all right we'll leave it there for now thanks so much michel fernandez the russian north korean leaders have had their first ever face to face meeting let me putin is describing talks with kim jong un in light of all stock has substantial putin says denuclearization can only be achieved through international law and the north need security guarantees. look with binoculars or what is denuclearization it is to a certain extent disarmament of north korea of course i have spoken about it all the time and can confirm once again the north korea site speaks about it as well democratic people's republic of north korea needs guarantee of its safety and sovereignty. of the people of the two countries who share a valuable friendship that was created and strengthened while overcoming every hardship and challenge thrown to us by history have a deep understanding that the ceaseless development of north korea russia ties not only serves our mutual interests but is also indispensable for securing the region's peace and stability sudanese protest leaders have increased pressure on the army by calling fo

lanka is headed with this latest tragedy elizabeth thank you very much for that for now that is michelle fernandez with all the latest live in a number of thank you. we're going to move on to other news now and police in algeria have arrested five billion is this part of an anti corruption investigation those rest of us had to be close. to former president of the disease group the frica the former prime minister and the current finance minister have also been ordered to appear in court and connection with an investigation into the misuse of public money meanwhile there are more protests demanding more change. so don's military council has a lot of people to stop blocking roads and let police do their job and barricades are being removed from the streets of the capital kabul the warning came after protesters suspended talks with the council a coalition of opposition parties is demanding an immediate end of the tree rule and the establishment of a civilian government mohamad evolve has more from car too. several hours after that announcement by the leadership of the protesters to stop dealing with t

all right let's go live now to our correspondent michelle fernandez she's there in the capital colombo and first of all. mr. singer the sri lankan prime minister has dealt head on after a fashion at a news conference where he was asked by journalists was the about this communication misstep if you like between the arms of government which ended up with these attacks being carried out and obviously not being prevented by security forces. that's right martin the prime minister actually facing a broad beret of questions from foreign correspondents earlier this evening he did speak at length about the sort of security breaches that have brought us to where we are today with this massive sort of breach of security he did say that investigations right now are focusing on apprehending suspects there are a number of people who are already in custody under interrogation he referred to the emergency regulations basically that are being strengthened that have been brought in as of midnight on monday that will help in terms of helping the law enforcement authorities with for the power of detention

has refused to step down let's go live now to colombo and our correspondent michelle fernandez how can you justify trying to stay on in the job. given this blame game everybody has their own story and so to the police chief even though he hasn't been seen or heard from since we've had this confrontation almost with the president present by people in the city say no when he made the media a few days ago or did say that he had asked the defense secretary and the police chief to step down about the secretary of the secretary of defense ministry a bureaucrat the prime the president had the right to do that but where his police chief was concerned given the laws and the constitution the police chief could have only been removed on the recommendation of the police commission so the president couldn't really sack him however this kind of pressure brought to bear he was expected to resign but obviously he was unwilling to do that now the defense secretary did resign we saw a new defense secretary being appointed a former army commander taking that position and being sworn in before the preside

let's go to our correspondent michelle fernandez now she's joining us live from the capital the national day of mourning starting with a three minute silence menow. he. that's right elizabeth i mean we are here very solemn moment just a few beaches from the sun am phonies church which was ripped apart by an explosion on easter sunday however looking at the larger issue of bringing a focus and a light on this story we were on air at this time is a three minute silence as part of the national day of mourning that the government has declared to mark the huge loss of life in the carnage in this country marked by a series of coordinated explosions six explosions in the three churches and three five star hotel and two other incidents on sunday followed up by again more explosives detections found yesterday but also having a number of barriers and just by me you can see people in this locality close to the cemented his church begin in a joint prayer that all holding candles in solemn remembrance of those who died elizabeth. well we've also had overnight unlimited a state of emergency coming int

possible all right now fernandez with the latest out of colombo force thank you michelle. and if you moments we'll have the weather with everton also still ahead on al-jazeera hope for some of pakistan's refugees living for years and paracho without citizenship. and joe will tell you how i well rested i aks hopes to deny tottenham a historic european when that's coming up in sport. there were warnings happen issued along india's eastern coast this massive cloud which is now most of the. funny making its way up towards the northeast of india can be the case and go on for the next couple of days at the moment we have sustained winds of around one hundred seventy five kilometers per hour it's been intensifying really quite rapidly and it will continue to do so as we go on through the next couple of days or so those winds represent the like category two equivalent storms on the atlantic our can system as it makes its way further northwards well more than thirty million people could be affected by hurricane force winds so this really is significant feature see the position of t

as we say an extraordinary day in sri lanka thank you michel fernandez also joining us from colombo muhammad ali somebody who is a senior lawyer at the president's council he is also a sri lankan muslim community leader thank you for your time and it's late in the evening now but tank me back to earlier in the day tell me about well what it was like when you first heard about this news you know thank you very much it was one of the that the us wants said it is in life the bush shot these this kind of this magnitude. we have not seen for a long long period of of course we have grown up this kind of terror for about thirty five thirty years but during that arse twenty years or so. they let you come you have good peaceful coexistence on and off there had been dumped already. violence judy we had a good calm and peaceful environment and we couldn't do was just all. be all but certainly you said what happened. i tack a new christians in church on easter sunday it is so very targeted so very obvious what has been done here what do you make of what could be a religious angle to this attack i know t

and the nationwide imagines he gives police and military sweeping powers to arrest people as michelle fernandez explains from colombo. the limited state of emergency that the government announced taking effect at midnight here in sri lanka this is expected to give the police particularly according to the president's office to empower the police or to take adequate measures to see if the people and the country obviously the emergency regulations in their full force are extremely wide ranging and does give law enforcement a much broader palette to deal with basically suspects of detainees particularly in terms of indications detention of such people defined of interest to investigation sudan's military leaders say they aim to form a civilian government as soon as possible and are working towards reaching a consensus with protest leaders and political parties there asking demonstrators to remove their barricades to allow security forces to do their job protest leaders have vowed to continue their sit in and have suspended talks with the military council for failing to transfer power to a civilian