being recipes for success is strategy that makes a difference. to baking bread. d.w. . the be . this is the abuse line for berlin the search for answers after a day of carnage investigators and bramble with the aftermath of sunday's deadly bombings officials say they believe a domestic terror group was behind the attacks which killed a whole most three hundred people intelligence chiefs say they warned the country's president two weeks ago that islamics were planning suicide attacks on churches

also coming up told the jokes so it's time to get serious in ukraine comedian what appear is alinsky pulls off a stunning upset by winning the country's presidential election i once lived for the company petra persian gulf it's a crushing defeat. and a letter to a survivor to find out how students are pledging never to forget the holocaust the serbs who experienced its forced prepare to leave the state. to push. on the ark thank you so much for your company everyone. well we started off this broadcast intro lanka where authorities now say a little known local terrorist group is to blame for the bombings that killed almost three hundred people. on sunday intelligence chiefs warned the country's

president two weeks ago that the new group national to we were planning attacks and even passed on the names of the suspects all that revelation has the country now searching for answers after a day of carnage and heartache that could have possibly been avoided. this woman is being forced to endure what no parent wants to go through she's waiting outside the hospital hoping to hear news of her daughter. the teenager who went to one of the churches attacked on easter sunday and hasn't been seen since. the beginning of us there before and we kept calling her after we heard of the incident but there was no response we didn't take from her even in the night and that is why we came here first thing in the morning. for others as the certainty of knowing brings no relief.

as the scale of the tragedy starts to sink in many are unable to contain their grief. most of the dead can many including at this church north of the capital what children. dozens of foreigners were also killed among those who lost their lives on nationals from the u.s. britain turkey india china portugal and denmark. with. a long scientists sadness there is also. and a growing sense of outrage and this is a very he says. he said it's not just tech it's. to something. in the aftermath of the carnage. a nation in shock and looking for answers.

while with the people of sri lanka still reeling from these heinous acts and trying to make sense of what just happened let's get you the latest from the capital colombo a journalist jamila now she joins us from there she's on the line i believe tamil we understand that the security forces initiated a controlled blast is this mean that the threat is still around. the curating for eternal. capital colombo which was in close proximity to the town and that means that the first of on them to off on sunday very loud explosion then people started panicking and then. a pistol shot fired before that there were eighty seven explosives which were found in one of the main bus station and just laugh my ass was found

a number of on the proximity to. the international airport and throughout the day we have been hearing reports that. it has been found you can. bend and really close in. on the roadways definitely to track and field on a farm or ok so the threat remains what can you tell us about this little known domestic terror group which is being blamed for the coordinated attacks. yes so when sri lanka's health minister. that target the sand iraq now announced today after knowing that a local muslim radical group called the national county to mark was behind these attacks this was new to all the five even a when i thing a journalist state was it be clear to me because i have not heard this name before that had been isolated incident to a caused by time radical muslims. but it it was this group which should what its

pontifical for that is yet to be certain so this is a new group of which we are hearing at the moment is there a history of violent muslim militants in sri lanka. yes in fact in february there was an intervention that some radical most games had gone and vandalized somebody a statute in a town called marinello not too far from capital colombo however those who are responsible for those attacks were arrested that have been isolated incidents which have been going on even before that but these are just a handful of incidents now obviously the other thing that is causing a lot of concern is that there has been a complete breakdown in communication with the within the show along can a government the attacks were flagged but nobody acted on it just how functional is

this government and will anybody be held accountable for this serious failure. well i am not sure if anyone from the government to be held accountable for what has happened but yes the obvious appointed as a nation we are disappointed to learn of the fact that the parties had received crimea kind summation of a possible terrorist attack and there was a c.v. in my lease coming acacia between the time and he said between the cabinet of ministers and the president and the stake intelligence and the police and nobody seems to have guarding it that this information be charged and it has cost so that's very heavy today there have been reports which i promise that ever since bill the twenty six constitutional crisis president might decide to say in effect of crimea said we committing to and appoint as the following president as the new prime minister and that of the in reports that there has been internal conflicts

between this government against the president so it is a very sad situation we are seeing at the moment. i mean of course a lot of people know their social longa has had a very painful recent history can you very briefly explain what happened and where is the country right now. yeah so basically two thousand and nine to around cardiff eco terrorism i ask that because he has a conflict and two thousand and nineteen me even want to tell you read ten years i think. terrorism that's what shows but unfortunately these attacks happen on sunday and people around the house cat and fear with the terrorism has returned back to our country how we have want to push forward as a nation is yet to be seen because we all are still recovering from the day it's come back a lot of changes need to now be made and security definitely needs to be tightened to match the money that was going forward all right german surgeon really national

do you know reporting from you for a walk in capital colombo thank you thank you a mask. all right to ukraine now where the comedian of a lot amir's alinsky has won a landslide victory in the presidential election so i ask you has taken seventy three percent of the vote while the incumbent petro poroshenko as mannish the only twenty four percent well it's a crushing defeat for ukraine's political establishment especially given that selenski has no political experience. it was a stunning victory for a political novice. ski has appended the status quo in ukraine shortly after exit polls delivered him a landslide he addressed his supporters on social media. saying that he simply hello everyone which follows i wanted to thank all of you for joining me on this journey for the four months of important work great work that you did you know we

did it together we united ukraine we united our people we united our country was. not just. the result was a bit of blow for incumbent petro poroshenko who conceded defeat the divide to stay in politics par schank ahead presented himself as an experience pair of hands but it seems many ukrainians were looking for a fresh approach where we can says i think we'll see some changes let's hope there for the better and that ukraine see some real developments of the eclipse but you know the most important thing is that the war and the solution should remain the will yet do is a system we've nothing to lose things can't get any worse than they already selenski is young and full of energy fighting care if he's an actor and a clown we're going to see some big changes he'll be better than poroshenko one hundred percent. but if you craniums believe power shango failed to solve their

problems it's not clear why selenski will either the closest he's being to political power is playing a fictional president in a sitcom. and while his campaign was media savvy it was light on concrete policy ideas. he inherits a country burdened by a separatist war in the east rampant corruption and a sluggish economy selenski has much to prove to voters helping him in an era of change. or rebecca herm's is a member of the european parliament where she's co-chair of your nest which works closely with ukraine she also observe the elections on behalf of the european parliament and she joins me now from the ukrainian capital miss herms welcome the margin by which mr is a lansky one is huge he was obviously given an enormous mandate by the people of ukraine give us your take on the elections how many things go in your view. so it was really

a landslide victory which we see in this dimension very seldomly happen. to the incumbent petro poroshenko that. ukrainians did not trust him any more i appreciate that a lot so the statesmanship by which. people posting quick knowledge the victory of mr zelinsky yesterday and this vote is on the other hand a huge declaration no of trust into a man who has no experience in politics and we will see how the vote to us these more than seventy percent of the voters and how the elected president will be able to deal with this and how you spin a following developments in ukraine for quite some time now in your view have

things changed substantially since you began traveling to the country. so i'm not sure whether i got your question right but so my experience in the country. teach me during the last months that so ukrainians are like all other nations in the world if it happened to them they they are not really in favor of an on going war and they won the war to end but in the same time they are ready to to fight and to defend their sovereignty and this this will allow us on the other hand and this was decisive for this election they really want more efforts in the fight against corruption systematic efforts. they want also we were against the growing poverty in

the country rebecca harms member of the european parliament where she is the co-chair of your nast and works closely with ukraine thank you so much for spending time with us. now to some of the other stories making news around the world five people are reported to have been killed after an earthquake hit the northern philippines thousands fled their offices and homes in the capital of manila the quake measuring a magnitude six point three caused blackouts in some areas. at least seventeen people are reported dead in colombia after heavy rains set off a landslide and blocked the pan-american highway present even to k has been to inspect or has it inspected the damage in the mountainous south west of the country rescue workers are still searching for victims. opposition protesters

in sudan have broken off talks with the ruling military council after it refused to and over power to a civilian led government sudan has been under army control since former president omar al bashir was forced to resign two weeks ago. egyptians are voting for a third and final day in a referendum on constitutional amendments that would allow president agfa to have sisi to remain in office till twenty thirty all voters are expected to back the changes supporters say these would give as c.c. more time to complete major projects critics however fear it would mean more authentic off the right terry n c c came to power after leading a military coup in a twenty thirteen when morsi was ousted well joining us now from cairo is the journalists ruth michelson to talk to us more about these developments ruth how has

voting been going so far. well so far there seems to be plenty of people at the polls but i and other journalists this is also getting incredibly difficult to find anyone who says that they voted gets the treaties and that is in part because many people that i spoke with simply unaware that it no caps against these amendments and even exists and that is in large part due to suppression of the kind of opposition campaign clearly i asked and. arresting someone who held up with a sign telling people they vote no yesterday and there's also been claims from different gyptian authorities that there have been international election monitoring missions here over seeing what's happening at pubs when i spoke to the

african union only of this week they said that they were not sending anybody and when i spoke to the european union they said that they do not have an official just a couple officials who went and looked at polling stations that was it so that mean or if that the outcome is a foregone conclusion how are these reforms being seen in egypt by egyptians. i think the outcome is very much a full conclusion we saw that based on how quickly the vote was. tolerant only concerned that a referendum would be happening with five hundred thirty one out of five hundred thirty six m.p.'s voting to changes and trigger a referendum last tuesday and then the referendum began on saturday as i mentioned before a complete suppression of an opposition campaign. and so you know the

atmosphere out among many egyptians is that they will talk about. the potential benefits the stability of species gaining power but also that they haven't been presented with any other option and so i think it would be a different atmosphere on the ground if there was free and open debate about the benefits and dispense of these changes with michael some reporting from cairo thank you. and we turn our attention now to spain which is gearing up for a general election next weekend it will be the third in just four years as the country struggles to find a way out of political turmoil prime minister pether sanchez called the election early after losing the support of lawmakers from catalonia or one party that is surging in the polls as the small far right and euro skeptic vox party it sees itself as a potential ally and a possible right wing coalition but fox's divisive agenda and rhetoric harking back

to the days of the franco dictatorship has alarmed many in spain. it was the most terrible experience of his life billy merrow 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. and. when they point to pistol at you and press the trigger with no bullet for this and that split second two things can happen you can just stand there speechless like i did with or you fall apart i don't want that this is also 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. this into if it would a better i feel safe today we've but i'm very worried because

a political force like vox is yearning for a time in which we lived under a dictatorship of. the far right box party wants to unseat the socialists the crowd of vox supporters have come to this bullfighting never 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. grail for the frank a yes when say bad he was the lesser of two evils in this one of our border ok it was a dictatorship but a homeless one. just him yet we just had a crowd 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 a slap in the face for nine years they've been demonstrating every thursday in the center of madrid. for the people here the rise of the far right is

a shock. to brighten their lot and they want to recon ques a recon 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 but for our children our grandchildren. spain's history has divided the country far right box leaders. 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 at you going to apologize for our history michel to acknowledge its glory it's a darker side draw the best out of it and take pride in it and i know you're 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 and. now let's listen to her now to face one of the last survivors of the holocaust in germany and ninety five and ninety five years old it's getting harder for her to tell her story in public a group of youngsters have made it their mission now to keep her memories alive and those of other holocaust survivors even after they're long gone. when i was told how you were separated from your mama i started to cry for me it would be the worst thing in the world to lose my mama and you were so strong and brave for. a fifteen year old students not to freeze by but nessa ice an arch who has taken on the mission after telling the old lady story. this was one of the hardest things for me at the camp saying goodbye to my mother i

knew for sure that she would never leave auschwitz again and are not a freeze was a teen anti semitism was widespread in germany targeting her so to order off a jewish mother. stored in the i have a stall in youth behind me. i had no use at all and thanks to naziism. i'm being subjected to hostile remarks and being excluded and it was horrible especially for a child. mr friess back then the number that the nazis had spears and her and the concentration camp were up to her of her identity. if i had had it removed i would have a scar here and that would remind me as well. i just always reminds you that you can't do anything about it. erna difference survived the

holocaust but she never saw her mother again and that is probably murder to turn our streets before they were separated she told ana you must fight you must survive and tell the world what they did to us and she has done that all her life but at ninety five years old it's getting more difficult that's five unless the eyes and heart has taken over she and other students taking part in the pro checked called second witnesses mittal of course survivors and tell their stories to others like at this school and seldon germany. she said it was basically a death train they were being loaded into a cattle car she said we stood packed tightly as sardines but as i said heart also tells us that and i did feel worked as a nurse before the war that she wanted to become a doctor that she talks about her family and how sure repeated lee meant plans to emigrate to israel plans that never came to anything. i mean listen listen up

stories like these show what happens when you leave room for racism and anti semitism that if you give it enough space it can no longer be changed back there's so many parallels with the present such as losing your home and that's something that flows through the entire story to do it in. the sky was just about to cry but i didn't after all i think or will to survive and tell her story is really great to just sit in front. of us i think that you have to open some people's eyes because they think that something like this can never happen again but i think that some people are still too gullible for not obliged to in the end these students write letters to and i did freeze personal messages that i've been hard brings to her. of course it pleases me that they let someone read

to them and tell them the story. often people just aren't interested. into it are not different just happy that her family helped her to make a life for herself after the war now she's counting on the young people who know her story to tell it when she is no longer around. i hope that this somehow stays in people's minds and that it won't be forgotten. extraordinary air in the face and a reminder now the top story there we're tracking for you this hour sra long going to fishel of blamed local islamised extremists for the bomb attacks which killed almost three hundred people on sunday however intelligence chiefs say they warned the authorities almost two weeks ago if the group were planning attacks plus comedian a whole lot of fear is alinsky has won a landslide victory in the ukraine's presidential runoff he played

a president on television and now use a real thing incumbents petro poroshenko to defeat. you're watching news up next on the trail of your gun doesn't want rhinos dancing global three thousand after the break i'll play along right i'll see you again at the top of the. above.

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