this is news coming to you live from berlin the death toll in the bombings rises to two hundred ninety eight another pile of hundred people wounded in a string of ordinated attacks targeting churches and luxury hotels on easter sunday officials blame religious extremists and have made several arrests but have the latest from colombia. also coming up time to get serious in ukraine comedian. he wins a landslide victory in the presidential runoff he played the president on television

now he's the real thing. to throw part of has conceded defeat. at the homestretch in the bonus league where goalkeeping and timely goal scoring have put back within a single point the league's top team. hello i'm terry martin and welcome to the program police in sri lanka say the death toll from the devastating wave of bombings on easter sunday has risen sharply to at least two hundred ninety around five hundred people were also injured in the coordinated attacks that targeted churches where worshippers of gather for easter services and luxury hotels most of the seven bombings appear to have been suicide attacks several suspects have been arrested but no group has claimed responsibility so far the government is blaming religious extremists. but you know the

faces say it's old. one day after the bombings sri lanka is a nation in shock. a few people have gathered in silence outside one of the churches targeted in the capital sent antony shrine. soldiers are standing guard in a city and a country now on edge. heavy security is also in place at san sebastian church in the north of columbus one man here recounts how his family escaped the tragedy. they quickly. from the church because they were so afraid they called me. they wanted to make sure that another. but as the cleanup operation begins some are

asking if this is a disaster that could have been avoided it. reports suggest intelligence services may have been tipped off about the possibility of attacks yet fail to act. the prime minister himself raised this question while also vowing to prevent further violence. on we must also looking at the quick because we're not. in. but first and foremost we have to ensure that carry them does not if it stayed in sri lanka. the first test for security forces is to try to piece together who's responsible for the atrocity and for the terrible loss of so many lives. in colombo she is the editor of news in asia jamil of the death toll from the

bombings has risen massively to two hundred from two hundred seven to two hundred ninety can you tell us what's behind that sudden jump. hi so basically yes the death toll is just handed to ninety at the moment but the toadies expecting the death toll to rise further today now the numbers keep rising these because they're full of small something comes up that's on on those who have died while being brought in and it is only off to those people that for small semiconductor that the bodies are being released and that the good being on mended so this is why vs being a rising to good activities everyone onto every two hours now you've been talking to some of the survivors at the hospital i understand what are you hearing from that. but basically the time i was asked shocked scared nobody expected something like this one of the survivors when i spoke to who was a praying inside the church grandma of the bombs was he told me if it's on me that

oh if they went to on sunday morning. join the fullness of the church they were going to meet their relatives it's wrong to do you must go sunday there was a huge explosion and man you know he's going to have died in the fog so everybody is really shocked him to them because the moment more than shocked everybody betty that he scared. now i'm told there were fresh warnings today about possible further attacks in sri lanka including from foreign governments such as the united states what are police saying about the possibility of further attack. than he could be the police have not one of our part to put you off for texas but what they are saying is that they're hoping the worst is over but there is a massive search operation ongoing in colombo and in other parts of the country and

the police have successfully becoming a very big big from beach town very close to the international the applecross night search operations ongoing at the moment down the book to see that we are still on the. police have made numerous arrests in connection with this attack but nobody's claimed responsibility we're all wondering who was behind the attacks can you tell us anything about those who've been arrested. i am still trying to call people who have been arrested but i prefer to be and want to be a hearing is all i thank you for damn long. and think what's going on and i did and in fact i'm wondering if there's a shot to my love or a good thing to understand that these are public records to our gallant i'm not planning on going to be sent to what we are getting at the moment that one top of the gang we fish is like a third party that back. to miller thank you very much for bringing us up to date

there that was journalist jamila nudge mundine she's the editor of news in asia and was talking to us from colombo. now for more let's also bring in the ruin party round she's a south asia regional researcher with amnesty international and is based in colombo the government admits that there were warnings about such attacks several days before they occurred did they not take those warning seriously so the pm last night has it made to that there has been some bold warning but he has also said that he was not going to have to meet him so what has to be at least that very night when missions that are. structured at the moment that the president has been one five and. from the u.n. feet so the fans and the police forecourt us by the president so that would explain why this communication between the two that would explain why

there was no action taken about. i'm sure there will be many more questions raised about the question of why the government may not about to know sri lanka's christian community appears to have been one target of sunday's attacks but the church is being attacked what can you tell us about the ethnic religious fault lines in sri lanka the provide a context for this. so in terms of context we've had a preemptive attacks against minorities by a number of parties and this stretches back decades and even during that conflict as well wow we saw all l.t.e. rich as a terrorist organization used to terrorize the what if's and's great as the most things during the conflict and then even after that the war had ended with this extremists have also terrorized

a lot of rain and christian communities especially the evangelicals so this this. this attack comes in this point but what we're seeing now is unprecedented we haven't seen this level of course and this here in the attack it's. talk more about the background here because this is the worst violence that has seen since the end of the civil war ten years ago what spin the security situation leading up to these attacks so sri lanka transitional justice trajectory from the point this man came to power and that has the attempts to reconcile there's been attempts to sort of try and reduce the military presence in the know are because it's been ten yes and the well but i think it's difficult to stay at this point where we need you know inside here increased security because that issue seems to suggest that there has to be entailed and action that sort of

caused. and it's not a call for more also to you know restrictions on civil liberties. thank you very much for talking with us i was ruined partly ronna she's a south asia regional researcher with amnesty international. well the attacks in sri lanka overshadowed easter festivities at the vatican and pope francis was holding easter mass as news of the attackers came in were gathered in st peter's square to hear his traditional blessing for the city of rome and the world from the balcony of st peter's basilica pope francis mourned the dead and condemned the bloodshed. money. said i want to express my love and support to the christian community. targeted while they were gathering in prayer and all the victims of cruel violence. i entrust to the lord all those who were tragically

killed and pray for the wounded in all those suffering as a result of this dramatic event francis appealed to political leaders to put aside their differences and work for peace. that's what made the one who gives us his peace and the rule of weapons both in areas of conflict and in our cities and inspire the leaders of nations to work for an end to the arms race and the troubling spread of weapons. the pont of then ended his speech with the traditional or be at or be people bless him if they put in. but these. it's speak to. this in. a minute. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today police in northern ireland have released two men without charge in connection with the killing of journalist lee roma key she was

shot during the rioting in the city of london terry as police clashed with alleged members of the new i r a paramilitary group the investigation into mickey's death is still ongoing. opposition protesters in sudan have broken off talks with the ruling military council after it refused to hand over power to a civilian led government sudan has been under army control since former president bashir was forced to resign two weeks ago. at the first round of the presidential election in north macedonia saul candidates from the left and right get the most support in a virtual tie setting up a runoff vote however turnout was poor in a country previously known as macedonia many voters are disillusioned by corruption and a failing economy. climate change protesters in london say they're willing to stop demonstrating if the government will discuss their demands more than eight hundred

protesters have been arrested so far organizers extinction rebellion want the government to declare a climate of urgency and eliminate greenhouse gases. now to ukraine where the comedian volodymyr is the lenski has won a landslide victory in the presidential election with the celt vote count almost complete selenski has taken seventy three percent while the incumbent petro poroshenko has managed only twenty four percent it's a stunning rebuke for ukraine's political stablish minutes specially as lenski has only ever been involved in pretend politics before. he went from playing a president on t.v. to being one in real life this is the moment fall a dream is a learned skill the new president elect of ukraine find out that he'd won on the world stage he's just the latest political novice with an affection for social media to sweep aside the old guard are very northing your thing you ever bought him

. selenski actually studied law at university but never practiced instead opting for a burgeoning comedy career in twenty fifteen he began starring as a fictional ukrainian president in the sitcom servant of the people. his own political party was eventually named after the t.v. show selenski has been the unlikely front runner for most of the election with poll ratings flying he even went so far as to not show up for one of two scheduled stadium debates against incumbent petro poroshenko the fact that ukrainians have already spent years watching him play it being president and they have helped him ascend selenski projected a sense that people could trust him whereas par shank the more experienced candidate who is seen as corrupt. and he said next month i will leave my post as president of the country. this is what was

decided by the majority of ukrainians. and i accept this decision look if i will leave the office of the presidency which is but i would like to emphasize i am not leaving the baltics. many ukrainians are looking for something new fresh change by the slow pace of reforms and wearied by the five year conflict in the east of the country selenski they hope. and hear a change. well joining us now from kiev is our correspondent nick conley nick this is a huge victory for selenski who has no political experience has the significance of this result sunk in yet for the ukrainians good morning terry well i think there is lots of scratching of heads amongst that poroshenko camp at least people are really kind of taken aback by the extent of that victory for.

state him picking up almost twice as many votes as the incumbent so far we haven't heard any more from him selenski speaking only very briefly to the press at his election campaign party first to thank his team and then giving only the briefest of indication of what he plans to do as this transition begins saying only that he would he would fire ukraine's current prosecutor general but giving no further indication as to who would be in his team. but this is now going to be a couple of weeks transition before he finally gets into the presidential administration a couple of blocks behind me so you're saying that his opponent is in his opponent's camp are obviously scratching their heads but what about the rest of ukraine's political establishment how are they reacting. well people seem to have accepted this as a given with about ninety percent of votes now counted those exit polls from your

state evening have turned out to be accurate we heard from the prime minister. congratulating also beyond that present himself saying that he would do his utmost to help selenski. with contacts and help him in the transition this was a very aggressive campaign. throughout telling ukrainians that selenski wasn't up to the job so this was a pretty impressive magnanimous to the speed with which he accepted or shaped excepted his defeat and his willingness to accept the results not to question those that did take observers by surprise but that seems to be where he's going to saying that he's lost the battle but not the war that he intends to stay in politics we have a parliamentary election here in the autumn petro poroshenko saying he plans to contest those and stay in ukraine's politics for now. does anybody really know what he is planning to do here because in

a debate last week he said he wanted to break the system. nobody really knows what he means by that in this at a time when ukraine is having to navigate very delicate very delicate relationship in a conflict with russia. well exactly terry and lots of his critics would say that selenski has tried to promise all things to people. he's being about offering a sense of generational change of being a new face someone offering hope of campaign while being pretty reticent on the detail of what he wants to do in terms of the really big questions in terms of joining nato with the e.u. so let's he says that he himself is in favor but that he would put that question to the ukrainian people in referendums in terms of russia i think it would be wrong to cost him here as a straightforward pro russian candidate yes he is someone who speaks russian and ukrainian in his personal life he mixes the two languages in his appearances he's

very keen not to show himself as being best friend the best friend that something of the candidates tried during this election and it didn't do them any good at the ballot box there was one candidate who travel to moscow before the first round came in fourth place so i think he has the potential here as someone you to maybe restart those talks about the future of us and to speak to his russian counterparts without some of the baggage that petro poroshenko has picked up but i think it would be premature to expect. kiev and moscow to make up in a hurry and for the next key to make any quick concessions to the kremlin i think ukrainian society would not accept that given the war and these five years of this standoff we've had now that really is just something that is to boo ukraine's politics nowadays nick thank you so much. spain which is gearing up for a general election next week and it will be the third election in just four years

as the country struggles to find a way out of political turmoil the election is dominated by discussions surrounding catalonia prime minister called the early elections when his in the region voted against his budget bill in parliament they were angry at his handling of chi. calls for independence well despite these problems sanchez's socialists are leading in the opinion polls not far behind is public. the people's conservative conservative people's party and he is followed by albert rivera from the center right syria diagnosed but none of them are expected to secure it outright majority that has created an opening for vox a small far right and euro skeptic party led by santiago. that is surging in the opinion polls it's opposed to immigration gay marriage and abortion and rails against feminism and political correctness fox sees itself as

a potential ally in a possible rightwing coalition their opponents are mobilizing to prevent that they say box is divisive agenda and inflammatory rhetoric are reminiscent of the dark days of the franco dictatorship. it was the most terrible experience of his life really mayor was just nineteen when he was thrown into this prison in madrid. today it's hard to imagine the horrors that took place here during the fascist regime of francisco franco to force mayor to speak the police staged his execution. when they point to his salute you and press the trigger with no bullet in that split second two things can happen you can just stand there speechless like i did or you fall apart. or say the. mayor fears that right wing populist are gaining support in twenty eighteen the far right box party took eleven percent of the vote

and to lucy has regional election now the country is heading into a general election. i feel safe today but i'm very worried because a political force like vox is yearning for a time in which we lived under a dictatorship. the far right box party wants to unseat the socialists the crowd of voc supporters have come to this bullfighting are enough for a rally many have written the slogan spain for the spanish on their flags they want to ban abortion and same sex marriage and they glorify the years under the dictatorship. grayle if we the frank a years when say bad he was the lesser of two evils he's one of our border ok it was a dictatorship but a homeless one. yes then we had a yes i did i'm proud of spain's history thanks to franco spain made progress and became what it is today. for franco's victims and their families sentiments like

these are slap in the face for nine years they've been demonstrating every thursday in the center of madrid. the people hear the rants of the far right is a shock. from their lot and they want to recant ques a recant quest can you believe it this is a disgrace to spain. that's why we're here demonstrating against fascism not for ourselves we're old they're not but for our children our grandchildren are near spain's history has divided the country far right box leaders santiago rejects the notion that any form of reckoning or redress is necessary to come to terms with franco's nearly forty year dictatorship but you only look are you going to apologize for our history we should acknowledge its glory its a darker side and all the best out of it and take pride in it you know you really

mayor is dismayed and angry at the spanish left which he says failed to counter the rise of the far right he hopes the radical right won't have a strong showing in the general election and become kingmakers in a new conservative government as they did in andalusia. some sports and in this league is big sunday match up now we've got dortmund classing freiburg moving within touching distance of first place with just four matches left dortmund is looking for their first league title since two thousand and twelve. don't wonder at full strength in freiburg with michael royce and the informed jake and sam show raring to go twelve minute scene and good link up play from aerial goods and royce sets up some show to score. one no for don't wind that class easily overcoming fright the static defense. don't want eased off slightly though and freiburg came back into the game you can vouch me testing roman baccy.

in the second half don't win but back in the groove rafael guerrero with a perfect pass for royce to make it to know in the fifty four minutes. the sixteenth goal of the bundesliga season the forward freida tried to respond to his on the counter-attack some show to royce and good so with that goal and that minutes from time classic break away for the visit says. pasco stencils handball allowed kasich and yet his seventeenth leak goal of the campaign don't mean move the point behind leaders. you know. we have four games left and we're concentrating on the next match nothing more we've got to prepare for it properly you're missing the. good for. that next game is the dollar be at home to struggling shaka on saturday. and here's a look at the bonus league table ahead of monday night's match up between both forbes and frankfurt and lead the way as you heard often are right on their heels

next weekend but munich play in your bag in another attempt to shake off the competition at the very bottom handover is in last place after a dull drawl. or in the french league police have made have been crowned champions after defeating monaco on sunday they scored a hat trick all of p.s.g. as goals in the three one victory the team paid tribute to the notre dame cathedral on their jerseys after a pirate's just royd large sections of the paris and to show us. and just remind of the top story we're following for you here today on the w. news the death toll in those bombings has risen to two hundred nine with another five hundred people injured officials blamed religious extremists for the string of cordon agents attacks on churches and luxury hotels although no one has so far claimed responsibility. you're watching news coming up next it's

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