incident made on i'm down two hundred to be a chump everybody says so the first national town he's jamaat muslims are the kind of hope were behind these attacks when he said that the common man good luck know who the speaker were because this is the first time they had heard of archon of the nation but their records which we have received is that last shia muslim christian done to in a town called katan could be in the east of the country had held these up protests holding up the card saying that an organization called an afterthought so much was forming that they were being harmed by disagree and they were terrorists unfortunately the protests had been long and in several ready to show that was not going to them to arrest the most and we would have gone and then the line then to live with this stuff she was apparently according to the government of the your choice responsible for the attack turned out to be good suicide bomber on sunday so what we know of from the information we have received so far is that this group has been forming for some time but unfortunately nobody took any ne an

provocation and that he said that that was now it begins to prove that the head of the national salahi jamaat who has been being for sunday's explosion was killed when the trying to line goes on he also meant to shoot with the president also said that if he's a member of more money to hire on headed that mission seems to be plenty of days when he must have mostly in fine back and guy he was an approximately family back from that and when you came back here and you saw the preaching and getting more supposed to right now want to get your reading up on the president we've got that wrong hundred and seven hundred talking suspect with me they said with the country also featured seven people have been arrested and seems that sunday's explosion so the president said that a massive manhunt was going on to catch the remaining suspects and we are going to cooperate with that in the coming days that would be everything's on household in the country wouldn't even and the poster i mean we would be more successful honda and we would be examining the bomb hoping to have to figure it out for we had been res

explosions the police seem to be on the desperate pond for anyone we link to the national how he jamaat with being blamed for sunday's explosion yes a difference in microphone decision and said they now had information that they were out on hundred forty people earning the country suspects just to have links to the slam experience and several had been arrested up to now so once again they said the police are searching for the before the end anyone we connect up to be in teaching so far one hundred nine police custody and expecting more arrests in the coming days now the threat of attack there is still high i mean this most recent attack incident killed innocent bystanders six children were killed how was this unsettled situation there affecting the sri lankan people. sridhar gardens are crying then reading on that meeting every day since monday's explosion we've been having gone to go i checked in all the houses that 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 peo

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 n

reportedly warned intelligence chiefs of a possible attack by a local radical group national to hit jamaat but those reports apparently never reached prime minister donald became a singer and his cabinet but these revelations of added to the grief of a nation still in shock. our correspondent michelle just one is in sri lanka and as the country marks a day of national mourning she sent us this report. two days after the tragic loss that happened on easter sunday in colombo a neighborhood prepares to receive the bodies of loved ones that it has lost just of hundred metres from st anthony's church one of the locations which were hit amongst the eight locations where explosions happened on easter sunday and then also on the monday after it away and exploded just a few feet from her this neighborhood actually called the police when they saw the suspicious land back to your local status that they call the police and were cleared out local christian communities are shocked these are funeral processions going on but they tell us that this is the first time they have been targeted in this fashion

tree's present two weeks ago already that the new group national tour weeds jamaat were planning attacks and even passed on the names of the suspects while that revelation now has the country searching for answers after a day of koenig ssion heartache that could have possibly been averted. this woman is being forced to endure what no parent wants to go through. she's waiting outside the hospital hoping to hear news of her daughter the teenager went to one of the churches attacked on easter sunday and hasn't been seen since. the beginning of us if the boy we kept calling her after we heard of the incident but there was no response we didn't hear from her even in the night and that is why we came here first thing in the morning but. for others the certainty of knowing brings no relief. as the scale of the tragedy starts to sink in many are unable to contain their grief. most of the dead can many including at this church north of the capital what children. dozens of foreigners were also killed among those who lost their lives on nationals from the u.s. britain turkey india china portugal an

attack that the health minister links to a little known local group called the national tower he jamaat the inquiry will look at where they were saved advice all money from overseas security forces have been conducting raids and making arrests and the government says it will bring in emergency powers here investigations cause the shattered remains of st sebastian church just outside the capital the walls of this house of prayer stained with shrapnel and the blood of the victims'. families are not really was there the government says tuesday will be a national day of mourning it's apologized to families of the victims and announced compensation but along with deep sadness there is also growing anger that these attacks may have been prevented. brian al-jazeera. but we've also learned that the sri lankan government will be seeking forward help to investigate those attacks let's bring in alison and as he joins us now from the capital colombo of course while foreign governments try to work out how they're going to help. order the sort of state of emergency what does it actually be. what it m

hospital the state minister of defense is blaming a local splinter group of the national guard he jamaat he says the group is an islamist extremist group possibly allied to an international network. what also i can say is that this group. some of the suicide bombers most. educated. and come from maybe middle upper middle class. financially quite independent and you know their families stable financially so that is a boring acting. because some of them have i think studied. in various other countries all degrees. you know this really do get people. president meant that he has dark to overhaul state security after intelligence agencies didn't act on several to parts i still claim responsibility without providing evidence but eight out of the nine suicide bombers have been identified sri lanka's prime minister warns other attackers may be on the run. in florence louis who's live for us now in colombo let's get the very latest florence because a lot to get through there was a press conference there's been a parliament debate and there's been ongoing threats around the country as well as an u

are now hearing is that it's a local may be sent to the chad farm in the country the natural county jamaat and now you're looking into the front of it if you offer it to the school because has any funny reading may be answered i think. and what about the fact that intelligence had informed the government about possible terror attacks like we saw on sunday and nothing was done i mean political infighting i think is what we've heard today to help functional is the government interlaken tonight is there going to be political fallout. yes actually the country isn't as the p.c.'s are shock and anger ever since time is running to come i think with the announce that the police have trying formation about a possible terror attack and nothing has been done or steps have been taken to a why did the government as us now is obviously continuing to function but the damn game has got to get the government claiming intelligence officers the thing that reports have been handed over to the president the president has yet to make a statement on that we are going to see probably a month convening for a speci

called the national tell he jamaat. at the helm of that group as i have a high sheen is believed to have been killed softly carried out a suicide attack. on the shangri la hotelel in the capital colombo. front said twenty four was a yemeni reports [inaudible] yeah. to make explosives and an islamic state group flag --- found inside a house reportedly used by the easter s sunday attk is. three long kids leaders are trying to get to the bottom of the coordinated attacks and is searching for remaining suspect. at the seventy people. i get ready the neck. most of them a and most of the explosives have already been taken into custody. from monex needd we still have o find a small amount. ththerefore the danger is not completely over. some poor name i h have a meetig ththat.. friday preresident series c. not confirirm that ththe alledd ringngleader of the attack laurn hasheem was killed at the shanangri la hotel. as investigation into the massacre continues so does t the political route if he knew what the full of the deadly

in sri lanka and they are tiny tiny minority of the population but i think the leader of national jamaat his name is mohammad. me and local muslim leaders have been complaining. for the last two or three years that this man was becoming increasingly radical posting videos online talking about attacking all non muslims now obviously this is nothing to do that islam islam forbids this kind of behavior as a terrorism is completely forbidden and as are types of christians in fact according to islamic scriptures christians are to be protected by muslims by their own wealth their own time and their own resources so this goes completely out of kilter with what the islamic texts and the islam make community feel so they've been reporting this now i think one of the problems we had interlink is that president the president fired the prime minister last year and had to be reinstated by the supreme court in trying to as a result you have this almost non functioning security apparatus in the intro lanka where now even the deputy defense postman the defense minister himself and the prime minister als

the attack at the health minister links to a lesson known local group called the national tower he jamaat the inquiry will look at where they were saved advice all money from overseas security forces have been conducting raids and making arrests and the government says it will bring emergency powers he investigates is called the shattered remains of st sebastian church just outside the capital the walls of this house of prayer stained with shrapnel and the blood of the victims'. families are not really was a rarity the government says tuesday will be a national day of mourning it's apologized to families of the victims and announced compensation but along with deep sadness there is also growing anger that these attacks may have been prevented. brian al jazeera. more now from our correspondent men now from mendez in colombo. the streets of colombo and around the country becoming deserted once again as a police curfew island wide has kicked in it will continue till the early hours of tuesday morning till four o'clock and a second day basically following the docilely attacks coordinated atta

the phalanges are being offered protection by a magical fire he's a leader of jamaat. al muslimeen an umbrella armed group that includes al qaeda in the islamic magreb he's calling for families to join the armed movement and overthrow the government with more than two hundred un soldiers killed in mali since their peacekeeping mission began in two thousand and thirteen it's struggling to maintain stability in this hell region of western sahara canada and the netherlands are pulling out their troops in a few months the mandate of these peacekeepers is to protect the population from armed groups but with the recent violence targeting the full on the population they're having to now protect the full armies from their own neighbors that are targeting them other ethnic groups accuse the philosophy of attacking them the battle for grazing land is expanding across mollies border for the new homes are also being attacked in neighboring burkina faso in the share nicholas harkat al-jazeera. us house judiciary committee has authorized subpoenas in attempt to obtain the full repor

in hospital the deputy defense minister is blaming a local splinter group of the national that he jamaat he describes the group as islamist extremists possibly allied to an international network. what also i can say is that this group. of some of the suicide bombers most of. you kids. come from maybe middle upper middle class so they are financially quite independent and you know their families quite stable financially so that is a boring fact in. because some of them have i think studied. in various other countries all degrees. you know this really do creative people. president said a senate has vowed to overhaul state security after intelligence agencies didn't act on several tip offs but eisel has claimed responsibility without providing evidence eight out of the nine suicide bombers have been identified because prime minister ward's other attackers may be on the run well let's join in often and as our senior correspondent. who is in colombo let's just talk about the merging evidence a nother c.c.t.v. piece of footage and slowly the authorities are managing really to put this very com

attack that the health minister links to a little known local group called the national tower he jamaat the inquiry will look at where they were saved advice all money from overseas security forces have been conducting raids and making arrests and the government says it will bring emergency powers here investigations cause the shattered remains of st sebastian church just outside the capital the walls of this house of prayer stained with shrapnel and the blood of the victims'. families are not really was there. the government says tuesday will be a national day of mourning it's apologized to families of the victims and announced compensation but along with deep sadness there's also growing anger that these attacks may have been prevented. bryan al-jazeera. let's bring in our correspondent who joins me now from the capital colombo let's just begin with this state of emergency that's been imposed or will be imposed soon what does that actually mean . basically it will give extended to the police and the military particularly in view of detaining of. of questioning suspects basically under

attack that the health minister links to a little known local group called the national tower he jamaat the inquiry will look at where they were saved advice. from overseas security forces have been conducting raids and making arrests and the government says it will bring emergency powers he investigations call the shattered remains of st sebastian church just outside the capital the walls of this house of prayer stained with shrapnel and the blood of the victims'. families are not really was there the government says tuesday will be a national day of mourning it's apologized to families of the victims and announced compensation but along with deep sadness there is also growing anger that these attacks may have been prevented. brian al jazeera. the u.s. has announced it will sanction any country buying a rain you know secretary of state said waivers that have made it possible for some countries to purchase all from iran will no longer be china japan and turkey they're among the countries affected. with the announcement today we've made clear our seriousness of purpose we are going to ze

attack that the health minister links to a little known local group called the national tower he jamaat the inquiry will look at where they were saved advice. from overseas security forces have been conducting raids and making arrests and the government says it will bring emergency powers he investigations call the shattered remains of st sebastian church just outside the capital the walls of this house of prayer stained with shrapnel and the blood of the victims'. families are not really was there the government says tuesday will be a national day of mourning it's apologized to families of the victims and announced compensation but along with deep sadness there is also growing anger that these attacks may have been prevented. brian al jazeera. right we came out. our correspondent in the capital colombo and those emergency powers will come into effect in just a few hours from now what is the situation like what is the mood like on the streets of the sri lankan capital now. what in things are very much subdued of the carnage the nation witnessed yesterday on easter sunday today we are se