this is news coming to you live from berlin the death toll in sri lanka again to three hundred fifty nine funerals are being held for the victims of the suicide bombings on easter sunday. his government says it has arrested dozens more people with possible links to the attacks also coming up pro-democracy activists prison

sentences in hong kong leaders of the umbrella movement are set to serve up to sixteen months in jail for holding protests demanding free elections. and the united nations security council passes a weekend très aleutian on sexual violence in conflict zones russia china and the u.s. all took issue with the german initiative. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us the death toll in sri lanka has risen to three hundred fifty nine after a series of suicide bombings on sunday officials there held a press briefing a short while ago where they announced they've made dozens more arrests of suspects possibly linked to the attacks his government says it is taking action over failures to pass on advance warning of possible bombings. in a moment but first

a reporter brings us this look at those coming to terms with sunday's attacks. a family waiting forty one 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 and we're only one of the little boys she went to the church i'm sure of it more than ever did that she always comes home after going to the church. but she never came back you know a mother she's still not back on an evening we went and searched for her but we couldn't find her. we're still searching the way there's no information to the only living room in st anthony's was one of the ether locations hit in the serial blasts on sunday all around it is a neighborhood in mourning residents here saw another explosion on monday in an

abandoned when 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 the neighborhood could have been much higher but for the practice that people closer to the charge attend was a little bit 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 just like you know many residents muslims and hindus pitch in to help local christians i'm able to understand the carnage. they are going to go well who think this is new for us but you know even during the time of the tunnel tigers we were talking to even the tsunami didn't damage this area these attacks of shock to us. were that the god of view was 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 that we're dead. but 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 dean earlier today the government there gave a press briefing on the bombings providing more details on the investigation what came out of that briefing. to their money stateliness of this and he said he had more nights on these attackers he said that night eight attacks eight out of the nineteen he said so much had been identified and one of them was a woman he also said that something information which has been deceased so far most of these people linked to these attacks were relayed you can start any tech one of the three has almost had studied in the u.k.

and then gone on to australia before settling back down here he said most of this week i had them a bomber or with financially very unstable and they came from very good families which was a worry for the sri lankan government he said more bombers were out there there were much more people who they needed to search was a massive search operations were going on however countries such as the united states has expressed concern that that would further terror plucking in the country and the government has taken all these fine tediously and we are looking into the intelligence he's looking into it so we can further arrests in the coming days go first because he has we have respect. islamic state has claimed responsibility for the attack can you tell us anything more about that. from the scene around consigns they are investigating to see how exactly they slam experience has been connected to these bombings stating most of the fear that they were seeing with

them your test funded these attacks over did these attackers were just more here to buy the really spread mixtape books the government is also investigating deceivers if there was any other forty hand was behind this group so from what we're hearing right now there is no concrete evidence to prove that the slam experience was directly involved in these attacks. the prime minister has warned that there may be more terrorists at large how worried or srila and that there may be more violence. to calm. down going to extremes you are you i mean everything funded explosions that have seen explosions and lawns which have been found abandoned several parts of the city and even named outskirts even today morning in the streets secular colombo there was a controlled explosion which all cars because there was a suspicious device which has been found on the main board you can have to be that

you have to and just a soft right only do you see the information that there was another controlled explosion so the public is extremely worried that and people are not leaving their homes at the moment. seems to have been dramatic lapses and intelligence there at the top of the government with both the president and prime minister claiming they did not receive the intelligence warnings about the attraction what can you tell us about that. the government is now calling this as a manager last thing that the police had feared to shaggy's information prior to the con time is running become a thing of the kind of yesterday that if they had time for mention they could have prevented these attacks and they could have increased security in these five celsius right now you have the president also claiming that he was not informed and that especially an investigation there be launched looking to date and to sort of add more damage control and he said that because the next twenty four hours he's

going to change heads of all the different forces and make drastic changes in the security forces and the police for the coming days we would be cool shows but what are talks under has unfortunately happened. journalists jamila nudge media and they're in the sri lankan capital colombo thank you very much thank you. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today north korean leader kim jong un has arrived in russia in preparation for a summit on thursday with president vladimir putin he was greeted by russia's deputy foreign minister but it will be the first ever meeting between the two leaders are possible topics to be discussed including economic cooperation and the nuclear research. malawi has begun the world's first ever vaccination program against malaria one of the world's. biggest killers the vaccine should protect about one third of children in immunized while those who do catch malaria will

suffer from a less severe form of vaccine took thirty years to beat about. brazil 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 the sil who was convicted of corruption and money laundering. 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 defendant sentencing was postponed due to surgery it's not yet clear whether the defendants will appeal the sentence or it's earlier this month 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 at how the protest movement unfolded. it was twenty four yellow umbrella symbolizing the fight for democracy hong kong. stuck by beijing's decision to only allow pre-approved candidates to take part in the election of the territory's chief executive. to demand completely free elections three of the nine defendants founded the occupy movement a mass sit in to block the city's financial district. well it meant joined other student protests and the demonstrations snowballed into what became known as the movements. for wow wow protests has been peaceful in the past few days. but now police have begun to use tear gas and rubber bullets also we have to protect ourselves. i an estimated one

point two million people took to the streets but the protests ended without success i opt for more let's bring in correspondent in beijing he's been following this trial for us from the beginning mathias the pro-democracy movement in hong kong is a thorn in the side of the chinese government what role has beijing played in the judicial process of those who've just been sentenced. well we have little information about direct meddling into the court's decision that might have not happened the courts in hong kong still enjoy a certain degree off independence but beijing has made very clear what it expects the to be the outcome of this process. prosecution which is part of the government

has demanded very harsh sentences they have applied to a law called incitement of public nuisance that's different from public nuisance incitement is a criminal offense public nuisance is a minor public offense. so the government has made very clear what it expects and the court has followed to a certain extent we see meddling of beijing into hong kong's politics and laws more and more beijing can for example hand out into pretensions of hong kong's basic law the constitution of the city and it's making more and more use of that and this often concerns exactly the skate this kind of cases cases where dissent with beijing is expressed tell us more material about the defendants in these trials the defendants of those who are involved in the umbrella movement who are tell us more about those being sent to prison.

well we have a mix of people here and a mix of generations ranging from the beginning of their twenty's until around the seventy's some of them were the founders of the occupy movement those who first had the idea to block the city center the traffic in the city center to demand demand democratic freedoms these blocks have evolved then into the mosque protests that we know as umbrella movements others was student leaders who joined into these roadblocks and there were another few few democratic lawmakers lawmakers of the democratic political spectrum so we seen quite a bit of a range of people being sentenced from sixteen months to some suspended sentences but is thank you very much for bringing us up to date material spelling out that in

beijing. the united nations security council has adopted a heavily watered down resolution on sexual violence in conflict 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. women in syria are 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 a 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. 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 the nephew we come here today to ask that those perpetrators of genocide be brought to justice. 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 you. 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 us support washington insisted language referring to reproductive health be removed before it approves the text advocates have warned it will be extremely hard to enforce the diluted version. or correspondent helen humphrey followed the meeting of the un security council force here's 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 office of five as access to reproductive and sexual health care the us seeing that as a tacit endorsement of 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 charm campaign to remove financing for these issues we've already seen the trump 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's marking a day of commemoration for the armenian genocide during which more than

a million armenians were killed in turkey starting in nine hundred fifteen france announced earlier this year that it would hold commemorations annually on april twenty fourth w's lisa lewis reports from the southern french city of marsay which was the first port of call for armenian refugees france was at the time one of the main safe havens for the minutes now home to europe's biggest armenian community. i've done to secure a few is incomplete she was born in france as the granddaughter for 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 must 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 at the same. only two of the fifteen members of my granddad survived he was taken to a concentration camp it's all me how you're in a to do is this is so that you would have something to drink but his sister died too he got out and spent the next four years wandering from country to country ending up in my say in nine hundred twenty four my grandmother's family were more fortunate they were tipped off and managed to flee with her siblings and parents but they lost everything. like many armenians they came to mass

a because france was known to take in refugees and not because there was work to pull 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 is mass murder we have a collective history it's our duty to gather 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 have also been near an alternate and longer 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 all the way to the metal the young but not see the design in you know any honestly but three 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. egyptians have approved a series of controversial constitutional reforms which will allow president sisi to stay in power until twenty thirty officials have announced the results of

a referendum held last weekend saying eighty eight percent of voters approved an extension of the presidential term from four to six years improved changes would also allow l.c.c. to run for a third term boost the military's powers president sisi says he needs more time to complete major development projects and economic reforms. i'm joined now by correspondent ruth michelson in cairo ruth what are the implications of this result what impact could it have on the way the country is governed well certainly a very wide ranging insult given the amendments that state people voted on the weekend they creased presidential turns to see is the creasy seize control over. finding that growth in total states and sort of you know. while that is

happening at the same time there are real questions about our freedoms and will vote for them and that you know a sense of kind of how for message the same time c.c.s. increases it's true that that vote doesn't necessarily match widespread reports over. the night and so what you see since we're told is that is he crease how. that actually is so for some then this looks like a bit of a power grab by the l.c.c. government gyptian it's must be closely watching the popular uprisings taking place right now in algeria and in neighboring sadat and those uprisings have toppled the governments there what do people in egypt make of these developments. well i mean i think it's possible to say that protesters in algeria and sudan are also watching what happened in egypt in two thousand and eleven and also in twenty thirteen when

sisi came to power in what many of its national plans for the military coup and there is plenty to protest now period. we don't want the egypt so bad trying to lengthen the egyptian experience for people in egypt watching what happened obviously and looking at what might have been or will still be in situ change the opposition to sisi was. really quite heavily suppressed during this moment but that doesn't mean that things could change the future drew thank you so much for that. correspondent ruth michelson there in cairo. for some football news now in life they have reached the final of the german cup for the first time they dismantled second division hamburg three one use of poles and opened the scoring for leipzig just twelve minutes into the match but back kerry struck right back to give hamburg fans that is until goal early in the second

followed by a. strike finishing things all for life safe they'll face either braman or in the final. i 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 par cry from the success of the men's team in that country critics blame the lack of investment in the women's game both the club and national level in argentina. another day on the boca juniors training pitch in one of cite 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 and i'm just last month at the sixteen women's teams in the top league will turn professional in june but even

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