yes i will leave the office of the presidency which but i would like to emphasize i am not leaving the politics. supporting 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 and 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 in the 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 on 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 with top level involved in politics to account for their corrupt dealings he can help release that you cannot potential and really help ukrainians decent living at home rather than being forced to leave the country as millions of ukrainians have been in recent years leaving the country in the hope of finding decent wages and the ability to provide for their families what about internationally and in terms of geo political relationships but selenski stance on russia clearly a country that plays a big role in ukraine. i think it would be wrong to cool to lead and open a pro russian candidate there were different other candidates in this race who travel to moscow during the campaign that was something that was considered normal in the past before the war in the fall. crimea but as we saw in the first round

that doesn't pay off at the ballot box in today's ukraine that was something that didn't do them any favors selenski is certainly in no hurry to show himself as a friend of the kremlin on the one and other hand he's culturally someone who speaks russian in his private life rather than ukrainian who mixes both languages in his public appearances that something that goes down well in more russian speaking parts of this country in terms of europe while he says that personally he is in favor of closer integration and membership of nato in the e.u. but he will put this down to referendums allow the ukrainian public to decide on that the problem is having more rather than the geopolitics is actually accusations that he's too close to his column whiskey at all agog who owns the channel that made solecki famous that is a link that has been causing him considerable trouble in recent weeks and something that doesn't seem to be going anywhere away anytime soon. all right e w's nick connelly reporting there in kiev from selenski headquarters thank you very much.

now let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world tripoli's only working airport has reopened after being hit by air strikes the airport had been shut down amid two weeks of fighting over control of the libyan capital forces loyal to strongman. have been unable to break into the city defended by libya's internationally recognized government. a landslide in southwestern colombia has killed at least fourteen people and injured five others heavy rains triggered the disaster in a province it ferried at least eight houses and blocked a portion of the pan-american highway as well landslides are common during colombia's rainy season. thousands have been protesting in the moroccan capital rabat announcing a crackdown on anti-poverty activists several members of the iraq anti-poverty movement have been imprisoned and a leader was sentenced to twenty years in prison for threatening state security the movement is calling for more jobs in morocco's northern region. in

sudan protest leaders have suspended talks with the country's ruling military council and they say they no longer recognize its authority this follows military leader general abdel fatah alba hons announcement earlier today that he would respond within a week to demands for civilian control or as organizers have urged people to intensify their demonstrations outside army headquarters in the capital hard to army has been in control since of ousted sudan's longtime leader omar al bashir ten days ago. now d.w. correspondent jeff far abdul karim is in the sudanese capital khartoum earlier he spoke to people there about who they think should represent them and here's the update. i just came from the area where you have hitler a genius and a group of people there who are discussing the future of sudan on a kind of different groups who have live or liberal parties who have secular parties who have been slumming parties you have the group of people representing

the youth of the revolution the way they call themselves and all of them are discussing who could represent us in this case because the military said this statement they want to hand over power to a civilian council but who is civilian counsel and whose people's choice today who would represent them and i could see that there is no a unity among the people who could represent them and this is going to be the biggest challenge facing sudan the next weeks and within also the next days because who was the person who will say ok this person can represent us and he is our present to because i when i was in the area in front of the headquarters of the military i remember three square in cairo and also remember. in tunisia it was you know like this time one week after the down of the regime for the old regime and the people were kind of talking about everything and there was kind of chaos there

is no structure there is no work on aids patient who who could represent them and what they all agree on is what what's my impression is is they agree on they don't want to have any influential and international foreign influence here in sudan because you have two parties so now you have turkey and qatar on one side and you have on the other side so the arabia u.a.e. and egypt most of the people i talked with they told me no we don't want to have anyone influencing our political system or having an influence on our decision today it's their choice of the people and even if it takes time we are the one who wants to decide. we want to return now to our top story the bombings in sri lanka here's a rundown of what we know so far about the easter sunday attacks eight coordinated explosions were set off three at churches four at hotels and one at an apartment that was being searched by police at least two hundred seven people have been

killed and four hundred fifty people are known to be injured police have arrested several suspects a nationwide curfew is currently in place and social media platforms have been suspended the defense minister has called the blasts a terrorist act by religious extremists. there has been no claim of responsibility for sunday's attacks but the carnage of ochs the horrors of sri lanka's civil war that ended a decade ago now the conflict did not involve the country's christian minority it was ethnic tensions between hindu tunnels and the buddhist singhalese that spilled into an all out war for twenty four years and claimed over one hundred fifty thousand lives here's a look back. buddhists are the largest religious group in sri lanka followed by hindus and muslims christians account for just seven percent of the population in one thousand nine hundred three the predominantly hindu tamil tigers began an insurgency against the government with the aim of creating an independent state in

the north they carried out a series of suicide attacks across the country but didn't target christians the government deployed its armed forces to areas with a large tamil population tens of thousands of civilians fled the violence in may two thousand and nine the government declared victory and an end to the civil war the united nations accused both the government and the insurgents of committing war crimes. the then un secretary-general ban ki moon called for dialogue between the senate lease dominated government and the tamil minority. and twenty fifteenth's are largely elected a new president who promised to investigate war crimes decentralize power and strength in parliament following the end of the civil war in two thousand and nine there weren't any major terror attacks but the conflict continued to smolder in recent years there have been repeated clashes between buddhists and muslims i want

to bring in now the tamil shams for some more background on this. so as we heard the different ethnicities different religions in sri lanka and yet the three places of worship attacked today were all christian what does that tell us perhaps about the religious tensions in sri lanka. well it is true that i darcs on christians and so long how can increase the costs furious but there are still substantially low. buddhists have been attacking the muslim minority and we saw some tensions this years really the government had to declare an emergency a state of emergency. but in my opinion religious tensions are not as rife in salone care as you have ethnic tensions so we know that there have been decades long after nick tensions and the time of separatists were demanding their homeland that ended in two thousand and nine when roger boxes government

crushed. so in my opinion what is happening in god is more on the ethnic lines down on religious lines the sri lankan prime minister says that these attacks were organized locally so far thought is they're not really revealing any more information about the attackers and who they have into custody what radical groups to be know exist in sri lanka. well we can easily identify certain groups radical groups in sri lanka first of all there are. two separate. but they were defeated in two thousand and nine and they are not very powerful at the moment then you have radicalized buddhists in three long. dark muslims every known dinosaur arabic. then you have the radical islamist groups affiliates that are part of the global jihad movement like

a guy they're an islamic state and their affiliates and there are armed groups political groups but they want to disturb lies the government so these are the groups so carmel on not as powerful to launch so many coordinated exploding since longer do this groups are also not very powerful and they would probably not to attack the churches so it is likely but we can't say anything for sure that it could be local affiliates of islamist groups connected to your hardest as well the will of course still awaiting a fishel word from the government on on any claims of responsibility there and those attacks of course they do threaten to destabilize the country and again the government perhaps affecting tourism as well something that the economy there is heavily dependent on could these attacks also be seen as an attack perhaps on the government. well tourism is one of the main sources for the sri lankan

government source of income and obviously the attacks have the attackers targeted to resume industry into longer as well so it's a let down on. the concrete the longer the government does the lankan people do resemble definitely be affected by these attacks and the government will be destabilized by that all of the political tensions and prime minister with the missing it does not get along where you will with the presidency sena rajapakse they were defeated the dharma diagnosed in two thousand and nine wants to make a comeback so he can now goes in so there's a strong man to lead the country and probably enable the government we're going to sink as a government more pressure than it it's already it is so that is highly likely the government is likely to be destabilized by these attacks so we see the

multi-faceted. interests in it. thank you very much. our quick reminder of the top story we're following for you right now exit polls show comedian bloggers alecky has won the ukrainian presidential runoff in a landslide incumbent atro for franco as conceded the race the poll showed the less he won seventy three percent of the vote for schenkel took just twenty five years. don't forget you can always get news on the go just download our app from google play or from the app store to give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for the breaking news and also use the d w copy to send us your photos and bill but. you're watching news live from berlin up next our documentary film about protecting the gorilla habitat i'll be back after that with more news at the top of the hour for now thanks for watching.

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