thirty years on t w. this is news live from berlin and as each air raid in sri lanka leaves over a dozen dead including children after a shootout at the home of an alleged terrorist linked to easter sunday stephanie bombings authorities seize explosives islamic state uniforms and flags we'll hear from our correspondent in the sri lankan captain also coming up. a rare outpost of support for embattled venezuelan president nicolas maduro activists stage a sit in at the country's embassy in washington d.c.

to keep out the plans for opposition leader quantifiable. also on the show south africa marks a quarter century since the end of apartheid is today thirty five years the goals. we founded a new country. assault on three kids. the president reaffirms the country's commitment to racial equality for many the wounds from decades of enforced segregation have never truly keep. the. next spicer thanks for joining. at least fifteen people including six children are dead after sri lankan police raided a suspected islamised hideout in the eastern district of the country's been scrambling to crack down on extremists including a so-called islamic state after the bombings that killed more than two hundred

fifty people on easter sunday sri lanka's president has promised to search every household until all those suspected links to the attacks are found. another bomb blast in trolling. this time the victims suspected militants blew themselves up as special forces closed in on their safe house residents say this densely populated neighborhood was the scene of an intense gun battle that left several dead a young girl and a woman were pulled alive from the rubble. that. 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. investigators trying to piece together what happened here and the links to last week's attacks police carried out door to door searches in the area

authorities interline cura 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 in. a series of raids on friday to end up bomb making material in a militant hideout one hundred thousand metal bowls like night sticks and fertilizer among the stash. it comes as the cleanup operation at the site of one of last weekend's bombings begins one hundred people were killed here after a series of police failures now sri lanka is trying to repair the damage. earlier we spoke to journalist jimmy dean and asked her about the police raids and those being targeted. i think the fund is explosive and the police seem to be on

the best for anyone really to the national mall he. did think there was on the deck but then i decided to get information that there was a hundred and forty people in the concrete suspect up to having an economic hit and several had been arrested so what we get paid that the police are still looking for these people and and move on we connect that to the n.p.t. so far one hundred twenty the and expecting more arrests in the coming days journalist jamila jean reporting from colombia. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world. in the u.s. four people have been injured in a shooting at a synagogue and california police say a man has been detained after opening fire at worshipers in the synagogue located in the city of poway near san diego. mozambique's government is urging people in

coastal regions to seek higher ground in the wake of cycling kenneth officials have warned of flooding and mudslides in the days ahead as heavy rains lashed the region so i clone kenneth made landfall late thursday already say it could bring twice as much rain as the deadly cycle a day did last month. thousands of people are gathering in the venezuelan capital caracas for a rally in support of opposition leader and self-appointed interim president one. is currently pushing for a massive march on may the first against president nicolas maduro government. saying with that story and in washington d.c. the venezuelan embassy just like the country's presidency is facing an uncertain future left wing activists supporting nicolas maduro have been occupying the building they're trying to stop diplomats who support. taking it over the u.s. recognizes quite a as venezuela's leader but the activists say the u.s.

government is helping engineer a coup. humphrey has more. venezuela's power struggle is playing out he country's u.s. embassy in washington d.c. for two weeks now american support this event is when his embattled mechanism i do it to occupy the building day and night they want to stop representatives an opposition leader and self declared interim president why don't from setting up shop in the leftist group calls itself the embassy protection collective is only one of its leaders shows us insight margaret flowers doesn't play in venezuela is needed for the country's economic and humanitarian crisis so much as. if the united states actually cared about the economics of. and then 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 them. 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 i out of time. but time is running out for the activists if the u.s. government says the protest is breaking the law and will have to leave behind a western where either people are after workers 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 it this embassy in washington remains a rare outpost of support for my daughter. south africans have been marking twenty five years since the end of apartheid the country system of enforced racial segregation on this day in one nine hundred ninety four president nelson mandela's election brought an end to decades white minority rule marking the start of a new era in the country's history so much progress has been made since then poverty remains widespread and the legacy of apartheid still looms large. south africa's president dance with supporters to mark the occasion the end of apartheid a quarter century ago. on this day thirty five years ago. we founded you country as south africans

a country that is defined by the principles of quality unity not under a shell is them and none sexism apartheid or forcible racial segregation became state policy nine hundred forty eight soon black south africans had their rights and often their property stripped away campaigners like nelson mandela were put in prison and protests were swiftly and often brutally put down. it was only through pressure from the international community that the apartheid regime began to crumble. in one thousand nine hundred president felt like a villain that can release nelson mandela from prison today he says it took him a long time to understand the injustice of apartheid i have very good it that we couldn't sooner you know hasty james from one part there to a more just system. now all south africans are equal in the eyes of the law but

racially driven economic inequality here is some of the worst in the world and the dream of true equality is still out of reach for the poor. the. museum in switzerland is staging the most ambitious exhibition ever devoted to public the castros early works the so-called blue and rose chariots castles paintings from these six years are considered some of the finest and most compelling examples of modern art and set the scene for him to become the greatest artist the twentieth century. i wanted to become a painter and became picasso. that meant becoming the art genius of the twentieth century modernist cubist tresses rhodes deconstructor of women and peace maker reputed to be reinvented painting because he could. but there were moments of doubt pain and sorrow in early works in the six years of the crew and rose period

images that have burnt away into the collective consciousness spruit endless reproductions for calendars and postcards these works were not revolutionary but rather emotive they tell of a quite excess stench will meet. that chance for genius and he started with me cubism on the contrary i believe that it began in one thousand. what we actually want to show in this exhibition is that cubism didn't just suddenly as a radical break in picasso's work. this is heralded an important concepts of themes and motifs in the blue and then the rose period somehow your day on current. world exhibition in one thousand nine hundred casso visited paris in the bella park the metropolis was an inspiration the one thousand year old child prodigy had been accustomed to success but now experienced hardship living as

a bohemian commuting between paris and spain when his best friend committed suicide his works darkened but he had. an important part of his artistic identity his trademark signature. in the early years in search of recognition picasso identified himself with outsiders even erotic motifs seemed more bared and sentimental he paints prostitutes visits women's prisons studies misery he gives and the poor a face he seeks out suffering it's a phase of oversensitivity even the portrait of an early lover is unsettling. he is still reliant on the melancholic symbolic power of the color. from one thousand and five the beginning of the rose period the melancholy phase. remains as the artist alter ego reflects the antiabortion

a bastion of freedom from social convention. early work were all we had we probably wouldn't be talking about it this way today. but fortunately he co-founded cubism after the blues and rose periods. spring nineteen zero seven is the turning point picasso's inhibitions fall away and the laws of traffic composition follow he destroys beauty in favor of truth becomes the genius. in football barcelona have secured the spanish league title for the twenty sixth time in the club's history after beating the band take the win came thanks to star player messi who came off the bench to score his thirty fourth goal of the season and things could get even better for him and the club barcelona are also in with

a chance of winning both the spanish cup and the champions league this year. to formula one now and mercedes driver about terry bought us will take pole position at sunday's azerbaijan grand prix after setting the fastest lap in qualifying in the capital but who. fell over saidee's driver lewis hamilton will line up alongside talk to us at the front of the grid adults it is the reigning world champion and has won the last two races is time title rivals the best in fettle will start in third place for ferrari. you're watching t w news i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour sic around now because after the break we have the best of the action from saturday's win this league games including the derby between dortmund and shelter local pride was at stake for both teams and dortmund needed to win over their old rivals to keep their title challenge go it. highlights from that game and much more coming up on the bonus league this nick

mechanic line. where i come from we have to fly for a free france and was born and raised in the time of the painter she protests one t.v. shadow and if you newspapers with official information as attorneys who have worked on the street for many candidates.