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 now sri lanka's government says it has arrested dozens more people with possible links to the attacks also coming up north korea's leader arrives in russia for his first ever summit with russia's president vladimir putin the standoff over north korea's nuclear weapons program is likely only agenda.

hello i'm terry market 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 the government has confirmed there were failures to pass on intelligence about possible attacks and says it's taking action over those shortcomings meanwhile sri lanka's defense minister has held a press conference where he announced that dozens more suspects had been arrested over possible links to the attacks investigations are continuing into whether the assailants acted with the help of foreign extremist groups such as the so-called islamic state. 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 statements of this and he said he had

more nights on these attackers he said that night eight attacked a top of the ninth we said well must have been identified and one of them was a woman he also said that something is commission which has been deceased so far most of these people linked to these attacks were relayed you care to at 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 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 says more bombers were out that there were much more people who they needed to search was the massive search operations were going on however a country such as the united states has expressed concern that there was for the terror plotting in the country and the government has taken all these fine tediously and they are looking into the intelligence is looking into it so we've

seen further arrests in the coming days go first because you have the head of. 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 is that the fear that they were seeing with the stand your test funded to use attacks over that these attackers were just more heated by the way describe mixtape brooks the government is also investigating to see if it is a work in the other forty hand was behind this group so from what we're hearing right now days 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 sense that there may be more by.

i'm not going to extreme you are you i mean everything from going to explosions to have seemed to. have been found abandoned never a part of the beauty and even in doubt. that was the control of your heart. because that was the face of. the man who are you going to have to be evacuated because a soft light of the information that there was an explosion. and. that the moment. seems to have been dramatic 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 what can you tell us about that. the government could. care less about the p.n.p. savvy information prior. crime is that on to become i think. that if they

had prying from memphis on they could have prevented a craft and they could. be five. right now you have. that he was not informed and that especially investigation beyond still looking could be. thought of as more of that misconduct or he said that these in the next twenty four hours you can get heads up on it if you can and make. it through it before the end. of the coming year. but what had happened actually happened. in the sri lankan capital colombo thank you very much. the political fallout from sunday's attacks continues many people around the country are dealing with personal tragedy i reporter one family still looking for answers after the suicide bombings

. a family waiting 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 and i merely rohmer the moment where she went to the church i'm sure of it more than ever did was she always comes home after going to the church did you but she never came back you know no mother she's still not bad at all and even we went and searched for her because we couldn't find her. we we're still searching for me there's no information we only live i mean seen time to me is was one of the ether locations hit in the seattle blasts on sunday all around it is a neighborhood in mourning residents here saw another explosion on monday in an abandoned when i speak 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 labor would 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 here many residents muslims and hindus pitch in to help local christians are unable to understand the carnage. the one thing that it will do who think this is news for us you know even during the time of the tamil tigers we were talking tangy what he even the tsunami didn't damage this area these attacks of shop chess. board that the god of this is so sad you know today's choose day we usually go to mass but the churches coast of

sri lankans and especially residents of this neighborhood we're very sad that were dug out but sadness and anger have to be put on hold to bit. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today supporters have turned out to demonstrate against the hong kong court's decision to sentence eight pro-democracy activists to as much as sixteen months in prison earlier this month the leaders of the so-called umbrella movement were found guilty of public nuisance for their part in protests five years ago. malawi has begun the world's first ever backs a nation program against malaria one of the worst global killers that actually ensured the vaccine should protect about one in. one third of children immunized while those who do catch malaria will suffer from a less severe form a vaccine took thirty years to be developed. u.s. lawyers are recruiting clients to join possible sex abuse lawsuits against the boy

scouts of america some states have amended or are considering amending their statute of limitations laws so the victims of long ago child sex abuse have a chance to seek redress in the courts. north korean leader kim jong un has arrived in vladivostok in eastern russia ahead of a summit on thursday with president vladimir putin the summit will be the first between the two leaders possible topics include economic cooperation and north korea's nuclear program kim is concerned about u.s. led sanctions against his country over its banned nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles programs russia has called for the sanctions to be. or the latest on this story let's cross over to our correspondent emily sure one who's standing by for us in moscow emily what kind of reception is kim jong un getting in a ball stop. well kim jong un was welcomed at the russian border with bread

and salt which is the tradition in russia for welcoming guests and he also was received by an honor guard in stoke the city itself took pains to prepare everything for the leader's armored train and for his special limousine in fact there are media reports that they even dug out further dug out the driveway to the train station so that the limousine could fit through a gate there there are also also additional security precautions in place the meeting is expected to take place on a whiskey island which is an island a peninsula just off live all struck and authours are saying that the maritime traffic could actually be closed down around the island this meeting has huge symbolic importance for russia it's the first meeting between putin and kim and russia has invited him to come to russia several times there vying for

a role in the denuclearization process but it seems that putin still wants to keep the upper hand in the meeting he wasn't there today to welcome him and will be arriving later on to this war this meeting is taking place all between the two leaders what sort of expectations do kim and putin for their summit. well it's hard to know whether we can expect any breakthroughs after all this is the first summit between the two leaders but it does have huge symbolic importance for the korean side this is kim basically showing that he has other diplomatic options apart from the u.s. when it comes to denuclearization after all this meeting comes at a time when talks between the u.s. and north korea have stalled in hanoi at a summit in february the north korean officials walked out of the meeting and last week officials were railing against u.s. secretary of state mike pompei as saying that he should be taken off the talks so

perhaps russia is hoping to jump in there and of course we shouldn't underestimate of course the fact that russia and north korea also share a land for her and russia simply wants stability. on its borders family thank you very much for the emily sherman there in moscow. some football now you could reach the final of the german coach the first time they dismantled second division hamburg three one you supposed to open the scoring for like six just twelve minutes into the mud but kerry struck right back to give him hope that is until an own goal early in the second followed by a move forsberg strike finishing things all see. one through braman hosts by in munich in the other german cup semi final tonight

it's a match featuring the two most successful teams in the history of the cold petition have won it a whopping eighteen times and braman six. calling it excitement in bring him in would be an understatement this was the last training session before their double header against byron munich in the league and cup. of thousand fans showed up bremen are dreaming big. i live in braman and if i look around my neighborhood it's all decked out in green and white more than usual. and of course you can say that realism has crept in after we lost in munich one nil but i take the disappointment here and braman with pride as a compliment yes compliment and he got he from. the loss and byron came only after breman defender mula spoke of it was sent off at the hour mark forcing the visitors

to play a man down the game's lone goal came courtesy of a deflection i thought was the league match in munich the german cup matches in braman heat of a safari and both teams have something to lose but especially byard because it's a semifinal we've had a very very good cup run this season and now we want to reach the final by all means. reach the final just like braman did two thousand and nine and bring the cops home braman are dreaming big again. and in tennis the barcelona open saw its biggest upset so far as world number three alexander spera fell in the second round to chile and nicholas hari. is what's called a lucky loser in terms of tournaments tennis because he lost during qualifying but snuck in and because another player dropped out he lost the first set to its for it but took the next two to notch the biggest win of his. i

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