running. towards the twenty second d. w. . this is news live from berlin grief and outrage follow a wave of bombings in sri lanka on easter sunday seven blasts ripped through luxury hotels churches and eight with an eighth explosion came during a police raid the death toll now stands at two hundred and seven hundred injured officials are blaming religious extremists have made several arrests we'll have the

latest from colombia. exit polls show comedian volodymyr zaleski has won a landslide victory in ukraine's presidential runoff race he once played a television a presence on t.v. now he is the real thing and competent petro poroshenko has conceded. and a determined authority to quote they get the three points they needed to keep pace with byron munich at the top of the table. i'm calm assman 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 the targeted luxury hotels and churches where worshipers had gathered for easter services police say thirty two foreign nationals are dead after

those attacks. and the country is in mourning let's take a look. so hospital in the capital colombo was overwhelmed people brought in victims anyway they coat. that. outside shock and disbelief at the scale of the violence. 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 breakfast 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 mocambo 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 and 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 has been to hunt down all the perpetrators i

get the latest now from sri lanka with jimmy dean 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 were forgiven. we are not seeing any movements on the road except for a cry for service and a very heavy police presence in the site so that the explosion have taken place and also outside the stock last appearance of course right now there has been a call to which is it because when imposed which is going the same definitely which is why b.s. ing nobody on the roads is very but i was just out on the doors of a shop right ago and it's extremely or that city do we have any more information about the people that are believed to be behind these attacks. right now police are cutting suspects have been arrested and timing is running become a singer it tell us

a short while ago that all those of was being arrested are free longer nationals no no group has been named at the moment and the police have said that maybe 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. there's basically the chuch attacks were a clear a clear indication that they were aiming the catholic was a person 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 my criticism and

this was an attack especially targeting the catholic community so these attacks on the catholic community how christians are 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 their on the poor in the central province become under attack by a local group of course the police to conduct the speeding this occasion but. the spa stron recap leaks have says a sense of insecurity instead bt and have urged 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 yesterday which has killed at least two hundred twenty eight people long of course a country of many religions christianity is a minority religion there have been religious tensions in the past. definitely

in fact in recent years there has been minor incidents targeting minority communities on and off just last year we saw some deadly attacks against the muslim community begin a in the central highlands which prompted the government to declare state of emergency and there have been minor incidents which have been taking place against a minority time israel 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 reese joins 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 become 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 that job out 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 have also 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 announced just a couple of hours ago that they would switch off their lights at midnight at 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 reese think of a much exit polls from ukraine's presidential election point to

a landslide victory for the comedian a lot of mirror selenski those polls show the challenger has won comfortably with over seventy percent of the vote that's well ahead of incumbent petro poroshenko who is already conceded defeats and congratulated the political novice on his big with. the out. he went from playing a president on t.v. to being one in real life this is the moment of lot of years olinsky 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 thank you everybody 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 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 that's reporter 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 test after casting his own vote selenski was calm and optimistic. with we 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 case 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 connelly 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 got of excitement a real shot here at selenski selection policy 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 in the announce that he'd be running for president on new year's eve so this is really something that has showed that is shaken ukraine politics to its core and he really has pulled up to that not many people thought he could. how is the political world in ukraine reacting to that big victory. what we

heard from selenski 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 for petro poroshenko while he very soon can conceded defeat i guess the polls also of such a did the caption of the two candidates is so pronounced that there isn't much else even if those polls are quite a hundred percent accurate facts that can still be closed he we understand holds selenski and congratulations on his win let's have a look at what's ahead pushing to have say. he said to you next month i will leave my post as president of the country. we did this is what was decided by the

majority of ukrainians favors and i accept this decision because of his i will leave the office of the presidency which but i would like to emphasize i am not leaving the politics. support they're 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 firstly it's about generational change so both 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 that 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 bring people even people with top level involvement politics to account for their corrupt dealings he can help release that you cannot potential and really help ukrainians to earn a 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. and i think it would be wrong to cool to lead and openly pro russian candidates they would every other candidates in this race.