this is you know really was life from berlin government shake up sri lanka's president tells the country's defense and police chiefs to step down from mishandling intelligence warnings of possible attacks meanwhile grief stricken sri lankans continue to bury their loved ones killed in the easter bombings official death toll now stands at three hundred fifty nine were in colombo also coming up pro-democracy activists receive prison sentences in hong kong leaders of the umbrella movement will have to serve up to sixteen months in jail for staging

demonstrations demanding free elections. plus mourners lay journalist who were of a key to rest in northern irish reporter was shot dead while on assignment last week and nationalist militant group claims responsibility amid fears of renewed violence in northern ireland. a hawk thank you so much for your company everyone should like us president demands the country's police and defense chiefs quit for grossly mishandling of intelligence relating to the suicide bombings on easter sunday the government has confirmed that information about possible attacks was not passed on to the relevant authorities the death toll now is risen to three hundred fifty nine investigators

have identified the perpetrators and are looking closely at whether international extremist groups may have provided support. a country on edge sri lankan police carried out a second controlled explosion of a suspicious vehicle on wednesday that's ortiz are now trying to establish how the attackers were funded and if there were any international links. also i can say that this group. of some of the suicide bombers most of them well educated. and come from maybe middle of the middle. of financially played independent place you know that it is like stable 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. that 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. all right joining me now from colombo is journalist . jamila the blame game is in for swaying in show longer the president

a man at the resignations of the defense secretary and national police chief chief rather i wonder if that is the nuff to restore people's trust in the government and in its ability to protect them. well currently and i have the possibility of changing these to a few shows is not going to do much damage control it is now confirmed that she was put these techniques they had to cease fire information officer both had attacks and this test failed to act and with the president and the government claiming they were not informed it just goes on to show their decedents that fizzes the entire administration and of course the public and bitter angry about this what the topic needs to hear right now is not the future is being asked to resign but they need on says as to why you had sex happened why was nothing done to protect the public if there was crying for mansion they also need to form a short or even by the government and the president that such attacks are never

pick and the security forces rescue for affection all of those responses was not many right now want to know weeks resigning the public is extremely angry at the moment let's talk about the suicide bombers eight out of nine were identified is a profile emerging of who they are what do we know about them when according to the latest information released by the government today morning they have seen nine suicide bombers and eight have been identified in fact one of the bombers was a few minutes the government to setting up that's almost all of them have been from veggies each background and they have been highly educated in fact for mommy come on the foliage on the news today morning that these attacks have if you cannot been present in recent months in fact these have been planned for seven to eight kilos right now investigations are ongoing to see if this group was doing any of that because group in the country and because they have had any farting greeting already

says also telling us that in. sochi let's talk about that i'm really sorry the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility for the attack do we know what role they played if they inspired the perpetrators direct them training them from them. but at this moment the time they got in one does not have any holiday be done to save it that they say that misstates the directing was having some good expose on how they lobby has been thought of the investigation is ongoing to see if that if there were indeed any pointing to it and you know more of it on people and they did that i did indeed find that difficult so their investigations going on are journalists. reporting from the sri lankan capital of colombo thank you for your continued coverage i'd like to bring up to speed now with some of the 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

eight years and ten months well that means he could be moved to house arrest later this year was convicted of corruption and money laundering. in south africa at least fifty people have died in flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains southern and eastern parts of the country have been especially hard hit from recent days in some coastal areas rescue workers have been digging through collapsed homes and other buildings. in myanmar at least fifty people working in amman are believed to have died in a mudslide in the north of the country the month apparently came from a collapse reservoir used to contain material discarded during the mining process reports say three bodies have been recovered so far more than fifty are meaningless . north korea's leader kim jong un has arrived in eastern russia ahead of a summit with president vladimir putin of the meeting in the city of lot of all

stock will be the first between the two leaders the main topics will be economic cooperation and north korea's nuclear program kim is concerned about us that sanctions against his country because of its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles program russia has called for the sanctions to the east. while our correspondent emily surance spoke to us a little while ago about the moment the two leaders met. 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 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 vladivostok 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 and we sure were reporting there from moscow turning out to france which is taking part in international commemorations of the armenian genocide all starting in one nine hundred fifteen turkey's ottoman government carried out mass killings that claimed the lives of more than a million armenians france was at the time one of the main safe havens for them and is now home to europe's biggest armenian community france announced earlier this year that it would observe commemorations annually on april twenty fourth lisa luis

reports from the southern city of must see which was the first port of call for medium refugees. fear is incomplete she was born in france as the granddaughter for survivors of the armenian genocide she says she has inherited their trauma allegory salsa loss also gives. as a teenager i began to ask questions about my background my grandfather had always told me about the village where he grew up and was a haven of peace until it was wiped off the map just like. they were left with a feeling of injustice of having suffered collectively this has been passed on to me part of my heritage has been cut out that you're in mourning muslim people. who are her 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 isn't this a. murder was more to be allowed only two of the fifty members of my grandad's family survived he was taken to a concentration camp he told me how he united into his sister's hands so that she would have something to drink and she died two he spent the next four years wondering from country to country ending up in must say in one nine hundred twenty four my grandmother's family were more fortunate they managed to flee but they lost everything. before our other. like many armenians they came from our say because france was known to take in refugees. because there was work as well as ted has made it her job to find out more about the past she is 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. one you don't this helps me complete my identity. through collecting other people's memories i find the missing pieces of my story but i'm also an activist this was mass murder we have a collective history we must gather evidence of what happened especially since turkey still denies that there was a genocide. we 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 all. this is progress as it gives the commemoration ceremonies

a legal framework france and other european countries need to go further and create laws to make the denial of the yemeni and genocide illegal. the overall deal was the way it's incredible that still goes unpunished you know here on a slip up through apologists. even such additional measures wouldn't fully satisfy astrid's only if and when turkey finally recognizes the armenian genocide will she be able to find some peace of mind and joining me now on the phone is heritage unit marriage china is the director of the armenian genocide museum institute foundation a very warm welcome what does it mean to you that france has a national day to commemorate i mean years genocide. we can do it to friends the season and to. the other states to recommission after the opie show recognition go ahead and continue to up and seduce their governments to take

similar decisions given that we need to also we need to use that mostly belief ulick a condition for suggesting to include the theme of the army genocide in the q e two a little schools. i know it's because i'm there to the music. as opposed to organize. on genocide the issue for example in general money give us an idea of how and armenians remember this very dark moment and its history. every year me and remembers that. story because. they have their own connections each of them has its own connection there. they were there at the x. their friends through the history so we will remember

we first of all give their respect to the memory of the victims and we remember them the purposes who were killed who were perished to the turkish takes that our nation illegally which arose at the beginning of the twentieth century and of course the. still going on in the republic of turkey is very important in terms of this way. we are the fight for the nation these type of a fight for the justice that's a lot about that a little bit more sir turkey's continued denial of the genocide that evidently has is not good what that what effect does that have on armenians and do you foresee in the near future a possibility for reconciliation between your two peoples. oh well before we go to region we need from turkey is the recovery mission for the fix go genocide and

then we need to talk about those polls he will be he's. contributed only out is that the big issue of reconciliation can't come on the borders fully so if you need time to process and we need to. believe we are there by their. parents who not merit china director of the armenian genocide museum institute foundation sir thank you very much you are welcome and thank you we turn our attention now to hong kong a court there has sentenced to eight leading pro-democracy activists to a maximum term of sixteen months in prison all earlier this month the leaders of the so-called umbrella movement were found guilty of public nuisance under a rarely used colonial era law and the case is race concerns about human rights in hong kong as mainland china exerts greater control over the semi autonomous region

. street demos 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 crowd as a gathered to support them. and i feel reproved was produced from prison the i do see a stronger and more powerful than reflected. 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 the 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 founded 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 a 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 end 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. in belfast the funeral for the murdered northern irish journalist there mckee has taken place she was killed last week during rioting in the city of london dairy which is also known as dairy on the quay was shot while reporting on the rioting as

she stood behind a police line a small militant group called the new ira has claimed responsibility for the death and apologized saying that he was shot while as they explained in a statement standing beside enemy forces which is their term for the police he was a famous. aspect is in custody and the irish prime minister lee of arda cart british prime minister theresa may and the irish president michael higgins are attending the funeral. i am joined now by make fealty a political analyst and founding editor of the northern ireland based bloc slugger o'toole a good day to you sir to what extent has larry mckee's murder prompted fears that the peace process might be in danger i think it's important here to distinguish between two thousand nobody i think seriously police the peace process

i.e. those measures that were put in place were twenty years ago to bring you to end the kind of a generational conflict to go on since we nineteen sixty nine. and to your support for that leave the dollar is going to come back not one bully. but what this is what what this incident has done is shine a light in some of the darker corners of the peace process and what comes already is cities where you have in the area in which. the legitimate police set up underneath the good friday agreement is being challenged by force of arms who we have. we have a problem that was previously on acknowledged in the shop people i think to the core shock people to the core now in the aftermath of her murder do you think there will be consequences at a political level at a social level. well what's interesting is in

a very highly emotional times a funeral service for her in the in belfast and things or. it was a very moving to people from her local parish priest from belfast in the area in which she grew up martin's father martin ill who coulter politicians and said look i have more of what you did in terms of both. coming to derry and speaking right but why has taken the stance of a twenty nine year old woman my us to bring you to your senses because remember our politicians were elected to the local assembly. some two years ago and how different they have refused to work together in all the time or so i thought you know i think that that is the most i and what brought i was close in the style of the no bishop youth to which the politicians were finally bars to take

a part. so i think it's. a lot of soul searching it to be done in northern ireland mick philpott political analyst and founding editor of the northern ireland based bloc there thank you so much they're going to prosecute. now these days it's widely accepted that people around the world throw away far too much plastic it's polluting our oceans and there are mallon tonnes of it on land in greece designers from the netherlands are trying out an innovative way to recycle plastic in a park. plastic recycled into a new form with a new function. the seeding elements in the greek port city of thessaloniki are part of a project called print your city. plastic waste to stop cycled the furniture from a three d. printer. the idea came from the dutch design studio the new rock. us 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 i mean how we use it of packaging for example yeah but i mean my skill as it might only be used for a few seconds but it never degrades but you know if we use it in some other way later we can change things and improve our lives. this is precisely what kano sockets hopes to achieve with the project. is the guy who designed 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 robes. this is the feeling we'd like to put across and bring private living space into public spaces of the fatal makes for the most. 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 try to save the earth and i was so happy when i was walking through town one day and saw that a bench i had designed had been printed and then it's there for everyone thank you to the others that you know. 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 lab or research initiative of the new raw people in festal miki can find out about recycling and deposit the plastic trash cleaned sorted shredded and melted down. nothing of course only i don't like to just throw things out at all times of the only but it was a side 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 planned 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. 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 you people nothing negative about it people at the. end of the park benches ever fall apart will simply be recycled it's a good idea and a sustainable one. now u.s. aircraft maker boeing has posted a steep drop in quarterly profits the company's still grappling with the fallout of two fatal crashes involving its flagship seven thirty seven max model while boeing

says the seven thirty seven max crisis has cost one billion dollars so far it is now abandoned its financial forecast for twenty nineteen u.s. regulators ordered the plane grounded around the world last month the decision came after an ethiopian and an indonesian seven thirty seven max have gone down killing all on board a fault in the aircraft's anti star system is thought to have been a major factor in both incidents. i don't mind an hour of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour. officials say there's. no longer say the death toll has risen to three hundred fifty nine after a series of suicide bombings on sunday they have also announced dozens more wrestling to their you time special on can president meanwhile has asked the country's police and the first chiefs to resign. up next made in germany including human beings just another product you can get to

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