post. this news conference to you live from berlin she lunk us saxe top officials over the handling of intelligence related to some dishonest side bombings this as few hundreds of people killed in the series of attacks deficient death toll now stands at three hundred and fifty nine to get the latest from our correspondent in colombo . coming up north korea's leader arrives in russia for his first ever summit with the president of the to me put the standoff over north korea's nuclear weapons

program is likely on the agenda. plus more those journalists to rest the northern irish reporter were shot dead while on assignment last week a nationalist militant group claims responsibility amid fears of a for the escalation in violence in northern ireland. on the thought. she lanka has sacked its defense secretary over intelligence failures relating to the suicide bombings on easter sunday the government has confirmed that information about possible attacks had not been passed on to relevant authorities the death toll has now risen to three hundred and fifty nine investigators have identified the book a traitor and are now closely looking at where the international it's. dreams

groups may have provided support. our country on edge sri lankan police carried out a second controlled explosion of a suspicious vehicle on wednesday authorities are now trying to establish how the attackers were funded and if there were any international links what also i can say is that this group. of some of these suicide bombers most of will. come from maybe the middle of the middle east so the financially played independent place to go with these words to be able financially. this so called islamic state has said it was behind the bombings a claim officials are investigating the government must now explain why warnings about possible attacks were not acted upon on tuesday sri lanka's president admitted there was an intelligence failure. in iraq there is

a debate about why the security forces of this country did not act upon intelligence supplied by a friendly nation. i must point out that the information received by state intelligence units was not communicated to me by the officials responsible how i'd been informed of those details it might have been possible to take immediate action . amid the mounting questions the president has vowed to restructure the intelligence and security forces a decade after the civil war ended there are fears that the bombings could reignite underlying sectarian conflicts join me now from. a gym with the jimmy a sri lankan president has asked for the resignations of the defense secretary and the national police chief how did that go down with people. well in the

eye of the public at this moment of time changing these two officials is not going to do much damage control it is now confirmed that sri lanka's police that seem equally had received prior information of possible terror attacks and they had failed to act and with the president and the government both claiming they were not informed it just goes on to show that there are c.d.s. lapses in the entire mess at ministration and that the public is very angry about this what the people need to know right now is not officials being asked to resign but they need our answers as to why these attacks happened why was nothing done to protect the public if there was prying for mission they also need from assurances given by the government and the president that such attacks will never take place and the security forces are capable of catching all those responsible not many right now in this country want to know who has been asked to resign. and jamila eight out of the nine suicide bombers were identified what do we know about the perpetrators. well according to the latest information which has been released by

the government there were nine forty five bombers and eight have been identified in fact one of the bombers was a female the government is telling us that almost all of us on which background and they were highly educated which is now a concern for this government in fact former army come under closer than has today morning that these attacks may have been ten by disco for about seven to eight years or it is not something which has been plotted recently where right now investigations are ongoing to see if this group was linked to any other radical group in the country and when that whether they have had any following links police if they're also telling us that this suspect more bombers to be out there in the hunt is on going for them for the next couple of days will be very crucial because obviously the government will be shedding more light on who these people actually were those so-called islamic stooges clean responsibility for the attacks is there

any indication that this was internationally coordinated. at this moment of time the government does not have any hard evidence to say that these let me start with you directly involved in these attacks however we have been told that investigation is ongoing to see what foreign things this group has the government is definitely certain that they have been affording unable to tell us right now as to who the a are and how does bombers have been released to them so we'll just have to just wait and see. jim really not being in the sri lankan capital colombo thank you very much for that update from there thank you. let me now bring you up to it some other stories making news around the world brazil's second highest court has reduced the sentence of jailed former president lula da silva from twelve years to eighty years and ten months opening up the possibility that he could be moved to house arrest later this year was convicted of corruption and money laundering.

fifty people working in a mine are believed to have died in a mudslide in the north of the country the modifying he came from a collapsed reservoir used to contain material discarded during the mining process reports say three bodies have been recovered so far more than fifty remain missing . north korea's leader kim jong un has arrived in eastern russia ahead of a summit with president vladimir putin the meeting in the city of la de vos tof will be the first between the two need as the main topics will be economic cooperation and north korea's nuclear program kim is concerned about a u.s. led sanctions against his country because of its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs russia has scored for the sanctions to be eased. but he'd have recourse when emily is covering this story for us and joins me now and really first of all how close games reception in a bloody of

a stock. well kim was received at the russian border with bread and salt which is a russian tradition for welcoming guests and he was also welcomed by an honor guard in vladivostok the city itself has taken some pains to prepare for kim's special limousine they even dug out the driveway to the train station according to some media reports so that his limousine would fit through the gate there and there are also additional security precautions in place the summit is expected to take place on the island which is an island and a peninsula just off of all stoke and authorities have said that maritime traffic will actually be closed down in the area for the time of the summit this meeting has symbolic significance for russia of course which is trying to get an important more important role in the denuclearization process of the korean peninsula and to

really show the world its importance on the world stage so if you do a small why this meeting is taking place now and what sort of expect expectations of this summit. well russia has actually invited kim to come to the country several times and the timing of this meeting now is interesting and it is significant it comes at a time when talks between the u.s. and north korea have actually stalled there was a summit in february between trump and kim and north korean officials actually walked out last week north korean officials have been railing were railing against u.s. secretary of state mike pompei on saying that he should be taken off the talks so this is really kim kind of showing the world and showing the u.s. as well that he has other diplomatic options now when it comes to expectations it's

hard to know whether we can expect a breakthrough here this is the first meeting and the two leaders between the two leaders and they'll probably just be sizing each other up for now what to do for a little bit about the relations between the two countries how much influence does russia actually have on. well in some ways russia could be a good intermediary in this conflict where as the u.s. is seen in north korea as kind of enemy number one russia has historic ties the soviet union was north korea's first backer main backer its first ally but when it comes to economic leverage china of course has much more leverage because their north korea's main trading partner kim has come to russia as well looking for more trade opportunities so there could be some leeway there some way to get for russia to get more leverage through the economic cooperation that they could the

two countries could build but it is significant to know that putin will be going to china for an economic forum just after his meeting with kim and presumably north korea will also be on the agenda there. and many. thank you very much for that a court in hong kong a sentence eight leading to a democracy activist to a maximum term of sixteen months in prison early this month the leaders of the so-called umbrella movement found guilty of public nuisance under a rarely used colonial era the key says raised concerns about human rights in hong kong as mainland china exerts greater control over the senate on a mistery. street in hong kong come at a price. the key leaders of a pro-democracy movement which took to the streets five years ago have now been sentenced to jail by

a hong kong court. as they arrived to hear their sentences some spoke out in favor of civil disobedience to the crowds that are gathered to support them. and i believe the rule was produced on tuesday was i will see a stronger and more powerful democratic. the sentencing is the latest stage in years long protests which began back in twenty fourteen with the so-called umbrella movement for democracy the street protests back then was sparked by beijing's decision to allow only candidates from a pre-approved list to take part in the election of the territories chief executive the move led to demands for completely free elections and some of those who were sentenced today found at the occupy movement a mass sit in to block the city's financial district the movement joined with other student led protests and the demonstrations snowballed into what later became known

as the umbrella movement some one point two million people are said to have taken to the streets and although the protests started out peacefully there were clashes with the police. i that civil unrest might not hand with the organizers being put in jail as they were taken away for their prison terms they urged people to take to the streets this sunday. france is knocking this day to commemorate the armenian genocide during which more than a million armenians they killed in turkey starting in one thousand nine hundred fifteen france announced earlier this year that if it holds annual commemorations on it from the twenty fourth. he's a loose reports from the southern french city of must see which was the first force of poor farming and 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 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 a lot of 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 they were left with a feeling of injustice of having suffered a collective form of violence this really 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 by ottoman turks but they also suffered much

hardship he said the same. only two of the fifteen members of my granddad survived he was taken to a concentration camp of suffered much hardship he did 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 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 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 where was also like many armenians they came to mass a because france was known to take in refugees not because there was work better though. astrid 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 he began a longer more 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 powell met with the young but not opposed you know see the design in you know in honestly three apologists. even such additional measures wouldn't fully satisfy astrid's only if and when turkey finally recognizes the armenian genocide which should be able to find some peace of mind. in belfast a funeral for the mud of northern ireland a key has just taken place she was killed last week in rioting in the city of london dairy which is also known as dairy now mckee was shot while deporting writing as she stood behind a police line a small a militant group called the new ira claimed responsibility for the death and

apologised saying mckee was shot as they explained in a statement by mistake because she was standing behind enemy forces which is for the police a female suspect is in custody and irish prime minister british prime minister to resign and the honest president michael higgins attended the funeral. joining me now is mccready he's a political analyst and founding editor of the northern ireland based blog now welcome back to what extent is leader of the keys murder prompted fears that the peace process is endangered. i think fear is the wrong word i think what it has done is revealed some of the underbelly of the peace process because by and large the peace process has succeeded in at least one of its major objectives which was to rid northern ireland or intercontinental war of the truth about this

is this is not intercom and all this took place in an entirely catholic area. but what it shows in a way is that. the fear of the political process as opposed to the peace process has left areas like the crack in his theory and dairy completely outside the promise of political process extreme poverty continues lack of employment opportunities young people getting involved with paramilitaries older man putting guns in young man's hands and we see how that has resulted in the death of you know larry mckay just last thursday just an hour from good friday and given that will there be consequences at the political and as well as at the social level. i think . immediately of course and this is one of the ironies i think why this shooting husbands so has responded around the world so the state is because of the

personality of the young person who was killed. was typical her of her generation she was well versed in digital communication she was well known of twitter and she had a very wide following. and by her force of personality i think her has. created a great revulsion against her killers for others but put the questions will reinforce a mysterious where parents book in going to see our militaries punish their children right a mix of political scientists thank you very much for that assessment on illyria and the key whose funeral is underway in belfast. these days is finally accepted that people around the world throw away far too much plastic is still using our oceans and they are mountains if it's on land in greece

designers from the netherlands are trying out an innovative way to recycle plastic in apoc. plastic recycled into a new form with a new function. the seeding elements and the greek port city of saloniki are part of a project called print your city. plastic waste is called the furniture from a three d. printer. the idea came from the dutch design studio the new rock panel sockets from greece is one of the projects founders. plastic is a mis understood material which is it's not the material that's the problem because and how we use it packaging for example. it might only be used for a few seconds but it never did great so i could not but you know if we use it in some other way later we can change things and improve our lives. this is precisely what hopes to achieve with the project. design the

furniture to allow people to experience public spaces in a new way with different last years. rather than sitting right they can relax a bit more as if they were sitting in their own living rooms. this is the feeling we'd like to put across and bring private living space into public spaces. anyone who wishes to participate can suggest designs online or select pieces of furniture from the various templates the ones that are selected most often go into print pratik they really thought i was so happy when i was walking through town one day and saw that a bench i had designed had been printed and now it's there for everyone thank you to the others. as soon as a new design template goes online the amount of recycled plastic needed for the three d. printing process is calculated automatically. at the zero waste or research initiative of the new ra people in thessaloniki can find out about recycling and deposit their plastic trash cleaned sorted shredded and melted down.

and personally i don't like to just throw things out at all but it was sides i think we ought to have a responsible attitude toward our planet. after all we use its resources year by year. it takes about seventy kilos of plastic and ten hours to make a park bench from a three d. printer. nine of the colorful seats are given placed around thessaloniki center and more a plan for eventually the idea is to spread them all around the city. the combination of recycling and design is proving a hit with the locals and visitors alike. and it's very impressive to see that you can transform waste into something

a static in this way it's more you're picking up everyone can enjoy it and sit here with their friends it's a definite gain. nothing negative about it might be possible. and if the park benches ever fall apart they'll simply be recycled it's a good idea and a sustainable one. footballer non-live sic have reached the final of the german cup for the first time the big hamburg. use of force and opened the scoring for leipzig just five minutes into the bats. the dockery yet us truck right back to give hamburg fans hope that is until then only goes early in the second half followed by an immediate forced back strike finish things off in life six fever. now live signal to the winner of tonight's other sunday final game braman hosting by in munich the bremen are feeling good about their chances against the bundesliga

as leaders one big reason bremen have not lost at home in the last thirty seven german cup matches. i calling it excitement in braman would be an understatement this was the last training session before their double header against byron munich in the league and cup. i 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 you get a compliment of just us then you got to be from. the loss and byron came only after bremen defender miller 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 by are 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 didn't two thousand and nine and bring the cup home braman are dreaming big again. of the top stories that we're following feel officials and she. has risen to three hundred fifty nine after a series of suicide bombings in sunday have also announced dozens more arrests a link to the attacks the sri lankan pheasant has asked the country's police and defense chiefs to resign over intelligence. and north korea's leader kim jong un has arrived in russia for talks with the president of. the first ever saw the two

leaders set for tomorrow with the standoff over north korea's nuclear program likely to be on the. coming up next on in d w news. demands for justice drove off the brutal killing of a bangladeshi student for reporting the head teacher for sexual harvest meant meets the students family. doesn't move coming up indeed of the musician i buy.

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give us better attrition. to sort of using fossil fuel. to bake plaster. you could have five organisms synthesize the balik build the length of. the base class. we're just learning this is a new field. this is the day of the news a shot coming up on the program a cry for justice from beyond the grave predators and friends of those photography to demand consequences officer was pondering life or reporting head teacher for sexual harassment can bond of theirs to live up for one offense daughter was close to jail for demanding democracy ongoing sentences protesters to prison for their

role in the umbrella movement of twenty fourteen what now for the city's pro-democracy activists.