the predominantly catholic philippines has been plagued by decades of separatist conflict in mindanao more than one hundred thousand filipinos have been killed and millions displaced by the fighting despite the reconciliation process attacks like this show armed groups still pose a threat to peace in the region victoria gate and be al jazeera. is the company of sulu province walid south of the mindanao island it's considered part of the predominantly muslim mindanao region i think looted in the new bangsamoro autonomous region agreement. that is covering this for us from the capital manila let's just start with an update of what we know. or what we know is at least twenty five people were killed many of them state forces the first bomb exploded inside the church where mass was ongoing early sunday morning and as survivors and panicked worshipers rushed out they were met by a a military army military truck that was responding to the first that the nation that's when the second bomb was detonated and it was placed inside the container box inside a mortar cycle right outside the church y

dog and al jazeera salusa the philippines. still ahead of al jazeera gets ready for the biggest match in its history off to. the asian cup semi final hole will be. welcome back it's time to catch up with all the sports and polls here something thank you very much cattle will play the biggest match in their football history when they take on continental giants japan in friday's asian cup final they got there thanks to a foreigner when over the tournament hosts united arab emirates was a game which regional politics also played a major part so helmet reports that it was dubbed the blockade dobby qatar taking on asian cup hosts the u.a.e. which one of the four arab nations imposing a blockade on them since two thousand and seventeen but despite the political tension there was plenty of goodwill on show before kick off. good at thirty oh i did once the action started though it didn't take long for things to heat up. that will do it a little so we were good to qatar despite playing in the stadium with little support it would be the

parts of the philippines are gone the state is in no it was at primly. the conditions are extremely be what talking about the competent g.d.p. of some of our and us dollars these people are suffering and a good idea yarning for better tomorrow and hopefully pockets of more societies will work together i mean there's sheer distrust to be honest and you ignore that but i think this is a decisive step now what needs to happen is that the key player right now that's in the driver's seat the moral islamic liberation front will have to you know reconfigure itself and you don't wear the political hat won't put down its arms and it has and the other rebel fighters will have to be mobilized and come to the table and start to work with the central government and so this is going to be you have to go into political mode you're going to have to establish a viable administration and you're ocracy and demonstrate that you can't legislate if you didn't politic do that and to really take into you know into the hands that destiny of the people in mindanao it was still ve

hello there were things of very intense rain over parts of the philippines at the moment the satellite picture is showing this huge blob of cloud that's giving us all out what whether it's actually the remains of an old tropical depression certainly it's giving us some very wet weather at the moment the winds aren't too much of a feature but it does do a lot we're going to see some flooding because on tuesday the rain stays heavy and it only gradually begins to ease on wednesday with still some heavy falls a possible further south whether here as well particularly over parts of job and into bali and that's all part of the monsoon that's really intensifying at the moment it's also going to be pushing its way a bit further towards the south so for some of us in australia we're going to see more in the way of wet weather and that's good news because the monsoon is really late this year that will be pushing its way southwards then few more showers are expected here on tuesday and wednesday and on wednesday we're also going to see some wet weather work its way into the southwestern part so

suppose family responsibility for sunday's bomb attacks on a roman catholic church in the southern philippines commanders think i was fighters well into i still the two explosions which killed twenty seven people. of a prominent chinese human rights lawyer. has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for subversion wang has defended political activists victims of land seizures and members of the banned religious groups are long gone he went missing in twenty fifteen crackdown by the chinese authorities and was tried that a closed hearing last december human rights watch says the sentencing makes a mockery of the chinese justice system agent brown has more now from beijing. for the past three and a half years wang has really been in a legal black hole and until he appeared in court for his one day trial on december the twenty six his family didn't even know if he was dead or alive he was unable to see his wife during his long time incarcerated before his trial and he also wasn't able to select his own legal team now wang had been part of a a grassroots movement here in china which was

you days we'll probably see an increase of clouds maybe decrease of rain for parts of the southern philippines so we'll be watching that very carefully so here's your forecast map here on friday cloudy conditions down there towards the southern part of the philippines and then as we go towards saturday notice those winds started coming in from parts of the northeast that could bring some gusty conditions and i do think by the end of the weekend we could be seeing some rain in your forecast as well well here across australia we have been dealing with the heat and this has been going on for the last couple of days in some locations we have deftly broken records and we are going to be seeing those very warm conditions continue as we go towards friday so for alice springs forty one degrees for you there over here towards city another day above thirty so about thirty four degrees in your forecast but there is a little bit of improvement as is fun about to make its way towards the north from melbourne up here towards city we do expect those temperatures to start to drop off just a little bit and the

also the death toll following floods and landslides in the philippines is now eighty five with the least twenty people still missing heavy rains hampered rescue operations in areas devastated but the search for survivors continues storm in the hit just days after christmas displacing as many as twenty five thousand people. and several people are being killed in a train crash in denmark the accident happened on the great belt road which links the central danish islands of zealand inhumane the bridge has been closed while authorities investigate those there is here next its science in the golden age in half an hour is the news hour with marty do stay with us. it was one of the biggest bank robberies of modern times with over eighty million dollars stolen from bangladesh's central bank one used investigates how cyber hackers infiltrated the global banking system and on al-jazeera. understanding the universe and the vastness of space is at the forefront of physics and astronomy research today everything from white dwarfs and bread giants to neutron stars and black holes but imagine trying to

however we got some days of spells of sunshine coming into the philippines over the next couple of days to further south the heavy showers continue across malaysia down into indonesia to cut a hundred and twenty eight millimeters of rain in twenty four hours that's nearly a month's worth in just one day in the heavy showers continue through much of malaysia down into indonesia want to see showers yeah a possibility into the philippines but not looking too bad his say we will see the odd shower here but temperatures generally getting up around the thirty degree mark it will take mess the case right across the region they say mashal as over towards tomato want to see showers possibility into some parts of thailand but it seemed in the asia that we'll see the heaviest of the right as we go through the next couple of days and that heavy rain that extends its way down into the north of australia we do still have the flooding concerns to northern parts of queensland you see the circulation continue to roll away here townsville in particular seem to refer amounts of rainfall for the flash floo

as is this one here so those two areas are ones that will produce increased rainfall which for the philippines is a bit novel after a couple dry weeks effectively but not so here this is been a pretty wet area for a while now and the rain is edging into was singapore then cooling down towards western java places that are most likely to be wet i think in the next couple of days and increasingly so the philippines but there have been sparky showers around in australia and they will be generated by what is still described in many places as a heat wave temperatures aren't hot everywhere and this certainly hint of cloud that might suggest a frontal system for a change in type and around the coast from melbourne up through sydney temperatures are not heatwaves down to really twenty four because of that influence of the water inland though it is hot for example the person we're up to forty now that might generate a few showers it seems like unlikely in western australia however in south australia and down to abuse south wales that possibility exists dish on monday is very similar except in perth it's

hello there appeared to be some showers billed again from the southern philippines but generally speaking this more drive in the reason we're at around three minutes and indonesia at the moment and that's correct as the atmospherics at a moment so you do see some white top clouds and you'll see some in the forecast as well the concentration maybe belittle bit further west hitting jakarta not so much singapore kayo on shore breeze making it more likely to be shari down to the peninsula here and of course borneo is pretty well covered in solar ways and you got more showers in the southern philippines but this is quite possibly an exaggeration i still think it's going to be more dry than wet in most places in malaysia and indonesia typically southeast asia over the next couple of days south of that also the western australia's quieten down a little bit the remains of penny long gone so showers in queens in seem rather less likely a fair late day showers are still there in new south wales and in queensland temperature wise so we're not at the extremes anymore student forty two now springs thi

quiet for many of us across the southeast in parts of asia the satellite picture is showing most of the philippines is without clouds at the moment that's just the old shower in the far south and we're also seeing plenty of sunshine across many parts of vietnam too we do have this is larry of cloud that's making its way towards us might bring us the odd sharon choose that think most likely as we head into wednesday for the south though that's where there are more showers so across borneo we'll see a few thunderstorms bubble up during the day and though generally track the way towards the west so we could well catch one or two in singapore and k.l. as well now down towards australia and we've seen some rather violent thunderstorms over the past twenty four hours this is the latest batch now working their way away from us but there's still the risk of so you want to showers here as we head through the next few days that area of cloud also links back to was the southern parts of western australia so they could be the old spots of rain here but what you really notice is the temperatures in adelaide the

again in sort of ways the west papua a good part of indonesia frankly not a lot of it in the southern philippines and in fact having picked up twenty four hours worth of figures not far from singapore eighty millimeters or so but nearly two hundred off the island of java and in west papua and this is where the big risk is from landslides in these big downpours that happen in only a few hours to be honest the potential circulation off the coast of borneo heading towards singapore might make a difference to your weather the next couple days maybe more especially on monday so just beyond this forecast but the hint is definitely there there's not been much rain in northern australia the story so far this summer has big seeding the hot conditions well they're about to change we have indeed already changed adelaide that's a typical line of change wind direction frontal system so down to twenty six now late twenty two albums still thirty or nearly forty rand a.z.t. northern new south wales where you could still quarter heat twice forty three dies springs if you're in perth is still pretty much on the ho

hundred millimeters of rain per day so a stormy conditions continuing here want to see showers into the philippines but a good deal trodden a has been recently in place to say that these are scattering of showers across much of malaysia down into indonesia joining up with the showers that we have across northern parts of australia will china storms here and just offshore coast keeping a close eye on tropical side climb penny that list ladies make its impacts on northern queensland as we go on towards the weekend but at the moment it's not too bad here in terms of the rain want to see showers across the north all of australia should be about the heat with a melting forty two celsius there for friday getting up to the mid twenty's in path as we go on into sas day a cool one the meldon. look the arrival of refugees is debated in european parliament's. but the journey itself is little understand. to syrians document the route that has claimed so many lives searching for sanctuary to people in power on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching all deserving sell robida relied on top stories u.s. presiden

and other countries like austria turkey and the philippines. but the relationship will soon otto's most interested in is with this money they share a love of social media and the d. . mistrust of the press will sinatra's even been nicknamed the trump of the tropics between them they now rule over the two largest economies in the americas it's an abrupt about face from the left this governments of brazil's recent past this street polystyrene you looks pretty quiet now but it felt some of the biggest tremors of change hundreds of thousands of people marched against a corruption scandal that ingolf brazil's political class but together with problems with the economy and specially crime many people fed up and ready to take a chance on an absolute outlier diable sonando. analysts say there's danger he could eventually have to another global trend strongmen undermining democracies he has a phone this for brazil's authoritarian past well i'm in favor of torture and the people are in favor of that too. that doesn't lose him points for many here who see

show green everywhere is probably an exaggeration we'll see a return of a few showers in the southern philippines will see quite a few in some moderate there was even rain is found also asked to care as far as tons concern but that certainly isn't the concentration as again i can say expect some more likely than rain obviously is still true in australia but what shows do develop can be no small this one up here looks bigger than it was reported as being but i think for anywhere in the north it's going to be typically one hundred babies at any of those thunderstorms late day sun still still producing cells in new south wales and queensland temperatures so it's a hard time should be the residual motion that proves that point adelaide at thirty seven always cooler still twenty five that suddenly breeze it won't get any warmer as you can see about how to get to tuesday we're hitting forty in adelaide that's probably what you might call a comfortable. rewind returns it can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with brand new updates on the best of documentaries they had a number of reforms put in p

for a small clips to taste that success and that's what we've seen from kind of palestine we've seen philippines cookstown so but you are allowing sites through that at the moment these teams up and want to match them in palestine would progress the last sixteen without scoring a goal which of often kind of that seems a bit odd for a tournament a knockout team tournament and you also want to kind of see and supergrass progression and not going forward and just quickly martin that the defending champions australia a lot of injuries and much change came from four years ago that they have a realistic chance of winning this this title. in the struggle with the injuries they received even before that on another couple of retirements tim cahill and millie out of the attack were out. since then it's going to be an injury after injury and we're going to have to injury this morning for much. who's missed out of the jordan much of the rest that's all and so it's going to be difficult to live a relatively easy draw for come in second in the group so we should make at least the quarter finals and then you k

hello there it is absolutely throwing it down in some parts of the philippines at the moment and the satellite picture shows why we've got this huge drop of cloud with us it's the remains of a now tropical depression so the winds aren't too strong but it's still giving us some very very heavy rain some places reporting way over one hundred millimeters of wet weather just in the last twenty four hours that system is putting itself at northwoods very slowly so expect more heavy rain as we head through monday and choose day i mean further towards the south of there's also been plenty of showers here more of them around the northern parts of java there as we head through the next couple of days and roll the heavy ones force in singapore to the south and there's actually been a distinct lack of rain for many of us in australia it should be the monsoon season but they are all the rays that we would normally expect at this time of year that way behind sched jewel at the moment because it's so dry here the air across many other parts of australia rather dry and that's what's helping things g