why aren't people more concerned. the little yellow. shorts mean to the first t.w. . move. this is v.w. news live from berlin a shootout in sri lanka leaves more than a dozen people dead authorities raid the home of a suspected terrorists linked to the easter bombings seizing explosives buy as uniforms and flags will hear from our correspondent needs to be lost capital. also coming up demonstrations for turn the streets of france yellow best protesters turn out across the country for the twenty fourth consecutive saturday after presidents

president problems plus reforms failed to impress. and also on the show longing for peace on the korean peninsula i'm here to declare my heart and my aspirations for united korea because it was the longest time for seventy years it was language electrified was one great length like one piece of south koreans mark one year since a landmark summit with the north but they're still searching for a diplomatic breakthrough. i'm carl aspen 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 crackdown on extremist militants since the bombings that killed more than two hundred fifty people on easter. she want us presidents as promised to search every household and

all those with suspected links to the attacks. 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 poodle live 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

. that this won't stop so we won't stop either we are the army we are the type of people who protect the country and 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 jimmy linux machine jamie what do we know first off about those people that are being targeted by these recent police raids. where ever seen the sun this explosions

the police seem to be on the desperate pond for any longer evening to the national county chmagh swiveling scream for sunday's explosion yes for the present much about the situation as said they now had information that they were out on hundred forty people in the country suspects just to have links to the slam experience and several hundred being arrested that to now so want to get they that the police are still looking for a nice piece or two and anyone we connect up would 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 this incident killed innocent bystanders six children were killed how was this unsettled situation there affecting the sri lankan people. rush around guns are crying that beating and admitting to every day since sunday is explosions we've been having go

to go i checked and all the houses in 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 explained the staff 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 the forces have the situation under control in the coming days and while the forces are going their job they've got a lot of growing and angle on both parties including the government why did not the prior warning so far we have only seen the defense secretary of the country resigning and despite that request by the president for the police chief to resign and there you get to sending his resignation based on some calling growing calls from the opposition for these seven months

a step down i'm in now fourteen days so are they not much of consequence left in government at the moment all right jamie the knowledge meeting in colombo for us thank you very much thank you now here's a look at some of the other stories making news around the world hundreds of people have gathered in the benefit in capital caracas for a rally in support of opposition leader and self appointed interim president one who i don't personally pushing for a massive march on may first against president nicolas maduro government rally in support of liberal is planned for later today. a summit on china's massive global infrastructure project the belt and road initiative as wrapped up in beijing later leaders from nearly forty countries attended president xi jinping pledged that project would be financially sustainable and environmentally friendly but critics say the initiative increases chinese influence around the world and fattal's poorer nations with manageable debt. final preparations are underway in spain for an

election that could further inflame the country's political divisions a minister pedro sanchez was forced to call the early after his government's draft budget failed to win the backing of parliament sunday poll is spain's third election in four years. all south korea is marking the anniversary of a landmark summit between president j. in and the north korean leader kim jong il the two leaders met one year ago in the demilitarized zone dividing the peninsula and signed a peace declaration today half a million south koreans gathered along the border to push for peace and eventually a unified korea representatives from the north did not attempt. the demilitarized zone often described as the most fortified border in the world turn peaceful by the south korean people fire front of thousand people from all over the country have come to the mind strip of land that separates north and south korea

i'm here to to add my heart and my aspiration for you to korea because with the longest time for seventy years it was one with no active for five thousand years was one race one language when one people. oh with artistic performances in singing they are expressing their wish for peace in the venture reunification. spending the entire five hundred kilometers between the west and east coast people formed a human chain cheering for peace and unification one year ago south korean president met for the first time with north korean head of state can join in at the demilitarized zone they signed a highly symbolic declaration promising peace and denuclearization lately however the north korean regime has been ignoring any communication attempts by the south meetings at the liaison office as established in the declaration has been skipped

for two months best know place that symbolizes the tragic separation of the korean peninsula like the demilitarized zone over half a million people have gathered to demand an end to this conflict that spans for over seventy years now into korean relations however looked bleak at the moment north korea shows the south its cold shoulder pyongyang didn't even respond to an invitation by seoul to commemorate the one year anniversary of the first summit between moon and kim. we sized koreans were hopeful about holding this event with north korea. i think they have their own political reasons for not attending. yeah it is disappointing but i hope we can hold this event together in the future. how to have this into kissing it regardless of political orientation the people are tired of war that has never officially ended. the organizers of democracy protests in so dogs say they've met with the ruling military council for negotiations on

forming a transitional government but talks come after the thousands of protesters again turned out in the capital khartoum they were 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. yellow bus protesters are marching. cities across france today for what is now the twenty fourth saturday in a row the demonstrations come just days after france's president emmanuel mccall pledged a series of reforms aimed at easing the months of unrest among the measures a new round of tax cuts worth five billion euros but many protesters say it's too little too late protests and windell from the high point in november with the numbers now in the tens of thousands. and barbara basal joins us now from paris a barber we were expecting large crowds today in france of course the first

saturday after mccone speech what's the turnout looking like. the turnout seems to really be relatively minimal the police says now there's only about two and a half thousand yellow vests that turned up today now we are on the shot is it easy you can see heavy police presence here in the back of us and this was the place where they were really fabulous last weekend between the police and yellow vests but now the forces of order has have really said enough that they have completely closed off the luxury wrote that tourists have come back people who are controlled but then they can sort of walk up and down that seems life has returned to normal and there were some marches across paris but relatively small numbers of people and it all went through all the peaceful so this is not the big push back that the yellow vests had announced after mccraw met i had to announce his measures after

mccrone speech on thursday evening now these measures that you just mentioned that they were anticipated for a while now do we have a sense now that he's announced them how they're being received by these protesters and also by the country at large. by the protesters they received badly because nothing whatever mccraw could do is enough for them we have to remember that this was a movement that started was protests against. an increase in fuel tax and that then sort of developed into this huge social movement going across france for months and it now seems to be really drawing down and there is a hard core of core is a hard core that remains from the very hard left to the very hard right and that still tries to sort of head fight the system and now this goes against the french state in itself this is against the president himself toppan the krunk that's one of the slogans and it has sort of become something that is

a critique against the whole french system against the whole political system in france so it has really gone away from what it was a social movement and the majority of the french are now in the way that even they're not very happy about mark wrong they would still say ok let's wait and see whether lowering taxes and increasing pensions for instance is going to change a bit in our lifestyle it's going to give us more buying power that's what these protests really were about initially barbara faisal in paris thank you. a big day in the bundesliga there was a shocking result dortmund's title hopes suffering a crushing blow as they lost at home to struggling rivals shaka the visitors came away with a four two win after a rollercoaster of a match we saw it was largely decided within five crucial second half minutes when

daniel college eries score shot as the third goal and then to dortmund players were also sent off the pitch on friday night leverkusen helped its chances of qualifying for the champions league with an impressive away when against bird. after falling behind early on they took control kevin foley is getting equaliser his teammate then harvard's gave leverkusen the lead for good just after half time of people who think shot there in the end they made it look easy winning by a final score of the war was. artless for new through now all the results so far from the weekend's buddhist legal action leipzig securing that all important champions league qualification with a two one win over freiburg frankfurt though they saw their hopes take a hits they were looking to finish in the top four but they took a blow there with

a no no draw against bremen lost four one on the road to do so dorf and last place hung over they got a win over months in saturday's late game will see stuttgart hosting gladbach and on sunday hoffenheim will face votes for travel to your back. you're watching the news more news at the top of the hour up next its shift with how artificial intelligence is helping save endangered species i'll ask that's what. i'm secure in that my work not hard and in the end is a me you're not allowed to stay here any more we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers we're alliance and the what's your story.

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