write any kind of peace not if you want and probably more. parts of your book thirty years on t w. this is news coming to you live from berlin the death toll in sri lanka rises again to three hundred fifty nine funerals are being held for victims of the suicide bombings on easter sunday. his government says it has arrested dozens more suspects believed to have carried out the attackers also coming up pro-democracy activists prison sentences in hong kong leaders of the umbrello movement will now serve up to

sixteen months in jail for holding protests demanding free elections. and the united nations security council passes a weakened resolution on sexual violence in conflict russia china and the u.s. all took issue with the german initiative. hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program the death toll in sri lanka has risen to three hundred fifty nine after a series of suicide bombings on sunday officials there have just been holding a press briefing where they announce they have made dozens more arrests of suspects possibly linked to the attacks his government has admitted it had an advanced warning of possible bombings. more on that in

a moment but first as the political fallout continues our reporter brings us this look at one family grieving after sunday's attack. a family. forty nine year old sean p. 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 anyway at any moment of the know where she went to the church i'm sure of it but i did was she always comes home after going to the church didn't which she never came back until we know if she's still not back in the autumn evening we went and searched for her because we couldn't find her. we're still searching the way there's no information we've been on with their i mean same time to me is was one of the locations hit in the cedar blast on sunday all around it is a neighborhood in mourning residents 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 locals here prepare for few one of those they tell us that the death toll in one neighborhood could have been much higher but for the factors that people closer to the charge of ben was a little bit on saturday evening and on sunday morning people who live fathered over eight and services the blasts hit on easter which was a sunday morning. this is a mixed neighborhood people from all religions just like many residents muslims and hindus pitch in to help local christians are unable to understand the carnage. you are going to who think this is new for me to make you know even during the time of the tunnel tigers we were talking tangier even the tsunami didn't damage this

area these attacks of shop chess. were that the god of this is so sad today's choose day we usually go to mass but the church is closed mr lankans and especially residents of this neighborhood we're very sad. but the sadness and anger have to be put on hold to bid farewell to those who were lost. well joining me now from colombo is journalist jamila nudge modine miller just a few minutes ago the government gave a press conference on the bombings providing more details on the investigation and what came out of that. just a short while ago thinking if i could one going to pick up their journey that morning of the bomb both had been identified and also most of the guys who were behind the bombing had also been identified and for part because he had been arrested however when he says that to report the role on the manhunt for more

perspective to being wrong in fundraising going on and just last night the security forces that are. backed up could be linked to the national colony the market who has claimed that they voted to fund both the fact still and also facing the big fear that everything in the couple of security forces really have to intern under control and though really right next to me can we come back to the moment at the moment. i understand. that with these arrests the government the government thinks it's beginning to get behind the people who carried out the attacks do you know anything more about the individual suspects who've been arrested. government is not giving us that information at the moment but the statement he said he had just a shot fired or that this national found john motson had broken up into two groups and he plans to splinter group we've had carried out these attacks and now they're trying to conduct a mist again just to see if they have

a connected to any other they are radical groups in the country of course set up claims and isis is also being involved but the government is now being to see how exactly that this was seen was it that they had any direct links all right that they was giving to funding so that i have investigations going on. there is a lot of speculation about exactly who was behind in fact we do have islamic state issuing that claim but not presenting any evidence the prime minister has been commenting on that what is he had to say. the prime minister has said that he has seen the screen but he's not saying going on the court saying that the slam experience has been behind these explosions but what he had said that's the security forces handing presents well conducting flooding risk of the action to see what the diocese willing indeed involving these attacks and rid of them of any other funding handing was being there and for that investigations going on but

nobody's going on the court from the cuban government by saying that i think indeed is under sponsorship but it appears there were dramatic lapses in intelligence at the top of the government with both the president and prime minister claiming they did not receive the intelligence warnings about the attacks or can you tell us about that and the government's plans to restructure those risk your services. just last night for them i suppose if you're saying that said that in the next twenty four was going to change the heads of defense forces and in the coming week you're going to make classified changes within the security forces them to police but to be doing all that they have of trying to maintain that the man can clear the back of the security forces and the government seems to have no news of course now we have the president on the prime minister with each passing the buck on each other saying that they were not of their own spying for me and you know augustowo

voice any kind of public anger they're going to make cross changes the amongst the security forces but the public is not buying that as a moment so there's a lot of disappointment going on in the country right now jim and i thank you very much for bringing us up to date sir there was journalist a little nudge machine in the sri lankan capital colombo. thank you. a court in hong kong has sentenced eight leading pro-democracy activists to as much as sixteen months in prison for their part in protests five years ago one other defendants sentencing was postponed due to surgery it's not yet clear whether the defendants planned to appeal the sentences earlier this month or the leaders of the so-called umbrella movement were found guilty of public nuisance under a rarely used colonial era law the case has raised concerns about freedoms in hong kong as authorities in mainland china exert greater control let's take a look back now at how the protest movement unfolded. i

it was twenty four yellow umbrella symbolizing the fight for democracy failed hong kong. spoke by beijing's decision to only allow preapproved candidates to take pots in the election of the territories chief executive. to demand completely free elections three of the nine defendants founded the occupy movement and mass sit in to block the city's financial district. and it meant joined the student protests and the demonstrations snowballed into what became known and asked the movements. for wow wow protests has been peaceful in the past few days. but now the police have begun to use tear gas and rubber bullets or so we have to protect ourselves. i an estimated one point two million people took to the streets but the protests

ended without success i well for more now let's bring in correspondent mathias berlinger in beijing it is a court has now handed down jail sentences to more activists involved in those protests tell us more about the defendants. these defendants three of them as we just heard with the founders of the occupy movement the occupy movement was the movement that wanted to block the city's central government district and that kicked off these protests are those with student leaders and pro-democracy lawmakers they have been sentenced to rather harsh sentence some of them of sixteen months in jail for inciting public nuisance now the interesting thing about this sentence is that it was treated as a criminal offense inciting public nuisance and not just simply a public nuisance that is

a public offense and that would have just been fined with with fine now these these sentencing hearings they've been closely watched there the trials in general what impact is all this likely to have on civil society in hong kong it is very clear that this is driving up the price of public dissent it is not likely that the hold civil society will go silent at one moment but public actions and protests have a price tag now they are now liable as a criminal offense at least organizing them in a bigger scale and there was a peculiar. justification by the judge when he handed the guilty verdict he said that it was naive to believe that protests could change the government's mind so this is a very very clear message to civil society. yes what's the chinese government's

role in all of this. hong kong on the paper has an independent judiciary it is for sure more independent than on the mainland but a lot of people see this eroding now there are two parts of the chinese government one is on the judicial part and one is on the policy part the accusations were made by the prosecution which is a government agency and we've seen the government pushing forward on. law cases on taking dissenters to court in the last few years but we have also seen more meddling in to hong kong students who system on the part of the beijing government the beijing government has leverage on hong kong's judicial formally more independent judicial system by interpret ing the basic law the city's basic law. accord and them making use of this possibility of handing down into pretty of the

laws to to push the hong kong judicial system into their direction so we are seeing beijing tightening its grip on the city that is clear but yes thank you very much that was did obvious mathias bellinger there in beijing thank you. now some of the other stories making headlines around the world today malawi has begun the world's first ever backs a nation program against malaria one of the worst global killers the vaccine should protect about one third of children immunized while those who do catch malaria will suffer of a less severe form vaccine took thirty years to be developed. brazil's second highest court has reduced the sentence of incarcerated former president lula da silva from twelve years to eight years and ten months opening up the possibility that he could be moved to house arrest later this year still the was convicted of

corruption and money law. and u.s. lawyers are recruiting clients to join possible sex abuse lawsuits against the boy scouts of america and some states have amended or are considering amending their statute of limitations laws so that victims of long ago child sex abuse have a chance to seek redress in the courts. five african leaders have agreed to give sudan's interim rulers more time to carry out democratic transition measures following the ousting of longtime president omar al bashir at the meeting in cairo the african union extended its fifteen day all to made him for the go for the military to hand over power to a civilian government meanwhile in sudan protests continue on tuesday tens of thousands of people joined rallies and sit ins across the country including in front of the military headquarters in the capital khartoum. or earlier we spoke to

our correspondent. jim what the opposition was planning to do next. here in the heart to me in sudan the tension is rising between the military council on one side and the protests or some other side i just talked to one of the leaders of sudanese professional association and he said if the military will not hand over the power to a civilian council then they will go for a generous to strike and for civil disobedience but the question is who is representing the civilian council this question is still being asked here in sudan because they are not united and they are not representing all peoples choice here in sudan and this is what the military council is taking advantage of and saying as long as you are not united and you represent people's choice then we will not hand over the power so the tension according what i see will be intense the next days will be intense the next hours because there would be a blockade between the civilian council and the military transitional council.

camy karim there reporting from the sudanese capital khartoum well the united nations security council has adopted a heavily watered down resolution on sexual violence in conflict zones the measure was originally put forward by germany as the centerpiece of its security council presidency but russian and chinese objections led to extensive rewrites before the u.s. threatened to veto the resolution entirely critics say the end result does not do justice to the victims of sexual violence in war zone. women in syria for a hinge a muslim women women in all wars throughout the ages allegations of rape as a weapon of war spring up wherever there is armed conflict rape is a war crime under the geneva convention but enforcing its prosecution has long remained unattainable german foreign minister who has brought this issue front and center turning germany's term as chair of the un security council. also coauthored

an opinion piece in the washington post with actor angelina jolie urging the perpetrators of sexual violence be brought to justice while presiding over the council germany introduced a resolution which would make it easier to prosecute rapists and help victims among its supporters not. the activist and nobel prize laureate who survived years of i asked captivity and rape in her speech she criticized the u.n. for taking little action after use e.d.s. came forward to describe their ordeals was also not so if i think we were hoping that our testimonies would pave the way for bringing us to justice. however thousands of ideas elements are free thousands are detained without trial that is on a few we come here today to ask that those perpetrators of genocide be brought to justice or i mean even. amol clooney the international human rights lawyer who represents

nadia and other war crimes survivors give a strong call to action against i.a.s. comparing passing the resolution to the trials of the perpetrators of the holocaust following world war two. excellent seas ladies and gentlemen this is the your nuremberg moment your chance to stand on the right side of history. and to the thousands of women and girls who must watch i think members shave off their bits and go back to their normal lives while they the victims never can the council approves of the resolution but only after the text was watered down in order to get u.s. support washington insisted language referring to reproductive health be removed before it approves the text advocates have warned it will be extremely hard to not force the diluted version ladies and. our correspondent helen the home free fall of the meeting of the u.n. security council for us here is her assessment. german foreign minister heiko mass

called the adoption of this resolution a milestone moment but the text certainly was very watered down and that was at the request of the u.s. mission which took issue with the text mention off survivors access to reproductive and sexual health care the us seeing that as a tacit endorsement all abortion and so u.n. diplomats scrambled to remove the mention of that entirely earning some rebuke from other missions namely the u.k. france belgium and south africa or one of which say that survivors of sexual violence should have the option of considering terminations of pregnancy in the wake of rape that said overall this is symptomatic of a wider trum campaign to remove financing for these issues we've already seen the trumpet administration in recent months take away funding to n.g.o.s working with survivors of sexual violence to carry out abortions so overall this is certainly

a setback for how effective the resolution will actually be. france is marking a day of commemoration for the armenian mass occurred during which more than a million armenians were killed between one hundred fifteen and nine hundred twenty six in turkey france and earlier this year that it would hold commemorations nearly on april twenty fourth. lisa lewis reports from the southern france city of moore say which was the first port of call for armenian refugees france was at the time one of the main safe havens for them and is now home to europe's biggest armenian community. i've done to secure a few incomplete she was born in france as the granddaughter of four survivors of the armenian genocide she says she has inherited their trauma. resource a lot as a teenager while my friends were dealing with young adult hood i began to ask

questions about my background my grandfather my dad's dad had always told me about the village where he grew up it was a haven of peace until it was wiped off the map just like the armenians when they were left with a feeling of injustice of having suffered a collective form of violence this has been passed on to me it's like part of my heritage has been cut out to our grandparents came to our say in the one nine hundred twenty s. they counted themselves among the lucky ones compared to the more than a million armenians who were murdered but ottoman turks but they also suffered much hardship these are the same. only fifteen members of my granddad survived he was taken to a concentration camp told me how your innate and desist his hands so that you would have something to drink but this is a diet too he got out and spent the next four years wandering from country to country and ending up in mass

a nine hundred twenty four my grandmother's family were more fortunate if they were tipped off and managed to flee with her siblings and parents but they lost everything as a flower. like many armenians they came to mass a because france was known to take in refugees and not because there was work well as ted has made it her job to find out more about the past she's a history teacher and works as a volunteer at an ngo that collects documents about the armenian survivors but for her this is also a fight for justice. who. helps me complete my identity through collecting other people's memories i find the missing puzzles of my own story but i also consider myself an activist this mass murderer we have a collective history it's our duty together evidence of what happened especially

given that turkey still denies that there was a genocide when you really. need to be sure the community private about thirty other countries have recognized the armenian genocide france's move to establish an official day of commemoration is good news she says but more needs to be done what you novels they're going to. i don't guess from all this is of course progress as it gives the common ration ceremonies a legal framework but france and other european countries need to go further and should create laws to make the denial of the armenian genocide illegal it's incredible that that still goes unpunished. but not to see the desire mean you know if you apologists. even such additional measures wouldn't fully satisfy astrid's only if and when turkey finally recognizes the armenian genocide would she

be able to find some peace of mind. just in sports where you know in football leipsic reached their first german cup final thanks to three one away win it hamburg leipsic are in third place in the bundesliga they were the dominant side they all next face either bremen or by munich in the cup final on may twenty fifth . the women's football world cup kicks off in france in june and argentina will be there for only the second time it's a far cry from the success of the men's team in that country critics blame a lack of investment in the women's game at both the club and the national level. another day on the boca juniors training pitch in one of cyprus despite their rigorous schedule and the fact they play for one of south america's top clubs these footballers don't receive a proper wage. the argentinian football association announced just last month that

the sixteen women's teams in the top league will turn professional in june but even then not every player in those teams will be paid. can we go out and i'm very difficult for a woman to play football on a pro level i mean you just can't when you work or study at the same time you can't give one hundred percent on the pitch. and then it so happens that the women's national team doesn't do so well but nobody seems to realise that it's because of the circumstances. says america's football governing body come the ball has launched a push to encourage teams to show more interest in the women's game but progress has been slow in argentina according to sunlight and so striker self described football feminist marketing messages. as out well we've been playing since one thousand nine hundred thirty one which is when man had just turned professional to put it simply we've been made invisible all this time and people are only now

realizing that but the truth is that women's football is one hundred years behind. given their struggles just qualifying for the world cup was an achievement for argentina and they're hopeful they can be a success on the international stage. and just a reminder of the top story we're following for you here today on d w news officials in sri lanka say the death toll has risen to three hundred fifty nine of them after a series of suicide bombings on sunday they have also announced dozens more arrests linked to the attacks and say they have identified more of the suicide bombers. you're watching t.v. news business is coming to stay with monica she's here to tell us what's banking sector in focus and a comparison terry a comparison between u.s. banks and european get banks and guess which banks more profitable i can guess the

american the americans and you're dead right there actually twice as profitable as european banks and that is quite interesting considering that the global financial crisis was actually triggered in the united states yes. emerge so much stronger than european banks and they of course also suffer under low to zero interest rates so we'll talk a little bit about that and try to figure out a way out for those european banks resiliency reserve what to do with business coming up next thanks for watching.

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