the at. this news coming to you live from berlin a warning from sri lanka's prime minister as he addressed a shell shocked nation donnell it became a single says they are more militants and more potential bombers that large in the country that's followed by came from a simple islamic state of. devastating attacks meanwhile. the nation ford silent as it begins the grim task of burying over three hundred

twenty victims of the attack the latest on the friends and families torn apart by the bombings also coming out. jimmy tries to pass a resolution at the united nations tackling rape as a weapon of war with russia and china have diluted the measure and now the united states is also threatening to veto it. if past midnight supreme court rejects the final appeal of two james journalists who dared to report an atrocity used by the country's ministry activists see this as a setback for press freedom. and on a warm welcome to you. as the deaths of over three hundred people in the easter sunday bombings attention is turning to who might be responsible the. islamic state says

it was behind the multiple suicide blast although it hasn't offered any proof. prime minister became a single warning that it's likely there are more explosives and militants still out there speaking at a news conference the prime minister also addressed the ongoing investigations into the attacks here's more of what he had to say i would like to say. that the. making. in regards to identifying the. culprits. and look at what they need. john we know from colombo is journalist jim you know not with jim you know we just heard prime minister going to become a singer saying that more progress progress has been made in the midst of geisha what did he say about that time is running become a thing of was very clear that

a majority of the suspects are taken into custody falling. by the police but he said that there were more suspects at large and that's operation was going on that day and he also said that it is likely our nation has. improved her care therefore i think i and she said that they had heard about the i.c.c. and an investigation investigators were probing it but they're also hoping to see what other parting he suspects would have had he also had mentioned that they had great news a foreign training obviously the training was not done locally that they are working you think the national find out exactly getting this big city so then i have been saying this it's a true investigation one is looking at the local radical islamic group and the other is the link with the slavic a state which has claimed it was behind the attack. the little girl group has

already been identified as a national southeastern mark and there has been a massive manhunt launched to arrest anyone who was linked to this group but now following investigations has come to life as isis is definitely was the falling victim to as well so what the timing for her says these days a clover terror network because singing was a sunday six or seven and they are going to crack down on a show that each and everyone in was busy artist. and she was in the buff cup of biz you've been telling us about the anger and disappointment among people bug reports of intelligence ophelia's wanted from mr big became a singer i have to say on that prime minister because i think i have a sense on the has openly admitted that they have a fine permission but nothing i could measures were not taken and so they're finding a civic some i think are at the first step further saying that if they had known

this information they could have avoided these explosions and he said that even if all could have nothing avoided at least some could have and they could have also increased security seeing the facts are prepared so that he said goes on to show that this is a fact with all this because as we have always said and this is a diff national mourning in the country at the same time the prime minister has announced that they could be more terrorists ruling it out in the country how people are reacting to these revelations. people right now i can see need to. say you know we think colombo and out at the moment that there's a lot of people are not going our people are not leaving their homes. by after a long. empty offices to make sure that they use a sense of fear because. also because of the fact that what he's been doing you find the fact that this is. really. various parts of the

city and south so they spent four years in this thread and also the one that ran to jim the national again in the sri lankan capital colombo thank you very much for that live update so as you heard from jim you know there's a sense of fear there's a sense of panic and the country is still in shock people in colombo have started burying their dead our correspondent michelle just one went to another part of the capital and met a small community of christians grieving for their loved ones. a family waiting forty nine year old shante went to attend the easter service at st anthony's church. they have not heard from her since after multiple trips to the hospital and even the mortuary they have not found her. i only did it in the morning and we have only one of the moment where she went to the church i'm sure that one of them ever did was she always comes home after going to the church did

you but she never came back you know normally she's still not back to go out in the evening we went and searched for her because we couldn't find her. we're still searching in the me there's no information going on with them it seemed time to me is was one of the eat locations hit in the season had lost on sunday all around it is a neighborhood in mourning presidents here saw another explosion on monday in an abandoned run. as people read to receive the bodies of friends and loved ones they silently contemplate their own survival a few feet from the site of two blasts. as the locals here prepare for funerals they tell us that the death toll in one neighborhood could have been much higher but for the practice that people closer to the charge of then was always on saturday evening and on sunday morning people who live father of eight and services the blasts hit on easter which was a sunday morning. this is a mixed neighborhood people from all religions reside here many resident muslims

and hindus pitch in to help local christians are unable to understand the carnage there and then a little who will say this is new for us you know even during the time of the tamil tigers we were targeted even the tsunami didn't damage this area these attacks of shop chests. were that the guards tuesday this is so sad today's choose day we usually go to mass but the church is closed history lankans and especially residents of this neighborhood were very sad. but sadness and anger have to be put on hold to bid farewell to those who were lost. today colombo has come together to mourn. that report by the muse and the misha just filed let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world reports from russia and north korea indicate that north korean leader kim jong un we go to russia later

this month for his first ever summit with president vladimir putin preparations are underway in the eastern city of daddy of us talk where it's said the meeting is expected to take place. riskier workers in the philippines are searching for survivors after at least fifteen people were killed in a six point one magnitude earthquake north of the capital manila another even stronger quake hit the south of the country but there were no immediate reports of destruction there. more than a thousand representatives of indigenous peoples from all over the world have gathered in new york for the eighteenth session of the united nations pub and forum for indigenous issues this is session is focused on the generation transmission and protection of indigenous peoples traditional knowledge. the un security council is taking up a resolution that condemns reaper as a weapon of war germany which currently chairs the council introduced the measure

writing in the washington post germany's foreign minister heikal moss and actor and julian are surely have called for action against sexual violence in conflicts they said impunity for perpetrators remain the norm the measure is facing resistance from the u.s. china and russia. and joining me now from washington is our correspondent helen humphrey haleh tell us more about this measure and what she wants to achieve with it. to be very frank about it amrita i think what is being called for and what is now being debated are actually two very different things and with this text put forward from germany i think it's fair to say from a humanitarian act as it was highly praised it call for impute to end impunity when it comes to sexual violence somewhere where victims can go to reports of these

crimes for fact finding missions to be sent and to end impunity sanctions against perpetrators of course rape as a weapon of war has been condemned on the international humanitarian law for the past seventeen years under the geneva convention i mean i would say think about it this way chemical weapons being used on civilians for example would be a crime against humanity fact finding missions are sent on to the ground essentially this text was calling for similar measures it's faced resistance and what we could end up seeing amrita is a watered down version which would amount to little more than an informal working group on women peace and security so as i mentioned that is resistance coming through to this measure tell us more about where that's coming from. all right so this resistance is coming from the united states russia and china they're reportedly against a formal mechanism to allow for the reporting of such atrocities and prominent

pratt's in the un special envoy on sexual violence in conflict zones said that were that provision to be taken out from the text essentially this rivero harder to enforce it would make the text very weak indeed we're also then seeing further resistance from the united states when it comes to language with regards to reproductive health saying that this is a tacit endorsement of abortion in fact in the u.s. has threatened to veto the text on this issue and rita this echoes this increasingly hardline stance that we're seeing from the trump administration with regards to women's reproductive rights and european union states have said that if that was to be taken out the united nations essentially would be rolling back progress made on women's rights human rights over the past twenty five years a hugely important issue helena humphrey in washington thank you very much for being us up to date on it. the hinge of the right wing populist party

into different. ones germans to be proud of being german and that's because the party believes people spent too much time remembering the crimes of the nazi past germany has developed scored a culture of remembrance to ensure that a dock chapter in its history is never repeated. not far from berlin sucks and house and concentration camp was one of many sites where people were brutally annihilated on a huge scale german world war two. school groups come here from across europe to learn about nazi atrocities. this is sean this is really depressing. and makes me feel very sad little as it's a horrible feeling to be here. until now there has been a consensus in german politics to ensure that the crimes of the nazi era not forgotten especially among younger generations but the far right a.f.d. reject this they claim nazi history takes up too much school time and say the

culture of remembrance is bad for germany. the effect ladies and gentlemen is quite clear young people are systematically brought up to feel guilt and shame about being german and they learn to associate germany with evil to you for this is this to us it's you the sentiments are not just expressed in parliament three debates the director of the sachsenhausen memorial says sites like this are directly targeted by the far right. there was a group here that was either in the a.f.d. or aligned with it we don't know if they were party members who were denying nazi crimes but this investigation by the public prosecutor's office is continuing these people even denied the existence of the gas chambers documents is what. provocations like these are only part of the a if these tactics for example in the

state of bottom the party has tried to reduce public funding for memorials there is no majority support for such measures i mean these nazi past should be seen you know wider context. and we also want to focus on the positive aspects of german history because we think every nation needs positive points to identify with its feelings been in power what do you suppose you can do to stressing the favorable aspects of german history is pulling the wool over people's eyes but i think it's wrong and downright dangerous and we have done important work over decades taking a critical look at our own history and on the. political conflicts that could affect the future of germany's public memorials. to russia now where the government to showcase in the country's military involvement in syria the russian troops have been insidiousness two thousand and fifteen backing the regime of president bashar assad they've also been fighting the second islamic state now the train is making

a nationwide tour russia displaying war trophies such as weapons and technology that the army says it captured in syria and the defense ministry says a train will travel almost thirty thousand kilometers across russia now you need to shatter a correspondent from moscow followed it for several stops and filed this report from the city of. the. next stop the city of cazan arriving at ten in the morning the train is greeted with plenty of pomp the twenty cars carrying armored tanks and other military tech seized by the russian army and its campaign to defeat the so-called islamic state in syria. even i yes many labs for the a legit production of chemical weapons are on display. it's a victory lap through sixty cities to inspire pride and patriotism and russia's

achievement. what's not to celebrate. russia must see this train to avoid the horrors that's unfortunately a fact of life in other parts of the world russians should understand the role of their country in fighting terrorism around the world. selfies are allowed and visitors are encouraged to ask about the spoils of war on board the so-called syria train or according to the defense ministry all the soldiers on hand took part in the fighting. for the past three years moscow has been helping the syrian army against i.a.s. and keep president bashar al assad in power. but. our boys are helping the poor syrians. so much so. with success. what's russia doing in syria. so that you. will get some kind of assistance for the

country so that with the assistance of that it can have what's it called again peace that's it might cause our youth should see the tools of war so they know that war is terrible. absent from view or the russians who didn't make it back from syria. the defense ministry says one hundred sixteen soldiers were killed in combat but it's not just ordinary troops who are deployed there. human rights activists say private armies from russia are also fighting mercenaries who don't appear in any official figures. no one knows the exact number of private soldiers fighting in syria many of them die that. the families of some fallen mercenaries are trying to get compensation for losing their loved ones although these private soldiers fight alongside ordinary russian troops in syria the state has officially nothing to do with them

not only that private armies are forbidden in russia. it is growing into a let's say a war in syria has two sides one shows that russia is waging an official war on terrorism. the shadow side is the one we're not supposed to see russia has to expose it and come clean with its hidden nontransparent structures in syria. after cars on the syria train is off to another city on its tours but as a symbol of a successful campaign against terrorism it leaves many questions unanswered. meanwhile supreme court has rejected the final appeal of to doit is journalist serving a prison sentence because if they're reporting on human rights violations against rohingya muslims in the country chose who don't have spent more than sixteen months in detention they were arrested during an investigation into the killings of tend

to think of muslim men during stepped up operations in the western part of the district court sentenced a journalist to seventy is in prison last september for illegally possessing official documents they have since then been awarded the pulitzer prize for their book. for for more now the southeast asia correspondent charlotte chosen pin joins me charlotte not at this appeal has been rejected what prospect of the journalists have of being released. i mean it well there is now no higher court that these journalists can take their appeal to the supreme court is nehemias top court so that really does quash any hopes for these journalists of some sort of judicial reprieve that doesn't mean to say though that all hopes are lost their supporters have been putting out statements today saying that they will continue to do all they can to secure the release of these

journalists a lawyer for the two men has also said that perhaps petitioning the president is an option of myanmar is an option that they will consider at the moment there is no sign of any sort of presidential pardon so you this ruling today really is a huge blow to the journalists themselves their wives who were in court to hear that ruling come down and also their supporters many of whom around the world are deeply concerned by this case and fear that it is a signal over a decline in freedom of expression in me and i'm shocked what message does this verdict send to all the journalists investigating allegations of human rights violations in min ma. one human rights organization in the lead up to this ruling had documented what it called a climate of fear among journalists in me ma now this ruling today is likely to

only increase that climate of fear in fact amnesty international has said that this is a real blow to press freedom in miramar also pointed out though that it's not just journalists who it is concerned for what it also says that there has been a crackdown on freedom of expression among other critics of authorities in me and maher it's pointed out that it's alleged that in the last few days a number of other critics have been arrested in mia ma so there is some real concern a lot of people as well very. angry actually rights groups. sushi the de facto leader of me in ma they'd hoped that she would come out in defense of these journalists and in fact she gave a statement in the buildup to this ruling saying that she didn't believe that these journalists were arrested for journalism she said that in essence they violated the law and nehemiah now that reporting by these two who want to use their colleagues

has been awarded the pulitzer prize the house i've gone down with authorities in myanmar. that's right their colleagues from reuters completed the investigation following their arrest and published its findings now since those findings were released mimo has arrested and jailed number of soldiers in connection with that with the voices publication which allege that the military had been involved in the massacre of revenge of muslim men and boys and now the authorities in meum are in general deny any such atrocities they say that their crackdown on the range of muslims has been targeting insurgents and militants and it denies any attacks on civilians shown which is a bill in bangkok thank you very much for that update. they've been listening to football now where fourth place frank foot was denied

a victory in the last moments at wolfsburg the frankfurt scored first on monday night in the seventy eighth minute when you're not on the guzman fired the boy in from close range but as the clock ticked into injury time a pass from los but felix klaus needed it easy for john and to the hilt frank church could only manage a one month drill. now the german cap is down to its final four teams britain host by mimic tomorrow but tonight's first semifinal feature is an interesting match between hamburg and leipsic hamburg were relegated from the bundesliga last season for the first time in their history but suddenly this season fans are dreaming of a german cup title for the first time since nine hundred eighty seven. cumbered so we're going to see the second tier may be nearing its end they're sitting second

in the table but it's not because of their recent form the top hasn't won the league game in their last five encounters in the german cup so it's been a different story france the semifinals with relative ease. as far as are embassy and we've played very well at home in the cup as i now we have a chance to end up in the final arguments like not there in front but we have a we're not going to make it easy for them we're going to do everything in our power to books in that final even though we know how good luck for courses and in the city would like to hear us. and leipsic are good they're sitting third in the bundesliga table and are unbeaten in fourteen come my chance to run them because i wasn't being so small it's hard for wins against hoffenheim volves bergen and out bird. and. this is the german cup and of course the match is in hamburg. in front of their own crowd desperate to seal

a place in the final so we don't expect an easy opponent or an easy game. win for leipsic would result in their first ever cup final. before i leave you here's a recap of the top story that we're following for you she lanka's prime minister johnny become a single as long that more terrorists may be at large in the country he also said security forces are monitoring possibility stream risk or travel abroad the softer claims by so-called islamic states that it was behind sunday's devastating bombing in the country. but coming up next indeed every news asia. relief and rescue efforts in the philippines after two quakes in quick succession killed at least sixteen people. and cried listen a little more these among millions of indians who've been heading to the polls for the third phase of india's ballot elections. those stories and more coming up shortly in the w.'s asia from the under such iraq it's

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