with. the at. the at. this is g.w. news live from berlin and he's the joker in the pack could you craniums choose a comedian as their next president will ask our t.v. correspondent live alone to me there's a landscape is leading the polls in a closely watched raised also coming up the number of confirmed cases of cholera in mozambique doubles in just one day aid agencies stepped up their efforts to find the outbreak in the country already devastated by a cycle of. thanks

for joining us i'm marian i haven't seen ukrainians have begun voting in the first round of a presidential election the vote is being watched closely in the west and in russia ukrainians have dozens of candidates to pick from but polls indicate there are three frontrunners including a television comedienne the last time ukraine went to the polls and twenty fourteen the country was in free fall russia had just invaded an annex the crimea region and pro russian separatists had seized control of part of the country's east five years on though what are the issues foremost in ukrainians minds. connelly reports. more than ten thousand people have lost their lives since war broke out in eastern ukraine back in twenty fourteen millions have been forced to leave their homes as

the shooting continues political attempts to end the conflict remain stuck in no man's land but the fact the fighting didn't spread further and that ukraine's army was able to regroup essential to president petro poroshenko as campaign when his message to voters is clear only he can keep ukraine safe and stand up to russia. but five years of war have also left their mark on ukrainians pockets in europe second poorest nation real incomes are still lower than they were before the war as household bills have skyrocketed. over three million ukrainians have left the country in search of work it's these people pensioners and those on low income struggling to get by that x. prime minister yulia tymoshenko is trying to reach she promises to cut household bills in half as soon as she's elected and do more to ensure ukrainians can find work at home both president poroshenko at the prime minister to have been around

for decades and many ukrainians especially younger voters are hungry for change. one person who seems to fit the bill is actor and comedian polygamous lenski the forty one year old may have no previous political experience but he has played the president before and the hit series servant of the people the sitcom tells the story of a school teacher whose rant about the state of the country is caught on video by one of his pupils the video goes viral and the teacher suddenly finds himself catapulted to the top job delivering good morning mr president. mixing footage from the sitcom with his campaign ads zelinsky is now trying to convince ukrainians that he's the outside the country needs to shake up its corrupt politics his motto become president but stay with ordinary guy his critics argue that in reality he's no outsider launching a campaign calling him a puppet of the oligarch. a sworn enemy of president petro poroshenko it's called

a mosque he who put zelinsky on television in the first place and on whose channel he announced his surprise run for the presidency selenski denies there's anything untoward about his relations with the businessman. for now the polls put zelinsky in first place far ahead of his rivals but questions remain come election day will ukrainians really take the jump and vote for someone whose only experience of politics so far has been with a t.v. script in his hands. as nick connelly filed that report and he joins us now for more from kiev hello to you nick so the frontrunner currently is a comedian but what makes you crazy and think that he can actually do the job as leader of the country. morning well qualified or not i think the cs it's mainly about protest sentiment about a kind of collective weariness with the political class here in ukraine that's

being really in charge of this country the past twenty thirty years it's imports remember that when the soviet union fell apart in the early ninety's poland and ukraine for instance were as rich as wealthy person as each other now there's over a million and a half ukrainians working in poland so ukraine really has fallen back economically in terms of corruption transparency international puts ukraine somewhere between mali and djibouti in terms of perceptions of corruption way down there the only other european country that does badly is russia so there is really a weariness and an anger that things haven't changed fast of the people's lives haven't got better obviously there are still questions whether people really take that risk where they take the jump to vote for someone who doesn't have any political experience and there are also questions about selenski commitment to politics he's being a bit elusive about whether he's willing to slug it out in politics even if you doesn't win the presidency this time if he's willing say to go into parliament as an m.p. he's not being clear about that and maybe he'll choose if he doesn't win to go back to show business well not in the previous election the incumbent president

poroshenko won by a wide margin now he's facing an uphill battle why has his popularity slipped so far. i think last time around it was a bit of an unusual situation the election twenty fourteen came just after russia had annexed the crimea the war in the east just got going so people are really desperate for a safe pair of hands that portion go that was what he was basically selling the voters and they gave him an absolute majority in the first round this time around people are frustrated that their incomes their real incomes are still lower than they were before the war the conflict in the east hasn't been resolved although that's not all in his hands lots of that depends on moscow but i think the sort of overarching theme is is is frustration that things haven't changed as fast and as revokable as they should have corruption is a big issue in the has still been no major public conviction for corruption knows big figure has had to go to prison or lost their wealth and that is something

a lot of people are very unhappy about. that was the w's nick connelly reporting from kiev while turning now to mozambique where aid agencies are stepping up their efforts to help the sick and hungry in the flood ravaged country psycho need i killed more than seven hundred people in mozambique and in neighboring malawi and zimbabwe when it struck two and a half weeks ago hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless authorities are now warning of the danger of water borne diseases as they report a jump in the number of people ill with cholera the areas previously under water now large muddy swamps the receiving floodwaters in mozambique harbor the bodies of many of the missing the threat of disease here is very real. is warry over a spike in the number of color cases in the city of beirut koehler it causes acute diarrhea and can kill within hours if not treated nearly a million vaccines

a jew to arrive in the country soon. government denied workers a wrapping day or if it's to treat those in need teams from around the world are arriving with food clean water and medicine. we go into a very critical phase now which is assistance this is this this will be done in feet in five pillars which is foods health water sanitation and also shelter. we also want to make sure that the communities they thought it will in conditions we stored their livelihoods so we'll be with some measurements that we taking like seeds and means for them to work make sure they do get this soccer culture is hugely important to mozambique nearly eighty percent of the population depends on us many people not only lost the roof i've had a hades box they harvest to getting their damaged land back in working order soon

is critical. let's get you up to speed now on some of the other stories making news around the world amazon says an investigation shows that saudi arabia tapped the phone of its boss jeff bezos that's after a tabloid printed leaked steamy messages between bezos and journalist lauren sanchez after bezos announced he was divorcing his wife. own the washington post newspaper which employed murdered saudi dissident jamal khashoggi. in turkey's eastern province two people have been killed in a dispute between supporters of rival candidates in the local elections polls suggest president erda one's ruling a k party is set for major losses his popularity has been hurt by the country's economic recession. police in bangladesh have arrested two of the owners of

a high rise office building that caught fire last week authorities say the twenty two storey structure in the capital dhaka lacked adequate fire safety features and was extended even legally the blaze killed twenty six people and injured seventy. lawyer and government critics who have put over has one thought hockey is presidential election the wind makes for the country's first female head of state. is a political novice who ran on an anti corruption platform she beats the government backed candidate. all right some sports news now and bundesliga soccer byron went into match day twenty seven at the top of the table albeit on goal difference they'd won all six of their last one just the matches and scored a whopping twenty seven goals in the process byron were on fire ahead of the international break and what better way to get back into everyday bundesliga life in

a match against eleventh place freiburg. the funds had to wait to find out one of the penalty box is had to be cleared after an anti sexism display by the freiburg supporters had created quite the paper storm. when the much finally got underway it was freiburg who reigned the pain i've just two minutes around the clock when an unmarked not at the horse in front. of the pace vindicating you he loves decision to axe the pair from the german national site. the afternoon went from bad to worse for hapless with this foe and to me yellow card. for ten at least showed composure to stop by and from going to. live and levelled the scores on twenty two minutes after super of work from leone. i one hundred ninety ninth but does lead to a goal for the poll who had the second half went more to script by an

attacking freiburg sitting in live and he had a chance but slid it past the post and then was denied by some solid goalkeeping. before hama's to alexander in resolute form. as the kings to come on. injury time brought another chance for live in the gretzky hit the post but by and to make do with a draw. we are in a pressure situation again shame that put themselves here again this is. shriver take the second point of the season against by on and make things even more tense at the top. well byron's title rivals dortmund left late against work with the score still nil nil going into the final minutes of the game in the ninety first minute pothole cossar stepped up to take a free kick. and drove it home one they'll dortmund

a goal that sent the home fans into an uproar and in the ninety fourth minute jade in san show we threw we're evolved for a defense to set up a caster for his second of the game to nil win that puts them at the top of the table. now paris says art museum is celebrating thirty years since its iconic glass pyramid was built to mark the occasion the museum has invited the french street artist known only as j r to reimagine the pyramid on a grand scale the louvre about to be transformed. hundreds of volunteers a pasting thousands of strips of paper to the floor for three full days. there marking the thirtieth birthday of the louvres famous gloss pyramid and they're putting together an art work by french artist jr who's creating an optical illusion

. why why not why not reinvent and rethink places why not wake up in your own city and allow yourself to reinvent and rethink it to look at it in a different way and growing up in the suburbs i always try to see parts differently not like everybody else climb onto rooftops and go into tunnels and to be able to see a monument like this today and rethink it reinvented as an artist and start modernist that utopia which allows you to move forward and take people along with you it is all of its work and this pyramid rising from an imaginary creator is the end result . you're watching d.w. news we leave you now with some images of earth our cities around the world turned off the lights on famous landmarks and a call for global action on climate change america in evanston for me and the entire team thanks for the company. i. i

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