comedian alinsky wins the first round of ukraine's presidential elections setting the stage for a runoff. president. british parliament rejects all options on the table to resolve the break said that's raised the prospect of a deal. facebook calls for global governments to play a more active role in regulating the. deliveries of f. thirty five fighter jets a good one to keep can protest against purchase of a russian system. for major setback for president in local elections.

and i welcome to our international live from moscow. thanks so much for joining us on the program. a comedian and political newcomer has won the first round of ukraine's presidential election a lot to me as a lenski took the lead in sunday's ballot with twice as many votes as incumbent president petro poroshenko the two of us will face off in a second round on april twenty first takes a look at why support for the ukrainian president has been falling. they counted on him gave them 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 selenski 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 did you know. we will bring back crimea. yeah. 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 my dad 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 at 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 our 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 runoff 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 of this year's presidential elections in ukraine seems of getting less attention in the west than it did in twenty fourteen countries also received less u.s. financial assistance for the vote than in previous years that's going to last summer is that significant. the open amount of money that they've committed to the election suggests that they're losing face in the populace 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 if they don't see him as one of their candidates 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 today 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's rejected all four motions put forward to resolve the bricks at their block m.p.'s held a second series of so-called indicative votes after the prime minister's e.u. withdrawal plan was resoundingly defeated and one option was to remain in the european single market that was turned down by

a margin of twenty one votes plan for a permanent customs union got the closest to winning a majority blocked by just three lawmakers rejected giving the british people the final say on any withdrawal agreement finally there was also a motion to further delay bricks that that was the most unpopular of all as things stand the default legal position right now 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 negotiator tweeted that a hard break said it's becoming nearly inevitable and god of start said that wins they will be the u.k.'s last chance to break their block or face the abyss he was referring 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 and again. the options that we had before us today needed to

break on wednesday so that the house killing six see 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 heart 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 in the house of commons public gallery to raise awareness about climate change twelve people were arrested the stunt was aimed at m.p.'s to remind them there are bigger issues other than bricks it which need tackling. i. profess are of european law francisco told us there is no clear way out for to reason may. she's really caught between

a rock and up this. issue for the customs union she's going to party and the other hand. trouble the only way she's going to get through because her resignation. departure without. agreement a binding agreement 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 as 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 of elections and protect you this personal data mark zuckerberg the models represent the radical departure from the original vision he had for facebook. i'm jewish and there's just sort of people who deny the holocaust right now i find that deeply offensive but if the in 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 so innocently people want to go on the internet check out their friend someone at the web site 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 grew dark gathering and selling people's personal information bought 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. 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 zuckerberg is 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 info wars alex june even for a while r t 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 graphs grab the.

left leaning americas 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 million friends without making a few enemies he once said but it seems heading towards having just a few friends and millions of enemies investigative journalist dave lindorff believes mark zuckerberg looking out for his own interests. walls are getting closer wriggle ition his company there's a lot of anger and it's a growing call to break a fish to regulate facebook and i think with every story is recognizing that

something is going to have been rather than face it alone he wants to. call for regulation of all his competitors to a because it's. he's the only one who's regulated it gets broken up the company gets smaller has less power. and to gets hurt in the competition with larger entities late 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 a. video online purportedly showing a group of protest as attacking a convoy carrying venezuela itself the play itself declared leader one god though the opposition figurehead was reportedly on his way to speak at a rally in deprived politic the capital caracas. was

now according to local media reports minute to police officers who was to present the door of can be seen in the video protecting kwan gotos convoy the protest was held insults at the country self declared leader and demanded he leave the most populous district in caracas journalist blumenthal 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 that it's way 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 of the government he's trying to take out what kind of dictatorship is this well apparently it's not

a very effective one and what's happening here is really interesting. this is where nicolas maduro his base is this is where my dearest son 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 an arms contract with tuckey in protest of course plus use of russian weaponry the pentagon says it's halting deliveries of equipment for thirty five stealth fighter jets which is in the process of buying washington is demanding that i'm correct cancel its purchase of the russian s four hundred anti-aircraft systems he's one of washington's key allies within nato and u.s. defense officials have said of took he would to use the f. thirty five and the s four hundred within the same system that would gain access to crew. intelligence. this comes at a difficult time for turkey's president on sunday his party suffered

a major blow with local elections they lost control of major cities including the capital ankara thousands of opposition party supporters have been out celebrating however the a.k. party is reportedly planning on challenging the results alleging there have been widespread voting irregularities. back the ruling party and its allies still came out on top nationwide taking over fifty one percent of the vote turkish president claims the result was a victory. the results show that in these elections as has been the case in the november two thousand and two election we as the a k p have once again come first by a wide margin. over calipers live to gregory copely from the international strategic studies association thanks for joining us good to have you on set i was always. the us was thrown out of a gourd of thousands at the key here saying get rid of these s four hundred systems or you're not going to have this contract for. about one hundred thirty five years

which the turkish government was going to buy was the u.s. taken such a hardline stance on this. well basically it's trying to force the turkish government into making a choice between nato on the one hand and alignment with russia on the other the reality is that turkey wants it wants to have an alliance with both sides of the fence and that's not going to be workable as far as washington is concerned actually the whole thing is being brought up to to look as though tookie was going to get one hundred thirty five for a cost of about twelve billion in fact they haven't gotten anything like that of what a small number that had any to deliver and so far no they're still in the united states not yet transferred to turkey there's no question that most of the other if thirty five customers around the world have complained that it's turkey was to integrate the f. thirty five into the turkish air force along with the u.s.

for hundreds then of necessity a lot of the data on the f. thirty five operating environment would be transferred into the its one hundred system and the strong likelihood that russia would gain access to that technology so the u.s. has almost no option but to to abide by the pressures from not only not only its own intelligence departments but by its foreign customers too so to say to turkey where you can have both turkey wants to use this as a leverage point but really what's going to happen is that turkey will not get the f. thirty five under u.s. legislation now the action today by the pentagon rather reluctant because the pentagon doesn't want to lose turkey is that. the f. thirty five support packages has now ceased but turkey turkey has invested a huge amount of money building up its here thirty five base in preparation for the

arrival of the aircraft later this year it's always certain that they will not be delivered and this will make put the onus on. president one to decide what he wants to do how will he retaliate against the us if we retaliate too much then he may lose membership in nato email lose the alliance of the united states and then he is forced into a situation of dependence on russia alone which is something he doesn't want to do so he's going to have even now very careful how he responds to this provocation turkey has been also making two of the parts of the f. thirty five for the world one production and you know that by cutting turkey out of the f. thirty five loop then the whole of thirty five program would be put in jeopardy that also is not the case so lucky has for some time been instituting a parallel supply line for those two components in the united states one by

northrop grumman and another by a smaller aerospace company so basically the u.s. has now come to terms with the fact that it will not be supplying the f. thirty five to turkey it will now force took you to respond now what is the u.s. need to keep order to lives it is not a great and absolutely necessary part of nato particularly in the modern world where the containment of the u.s.s.r. is no longer an objective reality but the reality is that the u.s. requirement to work with. is basically in the intelligence fear because the turkish mit its national intelligence organization works with the cia in running operations into china as we took in. areas and that's the the great advantage of the u.s. working with turkey the insulate base in turkey is has been useful for the u.s.

but it's no longer a primary concern for interesting stuff that underpins thing to see how president either one does have that balancing act as you say allying with russia while maintaining that nato membership i'm closest to washington gregory copely from the international strategic studies association great to have you on thanks for your time today. thank you. the canadian prime minister is facing renewed pressure to resign over a corruption scandal that softer a secretly recorded phone conversation between senior officials was leaked suggesting that justin trudeau tried to protect an allegedly corrupt company from prosecution and allegations surrounding the engineering giant s. and c. level and go back to twenty fifteen when it was charged with bribery and fraud to secure contracts in libya. several senior government officials in a towel have resigned in the leaked top civil servant saying truth 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's higher really inappropriate and it is political interference a kind of his prime minister has denied any wrongdoing while stressing that his support for the country's largest construction was intended to protect jobs in the private political analyst out of sundra 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.n.c. scandal. which i think this is just more than 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 life crime epidemic campaigners have called the move regressive out of concern the powers could be abused the home secretary though says officers need protection to. the police and 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 all the trials in seven hotspot areas in england wales they allow

police to search any personal vehicle without reasonable suspicion the change comes in response to at least forty nine people being fatally stabbed just this year alone families of the victims have expressed their support for the measure but say should have been implemented years ago critics however argue the powers give police the opportunity to racially profile individuals we spoke to people in london about what they think of the new stop and search measures. i think if you look at the crime stats so in communities we talk you'd rather obviously stop and search but i think with a little north problem we got a moment to really go do something so. i think it's quite intimidating as he would be for that maybe. i think it's not always essential when you have no reason to do you say. something it just how to one hundred percent in the end of the day nothing to hide. problems

can come and. you know discussing the problem in r.t.r. there were four more london police officer peter clarke um and social activist just by who is also a former equality 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 scene there probably is some that it's 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 or 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 lascaux. 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 will people criminalize situation doesn't get any better. police tactics are also in

a scrutiny in the united states he's in california released the stabbing body cam video of the police shooting of american rapper willie mccoy it apparently shows the musician was asleep at the time just to warn viewers the video to see does contain distressing images. the boy was. just. laurean. the incident took place in february police were initially called to check on mccoy's wellbeing six officers shot him a twenty five times claiming he leaned for his gun when he woke up in his car the video evidence suggests police did not try to wake him up something that his family

also claimed. well a big picture in the united states the police killed more than a thousand people last year most of the officers involved didn't go on to face criminal charges african-americans and latinos are statistically more likely to be shot by the police that way the other group michelle gross from communities against police brutality says the officers in the willie mccoy case should be charged with murder. it is in no way a best practice of police and he should not have shot of him and you know it was ridiculous they shot him twenty five times and then they started screaming one of your hands out of your hands and a man was dead and the fact that they chose to wake him up with well once again of course is completely wrong there can be no other explanation that you know i understand but they were maybe a little spooked by the fact that he had it on loaded gun in his lap the bottom line is that you know they should have attempted to wake you first in the united

states you know an extremely for all small fraction and i believe these police officers should be charged with murder as well screw up to half past five in the morning here in moscow those are the headlines for this hour join us again in thirty minutes for the latest update. the security council should have a mandatory one percent of all stock bonds for x. transactions to go into social security so that every individual will say when they become a team they've got fifty sixty seventy thousand dollars and there that they can go spend on college if they want to that's a that is a that is an externality of this economy that's being recycled repurposed regenerated into an ecosystem an economy that is like more mimics that of nature.