the people in scum fulp it's illegal to exploit a situation where the government can find $5000000000.00 to renovate the parliament building and another $5000000000.00 to protect the country against the worst over no deal breaks it and yet cannot find the money to protect the u.k.'s steel industry had the been explaining its votes as is anybody's guess lawrence lee al jazeera in london 2 bombs have killed at least 6 people in the somali capital mogadishu in one attack a car bomb targeted a convoy of politicians heading into the presidential palace a member of parliament was among those killed the group says it was behind the attack. the french president emanuel is meeting the libyan warlords in paris after hours fighters have been fattening forces allied to the un recognized government for control of libya's capital tripoli in recent weeks the u.n. says the fighting could split the country. still ahead on al jazeera more trouble

for boeing and this time it's from china plus. allegations of torture in indian administered kashmir we hear from victims calling for justice. hello there the showers in the southern parts of china have been very very heavy recently on the satellite picture you can see some bright white areas of cloud hair mostly over the high nan province but also down towards the southwest and there are parts of it now the rain has been incredibly heavy to this region again will be very wet as we head through thursday and some of those showers will still be ducted along the south coast of china hong kong can expect to see quite a few showers during the day on thursday and probably on friday as well on friday we'll also see more wet weather towards the northern parts of our maps i'm sure all the shop showers

a gradually going to be drifting that way eastwards than we had across towards india this is belts in the center where there's incredibly hot weather but elsewhere and there's a few showers around in the south we're seeing a few pretty monsoon showers still want you to be a few more of those on thursday most of them around carola to the northeast in through parts in a poor think there will see quite a few outbreaks of rain some of them in nepal a very very wet recently and we're also seeing more showers wear their way through parts of pakistan through parts of afghanistan and into the northern parts of india and here we all still think some of that turn to snow now the cloud over the arabian peninsula is now we're treating towards the south still giving us some showers every pulse of yemen and that's a chance of course the u.a.e. . a policy imposed decades ago. that you could select to be goods that have people it's changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences creating

a poor socially disadvantaged young so you have the system where people are everywhere will be get be everybody body to agree to start as a ship or body to get other people to be the services. al-jazeera examines the politics of population control. hello again you're watching edge there are a mind reminder of our top stories this hour demonstrations continue in indonesia's capital but protesters are angry at the results of last month's presidential election 6 people were killed in riots on tuesday night. british prime minister

theresa may is on the growing pressure over the latest version of her gregg's a deal the opposition says it will not back and forth and members of our own party want her to resign. britain 2nd largest steelmaker has gone out of business because of concerns about brags that it puts up to 25000 jobs in jeopardy. the un general assembly is expected to vote in favor of the united kingdom giving up control of a chain of islands in the indian ocean. as the british indian ocean territory also the site of a u.s. military base in diego garcia island britain took possession of the islands at $814.00 and held on to them after the independence of malicious in 1983 years before that the u.k. and secretly least one of the islands diego garcia to the united states to use as a military base the international court of justice issued an opinion earlier this year urging the u.k.

to hand over the territory to militias which claimed sovereignty over the august diplomatic it said james bass is at the united nations now so james how significant is this move by the general assembly. well this general assembly vote which we're expecting in the next hour or so the session that will have this agenda right m is already underway in the general assembly is very significant not clear whether it would change anything for the change your silence now if you're watching this even if you're well versed in international affairs you may not be aware of the che goss islands they're not particularly well known outside mirages or the u.k. and that's because there is no permanent population of the change our silence but that's entirely the point just perform rishis was given its independence from the u.k. the u.k. hived off these islands and kept them and did a secret deal with the u.s.

to lease the main island diego garcia to be a massive military base where u.s. bombers are based where during the so-called global war on terror they were running those those rendition flights so secretive and very controversial base and the che course islanders who were forcibly removed back at the end of the 1960 s. about 1500 people then but of course there their descendants are a bigger population have been fighting ever since to return to their homeland they got a big boost in february when the international court of justice ruled 13 to one that what the u.k. had done and is still doing by occupying these islands and running them as a military base with the u.s. was illegal now it's come to the general assembly to vote the parliament of the u.n. system is going to vote and it looks like the u.k. is going to lose extremely badly some of the u.k.'s closest allies the u.k.

and the u.s. have been putting pressure on them to try to at least abstain so it doesn't look too embarrassing because there's some talk that at 193 nations of the u.n. the u.k. and the u.s. might get not even on their. side into double figures not clear for example how the e.u. will vote on the way in just moments ago i caught the swedish ambassador and asked him which way he'd be voting and he said well we're going to be on the side of international law or i pressed him further and he said well that meant he was going to be voting against the u.k. and with the motion that's been put forward by the african group i asked him whether he thought the e.u. would be divided need said yes the will certainly division be divided they'll be at least one nation that's voting against this motion of course he meant the united kingdom which still is currently in the you james thanks that james bays of the united nations. the acting u.s. defense secretary is downplaying the possibility of war with iran patrick shanahan

says the deployment of more forces to the gulf war limited iran's ability to attack it made the remarks off the briefing the u.s. congress mike hanna reports. congress has been demanding more information for weeks and finally it was provided by members of the trumpet ministration secretary of state mike pompei when the acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan held separate reefing sessions in both the house and the senate. patrick shanahan arguing that the recent deployment of a carry a strike force to the region has played a role in controlling the crisis we have deterred attacks based on our repository of assets to turn attacks against american forces. our biggest focus at this point is to prevent iranian miscalculation. we do not want the situation to escalate. this is about deterrence not about war.

or not about going to war we're ready to respond if we have to the best thing to happen is for everybody to calm down and iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalating nobody is talking about a military solution to the current friction with the iranians i haven't heard anybody discuss that r.t. thank you all very much but the briefing still did not convince skeptical democrats make no mistake this president has a business tracing are itching for a confrontation with iran i believe that a war with iran. it would be. an absolute disaster far worse than the war with iraq and i hope the american people told the ministration that we will not go to war in iraq underlying this crisis a decision by a president donald trump to unilaterally pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal with

iran and as the briefings were taking place iran was announcing it had quadrupled its production of enriched uranium this argue many democrats a consequence of a president rejecting a negotiated deal with no thought as to what should replace it mike hanna al-jazeera washington for more on the latest reaction from politicians kimberly halkett joins us now from washington so kimberly one day after the administration meets members of congress do they believe what they're hearing. yeah i would have to echo the sentiments of my colleague mike hanna there in his report as i've been talking to democrats as well as some republicans you know the sentiment certainly seems to be that there is a wariness of the arguments being made by the administration and there still is a lot of question on their minds too about whether or not this administration is on

the brink of some sort of conflict with iran when it comes to a sort of a military conflict now there is a concern continuing concern about some of the escuela toric comments that have come from donald trump in recent days i did have the opportunity to speak with sarah sanders the white house press secretary in the last hour or so to ask her about the position on iran from the trumpet ministration as things stand right now she continued to argue as this made ministration has that the united states does not want war with iran but instead its military moves are simply to deter aggression not to escalate tensions with iran now having said that getting back to congress there is still deep concern that this administration may use the authorization of military force that was put in place in 2001 to deal with al qaeda as the legal justification for taking and the sort of military action against iran i can tell you that there are many here in washington who are deeply concerned

about that believe that would not be adequate in terms of legal justification and so where the administration stands as of this hour is that they are pointing the fingers that iran saying the onus is on iran to chains its behavior committee thanks for that kimberly how kids in washington for. people who support abortion rights have marched in cities across the u.s. in a show of force against conservative efforts to restrict the procedure and use it as hard as you castro has more. well you got. c on the 100th anniversary of the house giving women the vote in the united states women and abortion rights activists in cities across the country took to the streets to say their battle is not finished does anyone here think there are women in this country was the silent while our rights are being taken away from us. they marched to protest abortion restrictions recently passed in conservative states 256

nays one alabama's new law is the most extreme it bans abortions except for when a woman's health is at risk making no exceptions for rape or incest this was a separate we were a lot read on a fact we. write in america and it says it's very important right now so which other great work by. more than a dozen other states are trying to make abortion illegal after a fetal heartbeat is detected as early as 6 weeks democratic leaders say such laws are unconstitutional from them it's very fact that the. republican party played truth are waking up there are going rabid are women's rights come in all right the state laws are not yet enforced they face court challenges that will likely escalate to the u.s. supreme court. conservative activist have decided now is the time to

challenge roe versus wade the landmark case that gave women the right to an abortion in 1973 you believe you are. and i think. the supreme court has skewed to the right due to president trump's recent appointment of 2 conservative justices but there's no guarantee the court will intervene meanwhile the president has distanced himself from the. most restrictive abortion ban tweeting he's pro-life with 3 exceptions including rape and incest. but these protesters say that's not enough they fear women's rights are eroding in america and are telling the supreme court now to protect their right to an abortion heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington china's 3 biggest airlines are demanding compensation from boeing after its 737 max fleet was grounded china was the 1st to

ground its fleet when a 2nd plane crashed in ethiopia killing everyone on board now it china china southern and china easton are looking for compensation for losses all 737 max planes have been grounded globally since march investigators say a flight control problem not known to pilots was to blame for both crashes agent brown has more from beijing. 3 of china's biggest airlines have decided to seek compensation from the u.s. aircraft manufacturer because these chinese airlines of course were forced to ground the boeing 737 max aircraft the foreign ministry spokesman defended the right of these companies saying they had every right to defend their legal interests now analysts have been warning in the past few days the one of the other ways that china might hit back at the united states is perhaps for chinese airlines

to start ordering less from boeing and instead switch their orders to boeing's main rival airbus a world leaders are being accused of ignoring abuses there were carried out by government forces in indian administered kashmir human rights group says there were $400.00 accusations of torture last year alone and victims say it's been going on for decades sahara man reports from new delhi. it's 20 years since 0 and the cheek of his legs amputated after what he says was torture by indian security forces in indian administered kashmir the stonemason was accused of being a rebel sympathizer god will look out of properties to a lot of soldiers started me by using a ruler on my legs they would get on the 2 sides of the road or to exert extra weight they would pour hot water on my legs and also burnt my hand on the fireplace i was subjected to brutal torture and rendered thought i would die they dumped me

outside a hospital. he's not the only one a new report from the human rights group called association of parents of disappeared persons and jammu kashmir coalition of civil society says there were more than $400.00 accusations of abuse and torture made against india's security forces there last year and this is the very we are highlighting the film long enough god true in kashmir right which has not been internationally like in. going to be. the in this god of god to hear why and we have tens of thousands of the gods and sort of violence here and a lot of them have died. in march al-jazeera reported the death of a school teacher rizwan while in police custody near the state capital srinagar police said the 28 year old teacher in the town of a wanted poster was picked up by security forces as part of what they call an

ongoing terror investigation and. activists who work with police to develop reforms within the service a change is difficult and takes time for the indian government has been told by international mechanisms time and again that it needs to ratify the united nations convention i think what's preventing the indian government is the only thing that's possible is that there is a resistance to. security force personnel and public servants who are complicit in torture accountable by. their asked the indian army for comment but they have responded this latest report is a disturbing read to outsiders trying to understand the realities for kashmiris in the indian administered region which is also disputed with pakistan while successive india governments remain silent and refuse to accept there is a problem it's left to those such as nazir to highlight their experiences and their hopes that no one else has to suffer like him. so well rob. you don't.

this is a round up of our top stories more violence and demonstrations in indonesia's capital from protesters angry at the results of last month's presidential election 6 people were killed in riots on choose day night president djoko we don't know who was reelected to a 2nd term as warned against the violence. close louis has more from jakarta jodo won the elections by quite a huge margin 2 digit 11 percentage points which translates to nearly 17000000 votes analysts have pointed out that this in a way undermines the opposition's claim that the elections were great and also worth remembering that international observers have largely declared the elections to be free and fair despite rebels claim that the election. that there was a fraud irregularities during the 2 bombs have killed at least 14 people in the

somali capital mogadishu in one attack a car bomb targeted a convoy of politicians heading to the presidential palace member of parliament is among those killed the group. says it was behind the attack french president emanuel mccraw is meeting the libyan warlords khalifa haftar in paris his fighters have been battling forces allied to the u.n. back up one for control of libya's capital tripoli the u.n. says the fighting could split the country british prime minister to resign may is under more pressure over the latest version of her break the opposition labor party says it won't back its prime minister is also facing criticism from her own party she maintains a force vote can unite parliament britain 2nd largest steelmaker gone out of business citing concerns about breaks it up to $25000.00 jobs are at risk a government bailout was ruled out and the high court has all of the company into compulsory liquidation those are the headlines the stream is next.

after more than a month of voting the biggest democracy in the world will announce its election results indians voted with the record turnout but will the government maintain its . joining us on al-jazeera and live coverage of the election results. sri lanka is marking 10 years since the end of the decades long civil war that tore the country apart but why are sectarian tensions still simmering i'm really could be here in this stream today we'll take a look at the fallout from a recent wave of anti muslim violence and i. will discuss this sensitive situation explore the government's response and ask what this all means 1st real because future and as always we want to hear from you so tweet us at a.j. stream or join our live chat.

2 weeks ago a wave of anti muslim riots broke out across the country after the easter sunday attacks on churches and hotels while i sill claimed responsibility for the easter attack the government has blamed local armed group the national. during the riots mobs move through towns ransacking mosques burning korans and hurling petrol bombs at shops authorities have so far arrested more than 70 suspected rioters including some described as extremist sri lanka's muslims make up less than 10 percent of the country's 22000000 people the sinhalese who are buddhist make up around 75 percent of the population meanwhile the government has called for peace and vowed to protect all citizens and the united nations asked for a rejection of hate and since the curfew was lifted last week there has been no further violence but with old wounds reopened and lingering resentment exposed how

does a move forward. well with us to discuss them are not arresting them is senior research fellow at the institute for strategic dialogue in toronto canada. it is the human rights activist and lecturer in conflict studies at the university of exeter in the u.k. and in colombo sri lanka fernandez is a correspondent with al jazeera english and has been covering this story extensively welcome to the stream all of you it's good to have you here though not good circumstances i want to start with you talk to us about the mood across the country from the reports that you're hearing. well it's a couple of weeks on basically that outbreak of violence targeted at the community following the easter sunday bombing things somewhat subdued obviously that even shows flashpoint where we still the violence tending to spread

that you know 2 other sort of trends it is which had muslim populations living side by side with other communities but having brought that kind of under control after the initial couple of days when things just out of control and phenomenally now a couple of weeks on things if we could explain it as a sort of and i'm easy come it's not to say that everything back to normal not obviously the tensions that kind of spilled over still. simmering little bit on the surface but very much sort of. clamp down on and under control for the moment anita simmering under the surface i'm are not i want to have a look at this headline came out just yesterday on monday this from foreign policy

buddhist anger could tear sri lanka apart and when i scroll down to the part that i think is most interesting about this piece the author writes the attacks should simply be viewed as a direct retaliation for the bombing so the attacks are referencing the anti muslim riots are not directly related then to the easter sunday bombings are not what do you make of that do you see a direct link there between these 2. i mean there is a direct link in the sense that this time around the attacks were much more vicious more attacks happened more buildings were destroyed than for example in 2018 march when we had similar well it's a 2014 when we had similar events or going back you know all the way to 1000 to 15 when and when we saw the kind of person the muslim. riots happening in sri lanka so in a sense it's completely accurate to say that this is a long running tension that predates the easter attacks and

a lot of the muslim community the ones i've been talking to over the last few weeks have been quite open in saying that they think feel a little different this time around to do things feel a little bit more tense they feel like the usual use of their communities for political ends to kind of speak to the base rile up the base is much more intense and visceral this time around there and i think a lot of the community are quite scared this time around because they feel like the attacks are so massive and so catastrophic that anything can happen and you say anything could happen and whether there is a direct link or not a lot of people online talking about the rise and mistrust farai how want to read 2 quick tweets that came from prabhu saying there is an increase in the mistrust the suspicion and profiling which has led to discrimination against the muslim community especially in the aftermath of the easter attacks the next week he says is if there was clear and cohesive communication and management of the crisis by the government it would lead to mitigation of such discrimination to

a greater degree the politicize ation of the current situation makes it worse does that in fact make it worse and what do you think is leading to this kind of sensitive situation. i quite agree to some extent i think that there are 2 dimensions to this and to muslim sentiment one is the violence and basically and we've seen it before the other aspect is there's been an spread hate campaign against muslims and social media that has also existed for almost a decade spreads the most ludicrous kind of thinking about muslims who are trying to take over the country that they're trying to and will get engaged in increasing their population and that a threat to sri lanka there are large numbers of people who believe this and there are numbers of people who daunte as well out conducted interviews into the very deuce tired learned of sri lanka spoken to seeing these buddhists who actually do believe this that and they have even told me that their monks told it this so there is a level of mistrust that exists and the political situation in sri lanka particularly

the government's response to these attacks has not helped at all of the media as further national mainstream media hasn't helped in that their report a kind of a day to day i would to go to college or of what they broadly constitute extremism amongst muslims as islamic by island but they don't really break it down and they don't expend the new and and they don't count at it do it to explaining about what the most in community faces of the kind of day to day discrimination they feel is the violence they face so you mentioned widespread hate and i wanted to give our audience a little taste of where that might come from and where the tensions between different ethnic groups and religious groups interlock our lives so our colleague bernard smith was in some of the areas where anti muslim violence took place and he spoke to a few but us village leaders here is what one of them told him about the challenges of repairing relations have a look. we'd like to talk with muslim and muslim community leaders to have

a discussion and live in a way to be able to live harmoniously muslims need to realize this is not arabia this is sri lankan sri lanka has a culture and a civilization and identity. so are not where does that come from that idea of questioning muslims and sri lankan. i mean this goes back quite a while and i know that was a very interesting clip to listen to because i mean i'm myself i'm a canadian by background and i mean we've dealt with the community and in the north and east have dealt with this similar kind of majority areas and for a long time and i think there's a deep sense amongst a lot of minorities that this is very structural this goes up this is very much part of what it means to be a sri lankan state that it's a majority area and buddhist and buddhist and single at its core and this idea that there are there's room for minorities is not entirely clear what that would look

like what integration looks like or what assimilation looks like particularly because minorities feel like also hold kind of very deep ethnic and religious identities themselves and it's not really framed as a kind of broader multicultural conversation it's one more of i don't know some giving of who you are to be but it's not entirely clear what that looks like when it in and out no state. and i mean just to talk into a conversation earlier it's great heart breaking to me that you know the muslim community. went through so much over the last 2030 years right we had the expression from the north are by the l.t.v. in 1900 you had massacres in the summer of mosques in the east in 190. different riots over the years in 2013141718. and never was never was this conversation that the kind of single or buddhist majority needs to look within itself to figure out what's wrong with the kind of culture of the country never was the conversation i think it's all it was only after the easter

attacks that all of a sudden it's the muslim community that needs to look within itself to figure out what was wrong when in fact i mean going back we've never seen a kind of jihadist mobilization we've never seen even the rise of a militant movement within the muslim community to respond to the right kinds of. these kinds of attacks over the years so can i just add to that i had i thought much agree that. we're not there as well but i think what i need to what i need to explain is that the speed kind of islamic resurgence amongst muslims and there's been several reform movement that have taken place among muslims and this happens usually in situations of conflict it's not unusual bad religious identity their religion itself can transpose and be entrenched muslims are not the only communities that have experience this is teenage what among christians and also buddhists as well so this is the kind of general context but there's been several reform movement and they have been a lot of changes that have taken place by muslims that wanted to identify perhaps

closely with islam and they could i think that that identity publicly now this is broadly after these attacks be seen as extremist and arab allies and there is an element of the of this everybody is asian but it's not a neat entirety and i think as i am or not to the important thing to identify is muslims had an option throughout to the 30 year conflict all become part of the militant group to take on ballance to to change their course of action but they didn't they rejected it and we must not forget that muslims to the society leaders and religious leaders did go on the police they did on this stablish ment of these extremist groups and these individuals and that they were not arrested the action been taken and now the entire muslim community is paying a price for the government's failure and far as you're talking i can from now trying to get in i want to just because a fair and mention the government response i do want to share with our audience what that sounded like because they have made comments about what they're doing and

what should be done so have a listen to what that official response sounds like. this small group must stop the dangerous game they play against the lives and property of innocent people i must state that we want to allow the country to be led to anarchy by those who show their strength on unarmed innocent civilians ip on. the internet that i have given all necessary powers to the security forces to take stern action against those breaching the peace by violating the curfew and emergency law security forces will take all steps to take action against those breaching the law therefore i request the fullest cooperation to the military and police to safeguard peace. and that's a response from chief of police and the prime minister now what do you want to. one thing as a father talked about in times of conflict sort of this extreme ideologies of views tend to be perpetuated and find sort of fertile ground that in mind that even

the sort of sentiment that we so spilling over a few weeks ago other than the initial flashpoint which if you go down to the root of those actual incidents yes there were sort of local tensions there was a lot of grief a little easter sunday bomb attacks there was kind of an outpouring of anger and frustration among the people and this led to some of those flashpoints but very quickly in sort of the space of 2448 hours we found those emotions almost hijacked by organized groups and one of the things i've read the anti muslim violence is concerned in sri lanka eased the role played by extremists i mean essentially a buddhist extremist with a heavy nationalist bent this has been about you know safeguarding the country

about you know the same for the buddhist faith you know talking about the 2500 history and tradition of buddhism and things like that so it's not in terms of the majority of the average but islam on the street with very much driven and perpetuated by these extreme sort of elements and i think that has also. been proven in terms of some of the unrest that have been made of dealing with the authorities say there are a number of high profile people that have been taken and they have been arrested to be named and among these figures who played a key role in violence against muslims in previous occasions for example in march 2018 that was the lead. well the boston molokai who was proved to have been citing hate speech spurring people to organize centrally on

social media platforms and things like that so that the fact that we have to sort of look into this just makes right to speak and when you bring up social media platforms obviously they played a role in spreading some of that hatred if you will we also have a viewer commenting on another aspect someone who was watching live on you tube elisabeth rainey chime in in saying from the interviews i've seen nationalism has had a big role in escalating these tensions with that in mind i want to play for you a video comment that we received from mira silva she's the director of journalism fellowship at reuters institute take a listen to what she said the media in sri lanka has long been divided by language and ethnicity social media has provided a space since the war ended in 2009 for these communities that have been divided by geography and by ethnicity and by religion to come together and create a national dialogue helps in youth and civil society spring up across the country

it would be huge shame if the social media ban and the kind clamp down on the press and this new conversations that are just beginning inside a country that has a very long history of killing and murdering journalists in suppressing press freedom for thought. but i saw today i have expertise over what i can say is that true should be to. be an avenue for people to report incidents so for example some of the violence against muslims was not being reported on the national mainstream media but it came out of social media so there was an opportunity so it's a form of documenting reporting on human rights violations but other bodies may not happen and they don't get across to the rest of the country however having said that it's also very much used for spreading hate for racist campaigns and so to that extent i think particularly at the media aftermath of. some of the restrictions imposed i think had some effect that made

a difference however what was problematic with that was that was done the government was not complementing that by taking action on the ground that you had for example that you do forces the police not arresting perpetrators in some cases watching that while and now the question is if you're going to act like that or the grow why then bad social media so i want to give our audience a taste of what some of those campaigns look like because a mark that has done the hard dirty work for us so we don't have to sift through some of that hate speech but this is what it looks like when it's spread online and it's spread around on whatsapp so i marnus you tweeted this and so i'm sharing the thread that you sent don't shop at muslim clothing stores they're spraying sterilization cream on women's underwear that was 2013 conspiracy right don't eat it muslim restaurants are putting sterilization pills in your food 2018 conspiracy these started on facebook and whatsapp and lead to real violence and you go on to say it was economics but it tapped into a deeply seated solid nationalist anxiety that they weren't going to be the

majority forever thomas tried to split your country and failed muslims are playing the long game and will slowly displace you by halting your birth rates talk to us about that research that you really have to do there are enough and the sentiments that are underlying this. yeah i mean i think. again this is kind of long running right a camel academics used to call it the majority with a minority complex where a lot of single a buddhist nationalists actually feel like they're even though they're a majority on strike and like on the island they're still a minority in the region and they're eventually going to be displaced this kind of holy land that was given to them. by the buddha himself is going to be taken away from them and so on it's very difficult to say how much those kinds of beliefs. are part of the leadership as was said earlier or how much they actually trickle down to everyday people around the country because i don't think we have any real important stats on them but it is this kind of fear and the way in which the

conspiracies and fears actually play out in the online space on whatsapp groups and facebook groups. actually lead or actually serve as a kind of spark sometimes for real violence that happens on the ground which all of a sudden then gets mobilized by political leaders or or sometimes law enforcement officials we've seen this time around who go from town to town carrying out violence of this little kind of park online and then leads to real days long or weeks long. island which is you know which is insane but that's what we've seen over the last several years over and over again well i'm or not it's interesting you bring that up it seems like there's a cycle of violence or at least he said this is happening over and over again i'm on the zam talking about one thing that has changed on twitter $970.00 to mark this special chapter in history of ethnic relations and violence for example changing the name from tehran to sri lanka and buddhism as a state religion causing resentment and displeasure mung the non sinhalese farah

with that in mind i mean you know you could just read a thread from them or not there's a lot of twitter threads about this topic it seems like you know it's something that people feel very passionately about i want to share one with you get your thoughts on an arm or a saying the radicalization of youth across the ethnic groups in the country led to . recent violence and religious tension in while radical muslim youth were behind the easter sunday attacks the anti muslim riots were led by sinhalese buddhist national she goes on to say that on the community level there's a climate of fear an us versus them mentality which is doing harm and people need to be responsible with what they post online turning to social media to vent isn't a great coping mechanism could you just dissect for us what you think that radicalization of youth has to do if anything with what's playing out online and how that factors into what we see happening on the streets. i could try to but i think what we need to be clear about is that there is the nationalist i mentioned to this to political mention to this and then the kind of the everyday dimension to

it ok so the nationalist i mentioned we've talked a bit about here and that has its history and it comes up it keeps coming up as are not said in circles very much associated with the conflict as well as the causes for the conflict and perhaps there the are today now politicians tend to dip in and out of this or they sometimes jump on the bandwagon and take it out and then they kind of times lead to also bhopal and and we're seeing today you know how this spreads across to the like every day level is a slight little complex and i'm going to be don't have to try to stick but we can follow from social media to see that some of these hate companies in particularly widely believed and i have spoken as i said earlier to people who do believe it with regard to the radicalization i think with in terms of if i can speak for the muslim committee i don't really know it from the buddhist and the singhalese fiber for the muslim community i think we have to put this into context it's really stepped the country these events this bombings and shocked

a lot of people but we're talking about a very most fringe group here and if you're talking about like say 200 people who might have been radicalized we still need to put it into context of a 2000000 population so i don't think from our research among muslims and amongst and really just extremism and on religious movement i wouldn't argue that this is a very you know prominent large scale radicalization that is taking place amongst muslims around i think you wanted to add something there. i've been spending the last month or so doing doing interviews with people on the ground mostly activists communities and what is kind of clear is the kind of biography of the one that seems kind of purported mastermind of the attacks he was you know kicked out of his majority when he was just grab. and he was started his own organization which then itself kicked him out he carried on to eventually get into arguments and conflict with almost every single one of the tao it organizations that existed in the

country followed followed then just start his own organization the national tell you jim of which eventually also kicked him out in december 2017 and it was only after the kind of candy riots of march 2800 that eventually started talking about attacking sri lanka killing nonbelievers and things like that and it seems pretty clear that over the course at least as early as january 2017 the muslim community in khartoum cody where he lived was pushing back against him over and over and over again and had actually gone a lot of these organizations and handed over videos that he was posting on you tube to law enforcement handed them over to intel communities and basically nothing was done right so i do think there's a widespread radicalization in the muslim community is a bit silly because what we see is that the n.t. j. . basically mobile and his own little work around in this family members around him it wasn't it wasn't a kind of widespread thing in fact we see most of the community pushback throughout

this is a tenor of the group this is exactly what i heard as well that conversation to the contacts including in cotton could it be as iran or originates from and i agree that i'm not on that but if we are to fail at that at his ideology spread to more that he's close to have an event there's 2 more that he's close network i still think they're only talking about a couple of 100 people at the most or might have kyra at least i haven't heard if i have to pause you on that point which is an excellent point but unfortunately we're out of time for this part of the conversation so i want to thank all of our gas for being here today we have to leave it there ahmed and i will see one line and we'll get online the last word yes and. sharing with us this thought we can keep piling up a list of incidents that at the end we see every 10 years there has been a major incident happening sri lanka is. in a cycle of violence since a long time so we want to thank you again to our guests and everyone who contributed to this conversation online remember you can always tweet us at a.j.

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does not wish to enter into a conflict with iran. one of the u.k.'s biggest companies british steel has gone into liquidation as the brakes a crisis deepens. the toronto raptors keep their hopes of a 1st appearance in the n.b.a. finals alive the raptors beating the milwaukee bucks to level the eastern conference finals at 2 games apiece. it's been a volunteer evening in the in the nation's capital as police try to contain crowds protesting of the last month's election results well these are live pictures now coming from the capital jakarta it's the 2nd night of demonstrations and police have put parts of the city on lockdown after 6 people were killed during riots on tuesday with the reports. was police outnumbered protests but the crowd screw these are supporters of proposed to be on to who ran

against president joke in last month's presidential election and the previous one was evil but they cheated on some 24 team we don't want to happen again enough is enough. getting justice through the courts is impossible with the government we have so we come here we don't care about our safety we're prepared to give our lives. just like the day before on wednesday the protests turned violent as night fell fireworks and other objects with thrown at the police who fight tear gas and water cannon police say they have arrested dozens of people that you know and i would like to say the series of events that we saw earlier today is not a spontaneous incident but it is an incident by design a sit up incident as protests spread to at least 2 other cities president joko widodo has called for calm but also issued a warning. i will work together with anyone to advance to

scan tree but i will not tolerate any one of these rights to security democratic processes and unity of our beloved nation. has refused to accept the election outcome and has urged his supporters to demonstrate against it. to the police the military and all relevant parties to refrain themselves and avoid violence as they express the aspirations of the protests she must they are shortly after president so-called are delivered to speak to us was likely to continue and to hide which is when we expect from boils down to the last the presidential election to play to the constitutional court challenging the election. for the city remains on edge with parts of it under lockdown. 50000 police and military personnel have been put on duty as protesters showed no sign of giving him. and these are live pictures

coming to us now from the streets of jakarta after a 2nd night of those protests against the election result. the live pictures coming in to us said police have put parts of the city on lockdown in jakarta and 6 people were killed during the riots on tuesday nights a lot of pictures there coming to us from the streets of the in the nation's capital jakarta. now members of the u.s. government are downplaying the possibility of war with iran but strongly defended their military buildup in the gulf less than 24 hours ago top officials briefed congress on developments with iran after members of congress voiced concern that to the defense secretary on trip shanahan says the deployment of additional forces to the gulf will limit terror on his ability to attack will can be hoped that joins us live now from washington d.c. kimberly so the house democrats have been pretty angry about what they're being told is the perceived threat from iran who they've been saying yeah there's there's

frustration there's confusion and creasing wariness among not just democratic lawmakers but some republicans as well who are trying to get clarity of whether the united states is preparing for some sort of military conflict with iran now there is the concern at all of this that there has not been enough information provided that's why we saw on tuesday members of the trumpet ministration seeking to to calm some of those fears surrounding the escalating tensions particularly in light of the rhetoric that has come from donald trump himself and as that is taking place here on the lot of the white house i spoke with white house press secretary sara sounders to ask her where things currently stand she says that the administration currently believes that the moves by the united states up to this part point are simply to deter 2 iran is aggression not escalate tensions. were as the president has stated he's not looking to go to war with iran we'd like to see them change their behavior we would like the decades worth of bad practices that they regularly

engage in to stop we know that the maximum pressure campaign is working you can see that by the crumbling economy that they have and we'll see what happens from there we're going to keep all of our options in that area and we are committed now banting u.s. defense secretary patrick shanahan saying the threat from iran to suddenly gone away and it was a situation change so quickly and what more can we expect from the white house yeah how will the position is that well the threat hasn't completely gone away it seems to be on hold i think is the term that he used a essentially to make the argument that well there is still risk in the eyes of this is ministration it is not the high risk that the administration perhaps portrayed it to be as the what this administration continues to do and what we heard sarah sanders there talking about keeping the options open is that the position of this white house remains that donald trump is willing to sit down with

the iranian leadership he has said he would like them to call him but the onus again is on iran to change its behavior in the eyes of this white house ultimately the decision comes down to donald trump but how things will move forward we know that he still does have hawkish members of his cabinet advising him including john bolton the national security adviser who has in the past advocated for preemptive strikes on iran so the world now stands and watches as this administration continues to send somewhat mixed messages our next steps can really thank you for this bring it out as it was seen after school on a small one bashara joins us live from london martin so suddenly the u.s. now says the threat from iran has been put on hold it's been deterred so why is that now a sudden deescalation of the crisis from the white house to all this talk of war the deployment of u.s. naval assets of the gulf what's changed. you know if you listen carefully to what 1st the trump has been saying he says well you know let the iranians be confused

it's good that the united states is able to confuse their emotions or as he put it precisely that then guess what might happen he actually is a packaging that confusion about who us policy towards iran or the division within the thrum administration to once iran as a strategy meaning he reckons that this is might have a big psychological effect on your own or to put it another way that this is part of a psychological warfare against iran that's remember that already of the trump administration over the last year has basically launched a an economic war or a diplomatic war a p r war and media war against iran and a psychological war is definitely. going on today and i think these mixed messages are part of that strategy and u.s.

house democrats and some republicans might want to pretty angry they were given this closed door briefing yesterday about the perceived threat but they seem to think the intelligence has been twisted to support trump's escalation so are we still in a clear as to exactly what the threat was. well look it seems to some of us who've been observing us irena relations over the last 40 years there's almost a sort of an invisible hand and clearly there's been an invisible hand over the last few weeks months about how the u.s. and iran are basically escalating their conflict eyes wide shut meaning they're both preparing the war and both using the same pretext that we are basically preparing our forces good planning our mindset preparing our domestic audience in kids the other party attacks or escalates now what we know from again 40 years over indian strategy is that they have not exactly

initiated war and they were not initiate war openly against the united states in fact the iranians have in for size the last 48 hours that they're not interested in either a direct war or a proxy war with the united states what is clear to me there is that neither the united states nor iran could afford a full fledged war so it is for the time being part of a psychological warfare than anything else but everyone fears is the unintended consequences of that better variation to war that they might actually lead to one my one just a final thought from you what about other regional players like saudi arabia israel and they'd love to see trump bring iran to its knees how much is trump's iran policy being driven by the view from israel and saudi arabia. this is actually a very important point because i think the president trump would like to bring iran to its senses as it were meaning he wants to bring iran to renegotiate the deal and

he would like to brand it trump deals rather than the obama 2013 deal but the united but the saudi arabia and israel are interested in a whole other thing along with a number of national security assistance of the president prime minister to now has been quite savvy if you will by basically distancing himself the last few days from the escalation although he is the brains behind trump's ideas about iran about trump's escalation against iran from minister netanyahu has been the person lobbying the united states for several years now to walk away from the nuclear deal and to confront iran so your aid on the other hand really would like to see the united states constrain limit and perhaps bruise iran unfortunately for saudi arabia and everyone else in the gulf of

a war against iran will have terrible consequences for the saudis the other gulf countries so while the previous owner of the former saudi king wanted to cut the snake's head if you will meeting have the united states fight the iranians until the last american soldier i think this this very particular president is not exactly interested in immediate escalation but i think the saudis and others could in fact create the pretext for increased tension and perhaps escalation but one thank you. also to come here on the news hour including why turkey's main opposition candidate for the istanbul mayor is back on the campaign trail after winning the election in march. and we look back on the life of important activists to challenge the west's perception of africa. and its board the team heading to hockey's playoff series for the 1st time in 50 years that's all still to come.