median linsky wins the. presidential election setting the stage for a runoff against incumbent president. the british parliament rejects all options on the table. it's raised the prospect of a crush. of twelve. facebook calls for global internet rules for governments to play a more active role in regulating the. u.s. . fighter jets to turkey that's a protest against the purchase of a russian missile system which comes off from a major setback for president in a local election.

live from moscow what's. very welcome to the program with us this hour. comedian and political newcomer has won the first round of ukraine's presidential election. took the lead in sunday's ballots with twice as many votes as incumbent president poroshenko those who rivals will face off in a second round vote on april the twenty first it takes a look at why support for the ukrainian president has been plummeting. they counted on him gave him all kind of help and thought he'd take the x. soviet republic somewhere new the result roughly eighty five percent of ukraine voters want to show petro poroshenko the door the western establishment is baffled for them choosing between someone as hated today as the chocolate king pershing co

and funny guy all of them are zelinsky aka is a president is a tough one backing the winner of round one who has no political background at all is like opening pandora's box well look at who he's been destroying with jokes for years the names are all they're way behind him now how's that for a political background. we going to. bring back crimea. yeah how can you just love. what about his own sitcom launched in two thousand and fifteen selenski character just a school teacher on a fast track to be president turns the whole system upside down. just like maybe he never even thought of it and maybe his sensation came about

because someone once randomly told the man why don't you give it a try in real life anyway world leaders should probably start watching out for comedy shows or at least avoid petro poroshenko mistakes like making a ton of promises you can't keep petro poroshenko came to power after the mud on revolution he was loved in america and europe ukraine was then desperate for a strong new leader what did the people hope to get from mr poroshenko a country with no corruption less poverty a proper alliance with nato and the you and to the civil war in ukraine's east and hold men abroad he lost a lot of support by failing at all that with probably one exception ukrainians can stay in the you for ninety days without a visa the president did his best to cut off all possible ties with russia and that

was the essence of his campaign russia has been waging a hybrid war against a country for five years and crane is under the threat of fools going to war with russia the tactic didn't really work in the country where millions still speak russian and have relatives there it looks like it probably won't help mr poroshenko in the run off either almost fifteen percent is just too big of a margin even in round one all the hugs and kisses from nato's most powerful people have a sell by date. this year's ukrainian presidential election seems to have gained quite a lot less attention in the west than it did in twenty fourteen become trees also received less u.s. financial assistance for the vote than over previous years political analyst martin summers says that significant open amount of money that they've committed to the election suggests that they're losing face in their puppets in ukraine. is clearly a busted flush and they don't particularly want to waste any more time and energy

trying to keep him in power no doubt they will be beating a path to zilinskas door at this minute hoping that if he does win that they will be able to influence in the directions they would like to see but they clearly clearly they don't see him as one of their candidates and i think that's hopeful for ukraine and hopeful for the general situation because we do need you know independent people have got a bit an independent data tud and maybe he's going to come up with some more sensible policies than we've seen in the last few years we'll have to see it's not clear. the british parliament rejected all four motions put forward to resolve the brakes at deadlock in peace on the second series of so-called indicative votes after the prime minister's e.u. withdrawal plan was resoundingly defeated one option was to remain in the european single market that was turned down by wasn't of twenty one a plan for a permanent customs union got the closest to winning

a majority blocked by just three votes and lawmakers rejected giving the british people the final say on any withdrawal agreement filing a motion to further the labor exit was the most unpopular of all so as things stand the default position is that the u.k. will leave the e.u. with no deal in place on april twelfth. after the vote the european parliament's chief bricks at negotiator tweeted that a hard breaks it is becoming nearly inevitable the guy verhofstadt so that wins they will be the u.k.'s last chance to break the deadlock or face the abyss he was referring of course to a possible new round of votes proposed by the opposition leader gerry mccall but if it's good enough for the prime minister to have three chances at her deal i then i suggest that possibly the house should have a chance to consider again the all the options that we had before us today heated debate on wednesday so that the house killing six c.

where the prime minister has failed in presenting a credible economic relationship with europe for the future the prevent is crashing out with no deal the prime minister's deal is dead my party refuses to compromise it is crystal clear to us don't stop with that i have put sadness times not disrespect before the vote took place activists stripped off an hours of commons public gallery to raise awareness about climate change twelve people were arrested the start was aimed at m.p.'s to remind them there of big issues of on bricks it switch the tackling. i. professor of european law francesco to told us there is no clear way out or to reason. she's really caught

between a rock and. if she goes for the customs union she's going to be on the other hand. trouble be the only way she's going to get through because her resignation. departure without. agreement by ending. on a customs union means it's going to touch and go whether she's going to get through it if we crash out would be a bit and really it's a minority view that we can just go away and everything be fine actually with it even harder except two years in the cabinet except that there would be one price to pay us. governments are being urged to play a more active role in policing the internet as facebook boss mark zuckerberg calls for more regulation online he says he wants mechanisms put in place to reduce the

amount of harmful content on social media platforms is also calling for measures that will help to ensure the integrity over lections and protect users personal data mark zuckerberg the models were present the radical departure from the original vision he had for facebook. i'm jewish and there's a set of people who deny the holocaust is right i find that deeply offensive but it's the end of the day i don't believe that our platform should take that down because i think that there are things that different people get wrong we don't check what people say before they say it and frankly i don't think society should want us to freedom means you don't have to ask for permission first and that by default you can say what you want this is really about our mission and our philosophy not about just kind of some short term business decision i really very deeply believe that we are best serving the world and best delivering on our mission to connect everyone by continuing to push in in these environments and push

for as much expression as possible. who would have thought that it could come to this face book begging governments to tame the wild wild web to police censor and control it to think it all began innocently people want to go on the internet check out their friend someone at the website that offers that i'm talking about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online it was so simple then a place for teenagers to share their relationship status for friends to share pictures announce parties keep in touch but somewhere along the line facebook group dark gathering and selling people's personal information bots fake news election meddling censorship and suspensions targeting innocent people at times and the videos streams mass murders the new zealand shooting rapes

snuff videos it seemed facebook c.e.o. did nothing but apologize now it was a big mistake and i was a mistake and it was my mistake and i'm really sorry that this happened and i'm sorry and i'm sorry for it it seems zuckerberg is tired of keeping facebook his own platform clean in now wants governments to do it ministries to police the net with rules and regulations. the saying goes the route to hell is paved with good intentions though something tells me. less interested in good intentions and more concerned about bad press and profit but hey who knows he talks so pretty.

by updating the rules for the internet we can preserve what's best about it the freedom for people to express themselves remarkable he's actually saying that government censorship politicians deciding what you can and cannot do or say will somehow make the internet freer when has that ever happened before in fact one of the scandals facebook was embroiled in was its wholesale cleansing of pages and news feeds it didn't like in full was alex jones even for a while artie's math ik media all for math expedient including the now were taken down for no reason other than pressure from pro-war think tank and i'll leave you with. the messages are slick filled with graphics with grand. young left leaning americans getting news from social media and the videos have

been viewed tens of millions of times billions of times thank you apparently it's all for you your freedom your safety so here it is a corporate billionaire with dirty hands asking politicians to censor and regulate the web you don't get five hundred circa burgers heading towards having just a few friends and millions of enemies investigative journalist lindelof believes mark zuckerberg looking out for his own interests. wolves are getting closer regulation is company there's a lot of anger and it's a growing call to break facebook to regulate facebook and i think what's everybody's doing is recognizing that something is going to happen and rather than face it alone he wants to. call for regulation of all his competitors too because

if he's the only one who's regulated he gets broken up the company gets smaller has less power. and to get hurt in the competition with larger entities like google he's trying to shape it but i don't think his argument holds a lot of water that is that he's been making all along that somehow facebook is just a free speech issue. video online allegedly showing a group of protesters attacking a convoy carrying venezuela's self-proclaimed leader one why does the opposition figurehead was reportedly on his way to speak at a rally in the private part of karakas was according to local media reports when it three police officers who were loyal to president and we seen in the video protecting kwan gotos convoy the protesters held

insults at the country's self declared leader and demanded t. leave the most populous district and cut across journalists my experimental gave us his thoughts on the footage. it's ironic to see government security forces actually protecting a figure who's calling for the government to be toppled and who's actually attempting to fragment the security services from within it's also ironic because we constantly hear about venezuela as some kind of ruthless communist dictatorship but here you have a situation that certainly would not be tolerated in the united states or other countries where someone who's leading a coup is protected by the security services the government he's trying to take out what kind of dictatorship is this well apparently it's not a very active one and what's happening here is really interesting as an alibi this is where nicolas maduro his base is this is where he. actually lives why is why

don't they or why is he in a government stronghold because the u.s. wants him to get arrested to create a provocation that's why he's there. the u.s. has frozen all his contract with tookie in protest over rancorous purchase of russian weaponry pentagon says it's holding deliveries of equipment for the f. thirty five fighter jets which keys in the process of buying washington is demanding the tanker cancel its purchase of russian s four hundred systems talk is one of washington's key allies within nato and u.s. defense officials have said if he would use the f. thirty five and the s four hundred within the same integrated system it would gain access to crucial intelligence. this comes of course such a difficult time for the president to what on sunday his party suffered a major blow in local elections losing control of major cities including the capital. as you can see thousands of opposition party supporters have been out

celebrating however the a-k. parties reportedly planning on challenging the results alleging there have been widespread voting irregularities. still came out on top nationwide taking over fifty one percent of the vote the president claims the result was a victory. the results show that in these elections as has been the equation of the november two thousand and two election given we as the a have once again come first by a wide margin. we can cross live now to kenya stone from the have ultimate coalition to stop the war thanks for joining us so good to have in the program today what do you think the u.s. is so keen to prevent getting these four hundred missile systems. well what what's make meaning the u.s. come up with this ultimatum is the fact that it it is you used to having

a monopoly over sales of weapons and weapons systems to all of its nato allies and other countries in its orbit and they'll tell you it's because they want to have an op interoperability among all these allies but the real. truth of the matter is that the u.s. needs the u.s. military industrial complex which is the most powerful and economic and political force inside the usa needs to met maintain its monopoly over sales to all its nato allies and other allied countries of its systems in order to maintain change its profits and its power and its influence in washington so having a nato country like turkey turn down our or using russian weapons is a very very bad precedent and they certainly don't want it to happen and in fact

the u.s. . it's not turkey that's in trouble here it's actually the u.s. over the f. thirty five jet which is vastly. over over budget and vastly expensive one hundred million dollars a pop if they can't sell this jet to their nato allies and other allied countries they are in trouble indeed all their eggs are in one basket here i just want to talk about the timing of assaults and as well because aside from. the seriously it's not a great to have a president assad on his policies lost control of ankara. dense cities as one of the local elections do you think it could be out of money or washington trying perhaps through the situation to its advantage you know one cycles government is at a weak moment. i'll course the u.s. would look for any weakness in turkey's position however i think turkey will stay strong on this issue and will continue to buy the s.

four hundred missile defense system for a couple of reasons in the first place it's a very reliable system in fact some people say it's the best in the world and it's at a reasonable price and the second reason is i think that turkey like many other us allies are really getting turned off by the high handed methods of the u.s. government and its luck of reliability for example in turkey the u.s. government according to the mr ed of want engineered or tried to engineer a coup. on behalf of a cleric who lives in the united states and has not been brought to trial. and in the case of europe the europeans are a myth because the u.s. abrogated the treaty with iran and it is trying to curb all their deals that they made in the interim using u.s. economic sanctions so turkey is probably going to show its independence and

continue to buy the russian missile system we thought was the way forward have for us thank you russians because as you mentioned that there's a few clashes isn't the extradition of for to look good and there's syria different strategies that the iranian sanctions a whole host of questions which haven't been resolved do you think relations are in a public at moe's life arrow do you think they can get back on track. it's hard to say turkey has been trying to keep one foot in each camp in nato and afloat and trying to better relations with russia and with iran and i think in the long run that's an untenable position though probably have to go one way or another but it's it's a it's a very tricky situation for turkey because if turkey were to want to leave nato that would be on precedent i can tell you as a canadian there are many people in canada who want canada to leave nato but there's been no country in the history of nato over the last seventy years that has

left it's something like trying to leave out an illegal gang or the maffia the other gang members don't like it very much and i think turkey will sooner sooner or later have to make a decision one way or the other. just in terms of what because he himself is as strong leader he's not used to being bossed around such would not take you into my terms here. how do you think he's going to respond to this this by adding all of the country missile systems do you think this could was relations on a possible level between him and donald trump. yes they both are very very mature your cheerio personalities and i guess personalities come into it. when you have that kind of characteristic but i think

what ericka won is probably going to consider is what's the best what's in the best interest of turkey and clearly. being close to the united states has. caused problems for turkey in iran and with the kurds in syria and over the attempted coup several years ago so i can see relations improving between turkey and the united states as long as mr trump and mr heir to want are both in power and just going back to something you mentioned about those f. thirty five fighter jets i mean tucky was planning to buy one hundred more of these five as it's very expensive as you say. the trouble of course proud of selling weapons to. if these contracts want to be scrapped for the spare parts to stop as well who actually stands to lose out more of the u.s. and some of the revenue from those five yet so what tookie who will now have

a say force. i think there are probably other fighter jets on the market right now or will soon to come on the market that will have equivalent or better characteristics than the f. the five which has been rumored to have a number of glitches and so i think the problem is much bigger for the usa than it is for turkey because if the usa as i have said before has just put all its eggs in one basket all over this one fighter jet can't sell this jet i think they're aerodynamics industry will being in a really bad fix. from hamilton the coalition to stop the war thanks for your time today it ought international good to have you on. the canadian prime minister's facing need pressure to resign over a corruption scandal secretly recorded phone conversation between senior officials was leaked it suggested that justin trudeau tried to protect that allegedly corrupt

company from prosecution of allegations surrounding the engineering giant s. and c. level and go back to twenty fifteen when it was charged with boy barry and fraud to secure contracts in libya since the allegations surfaced several senior government officials in a towel have stepped down in the leak of his top civil servants that trudeau is firmly against the company facing prosecution on several occasions. michael i have to say including this conversation previous conversations that i've had with the prime minister and many other people around it it's entirely inappropriate and it is political interference or kind of his prime minister's denied any wrongdoing while stressing that his support for the company's large of the country's largest construction that was intended to protect jobs and to find a political analyst that was under bruno thinks the scandal is down to political

incompetence. well it's certainly a mess in the office and i think the we haven't seen the end of it but not necessarily just because of the s. and c. scandal. which i think this is just more. illegality that the the the prime minister is incompetent so far he hasn't gotten anything done and perhaps with a better political strategy he could have gotten the. s. and c. level and protected and wilson. placed in an equally important position in cabinet that she would not have spoken out or created the rift with the prime minister so there is a level of political incompetence here because many prime ministers are called to do what to do it was called to do to protect jobs and a canadian company. police in england and wales have been given more powers in

a controversial scheme to combat a knife crime epidemic campaigners have called the move aggressive concern the powers could be abused but the home secretary says officers and protection as well . the police are on the front line in the battle against serious violence and it's vital we give them the right tools to do their jobs the so-called section sixty checks will be trialled in seven hotspot areas in england and wales and will allow police to search any person or vehicle without reasonable suspicion a change comes in response to at least forty nine people being fatally stabbed this year alone the families of the victims have expressed their support for the measure but say it should have been implemented years ago critics however argue the powers give the police opportunity to racially profile individuals we ask people in london what they think about the new stop and search measures. i think if you look at the crime stats so in communities we target rather others and stop and search but i think with a little north problem we've got a moment to really go do something so let's see if it works. i

think is quite intimidating as it would be for that every time. i think it's not always essential when you have no reason to do you say this isn't always. something it's just how someone looks and how to present in the end of the day for nothing to hide. problems they can come and search me. and discussing the problem on our former london police officer peter clarke i'm and social activist who's a former quality advisor to the mayor of london. i'm afraid discrimination is a fact of life disproportionality and racial profiling is part of the culture of urban policing in large inner cities there's nothing to say that if there is any disproportional sooner probably assume that it's due to the racism of police officers that an officer of the law with out any reasonable cause.

can stop and detain you is a fundamental breach of our civil liberties you can't do the public health approach without establishing peace on the streets in the first place and the only way of doing that the only way of stopping someone getting stabbed tonight tomorrow next week next month maybe even next year is policing that's the only chance we've got of stopping knives that around the streets are being used so i think a bit like the flat earth society people are just making stuff up to justify their political position is very clear the prime minister has said that stop and search is on just looking to the police to sort it out and that's what they've always done in the past and the police have always had some contingency capacity in the past but that doesn't mean there's not a role for police in that absolutely isn't class go. to show that they need to establish peace on the streets for these are the things to take a chance of taking root and having the longer term effects but i think that partly

politicians are under pressure because of the media reports of the horrific killings of young people in all sorts of age groups really who've lost their lives on the streets of london and we see this repetitive cycle of media commentary police on the pressure call for more powers more heavy enforcement approach well people criminalize situation doesn't get any better. police tactics are also under scrutiny in the united states authorities in california have released disturbing body cam video of the police shooting of american rapper willie mccoy department shows the musician was asleep at the time the video to see does contain upsetting images. laura.