Forces descended upon cost including a muslim enclave on sri lankas east coast with the run found the n. T. Giant. We all thors hes arrested 100 people affiliated with the group and sees weapons and other materials which they say indicate the n t j well organized and planning further attacks. Special forces of into this building because they suspect a member of the intake with building bombs here. Some local Muslim Leaders say the raids a true little too lies because theyve been warning the author about zahra since 2016 when we knew that his thoughts on creating and propaganda and the sometimes you wish me to be you its. Some of us we have believing hes going to live didnt mean extremism you know hes thought and you do it in his speech. Did you report him to the police yes of course everyone knows they intimidate people no police no everyone no one my question is why you did not ask him. Muhammad subfield leads an association which oversees 56. 00 mosques in cotton could he says he was concerned about xerox all month which called for the killing of nonbelievers. But mohammad couldnt stop him building this religious sentiment downtown. I strongly believe i did my part. But the police. And all of them to conduct the program then they did the program so the security personnel must take all the responsibility in terms of this blast and misters ahead on activities. Mahmud hizbullah was the governor of this region at the time of the attacks a political ally of sri lankas president hes been accused of not doing enough. Before the 8th or attacks did you have any knowledge of the m. T. G. I and their role in iraq if in this area of course theyre there theyre functioning no 2. Indeed the as as a doubling this group. Not terrorists we dont know about the terrorism as a religious group they are functioning but only think that extreme on the religion when wasting their norm using nothing in the white could be a tux a photograph surfaced from 2050 showing his blood shaking hands with zahra as to other Easter Sunday suicide bombers the gone. To his school law and some polity. Believe in new on we knowingly or unknowingly supported these type of extremists you had these groups without you know concerning the consequences of this a number of politicians have accused you of being involved in the n. T. Before the attacks is that a fair accusation how involved did this come. I am totally denying the allegations. Count to 10 percent of sri lankas population and most practice if he is pretty recent he is more conservative interpretations of the faith have taken root at towie. Gradually within the 2025 years that this community have a very very keen interest to practice islam as a saudi arabia as the middle east you know because within 15 yes they have the Muslim Community they have changed the address. Critics of the law say as governor he allowed too much change to the social fabric of cutty. To this town have a problem with radicalization. This this ridiculous situation and specially extreme is we had some issues before. 2 years ago and theyre taking their people and. Their mind from that there is. That extreme religious group. That National Poll here but we never expected. In all the terrorist groups or. Muslims that conservative tar we mosques say they follow peaceful teachings and now being unfairly targeted at one of these mosques we need mohammad built. Around when the suicide bomber was in his light. And was identified as though hed from the beginning so we say and because he committed suicide people are looking at us suspiciously and i thought he thought but not although hed sent does follow his line of preaching. With no force in street lunker who were told hed align ourselves with. His action has affected all the muslims in sri lanka where there are no heed to feeling a little bit. Mohamed says as ron became more radical he leftys months and started delivering his own hardline sermons. Across captain who. Then in 27 tane he went in the hiding after a violent clash with a group of sufi muslims or any other of the layout of the unit but he has antagonized politicians and also antagonized islamic groups who are against his teachings or who didnt follow his teachings so he accumulated enemies on all sides because of his actions. He says clerics now educate youth year about the dangers of extremism but he fears islamophobia and new aggressive security measures who discriminates against members of the Muslim Community. They would or would but its where they get their checking every house and the muslims are welcoming them and are prepared to identify the perpetrators. But if this situation continuous its natural that the muslims will feel victimized by the money going down so these actions have to be stopped if weve gone to stop a lot of people like zaha done being brainwashed in a way then we need a unity and Cooperation Among all the risks. Under the state of emergency 10000 soldiers have been deployed across the country and as during sri lankas civil war the been given powers to search interrogate and arrest anyone without a court order so theyve been sweeping the same houses in this neighborhood for the last guy searching again and again and again. Some muslim politicians fear a whole community is being demonized for the actions of a few. That needs to be education among Security Forces so. That they will not. Over do over each dam and it and. Sudden produce has to create a sense of grievance among minorities certainly governments should not become regulators of lifestyle. But the government has imposed a temporary ban on muslim face coverings islamic schools and sermons by clerics and now subject to tie to monitor. Conservative members of the government also want bans on foreign islamic teachers and kids on Things Solutions islamophobia not peepers identity in their faces. And i said you would not ask them mostly i say human we all human should you know that. This is muslim i didnt. Read the clampdown we hear reports of attacking shops in homes owned by muslims we head to a town 2 hours north of columbus where theres been an outbreak of communal violence and inflammatory social media post by a local muslim has reportedly triggered the mob spirit apparently a curfew has been in parts and papal im allowed out but were going to see if we can get close to the site but theres some damage over there you can say that some damage over there and it appears and by somebody throwing rocks into the shops. When we begin filming a story owned by a muslim man grab your stuff they are stopped the police try to stop it stop they say showing such images make sure lanka look bad. But a day like that theres no hiding the violence sweeping the country. 20 movie or a tucked. Hundreds of muslim owned properties of burned. Down. The government says the only way to stop such attacks is tougher hate speech laws the while and attacks against the other religion that cannot be accepted we should poorly really get that type of extremist groups with dates coming from. Their days coming from islam is where those coming from. In recent weeks there were demonstrations by powerful signal of buddhist groups linked to past violence they accuse governor has blocked into local muslim politicians of being involved in the attacks the men deny having links to the in t. J. And quit they government parts we had to stop all this ridiculous im not totally muslim even saying hello in Sola Darcy Ralph how cute and 7 of the muslim ministers also step down they all insist the government is filing to keep muslim safe from persecution there is a general fear say causes that is being exploited by certain unduly elements certain is enough for big forces out there who survive on propagating their own brand of ideologies. As face becomes the new front line in post bush manka those scarred by the easter attacks feel abandoned and where in the future as Catholic Priest we are not now of us but we are now or some other people all upon very. Mean in the harmony my message here try your best to keep close to your relationship and we need to members. Though somebody has his family handles catholics ok stand just be to get into and to Work Together next. Meet tension and heightened security st sebastian stretching new gumbo is slowly trying to recover but the hope of priests like father pereira. Yeah i mean that had to sting i mean there was a chance he stayed in the and i will for my people i mean this in the novel. That so many Parishioners Church will always be the place where loved ones came to pride and never came. A parliamentary inquiry is investigating the security lapses that led to the Easter Sunday bombing but sri lankas president is refusing to cooperate his. Father pereira says the politicians i just as culpable as the suicide bombers i would like to say that its a terror act by them though and they have done what he would damage to our families i mean it it even to the christians. And these members should how to resign and. I myself in close family. Im never going to want them. In future. So you have no forgiveness for what i have done. To me how part of their. I am not ready to accept them because they may going to do the thing i mean it is a game. Laxman says he writes that his family were not high in the Easter Sunday attacks. But for him true lanka will never be the same again. And i would to family. How do you consume a family who is experienced at album. In one house the father is alive but the children a dear little died. In another but children are life but the father does not mind them wadi in the church there was one abandon charge crying without beatings. Who will console the child and what ive said politicians come and go but the charity will live with this sort of whatever. In future i hope we can move forward and that all religions can prosper together in harmony. For now unity remains elusive in a tiny island nation of many faiths and in the cities. Where bigotry often spirals into bloodshed another war with the could to rile the prosperity built from 8 years of pace. Across china millions of cameras are watching citizens every move and scoring their behavior one i want to east investigates chinas surveillance crackdown on how does the. I remember the 1st time i walked into the newsroom and it felt like being in the General Assembly of the United Nations because it was so many nationalities. It is just that we all come different places but its what that gives us that gives us the ability to identify with the. World but we can understand what its like to have a different perspective and i think that is a strength for aljazeera. Hello im a star and over with the top stories on aljazeera for the 1st time in 25 years the mayor of turkeys largest city will not to be from the Ruling Ak Party the opposition candidate won the rerun vote dealing a major blow to president type he campaigned hard to extend his partys role in the commercial capital the opposition narrowly won the 1st election back in march before the ruling party forced a rerun over claims of fraud. Reports from istanbul. Istanbul changes hands for the 1st time since 1994 the main opposition c. S. P. Candidate. Has been elected mayor of the city in a controversial run that has polarized the nation the 49 year old was relatively unknown but has managed to with the backing of crucial allies such as the Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party the s. D. P. Stand. Im ready to work with the turkish president in harmony and i aspire to do that i am announcing that in front of all the residents of istanbul once the Legal Process is completed after receiving the men date and assuming the office i would like to visit and as soon as possible to present a road map and opinions and listen to his views. Remember all those weigh in is a major setback for ben ali yielded and former Prime Minister and a partys candidate for the Mayoral Election youll do is loss is widely interpreted here as an indication of the partys waning influence. According to the results as and now my competitors in the race i congratulate him and wish him good luck. Will march 31st. Defeated his wife will by a narrow margin a party contested the outcome claiming that some of the results werent ratified by Election Officials the higher election board ordered a reelection undeterred by the decision it. Held multiple rallies reminding his supporters the victory was stolen by our party. Democracy has won just as has won people care about democracy i congratulate the future president of the country who told our ted barrett we increased our gains by having more votes from the our Party Supporters which means there are also this granpa. The new mayor faces the delicate task of running the countrys biggest wealthiest and most populous city but his supporters already see him as the right person to run against president. In the 2023 president ial election although this is a local election its all to come is likely to shape the future of a party which faces a deepening crisis. And people across the country all agree with ruling party has failed to fix our economy in tatters. Its the board. Now sudans military has voiced reservations over an ethiopian plan for a transition to civilian rule ethiopias Prime Minister has been leading the mediation efforts protest leaders support the proposal to create a joint military and civilian governing body but sudans military joins us as it doesnt correspond with a separate preprint from the African Union and ethiopias government says its back in control of the Northeastern State of am hora after a failed rebellion the military chief and the leader of m hora were among 4 People Killed iran says there is no going back from its decision to withdraw from parts of the 2015 nuclear deal unless european signatories intervene against u. S. Sanctions tehran has accused european powers of not shielding it from economic pressure thats come as donald trump sends 2 top officials to the middle east for diplomatic talks and hundreds of thousands of protesters have rallied in the Czech Republic demanding that the Prime Minister step down under a bad ish faces a criminal investigation over alleged fraud some say this is the biggest protest there since the fall of communism in 1989 well those are the headlines the news continues here after aljazeera correspondent. Well like the mother with her little. Girl the only go one. Word. Just 60 years after the Wright Brothers put a man in the scientists and engineers were grappling with the next major challenge putting a man in space and keeping him alive. As an engineering challenge it was the most extreme imaginable best solution a rocket and the most complicated piece of personal protection of equipment man isnt evan know the space suit for the american side of the space race the design challenge was handed to a small team inside nasa crew systems the leader of that team was Matthew Radnofsky the mad russian an eccentric 2nd generation jewish immigrant with a can do attitude and a broad boston accent he was also my grandfather i barely knew him he died when i was just 3 years old apollo 11 was his try on war. And the perfectly designed space suits them and flew in his legacy. Ive always been fascinated by space and ive often wondered how he did it. For me the story of the space race isnt just about the man who risked their lives to travel and. The unknown but the ones who held those lives in that time. I grew up in hartford show england a world away for america and the space race when im at my parents house to ask my dad here members about grandpa. Looking at our old photographs and watching a nasa film i realize how little i really know about my grandfather. Your grandfather and his colleagues. Worked on the space suits they designed the space suits that became. The centerpiece of what the astronauts wore in the mercury gemini and the Apollo Program the armstrong. Buzz aldrin and all of the astronauts who followed them who walked on the moon. I never really quite realized that actually i always thought though it was a was just a very small part and this big machine and actually i realize now whos actually got a big part in a big machine i think you know a lot of people were big parts in that machine i think there were a lot of people. Who took the goals that were given them. And they just went on achieved it why do you say we were born i see i because i dont have it all was. Clearly call no you didnt me you didnt see a lot of him because he lived in texas and we were here already by the time you were born. Was he please this is this some son probably home where he lived. Up to all of you and like to talk about it. What is it like now and from all this and little the pictures and. Getting an account of the mission. Now its its it feels great its really interesting to reevaluate a little bit and to remember that the terrific person that your grandfather was my dad was. He was he was a he was a real character and. I think about him a lot. And its interesting when your parents have been gone for for a while you know what do you think about. Theyre still there in the rear and you can hear them. Leaving with it but i think about this you think of our own terror not to have felt well this is great i think its. I think its a chance for you to discover. Who your grandfather was and its true you get to know my dad in a way that maybe. This is a start i mean we have a few pictures you know youre going to go off and talk to people who knew him and worked with him. And i think thats just terrific and really glad. My grandfathers fascination with safety flight and subsequently space seats began during world war 2. Matt radnofsky was stationed at 3rd light bedfordshire in england in the 3 or 6 Bombardment Group as a navigator in the beast 17 flying fortress. Or as thats now it is a small museum operated by rough franklin on the outskirts of the old airfield. Ive come here with my dad because we both want to hear my grandfathers combat story i think that some of the equipment used in the u. S. Air force at that time may have influenced grandpa when he subsequently designed the astronauts clothing and equipment ralph has a good collection of that Old Air Force equipment hair. During his time at nasa grandpa designed the astronauts communications helmet affectionately known as the snoopy cap its easy to see how the influence for that came from the aviators flying helmet i always had. Like this my lame and it was easier to have a headset. Than face. So how much some smaller complaint. Was apparently when grandpa was working on the Gemini Project they were the astronauts kept complaining devices kept slipping and so grandpa said to somebody oh just get an aviators cap and they can wear that underneath their helmet and that will keep the comms device in place maybe we touched that device to the heart. And i hadnt really realized that it was so literally exactly like that but he wasnt just like all lets get this hat that i remember from the war and see if we can put together he literally was ill just do what i did during the war that makes sense as thats really cool well also shows me a heated suit that the aviators wore to keep warm when they flew at high altitude. Is. Commonly known as the blue bunny honestly because its blow i suppose why. You can see heating elements around in through it. Im surprised how much it looks like something worn by nasa astronauts this looks just like a cooling suit that you were underneath your your space suit so you say ok how are we going to manage to keep the National Cool when theyre wearing this massive suit that weighs more than 2 men you just put them in a suit that was watering through it and so again like with the new pick up you can see really clearly that this is something that he would have been it not even inspired by such an obvious against an obvious answer to a problem during the war grandpa was a navigator in a b. 17 called the cost of it. But ive never been able to picture him in action so this is really interesting because this is actually inside of a b. 17 this pick