i just want sri lankans to care. what they most desired, and that is how peace came to the island of short memories. the warring parties fast realized that it didn't matter who won, or who lost, because in the end, they were all on the same side. ♪ >>> it's time for the nation to realize, it's not just a chicago problem or a parkland problem but it's an american problem. >> these students say this is not a moment. they say this is a movement. hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets demanding action on gun control in the united states. >> but as for whether or not the movement can bring about actual change and new legislation, we'll break it down with our guests this hour. >> plus has the legitimacy of the brexit referendum been damaged? the

are tamils who mostly follow the hindu religion they are divided into two groups tamils in sri lankan origin in the north and the east and tamils with indian roots and the south and center of the island of the minorities include muslim morris melees betas and christian burghers who are descendants of european colonial settlers let's bring in our guests now joining us from colombo via skype tyagi hut there iana a legal adviser and human rights activist and an oxford going to look a legal director of research and sri lanka and welcome to you all thank you for joining us let's let's start where things are right now which is this state of emergency that has been called for that is being enforced jaggy is is this the right answer for to to get this under control at least right now do you think so it's a difficult call and i think it sound thing that we time judge right now because when knocked in the ground were knocked in were not in any capacity to check if. so much that the government hasn't been able to respond to it using normal methods of law enforcement. i mean it appears to be made

authorities we put the allegations in our report to the sri lankan government it says it takes all violations of human rights extremely seriously it argues that the situation in sri lanka is improving it says it will investigate and prosecute all alleged cases of torture and is working with the un and human rights groups to this and a different man whom we met through different contacts but the story is depressingly similar they use some kind. of routes and just one of my legs is so upside down and to just pulling from my knee with a pulley. i totally believed. he too was accused of supporting b l t t he too says he was tortured by the police's criminal investigation department and he too paid a bribe and fled sure lanka he's been refused asylum in britain but is appealing so were many at the support group after also being refused although the british government told us there are credible reports of ongoing tortured sri lanka and it says it has updated its asylum policy accordingly to be phillip's al jazeera london snow forced geneva airport to close and trains across many parts of continenta

channel 4 reporter here in the uk went undercover posing as a potential sri lankan candidate seeking the services of cambridge analytica for up coming elections. over across several meetings with executives at cambridge analytica, including cambridge analytica ceo, they were to outline and suggest how they may offer services to help the candidate win, let's say. that included honey traps. sending young women to operate a sex sting and operating bribes for politicians. sending one of their people to pose as a politician and offering them land and filming that and exposing them. another thing they offered as well is discredit information and creating and promoting fake news. at one point, one of the executives says it doesn't have to be true, he says. it just has to be believed. he said we are not to say it has to happen without anyone thinking it is propaganda because the minute it is propaganda, someone will ask who is behind it. all the thought of ethics is gone out of the window. they talk about ghosting in and ghosting out when it came to working services in several of presidentia

government last week it said it will work with the sri lankan government to make sure that messages inciting racial violence are not allowed to be spread on its platforms so. leave it there bernard thank you. they said to russia now where the polls have opened for the presidential election which is widely expected to hand landed near putin a fourth term in power meaning that he could leave the country until twenty twenty four according to russia's calls to choose a new president can run beyond two consecutive terms but it's unclear who will emerge to replace putin's lawrence lee has more from. whatever you think of him there's no denying that a lot of mir putin has made russia important again here he was in two thousand and four winning a second term as president against a field as hopeless as the one this year but then russia's opinion on world affairs didn't count for much but as he said during this campaign people are listening now . his own leadership has been designed to guarantee a continued direction for russia down a very definite path making sure there is a voice in the wor

office has been left in ruins as a physical reminder of the war there are hundreds of thousands of sri lankans with mental scars in eighteen months they'll be elections in sri lanka but could see a return to power of former president mahinda rajapaksa he oversaw the military defeat of the tamil tigers and is seen as being even less enthusiastic about the office for missing persons than the current administration so the armed people have to establish itself quickly if it's to withstand any future challenges to its already limited powers bernard smith al jazeera jaffna in northern sri lanka. facebook's chief information security officer is stepping down the new york times reports that alex thomas disagreed with the company's handling of revelations that russia use facebook to spread false information it comes as a us democratic senator sent a letter to c.e.o. mark zuckerberg demanding a response to allegations that the data of fifty million users was harvested by a political consultancy firm a whistleblower who worked at cambridge and a letter says the data was used to build a system which may h

office has been left in ruins as a physical reminder of the war there are hundreds of thousands of sri lankans with mental scars in eighteen months they'll be elections in sri lanka but could see a return to power of former president mahinda rajapaksa he oversaw the military defeat of the tamil tigers and is seen as being even less enthusiastic about the office for missing persons than the current administration so the armed people have to establish itself quickly if it's to withstand any future challenges to its already limited powers burnitz with al-jazeera jaffna in northern sri lanka. now again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera the syrian government has heavily criticised by taking occupation of the town of a free and is demanding turkish forces withdraw for turkey says it now plans to expand its military operation to other kurdish held towns in syria where u.s. forces are supporting the kurds. in shoot emerges in an after controlling the city center of after and yesterday we completed the most important phase of operation olive branch now we will continue this process

authorities we put the allegations in our report to the sri lankan government it says it takes root violations of human rights extremely seriously it argues that the situation in sri lanka is improving it says it will investigate and prosecute all alleged cases of torture and is working with the un and human rights groups to this and a different man whom we met through different contacts but the story is depressingly similar they use some kind. of routes and just one of my legs is so upside down and to just pulling for a minute with the police. i totally believed. he too was accused of supporting the l t t he too says he was tortured by the police's criminal investigation department and he too paid a bribe and fled sure lanka he's been refused asylum in britain but he's appealing so many at the support group after also being refused although the british government told us there are credible reports of ongoing tortured sri lanka and it says it has updated its asylum policy accordingly bobbie phillips al jazeera london still had an al-jazeera. u.k. prime minister could ever agree to ai

analytical is coming under increasing scrutiny an undercover reporter posing as a middleman for a sri lankanbusinessman met with the head of the company he claimed his boss wanted help in getting his preferred candidates elected to office came each analyst's ago often to entrap their opponents. what is the expertise of the people to get it into a group that will. do is to get the true picture let's go to. tactics they're effective instantly. period at the direction. some credit cambridge analytical with winning the election for u.s. president donald trump by collecting data and profiling photos it helps his message target those most likely to vote for him. at the weekend a former employee blew the whistle on its activities he said the company illegally harvested the private data of millions of american voters. we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months facebook is also under pressure amid accusations it's being careless with people's personal data or the other data breaches that we don't know about how effective our facebook actually sto

a channel 4 reporter went undercover posing as a sri lankan client seeking help from cambridge analytica. over a series of meetings which involved cambridge analytica's executives, including its ceo, they went on to outline what can be described as an incredible amount of services and disturbing services they could provide. including they said using honey traps and sending in beautiful ukrainian women to really operate a sex sting and offering bribery to discredit politicians. they could send in a land developer to offer money to a politician in exchange for land. film then and use it against them. they went on to say they embraced the idea of creating and promoting fake news. we are not in the business of fake news, they said, but later on in the story, they said it doesn't have to be true. it has to be believed. it went on to say the executive says it has to happen without anyone thinking it is propaganda. if they believe it is propaganda, they will ask who is behind it and it shows them to be covert and corrupt. they boasted about ghosting in and ghosting out when it came to offering

journalists went in describing themselves as kind of political consultants working wefor a wealthy sri lankanlooking for assistance in trying to make sure the right candidates won races in the upcoming sri lankan elections. so it was in that context, but they certainly didn't hold back when it came to describing their own role. >> kylie, at one point, one of the executives talked about how the company's research allowed donald trump to win by a minor margin in key states to ultimately win the electoral college, despite losing the popular vote. how much of what we heard is cambridge analytica bragging to get a new client? i mean, this is a sales meeting. it is. they're exaggerating as companies sometimes do in a pitch maybe. >> that's possible. it's very difficult for us to know at this stage exactly what cambridge analytica did. we knew that within the digital team certainly within the last months before the election, brad pascal, the head of the trump digital team then decided to try to do some sort of facebook advertising. we understand that some of the microtargeting, you know, exactly whe

not sri lankan girls? >> i wouldn't have thought so. just an idea. i'm just saying. we bring them in on holiday with us. you know what i'm saying? >> yes. they are very beautiful, ukrainian girls. >> they are beautiful. i find that works very well. >> they are very beautiful. i find the ukrainian girls trick works very, very well. the english gentleman on the right side of your screen for most of the tape explaining that tactic is the ceo of cambridge analytica. cambridge analytica is famous for being the data firm for trump campaign. they're basically a british firm that opened up a u.s. shell company with money from republican mega donor robert mercer. one of the easiest things to forget about the presidential election cycle is who was affiliated with who before trump started winning everything. in this past presidential election cycle, robert mercer and his web of companies and don't nations, they didn't initially support trump. he initially supported ted cruz in the primary. that's why there are funny clips you can still get on youtube of kellyanne conway critici

expression free speech with a need to stop the spreading of insightful hateful language and the sri lankan government says the lessons learned from this is that it's going to spend concentrate a lot more on the moment sharing what sort of material is spread online and even called in facebook for a talk about how they could challenge this hour to stop this language being spread and facebook said he's going to work with the short term to do it one of facebook's problem is they don't have enough people who speak sinhalese the main language you to monitor what is said in the sinhalese language fire facebook so this is one of the challenges they face the government also has no legislation there's nothing in the law books that compressor to people who spread this sort of material so the government is looking at legislating to try and prevent this from happening in the past because as ever technology is one step ahead of the government and the government is chasing up on technology and technological innovations ok a surf report of rafa northern sri lanka thank you sir it's also been looking at. r

sri lankan commander has patrolled the streets of kandy‘s outline districts.cts. all police leave has been cancell stop t been districts. all police leave has been cancell stop a?" , . . i:0n police is teargas to wednesday police is teargas to disperse rioters in the city who had been attacking mosques and muslim owned businesses. the continued presence of mobs on the street is in defiance of security measures, including a curfew. these were imposed after a buddhist youth died on the weekend during an altercation with a group of muslims. government ministers have been to see the violence for themselves, including this shop which had been set alight. a spokesman said the authorities we re a spokesman said the authorities were trying to get the situation under control. the army has been deployed in the tens of thousands in the area but even one or two people can insight some incident. tension has been on the rise in buddhist majority sri lanka since 2012, set to be filled by hardline buddhists. they accuse muslims forcing people to convert to islam and vandalisi

the former captain of the sri lankan cricket team, kumar sangakkara, has taken to social media to callce. members of the sinhala, buddhist majority have been attacking muslims in the central district of kandy since sunday, when a buddhist man was killed in a dispute with a group of muslims. four people have been seriously hurt in two knife attacks in the austrian capital vienna. police say it is not clear what the motives were or if there's any connection between the two assaults. an afghan man has been arrested. bethany bell reports from vienna. a police spokesman told the bbc that a man attacked a family of three, a mother, father, and their grown—up daughter. the victims, all austrian citizens, were taken to hospital with life—threatening injuries. the attacker fled the scene in vienna's second district, near the famous prater park, and close to an area that houses much of vienna'sjewish community. later, another man from chechnya was stabbed near prater park. police arrested an afghan citizen in connection with the second attack. translation: we know at 7.45 there was a stabbing at

the sri lankan government says it will pay for all the damage caused by days of violent and he was inludes buildings gutted by fire and businesses that were ransacked infour and businesses that were ransacked in four days of riots. several people were also killed in a wave of attacks on muslims by buddhist hardliners. jill mcgillvary has the latest. this was the moment the prime minister saw the devastation for himself if burnt out shops, smashed windows and badly damaged mosques. the violence here is a reminder that tensions between buddhist and muslim immunities run deep. many businesses are still closed and with mosques damaged, friday prayers were in the open air under army protection. the military are out in force now, on the surface, all is calm. but many muslims say they still feel unsafe and flee to the jungle to hide at night. the government now promises to pay for the damage. local officials have been told to start the clean—up at once. and in another sign of life starting to return to normal, the curfew was lifted on saturday. but a social media ban is still in place. at th

office has been left in ruins as a physical reminder of the war that won hundreds of thousands of sri lankans with mental scars in eighteen months they'll be elections in sri lanka but could see a return to power for former president mahinda rajapaksa he oversaw the military defeat of the tamil tigers and is seen as being even less enthusiastic about the office for missing persons than the current administration so they are people have to establish itself quickly if it's to withstand any future challenges to its already limited powers bernat smith al-jazeera jaffna in northern sri lanka. the britain's data protection authority is reportedly seeking a warrant to search the offices of cambridge analytical that's the company at the center of hue of a huge facebook data breach the london based political consultancy work for donald trump's u.s. presidential campaign it's accused of gaining unauthorized access to the data of fifty million facebook users to swing the twenty sixteen u.s. election cambridge analytical executives have been secretly tape by news reporters boasting about their ability to

that resentment has been simmering along has been is being fed on by these people pushing this sri lankan nationalist agenda and it takes a very small incident to set a spark again for something to kick something off this was a road rage incident last week where a lorry driver died in hospital after being attacked so one small incident seems to set things off again alarm ben smith thank you very much. still to come one hour . caring to choose a new president in sierra leone voters have leaders from sixteen political parties to choose from. and the images are shocked the world plastic pollution dominates the agenda at the world oceans summit in mexico. hello and welcome to international weather forecast as we take a look at weather conditions across europe certainly seen a significant change of last few days much milder air pushing in across central parts of europe nowhere near as cold has been across eastern areas temperatures week or so ago look at most ten manas fifteen there from moscow and then we got low pressure moving in across the u.k. brings a wet and windy weather with it before

sri lankan commandos patrol the streets of kandy‘s outline districts. or sporadical religiously motivated assaults. arson or sporadic religiously motivated assaults. through wednesday, police used teargas to disperse buddhist rioters in the city who had been attacking mosques and muslim—owned businesses. the continued presence of mobs on the street is in defiance of security measures, including a curfew. these were imposed after a buddhist youth died at the weekend during an altercation with a group of muslims. government ministers have been to see the violence for themselves, including this shop which had been set alight. a spokesman said the authorities were trying to get the situation under control. the army has been deployed in the tens of thousands in the areas but even one or two people can insight some incident. tension has been on the rise in buddhist majority sri lanka since 2012, said to have been fueled by hardline buddhists. they accuse muslims of forcing people to convert to islam and vandalising buddhist archaeological sites but the muslim

buddhist mobs on towns and villages targeting muslim homes and businesses bernard smith is in the sri lankan city of can be so this curfew i think it was originally has been ten days it's been lifted earlier why. well rachele there was a twenty four hour curfew originally imposed for this period of supposed one to four o'clock this evening but they've reduced it they ended it just about fifty minutes ago here though in the center of county where you've got this large statue of buddha looking down over the city it's still much quieter than ordinarily would be these streets these roads would be normally ordinarily packed clogged with traffic and you can see that because they only got reason to late notice of the lifting of the curfew many of these shops are all still shots of books because it seems to have been comparatively peaceful overnight we do understand that the homes of two muslim families were burned and attacked but otherwise the curfew seems to have been observed that's because it was rigorously enforced by a heavy military and police presence hearing condi and not seem to have kept

and i turn curfew remains in place in the central sri lankan town of candy as the authorities try to contain violence aimed at the muslim community them the economy has taken a hit on the prime minister admits his country's reputation has been tarnished bernard smith is in kandy. candy's temple of the tooth is up there on the must see list of tourists coming to sri lanka. millions are drawn to the island serenity and natural beauty but that image is taken a hit after the attacks by sinhalese nationalists on the minority muslim community in candy we had to pass the area which was under curfew and so we had to go to the police to get a special permit to go through and that was quite exhausting and annoying also we had like to do a detour which was three hours longer than sixty two. little selected a member or do you say we saw destroyed things destroyed innocence and. so he takes on those. prime minister knows the violence has impacted his country's image that these unwise acts carried out by a small group have done great social and financial damage to the country to this will greatly

the sri lankan government is being accused of failing to act fast enough to contain a wave of anti muslim violence and nationwide state of emergency was imposed more than a week ago after days of riots and which sinhalese buddhists gangs attacked muslim owned homes and businesses but as has more from colombo. lanka's embattled prime minister is on a damage limitation exercise ronald wickramasinghe visited candy to promise swift compensation for the loss of life and property in riots last week he wanted al-jazeera asked for his response to the communal violence we have learned that in the hallway of the country as a boy people do not want to violence they may have different views about they think if you are the world really. this date but like any other country though they will be discussed in the media at least that's a great word leak and thereby. will emerge at election day here in. the last elections local ones last month delivered a major blow to the prime minister and president that coalition parties won control of just fifty two councils out of three hundred forty. three years ago m

trying to find out how the company operated, claimed to be interested in change the outcome of the sri lankanctions. they're discussing the idea of hypothetically entraumaipping a opposition leader. >> equally effective can be just to go and speak to the incumbents and to offer them a deal that's too good to be true and make sure that that is video recorded. make that's tactics are very corruptive. >> wow. a spokesperson for cambridge analytica denied they used any of the tactics. a source familiar with the hiring of cambridge tells nbc news that the primary figures involved in the hiring of the firm were jared kushner and brad parskow. parskow, who has been tapped to lead trump's 2020 re-election campaign has denied that the firm was useful to the campaign and said that the trump campaign instead used data from the republican national committee. but in may of last year, forbes magazine published a number of never before seen quotes from its november 2016 interview with jared occur ner on the trump campaign's data operation. kushner told foeshgs that we found that facebook and digital targeti

important to understand, our operatives, if you like, a glamorous word, posed as representatives of a sri lankan family who wanted cambridge analytica's help to win elections in sri lanka. they were looking for a sales pitch from cambridge analytica, and that's what they got. initially there were four meetings. in the first few meetings it was much more timid stuff, talking about the kind of data that cambridge analytica does and the profiling of voters that it offers up. however, at the final meeting, which was the meeting that alexander nix came along to, it took a slightly nefarious turn. and he started talking about, as we heard, ukrainian women potentially or bribing officials and filming it, and then kind of leaking it out into the bloodstream of the internet. so i should say that cambridge analytica in rejecting these kind of allegations against them are saying that this was largely part of the sales patter, and that they were in fact trying to work out whether or not the clients, if you like, were legitimate clients. and that is something that they engage in. i've got a statement from al

effective from our perspective was that we had to two of our undercover crew go in and pretend to be sri lankan operatives working for a family there looking to get assistance to try and influence and make sure their candidates win in the next election. so certainly they are by their own words with the way to work, the way to win elections in lots of different places. >> what other tactics did channel 4 news find out about in these undercover videos? >> as we've heard, there is some suggestion they might be prepared to send ukrainian women. i think they agree around to the rooms of potential political opponents to try and get footage of them in compromising situations. of course there's the suggestion of bribes there. but i think there's also more detail that we haven't seen a lot on in the way in which the company, if you like disguises its footprint. they talk about using fake ids, using fake websites about how they're untraceable, they're untrackable. they're ghosted in and ghosted out i think was the quote. that is also something that was particularly worrying. to give a little context, i s

to promote bribes and blackmail in an undercover video in which he thinks he's speaking to a s sri lankan client. another cambridge analytica executive named mark turnbull spells out a strt gee for the trump campaign that sounds strikingly similar to the russian disinformation effort. >> you just put disinformation onto the flood stream on the internet and watch it go. give it a little push now and again over time to watch it take shape. and so this stuff infiltrates the online community and expands. but with no branding so it's unattributable, untrackable. >> kiley morse for channel 4 news which conducted that undercover investigation of cambridge analytica. let's start with that. essentially we can do a no fingerprints information campaign on social media. is it credible? is that the kind of thing that they did actually do? >> well, yes, i think there is evidence that they were able to use proxies. indeed they were quite detailed in some of their evidence to us or some of their comments to us about that, about how you can go in and use a charity, for example, or use some other kind of u

loved and accepted regardless of ethnicity or religion when we look into the eyes of our fellow sri lankan brothers and sisters we shouldn't see a single lees a muslim or tamil or a burger we must see a selves in each other. if you're unsure langkawi want to hear from me you can always send us a message on our telegram col out our number here you can also still contact us on twitter since it's so open for you with their hash tag aging is good and killer just a week ago the around this an exclusive report showing disturbing evidence of continuing torture in sri lanka this is against the tamils remember president citizen it came to power three years ago and promised less authoritarian leadership this would suggest otherwise have a look for yourself search for sri lanka tunnels torture al-jazeera dot com it's a report from barnaby phillips. to the u.s. now in florida state house of representatives is likely to pass a final vote on a bill to raise the minimum age to buy guns this is nearly three weeks now after a gunman of course killed seventeen people of a school in punkin florida the bill d

dieted and showers army major cricket games weren't played in pakistan for several years after the sri lankan team's boss was attacked in two thousand and nine you know. who all the odds would be. going on behind. a wall or. dividing formula one world champion lewis hamilton is in pole position for sunday's australian grand prix but his mercedes team made valtteri bottas hit trouble ahead of the season opening race in melbourne as andy richardson ports. this was a point the early season impression. once it's a make lewis hamilton's miss avies teammates crashing else at the start of final qualifying for the australian grand prix after finishing third in last season's championship what us will be starting sunday's race well down the grid is not the best way this dog season but. yeah i was trying i was pushing the limits when the bit over the limits. exadata and one went to the bit too wide and lost the rear of the car and it just happened so quick i thought the defending champion hamilton produced a final lap in melbourne the ascent showed us through the pit lane he took pole position by more t

united and push our zomi major cricket games weren't played in pakistan for several years after the sri lankan team bus was attacked by gunmen in two thousand and nine you know we. all the hard work being in going on behind the scenes and you know we excited about more. ferrari's sebastian vettel has won the season opening grown pray in australia defending champion lewis hamilton looked set to victory in melbourne and was leading in so speed restrictions were briefly enforced on another car broke down on the track vettel saw his chance to make a pit stop and was able to rejoin the race ahead of his miss avies rival. vettel and hamilton aiming for a fifth world title this season. i think somebody is that was asked i think in exeter turned through and then when i saw it obviously you know it was really full of adrenalin even though you know the race is frozen but still to come into the pits everything on the limit trying to get back out because they told me is really close with lewis and when we got out ahead i knew that it's difficult to pass but you kept some pressure on especially at the begi

> that is their argument, that they are trying to figure out if this person who was posing as a sri lankanessman or potential i have lasri lankan bn wanted to do bribery >> so they delve into 007 on the side michelle caruso-cabrera. >>> so reports of a potential ftc investigation into facebook's use of personal data. how does this line up with the missteps from other tech giants? john fort is here on set that was the question yesterday. the if there's regulation on facebook, is there regulation on alphabet, amazon, twit, anybody who collects our data? >> the most famous case of tech running afoul of policy and government is microsoft and the antitrust case and, you know, the popular wisdom is that that derailed them as we moved into the internet era others, google in particular and facebook, surged past them in key areas. but usually when tech giants make big missteps it's not in the policy area, it's in the technology vision area think about my space it was out after friendster but ahead of facebook and didn't open up its platform at a time when it seemed to be important that got sideline

believe is a client but actually turns out to be an undercover reporter who's pretending to be a sri lankan official if we have that video of the actual uk report last night, you would be able to see some of the things they suggest, such as using pretty girls from the ukraine as -- to, you know, be honey traps and entrap potential individuals or also using bribes caught on camera they would later disperse on youtube and social media to discredit clients. once again, cambridge analytica suspending the ceo effective immediately, even though the original statement, kelly and wilf, when they first came out said, we said all those things on camera because we were trying to tease out whether or not this client was unethical they argued they had done absolutely nothing wrong back to you. >> michelle, i totally agree it's a complete turn-around from the statements we had from the company in the last couple of days whether or not that's changing their tune on what's already been released or a factor we still have more to come from the channel 4 investigation in the coming days. perhaps there's more

. >> works very well >> that's supposed sri lankan businessman is a reporter.nalytica prides itself on giving detailed profiles based on social media and makes extremely targeted ads yet the methods described in the video, use of women, bribes on tape are far more old-fashioned, traditional. they put out the following statement. assessing the legality and reputational risks associated with new proj secretaries critical for us, and we routinely undertake conversations with perspective clients to tease out any unethical or illegal intentions. the two cage brim analytica e c executives humored these and actively allowed him to disclose his intentions and they left with grave concerns and did not meet with him again. now we mentioned that they worked for the trump campaign. two other pieces of data about the company. one of the big investors is robert mercer. steve bannon, according to reports, sits on the board of the company. once again, this is the company that facebook accuses of having illegally kept or at least violated their standards by keeping lots of data

sri lanka is largely divided into two ethnic groups according to the last census almost seventy five percent are sin and they're concentrated in the southwest and center of the island eleven percent us are lankan tamils who mostly live in the north and the east but ism is the main religion particularly among the sinhalese accounts for seventy percent of the population twelve percent are hindu many of them tamils one nine point seven percent of muslims and seven point four percent are christian middle fernandez has more now from candy province. a heavy blanket of security around the affected areas of beginning and candy in. the thought it is very keen to make sure that there is no room for any further flare ups any more confrontations the muslim community and the sing haley's now what had started off as a fluke quickly small scale argument on an altercation about broadway's all right of way. has basically taken on a communal proportion it never start of this way and this is what the government is urging people not to give in to sort of hate rhetoric or any of this hate crime and violence but ensure that they work together the government has pointed towards the violence this country has seen for