this is d.w. news live from berlin a shootout in sri lanka leaves more than a dozen people dead already sprayed the home of a suspected terrorist linked to the easter of bombings seizing explosives by u.s. uniforms and we'll hear from our correspondent in the sri lankan capital. also coming up a rare outpost of support for battle bene's whalen's president nicolas maduro activists staged a sit in at the country's embassy in washington d.c. diplomats for opposition leader go out. and our closest living

relatives facing the danger of extinction as a run of ten habitats just appears researchers and conservationists experiments with new ways to monitor it for you particularly those dangers. from car last month thanks for joining us at least fifteen people including six children are dead after sri lankan police raided a suspected islamist hideout the country's been scrambling to crack down on extremist militants since the bombings that killed more than two hundred fifty people on easter sunday sri lanka's president has promised to search every household and so all those suspected with links to the attacks are found. another bomb blast in sri lanka this time the victims suspected militants blew themselves up as special force. it was closed down on their safe house residents say this

densely populated neighborhood was the scene of an intense gun battle left several days young girl and a woman who worked who'd alive from the rubble. 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. 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 jimmy the national scene jimi what do we know first off about those people that are being targeted by these recent police raids. ogata ever seen the sun this explosions the police seem to be on the desperate pond for anyone we've linked to the national county chmagh swimming team for sunday's extortion yes for the present crisis on the station and said they now had information that they were out on hundred forty p.

sorting the country suspects just to have links to the slam and several had been arrested up to now so what we get say is that the police are still looking for the speaker and 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 attacks 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. there should outcomes are crying that grieving and that meeting here every day since sunday is explosions we've been having to up to go i checked in all the houses in the forces have come in and they have been registering their rations and grieving in da area we have been told to remaining goes and just go out on the if it's more necessary the people that scream the gas at the moment because they do 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 assuring that georgia forces would have the situation under control in the coming days and while the forces are going that job they've got a lot of growing and angle 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 to president for the police chief to resign and there's he's yet to send his resignation based on some point growing calls from the opposition for these seven months except sounding names before are now supporting the soul or they've lost much of confidence left in government at the moment all right i mean the knowledge machine in colombo for us thank you very much thank you

now look at some of the other stories making news around the world a summit on china's massive global infrastructure project the belsen vote initiative has wrapped up in beijing leaders from nearly forty countries attended president xi jinping pledged that projects would be financially sustainable and environmentally friendly but critics say the initiative increases chinese influence around the world and saddles poor nations with manageable debt. the second giant storm in just six weeks is plowed into mozambique psych lone kenneth made landfall late thursday and authorities say its aftermath could bring wifes as much rain cycles dieted last month disaster agencies say seven hundred thousand people could be at risk at least five people now have died since the storm struck. celebrations are underway in the demilitarized zone that divides north and south korea to mark one year since the country's leaders held a historic meeting there thousands of south koreans formed a human chain along the border to express their wish for peace and the unification

. to washington d.c. now where the venezuelan embassy just like the country's presidency is in limbo left wing activists supporting venezuela's president nicolas maduro have been occupying the building trying to stop diplomats who support opposition leader from taking it over the u.s. recognizes by dole as venezuela's leader but the activists say the u.s. government is helping engineer a coupe on humphrey as more. venezuela's power struggle is playing out here the country's u.s. embassy in washington d.c. for two weeks now american supporters of venezuela's embattled nicolas maduro have 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 margaret flowers doesn't play in venezuela as leaders for the country's economic and humanitarian crisis so much as her own you're right if

the united states actually cared about the economic situation in venezuela we would stop the economic coercive measures that were 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. the united states of the united states is holding on to we would stop pressuring other countries who try to you know provide goods to them it's 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 various 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 if the u.s. government says the protest is breaking the law and we'll have to leave then. where you the people are after embassies like the one behind me and now becoming flashpoints in an international tug of war between two men who both claim to be president of one country. nearly sixty nations have joined the trumpet ministration in backing one guy doing at this embassy in washington remains a rare outpost of support from. the organizers of democracy protests in sudan say they've met with the ruling military council for negotiations on forming a transitional government the talks come after thousands of protesters again turned out in the capital khartoum calling on the military to hand over power demonstrators have been massing outside army headquarters for three weeks now even

after the ousting of president omar al bashir on april eleventh. it will best protesters are marching in cities across france for what is now the twenty fourth saturday in a row the demonstrations come just days after france's president. pledged a series of reforms and easing the months of on the rest among the measures. a new round of tax cuts were five billion euros but many protesters say it's too little too late protest as windell from their high point in november numbers now in the u.s. and of peoples really are asia's largest island next borneo long famed for its lush rain forests and of bonded wildlife but today both borneo jungle and animal kingdom are under attack expansion of palm oil plantations have put our closest living relatives it turns in danger of extinction scientists are now experimenting with a new way to track and monitor them. somewhere underneath

a thick canopy of borneo is rain forest orangutans i bring in the jungle foraging for food i'm swinging from tree to tree but every day this fewer of them the natural habitat is shrinking and becoming more dangerous. these are running tans live in a sanctuary as so many others is they are orphans and able to survive in the wild it's the same. land clearing and poaching are said to have wiped out hof of the population since the start of the millennium. conservation groups say it's paramount to accurately monitor their numbers and location but tracking the animals in the wild is like searching for a needle in a haystack. so how do you spot on a running time in the thick jungle of borneo it's in a scientist says with drawings and imaging cameras. we've been

working for when the when it's dark so early mornings and early evenings we do that because if it's true today the temperature of the forest is quite similar to the temperatures of the body's own level so you call it tech warm water the animals that well during the evening before school zone and detection. did eat difference becomes larger so detection goes up in the morning it's best because the forests had all the right to call their own lose its heat and then the animals really stand out and you can detect them very very well. so now it's an experiment but those who were involved in the project say it has the potential to provide more exact information than the traditional method of monitoring orangutans until now numbers were estimated by counting the nests they build we've been extremely successful. by with the check to erode things in their nests for various heights so we've learned

a lot by those results. the technology isn't yet perfect sometimes other animals are caught on camera such as pygmy elephants or monkeys but the team says it's working on an algorithm that will help tell the species of pot. conservationists hope that technology will play a significant part in painting a more accurate picture of borneo most endangered orangutan population. but it will take much more to stop that decline in the wild. and is now without the barcelona open this guy right behind me rafael nadal he's the favorites of course that's no surprise he's dominated the tournament winning it a record eleven times but in the quarter final he came up against germany yana leonard strength which is by being ranked fifty first in the world proved to be a formidable opponent. here on the not sure was only attack. the

german had already knocked out two top ten players at the boss mona open them threatened to do the same to nadal you will both players broke serve in the first set quote eventually nadal of voided atar break to win it seven bards. in the second set again he went toe to toe with the world number two but nadal pulled off a stunning shot to also claim the second set seven games to five i after the match he conceded there was a piece of luck involved in overcoming this tricky opponent the before him in a very difficult shot so when i saw the ball going exactly the way that i wanted to hit so had been an important moment for me it was you know it wasn't pressure much because he you know he is a very aggressive player difficult to deal with them with him so yeah happy for him

for the victory have to have it there will have to find a way there with the win that much and i hope the race for that's my kind of the crowd pleaser will battle it out with austria's dominant team for a place in the finals. you're watching news coming up next on reporter a u.s. designer hoping to transform the.