you're watching beyond 100 days. sadness and disbelief in sri lanka where too many families are now mourning their loved ones. the government says a small islamist group with international connections may be responsible for the bombings. almost 300 people were killed in a spate of attacks and there was another explosion today. after the mueller report, democrats meet to discuss the one big question — should they move to impeach president trump? also on the programme... volodymyr zelensky wins the ukraine election in a landslide victory — the comedian is a political newcomer — but he has played the president on tv. the white house hosts its biggest social event of the year as president trump kicks off the annual easter egg roll.

hello, and welcome — i'm katty kay in washington and nuala mcgovern is in london. officers from interpol are now on their way to sri lanka to assist into the investigation of sunday's bomb attacks that killed almost 300 people. sri lankan officials believe a little known local islamist group is responsible and it may have had international help. two dozen people have been arrested and there's a nationwide curfew in place. social media sites have been blocked to try to stop the spread of false information. the bbc‘s yogita limaye reports now from sri lanka. another explosion near one of the bombed churches, in a country that's already on the edge. a van blew up when the police tried to defuse explosives inside. no one was hurt. but on easter sunday, hundreds died, many of them here at st sebastian's church.

it's believed to be the site of the deadliest bombing. the hall was packed with families who'd come here to pray. a priest who was at the altar has told me thatjust before the service ended, a person entered through one of the side doors and detonated a bomb. such was the impact that it destroyed everything inside. but even here outside, shattered glass everywhere, roof tiles that are broken. and all around, a strong smell of blood and death. people have begun to say goodbye to loved ones. this family is from thailand. they were on holiday in sri lanka. these boys lost their mother, monique, when she was at breakfast in a 5—star hotel. my wife loved sri lanka. this was her favourite country. she was so happy, and i think maybe it was her destiny to, um... to go back home, you

know, to sri lanka. among the eight british nationals who have been killed are anita nicholson, her son alex and her daughter annabel. in a statement, ben nicholson said his wife and children had the priceless ability to light up any room they entered and bring joy to the lives of all they came into contact with. asos investor, billionaire anders holch povlsen, lost three children in the attacks. the vast majority of those dead are sri lankan, hundreds of families in this country in grief. popular chef shantha mayadunne, seen here on the left, and her daughter nisanga, to the right, posted this photo just before they were killed at the shangri—la. some, like this woman, are still searching. today, a sri lankan minister apologised to his people. we are very, very sorry as a government. we have to apologise to the families and the other institutions

about this incident. several people have been arrested, and the government has blamed a local hardline islamist group for the attacks. there are questions about whether warnings about the bombings were not passed on. the intelligence never indicated that it was going to be an attack of this magnitude. they were talking about one or two isolated incidents, not like this. and also besides, there is no emergency in this country. we can't request the armed forces to come and assist us. we can only depend on the police, so we informed the police. for a people who have endured war, these attacks are a sudden reminder of more violent times. yogita limaye, bbc news, columbo. a country that has known so much sorrow already. up just before i

went on air, i spoke to clive. he is in colombo. clive, so we are just starting to get the awful stories of people who lost loved ones, sri lankans, foreigners included. what's that surely can government doing at the moment to try and investigate how this could have happened? well, first of all, it is beginning to apologise. there are suggestions, claims, allegations that the authorities were warned something like two weeks ago that there may be attacks taking place around this time, around easter. the government today suggested that this was not warnings of a coordinated set of attacks, as we saw, but isolated incidents. so that is how they are trying to get out of this, but clearly there seems to be some major intelligence failure as a result of what happened yesterday. and that is going to be a crucial point of inquiry. looking into what went on. you have also, of course, have got the authorities trying to reunite those relatives and friends of those who died, so that those bodies can be buried. that grim task has been going on throughout the day. we actually saw

families turning up to the morgue and looking on a big screen of where images of their loved ones from the attacks, so bloody and cut apart. terrible pictures. of the relatives, trying to identified those that have died. that process of identification are going to take many, many days if not weeks. you are in colombo now. what is the scene in the capital at the moment? it is very quiet now. there isa moment? it is very quiet now. there is a curfew, it will stay in place for another five or is a curfew, it will stay in place for anotherfive or six is a curfew, it will stay in place for another five or six hours until 4am tuesday morning. we are expecting from midday the implementation of military rule. there is a real sense of nervousness

hair. that the immediate crisis is not over and that the local islamist group that is being blamed, the suggestion is they must‘ve had international help. they coordinated seven, 80 attacks across parts of the country. it was very sophisticated. they must have had international help in order to amount this kind of assault. 0k clive, thank you. and joining us now is sameer lalwani, director of the south asia programme at the stimson centre. thank you for coming in.|j thank you for coming in. i think people are wondering how can a small group that most have never heard of mount such a sophisticated, big attack as this? i think that is a good question to ask. suicide

bombings are not easy to pull off. the second is the targets themselves. it looks like they were targets for western tourists, christians, middle—class tamils as well. none of that fit them... their target should have been buddhist or buddhist temples. it seems to fit more of a cleavage that isis would target. 9% of more of a cleavage that isis would target. 996 of the sri lankan population is muslim and about seven is christian. do you think the authorities‘s suggestion that this was a group that had international help, does that ring true to you? yes. groups like isis are interested in big spectacular attacks. if this was about getting revenge for the

targeting of mosques in sri lanka, which has been occurring under the la st which has been occurring under the last decade or so, you would expect them to take it out on the majority group, more extreme buddhist groups. but that did not seem to be the focal point. it seems to affect something that isis would be interested in doing. we were hearing from our colleague clyde that there isa from our colleague clyde that there is a potential intelligence failure. how do you understand this? is a potential intelligence failure. how do you understand thi57m is a potential intelligence failure. how do you understand this? it seems plausible giving the divide in government that has existed even prior to october. the prime minister officer said this is an attempted political queue. they tried to relieve him of his post. since then it sounds like the prime minister has not been involved in national security meetings. when you have an

intelligence suggested that there are particular targets and you don't have a strategic assessment, it is more than likely for failures to a carrier. the defence minister is saying they only had evidence on one, maybe two targets, potentially being churches. that should have warranted added security or some sort of action but that does not seem sort of action but that does not seem to have happened. it is sad they have had ten years of relative peace, what do you think the ramifications will be on the country in the coming weeks, months and yea rs ? in the coming weeks, months and years? it is a devastating blow for sri lanka a country that has weathered 30 years of civil war. it was coming out of it and starting to rebuild. easy construction all over colombo and all over the country. expectations for growth in several sectors. this could be a setback,

but i think that country and the people are fairly resilient. they have weathered extended. like this before. as a person who loves to visit sri lanka at with friends that i hope they recover pretty quickly. thank you for coming into talk to as. obviously, we don't know, we are still waiting for a investigations by the government. no one has claimed this. we have to let this investigation unfolds. you were there a couple of weeks ago and there was a sense the country was moving forward. so much so. country was moving forward. so much so. it was my first time. i have never been before. i've known a lot of people who have travelled there. and any sri lankan you spoke to you, they spoke about the violence that had happened previously. iwould they spoke about the violence that had happened previously. i would say it is so beautiful and they said yes, but we have had this terrible

time before that. but you could feel it was on the cusp of the economic revival. it had so much to offer as a tourist destination. you had lots of tourism from asia, across europe, australia. as he began to hear about some of the people who are affected by this, sri lankans as well, what this impact might be to their community and their society. just awful, so sad, although stories. community and their society. just awful, so sad, although storieslj wa nt to awful, so sad, although storieslj want to turn to the mueller report. to impeach or not to impeach. that is the question democrats are discussing on a conference call led by nancy pelosi today. in light of the mueller report some top democrats have already said they believe there is a enough evidence that the president obstructed justice to launch an impeachment. mrtrump, not surprisingly, disagrees. only high crimes and misdemeanors can lead to impeachment.

there were no crimes by me. no collusion, no obstruction — so you can't impeach. whatever the legality, impeachment does carry political risks for democrats who could be seen to overplay their hand. let's get the thoughts of former assistant us atttorney, kim wehle. he worked on the star report which led to the impeachment of bill clinton. of what you have read, are there legal grounds for democrats to launch impeachment proceedings against donald trump? there is no question that there are legal grounds. the president can tweet about it, but the standard for impeachment is lower than the standard that was applicable to special wood —— mueller's finding. collusion is not a legal term. with

obstruction suggestion, a careful reading of the report does not say that there wasn't insufficient evidence, but mueller found that he could not indict because of policy of that department ofjustice. so nancy pelosi sent a letter to democrats saying that the responsibility of the legislative branch is to conduct oversight of the president and that it is important to know that the facts holding the president accountable can be gained outside of impeachment proceedings. she seems reluctant to go in along with the impeachment. many who are watching this are saying well, hold on, if there is a legal case, aren't the democrats

duty—bound to follow that path where it leads? the duty-bound argument makes sense in that we have a foreign power that is hostile interfering and our electoral process. if that does not give rise toa process. if that does not give rise to a reason to start the process, what does? if you do not start the process, we might as well not have a new impeachment clause in the constitution. the flip side is a political one. with the impeachment of bill clinton, he became more politically attractive after the impeachment process. the democrats are worried it could backfire. any good prosecutor will decide not to good prosecutor will decide not to go forward with a case even if they believe someone did something wrong if they cannot convict. in this moment it seems there aren't the vote to impeach mr trump because the senate is held by republicans.

impeachment is a trial in congress essentially. similar to a prosecution in court. the democrats, it is difficult to go forward if they don't have the votes to impeach. and a could end up being a worse outcome in 2020. that if they just continue with their investigations. it sounds like you would not consider it wise to pursue ifi would not consider it wise to pursue if i understand what you have said. speaker pelosi was talking about other ways of bringing him to justice or following his other ways of bringing him to justice orfollowing his behaviour unethical, and she called it. what would that be? my professional view is that the senate have republicans, to clarify, it should take impeachment very seriously. the

republicans in congress are in lockstep with the president. other ways, i think she is indicating that the oversight hearings, obtaining the oversight hearings, obtaining the full mueller report, the tax returns and financial records, and having those facts play out in the congress and made available to the american public so that congress can either enhance some kind of legislation over this white house and those going forward and also the american public can decide based on the facts, we don't want a second term of this particular man, at a minimum, this level of drama. we wa nt minimum, this level of drama. we want to move forward with the country in a positive direction. i think that is what she is suggesting, airing the dirty laundry ina public suggesting, airing the dirty laundry in a public arena. 0k, thank you very much forjoining us. we have

the mueller report, but he decided not to make a judgement and he pointed it to congress and it could be that congress might not make a decision and they might punt it to the american public for the 2020 election. as of today, there are 19 democrats running to be president. congressman seth moulton — a harvard educated former marine — announced his candidacy over the weekend. he would not be the only veteran. the big when we are all waiting for isjoe biden, the big when we are all waiting for is joe biden, he the big when we are all waiting for isjoe biden, he has said he is going to make some big announcement on wednesday. all of the speculation is that he willjump into the race. and we are a year and a half out.

here is a new hampshire poll. is a first primary. it puts bernie sanders about 30%, joe biden, if he gets in, he is at i8%. pete blee judge has jumped to gets in, he is at i8%. pete blee judge hasjumped to third place. somebody no one had ever heard of. let's see what happens on wednesday whenjoe biden let's see what happens on wednesday when joe biden makes let's see what happens on wednesday whenjoe biden makes an announcement. somebody had been found. they were attempting to scale and very difficult route. favourable reported missing last wednesday. a british charity worker has been killed in northern nigeria. faye mooney was shot dead on friday, along with a nigerian man, when gunmen stormed a resort in kaduna state where

she was visiting on holiday. three other people were also kidnapped. no—one has yet said they carried out the attack. ten months after a group of thai schoolboys were rescued from a cave — two australian divers who formed part of the rescue team have returned to thailand. richard harris and craig challen were reunited with the boys they brought to safety. the 12 boys and their coach were trapped inside the cave system for 17 days after rains flooded the tunnels. and in washington, this year's easter festivities have been taking place at the white house. president trump welcomed hundreds of children to the south lawn for the annual easter egg roll — the white house's biggest social event of the year. guests were greeted by a marching band and children were invited to play the traditional game of rolling ha rd—boiled eggs across the lawn. forget the mueller report, the president has easter eggs to roll. easter eggs to roll. theresa may is facing another challenge to her leadership — this time it comes from conservative grassroots volunteers — angry at her handling of brexit. more than 70 local association

chiefs have called for a general meeting to discuss her leadership — and they hope to force a vote of no confidence. this unprecedented move is a snap back into brexit reality — as westminster will return tomorrow after a two—week truce. here to discuss what's ahead is our political correspondent ben wright. good to have you with us. i mentioned this is unprecedented, talk us through what is expected to happen. this has never happened before. we are talking about that tory party activist. that people who do the heavy lifting at a local level. many of them are feeling angry that brexit has been delayed again. the uk was meant to leave the european union on march the 29th. it was delayed want, and it has now been delayed to the end of october to give theresa may time to get a brexit plan through parliament. they have written letters demanding a special conference where they will have a chance to vote on a motion of no confidence of the prime minister.

is has never happened before. it is not binding, so even if it passes, the prime minister does not have to stand down. but it would pile pressure on to the beleaguered prime minister. she has withstood quite a lot of pressure over the last few months. we have had this lovely time of easter and a bit of a brexit holiday. i hope you have had might as well. now members will come back into town, parliament will resume. what are we expecting over the next few days and what had they been hearing from their electorate while they have been in their constituency? they have been reacquainting themselves with their families. it was such a crazy time before the easter break. it looked for a wild that they would not get a break. there was a looming deadline that the uk was heading towards, a note deal brexit. they would have

been talking to their local activists. in the terminal of brexit, you have tories being told by their grassroots that they really need to insist that britain should just leave without ideal. stop the talks with the government and the labour party. on the other hand, you're going to have labour mps hearing about that they shouldn't have another referendum. they will come back to parliament and the battle will resume tomorrow. the cabinet will need to discuss next steps. the strategy of the prime minister seems to be to forward some sort of cross party deal with labour. the talks have been going on for three weeks already. no sign of a breakthrough. and even as theresa may comes back from her own walking holiday in wales, determined to find a breakthrough, it is hard to see

how. she want that to happen over the next two or three weeks. thank you. gearing us up for brexit to get going again. always interesting when they have been home to see what they heard and when they come back. if you ever needed evidence that it's never too late to make it — thomas mundy is your man. the 58—year—old construction worker from new york was an instant hit on social media after his parody of donald trump surfaced a few weeks ago. it's already been viewed more than three million times. let's just remind you of it. what a tremendous day here. the long island railroad is screwing up their job. it is a terrible job. i have hired my good friend here appeared they are tremendous people. we have to come in and do thisjob on time and under budget. they are good people, they are italian, but they are good. are they portuguese? i

don't know. they are tremendous people and we are going to get this job done. an impressive send up if ever i did see one. but it doesn't stop there, thomas' clip found its way before talent executives, and he's now reported to be in talks with amazon about playing mr trump on one of their developing shows. next stop hollywood ? there is a fantastic merging of president trump who came out of the world of reality tv and now there is that guy who is playing president trumps and may be going into the world of television. is going round and round. everyone getting a moment of same. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news... in ukraine, a popular comedian best known for playing a fictional president in a tv series — has now been elected to the top job in a landslide victory. and why this image of two gorillas posing

for a selfie has gone viral. that's still to come. good evening, for most of us it has been the perfect easter holiday, hasn't it? lots of blue sky. yesterday was a bit disappointing. not so on bank holiday monday, hardly any clouds in the sky. some cloud arrived a little bit later in the afternoon and it was misty and murky. we are still dry. still able to get. this cloud will come overnight and we run the risk of some isolated showers across the channel islands. the cloud in the channel islands. the cloud in the shower is an issue overnight.

elsewhere. we will see some clear skies, temperatures down to around six or 80 degrees. we start off tomorrow on a dry, chilly note. a little bit more cloud. the high cloud could be more of an issue tomorrow. a few isolated showers fading away in the southwest, but with the sunshine becoming more hazy, more of a breeze picking up, it won't be as warm. temperatures peaking at around 22 degrees, a little bit cooler and fresher on the coast. tuesday into wednesday, the change is set to arrive for this area of low pressure which is gathering out in the atlantic. it will bring some rain into the southwest. first thing on wednesday morning, there will be some heavy rain. as we go through the morning, the rain will continue to drift its

way steadily northwards. we will see the potential for some sundry downpours across the midlands. it should stay dry throughout parts of scotland. temperatures peaking at 18 degrees. once the front goes through, it will clear and dry up, but highs of around 13 to 15 degrees. the wind direction will change, bringing in the moist air off the atlantic. it will be showering for the end of the week into the weekend and more importantly, noticeably cooler for all.

you're watching beyond 100 days. our top stories. officials say the bombings that killed nearly 300 people in sri lanka on sunday was carried out with the support of an international network. our main target at the moment is to help these people who are broken and broken into pieces. democrats discuss robert mueller‘s report, and the option of impeachment, as they grapple with how to move forward. also on the programme... the us ends waivers that allowed other countries to import iranian oil despite american sanctions, as part of tactics to ramp up the pressure on tehran. plus a comedian who played the ukrainian president for a tv series gets the top job for real, in a landslide election.

the sri lankan government says it believes a local islamist extremist group was behind the series of deadly suicide bomb blasts that killed nearly 300 people on easter sunday. its investigators also believe the suspected group, national thoweeth jama'ath, must have had international support. their targets were in the capital colombo, in negombo, and batticaloa on the east coast. one of the first places to be targeted in colombo, was st anthony's shrine. three of the city's major hotels were also hit — the kingsbury, the shangri la, and the cinnamon grand, followed by two further explosions on the outskirts of colombo. the government has also ordered a national state of emergency that will begin at midnight. rajesh venugopal, an expert on ethnic conflict in sri linka, joins us now from oxford.

good to have you with us, welcome to the programme. as you have heard about these attacks on is to sunday, what were your first thoughts?” about these attacks on is to sunday, what were your first thoughts? i was absolutely shocked and devastated. it was a complete surprise, nothing that i knew about the situation in trying to the circumstances of growing religious tension is happening in the last few years could possibly have prepared anyone to predict what was going to happen. a little of what we were hearing but nothing confirmed yet but it could be more radical militant islamist group, what is your understanding of who maybe behind the attacks? there is very little information so government minister this morning provided the name of this very marginal friends extremist group that no one has really heard. fringe group. one is inclined to believe that this is something that is very

much, no one has heard of this group we re much, no one has heard of this group were new what was going on, and there doesn't seem to be any other plausible explanation for why this has happened or who else may have wanted to do this. the government is instituting measures including a emergency and curfew. it has also put a tony mcrae shutdown on social media apps, including facebook and whatsapp. does that effort work in these circumstances, can people not get a ccess these circumstances, can people not get access to services they need and stop this information? facebook has been identified in the past buys a vehicle by which inflammatory fake news has been circulated and has been put to very disturbing ends. so it is not unexpected and probably appropriate to some extent that the government tries to control the

spread of unsubstantiated rumours, wild allegations and helping extremist groups if they want to participate in a backlash to coalesce and organise something. you talk about facebook being used in the past to inflame tensions, other existing tensions between muslims and christians that you are aware of in sri lanka? they exist into religious tensions, sri lanka has a history of ethnic conflict. there was a 25 your conflict that ended a decade ago and since the end of that, there have been increasing religious tension. it hasn't been muslim and christian particular in the past? no, it's been single leaves or buddhists versus christians or buddhist versus muslim, so it is unusual that an islamist group would seek to target christian minorities, both are mormon it groups in that country. —— are minority groups in that

country. thanks forjoining us. thank you. interesting, that point about social media, because after the new zealand attacks, there was a lot of criticism of the social media companies carrying video of those attacks, you would understand government saying they don't want it inflammatory material, video getting out, this information, there is a reaction to shutdown the social media sites but on the other hand, people from sri lanka said that meant they couldn't get in touch with theirfamily meant they couldn't get in touch with their family members, meant they couldn't get in touch with theirfamily members, didn't find out whether people they knew and love had been hurt or killed in these attacks, because they didn't have access to the tools that they would normally use to communicate with them, i was interested to see it had produced more criticism than imight it had produced more criticism than i might have expected on social media sites. very much so, the debate very much alive as people talk about this and that state of emergency coming in, no doubt a

debate about that as well. let us move on. the trump administration is increasing economic pressure on iran. secretary of state mike pompeo today announced an end to sanctions waivers for countries who buy oil from the country. so starting next month, major economic powers such as china and india face us sanctions if they continue to get crude from iran. mr pompeo says the move is aimed at reducing iranian oil exports to zero. almost one year ago, after withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal, president trump implemented the strongest pressure campaign in history against the islamic republic of iran. the goal remains simple — to deprive the outlaw regime of the funds it has used to destabilise the middle east for decades and incentivise iran to behave like a normal country. barbara plett usher is at the state department now. what is the goal behind this? a couple of weeks ago, we had them declaring the revolutionary guard a

terrorist organisation. what are the americans ultimately wanting to achieve in iran? what they say is they want to change iran's behaviour, they have listed 12 demands that iran would have do comply with. these include limits on nuclear programme, stopping to test ballistic missiles, stopping support for groups that the us considers to be terrorist and so on. the idea is to force iran back to be table so they can have a better deal than the one obama negotiated. that is what the illustration says. their actions suggest part of the goal might be regime change. —— administration said they are careful not to use that language but they say they want the people duties leadership, there are no moderates in this regime. in are no moderates in this regime. in a negotiation, you wonder how this will happen, and i think this is britain in europe is one of the goals will be to get iran so frustrated, it will withdraw the

nuclear accord. most of be world supports the accord and thus iran, but if it withdraws, it might strength of the us campaign against it. what about the countries that have been buying oilfrom iran? the us is going to put down this marker. has there been any reaction from them or could that be possibly backfiring for the states? some of them had already stopped or nearly stopped importing oil. although it was more difficult for some than others. i think the ones to watch ourchina, india and others. i think the ones to watch our china, india and turkey. it is difficult for india because it imports most of its oil and iran was its most supplier and it's already been asked to stop buying oil from venezuela so that is an issue of tension with the trump administration. china also one of the biggest buyers of oil, it has reacted, said it is not the right decision, its trade with iran is perfectly legal, the us does not have jurisdiction to interfere so

they want to see whether the chinese use mechanisms or companies that can avoid the us financial system and therefore avoid us sanctions. turkey has been outspoken in its opposition and attention is already with turkey and attention is already with turkey and this will add to them. thank you. america has a president who was a reality tv star, now ukraine has a comedian. for the last three years volodymyr zelensky has starred in a tv series as a character who falls into the job of ukrainian president. as of today he'll be doing the job for real. he will indeed! mr zelensky defeated incumbent petro poroshenko with a massive 73% of the votes. his election campaign was based on defying convention. he shunned official rallies and political speeches, but put out lots of cheerful videos on social media. from ukraine's capital kiev, here's our correspondentjonah fisher. this was the first time volodymyr zelensky was told he'd become president.

it was three years ago and the first episode of his television show. servant of the people. last night, fiction became fact and the music from the tv show was played as volodymyr zelensky was told for the second time. this time for real, that he was ukraine's next president. translation: to all former soviet countries, look at us. everything is possible. across town, president poroshenko conceded while muttering darkly that the kremlin would be celebrating the comedian's win. ukraine could be quickly returned to the russia orbit. relations with russia will now be the key issue for the soon to be president zelensky.

can we expect any change in ukraine's relationship with russia? the population is pretty decided upon towards what russia is. the vast majority sees it as an aggressor. so there's no real scope for president zelensky to try to strike some sort of deal over the conflict in the east or it negotiate over crimea, for example. he may try to do that but at the same time i think it would create a public outcry. what of the activists? from the street revolution. what do they make of ukraine's comic turn? when i'm looking at this from the angle of the change in the elite, ukrainians wanted change. and if only zelensky happened to be someone who can deliver this change... so we should work with what we have.

it's a step in the right direction, you think? i would say this is a step and we have to make it right! there are still plenty of unanswered questions about mr zelensky, not least his relationship with a controversial oligarch. but for now it's important to reflect on a peaceful campaign, a fair vote, and what looks set to be a smooth transfer of power. the world may be laughing at ukraine's comic choice of leader, but this country has lots to be proud of, too. i'm joined now by orysia lutsevych, a research fellow at chatham house. it is an international think tank based here in london. great to have you with us. where you surprise when you with us. where you surprise when you saw that, 73% figure? you with us. where you surprise when you saw that, 73% figure ?|j you with us. where you surprise when you saw that, 7396 figure? i was surprised like many this landslide

victory because a lot of people predicted that the political satire so man predicted that the political satire so man volodymyr zelensky were when but he hacked a ukrainian political syste m but he hacked a ukrainian political system to an incredible extent where he did the kind of post modern electoral campaign, something sure is waiting western society. a love that idea of a post modern electoral campaigns that we have been moving in the direction of leaders who have little political experience taking presidencies. this seems to be the most extreme example yet. in that sense he is a populist. but he's not a populist, is he, in his policies? which are not anti—immigrant, coming from a particularly far—right stable, so in that sense he is not what we might expect in this movement? it all depends how you define populist and i think one of his most populist slogans was, let's

end the airof his most populist slogans was, let's end the air of poverty, without actually explaining how he will create jobs or attract investment or creative rule of law in the country that will allow ukrainians to invest. what was populist in case campaign was to cater to the wishful thinking of so many voters, being just a blank screen where everybody could project their visions, anxieties and hopes. in that sense, he didn't make any electoral promises like let's say president trump. he was not campaigning on clear issues. that is why there is now a lot of exam anxiety for people about what it will be and his actions can tell us something. there are issues, particularly when it comes to ukraine, serious issues like the war in east ukraine, its international relationship, what do you think he will need to tackle first? to get or keep, i suppose, this goodwill that appears to be on his side? if he smart in maintaining

his side? if he smart in maintaining his credit, it would be to do something achievable in his realms of power. the key to the resolution of power. the key to the resolution of conflict are not fully in kyiv and he would have to get on board with russia's view of how conflict needs to be resolved on the domestic agenda, making sure the anti—corruption issue started by petro poroshenko's team are reputed, there are credible people that the judges are appointed, that have trust in the society, i would say this will be number one agenda where he has more leveraged, more influence, than making a deal with putin at this stage. thanks for joining us. we will see in a three

weeks' time that the president will beatv weeks' time that the president will be a tv star. you could not make it i still to come on the programme... this country tops the list of places where someone is most likely to help a stranger. can you guess where it is? we'll explain all, next. climate change protesters, who've staged a week of demonstrations in london and edinburgh, have been holding talks to decide the next phase of their campaign. more than 1,000 people have been arrested since the protests began. today around 100 activists demonstrated at the natural history museum. our correspondent caroline davies reports. central london, day eight of the protest. tents still lie in the middle of a road junction and banners and stages continue to block the streets, so the crowds gathered in marble arch. i think it's a very important time, and time we're running out of. i think it's important

to give support. it's all about the numbers, so the more people who show support, the more echo it will create. it's great to see so many people from all different walks of life getting involved and standing up for what we believe in. at the natural history museum, around 100 protesters lay on the floor under the blue whale in a staged die—in. over 1,000 arrests have been made so far, with over 50 people charged. among those detained was former gold olympic medal winner, canoeist etienne stott. it's a big step to take, but like i say, i think this is what it's come to for me. and i think if it's working, and i believe that it is, i am happy to have been counted at this point, because this could be the start, well, i believe it is the start of this turnaround. over 9,000 police officers have been deployed to the protests. the mayor of london has called for the group to allow the city to return to business as usual.

the group behind me are currently coordinating what is going to happen next. after over a week of disruption, they're not the only ones who want to know how this is going to continue. exactly what will happen next isn't clear. organisers suggested that more direct action is planned for this week, but wouldn't reveal the details. caroline davies, bbc news. in a world that stresses constant competition and achievement — have we lost sight of something more profound? it was a question that came to a well known new york times columnist in a moment of personal crisis, but it morphed into a bigger query about the value of morality and relationships. his book is called the second mountain: the quest for a moral life. david brooks describes life as climbing one mountain to define our ego and a second to establish our heart and soul. i'm joined now by david

here in washington. thanks forjoining us. you are well—known in the us for writing books about politics and to some degree about society as well, why write a book about around the relationships? i went to a personal crisis of disconnection, i was alone in my apartment, my marriage was over, kids had love, lost a lot of friends in the conservative movement, sol friends in the conservative movement, so i was disconnected and alone in a valley. it was also happening to people around the world and the country. more social isolation in this country, teenage suicides, distrust, sol isolation in this country, teenage suicides, distrust, so i spent five years thinking how do you get out of a valley, reconnect, how do you do it personally and nationally? the book is about that process. one way we get connected with people is building relationships and that ta kes building relationships and that takes time and effort and input. we live in a society where people are 60 hour weeks, 5—6 days a week, how

can people in this super achieving society also invest time, you are asking a lot here, investing relationships that are meaningful? relationships are what you member, not what you do anyjob. you first have to reject the lies about culture, that success is making new fairfield, and spiritually the same if you feel you are failure, doesn't do popular good. and making yourself happy, losing £50, getting betterat yoga, happy, losing £50, getting betterat yoqa, happy happy, losing £50, getting betterat yoga, happy is that individual thing. these are the lives of the merit can see and you must set those lies. when you are down in the valley, your life is defined by adversity, you go down to yourself, some are broken and ten angry and fearful. some are broken open, get vulnerable and when that happens, you are able to be loved. then relationships can start happening. you are able to be loved. then relationships can start happeninglj was watching that you talked about in those five years, you have been

watching people you feel have been living well. who were those people and what they doing?|j living well. who were those people and what they doing? i go around the country with a team and we look for weavers, who are people that are building community, they live for others and radiate joy. there was a woman who lived in a tough neighbourhood in chicago, she was going to move out because it was dangerous. as she was going to looked across the street and saw an empty looked across the street and saw an e m pty lot looked across the street and saw an empty lot and girls playing with broken bottles, we tend to husband and said we will not move, we will not be just another family say she created an organisation in that neighbourhood. a woman i met was in new orleans, and two scared little boys were raising a gun in a gang ritual and shot her. she left a health care management job ritual and shot her. she left a health care managementjob and now works with gang people who live for others. my theory of social changes

social change happens in a small group of people finding a better way to live and the rest of us follow them. we don't have to be as extreme as they are, but if we have one more person out to dinner, one more relationship with someone unlike ourselves, sewing barbecues when someone moves into ourselves, sewing barbecues when someone moves into the neighbourhood, these social gestures would create the social telling microevolution from the ground up. so many surveys tell us what takes us happy is not money and success but charity, doing things for other people. but it seems hard for people to do. what is it that stopped people living the kind of life you describe if we know from evidence this is what will make us happy? are we done? yes, particularly. at age 16, we put them in a university admissions process that says status and success will make their life, and success will make their life, and every advertisement says you can

make yourself happy. so you have to rebel against the culture and it takes a cultural revolution but it's happened before, we were a communal culture of the 505, it was 5tifling so we culture of the 505, it was 5tifling so we broke out of it and had an individualistic culture. we had 60 year5 individualistic culture. we had 60 years of that and in a good thing to an extreme and we must rediscover way5 an extreme and we must rediscover ways of community. thanks for joining us. open saying this for a long time, all you want to do is live near your family and long time, all you want to do is live near yourfamily and people that love you and your kids and every that is pushing their child to go to beat up university, careful what wishing for, it might not necessarily make them happy. —— that top university now we'll take another look at people making a moral decision — this weekend the spectator index sent around an interesting list — it's the most likely places where someone is likely to help a stranger. and it's libya that tops the list — in fact the top nine places are all in the middle east and africa and the united states

is the only western country to get into the top ten. now, keep in mind that there are is curruntly heavy fighting and air strikes in the libyan capital. we have a team on ground there and cameraman duncan stone — picked up on this list. as we look at the less, their country, a lot of them are in a difficult way, with libya it has often been called a failed state or on the brink of a failed state. definitely a fragile state. i wonder how or why that makes people more helpful? do they unite against a bad situation? maybe. david and i talked about this on the break. he said you can see in a war zone you get to a sense of what's essential in life and start to realise you depend on other people. you have to have relationships with other people to get through difficult times and those moments of giving and receiving kindness are extremely important when you are in a difficult situation to perhaps it's not surprising the top nine are in

either the middle east or africa, in countries with conflict zones as well or countries where people don't have much and therefore giving something is seen as particularly valuable. talking of giving... we've all seen a fair few animal selfies over the years , people with their cats, dogs and whatever, but this next image brings the category to a whole new level. this amazing photo was taken at a gorilla orphanage in virunga national park in the congo, where the animals were raised after poachers killed their parents. apparently the gorillas learn to imitate their carers who have looked after them since they were found , and think of the rangers as their parents. they are pouting and posing!” they are pouting and posing! i love it, i can't get enough of it! i showed it to my daughter he usually doesn't say anything at breakfast what i said about photo and even so telling mcrae she thought that was great time. that ranger has looked after them since they were about two months old, they see him as the family. as you say, they have got

the pout and the attitude, they can do the selfie! we'll be back tomorrow with more fabulous animal selfie pictures. see you tomorrow. good evening. for most of us, it has been the perfect easter holiday, hasn't it, really, lots of blue sky and sunshine. yesterday was a little bit disappointing in the far north—west of scotland, not so on bank holiday monday, hardly a cloud in the sky. a few subtle differences though, a veil of high cloud arrived in the afternoon, it turned misty and murky as you can see across the south coast in falmouth. it was still dry and you were able to get on the beach. this high cloud will continue to spill its way steadily north and west overnight tonight and we run the risk of a few isolated showers across the channel isles into cornwall and maybe through south wales as well. so cloud and showers an issue overnight, that will prevent temperatures from falling too low.

elsewhere we will see clearer skies, temperatures down perhaps 6—8d. we start off tomorrow morning again on a dry, chilly note, a little more cloud and double digits in the south west, and that high cloud could be more of an issue tomorrow. again, a good deal of dry weather with a few isolated showers fading away in the south—west, but with the sunshine turning increasingly hazy, a bit more of a breeze picking up. it won't be quite as warm. we will see temperatures perhaps peaking at around 22 degrees, always a risk of a bit cooler and fresher, particularly on exposed coasts. as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, that is when the real change is set to arrive, with this area of low pressure gathering out in the atlantic and these weather front will bring some rain into the south—west, to start off with. first thing on wednesday morning, there will be some heavy rain across cornwall, across parts of south wales and stretching up across that south coast. so as we go through the morning, that rain will continue to drift its way steadily northwards. we will see the potential for some thundery downpours

across the midlands and into the north of england. it should stay dry throughout the day across parts of scotland. here temperatures peaking at around 18 degrees but a noticeable difference with the feel of the weather, particularly once that front goes through. it will clear and dry up but only highs of around 13—15d. and the wind direction will change, driving in this moist air off the atlantic and cooler air with it as well. so it stays showery for the end of the week and into the weekend and, more importantly, noticeably cooler for all.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 20:00: sri lankan authorities blame a local islamist extremist group for the series of co—ordinated bomb attacks that killed 290 people, including eight britons. it's confirmed that british mother anita nicholson and her two children are among those killed. her husband, ben, paid tribute to his "perfect wife" and "wonderful children". dozens of firefighters are trying to control a moorland fire at marsden, in west yorkshire. it's thought the blaze, which broke out last night and extends to over a square mile, was started by a barbecue. police say more than a thousand people have been arrested,