the best . w. . the best . this is the w.'s life for a girl in search of answers after a day of carnage investigators in sri lanka groundball what the aftermath of sunday's deadly bombings official say they believe a domestic terror group was behind the attacks which killed almost three hundred people intelligence chiefs say they wore the country's president two weeks ago that

islamics were planning suicide attacks on churches also coming up all the jokes the time to get it's time to get serious in ukraine can we get a lot of years olinsky pulls off a stunning upset by winning the country's presidential election by a landslide with incumbent persian gulf it's a crushing defeat. on lana hard thank you so much for your company everyone. we start this broadcast in sri lanka worth or it is now say a little known local terrorist group is to blame for the bombings that killed almost three hundred people on sunday while intelligence chiefs warned the country's president two weeks ago that the new group national to wete were planning attacks and even passed on the name. 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 averted. 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 went to one of the churches attacked on easter sunday and hasn't been seen since. the beginning. we kept calling her after we heard of the incident but there was no response we didn't take her from her even in the night that is why we came here first thing in the morning. for others 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. 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. we're going to be alongside the sadness there is also a disbelief and a growing sense of outrage and this is a very sad when this is going to become but please. get back to the center it's not just are an attack it's a very good girl this gruesome attack on humanity. in the aftermath of the carnage sure lank is a nation in shock and looking for and says. well with the people of sri lanka still reeling from these heinous acts and trying to

make sense of what just happened in their country let's get you the latest from the capital colombo journalist jamila national dean joins us from there joe miller we understand that earlier today security forces initiated a controlled blast the system means that the threat still remains. today evening the security forces a defuse a bomb which was found inside an abandoned draco's just in close proximity to this anthony church in culture because a that the first blast took place on sunday morning. just before that the security forces also found eighty seven new explosives which was left of badly burned one of colombo's main bus stations on either day is now dating frequented by several people but. today was a bigger problem the devil not many people around and then last night the police

called to successfully in the open a thing of bomb fallen close to the international airport so that when you could because it's very far from over there a message for search operations going on and we are expecting a lot more coverage ahead what can you tell us about this little new domestic terror group which is being blamed for the coordinated attacks. yesterday today asinorum should not cause many summit an announcement saying that the local national policy jim out of which is a local would seem ready to go for was behind these terrorist attacks now this comes as a bit of a surprise to us because we have barely heard the name we have heard it in isolated incidents before but the fact that the such a small group that's such a large a terrible attacks came as a bit of a shock and surprise so this is a new group of each obviously the i'm hearing about is there

a history intra long violent muslim militants staging attacks like these. that we do not have a history of most primitive turned who have staged such a large scale attacks before but there have been isolators attacks so we check being taking cities. for example in february we had one thing you would end mandalay if that used in the. immediately that many players like you are in the you with that and that one damning command and it is you if you don't come with a clean magical cool factor group they belong to work not to mention now obviously the other issue. of huge importance is that there's been a complete breakdown of communication within the for a long government the attacks were flagged but somehow nobody acted on it how functional is this government and where did it all wrong. yes you are right

she was a sense of disappointment though right now among a lot of us that. despite the police knowing that there was prying for misunderstood not coming in the case of property to the prime minister. we are seeing that days of internal political battle going on between the prime minister and the president ever since the president time minister surprisingly not filled when appoint somebody else when he was forced to redefine the timing it's affecting his position again everything standing has been political tensions which have been ongoing got things have not been smoked for the government but unfortunately political bickering seems to have cost the nation a very heavy duty i mean do you have a very sad assessment there and how long has come such a long way for the viewers not familiar with the painful recent history or for

longer can you briefly explain what happened and where the country is now. see you need to i realize that sri lanka is a small island we can successfully fought a thirtieth the real conflict which we ended in may two thousand and nine and now in two thousand and nineteen it would have been ten years since we celebrated the end of terrorism but unfortunately we had these attacks on sunday which we are now calling it carries attack gene and paul was scrapping and was trying to overcome these people conflicts and refining making their way through was the international maps of investment of tourism we were doing extremely well as a nation we were a tiny island we check and plastic investment opportunities that fund is attack is just going to give you the most backward well our hearts go out to the people of sri lanka. thank you so much for your reporting thank you very much.

let's bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. 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 omar al bashir was forced to resign two weeks ago. iran and pakistan have agreed to form a joint force to fight terrorism on their common borders it will act against groups within the problems that seek independence from both countries the talks in tehran between the country's leaders come days after militants from iran pakistani troops and south western style. hundreds of activists have rallied against nuclear weapons airbase in western germany up to twenty warheads from the

cold war era are stored there with germans for nato planes are standing by to carry them in areas heavily protected in germany antiwar protests are common at easter. to ukraine now where the comedian of a lot of mirrors alinsky has won a landslide victory in the presidential election also lansky has taken seventy three percent of the vote while the incumbent petro poroshenko has managed only a meager twenty four percent well it is a bruising 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. team but 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 we did it together we united ukraine we united our people we united our country just for you know that's . the result was a bit of a blow for incumbent petro poroshenko who conceded defeat the divide to stay in politics are shanker had presented himself as an experienced paris 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 issues that you know the most important thing is that the war in solution should remain the will yet to move the system we've nothing to lose things can't get any worse than they already are selenski is young and full of energy care if he's an actor and a clown we're going to see some big changes he'll be better than poor schenkel one

hundred percent. but if you craniums believe fail to solve their problems it's not clear why selenski will either the close his 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 not to prove to voters helping him in an era of change. are joining us now from here visitor your correspondent nick calio great to see you the people of ukraine have given so i ask in an enormous mandate what do we know about his policies what did he campaign on and who makes up his team. well a lot of quite extraordinary result yesterday evening and we journalists use the cliche earth political earthquake often enough i think in this case it really is appropriate in terms of his policies well this is

a christian that we've heard time and time again of him that he's very reluctant to speak to the press to be put in is himself in a situation where he can be asked difficult questions instead preferring to talk to voters direct via social media in a way he can control and yesterday evening after those first exit polls came out showing his victory he will remain true to form he thanked his team but was very reluctant to really give any detail we still don't know who his team is and he said he'll only finally announce all of this of his own duration which could still be a month away so what does zelinsky selection mean for the. well in terms of europe he has promised no real change to ukraine's course of integration with the west he says he himself is in favor of ukraine joining both the e.u. and nato but that he would put that to the people in the referendum in a way that's slightly academic question because the showing no indication that it's

in a hurry to offer ukraine a perspective of membership in the near or medium but definitely no sign that he's pulling away from that aspiration to head west and somehow draw close to moscow all right well let's talk about moscow he has no real political experience is he someone who can deal with the kremlin. well that was definitely. in this election campaign that the un experience selenski would be easy praise for the kremlin machinations and that he would not be able to stand up to russia that was something that petro poroshenko campaigned on but seemingly didn't really appeal to ukrainian voters he is in no hurry to show himself being a friend of the kremlin there were other candidates who during his campaign travel to moscow and basically got the blessing of the kremlin that didn't pay off at the ballot box he is someone who in his private life speaks the russian language not just ukrainian has mixed those so that's something that really goes down well with russian speakers in ukraine and he has the advantage of being a new face so in

a way the talks of a dog that have really got into a dead end of the last few years he has. basically by not being petro poroshenko of starting things afresh but i think fundamentally there's little chance there that you can use. him to make any fundamental compromises that would change situation make ali reporting from kiev thank you so very much. and you know your business after is up next with your hearts out for somewhere heraclea and brought it out to the top of the out. my first vice a muscle sewing machine. where i come from women are almost by this notion for. something as simple as learning how to write them by psychos use and. since i was a good i wanted to have them spies say the lost my home and it took me years to going to.