subscribe to the documentary. this is deja news live from berlin good ukrainians choose a comedian as their next president. exit polls show t.v. star and political novice apollo de niro selenski has taken the lead in the first round of voting coming well ahead of the incumbent petro poroshenko we'll get the latest from here. it's also voting day in turkey with people there casting ballots

in this apolo elections widely seen as a test of president heir to one's popularity with his eight k. party be able to fend off challenges from the opposition. and in the bundesliga byron units were looking to keep dortmund at bay the best way to do that was to get three points of their own in freiburg would it be that easy. i'm exposed welcome to the program in ukraine's first round of presidential elections exit polls show a clear leader for political office alecky incumbent president petro poroshenko trail significantly behind the two will face a runoff election next month with polls now closed early predictions put selenski in the lead up with thirty point four percent of the vote to forty one year old tell of. comedian has never held political office incumbent president petro

poroshenko who's led the country since twenty fourteen is projected to have garnered just seventeen point eight percent and former prime minister yulia timoshenko was knocked out of the running with fourteen point two percent. the last time ukraine went to the polls russia had just annexed the crimea region and pro russian separatists had seized control of part of the country's east five years on know what are the issues foremost in ukrainians minds to use correspondent nick connelly talk to voters in the capital care if you would like o. economy to grow we need new jobs so that people can find work here instead of immigrating but that is is. we only want peace but we understand that it won't be easy to achieve it this good i'm voting for a candidate who won't be to most guys liking. this but. we need to defeat corruption in our countries incredibly reaching what he said was

and potential public corruption in ukraine is simply destroying us from a less corruption fewer theft so that we start living well like a normal european country very. first of all our oligarchy need to start investing in ukraine's economy stop taking all their money abroad to off shores. correspondent nick connelly joins us now live from kiev next exit polls put of years alecky in the lead he's a comedian who's played a president in the t.v. series as you know but is there a fear that ukrainians are mixing fiction with reality somehow. good evening make it different the atmosphere here at his election party is electric they seems people here were even taken a bit by surprise by the extent of the gap between selenski and the nearest candidate that is incumbent mr poroshenko in terms of mixing reality with fiction well here. is

a universally known face in this country that's been having been on ukraine's t.v. screens for so many years now and not having tracked much in the way of scandal has been a huge advantage to me and it's basically free campaign advertising the fact that so many ukrainians seemingly willing to vote for him is a sign of a deep deep disappointment with the existing political class both feel the top front runner is going to michigan have been on principle seen for decades time in which ukraine has really fallen behind its neighbors and failed to make good on its huge potential in terms of political development economics millions of ukrainians working abroad because they simply caught on enough to survive back at home so people obviously were willing to take that risk to take that jump just by the fact that obviously he has no political experience as. president petro poroshenko appears have made it into the runoff how is he taking this. well we haven't heard much from him yet but it's kind of clear where the next round the election is going to go how he's going to position himself that he has consistently

. sold himself in this election as the commander in chief of the army the man who rebuilt ukraine's army off of those crushing defeat in crimea and beginning of the conflict in the east and he will be trying to point the finger rub those souls in the wounds of selenski lack of experience give himself give himself the role of the states month commander in chief the safe pair of hands and try and convince ukrainians not to take this risk and not take this jump. or waiting for the final score but we have heard already there been sixteen hundred complaints about electoral violations what's going on there. nic i think we need to be clear that most of these are technical nature so that's not enough ballot papers people being resisted where they're from or all of them where they're currently living there are a small number of complaints about cations will direct infringements of campaigning or campaigning that shouldn't be going on today. well people who are candidates

using buses to bus their votes is to go to the ballots rather than actually take voters or throwing in ballot paper certain moment it seems you can move about technical side and problems of logistics and nothing that really pulled into question the legitimacy of this vote for now but we have to machine go saying calling on their supporters to come out to the polling stations and make sure that every ballots counted fairly and in their interest ok a dramatic election in many ways nick colony connelly in care thank you for that. vote counting is also underway in turkey's local elections there the first since the reform package gave president ratchet tie affair to one sweeping new powers but his popularity has taken a hit over the country's economic recession with polls suggesting his ruling aka party could have to swallow significant losses. this is turkey's sick vote in five years for local elections the atmosphere is not quite what you might expect

one voter cooled it loud aggressive and unworthy of the democracy of the people in this country have lost respect for each other and politics is driving that polarization along with all on the. well though he's not standing for election himself the campaign's been dominated by president much of time at one and one knows local elections serve as a barometer of public support he was elected istanbul's mayor in one thousand nine hundred four and right now a currency crisis and rising food prices according discontent. surveys suggest the ruling a.k.p. policy could be defeated in the capital ankara months of the secular c.h.p. as the favorite there in istanbul the a.k.p. and c.h.p. a neck and neck. and he's made in i think the a.t.p. has improved services i'm forty five now and i know how did used to be.

i have less and less trust in elections and i'm only twenty one but i still go and vote today in the hope that something might change but we. ask people if the government faces accusations of a crackdown the pro kaddish. says many of its politicians have been arrested in recent days. joining us now live from istanbul is the story of jones story and the polls are closed now can you give us any initial results. where we do seem to be heading for a very exciting night the capital ankara is neck and neck nothing between the main opposition main opposition c.h.p. and the ruling a k p with half the votes counted in istanbul the ruling a.k.p. only have a two point lead with still over half the votes to be counted so very very close in other major cities across the country the main opposition could be set for some important victories although the much predicted major collapse in the support of

the doesn't seem to be happening in fact their vote does seem to be holding up well in several key areas also they do seem to be set for a major success in turkey's predominately kurdish southeast heading for a very important victory in one province where they've achieved a massive thirty percent swing this will be a major setback for thirty's kurdish h.t.t.p. which do seem to be experiencing several major losses and defeats. and we also hear that two people were shot dead at a polling station and dozens of other people were injured across turkey can you tell us a bit more. well indeed these elections have been held in a number president an extremely tense atmosphere given the fact the country is invitation and also the ruling a.k.p. party is under threat maybe for the first time in many years. here this provincial city in the southeast of the country there was a dispute over the way votes were being carse observers from. islamic

parties which is an opposition objected they got into an argument with the observers from the ruling a k p and that turned to violence and two of those the islamic party observers was shot dead this has caused a great deal of shock in the country well there has to be said given this region is awash with gone such violence isn't unusual the president one has been quick to condemn it his party's promised a full investigation beyond that there has been some caution is a knife in some fights fist fights in parts of istanbul again just. how tense the atmosphere is ok daryn jones in istanbul thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. lawyer and government critic. has one is lucky as presidential election the wind makes her the country's first female head of state chopper tobar is a political novice who ran on an anti corruption platform she beat the government

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