tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera April 1, 2019 2:00am-3:01am +03
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leaders to be responsible for the collective will of the people they need to be first and foremost responsible for the collective will of their own people to be representative of the will of lot of people what when they're all me and saw all preoccupation is the sort of rival of their own democratic system it's really hard to see how they can reach a common understanding by one thank you very much for your analysis is always my one shot or. now one of algeria's richest men and a close backer of president of the lizzie's with a frica has been arrested at the tennessee and border and he had the resigned as head of the algerian business leaders farm on thursday he has been awarded large public works contracts by the government and helped fund with the flick of the election campaigns now algerians living in france are gathering for a seventh week of anti-government protests against president. they're rallying in support of the millions of algerians who are demanding regime change algeria's army chief is pushing for an eighty two year old pacifica to be declared unfit for
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office. this goes from ukraine now where polls have closed in the first round of the presidential election ukrainians have chosen from among thirty nine candidates for president they hope could end corruption war with russian back separatists and a struggling economy president petro poroshenko is seeking reelection but comedian volodymyr selenski has led opinion polls but no candidate is expected to win a majority so a runoff vote is expected in april let's go to our correspondent covering the elections john hollands joining us live from the capital kiev talk us through the exit polls so far georgia. what we've just had the first partial set of exit polls they'll be a final set later they're not expected to change much and they do put followed him in silence ski the comedian turned x. very comfortably in the lead with thirty four four point four percent but reporters
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think of the incumbent president on seventeen point eight and these nearest challenger yulia timoshenko a veteran of politics a former prime minister down on fourteen point two so it does in the first place confirm that there will be a second round nobody has won and now private george and that it will be between and in ski and poroshenko it's. not an unexpected result the polls have been tipping this for weeks now it's certainly an unlikely one little give me a zelinsky a comedian no prior experience in politics whatsoever nothing to measure him against he's popular with young voters who who've just basically cost a protest vote for him many believe because they are annoyed and upset and angry with the established politicians and their failed promises continued corruption the continued war in east and so on mr zelinsky says he's going to change everything but he's given very little in the way of concrete detail about quite how he plans to do that he'll go up against petro poroshenko the confectionery billionaire four
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years in office now he styled themselves a strong man reforming the army in the war in the east promising to rid the country of corruption but not doing so so a second round looming at the end of april between these two men the chocolate billionaire if you like versus the comedy king yet incredible to think that the comedy king is is leading john a but does the fact that he has given so little detail on the policies on how he would govern i wonder if that will have an impact when it really comes down to it and the second round. yeah i mean i don't think anything could be taken for granted at this point because of course all the other votes in this election more than fifty percent have got to go somewhere either to mr dent zelinsky or to mr poroshenko and it will in the end come down to who people consider to be a safe pair of hands mr poroshenko represents the old guard if you like established politicians and the established mainstream way of doing things in this country movie a lot of older ukrainians who will be minded to vote for him mr zelinsky represents
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a new a new way a new face a new image of politics we've just been at these campaign headquarters people playing ping pong and foosball and eating kind of a kind of haze and sipping glasses of wine it's a very different image it will be attractive to young voters the big question of course will be whether those young voters actually come out on the day and vote jennifer thank you very much for that john a hollywood the live in kiev thank you still ahead on the bus one month he wants to start a global conversation about regulating hate speech on social media and politics look at the rise of poetry on social media and how it's resonating with young people searching for understanding.
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hello again welcome back well this hour i want to take you up here towards a live on but we have been talking about the very heavy rain that we are seeing across the region you can see it on satellite image and we are already picking up the rain right now across parts of iraq and now coming into iran now we're very concerned about this region because it is already saturated from our previous storm that we saw at the beginning of last week that cause some deadly flooding there we expect to see some rain anywhere between one hundred to two hundred millimeters of rain over the next you days and as we go towards tuesday things across the ron do get better but here across northern iraq things are going to remain quite wet there while across the gulf we are seeing a temp is rising and here on monday about thirty six degrees going to be a high note so the clouds across the region with the rain up to the north could see some rain here in doha as well could be thunderstorms and as we go towards tuesday we do expect to see those temperatures coming down to about normal for this time of year but still quite cloudy across much of the region and that is will make a way across southern africa things not looking too bad down here towards the south
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not a lot of clouds to speak of but we are picking up those cooler temperatures across much of the area so for cape town it is going to be an eighteen degree day there up towards durban maybe a shower to a twenty six and johannesburg a nice day for you with a temperature of about twenty six degrees. up to.
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good to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories voting has ended in turkey's municipal elections president of the once party is fighting to hold on to major cities as the country faces recession leaders at the arab league summit intimacy to have made a new unified push for the creation of a palestinian state the summit took place against a backdrop of division war and west across the region with conflicts in yemen syria and libya are also on the agenda and polls are closed and ukraine's presidential election president petro poroshenko is seeking reelection but comedian volodymyr selenski has led to opinion polls but no candidate is expected to receive more than half the votes so a runoff is expected. now facebook c.e.o.
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is calling for new rules to govern the internet and walls of governments to share responsibility for policing what we click on and a newspaper article mark zuckerberg says it is not for companies alone to define and monitor harmful content he's pushing for a common global framework to police privacy and data as well as rules to stop the spread of hate speech facebook is facing a series of scandals and clue to its failure to stop the live streaming of the new zealand mosque attacks and which fifty people were killed earlier this month. well facebook has already signed up in principle at least to a contract for the web that's the brainchild off to berners lee the man who invented the world wide web thirty years ago with a vision of open access was speaking to al-jazeera earlier this month ernest lees said it's a global set of principles to govern use of the internet but it needs buy in from governments companies and individuals. it's called
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a contract because in fact part of it is companies is currently not poly the platform was very complaisant the building belief systems need to tweak their systems a bit so that they could the discussion not constructive but also those governments as well and so companies and governments need to talk to each other and also as a third constituent we've included the person the assess as a consumer and old person they feel a to be discussed because their rights are really important we see that the weapon that we should be more user centric. users can have more control of their data and partly because at the end of the day if governments don't do what they've committed to and or companies don't do what they should do then it ends up having to be people protesting in the streets people voted by changing the products they use or people complain or complain to the government the saudi arabia's being accused of
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hacking the fun of jeff bezos the owner of the online shopping giant amazon and the washington post hide private investigators after his fine messages were leaked to the national enquirer tabloid newspaper has detectives have licked the hat of the washington post's extensive coverage of the murder of saudi journalists. saudi ministers have previously denied any length to the national enquirer leak and mark owen jones is an assistant professor of middle east studies at tom had been fully for university here and katherine and he says the hacking of live off islands as widespread. this tactic is become the norm so we have saudi doing it a lot but we know for example that the united arab emirates of use this time similar technologies against human rights activists like in months or you know the bahamian government back in two thousand and twelve were using european spy ware in fischer to target activists not just living in a shame but living in the u.k. so we know that even smaller countries countries that do not have as much power or
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clout to saudi arabia have been using these types of technologies to target activists living abroad and this to me is really crucial because what we're seeing now is not necessary just state centric efforts to control dissent we're seeing these kind of assemblages of authority in structures often western companies authoritarian governments coming together to target people who might be living in canada or the u.k. so much of the expertise that is then sold to authoritarian governments comes from countries like america u.k. it's no different from the arms trade if you look at most countries in the gulf where they buy the weapons from it's usually the u.s. or the u.k. so it's these people who have the expertise who are selling it to these countries so they can't wash their hands of this when it was mentioned in the clip that pegasus was considered a weapon actually all of this technology should be considered a weapon it just depends how it's being used. the international monetary fund expects the philippines to become the fastest growing economy and southeast asia many filipinos doubt whether they will benefit millions of homes or data to cope
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with a growing population and alleviate extreme poverty jamila reports from manila. married rowsley passau has been living here with her husband and four children this small room serves as the kitchen living room dining area and bathroom at night the all sleep in this less than ten square meter bedroom upstairs because of how this really small and we can barely stretch our legs here it's hot and cramped but that's better than nothing according to the philippine government almost six million homes need to be built for impoverished filipinos and that backlog is expected to reach almost eight million by twenty twenty two which means thousands of homes need to be built every day in order to meet that demand but that's not happening because government says it hasn't enough money we are producing less than
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the need for housing since this is also a budget exam when there are these of course we fall short of the target the housing backlog because the priorities and education on have with the basic sectors. every year this lack of housing is made worse by thousands of families being displaced by typhoons and earthquakes and the decades long conflict in many places like the mindanao region displaces thousands more. experts say the poor are most likely to be homeless and that's being worsened by a growing population more than twenty two million filipinos are now living in extreme poverty the government says it's taking action we hope programs. all government. local government units. in the country as most of the
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unemployed to have no proof of home ownership the government has classified them as illegal settlers people like there is. mary rose's mother she moved here in one thousand nine hundred eighty three after her husband died and raised her children on her own more than thirty five years later she is still classed as an illegal settler. if you would like to be relocated to an affordable housing through we can finally own a home so we can pay for it little by little there are many shanties like this one in the capital manila people live in small areas without adequate sanitation yet filipinos continue to come here looking for jobs and many like there is a huge say living without a permanent home makes them feel they're lost and drifting. manila.
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donald trump's ordered cuts and direct aid to three countries in central america as part of his campaign against illegal immigration democrats say the cuts to el salvador guatemala and honduras are entirely counterproductive and want only increase the flow of migrants were the u.s. trump accuses the nations of having set up migrant caravans and has threatened to close the border with mexico. if the second and final day of the pope's trip to morocco and boasting interfaith ties but francis celebrated mass in the capital of robots to mark the end of his visit the head of the roman catholic church hope to promote dialogue between christians and muslims on saturday he joined the moroccan king and one for the preservation of jerusalem as a common patron many. now whether it is shakespeare of rumi or nato or something far more hip while we all have our favorite poets and instagram as boosting the popularity of poetry reading in london jessica baldwin explains.
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lonely wanderers which. didn't win open mike poetry night in trendy east london. is just it is. is that love is. nowhere to be seen a tweed jacket or sheaf of paper that's true of. what i carry. years but it's time to let go. so many poets not enough time to accommodate them all these are many it's ok. to do many of the new fans have found poetry right here on their phones instagram poems designed to be read on a single screen canadian poet ruby core has three point six million followers millennial is trying to make sense of a mixed up fast paced world. one day they said she was old enough to learn some shame she found it came quite naturally but as a kind of safety the body finds
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a place to hide the cloth fans out against the skin much like the earth that falls on coffins after they put the dead med imtiaz starkers poems are required reading part of the curriculum for any british teenager studying english literature but i think in this world today there is so much confusion so much noise from the world that poetry is needed more than ever and people are turning in to it more than ever for that kind of still point in an absolutely chaotic world writer ben also believes we seek meaning from poets as distrust grows for political leaders to turn to people who use language to speak to our hearts to speak to our souls to speak to a greater sense of of the possibilities of the world and of humanity. was come peled to write a poem about the qur'an felt our fire. it was like
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a bird's matchbooks in the sky. it was black. and bad in the sky sometimes it takes an image to wake up a nation from a secret shame. if you want to see how the poor guy. see the. change in. jessica baldwin al-jazeera london. and again on there's a problem and with the headlines on al-jazeera voting has ended and turkey's municipal elections president regift of everyone's party is fighting to hold on to major cities as the country faces recession these are the first election since as one assumes sweeping new powers last year on the constitutional reforms approved in
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a referendum the leaders of the arab league summit into nazir have made a new unified push for the creation of a palestinian state the summit took place against a backdrop of division war and unrest across the region with conflicts in yemen syria and libya are also on the agenda. we reiterate how attitude that this arab land is occupied land in palestine with the rich ignition of the international community we need to consecrate the policy and we are against the violation of the land therefore we need to do everything we can to put into the occupation and reach peace and stability a regional and international level holes of closed in ukraine's first round of presidential election and comedian volodymyr selenski has let the opinion polls he's betting to prevent the election of president petro poroshenko another of his rivals as former prime minister yulia timoshenko a runoff will be held on april the twenty first of none of the thirty nine
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candidates when more than fifty percent of the vote. facebook c.e.o. is calling for new rules to govern the internet and wants governments to share responsibility for policing what we click on and a newspaper article mark zuckerberg says it isn't for companies alone to define and water harmful content he's pushing for a common global framework to police privacy and data as well as rules to stop the spread of hate speech for. is facing a series of scandals including its failure to stop the live streaming of the new zealand mosque attacks in which fifty people were killed earlier this month. saudi arabia is being accused of hacking the phone of jeff the owner of the online shopping giant amazon and the washington post. after his phone messages were leaked to the national enquirer tabloid newspaper has detectives have led the hack to the washington post's extensive coverage of the murder of. saudi ministers have previously denied any length to the national enquirer. well those are the
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headlines on al-jazeera and side story is coming up next thank you for watching. a president a comedian and a survivor ukraine votes for a new leader whoever wins inherits a conflict in the east and the ailing economy and a tense standoff with russia over crimea so who will ukrainians choose to lead them through the next five years this is inside story.
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hello and welcome to the program i'm typical paul and now ukrainians are voting for a new president thirty nine people are running as candidates but when you see a choice between three main candidates there's the president petro poroshenko who's hoping to get another five year term he's seen the conflict with the separatists in the east of the country grinds on despite a cease fire agreement he's failed to reverse russia's annexation of crimea and he's also been blamed for the corruption that persists the survivor is yulia timoshenko a former prime minister who is spectacular fall from grace but her to a prison sentence there's a comedian a lot of the lenski he's an actor with no political experience but he does play the president on a popular t.v. series john hall has this report. this is the unexpected from drama in the race to become ukraine's next president that will give me as
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a linsky is an actor and comedian whose campaign appearances are stand up comedy act. what he lacks in actual policy or political experience he makes up for with his on screen persona in a popular television series he's a teacher who blows the whistle on corruption suddenly finding himself yes president of ukraine that's. great. he's famous for one thing young people see him as an anti establishment outsider figure which they like and responding. to a likeness personality but it seems even he isn't sure if he can be president or not we don't know we just want to believe that he's a better option previous presidents with businessmen politicians and lawyers maybe a comedian can make a difference. many feel the political unknown zelinsky could hardly do
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worse than the current president petro poroshenko he came to power after russia's annexation of crimea vowing to end the war in the east and sweep away corruption the billionaire confectionery king here immortalized in bullet casings and his own sweet and chocolate wrappers has bowed to pressure from the international monetary fund raising utility prices that hurt the poor and he's in a circle he's implicated in allegedly corrupt weapons purchases. if you see corruption i think we should talk about this that's why reason all of these. paintings this is a conversation with president bush and first of all and if he will be elected for the second time i hope that it will make him to sink of all what kind of place in the history he wants to to get. also in the running after two
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decades in politics and three years in prison is former prime minister yulia timoshenko many of her supporters at the final rally in central kiev were bussed in from the countryside drawn by a pledge to consume a gas prices the focus of this election is the economy. promises being made about the war that's the toxic question for all the candidates no one has also learned a lot has. no one wants to take responsibility for five years of war after a people's rebellion against russian influence and corruption and ukraine is a country that seems stuck unsure now which way to turn toward a hole in kiev for inside story. and we can bring in our panel joining us from kiev on skype is alexy her on he's a professor of comparative politics at care academy in moscow we have dmitri babich political analyst at racine. news agency and the london lit give oregon russian and
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eastern europe analyst at market welcome you all of you welcome to the program great to have you on this is going to be a very interesting and quite a dynamic discussion i hope let me start with you mr her we have quite a very desilva of candidates running in the selection and particularly our top three that we've outlined our our correspondent john hotline just now what would you say is the main issue that is driving the voters here that will influence how they choose their president. well i can definitely tell about zat but it seems to me first of all when i read talking about presidential elections in ukraine we need to understand it we are not a presidential it but it's a mixed system and the presidential elections will have alimentary elections so we will have to listen to government was a prime minister and president used to go exist was
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a problem it insists sense the president cannot monopolized by our in ukraine as a cabins in belarus or in russia when some other cunt so presidential actions are definitely ordered but san we are to be had for as a result overfull element of elections to see what final configuration of political who have in place second i would like to stress that in ukraine elections are always democratic so it's very difficult to predict who will win. my certain point in every single depends on the vault of electors or was the opinion of the ukrainian people and finally i would say as it runs this campaign. orbital abrar us an agenda that has variable gensis so all the main city candidates in favor or europe or moving closer to us if we analyze insists remain gendered it so for president but of centers the main success is that ukraine survive ukraine survive
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after it was ours and for people when their russian aggression started it started it was in a situation of grainy as it was a konami blockade ok with syria and i didn't say i am going to interrupt you there i i just wanted to quickly talk about the issue that is driving the voters we will go into the nitty gritty of these elections and speak about an event you are candidates yeah i think it's even brave because i'd like to get every once and the first and then you can if you're into ok ok if you're would like to generalize source the main topic. what a nice disaster dog is social economic situation and says a dog is fighting an excellent ok thank you we will now move on to mr babbage can you tell us how moscow views these elections and do they have any preference on which direction it would go well with more score the problem is that
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a whole spectrum off political thought that political life in ukraine that used to be sympathetic towards russia you know that by joe reagents the communist by their . all of these political groups were bache basically banned after their so-called revolution of my done in two thousand and fourteen so right now there is no candidate that would be absolutely acceptable that would be friendly towards russia during this election all three main candidates that were just mentioned they all proclaimed their intention to move your brain towards nato and russia said very clearly a few years ago that this is a red line that russia will not allow your brain to join nato because that would mean ne to me silas will be three or two minute distance from moscow this is something that russia views the surete line as for the issues of this election i
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think the most important issue is war and peace but i don't think it's going to be decided at this election because mr poroshenko and his friends in the ukrainian parliament basically they introduced the so-called deal q patient law which proclaim saraj and aggressive and which makes it very difficult to feel that means agreements on peace in the east of ukraine because the means can dream and sprit supposed amnesty for the rebels and the special status for their russian speaking territories in the east of ukraine none of that just possible under this new ukrainian law and of course none of that is possible under the changes to the constitution that. make or ukraine oriented towards nato and the second issue easy point to me here i think the legacy of mr parrish anchor is just tragic because ukraine was promised prosperity and the european ization in two
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thousand and fourteen the result is that now ukraine is officially the poorest nation in europe it went even further down you know that gave all of the poorest nations in. europe oft at mr poroshenko introduce your so-called reforms with your soul quote younger and foremost most of the who cracked up to be corrupt so i agree with alexy corruption is a very important issue but unfortunately if the situation with corruption in ukraine only worsened ofter victoriano which was violently almost up from boeing by them i don't revolutionaries ok thanks for that let me hold on to ms give oregon give oregon first given first kelly talk about the view from europe and does see europe have any will whoever when have any influence on how europe interacts with ukraine. from the european or western perspective it is is very
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important that the new ukrainian authorities both the president and the newly elected parliament which is anticipate its to take place by the end of this year to remain on the europe plan tick integration part economically speaking this means ukraine a tiering to the i.m.f. reform road map. regardless the populist rhetorical regardless to pledges of huffing household gas price tariffs this is simply no way that ukraine could deal with its challenges economic challenges by turning its back on that reform past it's simply not feasible at this stage so from the european perspective to ensure a political stability and economic stability it is important effectively to keep the status quo at worst but at best they're hoping for
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a candidate who will also deal with the corruption issues indeed and that's certainly something i want to look into a little later in this program including the economy but let's talk about the candidates specifically mr her on we have two veteran candidates a comedian who has no defined policies no experience and yet is very popular what kind of a message does that send and why is that. yes first of all i am now in a very difficult situation because i think i need to react to what the russian call except who is representing grassroots today which is kremlin propaganda russia is aggressed russia is waging war against ukraine russia annexed crimea russia is not electoral democracy which is too cheap to teach us in the democratic rules of the games and how to conduct elections so first of all i would like to stress that we. we have free elections and there are different candidates including brought us from
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candidates but as a broader was brushing again today it isn't because of russian aggression because russia violated non block status of ukraine because the national weather waylaid of the international treaties aunt belle little bit is that's why this support towards any indication to russia collapsed daughterly collapsed and that's why there is a very deep jeopardy tical move in say bring on society durance unit and if we are talking about the what is it don't bust so it's very important to understand that unfortunately russia doesn't stick to point number one. ceasefire ukrainian civilians sell their sell by russian bear russian soldiers by russian regular forces by russian weapons and unfortunately it's very difficult to move towards a peace in the don't bust when the russia isn't if but awful of this conflict
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not an intermediate but an active if we're talking about now if we're talking about city main candidates as a cassette but i sent as a main sings the main topic is to prisons and he's a leader who led the country towards economic difficulties and tolerance of war and who is able to move forward. in this difficult situation for the messiah zinni recit it is a position etc so he sees criticize but essential for not doing scenes in socioeconomics fears in the form sphere sometimes this book you is criticism sometimes is justified but this opposition nice is very for hill is very unnatural and actually comfortable but present as a part of a great intellect and they sees it he green is moving but not as
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a down position wanted to see art as an illusion of two thousand and forty and that's why is it would like to find you faces an xray pointed out to mr zelinsky who to some east you face and as you rightly mention he's really a new face with daughter and no experience in political life so all deaths as a basic background was a city main candidates. mr bobbitt i must let you respond but before that i want to say you up by asking you is there a single candidate there that it's we that you see will be able to engage with russia effectively but i won't tell you what i think about alexey and he's opinions because i think this is very important during the debate to presume that to presume the integrity of your opponent to argue with that he is or her arguments not with that he's
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a place of war according i will go straight to your question i would say that until recently it looks like the west was totally supportive of will you know been. imposed a martial law or in the hall for ukraine's to regions just. five months before the election and that this martial law continued for several weeks the west didn't protest so. their idea that the idea that mr selenski could win this vote it surface just a few weeks ago suddenly the tone of western publications about julian's key became very positive some business outside the us who remember all of the government in the early years of poroshenko all of these foreign specialists from the. from m i can see in company you know mr dunne you took the form of violence minister mr abramovich arose and he's doing in the form of economics
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meanest that suddenly they joint missed a zillion team and the mr selenski it has a go at some chances we would have seen their united states give actually given a blessing to his candidacy a when zelinsky mad to way that us negotiate or now on civil war in ukraine and him at the. crime mr volcker you know kotoko the us. go she'd go on ukraine and when he mad they ukrainian ambassador sorry the american ambassador in ukraine marriage of and of egypt meant that the united states kind of indorsed he sports you know mr selenski it's possible victory for russia maybe it will be easier to talk to mr zielinski because mr selenski is not a shame to speak russian in public please note that in your report that your shoulder tried before our discussion they ukrainian citizens who are on syrian your
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reporter's question you know when they didn't speak english they spoke russian you know russian is very widespread in ukraine so far shingles language polish it was a disaster here and tegan iced a lot of people in ukraine and that was reflected in an article for example by political magazine an american public asian which criticized mr poroshenko for this kind of language policy so for russia he would be just a new face that we could talk to also probably yuri boyd the fourth cager date who is behind this war in their opinion polls since ukraine is not a free country i don't think we should believe all the polls he suddenly may or may become. you know the possibly even the second during the first round of the race boy core unfortunately participated he basically betrayed the former president john acknowledgement of thousand fourteen but boy core it's possible to talk to him he
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visited russia just recently had the negotiations with the russian prime minister dmitry medvedev form their gas issues but immediately a criminal case was opened to against the boy in ukraine when he returned from more score so for any kind of that whoever wins this election it will be very difficult to talk to more score not because russia is not ready to talk but because in ukraine there will be a tremendous pressure. from the nationalists and from their government agency yes they may accuse president all of our being a traitor being a stooge of more school than skokie let me keep bring in ms give or again as the how important it is is it for ukraine's survival or the economy itself which has been languishing to have closer relations with russia to move in at least have workable relations with russia. if we were having this discussion back in two
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thousand and fourteen i would have said that it is really important to ensure that the ukraine receives or negotiated cheaper russian gas and maintains its access to the russian market however since the ukrainian crisis ukraine has done incredible steps actually to balance its economy and also improve the energy efficiency just to give you an example for many years it's state run energy company that's the garcia cry and it was a loss making company was actually a burden on ukraine public finances ukraine is were paying only one fifth of gas household gas prices was heavily subsidized early unsustainable measures that no government wanted to address because these were extremely unpopular steps equality currency was pegged unrealistically strong against the
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dollar again no government revolution or not they didn't want to deal with this issues they didn't want to to let the currency float now coming back to your question directly now. by going through the painful reforms that really had an impact on ukrainian our ordinary craniums. in long term gains are such that ukraine has managed to lessen its dependence on russian energy imports it has also managed to diversify its export market for example if in the past a few years ago russia was accounting for twenty five percent of the export destination now it's only nine percent european union is by far more important for ukraine and exporters than russia of course. having access to a large market next door is important but it's not where the rush away where
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ukraine's economic problems can be solved creating economic problems can be sold domestically and if the anti corruption and until it arc it campaign is in earnest done and the reorientation continues i just want to highlight one aspect of this reforms or is in politics a king sometimes make quick u. turns in the economic world these adjustment can be painful and and longer lasting and sometimes a positive impact can come not in five years but perhaps in ten years and this is why we see that perhaps some politicians are being punished at ballot boxes for the unpopular reforms that they had to do they had no other choice ok alex here and so given all of that what we've heard how important is the russia factor in these elections and how important is the crimea factor in these elections or are people
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just going for more on issues that hit them at home the economy the price of fuel corruption. no definitely people again as i have said the war. and peace and what was russia is one of the mean talks in sick complain. as i have already explained i have provided they can give you a lot of force with sure that attitudes towards harass a daughter when she asked to do some hours and. hours is normal. is that. there is a believes that russia is a grips and russia is aggressors after next season premier is intervention. and there is not talk about civil war that's what kremlin propaganda talked about sue this loan which does not accept. not only by ukrainians but also by by
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international community nobody do wells is under sense finally i would like i would like also to stress it's very difficult it's very it's fun to hear how representative the world russia which has one hour for. twenty years and who care for five more so what all this century. ukraine a democracy we are free and this is recognised by his will and elections are you green we're recognized as free and fair it was ours and forgiven and i'm pretty sure it will be recognized as the same this year zero all of the vest sylvestre as a westerner present there was a meeting was main believed a girl. political leaders or so complete so there's no surprise insert it's not a blessing i would say the best is not supposed to open the ne can have does this
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completely definitely is a verse and seemed best as they would like to see predictability and some counted it somewhat predictable and some candidates are less predictable all right we're going to have to leave it there it's been good to speak to all of you ed great to get your thoughts whatever the outcome interesting times ahead for ukraine and i'd like to thank all of our guests alexia dimitri bobbitt and gov or again and thank you to you for watching you can see this program again any time by visiting our website that's on our desire dot com and for any further discussion why don't you go to our facebook page you'll find that on facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and remember you can always join the conversation on twitter our handle for that is as a.j. and five stories from these if a pilot and other war theme here it's been good to have you here good bye for now.
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new leaders place children in this refugee camp the latest victims of the unending sectarian violence in central african republic among them are survivors of unspeakable violence ten year olds work as mother is dead her father is gone killed because they were christian by their own muslim neighbors this is the least you home an overcrowded refugee camp of twenty three thousand people surrounded by armed militia groups celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the questions and so we traded places inch took the microphone will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home
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a city defined by military occupation there's never been an arab state here at the capitol of jerusalem everyone is welcome but this default structure that meant there is because on a project that's what we refuse it was one of the founders of the settlement with this and the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is apartheid in the twenty first century jerusalem a rock and a hard place on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome to the news hour on and as a proud of the end coming up the next sixty beds the party of turkey's president looks set to nose control of the capital and. local elections that are being seen
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as a test of the once trend. are maryam namazie in london where we're monitoring the another election in the euro exit polls show comedian jimmy as a landscape has won the first round of voting in ukraine's presidential election. also this hour a new push for a palestinian state by leaders of the arab league summit as israel reopens to gaza border crossings and a day in the life can start for months even years in mexico on shore ever reach the us. all the day's sport liverpool return to the top of the english premier league with a light wind but. early results from turkey's local elections are showing mixed results for reggie and his ak party after a vote widely seen as
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a referendum on the president while everyone's party is currently ahead as a civil race but it slips behind the main opposition in the capital. and the honest sounding optimistic. we're doing well so far according to information i have received from friends i believe we will emerge successfully from the particularly in the thirty's. and i believe the local elections the corner store of democracy will consolidate the central system as of april first while everyone's rivals have been seeking to capitalize on discontent over the state of to use economy which is struggling to recover from a currency crisis these elections are the first since everyone assumed sweeping powers last year on the constitutional reforms let's go now to our correspondent. inside the ak party headquarters in istanbul talk us through the early results so far. well as you described in the elizabeth they are
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a bit mixed so here for example in istanbul been a legal dream who was the last prime minister to serve under the old political system the candidates the party put forward he's roughly two percent ahead of the main contender with around eighty five percent of the votes counted there are so it is a very slim margin indeed what significance obviously is stumbles one of the most significant cities in the sense that obviously the most populous city here in turkey most cosmopolitan one and it is the birthplace of one's political career soldiers speak so one has a lot of both sentimental and political value and i encourage the political capital of the country the party is two percent behind the main opposition with roughly sixty five percent of the votes counted the kurdish regions where the ak party was able to put a stronger maybe contention in the polls when they were the force behind the kind of peace process that was ongoing with the kurdish militants organizations there
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since that's gone away and the rise of the h.e.p.a. that's the main kurdish party the party has seen itself not doing so well in some of the areas like vonne and others in those areas. having said that on a national scale it is very much evidence based on not only the exit polls but also the results that have been coming in that the party party will remain to be the strongest party nationally speaking it will hold on to the largest amount of are the mayor ships or councils but it is in those strategic towns whereby there is some sort of a reflection in terms of how popular the policies are or how popular the politicians are that's where we're going to see really some key indications after seventeen years of the party being in power and jamaal which obviously there's been a lot of focus on the economy turkey is experiencing an economic downturn after years of having a very strong economy is that the biggest issue in these municipal elections.
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it is the finitely probably the central issue in the sense that the act party built its popularity from the very beginning not just on social justice but mainly on economics and that's what the people of turkey managed to benefit from you. huge rise in g.d.p. in the general income of people you saw a huge strength in the turkish lira you saw a massive increase in turkish production so not only in terms of goods and things that were being produced here in exports and elsewhere but even military production and other things in terms of massive construction projects and so forth over the past couple of years there has been a slowdown a slowdown on a kind of regional and international scale in terms of the stored on the global markets of scene but also domestically turkey has gone through a lot of. political and psychological turbulence experiences so the failed coup
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attempt the increase in terrorist attacks the war in syria all of these things obviously have impacted probably the largest of them actually has been something that many didn't expect which was the fall out between turkey and the united states its ally in nato several months ago when the u.s. decided to impose certain tariffs on taxation on. turkish exports and that's all the new right centrally lose its value by up to half its struggle to recover from that so what we're talking about an economic slowdown it's important to contextualize that visa v the high expectations that have been having over their governments over the past two decades since that party came in relation to other countries even though there is a slowdown it is actually doing a lot better in terms of either on employment or in terms of general lack of poverty but the people here obviously are also when maybe tired of seeing the same politicians and that's something that is expected you're talking about six votes
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taking place in the past five years alone going to the polls so roughly that is something that has impacted on terms of voter. possibly nostalgia or kind of. disconnect in terms of how they want to participate in terms of those elections so the economy is playing a big parts and the fact that the opposition parties very quickly to wrap up here. have been unable to provide an alternative political program their campaign has been very much pointing the finger the party for failing to recover from that slowdown rather than actually come up with an alternative than it is here that maybe the party will actually succeed probably most it is in the weakness of the opposition and that's what we've seen in many areas the opposition parties who don't agree on many things between themselves have come together to form an alliance on the principle that they just want to get rid of the party but even that has failed so maybe win over voters in key areas possibly even in istanbul which they really were hoping to win but obviously there's that around fifteen percent of
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those votes that still haven't been counted and we'll come back to when we have those final results tomorrow and chai are live for us and out in full. but let's head to london now because maryam namazie and the team in europe are covering another important election night. yes that's right elizabeth we are watching developments in ukraine very closely where exit polls are showing that the comedian law to me is the lenski has one the first round of the country's presidential election so one ski is a political novice who campaigned against rampant corruption he's taken about thirty percent of the lote ukrainian president petro poroshenko took about nineteen percent two candidates will now face a runoff vote against each other next month. i would like to say thank you to all the ukrainians who do not vote just walk there are lots of exit poll results but
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only one kind of the when it's only the beginning and do not relax. jonah hall is live for us in kiev and joins us now so jonah the wild card in this election law to me is the landscape has a clear lead over his main rival the carney departure shango what's behind his appeal to so many voters. well some say it's an outright rejection by a large proportion of the electorate of established politics established politicians who many see as failing in their promises and enriching themselves in office it's an extraordinary development really not least because the mere zilinskas only experience of politics is playing the pocket of a president in a popular television series where he may soon be preparing to play the part of the real of course going into the second round against petro poroshenko in all likelihood these results are not final of course the incumbent president who has lost the trust of the electorate to a large degree for his failure to deal with the war in the east and to wipe away
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the stain of corruption let me bring in my guest to discuss this more but i wish you had a big joins me from the carnegie endowment here in kiev thanks for your time thank you for having me the question was just put to me what is behind the zelinsky phenomenon is it a protest vote it is a put it is an intelligent way of protesting against what's going on it's protesting of them against the broken promises of the police my government you know if you talk to ordinary people they going to say that you know this is not what we were fighting for in them i don and this is not what we're fighting for still in don bus so it is also i think it's very important that selinski although he's a comedian and actor you know it's a funny way in a very dark situation it's full of war you know in the country in the east that people are choosing this way to express that they still want to have certain hope that that change can be happening in the country in many extend the incumbent president bush has become
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a representative of the old regime you know like he's in the second round based on the exit polls so i think you know like for him it is a problem nation of political life and also he spent your ticket agent are going to remain very important so i wouldn't exclude and this is just the first round then you know the second round is i mean the. enough it's going to be in the campaign that the three weeks is going to be very important where we stand above square here of course where those protests took place five years ago now the country still mud as you say the war in the east the economies of the doldrums corruption is still a major problem it's a curious way for the electorate to express their distrust in politicians by seeming to put their trust in a man with no political background and no clear policy as a tool and no promises either and i think i would emphasize that promises you know the promises not made cannot be broken either and this is a refreshing way it's also a very refreshing way of how he was having to campaign how he was running his campaign is very unorthodox it was mostly in social media he was engaging you know
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literally millions of people via social networks he didn't pay for any advertisement he has running the cheapest campaign you know the problem more of its honesty is always behind him and this is obviously you know there is not only one oligarch like you got caught my skin the others behind him and i think. during the campaign so he's not and you know him as an ordinary ukrainian but he's also a millionaire but he's a very savvy man not only a comedian simply because like he has been building in the past twenty years he's built auction company he has been you know the production director of the major television channel has a millionaire on his own right so it's i think he's going to be fine ok but with some insights on the two contenders going into the second round the incumbent the confectionery billionaire and the actor the comedian you might describe it as the chocolate billionaire versus the comedy came from there you go thank you very much for that joe in a whole following that election will speaking there about.
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