from. the first round of voting in ukraine's presidential election. well ahead of the company president. also on the program. he celebrates james control of the capital ankara the local elections looks likely to fall and huge blow to president of the truth impact. british lawmakers get ready to vote on alternatives to the government's deal with the european union again just twelve

days before the u.k. shettleston leave the e.u. m.p.c. no closer to agree. i'm welcome to the program. we begin in ukraine where a comedian with no political experience secured a strong lead in the first round of the country's presidential elections lot of me as the lansky is not likely to face incumbent to petro poroshenko in a runoff in three weeks. unwinding with a game of ping pong. selenski the dark horse candidate celebrated his big win with a party at a trendy kiev nightclub a location that underscores his popularity with young voters. the forty one year old capitalized on frustration over rampant corruption and a faltering economy but he has yet to spell out what he would do in power one of

his campaign slogans was no promises no apologies zelinsky is basically a screen under which many ukrainians project their expectations he didn't make strong policy stance at that point so it's very difficult to say who actually will be should he be elected. selenski came to the candidacy by way of a hit t.v. show called servant of the people where he plays an outsider elevated to the presidency. offscreen he may not be entirely outside the system critics say he's in the pocket of an oligarchy who owns the t.v. channels that are selenski program and who opposes president petro poroshenko to many the incumbent has failed to fix everything that's wrong about ukraine corruption and low living standards. if you were to me this election is like another made on protest the third mass protest thinker for deciding where country will be in ten to fifteen years time we're choosing the country or children and

grandchildren will be looking at it now she did you. say isn't it though and of course i'm satisfied we voted for selenski everything is cool though we didn't expect poroshenko to make it into the second round as everyone thought the runner up would be. everyone including yulia to. shankar herself the former prime minister is a heroine of the country's pro western movement she spent years in jail on what she says were politically motivated charges she called the exit polls dishonest and asked supporters to wait for final results. the central election commission said no systematic violations had been registered during the poll despite allegations of widespread vote buying acknowledging more than two thousand complaints the body said reports of irregularities would be reviewed but none required immediate action . alexander who is the former principal deputy chief monitor of the oas in a special monitoring mission to ukraine he joins us from the care of welcome to the

w so we have a complete outsider a man with no political experience who is now battling the incumbent president in the runoff that's what it looks like what's gone wrong for president poroshenko he came in on a landslide. the election process as it stands most of today's not yet finished i assume know the two frontrunners of we'll be having another round on the twenty first of april and on the off the dots results of these elections will be clear whether we'll be devean or we'll have all hands full of work and i'm sure that's the people of ukraine will make the choice of their choice in order to ensure that the counter moves forward. what is it about the way the country has been run that means so many of them will vote for

a modest no political experience as opposed to that they've they've come but. i think it's refreshing to see that democracy is such play here of the elections were not clear altogether from the outset of the vote on sunday now also showed once again that's democracy works here and that it's not over yet there will be another round on the twenty first of april where that process will come to a conclusion if not him isn't zelinsky this non-politician defeat actually wins that the run if he actually becomes president i did not like it to be viewed by russia and today by the i.m.f. which is funding a seventeen and a half billion dollars aid package to write. its very little known for forward to miss the selenski stance once again whoever wins start election will have a lot of work to complete most of for morse of course it's stuff the conflict in the eastern part of the country that still needs to be addressed still every day is

the you know you see special monitoring mandate mission mandated to money toward a cease fire reports about cease fire violations and still on a very regular basis of elian stare get injured this is one of the big task of the next president which will be finalized and determine if the next round on the twenty first of april and in the eastern part of the country the donbass today actually gets a vote in this election. there were procedures in place that people could post their vote on and go to their their polling stations in situations and organizations mandated to be monitoring the elections will surely comment on that process too it is important in the conflict in the east will be addressed head on that these affects both sides of what is referred to the context line dividing government and non-government controlled areas of obvious

a conflict that is now over five years old and needs urchin the tension here inside ukraine but also worldwide. and again just going about this this idea of this this complete outsider coming to power in ukraine if that is indeed what i was likely to be viewed by russian. well i think all neighbors and all partners off ukraine will make their plans and will starting gate before this election would it be done and new person or person that has already been known to the neighbors and its partners that will have to be seen and i'm sure. that whoever wins will have the best in mind for to count three and the best in mind to solve the many problems this country has still to resolve and xander who in kiev thank you. thank you turkey's local elections over the weekend have

been described as eye stunning setback for the country's president and he time for the first time in eighteen months is a k. party has lost control of the capital ankara even greater you know main rivals the secularists that c.h.b. party also trying to victory in the country's economic system and a vote to say that i'm happy with my president has handled the country's economic downturn. well the main opposition candidate for istanbul mahmoud who has declared victory in the city and son is down bulls versus in india washed out from today on we will run the city and a transparent fashion at all times in there and i would do this gladly little because i know that every part of the city belongs to sixteen million people. and get more from darren jones's in stamboul welcome don't it how significant are these results for the opposition and indeed for the president. all you have to

understand is present a nerd one has built up a reputation over the last fifteen years of electoral invincibility he's basically crushed anyone that has challenge him in the past decade and a half and while he was name wasn't on the ballot box in the polls he made this election all about his rule a referendum about his role and the fact that he received a major slap in losing and it now seems possibly which was one of the few that the unthinkable before these polls will of dealt a major blow to this invincible reputation and this will cause the president problems because he's used as electoral success to face down critics servers. storage area recall pointing out his democratic success on top of that he is used to silence critics within his own ranks pointing the fact that only he can deliver a little success now he is seen as potentially vulnerable not only from with opponents outside the party but also within his own movement so where did it go wrong for him. well early on success over the last

fifteen years has been at the company of unprecedented economic prosperity time and he has many of his supporters have been the main beneficiaries of that but now that has all come to an end the party is over the country is in recession soaring inflation at over twenty percent food prices running at over thirty and to many reports even higher in cities like that is causing a lot of pain people are really feeling very uncomfortable possibly even hungry as the adage goes a hungry person is an angry person and there's a lot of anger and a lot of that was directed at the third one and the raleigh and his government and they have punished him at the polls so this with these one local elections how does the president now deal with the fact that he seems to have much less political support in so many communities. well this really is going to be a problem going forward because for the opposition now who've been widely marginalized for more than fifteen years they have now control of the capital and

possibly. the population of fifteen million some medium size country the opposition will use this as a platform to say there is an alternative to earth a different way of running the country they will also use the significant resources to build up a wide base of support within the city which can be a springboard which they will be hoping for electoral success and urged one in one thousand four emerge from an obscure politician when he took over to end up dominating politics and his base during journeys in istanbul. take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world germany begins i have one month term sharing the united nations security council today it takes over from france with their countries pledging to coordinate a to continue close coordination they both those countries want to focus of christ eventually in africa and strong support for the u.n. mission in mali. the. u.n.

has called. to not supply the rules of the language that death by stoning for adultery and case sex is a she said it would be a major setback to human rights if the country and defacto a moratorium on capital punishment plans to implement islamic sharia will certify. or japan has announced the era of the incoming. teacher of the japanese word. assuming harmony i'm just kept secret ahead of today's other news from the current emperor akihito used to to advocate for the month first time news and for a step down from two hundred miles. britain's parliament is debating a way to resolve the crisis in a few hours lawmakers will vote on a number of options to try and reach a consensus on a plan for the country to leave the european union confident ministers are trying to squeeze a presence ten down streets for talks ahead of tonight's vote

a similar series of votes of last week so m.p.'s fail to unite around turn and say to theresa may smith told agreement there was no majority of the options for a second referendum or a customs you and gained the most important. european commission president. meanwhile said the e.u. was losing patience with london. believe me i want to be done but actually we have yet another brick sitting the fourth vote of a county correctly and nobody knows where we are going. to need we now know what the. british parliament does not want what we don't yet know what it does want the news things springs is an open book in comparison with the british parliament and parliament we need to get a stinks to talk now. recently seems your silence has gone on long enough. let's go straight to london where we find you don't be correspondent to

back it to us welcome i think it's so another set of indicative votes tonight work we expect. well we're expecting that m.p.'s today are coming to hopefully some serve form of conclusion and it's most likely to be as soft as bricks of the day would be agreeing on something like you have already mentioned phil the single mark here the customs union or possibly another referendum on any deal that they agree on so a self diversion of bragg's and then the one that series a may has envisage so this today approaches there is a little bit different from last week we're expecting only a few options to be there so there will be less choice and that makes it more likely for m.p.'s to actually agree on something so the latest bracy deadline is the twelfth of april a few options you say do you think british lawmakers will have something to talk to brussels about bye then. that's the hope here in london

on the other hand you don't know what actually that is going to result in because reason may choose not to go with what palm and is saying to her and then that remains to be seen whether parliament can learn find a way in the next days to effectively folse her to go three with this option by just having another yes another vote on this by no means today will be the end of this process and as you mentioned it's the twelfth of april when the u.k. will leave the european union if there is no resolution to this brics it cannot under and so reason may we don't know what she will do there is speculation that she could actually say that a general election is the only way out so everything really still open but he's acutely aware of this deadline of the twelfth of april and what they don't want is to leave without any deal so they will do everything they can in order to to find

a solution now under way from parliament to how the british responding to all this chaos and uncertainty and i'm sister. a lot of people are really very passionate now about a year of this is something that has changed from since the referendum really when you're a wasn't much on people's agenda but through this whole process. people are very acutely aware of what's going on in the country and their relationship with europe so over six million people signed a petition an online petition that's going to be debated today about revoking article fifty then we saw last week just we're where i am in front of parliament there were thousands of people who fought for breakfast and so really passions on both sides of course there are also those who say well just let's just get on with it and. do anything so i don't have to hear the word bragg's ever again but that's

not likely to be the case because it's not likely that m.p.'s will rally around some form of brags that might have to be negotiated again with prostitutes and then receive a longer extension so i don't think we have seen the end of the bricks of process just yet get mass in london thank you z.w. news live from berlin still to come germany's blunders make it dormant every game's first place from behind munich had sets of nothing more than clash between the two sides this coming weekend we'll take a look at the state of family. the fatter i've been reasonably accused of killing the brother of the north korean leader kim jong un has been spared the death penalty. is now expected to be freed from prison in malaysia next month after finishing a three year sentence that includes time served they've had to resign bassett

described ms dawn victim in the case the news comes just weeks after the other defendant was free. the. relief and joy for do on t. home after the murder charge against her was dropped in exchange she pled guilty to a weapons charge. with reduction for good behavior plus time already served due on is set for release as early as may. her father was illegally scribbling. i hope that our daughter can be released in one month's time i would like to extend my sincere thanks to all the lawyers here. it was a case that shocked the world a cold war style assassination in a busy airport on feb thirteenth twenty seventeen kim jong nam arrived at koala lumpur airport for a flight to macau moments later a woman smeared a nerve agent on his face he approached the help desk saying he felt unwell and

died on route to hospital ok because. malaysian authorities arrested want tea hung from vietnam and city safe from indonesia they denied murder telling the court they were tricked by north korean spies who told them it was for a t.v. prank. was his murder a state sponsored hit yang denies any involvement but as the elder half brother of north korean leader kim jong un kim jong nam could have had a claim as ruler but he'd fallen out of favor and was living in exile for north koreans who left malaysia just hours later are suspected of involvement in the killing to launch a lawyer called on the court to bring the real perpetrators to justice. you know. we see that justice must be. also poised logic to really assess and so the fact

koreans are just one of the emphasise that the must be brought to justice. with the only suspects in custody now cleared of murder. justice for kim jong nam looks increasingly unlikely. we'll start with football there was quite a bit of movement among the top four in germany's bond is bigger this weekend with just seven matches left to play this season. of the sport could fill us in welcome welcome so i don't gave up a sore spot over the weekend we'll get to that let's talk about sunday's big match frankfurt winning yet again yes they're in great form they've got three nil they've now moved up to fourth spot of course that for sport is very very important because that is germany's final berth for the champions league they've been in front tested form they've won the last five in the league let's have a look at the best of the action. the frankfurt faithful were hoping to see the home side continue their run and leap frog log back in the standings. and the host

duly set the tone from the opening whistle would look to europe at shooting just wide after a mere three minutes play it. looked up held out to the break but thought constitutes forty fifth minute finish from an acute angle gave frankfurt the advantage. and constitution double of his towering sunny home an incredible pass from on to a real bitch just after the hour mark for his fifth goal of the season. with five minutes left in regular time jamie de coster third yo bitch for an entire hour to finish up his own three no frankfurt you bitches sixteen league goals have been tied for second in the scoring charts. the big three c's frankfurt moved to fourth place with their best run in years putting them in champions league contention. for winning yet again they must be the surprise club this season

well yes and no i mean obviously they changed managers at the start of the season went to buy in but obviously fire and wanted there and. they were doing something right last season anyway having won the the german cup but abbey hotel came in the new coach and he did a very clever thing because when you coach kinetic at the change everything and a make lots of alterations that actually weren't needed you know if it ain't broke don't fix it. and yeah it's just it's just there's just stuck to it and he's. going goals and they're scoring goals why change things and they're reaping the benefits now so let's talk about sunday's of a game yeah well shout finally got to win a big away. very lucky they were playing a team even worse than them because hanover really are doing bush out to now given themselves a big hope of a big chance of survival let's see how they managed to beat however one know. who would hold their nose in this relegation battle stevens returned to the shelter

benches. seen a predictable focus on defensive stubbornness to be did a low hendrik vitae and a sniff of girls gone i examined a nubile to the rescue for shelter. as expected this wasn't the sign of spectacle but shell to show just a bit more quality and took the lead on thirty nine minutes sardar made it one nil with his first goal for the royal blues he did well to kill benyamin stumble across and how do we give him the freedom of the penalty box to pick his spots. kind of a press more after the break but we're ultimately toothless. news leaders shot kissed the bar i. couldn't find a way past nubile. one know the final score relegation looms ever closer for hung over to take a step towards safety. so shoko were second class citizen and now they're

having absolutely awful season but that win has just given them a little bit of even states but they're not safe yet let's talk about the title race and this was a nail biting wind biting weekend for the title contenders indeed now we have bruce you don't win back on top it's been very topsy turvy and on top for many weeks and all of a sudden by and storm back into form dortmund had a bad spell it looked like buying was suddenly the face of the title i know for certain dortmund be close third to no weekend tackle al cafe had scored two goals very very late on looked like it was going to be a draw not win and look at the don't when it was coupled with only managing a draw at freiburg that was a woman draw so that means no dortmund are two points ahead at the top if we have a look at the table and there's just safe and games left now so it's really getting tight it is the best. title race we have had in germany since the early ninety's i mean it's actually fantastic what makes it even better they're playing each of us next weekend against dortmund you have to think of dortmund when they will go on to

win the title it's getting exciting for the first time in so long and the one is a doctor who sees are excited. about matters thank you. his first victory of the new season the reigning world champion was given a real scare by a twenty one year old ferrari driver whose car briefly lost power within a few laps a victory. lap record in bahrain to secure his first pole and he looked like topping not with a maiden grand prix when until a faulty engine saw his chance a spotter wrote with just a few laps to go. lurking behind him was lewis hamilton the briton to advantage of misfortune to ease home and first with teammate. making it a mercedes one to the clear to make do with third very hard to take but thanks to

the amazing. and i'm pretty sure you know i'm sure it was a devastating result for him. to win the race so we were definitely lucky today a first win of the season for a clearly grateful hamilton but a warning shot from his young monegasques rival that will keep the briton on his toes as he seeks a sixth championship. is a reminder of our top stories. in ukraine a comedian vladimir selenski has a strong late after the first round of presidential elections with awful ballots counted days ahead with at least thirty percent top marks the one year old has never held political office before the incumbent attach a partial growth is currently second with seventeen years. to use a present present time for the soft implosion local elections office may hope to prosecute one to trample on trust and also accept to take is tumble closer of

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