of freedom and change and the military council have already said that or rather they've suspended talks with the council a couple of days ago and they're just resuming back today they're saying that from now on they will be dealing with the head of the transitional government himself and not the political head of the council they're saying that they're quite they were concerned about the fact that some members of the military council are parts or are rather remnants of the former regime and of the former government and there's also the issue of the differences between the council and the coalition the council wants a two year transitional period while the coalition is demanding a four year transition period there's also the issue of independence so these are all issues they have to talk about and decide and then when they do come out of those meetings when they have settled on that that's when we will know how sort of transitional government will be formed people morgan with the latest there from car to on the developments there thank you. russia has rolled out the red carpet to welcome north korea's leader kim jong un he arrived i'm glad they've all

stopped by train ahead of a planned meeting with vladimir putin on thursday it comes to months after the break down of the second nuclear summit with donald trump in vietnam came told reporters he hopes that the sky's the international standoff over the korean peninsula with president putin those. who came to russia with a warm feeling of our people i hope 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 law to a relationship so fast and as more now from stuck. the north korean leader brought quite a surprise with him from pyongyang this morning after here right here in florida our stock it became known that during his trip somewhere during his train trip today he did this very exclusive first hour for a foreign media interview with russia twenty four it's

a state controlled russian television station probably very carefully scripted but still it's a sign that north korea that kim jong un wants to show more openness to the world that he wants to show that north korea is sort of restyling its image to be more of a normal country he set the scene already in hundred noise after his talks with donald trump in february when he was taking questions from journalists but this is definitely a first after a foreign media interview which will be aired in total on sunday and that is when we can expect to hear what he actually sat of course there's a lot on the table during these talks here in florida you are stuck with vladimir putin but it's also a lot about the opticals about symbolism it's only two months after the talks with donald trump collapsed in her noise so for this. want to show that to the united states that there's other people other leaders in the world who can talk to so

that's a way for him to put pressure on the united states maybe to lower their demand on the other hand for flooding or put it away to show that he is involved in the korean issue he hasn't been involved for a long time basically invited him to on a year ago and this is the first time he actually is arriving here is also the very first time these two leaders are going to meet so it's going to be interesting to see what the chemistry is what they have to say to each other we all will find out more about this on thursday. the united nations says pro-government forces in afghanistan have killed more civilians this year than the taliban and i saw. a new report says the afghan and u.s. military were responsible for most of the three hundred or five civilian deaths in the first three months shelob ellis says more now from kabul. in the village of to local in condos province there are thirteen mounds of dirt they are fresh graves

thirteen children two women and one man killed in their home by a u.s. airstrike. when the bomb dropped i was thrown back into a wall in the house when i opened my eyes i couldn't see anything but dust pulled myself after the rubble it was raining and i just thought please don't let me be the only one to survive and. we filmed with their family exactly a month ago the day of the strike the family piled the children's bodies onto the back of a truck traveling ten bumpy kilometers into condos city looking for accountability now they may have got it was. a un report has revealed that in the first three months of this year the leading cause of civilian deaths was airstrikes the majority by the u.s. military in total the afghan government and its supporting forces were responsible for killing more than three hundred civilians more than the taliban and eisel

combined it is counterproductive this is just going to create more enemies and more taliban this is not going to help needed because of the afghan government nor the cause of the u.s. led coalition in iraq and afghanistan the u.s. military has defended its actions in afghanistan we hold ourselves to the highest standards of accuracy and accountability we strive for precision in all of our operations we reserve the right of self defense of our forces as well as the afghan security forces. and search operations all night raids by afghan intelligence units and a militia known as the haas protection force killed another seventy two. billions they target taliban suspects in a supported by the us but are outside of the afghan government's chain of command. a consequence of that is that they're unaccountable. we have now repeatedly called for them to be brought within their command and control structure

after appropriate vetting. or disbanded the report also found that the total number of civilians hurt or killed has fallen to its lowest level since twenty thirty in the low eighteen hundred that is due to a drastic drop in suicide bombings by the taliban and i still don't know her back in condos that's of little comfort this family had fled fighting in another province and were just passing through looking for a safe place to rist until they could return home charlotte dallas al-jazeera kabul . still to come on al-jazeera iran's running to the u.s. over the strategically important strait of hormuz and the journalists killed during violence in londonderry is laid to rest.

hello again a welcome back to international weather forecasts all across europe we have quite a contrast of weather that's going on right now to the support of europe we're looking at some fine skies as well as warmer air over here towards the west though it is quite messy and has been messy for the last couple days with a lot of rain and windy conditions in cooler temperatures as well we're lucky here on thursday as you can see a lot of rain down here towards have been put into temperatures into the teens or if you're just on the edge of that into about twenty three degrees for you but where as we go from thursday to friday we're going to be seeing more of the same across much of this area and the rain across parts of italy is only going to be increasing and that could lead to some localized flooding as well over here towards the east though things are looking quite nice temperatures into the mid to high twenty's in some locations warsaw you can receive it partly cloudy day with maybe some rain in the afternoon with a term for there of twenty seven degrees across the northern part of africa not

much in terms of clouds or rain we're going to be seeing some warmer conditions here across much of benghazi you could be seeing those winds coming out of the south so that means twenty nine degrees for you across much of the interior though we're talking to the high thirty's and forty's so we're going to see over here towards oz one attempt of thirty nine cairo of thirty one maybe a little warmer by the time we get to friday because a it's going to be a warm day for you with a temperature of thirty. refugees heading for a better night in australia. and sent to remote island indefinite detention in her. eyewitness accounts the main thing you're doing for people asking them not to them not to kill the witness. assigned.

welcome back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera sri lanka's president has asked the chief of police and defense secretary to resign after security forces failed to act on the warnings ahead of the easter sunday bombings which of killed at least three hundred fifty nine people more than sixty people have been killed in floods and mudslides along south africa's eastern coast they were triggered by heavy rains which began on thing and russia has rolled out the red carpet to welcome north korea's leader kim jong un he arrived in light of all stock by train ahead of a planned meeting with vladimir putin on thursday. now iran's foreign minister says

keeping the strait of hormuz open is in the interests of a rainy and national security. speaking in new york after the u.s. withdrew sanctions waivers for china india and iran's other major oil customers iran responded by against threatening to blockade the world's oil lifeline from the gulf. it is in our interests are not it's our vital national security interest to keep the persian gulf open to keep the strait of almost open we've done that in the past we will continue to do it in the future but the united states should know that when they enter the straight talk almost they have to talk to those who are protecting the straight talker much and that is secure anya them very much. they u.n. envoy for libya said he is hopeful the country's two warring sides willing gauge in dialogue soon to end the conflict fighting has raged since the warlord khalifa

haftar are began an offensive to take control of the capital tripoli earlier this month before the bill would head reports now from tripoli. another frontline has been open between forces loyal to warlords plea for help that and others loyal to the tripoli be used to you know used government of national accord the clashes erupted on wednesday morning in the area north of the city but have to warplanes targeted 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 maintaining their presence and the

locations they have recently taken control of south of tripoli. where they will be and also areas near the disused or inactive tripoli international airport the government forces are accusing have to his forces of attacking a migrants detention center and guess had been a shared area killing and one the several innocent migrants there. the united kingdom is set to approve a deal with huawei which allows the chinese telecoms giant the supply equipment for britain's new five g. network this despite warnings from the us of a potential security risk of spying lauren sleep reports. hallway has grand ambitions and appears to be on track to carry them out the chinese giant telecoms company is catching samsung in global sales and has signed dozens of next generation five g.

contracts with providers around the globe but the heart of it all is the issue of trust while way is directly linked to the chinese state and the sought to reassure . all western countries but its infrastructure doesn't pose a threat to their security australia new zealand and the us particularly who are very suspicious of why there's mixed opinions in the u.k. it is mixed appeasing counted or all those don't forget it was counted with originally arrested it's the financial director of. the british government is under pressure to agree their security services have advised the governments that hallway should be banned from providing some critical infrastructure when five g. arrives in britain on the grounds it could jeopardize data security as we know data is extremely valuable today and is indeed. one of the main profit generating areas for companies like google facebook and apple is how they process the data that they

collect and then secondly of course there's the possibility to intercept communications and perhaps even to blackmail different. governments or organizations in order to exert pressure chloé isn't the only example of the dilemma facing the u.k. over its relationship with china the country has already been given a contract to build a new nuclear power station in the west of england despite concerns it would allow beijing to control parts of the u.k.'s power supply as with everything here brics states casts a shadow over all of this parts of the governments very much want to do new trade deals with china in order to replace existing ones with the european union yet the spy agencies are worried about the impact of a chinese takeover of the british economy on security into classic circles one of the main topics of conversation has become just was a mess that you case china policy has turned into. even more ironically chinese

media has been busy trumpeting the facts that the e.u. has declared hallway safe as a partner and several european countries have already signed new five g. contracts the u.k. meanwhile seems unable to make its mind up with china is friend or foe lawrence lee al-jazeera london. boeing says the global grounding of its seven three seven max jets will cost the airliner more than one billion dollars more than three hundred people were killed when its planes crashed in ethiopia in march and indonesia last year the u.s. aerospace giant is working on a fix for a software problem that may have been to play. a journalist shot dead in northern ireland has been laid to rest in belfast the prime ministers of britain and ireland attended the ceremony as well as leaders of the main irish nationalists and pro british unionist parties the remark he was shot while covering

a riot by dissident republicans who are opposed to the northern irish peace process now the reports. of spontaneous applause for a local woman who died doing the job she loved the coffin was carried into sometimes a protestant cathedral in belfast her family a catholic but they wanted her funeral service to be of course community events. hero was a person who broke down barriers and reached across boundaries near him a key became known for her work on the rights i hear of myself for much of my life because of what religion taught me about people like me the congregation in belfast heard how she'd been planning to marry her partner sarah but she was also involved in trying to reach across northern ireland's religious divide the ceremony brought together the british prime minister to resign may and her irish counterpart leo varadkar and the leaders of the properties democratic unionist party and the

republican shin fein were side by side as the priest appealed to them to work together once again a call which brought people to their feet why in god's name does it take the death of a twenty nine year old woman with her whole or life in front of her with thousands . mckie was shot in the head while reporting on the riots in london derry where she lived a dissident republican group known as the new ira said it was responsible it's apologized saying the target had been the police but while investigations continue many in the local community have made clear their disgust with those who advocate violence and there's been an outpouring of solidarity on wednesday dozens gathered at a church in london to remember lire leary was an authentic voice he could explain

the words what is interesting to see was a. person is killed today by people who story he was attempting to tell. he must tell us a still rose is such and such compassion. a crowdfunding initiative to help her family has now raised tens of thousands of dollars. there are a mickey was killed in her native northern ireland is covering a story that affects people just like her but clearly her death has touched people far and wide and through her work she'll continue to have an impact. now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera 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 which killed three hundred and fifty nine people the state minister of the friend says blamed an affiliate of the local

national tell us he says the group is possibly allied to an international network but also i can say is that this group. some of the suicide bombers most. educated. come from maybe middle of the middle class. financially quite independent but. their families quite stable financially so that is a very active. because some of them have i think studied. in vegas other countries they will degrees. you know this but the educated people. more than sixty people have been killed in floods and mudslides along south africa's eastern coast they were triggered by heavy rains which began on monday night thousands have been displaced mainly in the ports if.

the president is visiting affected communities to assess the damage seventy security forces have arrested muhammad ali the head of an opposition political party and this comes as the main opposition group that's the coalition of freedom and change forces have agreed to rejoin. talks with the country's military leaders they had previously stopped negotiations demanding an immediate transition to civilian rule thousands of demonstrators are continuing their sit in at army headquarters in khartoum. russia has rolled out the red carpet to welcome north korea's leader kim jong il and he arrived in the fall struck by train ahead of a planned meeting with president vladimir putin on thursday this comes two months after the break down of the second nuclear summit with donald trump in vietnam. i'm going to have more on all those stories in half an hour stay with us coming up next it's the stream thanks for watching by.

hi of m e ok and i'm really in the stream today remembering china's pro-democracy movement however tiananmen square protest a massacre remembered and made heavy government censorship the topic is one of the most uncertain on china's internet so what questions do you have about its history . share your thoughts in our you tube chat or via twitter stream.

this month marks thirty years since the start of student led pro-democracy protests in china's tiananmen square where weeks of peaceful demonstration later ended in a deadly military crackdown known as a challenge and square massacre or june the fourth incident hundreds and perhaps thousands of believed to have been killed by the people's liberation army the initial protests were sparked by the death of reform minded former communist party head bearing in late april one thousand nine hundred nine tens of thousands of students filled the square to mourn his death and carry on his message of political change and into corruption students were later joined by civil servants and others calling for democratic reform so today will speak to those who witnessed events at tiananmen square thirty years ago and look at how their history is being remembered on and off line in taipei taiwan we're joined by. a chinese dissident and student leader in the one thousand nine hundred ninety anam and protests in toronto canada jan wong

a journalist and author who was an eyewitness to the mascot adamant square and in irving california in the us a most oh a fellow at the u.c. irvine school of law he studies free expression and online content regulation it's good to have you all here guess. i had john i want to start with you that atmosphere in april of one thousand nine hundred ninety think back i mean it's a long long long time ago what was happening in terms of protests and demonstrations what did it feel like to be a reporter in beijing back then. it was super exciting and there was an air of optimism and it was strange time and these were the first spontaneous demonstrations really since the founding of the people's republic in the center of the country in beijing and so while the weather was beautiful the students were out and everybody was quite optimistic everyone thought this was this is going to be

wonderful things are going to change and so there's a lot of excitement and lots of ordinary people joined in and i want to show our audience tenements i put a twenty second one thousand nine hundred ninety six running back seti yes there were protests there were demonstrations have a look at this have a listen to this are you going to continue to thank you thank you thank you thank you thank ye great you excuse me what's happening here in town and square is that people are gathering here to commemorate an official a chinese official who died called hugh yaobang he was really well known for his political and economic reforms have

a look at the students in this class. was exterior you. were you one of the students in the square right that. hold. the major achievement. for the government.

and one of the iconic images from that time is this one that people are remembering online if you do any search for tenements where on twitter you see images like this this is a guest and this is a man who is commonly referred to now as tank man this is a photo that was taken by an a.p. photographer jeff why did there in the middle of that square a man who stood in front of a tank jan i know you were there this day what do you remember about this incident . this happened on a monday but the massacre itself happened on a saturday night into sunday morning and then there were still protests on sunday and then by monday because the soldiers kept shooting at people by monday morning this streets were really dead quiet and i was working in that hotel room overlooking that street and my husband was with me and he said you

better get out of here and so i a rat rushed up to the balcony and i saw this and i started to cry because i had seen so many people killed and and wounded the day before and then i thought i can't cry because i have to witness this i have to watch what happened and so i watched and you know when this happened. the streets were completely silent and the lead tank tried to go around him and then after a while that driver of the lead tank turned off his engine and so you didn't hear anything there wasn't any noise and then the young men tried to climb up onto the gun turret and. they would open up the turret the soldiers went open it up so he claimed climbed back down and then i remember the tank started up the engine again and the young man jumped in front again and i was just sure he was going to die but then suddenly i think about two guys maybe three guys from the sidelines

there was a small crowd on the side of the street they they ran in and grabbed him and dragged him off and he melted away and i don't think anyone really knows who he was or what happened to him jan i heard you describe this moment as a magical moment and you described it as stepping to the heroes yes that day in that moment that just a little bit more for us. it took me a while because the world's attention was focused on tank man but the man who tried to stop you had a simple shopping bag with them who knows who he was but later it occurred to me that the second hero was the driver of that leech chain because he stopped he didn't run him over and he just waited and i'm sure he must have been punished because this created this dramatic moment and this photo that went around

the world and it wasn't good for the chinese authorities and they knew who it was though i think that that driver of the lead tank is a real hero and he's never really been recognized as that the pictures from june the fourth one thousand nine hundred i would stored unary pictures and also when you took to look at them i know you've seen the many times before because bearing in mind that we have. who was watching for him about kony we had janet who was right there i'm curious about what you wanted to ask john about these moments have a look festival. think i was our truck was proud he was still trying to find out landfall a kid off. the out was

. was. was thank you our was . was was was and also what stands out for me is no weapons no weapons or icing tanks what did you want tossed john about that day. so the trend i bury witness as a journalist to such violence and tragedy and acts of bravery and courage how was

that like. well we were shocked we didn't expect that level of violence and when i say we i mean the foreign correspondents based in beijing most of us were china experts we had devoted our careers to studying the language and studying the history but we had no idea how to cover war we didn't know what battlefield weapons were and so we were just shocked and stunned and i guess we had never dreamed that the china story would come to this and i remember. just wondering what am i supposed to do and what is that blowing through the sky there was this red. well it and i thought it was a flare and later on i realized it's a tracer bullet which is what you use to measure your range if you're a goner but only things i didn't know but you know the chinese people were equally

naive and ready for the violence because a lot of students were in the square and they held up their coats they had coats even though it was june fourth because at night it was chilly so they had these big army coats and they would hold them up assuming they were rubber bullets and that a cult would stop them and so you can see let me later on i went to the universities and i saw these coaches you know displayed with all the blood over them and i just i just remember being horrified but also feeling like i have to be a journalist i can't let myself fall apart i have to take notes and a lot of it i simply felt ok let me let me time how long the gunfire is going on let me see what corner of the city is coming from and i felt pretty helpless and and very upset and very angry at what was happening just shocked that people were being killed in front of me but you know where i was just like the chinese people

they were shocked too if you could you saw the pictures of how angry they were and how they're attacking a tank with their bare hands or at most a wooden stick so it was i felt very much. in sync with all the people. and listening to that story from you know thirty years ago brings me to a couple comments were getting on you tube right now live this one is from nor saying who says does it still have any importance in the minds of young people in china under fusion paying another person but the. chinese know about the massacre their internet is highly censored so it must not give this to you because particularly that last comment about the internet being highly censored writing something you know very well about. yeah i mean i think you know it's censorship infrastructure in china that should be constructed on the basis of technology based restrictions legal restrictions as well as strategies of social control and

information about china. is blocked and policed very heavily and one of the interesting things about this forms of censorship is that it's also imposed outside of china's territorial borders we chad just one of the most popular social media platforms has about one hundred million registered users outside of china and so the sense of ship controls and it's a bit about tiananmen also transfer outside to affect the chinese diaspora. that's one of the reasons that the china file you can see them on my laptop here this new site asked people to share their stories of tannin men with a call for personal stories and we translate or team translated one of the responses they got here from someone on twitter who writes in one thousand nine hundred nine my father and his colleagues went to beijing for a meeting which was during the rise of the pro-democracy student movement at the

end of the meeting he took the initiative to stay and witness history shanghai urged him to return and he ignored it in june the tragedy took place in the country began to carry out mass arrests my father's organization dismissed him but secretly helped him get a student visa to japan police eventually ceases hotel records and when he returned to china he was placed under house arrest for being mentally ill for a long time so sharing that story on twitter because sharing it on way bo or other or sites in china it's not wouldn't necessarily be allowed because of the words than they are the key words and there were no i'm i'm hoping you can pick up on this story of sharing what happened thirty years ago for a generation that may not know the details of it. well china of course have a strong center of the whole war in fact we have been banned in terms like may thirty. two to go to force and then amend the war

gentleman will always be directed somewhere else so. if the chinese government clearing tension to wipe the story from history but still every year when the states come there will be people try really hard to come around. and then to do something around the country so i guess that that. kind of hope and then the people in china not young students and young people in china they are not like our generation they brought they were brought up in the internet generation they when they process information it's much more to for individual expression. and then for and if they want that they want to keep that they want to be able to do that self eat and everything with and then and then they

when they realize the whole china's information flow is like a major internet like there is no google there is no facebook there is no twitter and then the only way you do it is we call it climbing the wall which is a v.p.n. and like that then it has been declared illegal in china so you can see the efforts to track these government trying to block in four main china and then we've got information there is no environment for people to discuss to debate to exchange ideas so you can sometimes you can feel very frustrated and then you almost feel like the chinese students chinese young people. is here but i believe search for truth and search for. circle idea it's. in our genes. there will always be people try to learn but state.

so i mean i want to build on that because you know what i want to striking thing is that what he just referenced which is thirty five right which is the term that used to refer to the june fourth best a car is now censored right any reference to it is then on we chat and also on other web sites that are accessible in china and you know i think the research the academic research actually demonstrates that for young youth growing up in china in that kind of environment often to ship even a few experiment was conducted by they were given tools to circumvent the censorship and they did not really take advantage of that tool those tools to access sense politically sensitive information unless they were given some incentive to do so are being encouraged to do so and so this goes to show that ship

controls in china really don't just stop information from reaching chinese individuals but it has also kind of created this culture of this engagement with politics and cultural and social issues so it's interesting that you say that the disengagement because of course ours there is a segment of society that is engaged and they are trying to get around the censors also take a look here my laptop you can see a few of the insecure am house the people who are trying to get around those blocks and using very creative ways here is a pack of cigarettes to represent the tanks that i showed you earlier in that case another person shows the street where those tanks were but it's empty but it's still referencing that same time and here's another. and also posted on instagram this is sixty four censored pics but then in accordance with what you were saying amos we got a video comment from someone she's a reporter at the verge new york city her name is shannon leo and she says that

censorship is everywhere and your average person doesn't realize it so here's what she told the stream as a result of that censorship people are unable to comment on important social issues like looking for you know safe. and vaccines for and protesting sexual harassment and promoting feminism and these kinds of basic social issues are associated with political movements and government and stops it from happening from the first dispensary and so that people can't you know build a political mass or a group that can rise up against them so john she says i point it's to i want to bring you in because she says the point is to stop a political mass and i'm wondering in the days after we saw all such of violence on the streets what happened next and is there a reason why we didn't see a stronger movement that actually was a sexual. well it days right after the massacre there there was

a real crackdown and people were very frightened and they were arresting people and that evening news went on for several hours. it was usually just an hour but it went on for several hours and most of it showed people being rounded up they had clearly been beaten out and so it was kind of a terror and people didn't feel at all. afraid to do anything i wanted to just go back to this internet censorship and it's true that it's very hard with in china but i think we shouldn't forget that so many chinese are studying overseas now it's a huge. trend in china people are coming to europe. to north america at my university where i teach we have lots of chinese students and the point i want to make is. there's no incentive being given to them to check

things out but they're starting to wonder and i think just being overseas this ginned war for the thirtieth anniversary of tiananmen square it's going to come up and you know people are always interested in things that they're not supposed to look at and because they know that they're not supposed to look at this i suspect a lot of the chinese students overseas outside china are going to really look up the history of tiananmen square or find out what's happening there probably tuning into this this show right now and i think that will make a difference because there are many of them will go back to china. and they will be influential because they will look at western education they're at least middle class or not richer and they're going to be very important people in society and i think that the experience of being in the west without a censored internet. is going to make a big difference in china john achieving talking i've just been looking up the

rolling stone they did a story said years ago about the children of tiananmen square. i see you are one of the children and now i would say that you were one of the fathers of tiananmen square right now look at that young face you were part of that pro-democracy movement ain't china where is it right now. democracy. we fought for democracy fought for freedom and then we were have been deprived from our freedom of being home to my parents. but. you can say that we have been tossed into the world in one of the most free. places i lived in france. now in taiwan new flagship democracy. force the contract then you can we can learn things about china.

we understand democracy and freedom much better and then that make us feel. even more. when you may even say about the direction it took china. from force before to force massacre before nine hundred eighty nine student movement china. was moving to a more open or more free environment we were pressing the government to feel to go faster in the same direction which is opening. but then it took a drastic turn into closing up you can see the skyscrapers and the high speed rail way and all these things thinking this is a country that is opening up but in the matter of fact it is not china it's the crow censorship for information and then they have

a very strong presence they control the police they spend more money. in internal security than their national defense budget which is already very scary the national defense budget hearing today the neighbors of neighboring countries but then they spend more money was in impressing the dissent within china they have a they actually have term call a way with maintaining stability and they have a huge budget. thank you so much for sharing some of those members and john as well in a must like getting us up to date with what's happening on social and how young people in china outside of china a sinking about the chatham and square massacre thank you so much for being part of the program we really appreciate it but we have this conversation being. hacked online and being conducted online i think people are learning and can see the

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students and the scheme of helping change the face of india. super thirty on al-jazeera. coming. up. hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera true lanka's president has asked the chief of police and the fence secretary to resign after security forces failed to act on warnings ahead of the easter sunday bombings which killed three hundred and fifty nine people the state minister of defense has blamed an affiliate of the local national to weed gymnasts he described the group as islamist extremists possibly allied to an international network but also i can

say is that this group. some of the suicide bombers most to educate. and come from maybe middle of the middle. financially independent and you know their families quite stable financially so that is a boring activity. because some of them have i think studied. in various other countries they will degree is. you know this really to cater to people with alfred and this is more now from colombo. here in colombo i'm standing in the commercial capital of the wholesale market district the mood is somewhat subdued there is a certain feeling of onset they just over here the 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 is there among the people investigators moving forward to apprehend the suspects and get to the bottom of who was behind sunday's attack and why i d. . and nine. involved. clouston and out of nine cia. 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 no one expected something like this to happen everyone is inside

. given 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 lot of suspicious packages being called in it's a case of a heightened state of awareness and just make you 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 on the conflict that it lived with uncertainty . more than sixty people have been killed in floods and mudslides along south africa's eastern coast they were triggered by heavy rains which began on monday night thousands have been displaced mainly in the port city of durban the presidency in lima for visiting affected communities to assess the damage. sudanese

security forces have arrested mohammed ali lead the head over an opposition political party this comes as the main opposition group that's the coalition of freedom and change forces have agreed to rejoin talks with the country's military leaders they had previously stopped negotiations demanding an immediate transition to civilian rule thousands of demonstrators are continuing their sit in at army headquarters in khartoum. russia has rolled out the red carpet to welcome north korea's leader kim jong il and he arrived a bloody fall stuck by train a. head of a planned meeting with vladimir putin on thursday this comes two months after the breakdown of the second nuclear summit with donald trump in vietnam those are the top stories coming up next an exposé of australia's offshore detention policies through the personal accounts of asylum seekers and whistleblowers that's in witness chasing asylum and of have more news for you in half an hour ahead.

they look at this man as the noble and. the same. would have been insanity if he. was a lot of. them or he. can see and if you know.

we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come. he just. continues sending a signal to the rest of the world that this is a nation or easy destination. this has to die i can see and i very clear message to a solemn seekers who are contemplating risking a voyage. and that message very clearly is diet risk it don't give your money to a papal smuggler because you will not be better off. i make absolutely no apology whatsoever for taking a hard line on illegal immigration to australia. what the australian people elected us to do was to stop the fags you know this is

a national emergency. we've got to treat us as such. and so is i.

i mean it was intentional. i see it in scientific i mean i think. that people can focus in. that bank with. ten. fat people have already seen a five. four hundred five hundred days. i didn't know they'd be so many security personnel. it feels militarized.

a friend of mine called me and told me hey that hiring people to put. your interest in the sausages and i thought yeah yeah i guess i am so i don't she gave me this number and she got the number for facebook ad believe it or not and i called this number and said i'd like to go to my room and the woman said sure when to leave. i was not mcrae uni and sydney and i joined the salvation army society on facebook and they posted an ad about going to a canary and at the time they made it sound that really nice that. they made it sound like it was just a two week kind of holiday you could bring your friends along. and two to three days later as in never it was two of my best friends from school for

a wide range of people and though you know eighteen year old university students and i retired and the only thing that we did have in common was that none of us had experience working with refugees before. i can't stress enough the remoteness of the location and i really. it's in the middle of the pacific ocean. it's an island of ten thousand people. it takes twenty minutes to drive around the island it's extremely hot. humid. it is how poor the island is. in the strength of mccombs the non-government and so we're going to a few billion dollars over the next seventy years to has a few thousand asylum seekers for a failing economy like now i can imagine it would seem like a very. good option. on

my first day we went up to the town. the salvation army to have a very small briefing and said go out and help them and. and and be their friends. a lot of people were really confused when they first arrived in. i remember one particular intake a lot of the members saying to me where are we i thought this was part of this trial here. so it was up to us to tell them that no you know didn't stray there you're not really. but if my voice vivid memories was assigned being on the wall that said stuff would have to be

trained how to use a hoffman's knife. when i asked what a hoffman's knife was it was the knife used to cut people down when they found hanging. quite quickly i started to realize that i had sent myself to a place which i never would have gone. the day the prime minister of public gave me and i are announcing a major in. to to to combat the scourge of people smuggling. from now all the asylum seekers who arrives in australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in australia as refugees if they're found to be genuine refugees they'll be resettled in papa new.