prime minister run ill wickramasinghe paid a visit to one of the three churches that were targeted in the attacks you would like to know that the orders have been given to find those responsible for this security services will be given all the powers they want we can't allow these kinds of crimes to take place we will also look into what went wrong what is going to be worried about for the next few days the important thing is counting on a peace that the prime minister's said there had been prior information about possible attacks and that there would be an investigation to determine why the precautions were not taken and that fears that sunday's massacre could destabilize the country the government has imposed

the prime minister of sri lanka rano wickramasinghe a has been speaking about the attacks today let's listen to part of what he had to say. set to be pretty much i would like to express my condolences with the families of victims and those injured in the attacks that took place in the country today. because. i see this is a major crisis that will lead the country and its economy towards instability. i strongly condemn these attacks that targeted religious sites in luxury hotels if not. all of us must not hold the lure of the land or. bring in now jamila knowledge would be an editor of news in asia and a journalist in colombo sri lanka at least two more blasts followed the earlier bombings today what do we know about those. yes hello so the two more blasts just took place a short sighted ago was reported from office if he were the national zoo which was before the trauma large across the top because in large and are not the last was before that somehow to come thick in democrat whatever that was also into that particular colombo so so far what the police are telling us is that some pea

prime minister running wickramasinghe paid a visit to one of the three churches that were targeted in the attacks. like the orders have been given to find those responsible for this security services will be given all the powers they want we can't allow these kinds of crimes to take place we will also look into what went wrong. we worry about for the next few days the important thing is to maintain peace that the prime minister has said there had been prior information about possible attacks and that there would be an investigation to determine why the precautions were not taken and that sears this sunday's massacre could destabilize the country the government has imposed a nationwide curfew and blocked access to social media saying it was necessary to stop the spread of false rumors and to ease tension. but by sunday night police in colombo reported that there had been a petrol bomb attack on a mosque and arson attacks on two shops owned by muslims. for many sri lankans the apparently coordinated attacks have brought back painful memories of the country's long running civil war when

of the defense forces will be replaced in the next twenty four hours the prime minister ronald wickramasinghe revealed that those behind sunday's bombings bombings that killed three hundred twenty one people may have had links to eisel the u.n. special envoy for libya's renewed his appeal for all armed groups to stop the third week of fighting around tripoli. coal forces led by the wall autonomy for after slow food in their advance on the capital at least two hundred sixty four people have been killed. you know you have the years where there's always the task i've been charged with despite its difficulty is to return to negotiations i call for a peaceful solution to stop the war or the reunification of the libyans on a unified resolution to save their country whatever the work of the international community will need a special libyan will to stop the war. egypt is hosting two emergency meetings of african leaders to talk about fighting in libya and the political uncertainty in sudan and members of the african summit are urging sudan's military to conduct a civilian handover within three month

ranil wickramasinghe said he had considered resigning in the wake of the easter sunday bomb attack. lanka continued, with a large cache of bomb—making equipment found during a raid in the east of the country. clive myrie is in colombo and has this report. in sand where nothing else will grow, wreaths blossom. no names yet, just numbers in this catholic graveyard. christian souls lost to suicide bombers on easter sunday. anil fernando was away working in cardiff when his sister died in the attack on the local church. he, like many, accuses the government of not doing enough to protect the public. if the prime minister was here in front of you now, what would you say? i don't want to talk about this. you don't want to talk to him? no, that's it. i am so sad, that's the only thing i can say. thank you very much. we were given the chance to speak with the prime minister, who says he is grieving, too. despite public perceptions of a lack of empathy for those distressed in this nation's hour of need. did you feel any pain at the sight of those churches? i really felt pain. the hotels? i d

where they were in the immediate run up to the devices being detonated the prime minister randall wickramasinghe condemning the attacks the worst act of violence since the end of the civil war a decade ago the events of two thousand and nine. will bring you all the latest developments on the other side of the break. anti fascist anti establishment and pro violence. despite the recent official disbanding of its militarized wing of basque separatist movement is found alive and well on the terraces of a build found stadia. a place where political revolutionaries share a platform an ideology with violent football hooligans. and read all death on al-jazeera. also one of our biggest strengths is that we talk to normal everyday people we get them to tell their stories and doing that really reveals the truth people are still gathered outside these gates waiting for any information most of them don't know whether their loved ones are alive or dead or miami really is a place where two worlds meet we can get to washington d.c. in two hours we can get it on jurists in the rest of central america about the s

colombia an hour since i spoke to him and al but this is quite a development prime minister rania wickramasinghe is saying the government may have been aware of the attack in advance. absolutely taking people of back with that pronouncement to but if we go into the background it kind of becomes obvious as to where the prime minister is coming from that statement he said that there might have been prior information or knowledge of the potential of such an attack being conducted and that investigations must be carried out as to why precautions were not taken to prevent such an attack now he had also said in that statement that. international support of international leaders have been sought to conduct the investigations to exhaust all lines of investigation to find out the root where this is generated from but he also in the same way and is reported to have said that from the information he has that all of those arrested were locals now the president might have other serious saying there has also basically taken some action he's secretary on record as saying he's appointed a committee to report ba