The connection between. European union. Correspondent. Stretched. Recipe for success strategy that makes a difference. Baking bread on d. W. Coming up on the program. In two days in the philippines scrambled to help people affected by two earthquakes. Is the country to deal with these disasters plus. A nation grieves. Burying their dead after sundays deadly attacks. And can he make it second time lucky indian Prime Minister. Along with millions of indians in the third phase of the countrys elections. Im british welcome to day. Its good to have you with us the philippines is reeling from two earthquakes that have struck the Island Nation in two days at least sixteen people have been killed but the death toll could rise as authorities dig through rubble to reach survivors the first earthquake with a magnitude of six point one was centered on a town around one hundred kilometers northwest of manila the second up quake to hit on tuesday was centered on the island of summer in the east it h
family moments before the explosion i heard about that he wished noyce and i jumped into the chair and i saw that my daughter. who worked for so in the fall. i don t know what to do. i was. just told my daughter on the floor. and not only to try to lift that i was ordered to do. exactly the same next time if there. are people from at least twelve different countries have been killed in the bombings more details about the identities emerging danish business tycoon under polson and his wife lost three of the children that were spending the holidays in tree lanka. kiran aerosol ratan them was staying at the same hotel in colombo when the explosion went off. we
rights watch later said the fighting constituted genocide. despite small scale acts of enter ethnic violence since tree lanka has been mostly at peace a tourism boom has bolstered economic growth and sri lankan officials are keen to shield the sector from instability and violence for more now i m joined by. christiane wagner he works with the german institute for international in security affairs here in berlin mr wagner it s good to have you on this show his government has apologized for failing to act on warnings about a possible attack that we saw yesterday what does it say about the government that no action was taken and they were they had the warnings they are. it could be the case that the government has and the security forces have simply put too much focus on the research involved the liberation tigers of tamil eelam which was part of the civil war. which was defeated some ten years ago and it was ten years it was ten
tree lanka is widely considered to be one of asia s oldest democracies and it s a diverse one while sri lanka s population of twenty one point six million people is predominantly buddhist other religions are also significant can do is make up more than twelve percent of the population while muslims account for almost ten percent. and christians mostly catholic are seven percent of the population. those religions are spread across sri lanka s major ethnic groups about three quarters of sri lankans are sinhalese. with tunnel groups totaling more than fifteen percent and sri lankan more is making up most of the rest. when nationalist thomas pushed for independence in one thousand nine hundred three it sparked a devastating civil war over the next twenty six years it s believed more than one hundred thousand people were killed the war ended in two thousand and nine with an all out government offensive that crushed the remaining tommo strongholds human
tear was not over at one forty five pm a seventh explosion took place at the new tropical in just south of colombo and eight attacked thirty minutes later during a police raid at a house in colombo sri lanka is no stranger to ethnic and religious strife we have more now on the background of this south asian island nation that has not always been peace with itself. for many outsiders and tourists sri lanka is a storybook travel destination an exotic island in the indian ocean offering pristine beaches untouched nature and eastern cultural heritage. the postcard tourism pitch is a more complicated reality a british colony until nine hundred forty eight the country kept its colonial era name silent until constitutional reforms in one thousand nine hundred seventy two tree lanka is widely considered to be one of asia s oldest democracies and it s