has been on the front lines of the fight against the islamic state of iraq and the levant or eisel in iraq and syria now iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei who is the commander in chief of the i.r.g.c. said america's animosity towards the group is because the i.r.g.c. is a bulwark against u.s. interests and policies in the region referring to this latest announcement from the white house said quote trump and idiots in the us administration think they are making progress but they are not they are on the decline he also said the i.r.g.c. has and will continue to be at the forefront of confronting iran's enemies both foreign and domestic both politically and militarily. inside story. while the islamic revolutionary guard corps is the most powerful of iran's armed forces the elite wing was founded in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine to protect the leadership following. the revolution which deposed the shah the size of the force is thought to be around one hundred fifty thousand ground naval and air force personnel as well as enforcing political power girl commanders have m

the government here in iraq are under any illusions that certainly the ideological battle against eisel continues the military battle may have been won we saw the fall of mosul the defeat of iceland mosul in twenty seventeen the fall of rock or in twenty eighteen as i say bought a goose fulling in march the military battle may be over but there are still sleeper cells operating in various places in western anbar province here in iraq and nineveh province as well so certainly this appearance of baghdadi if indeed this video can be one hundred percent verified is significant because it shows him . determined to at least continue the ideological struggle and to try and rally eisel fighters around continuing what he describes as a global jihad or attacks on stratfor that in the iraqi capital baghdad charlie thank you for that let's cross over now to roles in jordan in washington d.c. as the u.s. government's been hunting baghdadi now for some time what will the intelligence and security services there make of the video. well certainly assuming that they're just getting their hands on this v

just fled by foot we left everything behind and came here some of our families are still living under eisel and with the ongoing fighting this is shereen his son mohammed

eisel claims responsibility for the easter attacks in sri lanka as the prime minister warns more attacks could be imminent. there again i'm agin the initial with al jazeera live from also coming up. african leaders meeting cairo and to complete its transition to civilian rule within three months. the man who wants another five years in office india's prime minister col seeds vote in the world's largest election. and are you a us citizen why putting this question on a census form has set off a political storm in washington. but first as prime minister says those behind sunday's attacks that killed three hundred twenty one people may have had links to eisele ron elving raima singer says some of the suicide bombers may have travelled abroad before the attacks it's a day of national mourning for the victims of sunday's suicide bombings the victims included forty five children mass funerals have been held throughout the country shrunken media showing security camera footage of the moment that one particular suspect entered a church in the go blowing himself up the explosions ripped through se

there was a big fight and we were not able to survive so we came here the whole mountain was under eisel control we were not able to live there they kept coming down to our village there were so many bullets flying. all those who fled told us they were more scared of i saw than the taliban but that they are the better of two evils the priority now finding a place for their children to raced til they feel safe to return home charlotte dallas al jazeera. european union leaders are heading to brussels for an emergency summit on briggs it britain's prime minister met the french president and german chancellor on tuesday to request a delay in leaving the blog series a may once an extension to the end of june france signaled the u.k. could stay until march next year but would have to meet strict conditions one of the major sticking points in reaching a deal on break that has been the irish backstop clause to resume agreed with the e.u. to prevent a hard border on the island of ireland but as charles stratford reports people in belfast are feeling far from reassured. single mom did recalls them

these a spectator leader of eisel has appeared in a video for the first time in five years in the video diary talks about the battle of but who's in syria which ended in march at the end of it an audio message is added mentioning the attacks in sri lanka al-jazeera cannot confirm the authenticity of the video or where it was film's chance strafford has more from baghdad. certainly according to isis media when this video proves that al baghdadi is still alive and according to analysts that have seen it shows that he is trying to take credit for various terror attacks that have happened in the middle east and around the world in recent times analysts also saying that it shows he could well be on some sort of recruitment drive he focuses very much on praising eisel fighters that try to defend what was described as the last on klav on the syrian side of the iraqi border eisel being defeated in march and very interestingly around thirty minutes into the video after it finishes an oreo recording which i saw media wing says is al baghdadi speaking you can hear him taking credit for those attac

received multiple tip offs for the easter sunday attacks that killed three hundred and twenty one people eisel claimed responsibility more than twenty four hours off to the suicide attacks on churches and hotels the government in colombo says initial investigation suggests the bombings were carried out in response to last month's shootings at two mosques in new zealand story reports. a seemingly innocent moment a man with a backpack strolls casually into the st sebastian church in a gunboat he pats a child on the head and enters the building this security camera footage shows a suspected bomber one of several who carried out the attacks across three cities in st lanka on sunday officials have admitted there was an intelligence failure a warning given more than two weeks before the attacks happened was not shared acted on now it's also emerged that intelligence services should have had one of the suspects on their radar much earlier hilmi ahmed the vice president of the muslim council of sri lanka says he had alerted security officials about a radical preacher said to be the leader of national.

says more than six thousand iraqi izzie women were kidnapped and sold as slaves by eisel fighters intwo thousand and fourteen in the democratic republic of congo a report found that there were average forty eight rapes every hour i mean in march through accuse of systematically raping rangar women in iraq in state. let's bring in our panel joining me on skype from washington d.c. rhenish are republican strategist and consultant from new york and tonia maulvi executive director of legal action worldwide and also on skype from uppsala in sweden. sellstrom university of uppsala as department of peace and conflict research welcome to the program let me begin with you in d.c. first what should have been a easy resolution to pass was made more difficult because the u.s. had a problem with just a few words sexual and reproductive health can you just explain to us why this administration has such a problem with something so simple. well i think we have to look at the source here and the driver on this issue is vice president mike pence if you look at his record back in the indiana state hous

there was a big fight and we were not able to survive so we came here the whole mountain was under eisel control we were not able to live there they kept coming down to our village there were so many bullets flying. all those who fled told us they were more scared of i saw than the taliban but that they are the basis of two evils the priority now finding a place for their children to raced till they feel safe to return home charlotte dallas al-jazeera. everton has the world's weather app next and still ahead on the news hour how the break deadlock is playing out in two english towns with the same name but hopes for a different outcome in sports tiger woods says the time could be right to end his decade long wait for a major title. how i when i'm pleased to say we've got some better weather now coming into greece you can see this little eric lasts collating away here across that eastern side of the mediterranean well the area of cloud little of the disturbances just spinning away just around corsica and sardinia so we have these two troublemakers lurking in the woods here further north it

of explosives and one hundred thousand metal ball bearings now apart from that they also seized and eisel flag as well as uniforms similar to what was worn by the alleged bombers in a video around that area muslim dominated area in the eastern province of st lanka that's been put under twenty four hour curfew that started last night by an hour after the gun battle erupted and have search operation is still underway that and ben in colombo there was also a worrying development the navy arrested three people who had one kilogram of explosives with them they were arrested near a railway station in colombo so these are really worrying developments for people in sri lanka because in a way even though it shows that police are making arrests of peace suspects of people who may have links with the attackers or who may have knowledge of the attacks it also in a way confirms what authorities have been warning and back to is the possibility of more attacks and the hype that a pledge bomb or that of the bombers the suicide bombers were at least ideologically inspired by eisel. we understand life has

that it shows he could well be on some sort of recruitment drive he focuses very much on praising eisel fighters that try to defend what was described as the last on klav on the syrian side of the iraqi border eisel being defeated in march and very interestingly around thirty minutes into the video after it finishes an oreo recording which i saw media wing says is al baghdadi speaking you can hear him taking credit for those attacks as a rickety tax we saw in sri lanka on easter sunday in which two hundred fifty people and hundreds of others two hundred fifty people killed and hundreds of others were injured baghdadi saying that those attacks were in revenge for isis defeats in part a good news and let's not forget that i saw once control the territory across iraq and syria roughly the size of jordan it's fair to say that they have suffered a huge territorial defeat in their endeavors in this region but certainly this video you could say shows that the ideological battle being led by this man is very much still on and it is fair to say that analysts intelligence services and governments

says taliban eisel and other fighters killed to her. twenty seven people although the number of suicide bombings and other attacks has foreign shelob ellis reports now from kabul. in the village of to local in condos province there are thirteen mounds of dirt they are fresh graves thirteen children two women and one men killed in the harm by a u.s. airstrike the only other when the bomb dropped i was thrown back into a wall in the house when i opened my eyes i couldn't see anything but dust pulled myself after the rubble it was raining and i just thought please don't let me be the only one to survive and. we filmed with their family exactly a month ago the day of the strike the family piled the children's bodies onto the back of a truck traveling ten bumpy kilometers into condos city looking for accountability now they may have got it was. a un report has revealed that in the first three months of this year the leading cause of civilian deaths was airstrikes the majority by the u.s. military in total the afghan government and its suppor

and germany are working to figure out what to do with the families of foreign fighters who joined eisel in syria and in iraq the red cross says they should be returned to their country. from a whole seventy three thousand people in north eastern syria. aid agencies weren't ready for what's being described as a humanitarian emergency in the past four months l. whole camp in northeast syria has gone from hosting ten thousand people to more than seventy thousand the camp was built to house just forty thousand many live in communal shelters they are the wives and children of i saw fighters as well as civilians displaced by the fighting against the aren't a group ninety percent are women and children and we have over six hundred cases of documented malnourished children and hospitals in the area are overwhelmed to provide. very specialized care that malnourished children need so health care is a challenge malnutrition is an increasing concern for us some have died of disease there is a lack of proper medical facilities and there is a need to improve sanitation to reduce the risks to health f

this controversy is hungry says a suspected eisel fighter and captured living in the country of generous e.u. handouts it's all next story after the break. in the world of political much making the european union has long put values before wealth as its most desirable attribute. in the time it takes for the e.u. to make a policy decision china can set up a whole new industry values that's attractive to potential. again the hungarian government says it's detained an islamic state commander who entered europe posing as a refugee and is suspected of carrying out terror attacks in syria there's also discovered the syrian national was given a prepaid debit card by the e.u. as part of a migrant assistance program his idea of correspondent peter all of. imagine a suspected islamic terrorist receiving aid money meant for refugees not just any terrorist acing eisel commander and not just any money a new tax payer money and it gets worse reports say that he received a monthly payment of five hundred euros on his debit card that's well over today's gross minimum wage in hungary these prepaid cards

can achieve when these people cannot be identified as control or so years hungry says a suspected eisel fighter and captured who is living in the country of generous you had that among all stories still ahead in the week he returns after the break. can. break said. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final. the one percent. nor middle of the room signal. in the world of political matchmaking the european union has long put values before wealth as its most desirable attribute. in the time it takes for the e.u. to make a policy decision china can set up a whole new industry. that's attractive to potential partners. back to the weekly vaccine activists in the united states claim they're being persecuted like jews during the holocaust in going as far as donning a star of david to make that point and softer on vaccinating children are banned from entering that certain public places in a new goal county following a means for the outbreak. how are we going to do you know how are we going to rescue. you will do the same way we did the last ti

east added to all of this there are also other militant groups active there including of all groups eisel the international community is deeply concerned over the recent escalation and some including the united states have temporarily withdrawn their forces from the ground they say the situation is too dangerous and unpredictable and washington has urged the rebels to immediately halt the military action against the tripoli government insisting that the crisis can only be solved through diplomacy that represents a marked shift in the position of the white house eight years ago. as. a leader and he must leave. we came we saw that he died there. in the world you would get rid of a dictator i do you would choose freedom. thank god see. what i. was advanced on tripoli and the international community's reaction. the un e.u. backed regime in libya the government of national accord g n a is fighting for its very life all but surrounded now by the army of their rival government in red here led by general hafta disapprobation is aimed against all groups considered by the international community to

the state's destruction by eisel hides another reality much harder to measure mass looting. since its founding has been suspected of part financing its activities through antiquities trafficking. see poor could it be least now and again my gas would not stay said that they did and that to secure it that through said meldon i took into that this is like if i thought that. this was a key subject at a press conference to present the new red list published by i called the international council of museums for fifteen years i can has been publishing lists of rare objects from various countries which threatened to turn up on the international art market this time it concerned antiquities from iraq and syria suspected of financing eisel operations as proof that the subject is being taken seriously several international figures attend the meeting including richard stengel representing the us government who would launch the offensive or you might mr we just don't go and essentially has these the department. also why. are you going to. good evening i'm delighted to be here. what we've

age or gender according to unicef the al whole camp houses about three thousand children of foreign eisel fighters from forty three countries conditions at the camp are dire and more than fifty five children have died there since december and staying in syria fuel shortages are bringing life to a halt for many people living in government controlled areas u.s. sanctions are being blamed for the crisis say in a hotter has more from beirut. the queues for petrol are kilometers long and often it's not available in areas under the syrian government's control the authorities are rationing subsidized fuel last week it was twenty liters every two days now the cap is twenty liters every five days the government says it's short of oil and fuel because of western sanctions on syria and tighter u.s. sanctions on its ally iran. it has been six months since iranian oil tankers last arrived at syria's port officials say they are being prevented from passing through this ways canal the canals controlled by egypt and it denies that accusation but iran like syria is a target of u.s. sanctioned aimed at red

claim by eisel or isis depending on how our caller. is as you point out. correctly i'm happy you did a standard thing for them for these groups to do that makes them seem to be global active coordinated all over the place and frequently that's not the case. more typically in recent years the trend in the phenomenon of islamic jihad is an terrorist acts have been what experts are calling frequently inspired jihad ists these are people who don't usually or necessarily receive training or guidance or instruction from a group someplace but literally are inspired through the internet media to strike a blow for allies as they see allah to be this is frequently not always the case but more more commonly in recent years than before when i was working a decade ago the phenomenon was a bit different and there was more centralized command and control kind of organizations so we don't know but i wouldn't assume or even think it necessarily likely that a foreign group. or training was required to do this. a form that deputy national intelligence officer for tend to nat

that it shows he could well be on some sort of recruitment drive he focuses very much on praising eisel fighters that try to defend what was described as the last on klav on the syrian side of the iraqi border eisel being defeated in march and very interestingly around thirty minutes into the video after it finishes an oreo recording which i saw media wing says is al baghdadi speaking you can hear him taking credit for those attacks as a rickety tax we saw in sri lanka on easter sunday in which two hundred fifty people and hundreds of others two hundred fifty people killed and hundreds of others were injured baghdadi saying that those attacks were in revenge for isis defeat in part a good news let's not forget that i saw once control the territory across iraq and syria roughly the size of jordan it's fair to say that they have suffered a huge territorial defeat in their endeavors in this region but certainly this video you could say shows that the ideological battle being led by this man is very much still on and it's fair to say that analysts intelligence services and governments aroun

a three way battle is heating up in the mountains of eastern afghanistan eisel fighters started their offensive against the taliban in the provinces two weeks ago the fighting's force around twenty thousand people from their villages and afghan army special forces are being ordered to join the battle our correspondent charlotte dallas has the story. the afghan army controls the roads and karuna but isolate and the taliban contests the countryside a police a school would you in convoy one of the few ways to access these areas further. violence between the armed groups has escalated in recent weeks than twenty thousand people from their homes villages from the worst area of chpa daraa have arrived at this health clinic looking for help. but there i sort of arrived in our village and we were dressed like this we took nothing and we just fled by foot we left everything behind and came here some of our families are still living and i saw and with the ongoing fighting this is shereen his son mohammed saeed he was shot in the leg during a taliban isolate clash. the situation is very bad in o

says taliban eisel and other fighting groups they killed two hundred twenty seven people although thenumber of suicide bombings and other attacks this fall and shelob eligibles are from kabul. in the village of to local in condos province there are thirteen mounds of dirt they are fresh graves thirteen children two women and one man killed in a home by a u.s. airstrike. when the bomb dropped i was thrown back into a wall in the house when i opened my eyes i couldn't see anything but dust pulled myself after the rubble it was raining and i just thought please don't let me be the only one to survive and. we filmed with their family exactly a month ago the day of the strike the family piled the children's bodies onto the back of a truck traveling ten bumpy kilometers into condos city looking for accountability now they may have got it. a u.n. report has revealed that in the first three months of this year the leading cause of civilian deaths was airstrikes the majority by the u.s. military in total the afghan government and its supporting forces were responsible for killing more than thr

the red cross schools for eisel to release this woman who was kidnapped in syria almost six years ago. and in sports two of cricket's most notorious cheats get a second chance he said we'll explain in just a little while. hello there it's pretty chilly for many of us in europe at the moment but it looks like things are going to get a little bit warmer already we're seeing the sunshine become a little bit stronger in the southwest in parts of the continent so this is what it's look like in valencia rather a couple of people there on the beach or rather too many little bit packed but it looks like that warmth is gradually going to spread across other parts of europe fact if we look at the temperatures over the next few days you can see that we've got the orangey colors down there in the southern parts of spain and then gradually push their way northwards into parts of france there as we head through wednesday the temperatures do rise look at paris up to nineteen by wednesday and it should get warm the mat for the end of the week as well so i really quite mild but that's often we've got

there was a big fight and we were not able to survive so we came here the whole mountain was under eiselcontrol we were not able to live there they kept coming down to our village there were so many bullets flying all those who fled told us they were more scared of i saw than the taliban but that they are the basis of two evils the partially now finding a place for the children to raced to they feel safe to return home. your speaker of the house nancy pelosi wants the president to end american involvement in the war in yemen by signing a resolution passed by congress last week alone he says the situation in yemen has left an indelible scar and stain on the conscience of the world donald trump has already said he will veto the measure white house statement says support for the saudi led coalition in yemen does not mean the u.s. is engaged in hostilities. the president my son this is i just think we're so bipartisan by family legislation that we will sending him to advance a peaceful enduring solution to our breath that the military. thank you again for this important step and shining the

sanctions the red cross calls on eisel to release a new zealand aid worker kidnapped in syria almost six years ago and in sport find out why australian rugby officials one of their biggest stars just months before the world cup. the thirty five senior international figure is assigned a name from a letter to the guardian newspaper urging european nations to reject any u.s. middle east peace plan that is unfair to palestinians the u.s. is preparing to announce it's a good deal of the century those who signed the lessons say this is a critical moment in the middle east and europe they accuse the white house of departing from longstanding u.s. policy and distancing itself from established international legal no. forms by recognizing only one side's claim to jerusalem they say the u.s. has demonstrated what they call a disturbing indifference to israeli settlement expansion european nations unless it goes on should back a plan that requires the creation of a palestinian state alongside israel on borders based on the preened ninety and sixty seven lines and with east jerusalem as its capit

says more than six thousand iraqi izzie women were kidnapped and sold as slaves by eisel fighters intwo thousand and fourteen in the democratic republic of congo a report found that there were average forty eight rapes every hour i mean on march troops were accused of systematically raping rangar women in iraq in state. let's bring in our panel joining me on skype from washington d.c. rhenish are republican strategist and consultant from new york and tonia maulvi executive director of legal action worldwide and also on skype from uppsala in sweden. sellstrom university of uppsala as department of peace and conflict research welcome to the program let me begin with you in d.c. first what should have been a easy resolution to pass was made more difficult because the u.s. had a problem with just a few words sexual and reproductive health can you just explain to us why this administration has such a problem with something so simple. well i think we have to look at the source here and the driver on this issue is vice president mike pence if you look at his record back in the indiana state

dead is doing in eastern syria fell to eisele. goodness and circle in the dark on that one can tell him what i can and leave all the actual middle of the volunteer been deleted wildman often because even in such human judgement to fix the image on its own we have we are a lot more aware i did and it doesn't want to let those who don't have as also dilated about what i mean in developed software did in the end of the journey was that the walsall night and don't need one if. from turkey mohamed collects information that reflects the reality of those living under i saw. the documents that he found so that's men who are banned from shaving their beards and that internet users must register. this man accused of rape. it was secretly filmed by sound and pictures an organization which also records witness statements from prisoners held by i stole medical reports and court decisions the members of sound of pictures have been targeted by i saw. today that. feed the most that there is a lot and i know said it all solution on the trees will

has insisted it will defeat eisel and hunt down its leader abu bakr al baghdadi just hours after the armed group released a video it says is all of baghdad he himself what would be his first appearance in five years in the video baghdad he talks about the battle of bar guus in syria which ended in march with the defeat of eisel libya's u.n. recognize government is sending reinforcements to soften tripoli to stop the advance of forces loyal to the warlord holly for half the have to fight is it taking control of areas near the international airport the sharon government has lifted the ban on social media which was put in place after the easter sunday bombings right you're up to date those are the latest headlines i'll be back in about half an hour. her. but how boxing club is in a rundown part of casa blanca. it's run by a former moroccan featherweight champion thought her a man who invests his time and money developing young fighting talents. the regional qualifying stages of the national championships are only days away and tension is building among some of the young fighters. weight

at mosques and surely long and police are looking for seventy people suspected of having links with eisel following the easter sunday suicide attacks the number killed is being revised down to around two hundred sixty one hundred fewer than previously thought his prime minister told al jazeera a thorough investigation will be held into why warnings about imminent attacks weren't shared. we have to admit the fear. the breakdown in the flow of information. and that's one of the methods that are being investigated. in regard to. why i have ordered these three hundred fifty we need to think more about two hundred sixty so i was going to defy their numbers and they mean no no you do the truck i mean if not for the many of them would be a lie would be judges in sudan have joined opposition protests outside the military headquarters demonstrators are demanding full civilian rule after the army said it wants to keep many of the president's powers through the transition here again. top u.n. officials are beginning a three day visit to refugee camps and bangladesh are calling for more international

did is do it in eastern syria fell to eisele. goodness and circle in the dark on that and i can tell him what i can and leave off the actual middle of the of all i'm going to lead a lot of and often because even in such human judgement to fix the image on its own we have we are a lot more aware i didn't doesn't want to let those who don't have as also dilated about what i mean in developed software did in the end of the journey it was at the walsall night and donate one of. from turkey mohammad collects information that reflects the reality of those living under i saw. the documents that he found so that's men who are banned from shaving their beards and that internet users must register. this man accused of rape. was secretly filmed by sound and pictures an organization which also records witness statements from prisoners held by i still medical reports and court decisions the members of sound of pictures have been targeted by i saw. today that if he is on your feet the most that is about and i know said it also listed on the tr

says taliban eisel but other fighters killed two hundred twenty seven people those were the headlines are we back to the al-jazeera news in half an hour to stay with us. her. but how boxing club is the new rundown part of casa blanca. it's run by a former moroccan featherweight champion scholar her man who invests his time and money developing young fighting talents. there regional qualifying stages of the national championships are only days away and tension is building among some of the young fighters. weights is as important for a boxer as for a jockey in horse racing they're either too lights or too heavy one thousand year old my mom has she wants to fight as a welterweight but is several kilos too heavy. whereas fifteen year old mother once it was still too light for his first competitive bout as a junior penley. was . oh if. it was just if this. was a dilutive it was one. of the specific. it was. if it was a shuttle. was a slope. to comply with what was on the phone which some of them. if anything if it was one of those was i was and it was a little fish museum crowd and that's

mira is a two thousand year old desert city the unesco world heritage site was controlled twice by eisel fighters who smashed engine relics with sledgehammers the world look at the destroyed. the world is just they destroyed the civilization omit it. because i love. my country syria is also remembered through paintings this is a damascus neighborhood this is a map of syria and its monuments and this is called soldiers of peace some of the artists prefer to paint what they see now ok. i prefer to do anything related to refugees show what i've been through all my relatives women's lives children's lives and anything related to the camp. of not doing anything related to the tragedy we've left i hear drawing anything about that i try to escape from here by drawing european nature or the sea. for those too young to remember it's a way to try and connect to a country they may never see for years to come bernard smith al-jazeera zaatari on the jordan syria border. at least thirty two people have died after floods and mudslides destroyed homes in the south african city of durban the heavy rain s

and now police in sri lanka say they're looking for seventy people suspected of having links with eisel the number killed in the easter sunday suicide attacks is being revised down to around two hundred sixty that's about one hundred fewer than previously thought florence louis has more from colombo. armed patrols random searches the increased security can be seen everywhere on the streets of colombo as the hunt goes on for anyone involved in sunday's attacks it's not just the police and the army but the navy an air force are mobilized to the prime minister running . told al-jazeera that the extra security measures are necessary. but i've been taken in i'm sorry i cannot be you know the number but some are on the run and the third following them remain or the first is to round up the. intelligence services and the government has been criticized for not acting on warnings about possible attacks defense secretary hemisphere if anon was asked for his resignation by president major palace or a center has agreed to stand down a limited state of emergency has been enforced since tuesday givin

multiple tip offs before the easter sunday attacks that killed three hundred and twenty one people eisel claimed responsibility more than twenty four hours after the suicide attacks on churches and hotels the government in colombo says initial investigations suggest the bombings were carried out in response to last month's shootings at two mosques in new zealand florence dewey reports. a seemingly innocent moment a man with a backpack strolls casually into the st sebastian church. he pats a child on the head and enters the building this security camera footage shows a suspected bomber one of several who carried out the attacks across three cities in st lanka on sunday officials have admitted there was an intelligence failure a warning given more than two weeks before the attacks happened was not shared acted on now it's also emerged that intelligence services should have had one of the suspects on their radar much earlier hilmi ahmed the vice president of the muslim council of sri lanka says he had alerted security officials about a radical preacher said to be the leader of national. the

al baghdadi if indeed it is al baghdadi in this video praising the fighters the eisel fight is in gus' and saying that the sri lanka are attacks were in revenge for that and very much keen to point out according to him that what he describes as the global jihad goes on it's safe to say certainly that analysts investigators governments around the world will be looking at this video very carefully to verify whether in fact it is al baghdadi and to see if indeed there is any way of trying to locate him there been rumors in recent months that he's been hiding around the area of palmira in syria there are also rumors according to certain intelligence circles that he was trying to get back in to iraq let's not forget that the u.s. has put a twenty five million dollar bounty on this man. haid if indeed it is him it is hugely significant and will generate a lot of interest not only with this government the iraqi government but governments and intelligence services around the world charles and by god thank you . still ahead on the program libya's tripoli based government calls it a reinforceme

after the feet of eisel in mosul many of its fighters move south and circled this town in the hopes of capturing it and eventually getting to baghdad that's when the iraqi government asked for help a call answered by iran's revolutionary guards this statue was baited by locals a year after death. salah hosseini is a senior commander with iraq's popular mobilisation front here in baghdad and fought against eisel the. it's nothing new that the u.s. keeps interfering against the islamic resistance the us is trying to divide iraq from iran but it will not be able to iraq and iran are considered one body with one leadership it is impossible for america to split apart iraq and iran because iran helped us fight i saw and no one can deny that fact. iranian officials have designated the us military as a terrorist group in response to a similar us move against the revolutionary guards that makes an already complicated situation in iraq even more so there are just over five thousand u.s. troops in iraq and they will be here for the forseeable future we have good relations with both. with the amer

perhaps could have prevented this loss of life the other main issue is this claim now coming from eisel and many of the members of the government in suggesting that there was some outside involvement in these attacks. martin as the authorities could try and investigate all possibilities all lines and avenues that lead to this konitz on easter sunday in sri lanka one of the lines of questioning in investigations is this whole claim that somehow isis was involved coming out of cairo which the prime minister referred to he did see that there was investigations that there were sort of essentially attention being focused on that but bear in mind that an attack of this nature of this she has ferocity many analysts have expressed. some kind of basically reservations that it could have been put together in five weeks particularly in light of claims that it might have been a response or a counterattack to that. attack by extra an extremist on a mosque in new zealand in christchurch i mean five weeks to put together an operation of this nature. audacious in it she has. and reach is something that

forces have killed more civilians this year than the taliban eisel more than three hundred civilians lost their lives in the first three months to air and ground strikes us as taliban i saw and other fighters killed two hundred twenty seven people over the number of suicide bombings and other attacks as for. thousands of workers a feared buried under thirty meters of mud in myanmar three bodies have been recovered after a mudslide at a jade mine in packets in catchin state those are the headlines we're up to date we're back in half an hour right now it's inside story. stop buying iranian oil or face sanctions will the u.s. ultimatum stoked tensions in the gulf and does donald trump risk alienating friends and antagonizing god this is a story. hello and welcome to the program on iran con all prices are on the rise of the united states an ounce to new crackdown on iran's oil exports aimed at reducing them to zero the iranians say that will never happen and they're again threatening to block the strait of hormuz the world's lifeline of all from old gulf countries including saudi arabia

urged countries to help thousands of children stuck in a camp in northeastern syria after fleeing eisel the u.n. says the children should be treated as victims and solutions must be decided in their best interest regardless of age or gender according to unicef the al whole camp houses about three thousand children of foreign eisel fighters from forty three countries conditions at the camp are dire and more than fifty five children have died there since december. thousands of mourners have gathered to pay their respects to peruse former president alan garcia. garcia shot himself on wednesday as police were preparing to arrest him he was being investigated over corruption allegations. well a lack of jobs and a police crackdown has forced thousands of nicaraguans to look for a better life and other countries protest against planned social benefit cuts began a year ago and the government responded with a crackdown on journalists and rights groups john heilemann met one woman who was hoping to reach the u.s. with her three children. here on from the mass protests which marked the start of th

suspected islamic terrorist receiving aid money meant for refugees not just any terrorist a senior eisel commander and not just any money a new tax payer money and it gets worse reports say that he received a monthly payment of five hundred euros on his debit card that's well over today's gross minimum wage in hungary these prepaid cards are issued to a joint project between the united nations and the european union that's supposed to be a strict screening process in place to make sure that only those eligible have access to the funds but this wouldn't be the first time that a suspected terrorist hiding among refugees that inadvertently been given taxpayer money. the european commission insists that the prepaid debit cards are not just handed out to anyone that they know exactly who these cards are being distributed to and check up on their status on a monthly basis so hungry is wondering why did brussels not know that they were funding a suspected terrorist this not only creates another poll it also raises serious security concerns the citizens of europe have a right to know the problem

mirah is a two thousand year old desert city the unesco world heritage site was controlled twice by eisel fighters who smashed engine relics with sledgehammers there were not destroyed. just they destroyed the civilization. it. to keep the syrian. because i love. my country syria is also remembered through paintings this is a damascus neighborhood this is a map of syria and its monuments and this is called soldiers of peace some of the artists prefer to paint what they see now ok. i prefer to do anything related to refugees show what i've been through or my relatives woman's loves children anything related to the camera. and then of not doing anything related to the tragedy we've left i hear drawing anything about that i try to escape from here by drawing european need. for those too young to remember it's a way to try and connect to a country they may never see for years to come bernard smith al-jazeera zaatari on the jordan syria border. paces here he's got the sports scene is quite right martina we start with tennis where f.l. nadal cranks out another win that the boss alone are open h

we have refinery to destroy it and this is a terrorist act that is very similar to al qaida and eisel we will deal with strictness and force with anyone who may threaten our safety and security either in tripoli or any other city to support the government home thousands are protested and then libyan said he said tripoli and misrata against the have tarsus all the on the capital minitel have reports from tripoli. here in the main square in the libyan capital libyans have come out to condemn what they call the military aggression by half that its forces on the capital tripoli also in other cities on the west of libya including the city of misrata libyans have taken to the streets to condemn the military escalation but this is the third to friday in a row since their military escalation is started on april fourth the protesters here say that they are calling on the international community including the united nations and they reappear in union to put pressure on have to stop the military escalation on the southern outskirts of the libyan capital the protesters here today are also condemn

says taliban eisel another fighters killed two hundred twenty seven people were headlines more news in half an hour stay with us. casa blanca morocco's biggest city. its economic capital and one of the busiest financial centers on the african continent leading moroccan and international companies have their headquarters and industrial facilities here. so cost the blank has an affluent middle class. but its three point six million population doesn't all live in smart areas like this. this is that because i live a modest neighborhood right in the center of the city life here is about survival rather than wealth. and young people have the same preoccupations as they do anywhere in the world. but one thing you need to know about moroccan youth culture is that forts are huge . martial arts kickboxing and boxing. bruce lee and john claude van damme are folk heroes a dutch moroccan kickboxer called by that heidi is a big star and muhammad r.b.a. is revered for winning world super welterweight gold in doha and olympic bronze in rio. this is salah had a man by day a parking attendant but after

seventy four children who were taken to a detention center near the capital pristina for suspect that eisel fighters were also brought back the costs of all and the rest of the government says about four hundred citizens left to join i saw in syria and iraq. there's been more rain in iran where more than ten million people have been affected by flooding people are slowly cleaning up but thousands of homes and roads are beyond repair and as the reports now from our in lauriston province many fear that the station will continue . everyone we meet invites us inside their homes they want people to understand what they're going through when the first floods came a month ago. says there was no government warning no alert system just talk of the possibility of floods when it happened they read and they may have to run again. to the. water came up two or two and a half meters were worried because there is no dam here after more rain water will come up when there is any rain we just right away. almight i pray to god not to let to happen again but there's nothing left for us to lose now just our live

posted there must be retribution domingo is also alleged to have said he would swear allegiance to eisele if the group were in the united states it comes amid growing international figures by planned islamic state terror attacks muhammad should freak chief executive of the ramadan foundation in the u.k. believes the suspects army background might be partially to blame. there's a lot of stress disorder the psychological problems mental health that many officers who were involved in the army in the occupation in afghanistan and iraq would of the scenes that they would have seen the bloodshed in killeen and all of that include it would have had a profound effect on people because the authorities in the militaries around the world haven't been able to invest in mental health support posttraumatic stress disorder no support for those soldiers they are left to their own devices and in many cases there are people who are. left homeless living on the streets and psychological support it among the stories ahead saudi arabia hosts some investments summits with global finance chief seemingly deterre

league semifinal against liverpool messi the first player in the club's history so when ten league gets eisel christian on our scored his six hundred club goal is italian champions events is dealt a blow to in some other lands european qualification hopes and so went one up as they try to cement third place in syria to midfielder arjun i'm going with the strike after seven minutes. of only our motto silencing the san siro was the twentieth read goal of the season. in celeste looking over their shoulder with roma just four points behind. scottish champions celtic of been paying tribute to the player who caps in that same suit european cup success in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. with the wife of the living near with sixty seven seconds of the for celtic beat in some on in the final to become the first british team to lift the trophy some more spookily celtic's called the only goal of this game against kilmarnock in the sixty seventh minute they were in a point of winning an eighth straight league title. so the finals of the african champions league are underway esperance to tunisia ho