the shangri-la hotel in sri lanka's capital moments before an explosion and it was one of three luxury hotels and three churches targeted on easter sunday. what also i can say is that this group. some of the suicide bombers most. educated. come from maybe middle upper middle class. financially independent and. their families stable financially so that is a very active. because some of them have. studied. in various other countries all degrees. you know this really do get people saddam's transitional military council has invited the opposition coalition of freedom and change for a fresh round of talks earlier the opposition movement said it ended talks with the

military entered refused to immediately transfer power to civilian rule thousands of demonstrators are conducting a sit in our side the army headquarters in khartoum they're angry after african union leaders said the military council should have three months to hand over power their own foreign minister says keeping the straits of hormuz open is in the interests of the iranian national security job and zarif said speaking in new york after the u.s. withdrew surgeon waivers for iran's major oil customers iran responded by again threatening to blockade the world's oil lifeline from the gulf north korea's leader has arrived in neighboring russia for thursday's meeting with vladimir putin kim jong un is a lot of our stock two months after the breakdown of the second denuclearization summit with donald trump came told reporters that he is keen to discuss the future of the korean peninsula with russia's president those were the headlines marty dentists here in half an hour with the al-jazeera news are the stream is next to

stay with us. you're just back. what was the glimpse of the country to go listen to the children are deeply affected because we meet with global news makers the stories that matter just zero. in the stream prime minister narendra modi has promised economic was. warning that a party is reelected next month but what does that mean. i'm really going to live in today we speak with kashmiris about the first three phases of polling and what this is the election could mean for indian administered kashmir want to share a few of your thoughts but them in the chat or tweet us we'll do our best to

include them in the conversation. i am talker i'm a reporter for india and you are in the stream. the first phase of a parliamentary elections in the region began on a poor eleventh amid calls to boycott what separatist leaders say is an illegitimate exercise and debilitating. other communities have also expressed dissatisfaction with the election constituencies living in southern kashmir voted on tuesday with a final to face all. nine and six in its manifesto the b.g.p. included a plan to repeal indian administered kashmir special status which according to modi is an obstacle to economic development government authorities increased security in the region after a suicide attack on paramilitary troops killed forty people with already has also

restricted civilian movement along an arterial highway. and shut down mobile internet services measures that have not been well received by many kashmiris so how would this huge voting exercise affect people living in the territories to help us explore the possibilities in indian administers kashmir and sasha cohen is an associate professor of politics and international relations at the university of westminster also. dean is a journalist who covers was issues and conflict in the region. this is a human rights activist and feisal is the president of the jammu and kashmir people's movement party hello everybody for the benefit of our international audience they realize that india is the has a huge elections ongoing right now so big that they're broken down into several parts have a look here my laptop audience you can see jehmu and kashmir the elections are twenty nine there are funny faces before you even get a sense of what the results might be but not everybody is voting there is

a boycott going on right now kiran can you explain to me why some people say i'm not going to the polls i have not voted. german kashmir is disputed territory between india and pakistan and people of kashmir since one nine hundred forty seven have been demanding the right to self-determination and since nine hundred forty seven there are many elections held but we have seen that the government of india has always used elections and legitimized presence and. saw it as an integral part of the you are. used. to play internationally people of kashmir. so these domestic elections in a way as. well as people of kashmir are voting for a referendum which will determine whether kashmiri people want to be part of or

whether kashmiri people want to be part of pakistan or whether they want to be an independent country so therefore that's the reason why most of the people have. left and in last few years we have seen that the intensity of the by thought has increased so in last three phases of election also we have seen considerable. good and ishmael had motorbike or not because we had less. but general sentiment in kashmir is like what seem like god i think i think it's also that by god is not only like if we go on ground what people tell us is that they have seen a lot of oppression in recent years like in two thousand you seen two to twenty eighteen like a lot of people a day care like it was two thirty to slake one hundred fifty civilians and then there were more there was like more indian houses and these lakes recent

killing the intensity of these artists and now you see the damage or the hardline policies b.g.p. government in in kashmir they think it's no point the world because. it's not going to change your situation it's not going to change good lives. you know what i mean you mentioned earlier that the intensity of this boycott seems to have increased in the past few years and that's actually something that we're seeing online so i wanted to share a few anecdotes from at least three people who explain why they are not voting the first is art on twitter and she says i didn't vote because i didn't want to be a part of the statistic that indian politicians use to justify their illegal occupation of kashmir another person she made on twitter says we don't care which party it is they're all the same for us we want to raise our voice for a boycott so that the international community will see that kashmiris are rejecting indian democracy and then the last one is via video com and this is from a student in kashmir his name is omar is acting as an engineering student and

here's why he's not voting. they're going elections and the story. is just this and the start of the if you. listen to the mission they're going to. probably still see this in the donation and inside. and want to say. this my boy to me to my. flaws. and you're going to. so shall he says this would legitimize military rule you heard the anecdotes from people there who seem very discontent and yet you started your own political party talk to us about that seeming disconnect why people there don't seem to have that same enthusiasm that you do. i have a slight disagreement with the we elect will mainstream is often seen here while i

do agree with the caller on that this electoral process is at times misused too may be going to portree normalcy in kashmir or to portree elections as an endorsement of the steps call. but then at the same time i believe that you know saying that the international community is very naive and they do not understand the ground realities and fish meat and they can be maybe misled into believing that that participation in the electoral politics is the endorsement of the step school i think that's also something which i need to question. but i do believe that by court has been a regular feature of the elections and wish me. the intensity of by court which we saw in this election and the elections last couple of fears that has been unprecedented and has more to do with the policies of the same government which we saw the last four to five years the extreme shift of the policy of the right wing

to words a hard line military approach to. two conflict management wasn't ashit i had seen him about to say something i had to push back a little bit on that because i think that the numbers that we need to remember here are seventeen ninety and sixty five these are the numbers of polling booths that actually recorded ziegel goat now if as a voter anywhere in the world you try to imagine that there's a democratic exercise and nobody goes to vote at a booth then i think that is significant and elections country to what is claimed as a festival of democracy in kashmir that a very good test carnival of securitisation hours have to be restricted the end guy landscape the cedula of the elections is structured because that there needs to be enough security forces to be able to carry it out so what does that tell us if elections are held under such conditions and it's a i think supremely ironic that elections are claimed as something that gives legitimacy to the government it's

a process of eliciting consent but in contrast to that there is there's a complete lack of people who engage in and a lack of consensus around the very need to have elections before anything else is properly addressed it's not as if there are the elections and then something else will also. taking place in fact the something else that is happening is the arbitrary closure of highways to civilians on specific dates closure of trade in the last few days talks of the appealing article three seventy an article thirty five a so at the same time is used as a rallying cry for the right wing extremists in india and media's out object you know i made abject and and but what between this devil you know this rock and a hard place that situation where a vote if you know if no vote then they are merely you know see putting a stamp of approval on their own oppression and the lack of any political component to either democracy or development and if they don't then there is a what opened up relation and you know and people don't realize that many of those

who do vote also end up with a specific new patrimonial cliental estate reasons because they may be related to their leaders josh i believe you know elections have been happening in spite of what we keep on saying for the last seventy years the participation in the elections has been you know going up and going down we have seen that sort of role of course to which they look a little participation has gone through so why do it be that at this moment electoral mainstream is going through a serious let's do missile crisis morsel because we have not been able to deliver the very we have been you know telling people in problems and people that you know coming elections are going to be what you do as illusions but then at the same time i think there is a huge constituency of people who still believe in electoral politics and who believe that maybe electoral politics can still be constructively to meet the. sort of successes that i know i know that you can't vote but who from other gas have

actually voted or decided they weren't going to vote if you don't mind me asking that they are up so they can also hear ok. i mean for the first time in my life right i am not needed ever in my life this was the first election in which a party because i didn't leave i want to be very candid it is not silent it is very intelligent life to tell us why he did not or you didn't tell us why because it's not easy to vote if you are in kashmir and jehmu it's a very difficult situation to be able to do that. you know i did not would because . particularly good but have a bigger question which you are if it is an occupation and we've been occupation democracy exist i mean i'm in luck. you know that elections have happened. that government has been pawned people have participated or sometimes by court has

happened in the most happened seventy years that you govern only i think a. little and think they are looking i think one thing i see on the ground what. is there now they cannot be fooled they have become politically wary of it and they see these mainstream local leaders who promise you know who should new benefits who promised new beginnings these see them as an extension of the same brutal rule that's why they should did this interest to help even if you see today there was an election going on in the south and what was on that all the situation was there you will see you can hardly find a civilian annoying under towards it's only you know military police moving from one place down or the police and what kind of election is that maybe you do not ensure the movement of civilians on on the roads like people think people know elections are taken just a whole reduce it at all and no one will leave people hard to go toward and even if

those who go to war they think they just want you know they have been promised benefits and next time they also end up in the same desperate situation exactly i think are at least. going to speak i think that there is there is this kind of circularity to that the trail of expectations so i mean i applaud chavez so for taking that leap into electoral politics and it's interesting that he did not vote before that and i think that in itself is quite telling but now having done so i mean one does realize that this. this kind of circle of just be trade expectations that continues and could find about the occupation is really important because you know let's let's just take these words is democracy just procedurally holding of elections if it's anything more than that then how is it possible that in a place where which is you know which is called a democracy how is it possible that emergency powers legislation exists for decades on end how is it possible that there is just ubiquitous militarization again to

your viewers i would ask them to imagine you know going out on streets where. every few hundred meters you see you know soldiers with guns you see. evidence of militarization everywhere you see these bagels you see people that would literally . trigger how is that in any definition you know how is that indicative of a democracy i'm not i'm not going to sting the fact that elections are say are not a part of you know democratic exercise they are important but democracy has to be something more than procedural and what we have instead is just this new medical focus on numbers on you know on a kind of like obsession with the edits magick the permutations and combinations that can somehow get people into power but what was done about it i think would be a little. harsh i think you raised a good point and it brings me to the street that i'm seeing that i want to get in here because i will hear sums up what you were saying he says in kashmir the

electoral process is nothing but a security operation in the ninety's people were forced at gunpoint to vote and today it is expanded from that over or over into a kind of a subtle corpsmen patronage and co-option that is one take on this but i wanted to share with you you to comment we've got live this is someone who says that al-jazeera is being biased right now and supporting pakistan not showing how kashmir militants stopped or threaten people against voting so i'll give this one to you what do you what would you say to this person on you tube who says that we're not showing both sides of the story and there are other reasons why people weren't out there to vote. you know if you've seen the elections. and for a mega does not have militancy there was no bike or campaign but you have only seven percent people. who are in a good is also less militarized as compared to.

people in. without the pressure of militants without the pressure to provide quote campaign are choosing to buy quality what does it tell you writing these three little boys or is a bigger government or the process because we understand also why people in north and south in the rural areas are voting because of their vulnerabilities. enumerable a little bit because of the people which they vote they also feel that there has to be a buffer between the indian armed forces and the people of kashmir and these politicians think as. sometimes who would save them from the wrath of the indian armed forces doesn't resign i want to play inverse comment from how it actually asked. residents of the town and who says on a personal level and he was using strategy it was

a strategic but have a listen to what is out there is like a korean model if we boycott the polls it will only benefit the b j p the government of india wants us to boycott the election they are creating unrest because they want to be j.p. to come into power i only cast my vote to keep the b j p at bay as they have suppressed the kashmiris. rifat didn't. and that if i will test said the reason i am voting because of what the b j p say they may well do to jim and kashmir so by not citing i you helping that to happen they asked to debate ip possibly saying we will consolidate india. kashmir make that part of india so rather than being an autonomous toiletry going to be part of india that's what they say they want to and they are using perhaps this election as a referendum on that if you didn't so i cannot help it i think it's not about

helping or. personally i have never wanted needed anyone in my family has more did so i didn't even think about would being but there are some people who think that if the they want to. go through say wouldn't be the want to bet but that's a very small fictional people. but let's talk to people they have actually lost in the democracy the whole last elections they have completely you know they had most be eliminated from the mainstream politics even if you know new leaders emerge and the rum is them new the showed them new dreams they will give them benefits but the they have completely you know they didn't show any interest in all those things so i think i'm moving fairly they are sold and speaking of losing faith i wanted to share this because she said something similar that kashmir has always been used as a tool but mainstream politicians are harvest votes from the rest of india the fact

is most of the people in india are aware about the ground reality of the relentless information warfare which meanders the true nature of the conflict and so i want to show you this article this headline here and here are you trying to get in there natasha this headline is from a model t. . he talked missionaries who said they feel like they are a campaign prop but they're still voting here because sent us a video comment i'd like you to have a listen to. thing that worries me really about these elections is that how kashmiris have been handed a sort of campaign props across me in many india like for example to ground zero votes and to appeal to their nationalist b.s. . someone from the holding party in india says that a bit have given full authority to go to the security forces without any question in kashmir and this has real life consequences on kashmir who's. not just in

kashmir but across we mean an india. russia what are those real life consequences. well i think the ground reality here is that there is militarization you know there's death by like a thousand obstructions every day the engine from the communication studio to waves to environmental degradation to corruption and all of that is enabled within that way doing a structure which cannot be changed until and unless there is an honest acknowledgement of the fact that there is a problem which is under assault and what is staggering is that india bush meat is used as a mobilization as i said and as your viewer said further right wing without any acknowledgement and you know and that person is right it's not just ignorance and malice it is but it's all it's not just ill will and malice but it's also a lot of ignorance because you know the televisual media landscape there is so narrow and state centric that it would never show people the reality unless you know so in that sense i think so you know god is really

a million miles away from from delhi or from anywhere else because people have no idea of what it's like if they were to do actually know a bit more i think that would change and channels like yours would not be accused of bias because these are precisely the sorts of conversations we should be having everything english media is not about pakistan i mean you know there's there's a whole range of issues that anything thinking person would get about and a range from you know nothing on freedom to one end to the road on the other and to corruption and this is not an area we don't even get to watch the channel. that's basically the crisis which we are talking about. fort you talked about democracy i said more than the democracy it was more about survival for us the kind of onslaught of the right wing which we have seen in the last few years the crisis when it comes to a group of article thirty five you are tickled seventy the. international audience

you want to three seventy i know as is the article man of these are just. he has special status in the other one and that's part of the indian constitution the other one absolutely article thirty five. is the last. state that only people from kashmir can own property outside of cannot be made up to own property and what is potentially being threatened by the. so we have seen we have seen on the civilian bomb and on the national highway which is the only link that connects me to the rest of the world so that will go down with it that's connected to what. i have as well as i'm just i'm just going people a little bit of context so that they can follow along best let me just ask because out of all of it he feels like the most optimistic out of all of you that he may have actually done something. that is real i guess literally impaired thank you

i really was that was dying to ask this you know i understand that this is a big step you know knowing how trust has been factored what he's doing is a big step but then the question is if you rely upon local politicians here to actually stop and stem the. you know inclines of the p.d.p. how does that square with the fact that it is bush media mainstream politicians that have been a bit that if you look at the whole b.-b. b.-b. b. you know the other suggestion i would love to answer could almost at the end of the show. i completely agree with the president so you know a phase of destruction which we are witnessing in. the credit completely goes to the electoral mainstream completely cannot dispute but then when it comes to the future life of society as a people i mean we just cannot be disappointed and we can all just feel that nothing is going to work i mean some gastro you will actually want to. but i don't i mean what you want. but

a little political views by people look by being election the early ones were going to change because. i think part of the. problem you have got to be good to the problems you're not the only one the first one who has to do want after what i got there have been many i didn't know it was in the past but i wouldn't be political leadership if i didn't read them because we call it what you have been the well to do and the good election will depart on a technique that we want you going but my question is there are i'm going to i'm going to ask you just to hold on to your question and we will continue our conversation online because there's so much to talk about one talk about john the kashmir thank you tess for helping us get up to date with where you are in the elections right now and the issues that you care about moving on to the lead and a final word i'll give it to you martha who says that after a well known young bureaucrat say facebook face or join politics it has made some you theme marriage in electoral politics as

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straight talk. they have to call. on protecting the streets of. iran reminds the u.s. about who controls a crucial shipping lane for oil. that sudan's military seeks fresh talks with the opposition after it called out of negotiations. with all the day's sport the portland trailblazers beat the buzzer to change their place in the second round of the n.b.a. players. but for a sri lankan president has asked the chief of police and the defense secretary to resign after the security forces failed to act on warnings ahead of the easter sunday bombings and it comes as a clearer picture is emerging of who carried out the attacks new video shows two

men with large but packs at the shangri la hotel in the capital colombo and this is just moments before a bomb or several bombs explode. did in the restaurant well all the bombers attacked a further two had tails in three churches in colombo three hundred fifty nine people in total were killed more than five hundred were injured and now the state's minister of defense has blamed an affiliate of the local group the national top weed jemaah for the n t j he described the group as islamist extremists possibly allied to an international network but also i can say is that this group. of some of the suicide bombers most of the educated. and come from maybe middle upper middle class so they are financially quite independent and you know their family is quite stable financially so that is

a boring activity. because some of them have i think studied. in various other countries they've all degrees is. a land you know there's quite well educated people. all right president my three palace city center he vowed to overhaul the security services following what amounts to the worst attack on sri lankan soul for at least a decade and i saw his claimed responsibility eight of the nines who aside bombers have now been identified but the prime minister has warned that there could be other attackers out there on the run let's go live now to our correspondent florence louise there in colombo for us first of all florence it's a rather interesting situation that the the president too vowed yesterday that he was going to overhaul the security services is requesting the resignation of the

chief of police but demanding the defense secretary step down. that's right now and this is really in line with what he said during his recorded address to the nation on tuesday night he had said there would be changes in defense establishment heads within the next twenty four hours so here on wednesday night he has austin the police chief to resign and that's just because constitutionally he has no power to demand the resignation of the police chief so he's done the next best thing which is asa police chief to resign now he can cite the defense secretary he has also asked him to resign this is the confirmation that we are getting from the president's office it's worth remembering however that the president is the commander in chief he's also overall in charge of the police but he has said that the information that was passed on to security officials to intelligence services warning them that the attacks on catholic churches may happen

was never passed on to him and so presuming that these senior level security staff to quit will that be sufficient all sri lankans demanding greater accountability for the catastrophe that happened in their country just a few days ago. well that definitely is a clamoring for some sort of clarity on says as to how the security lapse could have happened was it because of the rift between the president and the prime minister these two former allies turned foes could it have led to the communication breakdown and you know there was a debate in parliament today politicians trying to get on says from the ministers from the government from cabinet ministers about how this could have happened there is a little bit more of a mixed reaction on the streets of sri lanka has got people saying that really this should not have happened if we can't depend on our ministers who can we depend on

but then you've got also got people who are a little bit more launch along a little bit more sanguine about it saying things like well you know we don't think they could have prevented the attacks these attacks would have happened so really there's a lot more mixed reaction coming from the street that says any politicians are demanding on says from the ministers right now we're getting a clearer picture then of those that actually carried out these attacks and the one of the ministers today describing middle to upper people. yes and he also said that this is a worrying trend because several of the bomb as they have a similar background middle class not just middle class but also highly educated one of them had a post-graduate degree had started in the u.k. as well as a stray and they were all quite well off financially so really quite different from on the educated people who had only been educated in the you know really different

types of suicide bombers that but we're used to seeing from religious extremists now we're also seeing security footage from one of the hotels that was attacked in colombo in colombo the shangri-la we saw a pair of reports a bomb that's carrying backpacks taking the left exiting the left on the restaurant floor and the mingling with the patrons and then we see a white flash the portly the moment happened this is really quite similar to the footage that was captured on the security camera at the church in the combo there we also saw a purported secure. suicide bomber with a backpack entering the church so really that's. what the security officials have been saying that the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers and the security officials have also said that they've managed to identify eight of the nine suicide bombers so there's clearly a progress being made in the investigation all right florence louis thank you very

much indeed reporting live from the sri lankan capital and another of our correspondents in colombo is. here in colombo i'm standing in the commercial capital of the wholesale market district the mortars somewhat subdued there is a certain feeling of uncertainty just over here there's sort of burned parts of the road where police are called in to detonate suspected explosives is it turned out to be nothing actually but this is a reflection of the fear that. there are among the people investigators moving fast to apprehend the suspects and get to the bottom of who was behind sunday's attack and why the. nine. card. clouston an out of nine cia has identified.

things are a standstill as you can see around me here with all the shops shuttered elsewhere schools closed universities until the authorities can tell them that they have got a handle on the situation for many people the fundamental problem is the uncertainty that there cannot be no one expected something like this to happen everyone who's inside or even the nature and scale of sunday's carnage people are worried especially as there are an increasing number of alerts where people do not want to take the risk of having explosive devices a lot of suspicious packages being called in it's a case of a heightened state of awareness and just making sure that you don't take the risk with anything any more uncomfortable reminder that at the moment sri lanka is going back to the stage when it was under the conflict that it lived with

uncertainty. that the military leaders in sudan of invited opposition leaders for more talks that's after the coalition of freedom and change said it had ended talks with the military council for refusing to transfer power to civilian rule immediately thousands of demonstrators meanwhile the continuing their city in army headquarters in khartoum and african union leaders they angered the protesters when they said the military council could have three months to hand over power. but i get it we've suspended talks with the military council we will not talk with them again to the military council acknowledge that we are part of the government should be completely civilian but the council should be considerate of civilians with a military representation that is the point of difference we need to reach a solution because the authority has to be civilian and the government has to practice all of its capacities without interference from any other party all right

that says me to a correspondent have a move of his in this is in these capital clarify if you can why this coalition of freedom and change of have pulled out of negotiations without negotiations i mean how far do they think they're going to get. well martin there is saying that there is a list of differences between them and the military council the first being that the military council has members from the former ruling party the national congress party and from the former government so they're saying that elements of the former regime in the military council makes it very hard to negotiate for a transitional government there's also the issue of how that transitional government should run the military council wants to be the one supervising that while the coalition wanted to be independent and operating on its own with the defense ministry or with with members from the military there for the defense and for keeping law and order of the country then there's also the issue of how long that transitional government should be the coalition wants it to be for years while

the military council has opted for to of course the military council says that it's open for dialogue and it does want to talk to the coalition and invited them for talks later but who's spoken to members of the coalition and they're saying that they haven't received an official invite here to they've heard about the invitation from the media so they're not sure if they will be attending those talks so at the moment me and martin as much as it seems like they're what they're saying there's some kind of world from the council to try to break the impasse it doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon all right meanwhile it's see infuses as i'm from the public the sudanese people for the city and outside the army headquarters that is the very life blood of this revolution isn't it do you do you sense that enthusiasm is picking up or is waning while people have been arriving more and more in front of the army headquarters since bashir is are saying we've seen people arriving by train from our but i yesterday we've seen people arriving from various other parts of the country to join.