resident on television now he looks set to be elected is the real thing selenski poke twice as many votes as the sitting president in the first round of voting and is on course for a decisive win do it today it will be a victory for ukraine the victory of a fair choice we've united the country and now look we've also united the journalists now. many ukrainians are looking for change frustrated by the slow pace of reforms and wearied by the five year conflict in the east of the country with russian backed insurgents. i'm voting for the young the candidate of hope but the choice is obvious the war is dragging on and that's awful. i need something new we've had enough of the old faces we've seen them all before the with the push for poroshenko i respect him and the good things he has done. for his alleged scheme we can trust him partially because clever but he's corrupt. but i'm

very keen for poroshenko he's professional a true statesman of loss that. petro poroshenko has been tarnished by allegations of corruption but he's keen to play up his role or know why to stage with the ability of people we made great progress in integration into the family of european nations we have done everything possible to strengthen our transatlantic integration i reforms are not finished yet and we will not allow anyone to stop them my mother with this emotionally. diverting the president went on to an easter mass but poroshenko his days in office look to be numbered. joining us now from the ukrainian capital kiev is correspondent nick connelly nick thanks for joining us president poroshenko is under threat of losing his job to a politically inexperienced volodymyr zelinsky what are the opinion polls telling

us at this hour. well the last opinion polls we have off from the last stand last week where there were no opinion polls allowed to be held the day before and on the day of the election but those do seem very decisively in favor of this insurgent candidate for the most alinsky putting him or over seventy percent on almost double as many votes as the incumbent petro poroshenko that looks to be a position and a very difficult to come back from for the sitting president petro poroshenko out on the streets of kiev today to turn out seems pretty big we were in the suburbs of kiev earlier on in the middle class district lots of support from zelinsky there here in downtown kiev a lot more sympathy for the incumbent people telling us that they think you know they have something to lose and don't want to risk putting someone without experience in the top job voting now taking off a bit most people seemingly having posted already in the early hours but polling stations will still be open for another four hours. what are the candidates focused

on in their campaigns. petro poroshenko was very clear about his pitch he was selling himself as the commander in chief as the father of the nation as it were the man who stopped the conflict in the east of ukraine spreading to the rest of the country who pulled the country back from the brink back in twenty fourteen when as you remember in the space of months crimea had been annexed by russia the separatists had got going in the east of the country the country was virtually bankrupt so he selling that legacy is the person who can keep the country together now lots of his critics would say he hasn't done enough to make life easier for average ukrainian standards of living us to lower than they were before the war people's really incomes have really taken a hit and there hasn't been enough decisive action against corruption no significant convictions none of the big figures in prison and that's and it's alinsky is really been able to profit from someone who was known to everyone by being a star of t.v. from comedies from stand up but equally not having been part of a political elite that has been in charge of this country for the past decade so

he's coming in as a fresh face as the face of a new generation you want to shake things up and to really challenge the status quo the question is will ukraine's take that leap are they willing to take that risk you mentioned zelinsky is a fresh face not only a fresh face but obviously a new a novice. what would designs when mean for ukraine. well that's the question he's coming for a lot of criticism that he's been very vague on the detail of his policy selling more of a hope and a vision rather than concrete policy suggestions in recent days he has been a bit more concrete and presented his future team including some experts a former finance minister to try and give himself a bit of credibility there but he's also coming in for a lot of criticism because of his links to the oligarch. this is someone who's living outside the country and is an enemy of the current president poroshenko suggestions there that if so let's give makes it to the presidency he'll be trying to favor the business interests of that's something that pushing through the

current president is pushing as a line but seemingly it's not doing him much much harm if anything the poll ratings in the last days before this poll seemingly showing him increasing his lead over the incumbent and people time and time again when you speak them saying they're just tired of the rhetoric of war tired of low incomes and hoping for change feeling they don't have much to lose that's our nic connelly in kiev nick thanks so much. this easter christians around the world or attending church services in praying our next report comes from poland where one priest has found a novel way to encourage people to pray any day of the year. at first glance woods looks just like any other place you pay to park your car it's fairly cheap and only charges seventy five cents an hour. and this is a private parking lot so you have to pay for it. but first start roche's up or i'd

keep. this is also a private parking lot but it's free with god's blessing you can leave your car in the parking lot of the parish of st mary of the perpetual help. yesterday but whenever i park here i never forget to pray the rosary prayer is part of our daily life so you can easily do ten how mary used to you going home yesterday it. was that you got. the priest does not charge money he requires you to pray in order to park here but parking your car long term comes with a warning the price goes up. in minutes and i charge ten hail marys and for every additional fifteen minutes ten more hell marys. weather still in your car or later in church motorists can pray where and when they want but no one wants to pray on camera even here in catholic poland. top should

end up as a secret truth that applies to everyone who parks year after all this parking lot belongs to us the church and the priest built it so everyone who parks here should come inside the church and pray properly and very. much. if someone refuses i say to them don't you even want to pray for your own parents but no one checks sometimes people make jokes and ask where do i kneel then i say you don't have to kneel here. for a priest this parking lot attendant in some cities you have to pray just to find parking and would you have to pray after you found a spot. to football now and the bundesliga biran kicked off their match against bremen just one point ahead of second place dortmund saturday's clash was also the first of two encounters with bremen in less than a week byron face and again in the german cup then are well aware they are side

capable of causing an upset the visitors put up a fight but by and prevail eventually. braman steen morale had been unbeatable this year and florian cofield was determined to dent points title aspirations they certainly threw themselves into the tussle from the very first whistle. by and had the first real chance of the match serge cannot break going close after twenty six minutes. a tidy spin and shot from the germany international judges he passed like i was equal to the task braman was standing strong in the face of byron's onslaughts which left me coke over looking for answers by in turn the screw after half time. but they found gremlins to fence in an imperious mood. have lanko was in particular on top of his game. to

match turned on its head after fifty eight minutes though. the last filk of it stand tall for a second yellow card the strike elbow ending his sesay off to noon only. down to ten men pavlik could continue to reel out the highlights. but he was powerless to do not nicholas throughout on seventy five minutes was a wicked deflection leaving him stranded one goal enough to hand by an eight hot for one victory that's right now in the second half we were able to step up a gear we had a man sent off and we laid siege to their gold. i missed a lot of chances and the win was fully deserved it as it's often we could have had a more comfortable end to the game. it was an inch ponderous was forced into. an important win for bye and they will be looking to repeat the job when the two

teams meet up again in the german cup on wednesday. let's bring you up back up to speed on the story we've been following this hour at least two hundred seven people have been killed and hundreds injured in explosions at churches and hotels in sri lanka the first seven explosions hit colombo as well as the town of negotiable and better koloa in the east of the country a major church in colombo was among the buildings other targets were five star hotels the defense minister says seven suspects have been arrested. for more analysis let's bring in wookiee fernando he works on human rights issues with the ngo in form which is based in sri lanka capital colombo mr fernando just hours before today's attack unfolded you had written an article saying christians in sri lanka have come under threat what led you to this conclusion. a

number of years and also for the last weeks and months in incidences of violations against this cancer and ultimately. in the light of these continuing to. be strong didn't the people that. i mention that be glad he doesn't suddenly become a cop exception up this concur with the. police not. the churches across the country. so i never expected something like what happened could be could happen i would be very shocked as i think everyone in sri lanka about what happened today i think continuing today for the last several years not at all comparable to what happened could be. we've all been taking a crash course in the wanton demographic as a result of these explosions attacks today i know now that christians only make up about seventy percent of the population can you give us

a sense of what is right entering this ill will against a tiny portion of the population. really really difficult for me to understand. that. the worst kind of violence i think that it was in years ago but the general relations of christians i think is really good. sense and being tolerant. comes from lankans. about might want to just continue to send his own christian movies also for the last several years. because we've got to. convert the people who are buddhist or even from other good. decent were made against a movie that really. oculus a number of as far as i know all those everyone popped into that i have not seen evidence of the cooling in your view that if you're writing the. some other things

that i live. but i really really do and. that is ricky fernando with the n.g.o.s in form in colombo sri lanka mr fernando thanks so much for joining us. you're watching news live from berlin up next arts twenty one featuring don't yield to the nova remember for all the latest news you can go to our website dot com ali back at the top of the hour for now thanks for tuning in and we'll see you.

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