very good to remember he came and asked for a room we gave one to him it was just for twenty four hours he gave his identity card and the passport and pretended to be visiting from abroad he had a big bag and a handbag. the government continues to face criticism for failing to prevent the attacks despite warnings weeks before the bloodshed but officials say they fear more suspects with access to explosives are still on the loose. the president's office has taken the decision to ban two muslim organizations now one of them is the national. the government blames a splinter group of this organization for carrying out the attacks on sunday now the president's office also says they are considering banning more extremist organizations but they're not named them meanwhile the security situation in sri lanka is so tense that the catholic church leaders in colombo have taken the extraordinary step of suspending sunday in mass indefinitely. venezuela's

opposition leaders called on his supporters to take to the streets on may first forty called the largest march in the country's history. wants to keep the pressure on president nicolas maduro to leave power as supporters have been holding more protests in caracas calling from the do it it. was a woman the moment has arrived. back to the streets the first. through the call. to take part. to liberate our country. but there are supporters have been holding their own rally in solidarity with the president he's refused to stand down despite the international regional pressure to do so is accused of presiding over a corrupt government that's left the country struggling with a nationwide power cuts and worsening economic conditions. you know with al jazeera live from london there is much more on the program to come we're looking at why catalonia has dominated the debate in spain's election within separatist leaders

campaigning from prison and south africans mark twenty five years since the end of apartheid much of the country continues to suffer from economic hardship. there are surface down the bass strait enjoying themselves nobody else will be this storm system brought some huge ways to crush on the shores of tasmania but at the best right and the coast of victoria as well now the storm has moved through but this is a legacy of course of the swell and the temperatures well fifteen degrees and that wind is not been good but better to adelaide first so enjoying the twenty six degrees in the sunshine with think that will last the wind direction swaps around monday to a southerly it's warming up in adelaide and melbourne by this time sydney's drop

back to disappointing twenty but least the sun's out down in tasmania because the storm system has moved on it's moved on to wards new zealand there's already rain there the the last system still marching slowly knolls was through the south island so but the rain i think for wellington is the the overnight picture then by sunday that's gone further north in the next real windup is this one here so you get away with it just about for most i think on sunday but on monday it's marched on and that it's a fairly miserable picture not quite as windy as it was when it was across australia up to q tasmania but certainly wet and he succeed in wellington marginally better in oakland. from the bamboo harvest and navigating dangerous rapids from the time we depart to the time we finish are scared to the fish and i'm dicing with death. from afraid of

falling i'm afraid of dying but if i don't go by coughing my family need the men who go to the extreme just to make a living not you have to be a strong swimmer otherwise and surf and risking it all vietnam on al-jazeera. quick look at the top stories this hour now sudan's opposition and the army have reached a deal to form a joint civilian and military transitional council it follows meetings between the two sides and heart to him on saturday. government has urged people to move to

higher ground in the wake of the now the powerful cycle of fear and widespread flooding and mudslides in the days ahead and sri lanka's president has banned two groups accused of being behind the suicide bombings that killed more than two hundred fifty people. fifteen people died off to police raided a safe house in the east of the country sparking suicide blasts and an overnight gun battle. some news from the united states now where one woman has been killed in a shooting at a synagogue in the city of poetry and california three others were injured in the attack on the shabat senegal and it being treated in hospital police say they will call to the scene at around eleven thirty am local time half an hour after celebrations that started to mark the final day of. a nineteen year old male suspect is in custody and is being questioned by police is or officers actually on the freeway clearly saw the suspect here suspect pulled over jumped out of his car

with his hands up it was immediately taken into custody by the senate who support. the officer was placing this nineteen year old male in. the clearly saw on the road for sitting on the seat of the suspect vehicle the suspect as i said was. rejected. shavar chancy joins us live now from washington to tell us more about what has happened and the reaction to it. well i think you know you've got that the bare bones of the narrative that we do have to have a rather comprehensive narrative really of what happened again is the last day of passover those services were due to begin at eight hundred g m t at eleven eighteen twenty seven g.m.t. the police got that call we believe according to the police that this nineteen year old white male who's from san diego this is powered by the way which is about thirty seven kilometers north of san diego a small town of about fifty thousand people that he was using

a semiautomatic rifle and a our style rifle the police said to possibly they are fifteen which is one of the most popular semiautomatic rifles in the united states we have different differing accounts as to what exactly happened inside the synagogue but as you said four people were shot one person an adult female succumbed to her wounds having got to hospital two adult males remain injured one one female child is also injured in hospital at the moment we understand and then we have this rather interesting exit by the gunman as he was leaving it appears that one member of the congregation who was an off duty border patrol agent had a gun as well and fired off a shot at the perpetrator as he was driving off hit the car but did no other damage and then we have this curious moment where the one of the officers who was racing to the scene who was on the highway heard the perpetrator call in to the police officer saying this is my location come and get me basically and he surrendered

when when this particular officer turned off the highway saw this person immediately and got him so now the question is motivation and we are i mean people the police officer in law enforcement aren't saying what the motivation was there is a rather anti sematic christian fundamentalists screed on social media which the police are aware of which they're suggesting may be connected to to the gunman. the local mayor is certainly the congress i hate crime donald trump is saying that it looks like a hate crime he said just a few for a short membership little while ago and it is notable that it is six months to a bag since the pittsburgh synagogue shooting last year my deepest sympathies go to the. people that were affected the families their loved ones by the obviously looks right now based on my last conversation

looks like a hate crime i do believe. arguably with respect to the synagogue in california near san diego and. we're doing some very heavy research we'll see what happens what comes up at this moment it looks like a hate crime but my deepest sympathies to all of those affected. rights what's likely to happen now because they came there will be an investigation an inquiry. right so clearly they need to find out what motivated this nineteen year old white male be all about yes clearly there will be an investigation and we will have to find out the house has been a rise in anti semitic attacks over the last couple of years a spike in anti semitic attacks or that is something that will clearly be factoring in some a scribe in this to the rise of donald trump more confidence among white supremacists

however that again the us has a lot rich history of attacking places of worship over centuries really if i could just a few weeks ago several african-american churches were down in the south that something that the u.s. has a long tradition of and that you will schools you got to factor in the the the number of mass shootings that occurred in the u.s. on a weekly basis so there are all sorts of factors here to be to be to be looked at there is this idea that perhaps there may be some some specific piece of mesic motivation for this gunman because there is this this document online which the police say they are looking into but yet connecting directly to him yes all right well thank you very much you have a chance to bring us the latest on that synagogue shooting in california california authorities confirming that one woman has died well now fifty three prisoners have been freed from a taliban jail in afghanistan they were found during a raid by afghan national defense and security forces an alum village in zabul

province prisoners were mainly military and police officers but eight civilians were also being helped that some of been imprisoned for up to two years and talk shit eight taliban members were also killed cheering the operation. president bush and says he hasn't ruled out syrian forces backed by russian airpower launching a full scale assault on syria's italie province but not at the cost of civilian safety russia and turkey brokered a deal in september to create a demilitarized zone in the northwest region moscow is one of the syrian government staunchest allies but is concerned about increasing violence in the area. usually shows through and you could get a show from us from your project taking such actions we always coordinated with president assad should we need to factor in the presence of civilians unfortunately they suffer those civilians under the oppression of the terrorists who are located there in great numbers we need to balance the scale of what is happening in this zone with the civilians being oppressed by terrorist groups and the potential cost

of backlogged should. all spanish voters heading to the polls on sunday for their third election in less than four years no single party is predicted to win an outright majority after a campaign dominated by the rise of the far right and the issue of catalonian independence sunday a day ago has more from madrid in the capital madrid there was an awful lot of anticipation as to how the results of these elections are set to turnout the most fragmented seen in years unprecedented situation for this country which has seen really the dominance of two major parties the left wing socialists and the right wing people's party but dissatisfaction with that status quo has allowed the new parties to emerge through that gap that the socialists currently ahead in the polls look set to take most of the votes but they still will lack any kind of majority to

be able to fully form a government they will have to go into coalition if they cannot do that then that falls on to the right wing people's party who will then have to do a deal with the far right box party party that has been draining the support from the people's party for the way that it has galvanized anger at the situation in catalonia meanwhile ahead of that vote forty percent of the electorate are still undecided and that is something that party leaders have been grappling with all the way to the polls. in front antigovernment yes protesters have challenged police in the city of strasburg. the group tried to cross a bridge to get to the european parliament but were pushed back by riot police it's the twenty fourth weekend in a row that the best demonstrations have been held across france approach has come despite president makar announcing a series of tax cuts this week aimed at appeasing the movement. professional

mountain climbers have been deployed in paris to protect the not true dom cathedral from further damage ed of a storm this huge hit french capital the climbers have covered the exposed parts of the eight hundred fifty year old building destroyed by a fire earlier this month the cathedral has already suffered water damage off the firefighters for the blaze for more than twelve hours south africans are marking the twenty fifth anniversary of the end of apartheid on this day in one thousand nine hundred four people of all races were allowed to vote for the first time in the country's history president cyril ramaphosa says the day of freedom will not be forgotten the great tragedy of it was raised with great deliberation. because different races. was it. focused. more than.

it was the deep division. us. people have also used the day to call for more jobs for south africa's black majority. a protest broke out in the town where the freedom day celebrations were taking place the demonstrators say they lack basic living standards and for them a part never ended. but progress has been made since nelson mandela's revolution ended minority white rule though many criticize the ruling african national congress party for the slow pace of improvements are metastasize more johannesburg . marked them uneasy remembers the feeling of euphoria in one thousand nine hundred four when apartheid ended and nelson mandela became side africa's first black president she believed in the white minority rule would mean a better life for the poor black majority our two decades of oppression since then she's been waiting for the government to provide her with a decent home and she hasn't managed to find work in years if she was hunters. open

up my cupboards and see i have nothing no food i have to go outside and house in order to eat something before going to be so why should i take my id book and go out there to vote when i'm suffering. in soweto township we meet siblings he said he was a member of the football club founded in the one nine hundred eighty s. by nelson mandela's wife winnie a group that was politically active during apartheid twenty five years after the end of racial segregation he says he's angry and disappointed with the african national congress led government. jobs. we are hungary is because of those guys not the. news agency. for the people who protest over poverty poor public services and unemployment happen almost daily there's a general election on may eighth and the a.n.c.

is facing mounting public anger over its failure to improve the lives of millions of black people we have not looked at people either no real knowledge we have while the successes. just the challenges. and all over the road to accuse us. but everything must be done within the law the legacy of apartheid where black people were considered inferior to whites and not given the same opportunities is partly why what africa remains one of the most equal societies in the world since one thousand nine hundred ninety four more people do have access to clean running water education and healthcare even though many say those services are poor these are some of the houses the bills by the government for the poor are provided for free others are subsidised millions i've been built since one thousand nine hundred ninety four but there are still housing shortages blamed in many on corruption and millions of south africans continue to live in abject poverty they won the right to vote twenty five years ago today the struggle

is with economic freedom which many say still feels a long way off. al-jazeera jainas burg. just one other story to bring you a canadian mining company operating in botswana as on earth the second largest diamond ever a car a diamond cause one thousand seven hundred fifty eight carriage stone is larger than a tennis ball it's second in size only to a three thousand one hundred six carat diamond discovered in south africa in one thousand nine hundred five but despite its size the diamond might not be worth a great deal of money both the car and industry experts say the rock has variable quality. it's quick reminder of the headlines this hour in sudan protest leaders and the army of reached a deal to form a joint civilian military transitional council seats on the new sovereign council

as it's called will be divided between civilians and members of the military the breakthrough comes after days of deadlock protesters and opposition groups have been demanding that the military immediately hand over power to a civilian that government has more from hard to. the super bowl managed to agree a pawn tonight published mental will bill calling our transitional council member up of fifteen members. there saying that members will be civilians seven will be from the military they're more dispersed the five hole along the transitional. council is going to rule saddam before organizing elections mozambique's government has urged people to move to higher ground as to wrench will reign lashes the north in the wake of another powerful site clone so far at least five people are known to have died in aide workers

report that entire villages have been wiped out there are warnings of widespread flooding to come with more than half a million people at risk. sri lanka has banned two groups accused of being behind the easter sunday bombings a curfew is in effect in the east where fifteen people died after a after police raided a safe house in the east sparking suicide blast and an overnight gun battle now one woman has been killed in a shooting at a synagogue in the u.s. city of power a in california three others were injured in the attack on the shabbat synagogue and are being treated in hospital a male suspect is in custody and is being questioned by the police. and venezuela's opposition leader has called on his supporters to take to the streets on may first for what is called the largest march in the country's history one guy doe is addressing his supporters at a rally in caracas as he seeks to keep up the pressure on president the doura to leave power. you're up to date with all of our top stories this hour coming up next

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