this is deja vu news live from berlin grief and outrage follow a wave of bombings in sri lanka on easter sunday seven blasts spread through luxury hotels and churches and eight the explosion came during a police raid the death toll now stands at two hundred seven with hundreds more injured officials are blaming religious extremists and have made several arrests at the latest for you from colombo. plus exit polls show comedians a lot of mirrors a lenski has won a landslide victory in ukraine's presidential runoff rates played

a president on television now will be the real thing for franco has already conceded. i'm calm last month thanks for joining us we begin in sri lanka following a devastating wave of easter sunday bombings that killed at least two hundred seven people and wounded more than four hundred fifty world leaders have condemned the coordinated attacks that targeted luxury hotels and churches or watch a purse had gathered for easter services police say thirty two foreign nationals are among the dead most of the eight bombings of here to have been suicide attacks the government is blaming religious extremists and made several arrests but no group has claimed responsibility so far. the hospital in the capital colombo was overwhelmed people brought in victims any way they could tell.

that. outside shock and disbelief at the scale of the violence. that no one expected easter sunday to end in this way i heard the explosion and then the roof fell on us we took the children and ran out but when i came to the hospital i saw my brother in law and son on the ground. among the buildings hit the five star shangri-la hotel in colombo. many had been enjoying a special easter break first when the blast went off. it was one of several luxury hotels and a church targeted in the capital. another blast happened at a church in the town of the combo north of the capital more than ninety people died here. then shortly afterwards the zion church in the eastern town of batticaloa was

devastated by another device. it's the worst act of violence in ten years since the end of the country's civil war the government has blamed truly just extremists and has warned of serious consequences for the nation. i see this as a serious situation as destabilizing the country and the economy i strongly condemn this attack aimed at religious institutions and some hotels in the capital back. in the aftermath of the carnage a number have arrests have been made and a curfew imposed on the government is back to hunt down all the perpetrators i let's get the latest now from sri lanka with jamil and us modine editor of news in asia and she is a journalist there in colombo it's getting late in sri lanka what's the situation right now after today's or if advance. we are not seeing any movements on the road

except for try forces and a very heavy police presence in the site so that the explosion has taken place and also outside the stock grants of parents of course right now there has been a curfew which is it because when you post this is going the same definitely which is why guessing nobody on the roads is there but i was just out on the roads of a short while ago and it's extreme here that city do we have any more information about the people that are believed to be behind these attacks. right now police are thirteen suspects have been arrested and timing is running become a singer to tell us a short while ago that all those of was being arrested on three younger nationals no no group has been named at the moment and the police have said that they did not name any organization till all they miss ignitions are complete so we do not have even the slightest idea as to who could be responsible behind these attacks of the

tamil if you heard about those attacks on hotels that took place in the capital city colombo but two of the three churches that were targeted were in other parts of the country what does that tell us can you tell us anything about a potential motive here. where basically the church attacks were a clear a clear indication that they were aiming the captaincy question first who had gathered on easter sunday and mind you that all the three churches extremely popular churches in sri lanka that day's a very large gathering so when these attacks it happened in the churches in the morning the immediate information we got was this was an attack to ignite racism and this was an attack especially targeting the catholic community so these attacks on the catholic community have christians or catholics in sri lanka felt and he stressed before today's events. yes they have because just last sunday on palm

sunday a church in on there are deploying the central province become under attack by a local group of course the police to conduct the speeding with sickish and but you can be sparse to one we catholics have says a sense of insecurity instability and have the government to look into all the attacks which have taken place and also to prevent such attacks in the future but nobody expected the text which they did today which has killed at least two hundred twenty eight people. like of course a country of many religions christianity is a minority religion there have been religious tensions in the past. definitely track in recent years there has been minor incidents talking minority communities on and off just last year we saw some deadly attacks against the muslim community

begin to in the central highlands which prompted the government to declare state of emergency and they have been a minor incident three times taking place against a minority time is so there has been cd's of continuous attacks which has been taking place in recent years but as i said before this is one of the worst and one of the deadliest all right geneva national d.n.a. journalist bring us the latest from colombo thank you very much thank you. well the world reacted with shock after the attacks in sri lanka and nicole restrains me now with more on that nicole what can you tell us well social media today was a dominated by these new saw under the hashtag sri lanka for example you could find it as a trending topic on twitter but they also went to instagram and facebook just to share their solidarity share their grief and their condolences and for example german chancellor angela merkel there were lots of world leaders who took to social

media as well where she posted on instagram and condemned the terrible attacks she said that she was sad and the shocked and add it as a last sentence that religious hatred and intolerance that have to come apparent today must not win so she's sending a very strong signal there as well on the other hand there is also donald trump who tweeted his condolences he's saying that they're standing ready to help clear message of support and the iranian foreign minister mohammad job at serif took to twitter paying his respects but he also pointed out that terrorism is a global menace with no religion and that was a message that many people shared because many people also said that terrorism has no religion nor nationality it can be anyone who's attacking anyone at any time really it was a very common message today on twitter we had also we had british prime minister to resign may who quote said we must stand together to make sure that no one should

ever have to practice their faith in fear and this is only a small selection so to say of many tweets were on on social media today the eiffel tower in paris and nouns just a couple of hours ago that they would switch off their lights at midnight it just to pay tribute to the victims of this really terrible attack and there were also lots of lots of people saying this is an attack on humanity among them barack obama the former u.s. president and i think that's really how you can label it just the sad thing is that it's an attack on humanity made by humans. are they global response there to the attacks in sri lanka nicole raised think of it much at the vatican pope francis held easter mass as news of these remark attacks came and he spoke to worshippers in st peter's square. and i heard with sadness the news of the horrendous attacks which on easter sunday

brought sadness and pain to some churches and other places in sri lanka this is little money fist. i would like to express my heartfelt closeness to the christian community. which was attacked while gathered in prayer. and to all victims of such a cruel act of violence. i entrust to the. tragically died and i pray for the wounded and all those who are suffering because of this dramatic event. well exit polls from ukraine's presidential election points to a landslide victory for the comedian a lot of there's a lengthy those polls show the challenger has won comfortably with over seventy percent of the vote well one head of incumbent petro poroshenko he has already conceded defeat and congratulated the political novice on his big when.

he went from playing a president on t.v. to being one in real life this is the moment florida is alinsky the new president elect of ukraine found out he had won on the world stage he's just the latest political novice with an affection for social media to sweep aside the old guard. i'm very new york thing you know our thing you ever bought him so lansky actually studied law at university but never practiced instead opting for a burgeoning comedy career in two thousand and fifteen he began starring as a fictional ukrainian president in the sick servant of the people his own political party was eventually named after the t.v. show. selenski has been the unlikely front runner for most of the election with poll ratings flying high he even went so far as to not show up for one of two scheduled stadium debates against incumbent test reporters shanker. the fact that

ukrainians had spent years watching him play it being president may have helped him ascend to the post selenski projected a sense that people could trust him for a supporter sankoh the more experienced candidate was seen as corrupt speaking earlier just after casting his own vote selenski was calm and optimistic. still 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. many ukrainians are looking for something new frustrated by the slow pace of reforms and wearied by a five year conflict in the east of the country selenski they hope will usher in an era of change. joining us from selenski election event in kiev is correspondent nick conley nick given how how big this victory is for selenski are you surprised at all by this margin by this result. is not just me that surprised lots of selenski supporters seem pretty surprised

when it eight o'clock local time the ballot boxes were closed off and suddenly we had the first exit poll there was two or three minutes shouts of kind of excitement a real shock here at selenski selection party this is something that many people have pulled off in ukrainian politics especially if you consider that just a couple of months ago zelinsky wasn't even in the running here and he announced that he'd be running for president on new year's eve so this is really something that has shown that has shaken ukraine politics to its core and he really has pulled up through that not many people thought he could. how is the political world in ukraine reacting to that big victory. what we heard from students himself at the beginning he was very brief is that something that's been a characteristic of all this campaign a kind of reluctance to engage with journalists he just thanked his team and his family he came to the stage once more and again he was pretty if they said when it

came to talking about who he would make his advisors who would be in his government how he would make that work. ask the petro poroshenko well he very soon can conceded defeat i guess the polls also of such a did that the caption of the two candidates is so pronounced that there isn't much chance even if those polls are quite hundred percent accurate that's that can still be closed he we understand called solecki and congratulations on his win let's have a look at what expense of course you could say. asking him and he said to you next month i will leave my post as president of the country. this is what was decided by the majority of ukrainians for years and i accept this decision utils office i will leave the office of the presidency which but i would like to emphasize i am not leaving politics. supports and go there saying that he does accept that decision

let's go back though to selenski in a debate last week we heard him say that he would seek to quote break the system what exactly does that mean what can we expect from selenski now as president. will call this about two things first it's about generational change so petro poroshenko in third place units in washington selection of figures that have been at the forefront of ukraine's politics for decades selenski someone who on the one hand is known to almost all ukrainians through his work in show business and act as a comedian who has no baggage of that kind who hasn't been involved in frontline politics or politics of any kind for that matter so he's promising at least basic and a generational restart and his major concern he says is corruption the thing he says is holding ukraine back on realizing only its immense potential this after all is ukraine's is europe's rather poorest country still and he says by fighting corruption bringing people even people.