this is the dublin years life from thailand last year he was a comedian now he's president of ukraine 41 year old the politics of the me and the landscape has promised to be a new kind of leader and one of his plans and how he made his country's many challengers also on the program. iran's response to what it calls a genocidal taunt from donald trump says it doesn't want war but tensions are rising as washington builds up its military presence in the region. qatar wants to set new standards with saffron cutting edge stadiums in preparation for the 2022

football world cup but it's facing criticism from human rights groups over conditions for workers involved in the project you get to read the behind the scenes. i'm sure gail welcome to the program. comedian volodymyr as the landscape has been sworn in as president of ukraine and immediately announced that he would dissolve parliament and hold new elections in 2 months his 1st challenge she said was to end the conflict with russia and ukraine to east. it was a big day full of demas selenski and for his many supporters the beaming president elect embraced and enthusiastic crowd on his way to being sworn in. the integration is a reality check for a man who not long ago played the role of

a president in a popular t.v. comedy show the outsider had been voted in on the promise of change. and the country didn't have to wait long for the new president to shake things up as he does so old parliament only moments after being sworn in a great fight dissolve the for cover rather of the 8th convocation. selinski course here snap elections that he hopes will give him a majority in parliament the president really needs the backing of the house to tackle ukraine's mounting debt a flagging economy and to make good on his promise to fight corruption. another pressing issue is the simmering conflict in eastern ukraine which has claimed 13000 lives to date selenski has called for a ceasefire with russian backed separatists but it's not clear if moscow is open to dialogue with the pro western president selenski can count on the support of ukrainians but he also has to live up to their expectations. in the move to deploy

because it was wonderful to hear simple easy to understand words for ordinary people we hope that everything will be alright the hopes riding on him are enormous growth is going to test. taking away politicians immunity ending the war and fighting corruption those are the 3 main things that need to be done. no no i do so i hope his actions match his words if they do i think ukraine will live in peace and plenty. tough challenges lie ahead and the one time act might find it harder to remain popular as an actual president. straight to the ukrainian capital caravan where we joined in kabul a welcome dick what does president selenski hope to achieve by calling you actions . well phil as usual that colossal hopes riding on him but he can't really make his change and to happen without the public behind

him at the moment he has no one in parliament he has no party behind him so the idea goes that he will set up a party maybe longer lines of a man on the coals movement in front of political newbies and put them into parliament to really make things happen he's riding high in the polls off the presidential poll way picked up nearly 3 quarters of the votes so the idea is to bring the elections forward they were planned to happen in autumn but he wants to have them soon or maybe we'll see them happen in july the crucial thing here is. his campaign has been about saying i'm going to break with the old system i'm going to basically chuck out the old elites and bring in new people so there's very little in it for the current crop of m.p.'s from other parties to really help him not only that but he also plans to strip their immunity from prosecution so we're basically to be expecting a situation where they're going to try and get in the way of everything he wants to do there's nothing in it for them to really make his presence a success so he really wants to put an end to this and see this kind of stand off

by bringing elections forward and hopefully packing that parliament with people on his side to really translates on those promises he's made to the ukrainian people and this is what the ukrainian people are expecting from this a political novice of the voted for their corruption and to corruption. well that's been one of his main slogans apart from making peace in donbass but it has been more a really a list of aspirations than really kind of small print political promises that has been a source of a lot of criticism that he hasn't spoken to the press hasn't opened himself up to too much in the way of detail questioning instead preferring to let his advisors speak and promising more this promise of change and new generation also being a younger person someone who doesn't come from that generation that has been in charge of ukraine for the last decades and it seems the voters were willing to accept that and they were demanding more in the way of concrete steps giving him

the benefit of the doubt hoping that he will really come come good on those promises and one of russia he's next door neighbor they cry how are they reacting to the country getting a new president. well phil you really get the sense from the kremlin they call really work out what to make of all of them is alinsky especially given that thumping majority he picked up the election coming out of nowhere after all here in the announced he was running for election on new year's eve so we had a very good comment from. a spokesman saying that putin would only congratulate selenski when and if he did made a serious steps to improve relations with moscow and to prove situation in the east as well he says his priorities bring peace to the donbass but equally ukrainian public opinion isn't giving him much slack in terms of making concessions to the kremlin that wouldn't go down well with ukrainians after 45 years of conflict in

the east and also crimea so it's a really tough situation he's in and i don't think he's going to make progress as fast as he would hope to maybe the internal the corruption reform agenda that might prove easier but really resolving this conflict with russia this is a long term standoff and even a new face even someone who is as good for surprises alinsky is going to really have a lot of trouble trying to bring some movement into this really difficult standoff . they commonly have here. masters of the other stories making news around the world google says it is cutting ties with chinese tech company huawei the u.s. internet giant says it's responding to a decision by the trumpet ministration to categorize huawei as a national security threat the move means that y. smartphone owners could have only limited access to google services in the future. of a chance of austria is struggling to restore political stability to his country sebastian

courts dismantled his coalition government with the far right freedom party a call for snap elections in november follows the belief of a video last week showing the far vice chancellor apparently offering their government contracts in exchange for comes pain fundie. supporters of sudan's extremist groups of call for the inclusion of sharia law under any new government as comes as the military and opposition resume talks regarding a transition to civilian rule the military removed longtime president obama al bashir al bashir in april. former south african president jacob zuma has returned to court where his boys a party but he cannot expect to face trial on corruption charges he was forced to resign last year i mean charges of fraud and racketeering relating to a $2200000000.00 arms deal in the 1990 s. . now iran has condemned the threat by our president donald trump on twitter this weekend the u.s. president to warned about the end of iran as

a response to foreign minister just adds zarif used his twitter account to say iranians have stood tall for millenia while its aggressors are all gone economic terrorism and genocidal taunts won't and iran never threatened an iranian try to respect it works relations between the 2 countries have worsened since washington pulled out of the 2050 nuclear deal last year tensions rose further when president trump announced more economic measures against iran earlier this month. straight to washington then we'll be joined on the humphrey a welcome have a look at u.s. warships are on their way to the region is this likely not to escalate to more than just an exchange of angry tweets where certainly have been a lot of angry tweets of course fail and this is not the 1st time that the u.s. president has been involved in a war of words of course on twitter but i think certainly there is some international consternation that this could spark an international situation i

think that was summed up well by the british foreign secretary jeremy hunt speaking at the united nations in geneva he said let us not see this rhetoric round part and then you don't see 2 countries full into an accidental conflict was essentially he's a warning but i think this war of words is certainly symptomatic of trump's foreign policy stance a mix of flattery and then battery battery with that tweet but let us not forget that also speaking on fox news last night we saw the u.s. president say i don't want to go to war with iran war colonies before swiftly adding that it also kills people as well but then disheartened rhetoric that we saw on twitter ratcheting up that rhetoric and many people say it is hard to know what donald trump the man actually thinks about iran and how to proceed further many accuse him of being influenced by those around him in washington let's talk about

those around to because reports are all over the place to suggest that the security adviser john bolton is really the man behind the president who is pushing for regime change in iran what are you hearing. so in washington fail it's understood that the national security advisor john bolton is somebody who is hawkish on a number of countries whether that is venezuela whether that's north korea and also iran and we certainly saw that show of force with the moving of b. 52 bombers and naval warships into the gulf at the moment that's seen as a show of force grandstanding but certainly john bolton does have that reputation and people are accusing john bolton of goading the u.s. president into war and that's also an accusation we saw on twitter from the iranian foreign minister himself saying that the president is being goaded by team b. the b. team and by that he means john bolton the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu

as well as the saudi crown prince mohammed bin son. what about reaction from other players in the region israel and saudi arabia for instance saudi arabia has called for a regional meeting to deescalate the situation to discuss regional security it says that it does not want to go to war with the us but iran rather but is prepared to defend itself israel of course the sworn enemy of iran we've seen those close knit relations between trump and netanyahu in recent months and certainly the israeli prime minister was delighted by washington's move to declare the iranian revolutionary guard a terrorist organization so i think we can certainly expect the latest rhetoric out of the u.s. to be welcomed by israel of the home from washington thank you. so did a 1000000000 years lifer but that's still to come a cult t.v.

series gamesters ended at the edge yes but not all fans are happy with the outcome will get reactions are the final episode without any spoilers. ahead of vats of guitars preparations for the 2022 football world cup are in full swing but the decision to award the tournament to the gulf state is mired in renewed controversy but least because of the treatment of workers employed to build the stadiums and infrastructure more than a 1000 over a 1000 deaths of my construction workers have been reported so far our next report offers a rare look behind the scenes. at once the poor poor old iron country cantars it's now a playground of the super rich the discovery of the world's biggest natural gas fields in the 1970 s. turned the mini state into a major power and image the emir is keen to project not least as host of the 2022 feet for world cup. 7 new stadiums are planned in total

one of them is already finished a walk or a stadium features a cutting edge design and high tech cooling systems. the head of the organizing committee says qatar is setting new standards in the gulf 67 goals of course is to ensure the safety security health and dignity of everyone living on the state of is maintained to the highest standards that send there is a vast gulf between the lines of the super rich and the lives of the migrant workers who are building cantars world cup stadiums in 40 degree heat they work up to 10 hours a day 16 is a week medical treatment is supposed to be free as are meals and internet housing as cramped and simple but it looks clean. is this enough we're allowed to ask one worker questions his boss interprets. how much money per hour

do you get here. the pay is very good. it's no problem. no problem but how much is it the workers are paid by the month. how much per month how much is it. should i really say how much i. should i really need. to do it's 318 years. but human rights watch says wages are often much lower and that migrant construction workers may be paint late or not at all unions are banned in qatar and there is often no legal recourse unfortunately the situation for my coworkers is still quite harsh. workers are still suffer from

exploitation from. you know are vulnerable to forced labor even though we've heard many many promises. when asked the head of the organizing committee admits there are problems. if laws have been implemented companies are are applying it but not all companies of course not everybody has been there will come situations that are not where people are their full rights are not being provided if constant is is serious about protecting the rights of foreign workers as it claims to be there's still a lot to be done in the lead up to the 2022 feet the world cup and beyond. after 8 years and $47.00 emmys one of the most popular shows in t.v. history has ended game of thrones millions watched the final episode across the world hundreds of thousands have been discussed and the series online about digital reporter nicole reese has been tracking the story welcome nicole why was this

series so special well the numbers already speak for themselves i mean 47 emmys is quite a lot right but i think the special thing is really when you want to do you really get hooked because you never know what happens next you don't know if your favorite character is going to survive the next episode all season and the script writers also had a very grim ways of kind of letting them go you know squeezing eyeballs. being burned alive they had it all in there and maybe that's also what attracted millions of people's i mean people i mean this is basically the story of noble families fighting over a throne they all want to get in power and they're just doing whatever they can to get there no matter what that might have been very attractive and lost last night thousands gathered just to to watch this last episode to say goodbye to the series we're just seeing images from new york but also they they celebrate at this final

episode in chile and other countries the scale is really big and on us cable t.v. it was more than 60000000 people watching that and 50000000 more tuning in later just to give you some numbers special very special and so what did the founders think about the ending then about the phenomenon well there was some mixed feelings maybe just we just have a listen to what people in new york think. i will be more like the dramatic and. at the thought i was that there was more of this well i think it obsoletes i doubt it very well. as was the good of. my time here though. so you see some criticism there and that was also about something that we saw throughout the last season there was actually an online petition to remake a game of thrones with competent writers and more than 1000000 people signed this petition or think well probably it's not going to work out anymore because it's

done now right and there's always this fear of spoilers as well even in that last season in china for example the last episode was supposed airs a bit later and when people went online they were just confronted with all the spoilers and. let them be good or bad i mean that's not what you want to specially not with game of thrones i think so the producers and cast have been together for 8 years how did they react to the end of a syria well it's an end of an arrow also for them because for a decade they've been working on the series for example one of the lead characters amelia kwok the mother of dragons everyone so she said that she cried when she read the final script and she posted a heartfelt message on instagram and said game of thrones has shaped me as a woman as an actor and as a human being to you dia can't magical fans ious so much thanks so so there you see she also now needs to find another focus not writing dragons but maybe going

somewhere else trying something new and for all those fantasy fans who are now looking at the stooge gap in their lives without game of thrones there might be some glimmers of hope there are new fantasy series coming on h.b.o. and also netflix has all the chronicles of narnia for example so they're producing something in direction probably it's not as brutal as game of thrones i would say because i don't see a problem with us but you. i'm saying that the end and yet throws have you know and it was really difficult to get around all these spoilers they have to say bob i successfully try to chose turn a blind eye on them sort of written the ending on the piece of paper that so you know just do what you want to. thank you so much for that. now there is constitution basically all marxist 70th anniversary this week it came into effect in may $949.00 after being written under the supervision of the victorian allied powers its aim was to ensure that half of the years of nuts if it

takes a shift in the destruction of the war the new federal republic of germany was built on solid democratic foundations 40 years later when west and east were reunited the constitution was adopted in the new bridge unified job. but how relevant is that constitution in today's germany article one for example states that human dignity is inviolable well as part of our series it's my right our next story looks at what dignity means to a german man who was homeless for 10 years. or so of course after going to the toilet taking a shower there normal things for everyone but how can you do this when you're homeless it's not so simple. dominick clone lived on the streets for 10 years always on the move looking for something to eat somewhere to sleep he says it was

a life without dignity. i don't ache was 16 when his mother threw him out the streets of st paoli became his home the red light district of hamburg. when we beat each other up for a sleeping bag it's a fight for survival and then there's the sadistic violence and contempt where people come in they don't treat you with dignity but like dirt on and on and we don't act on that they pee on your sleeping bag or batter us something there might not be. morrow maybe someone will set me on fire beat me to death you end up living just for the here and now and trying to stay alive. yet dominic's got his high school diploma and volunteered in

a clothing to pay for refugees people even worse off than him he sees this kind of thing all the time please wake up a sleeping homeless man and tell him to move on. this is also a question of dignity cool among us who sits down somewhere at lunchtime expects to be approached by 3 police officers and you see how they put on gloves because they're disgusted that's no way for people to treat each other. dominic is working to offer homeless people some dignity he's collecting donations to pay for a shower bath and bathroom on wheels with a dressing room full of clean clothes he learned what hygiene can means were passed and when he was living on the streets. body and soul go hand in hand at some point if you're physically dirty you turn inwards and feel in the end that you yourself are dirt has

a lot to do with dignity and feelings of self-worth these are things that are lost on the streets i hope this bus can help taking showers to people who need them. dominic got his life in order he's 30 now and for the 1st time his existence is fairly secure he has work he has goals. and he has friends most importantly he says in the phone and i have an apartment and i appreciate what that means for me it's a luxury to be able to sleep in my boxer shorts or to wash myself whenever i feel like you know i need a shower but. people have dignity and that's inviolable and that should apply to everyone washing is a large part of that. sport tennis roughen a doubt has defended his italian open title and defeating his big rival now about

djokovic gym 3 sets found it proved he still the man to beat on clay with the 2nd major of the year the french open coming up later this month. rafael nadal. and novak djokovic 2 tennis study 8 is doing battle on the clay of rome nidal attacks from the off dominating a one sided 1st set with some big hitting djokovic in need of mercy. the spaniard took a set 6 love the 1st time that's happened between the pair into the 2nd set and djokovic still gain trying to force his way back into the match was no doubt as a stubborn opponent. joke if it was a venture they rewarded for his efforts this hold at the end of the 2nd set paved the way for him to level the match. the if but that was the high point for the serbian the 3rd set mirrored the 1st with more and more mistakes

coming from the joke of its racket. no dollar thankfully beating him into submission a 6 love 4661 victory the king of clay looking imperious ahead of the french open which starts on sunday. it's time to remind you of our top story best for the comedian volodymyr as the landscape has been sworn in as ukraine's new president his 1st action was to dissolve parliament with a new election to be held in 2 months. coming up next a special edition of news asia from india here's me on league other news asia we had to endure out quite a long drawn out problem and even trial and election campaign draws to a close if results won't affect one in 6 people in this world join me british strategy as we try to understand where india goes from here all our lives of their

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