d.w. . this is d.w. news live from berlin a shootout in sri lanka leaves more than a dozen dead authorities raid the home of a suspected terrorist linked to the easter bombings seizing explosives i ask uniforms and flags we'll hear from our correspondent in the sri lankan capital also coming up yuri returns to the streets of france yellow vest protesters turn out across the country for the twenty fourth consecutive saturday after president among throngs pledged reforms to fail to impress the boss

a rare outpost of support for him fattal venezuelan president nicolas maduro activists staged a sit in at the country's embassy in washington d.c. diplomats for opposition leader won by dole out. i'm from aspen thanks for joining us at least fifteen people including six children are dead after sri lankan police raided a suspected islam is hideout the country's been scrambling to crackdown on extremist militants since the bombing that killed more than two hundred fifty people on easter sunday the country's president has promised to check every household in sri lanka if necessary. another bomb blast in sri lanka this time the victims suspected militants blew themselves up as special forces closed down on their safe house. residents say this densely populated neighborhood was the scene

of an intense gun battle left several days a young girl and a woman who were khuda live from the rubble. and they could probably be their family members a mother and daughter they were sent to the nearest hospital. actually they had already gained consciousness as the army medical team had given them attention immediately. as investigators try to piece together what's happened here and the links to last week's attacks police carried out door to door searches in the area authorities in sri lanka are under pressure to deal swiftly with islamic extremism . this won't stop so we won't stop either we are the army we are the type of people who protect the country we have the ability we will definitely in good time completely remove these groups from the northern province we're sure of this i say this with personal responsibility. yesterday

a series of raids turned up bomb making material and a militant hideout one hundred thousand metal balls nightsticks unfair to lies are among the stash it comes as the clean up operation at the site of one of last weekend's bombings begins one hundred people were killed here it's an anthony shrine in colombo but still no sense that peace is on the way. let's head now to sri lanka joining me on the line from the capital colombo is journalist jamila national dean i mean what do we know first off about those people that are being targeted by these recent police raids. right ever seen the sun these explosions the police seem to be on the desperate pond for anyone we link to the national how he jamaat with being blamed for sunday's explosion yes a difference in microphone decision and said they now had information that they

were out on hundred forty people earning the country suspects just to have links to the slam experience and several had been arrested up to now so once again they said the police are searching for the before the end anyone we connect up to be in teaching so far one hundred nine police custody and expecting more arrests in the coming days now the threat of attack there is still high i mean this most recent attack incident killed innocent bystanders six children were killed how was this unsettled situation there affecting the sri lankan people. sridhar gardens are crying then reading on that meeting every day since monday's explosion we've been having gone to go i checked in all the houses that the forces have come in and they have been registering their wish since leaving in da area we have been told to remaining goes and just go out on the most necessary the people i screamed the gas at the moment because these not know what to expect next is the government doing

enough to restore public confidence or. well right now the government is desperately trying to maintain calm in the country by ensuring that georgia forces have the situation under control in the coming days and while the forces are doing their job they've got a lot of growing and anger on both parties including the government of so why did not the prior warning so far we have only seen the defense secretary of the country resigning and despite requests by the president for the police chief to resign as there is he's yet to tender his resignation there's also going growing calls from the opposition for a good seven months of step down on many people are now supporting this so or they've lost much of confidence left things that one month at the moment are right jimmie the knowledge meeting in colombo for us thank you very much thank you now to some of those stories making news around the world leaders from nearly forty

countries are in beijing for the second day of talks on china's massive global infrastructure project and road initiatives as a teaching king wants to do serious about the projects construction cause her to say it's increasing chinese influence around the world and novels poor nations with unmanageable debt. the second giant storm in just six weeks has been out into mozambique i cone and it made landfall late thursday and authorities say its aftermath could bring winds as much rain a cycle he died did last month disaster agencies say seven hundred thousand people be at risk police or people have died since the storm struck. us president donald trump says he will remove the u.s. from a united nations treaty aimed at regulating the global arms trade one trump made the comments in a speech to the national rifle association america's largest pro-gun group was pivotal to trump's twenty sixteen election victory. celebrations are underway in

the demilitarized zone that divides north and south korea as mark one year since the country's leaders held a historic meeting there thousands of people formed a human chain along the border to express their wish for peace and reunification. well yellow vest protesters are marching in cities across france for what is now the twenty fourth saturday in a row demonstrations just days after france's president emmanuel mccall pledged a series of reforms aimed at easing the months of unrest among the measures was a new round of tax cuts worth five billion euros but many protesters say it's simply too little too late the protests have dwindled from the high point in november with numbers now in the tens of thousands he will is there she joins us now from paris from the. bar but now the numbers of protesters as we heard they've been dwindling recently so who's left now and what

exactly is that core of protesters what are they demand. the core protesters really want basically another country and in any case and now the president and nothing president micron could offer them would be good enough no no ring off taxes are increasing the pensions for the for the poorest people in france nothing can satisfy them because they want just simply a change of the system they have a sort of revolutionary impulses about them bought the numbers are really going down and if this was supposed to be the day where they would show president mike home that they are still there that they don't want him that they strongly protest against him they haven't managed to do it so far demonstrations have been small here and there dispersed through paris and here in the shadows it is easy police has finally managed to do what the president mccrum has promised re stall public

alter because they have blocked all the access roads you see nothing but tourists here everybody who wants to enter the street is being controlled so it is business as usual after weeks of protests on the sean sleazy. how about these recent concessions announced by president is a really nothing he can do to to quell the anger in the streets. no basically i would say that he can reach maybe a majority even off the french people if you look for instance at some of the big french newspapers when they're responding to a commentary when there are many people are responding to reports about the usual in that yellow vests you can see that many people say now this is enough we see that enough of this we want to return to our lives and we have to sort of figure out what to do now with the concessions that micro has made bought for the hardcore of these people extreme left and extreme right they really want to topple the president they want to topple the state and this and that and the whole system here

in france they will never be contented box police is pushing back strongly now and maybe the numbers will be going for the down in the coming weeks all right w.'s barbara faisal in paris for us thank you very much. washington d.c. now where in recent weeks the venezuelan embassy has become an outpost of the country's political crisis activists are supporting venezuela's president nicolas maduro are occupying the building they're trying to stop diplomats who support opposition leader from taking it over the u.s. and the organization of american states recognized as venezuela's president but the activists say the u.s. government is helping engineer a coup in venezuela. humphry this report from the embassy. venezuela's power struggle is playing out here the country's u.s. embassy in washington d.c. for two weeks now american support of venezuela is in battle nicolas maduro

occupied the building day and night they want to stop representatives of opposition leader and self declared interim president one by door from setting up shop in the leftist group calls itself the embassy protection collective is only one of its leaders shows us inside the flowers doesn't blame venezuela's leaders for the country's economic and humanitarian crisis so much as her own. if the united states actually cared about the economic situation in venezuela we would stop the economic coercive measures that we're using you know the preventing them from having access to their gold in the bank of london or being able to use petro dollars you know we would stop you know we would let them have the assets that they have here in the united states of the united states is holding onto we would stop pressuring other countries who try to you know provide goods to the. other activists say they're concerned about the prospect of u.s. military intervention americans have

a special duty to the people around the world to stand up and oppose that kind of aggression which is carried out in our name but without our approval. they accuse the us of being part of what they see as an overthrow of power. i know so much about the. coups in which the united states has either been complicit or the instigator and i think this is a rare opportunity we have to interfere of time. but time is running out for the activists in the us government says the protest is breaking the law and will have to leave. and where your people are after embassies like the one behind me are now becoming flashpoints in an international tug of war between two men who both claim to be president of one country. nine hundred sixty nations have joined the trumpet ministration impacting one at this embassy in washington remains

a rare outpost of support. to sports now and in bonus league soccer we're just minutes away from the start of a big match between dortmund and bitter rivals this time both sides are even more desperate to win than usual shaka they're fighting for their bonus league survival while dortmund are just one point behind league leaders byard munich form and are hoping that their young british star agents on show can make a difference in december then eighteen year old jayden sanchez scored the game winner and emotional victory over arch rivals shalt it was just another milestone in the english youngsters explosive evolution science shows first steps towards becoming one of europe's hottest young players were modest once kicking the ball around with friends in south london. at just age seven central made the jump to what first academy in england youth

coach david godley recalls how he stuck out from the very beginning people were very critical always pretty special guy here when the boy said it wasn't long before he got in fights a team so you trade with russia academy team there were two years old and you could see that he was he was just unbelievable come from. you just like different a little give the kids. after a brief stint at manchester city sanchez made the difficult choice of leaving everything behind to come to germany people go around the time this is if you. send him from the middle class with some friends. oh see you from a farm kids after a brief stint at manchester city sanchez made the difficult choice of leaving everything behind to come to germany people go around the time the so if you move the. senate from the middle class with some friends.

and just. the move paid off son show is flourishing at dortmund becoming one of the team's most consistent attacking threats with eleven goals and sixteen assists in the bundesliga this season he made his england debut late last year and is frequently linked to the biggest clubs in the world. things look bright for sonke show but his immediate future is focused on repeating history again shaka. you're watching the news live from berlin we'll have more news for you at the top of the hour but up next is world stories a deep dive on the week's. things want. people here love life. they love their country but not the current conditions.

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