i can find it hard. landing on. the roof with stacy. a series of deadly explosion in sri lanka reportedly kill at least one hundred twenty nine and injure hundreds more the targets were hotels churches on the day be islands christian minority were celebrating easter sunday. also in the weeks and main stories from there was no collusion between donald trump. the miller report reaches its almost clinical conclusion also ahead. ah. ah. the heart of. an inferno that destroys its roof.

with the big stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment developments as well welcome to the weekly in our international it has been a deadly day in sri lanka new developments are coming out there have been two more blasts on the island bringing the total to eight a curfew twelve hours in total has been declared with immediate effect at let's take a look at video showing the first blast this is a nice church in the heart of the sri lankan capital colombo state media say the explosions so far have left at least one hundred twenty nine people dead many of the victims were from the christian minority who were celebrating easter sunday it is feared the number of victims will increase

significantly once the situation on the ground becomes clearer i want to warn you know that the following images are disturbing. was. was. i was i was was. was well let's go through the timeline the sequence of the first of six blasts occurred just after ninety m. local time in the capital one church and three luxury hotels were targeted another place of worship that was hit was in the city in the gum bow about forty kilometers north of the capital a further blast happened on the opposite side of the island

a seventh explosion within the last number of hours has hit a small hotel close to the capital the eighth attack took place on the outskirts of colombo there are reports it was a suicide bomb the took the lives of three police officers now this is the aftermath of one of the explosions no group has yet come forward to admit carrying out the atrocities sri lanka is a mainly but this country less than ten percent of the population are christian speaking the easter service at the falcon pope francis denounced the base at times as a cruel lock on expressed support for all those affected. let's go live now to sri moll for nanda who's an award winning journalist entre lankan foreign and security policy unless good to have you on the program on a deadly day in your nation there's been eight blocks or a mile that we know of is there

a sense that more attacks are expected. yes if you are deeply shocked and saddened by this event there has been no need to blast very recently and also not the blast . bridge that enters the columbus and. declared at this point and all one hundred eighty five people have not gone leaving colombo outskirts of colombo in the gamble as relaxing so it's quite saddening and the country is now grappling with this issue of disaster management and the security situation there had been verified reports earlier that islamist suicide bombers had planned to hit prominent churches we have to say at this stage is unfair if i had we do not simply know who carried this out but who is most likely to have wanted to perhaps cause this much carnage and christianity's holiest day on

one of the country smallest religious minorities. very recent reports indicate it from the police chief just a dashing into that the national talking jamaat. a radical group has been warned in this incident and here as a police chief as one these are only reports had this point investigations are under the cannot point at any group since they have been cleared but there has been no one from the police chief or the daughter just to see into this issue where there could have been a coming. to specially to us the churches so that's what i can at this a twelve hour curfew we know as well as being declared in sri lanka what other actions are officials expected to take national. according to the intelligence gathering. start to. go into details and you know

i think been dusted. because there's a lot of injuries as well as a. lot of tickets so doing some to the signal in the coming few what was so i think by tomorrow morning the it'll be clear from the government point of view of who is responsible and what steps government is going to stick in the next coming days and we should begin such attacks in the coming years or coming days this should not have been. as you're speaking we're looking at pictures of the aftermath the atrocity just horrendous horrifying images of people going to churches on the holiest day of the christian calendar for this to happen from from the footage and there is increasing footage coming out can we make an informed suggestion about whether these appear some at least to have been suicide bombings. that

i cannot clarify to my understanding of these. c. four plastic bottles that was kept but still i'm not sure. police and least glass. off their findings that's that's fair enough yet though we know it's been rocked by violence in the past thankfully it's very recent past it has not to be in a very peaceable place a lot of tourism and up and coming country in the terms of the economy everything was going well for sri lanka but of course the tamo tigers is a name that resonates through the years which is there still unrest particularly in that northern area is there any kind of suggestion that they were involved. i don't think so because after two thousand and nine and the democratization and government and doing the military put it just two more civilian it ought to do things have

been settled but there are a lot of issues going on and not because there's unemployment you young employment so we need things to be adultery but i have a feeling i don't i cannot talk as if i this but i don't think this is the act of you or any kind of. i mean that's my personal but it's not. the number of victims risen quite dramatically from when this story first broke the number of injured is into well into the hundreds are more fatalities are more casualties expected here today. i asked for those people it's i who want that five hundred casualties leg injuries and hundred eighty five i have already got killed and this is not only the spin you can i just want to clarify one more point there seemed only i mean the christians justin. left the scene.

in anthony's church near the blast have been. going to need don't need to tell new christians also so it's a matter of concealment likely going in but you can't use that back to another church so clearly very disturbing. community christian community i mean and i would sit down. thirty five fighting those that also got in this so. the numbers will go up yeah yeah our condolences our sympathies with your country today on what's been a horrifically really day sure maal fernando sri lankan foreign and security policy analyst thank you thank you very much. moving on to some of the big stories of the week after a two year investigation and almost nonstop media coverage of the so named russia gate scandal the heavily redacted report has finally sorted out the document but

came out on thursday reveals there was no cooperation between donald trump or any american with russians in the twenty sixth presidential election the special counsel's report states that his quote investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activities but donald trump isn't off the hook in the eyes of the democrats and many media outlets a number of days ago the u.s. highest additionally committee issued a subpoena for the ducted report to be made available that's because many parts of the published version have been blocked died while the focus now shifts to the possible obstruction of the investigation by the u.s. president more on that from our senior correspondent. two years america waited for this hoped and prayed it would unmake trump

or exonerate him that the new report would end this two year long drama about collusion hacking and conspiracy people would get closure what america got was this page off the redacted page censored into elegibility obviously some of this stuff could pass for modern art and as with ott everyone interprets this report how they want and they're having a good day i'm having a good day q it was called. no collusion no obstruction if it is incomplete or they were going to blow the report outlines disturbing evidence that president tripping gauged in obstruction of justice and so there is kind of confused so was mueller trump may have been cleared of collusion but obstruction of justice scalia in the

air mueller writes that it's so complicated he couldn't decide whether trump tried to obstruct justice or not either guilty nor innocent the conclusion the congress may apply the obstruction laws to the president's corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law specifically mueller found in never been instances where trump potentially tried to obstruct justice and democrats have jumped on it the miller report paints a disturbing picture of a president who has been weaving new web of deceit lies and improper behavior and acting as if the law doesn't apply to him it's a very interesting and very disturbing read that does not exonerate this president the whole repercussions for the country of having a president. who lies to the country who misleads the country you urges others to do so a president who. to my reading of the. mother report almost certainly

obstructed justice certainly intended and attempted to obstruct justice and if true this alleged trump tantrum is only making it so much sweeter the president slumped back in his chair and said oh my god this is terrible this is the end of my presidency i'm. you know this report has trump political the democrats smell blood they have trump and like blood hounds they'll mercilessly dog him for obstruction and anyone that gets in the way the messenger included the administration has a new face in any math unfair and long with a lot more stature he's the country's attorney general he said half a dozen times no collision no question no lawyer no legal presentation presenting its conclusion six times the attorney general getting out there and getting his

narrative his take on it as vigorously as possible because attorney general barr wants to represent our trouble i think he should resign they are calling for bud to resign a traitor a sellout they scream and they want mueller himself the darling just a few months ago to be hauled before congress the mueller reports and did nothing those who hated trump hate him more and vice versa if anything this report is going to america and americans further apart but hey i got to tell you at least incapacity a factor is a happy. iraq is the for russia itself the report claims there are facts of moscow's meddling in the twenty six thousand election in quote a sweeping and systematic fashion mosque responded with its own statement saying the investigation shows no evidence of such actions and as expected there was a wave of reaction to the release of the miller report here's some of the views our

guests shared with us. they still can't get to a point where the president did with russia and in fact they said quite categorically it did not happen so then why would the president knowing he is innocent obs struct put that in as a matter of pure politics as a sop to the democrats who are on the commission twenty five attorneys all of them democrats most of them hillary supporters a large number of them hillary donors and we had to do something in the report to make them happy why did this investigation even begin i mean was there wrongdoing there was there you know falsification of documents to get pfizer warrants there's a lot of embarrassment here we're talking about millions upon millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars of time wasted if things happened for something that legitimately had no basis in fact and any evidence that might have been presented to start this smaller investigation all last night we had chuck schumer saying that well how dare william barr you know come out and speak before we get the report

what kind of report with this be after that we're going to start hearing about how the redactions are at a way a way to hide the real truth and it's really never going to end we're going to continue to see one thing after another with trump but they went immediately from russia collusion to trump taxes financial statements and william bars obstruction so i mean the arguments haven't stopped yet they're not going to stop but we do have what seems to be a very conclusive case of absolutely no collusion most of the attorneys i talked to at the beginning of this said when they start investigations like this they always find something on their target it came back that he was squeaky clean and i think that turns the conversation from what's inside of this investigation to what prompted what was the impetus who paid for this investigation the rule of the united states the constitutional law as you're innocent until proven guilty that right actually was not given our president he was absolutely considered guilty by much of the leftist regressive media in the united states and so i don't know

exactly how they're going to explain them. more time the democrats do spend on this the more they're damaging their own party going into elections. this sunday could mark a significant change in ukraine with voting now under way in the second round of the presidential election the incumbent leader is facing a serious challenge from accountant who's partly your run of the mill politician he's in fact an actor on stand up comedian both were seen casting their votes a little earlier tonight across the country at this early point is around twenty percent polling stations are due to close eight pm local time last just less than six hours from now. those ukrainian citizens who live in russia or on the territory of the lugansk republics cannot vote their. yellow vest demonstrators in part as something left infuriated by the huge amounts of money pledged to rip her if you will but satisfy their own. reaction on more

than the devastating blaze after this. you know world's big partners. and conspiracy it's. a way to dig deeper to hit the stories that make history refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting. past each

other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. a world treasure up in flames fronts on the rest of the world this week have been coming to terms with monday's devastating fire that ravaged nothing in part as investigators believe the blaze may have been the result of ongoing restoration work or maybe aleck trickle fault it's not just the physical damage to the building the fire seems to have affected the lives of many prisons to some of the evening's

easter vigil normally held a nothing a dumb was moved to a nearby church present mccrone has pledged the building will rise from the ashes after a dramatic scenes of the historic spire collapsing shook the. law. to france which is burning reedy says he's the host of france's are too far east and

so that's a part of what we all. losing tonight says city of just not true is the heart of paris it is grander it is monumental it is horrible to see everything we have learned growing up in small centuries of our heritage. you. live. over. there but it's very sad it's one of the great monuments of france i'll leave that far away so it's devastating but a monument like this is burning. and

then most of. i say this to someone else and we will rebuild this great cathedral together we will appeal to the greatest talents to help restore not true them because this is what the french people expect and it is what our history deserves it is our destiny. drone footage obtained by our video agency ruptly shows where the fire tore through the eight hundred fifty year old building so we can see from the images the damage is extensive the cathedral is one of the most popular tourist attractions and you're pulling in thirteen million visitors every year so we saw the spire on the roof collapsed the famous twin bell towers as well as the north rose window both of which were both in the thirteenth century were saved as was the church's most precious relic the crown of thorns the former deputy director of culture at unesco says nothing done will now have to go through

reconstruction rather than restoration. now how we could distraction that one long yesterday i mean he says gone. we have to compete to be fifty and what would have to be damaged is really a major reconstruction just starvation. major reconstruction projects this will. difficult to say today. how much it cost assertively on the don't know that many many hundreds of those dollars even in a way was also. a lot more than society can do for the money because you know about one hundred years ago under putin years ago if you know when two major mall players of associations and there's been some through. the generations so i you know my senior year i think everybody we have to continue to

support and be able to. get to the teaching. on what's been seen largely as a unforseen consequence the not only fuel to violent unrest in france tear gas water cannon the find the twenty third straight day of anti-government rallies in front of the so named yellow vests gathered again nationwide protesters are not directing their anger at plans to spend mosques songs to repair the cathedral.

they were executing a male vocal we have to save. but why do they give so readily for a monument and for nothing else all of a religious go to them are not true all the people reach people can afford to give millions to repair it at their vocation and not to damage charity helping the poor we denounce a government policy that have allowed this to reach themselves they can hand out charity money but really it's because of those people that we have so much inequality in trunks when we always have strong mobilization we're going to express our goals more and more unstable we specially hope that the government will accept our demands of french business leaders were quick to react to the fire and have already donated hundreds of millions of euro to rebuild not that a dam on international affairs analysts we spoke to thinks many people are frustrated at the size of the donations at

a time of growing inequality. they're shocked by the fact that in one might. the very rich people can give more than one billion euros to rebuild. it's not a problem they're giving money to rebuild the problem is that all these people making very very rich these last fifteen years at ten years ago we had three times less billionaires there were thirty governors now there are one hundred. their wealth is growing very fast and they using all the approaches he's given by the european union and the french system this is pushed by you. to send their money away in offshore countries and where the shocking for the universe is that that money that they're giving by make people do the very kind it should have been already in the in the end of the state. of health for we go to break

a reminder of the deadly events that have been unfolding today in sri lanka where a total of eight blasts targeted hotels on churches on easter sunday killing at least one hundred twenty nine people some reports however pumped out a number closer to two hundred with hundreds more on top of that injured some seriously it is feared that the number of victims will increase significantly with the word used once the situation on the ground becomes for a curfew of twelve hours has been put in place with immediate effect has been called for by the country's leader so far no group has come forward to claim the attacks but authorities say they have identified those simple any and all updates on this story we'll bring to you right throughout the day here on r.t. international.

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