this is. one. easter sunday massacre investigators say that a domestic terror group was probably behind the attacks which killed almost three hundred people intelligence chiefs say they warned the country's president two weeks ago. planning suicide attacks on churches also coming up the u.s.

in. orders of the reigning in oil washington granted them when it's pulled out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal it's cracked up pressure on. the jokes it's time to get serious in ukraine the comedian zelinsky pulls off a stunning upset by winning the country's presidential election in a landslide and a letter to a survivor we find out how students are pledging never to forget the holocaust as those who experience it forced prepare to leave the state. it's good to have you with us we start off tonight in sri lanka naming names and pointing fingers authorities say that a little known local terror. his 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 a new group which is known as national the wheat. was planning attacks and even passed all the names of the suspects but nothing was done that revelation has the country searching for answers tonight after a day of carnage and heartache that could have possibly been over. this family's life has been torn apart. a husband a father has been taken from them and they have not just lost a loved one but a breadwinner as the dead man's brother fee is. now he's gone i'm worried about the effect it will have on the lives of his wife and his daughter. did. they write that the real question is what will happen to their future. i mixed dreamily sad.

well some stay in shock and disbelief at what is before all in them many are unable to contain their grief as the scale of the tragedy sinks in. most of the dead a sri lankan many including at least church north of the capital which children. dozens of foreigners were also killed among them nationals from the u.s. britain turkey india china portugal and denmark. alongside the sadness it's also a growing sense of outrage. and this is a very sad thing this is happening. it's not just an attack it's a pretty gross to some extent. in the aftermath of the carnage sri

lanka is a nation in shock and looking for. or each we want to get more now from the capital colombo i'm joined on the telephone by journalist. i mean it's good to have you with us let's talk a little bit about what is happening right now we understand the country is now under a state of emergency and security forces we understand today initiated a controlled asked does all this all of that mean that the threat still remains intro longer tonight. so as a. country state of emergency and as you were a correctly set the date evening that the kerry people if. they. have to call again and then been very. very close to the fan that to me read the first bomb went off on sunday. i think yesterday there have been seven explosives have been

found left abandoned in the piano outside the p.p. and there purity forces are being careful in the funny thing is. that the threat these very much of a light really what do we know about the group that has been blamed for this attack we know it's a domestic islamist group national so we what we know about this group. yes soul of friends the strongest minister made this announcement today on the eve of a big shock and surprise as well because this is not as an organization which we have heard of before but what we are now hearing is that it's a local may be sent to the chad farm in the country the natural county jamaat and now you're looking into the front of it if you offer it to the school because has any funny reading may be answered i think. and what about the fact that

intelligence had informed the government about possible terror attacks like we saw on sunday and nothing was done i mean political infighting i think is what we've heard today to help functional is the government interlaken tonight is there going to be political fallout. yes actually the country isn't as the p.c.'s are shock and anger ever since time is running to come i think with the announce that the police have trying formation about a possible terror attack and nothing has been done or steps have been taken to a why did the government as us now is obviously continuing to function but the damn game has got to get the government claiming intelligence officers the thing that reports have been handed over to the president the president has yet to make a statement on that we are going to see probably a month convening for

a special session tomorrow that time is running become a single adult position and even are going to make two separate special statements particularly esmie are not strong at the moment and the coming two days is going to be extremely crucial for the government to see if they can continuing problem is there a concern that as a result of these attacks and disputable in finding that sri lanka will see no more heavy handed ruling or are you worried about them. read what happened on sundays not to a method which anyone can forget about anytime soon i mean it just gave us a early if we didn't really has a nation will capture terrorism once again because we had defeated terrorism ten years ago but so we were all on sunday today can you say there's going to be much a tie to a rule from now on but i mean yes seeing that already happening at the moment that

the police has become questioning residents that's been going in for repairs they've been going into houses they've been asking for documents to show that they have been living here so we are going to be definitely freaking some. some tycoon to serve on a come up and at the moment we end up to worry that all these all if you want is for the nation to be safe sure we certainly can under stand that jimmy listeners would in journalist on the phone tonight talking with us from below by the capitol hill like thank you. and we will have found one out stake you we will have more on the situation in sri lanka coming up later in this broadcast we know washington the u.s. capitol has ended temporary say waivers granted to some major importers of iranian oil u.s. president donald trump granted the waivers when he withdrew the u.s. from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal and restored sanctions on tehran last year iran's revolutionary guard have threatened to retaliate by closing these

strategically important strait of hormuz a move that washington has reportedly called unacceptable it's the least escalation in tensions between the two countries. the trumpet ministration has issued a blunt warning to nations buying oil from iran after may second there will be no exceptions to sanctions norway various nations that continue to by iranian oil will be made to suffer more you are going to zero going to zero across the board we will continue for sanctions and monitor compliance any nation or entity interacting with iran should use its diligence and err on the side of caution the risks are simply not going to be worth the benefits pump a zero said the u.s. had granted enough time for the affected countries to wean themselves off a rainy and oil and find alternative suppliers. before washington really imposed sanctions against iran last year to iran produced around two point three million

barrels of oil per day that's around five percent of global i pushed until now washington had granted some importing nations waivers on the oil sanctions china and india are the biggest buyers of rainy and crude recently they've stepped up their purchases along with south korea italy and greece on the other hand if managed to cut their demand turkey had been fighting until the last moment for sanctions waiver extension. pumping you went on to say that there would be no grace period for those economies to comply despite sanctions iran's oil exports are said to have increased around twelve percent by the end of march but it's hard to say how accurate that figure is iran conceals the exact in mind by making good use of its armada of oil tankers the second largest fleece in the world. here's a look at some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world

firefighters in the u.k. are struggling to put out a huge blaze on moreland in yorkshire in northern england the fire started on sunday at marston more important conservation area and it spread north pole to have been caused by a barbecue hundreds of activists have rallied against nuclear weapons near a brutal airbase in western germany up to twenty warheads from the cold war air are stored there with german tornado planes standing by to carry them the area is heavily protected in germany anti-war protests are common and easter police in uganda say they have arrested pop star turned opposition politician bobby boy he was on his way to a planned concert at late victorian on sunday police ordered wine to pull off his one beach town search site and security concerns white said the police used tear gas to disperse his support us. well now to ukraine the

comedian lot of me as well in ski has won a landslide victory in that country's presidential election and a crushing defeat for ukraine's political establishment alinsky garnered seventy three percent of the vote the comedian actor has no political experience he's been quiet so far about his policies and his goals preferring to speak directly to his supporters over social media the incumbent head trip or cinco that's conceded defeat but says he will remain in politics. zelinsky has been cold the king of the disrupter the effective use of social media no doubt helped him assume to the highest office in ukraine here to talk about how he went about it is why it's way to from our social media desk it's good to see you by so i mean let's talk about. his formula for success what did he do that was so different well it's really everything is different about this guy as you said he

was an actor we have shots of his former acting career and this is really a life imitating art imitating life sort of thing because he played the fictional president of ukraine on his sitcom for many years and he's also just a middle class guy who grew up in a crumbling tower in ukraine is also jewish by the way but he was able to ascend to the presidency with a very effective use of social media he was able to control his narrative thereby minimizing gaffes appearing more accessible he gave very few interviews very few press conferences during the campaign all in the name of getting his message out there unfiltered which is certainly something we've heard about before right and he even had a message for other post soviet countries during his victory speech saying hey look guys you can do this too so now we have to see it now this becomes the template for your bulgaria's your your bella versus their own political usurper because it's right or winning an election without really speaking you know about the issues of

amazing what or ukrainian social media users what are they saying the alinsky his want of course social media is abuzz now it's fair to say that facebook is the most popular social media platform in ukraine we have a shot of his facebook page which has more than five hundred thousand followers and he really mastered things that you don't see a lot of politicians doing things like selfish videos he was wearing a hoodie hanging out he again you feel very accessible. man of the people here he is just going to the supermarket getting food with his friends like you do with your friends it was something that ukrainians haven't seen before there are do that with my friends. used to these oligarchs in suits and that was definitely what part of shanghai was we have now of course social media debate raging this being a joke about this drug test that. challenge polish i go to via social media this guy is one of ukraine's most prominent investigative journalists and this was his

message to poroshenko supporters saying welcome to the opposition guys this is how democracy works get used to having to keep tabs on the landscape this guy most often i am was one of the founders of the my don protest movement if you remember a few years ago and here he's telling is a landscape you need to reject the oligarchs reject corruption and not be like poroshenko and that is the way you will stay in power so now we have to see if he can move selenski can turn social media prowess into political power what you know they said he had success in a job where he had to read from the script and we has a job where he himself has to write the script see how he does when he's waiters always thank you when we would like for you to listen to the words of one of the last survivors of the holocaust in germany at ninety five years old it's getting harder for her to tell her story in public well a group of youngsters they have made it their mission to keep her memories alive in

those other holocaust survivors even after they've 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 mom and you are so strong and brave for. a fifteen year old students not to freeze threats by vanessa eisen art who has taken on the mission off telling the old lady starry. 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. are not a phrase was sitting 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 thanks to naziism.

i'm being subjected to hostile remarks and being excluded and it was horrible especially for a child and for. mr friess back then the number that the nazis had spears and her in the concentration camp rock terror of her identity lost a girl 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 anna 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 why vanessa 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 of this school in south in 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 yes i was in heart also tells us that and i did for peace worked as a nurse before the war that she wanted to become a doctor that she talks about her family and how sure appeared to be met 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. is that this guy was just about to

cry but i didn't after all i think her will to survive and tell her story is really great to your sister and for most. 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 ments and i'm from out of large numbers to in the end these students write letters to and i did freeze personal messages that i've been hard brings to her. course it pleases me that they let someone read to them and tell them the story. often people just aren't interested in. it are not different just happy that her family helped to make a life for herself after the war now she is 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. or returning to our top story those easter sunday suicide bombings in sri lanka it was the worst violence to hit the country in recent memory but the country is no stranger to ethnic and religious strife. for many outsiders and tourists tree lanka is a storybook travel destination an exotic island in the indian ocean offering pristine beaches untouched nature and eastern cultural heritage. the postcard tourism pitch is a more complicated reality a british colony until nine hundred forty eight the country kept its colonial era name silent until constitutional reforms in one thousand nine hundred seventy two tree lanka is widely considered to be one of asia's oldest democracies and it's a diverse one while sri lanka's population of twenty one point six million people is predominantly buddhist other religions are also significant hindus make up more

than twelve percent of the population while muslims account for almost ten percent . and christians mostly catholic are seven percent of the population. those religions are spread across sri lanka's major ethnic groups about three quarters of sri lankans are sinhalese. with tunnel groups totaling more than fifteen percent and sri lankan mors making up most of the rest. when nationalist thomas pushed for independence in one thousand nine hundred three it sparked a devastating civil war over the next twenty six years it's believed more than one hundred thousand people were killed the war ended in two thousand and nine with an all out government offensive that crushed the remaining tommo strongholds human rights watch later said the fighting constituted genocide. despite small scale acts of enter ethnic violence since tree lanka has been mostly at peace a tourism boom has bolstered economic growth and sri lankan officials are keen to

shield the sector from instability and violence. of a more now i'm joined by. expert christiane wagner he works with the german institute for international in security affairs here in berlin mr vargas good to have you on the show his government has apologized for failing to act on warnings about a possible attack that we saw yesterday what does it say about the government that no action was taken and they were they had the warnings they are it could be the case that the government has and the security forces have simply put too much focus on the resurgence of the liberation tigers of tamil eelam which was part of the super bowl which was defeated some ten years ago and it was ten years ago it was ten years ago but there is still a lot of focus on a possible resurgence of the l.t.e. also the tamil tiger only. active in the also it's just possible that they have

over the have and so they're so focused on the threat from their recent past that maybe they were blind to an islamist threat yes. and especially so because these islamist group which is no talked about has never been shown any major activity. they have vandalized status but they didn't didn't make any attacks so this is why they may have not seen as a threat to this small group that has been blamed we heard today from sri lankan authorities that the thinking is that they had to have international help. what do you say can a small local terrorist group in sri lanka can can they be solely responsible for a series of suicide bombings that were that were also excess will yes this is very difficult to imagine so i would also think that there should be some international collaboration with other groups or some inspirational some support from other

terrorist networks but also not forget that the boat some thirty lankans have joined islamic state in syria and some of them have come back to sri lanka so i think the government will investigate in the next weeks in how far some of the return ease with some battle experience from syria may have held or may have some contact with them open so this could be a possible link so radicalizing the relic allies in the locals on the locals have already been ready to allies direct allies ation take space over social media this is not so much a problem the problem is to really stop to plan an. attack and to have a proper coordination i think more experience and this is what the returns may have boarded and we know that is a religiously diverse country is there a history of violent muslim militants in charlotte interesting that has hardly been any violent muslim groups even george during the civil war going to muslim

communities specially in the north and east has also been a week tim of the civil war there was hardly any militant reaction by the muslims what we have seen in recent years is a stronger of radicalization of the social media as i said. sri lankans have joined the islamic state bunch of not forget normally the average order muslim minority is a very moderate community it's leap between the east coast and the west coast in the east it's mostly family so there has never never been a lot of radicalization we have seen gulf money coming in the mosque being built on the west coast but this form of radicalization is a relatively new phenomenon with the fact that you can talk about. sri lankans who may have gone to syria and come back to you know this importing of islamist terror . is it possible that the government do we know was this related government monitoring these people i mean did they they have these possible troublemakers on

their radar this is not clear at the moment i think this will be part of the law in best occasion lankan government really has to see and how far these people have really been monitored it would also be when they have come come back over thought thought countries so it could also not be so easy for authorities. to really follow these individuals but i think this will be all part of. the investigations that we will see and moving forward one of the coexistence of different religious groups in sri lanka is that threatened now by what happened yesterday i think one of the biggest challenges will be for the government to provide security to muslim population for the simple reason that we have seen retaliation of. against muslim minorities and if the link is proven to be caught wrecked i think it would be a major challenge for the government to a why it is kind of retaliation to take place in the next weeks and months.

christiane we certainly appreciate your insights tonight thank you welcome. you're watching the news up next new zealand tries to reach or to turn to normal after the devastating christ church attacks i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the date tonight complete coverage of the fallout from those easter sunday suicide bombings interlocked.

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