w. . place . this is do w. news live from berlin more explosions reported and long after an initial wave of blast hit churches and luxury hotels more than one hundred thirty people have been killed and hundreds more injured police have them pose an immediate procul and shut down social media and the messaging service that will get the latest from the what that's after one of the target sites also coming up but a comic actor becomes ukraine's next president voting stations are open in today's

runoff election and incumbent president petro poroshenko faces below them here's a landscape a comedian can't play the president on television now can you do it for real. i'm nicole really thanks for joining us. at least one hundred thirty eight people have been killed and four hundred injured and explosions at churches and hotels in sri lanka more blasts have been reported in the hours after an initial wave of attacks the first six explosions hit colombo as well as the town of now gone bow and in the east of the country a major church in colombo was one of the buildings hit other targets were five star hotels police ordered an immediate curfew and shut down access to social media and messaging service. sri lanka's prime minister has convened his top military

officials in an emergency meeting to coordinate a response to the blasts he didn't stay attacks on twitter posting i strongly condemn the cowardly attacks on our people today and call upon all sri lankans during this tragic time to remain united and strong please avoid propagating unverified reports and speculation the government is taking immediate steps to contain the situation. for more details on this developing story i'm joined now by a song kara head of the institute of national security studies in colombo sri lanka mr be you going to care oh we are getting reports of more blast near colombo what do you know. well good. morning starting. the season. around the country different possible again just one more thing. that's like our closer to colombo actually in

cologne and the one before that was in davis which is just outside colombo and as you can see they're sort of. doing it in all the night. behind. you know and i. think christian big celebration as well as the the the size of religious worship one of the most popular sites and anthony's church which has also come to the. site of the ship in columbus and so i was. sent off. actually test. that incident last thing the shangri-la out back to back i mean it's a box. on a thirty five and then there was another one. with many victims for him and.

this did it targeted the back to say we're on the third floor. and. you could see was actually the military responded immediately to get the ship that acts of the bakery headquarters right next to the shangri-la and while the question was going on and the people was using the stabbing to come out usually was actually moving inside to assist and help and so many. was that my parents were the victims and they said they foster mancow and. it's actually. no because you have to be exact i'm sure. where things are media reports that authorities man. identified. bombing any further information. as in the post. dated supposed but i cannot. because it's not officially released

yet. being that if you look at the top tax. could be a connection to action. if you look at between sixteen. east and. two. more than three hundred targeting one. religious group but. yet the investigations are going on so we cannot there already. but clearly. be an eastern national sickness that is we have to be highlighted seventy potch. even tracked from extreme. groups which would. actually attack. one. actually. we have actually come across the thirty a wall. phone. terrorists defeating generation.

in maine next month actually will be ten years. actually defeating this. group and. because. there's not been a single incident of the last ten. injured and. the bomb blast. we've been looking on with a consideration with. coastal development. i think. there is a limitation i think it is an. intelligent. being. because there was a lot of a chance to demilitarize idea. certain areas and. also conspired to countries we want to continue trying but didn't. want people to be so.

extreme and. function issues which has been linked to. a g g g has been captured. in that it both spend. it's about different. i think it's going to the dangerous community. neatly hunt these terrorists down and we would be. be able to be able to capture them so that's for sure because we are strong nation we have come across so many difficult current. and. this is a. group specially targeting on. too. many victims from around the country yet the worst episode of

violence and sri lanka the end of the civil war the archbishop of colombo as forcefully condemned the attack let's quickly listen to what he had to say. yes i will express my deepest sorrow and seen by the. innocent families that have lost someone. to those who have been injured and they distribute. all of those who may be healed soon. of. the through. these acts. to the beat both. third to the government.

and. to. them. because. behavior like that. mr. explosions churches hotels now we're hearing about. who seems to be the target of these attacks is it just christians. think. well it is happening in the same might. be actually going on mainly targeted to christians in the morning and the. good of the church and also the easter celebration places and. so we cannot conclude that they have been the i mean it's a mental institution as well as. a bucket load so the. idea that the christians were talking. but we conclude to think that they would have been.

i mean it was only because it's so easy to find out i mean. i think. you're quick enough to sort of come out. of the air and so mostly i think i would do it on the path that's happening and actually. one of the extremist groups who could be the one who sort of. i think. if you look at the internet has been wonderful. using. trying to. trying to sort of. harmony as allies. and they say look at the march last year social media was also blocked last year on march second and candy and violence between the muslim and.

the buddhist. these things are all propagated by groups so the. dimension but the. usual groups on me who are trying to get this thing and this sort of. you know need. to. the first time it was reported to be. learning the role of the terrorist group so we are careful not to overreact actually make the gauge and find out exactly who is behind them and. bring them to the law and justice so as you know in many countries in the event that happened with any. exceptions. being a popular tourist destination. it has to be multi-pronged or monkey jurisdiction of

monkey. national sort of approach to hunting these people down and i'm sure the. nations just a lot of a lot of to. be able to welcome this difficult time. one of the immediate measures taken by the government was imposing a damper a social media ban following the black why is that what the. media was one of the you know the people could be turned into. an activity that we can propagate this information and misinformation this was used last march second like i mentioned earlier. and they want to believe that it could be used again against one really just so on and the group so government was correct to do that because. we do not want any. one to.

right now just wish to control and you don't want to sort of you know create more issues i have no no reference to the same cause and maybe. this information that's going on in the social media so i think the government was going to do that as well as to. immediately. and so what you hear i think in the next couple of. everybody's basically. right now looking on the situation and trying to get everything under control. you talk about christians being targeted in this attack only seven percent as for long can are of christian faith and there been other attack against this religious minority and the path. you know not been any attacks on i

mean taking lives and not. coming to. bomb attacks and that's because this is the first. time that the main dish. the. just to get. right now and. you would want to know what is. behind. the cost for this. being tension between. but not taking lives and not excuse. me you're going to care from colombo thank you for your analysis. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. francis is celebrating the traditional easter mass st peter's square and rome the most

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