this is either we news live from berlin a government shake up in sri lanka the president tells the country's defense and police chiefs to step down from mishandling intelligence warnings of possible attacks meanwhile grief stricken straw arkansas continue to bury their loved ones killed in the easter bombings the official death toll now stands at three hundred fifty nine or in colombo also coming up remembering the victims of the armenian genocide we meet one woman who says she still coping with trauma two generations

after her family narrowly escaped the killings. on my life thank you so much for your company everyone showing us president is demanding that the country's police and defense chiefs quit for grossly mishandling intelligence relating to the suicide bombings on easter sunday the government has confirmed that information about possible attacks was not passed on to relevant authorities the death toll has now risen to three hundred fifty nine investigators say they've identified the bombers and are looking into 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 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 the educated. and come from maybe middle of the middle class. financially independent and place to go to these great 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 journalists jimmy dean jamila the blame game is enforced 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 current named i have the possibility of changing these two a few shows is not going to do much damage control it is now confirmed that she ran

because for the put the stephanie three has 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 there that the decedent stuff isn't the entire administration and of course the public is a bit 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 we've resigning the public is extremely angry at the moment let's talk about the suicide bombers and out of not were identified is a profile emerging of who they are what do we know about them when

according to the latest information decreased by the government to their morning they have feline suicide bombers and eight have been identified in fact one of the bombers was a few minutes the government defending us that's almost all of them have been from videos which background and they have been highly educated in fact far mommy come on the because on the news today morning that these attacks have if you can talk been then in recent months in fact these have been planned for seven to eight feel as right now investigations are ongoing to see if this group was going to any of that out because the group in the country and by that they have any farting greeting already says also hitting us that since such a realist 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 train them fund them. but i think moment the time they got a month does not have any holiday be done to save it that they that mistake the

directing was nothing some days it goes on how they lobby has been thought up investigated on going to see if again if there are indeed any fighting and you know were they want to quit and they did that i indeed find that difficult so their investigations going on are journalist regina reporting from the sri lankan capital of colombo thank you for your continued coverage let's bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. the 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 it will be the first ever meeting between the two leaders possible topics to be discussed including economic cooperation and deep nuclearization both. scotland's first minister nicolas sturgeon has called for a new referendum on scottish independence from the u.k. by twenty twenty one if one actually leaves the european union she says the

scottish government will introduce legislation setting the rules for a second vote which would first meet the british government's approval we are in syria an explosion has killed at least fifteen people in the opposition held province of it live at least twenty eight people were also injured a monitoring group says the blast occurred close to an office belonging to the joe hottest alliance hey it's a had a sham which largely controls the province. turning now to france which is taking part in international commemorations of the armenian genocide setting back in one thousand fifteen turkeys autumn in a 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 those who fled today it's home to europe's biggest armenian community france announced earlier this year that it would observe annual commemorations on april twenty

fourth to be useless always reports from the southern city of musée which was the first port of call for media 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 just your. 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 the armenians 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 actually more to much more on 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 that this same goal. 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 as she died two he spent the next four years wondering from country to country ending up in must say in one thousand nine hundred twenty four my grandmother's family were more fortunate they managed to flee but they lost everything. where were. they feel 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'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. when 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 against the. need to reassure the community privately 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 if you have all three of us get a bible near. and this is progress as it gives the commemoration ceremonies a legal framework but france and other european countries need to go further and

create laws to make the denial of the yemeni and genocide illegal. the overall real false god the way it's incredible that still goes unpunished you know here on a slip up of 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 i mean while in turkey police have blocked armenians who tried to demonstrate in commemoration of the genocide victims about one hundred protesters including some french and european members of parliament attempted to hold a ceremony in istanbul to mark the massacre as well although turkey acknowledges that many armenians are work eld at the hands of the ottoman empire the country rejects the term genocide turkey's president has been critical of france's decision to host its first ever national day of remembrance for armenian victims. all

right let's get the angle now from istanbul dorian jones our correspondent there is standing by dorian no what did turkey's president richard cohen say about france's commemoration of the genocide well we've been hearing some very tough language from president he said that france has no interest in finding out the truth accusing him of being up to mischief and i quote he said we see that those who attempt to lecture us on democracy and human rights over the armenian issue themselves have a bloody past them and went on to say that france was responsible for the rwanda genocide in which about eight hundred thousand people die so a very very tough language coming from the president clearly very angry over these commemorations being held by the french president in france so he's very angry but how does a turkey's position affect its ties with france or france this position affect ties with its counterpart well this has been

a long point of tension between these two countries when the french parliament a few years ago passed motion recognizing the armenian genocide turkey slapped sanctions on several french companies doing business in turkey we've seen none of that today it's just been mainly hard rhetoric and i think it's a recognition here in turkey that micron is using this to consolidate his base inside france while turkey here the president to with looking to bolster his support among turkish nationalists in the country at the moment is more about political handbags rather than any serious doubt that has happened in the past and another reason why turkey doesn't want to pick a trade fight with france is because the turkish economy is in such dire straits at the moment more political tension could threaten further economic turmoil in turkey or any signs that turkey will ever recognize the armenian genocide. i think that that is a long way off turkey insists that this has nothing to do with reality in history

and in fact the fact now the president won is relying on a coalition partner of the national action party an extreme right wing party that has been the the most for surface surface to first opposite opponent to any talk of recognizing the armenian genocide means that there's any hope of any dialogue on this issue i think has now been closed the fact that this commemoration earlier in the day was stopped by police is further indication last a similar commemorations world out allowed to happen without any problems is a sign out of the possibly the window of any dialogue that did exist in the previous years it could be possibly closing with this growing nationalist coalition that one is hard chain with this important. reporting from istanbul thank you. you're watching video when you're still to come. with its president toppled by mass protests and a military coup sudan is now add a turning point and as military and protests are survive for power what's the economic outlook. for yourself where is next we do have

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