well. capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners. execution but most of the time. there are some people because of what they did. before we. realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. a series of deadly explosions reportedly killed at least two hundred seven people. the targets were hotel churches christian minority. in the weeks main stories from our.

report finally published. on. the heart. but the big stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment updates well welcome to the weekly on our international we begin with the latest developments from today's series of easter sunday bomb attacks in sri lanka local police say the number of dance from the blasts churches and hotels has increased to two hundred seven. well this is video showing the first blast out sent an phonies church in the

heart of the shoreline can capital colombo eight blasts in total rocked the country on sunday a twelve hour curfew was declared immediately afterwards and access has temporarily been blocked to social networks including facebook for fear of fake news spreading many of the victims were from the christian minority who were celebrating the holiest day on the catholic calendar dozens of foreigners are among the dead we should warn you that the following images are disturbing. was. was was. was i was was seven people are

currently under arrest this video shows for lincoln special forces reading a heist in colombo the prime minister has promised those behind the times will face a stern response. let's just go through what we know we hear the first explosion occurred around nine am local time in total five blasts hit the capital including a church on three look sri hotels the latest attack also happened in colombo of an apartment block during a police raid which left three officers dead now this is a run forty kilometers north in the city of no gumbo another place of worship was hit there also a tourist hot spot on the opposite side of the island. thoughts another attack venue i'm following of a small tel in front of a zoo was targeted and this is aftermath of one of the explosions and just to reiterate no group yet claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks

trunk is a mainly by this country less than ten percent of the population are christian catholic who make up a large proportion of today's fatalities many world leaders have condemned the attacks and expressed their condolences speaking at the easter service of the vatican pope francis than once today's event sounds a cruel lot on expressed is support for all those affected. i wish to express my heartfelt solidarity with the christian communities affected while it was a prayer and with all the victims of such violence it all political on geostrategic expert java drama ses there humping disquiet between religious communities in the lead up to sunday's atrocities. i think there was a level of uncomfortable. among different communities of the good only there was a some sort of lighting between some of the national groups and oddly should not

forget the phenomenon of terrorism and violence is not at all good news. it was heat from one thousand and. two thousand and nine when there was an insurgency particularly in the north east of city. government that it's all. mind bending dark insurgency and then they they all tell you. this from side bombing not that is this something again has happened now nine nine nine years but at this particular point point of dynamics to the situation there are other factors like dash dash has been operating everywhere well i think the message is quite good out to the christian community which make up with. the student in confabulation. the messages to try to fight them to keep them obvious from places and also the messages to the foreigners who have been doing this to lanka i think it is going to

come down hard on this linking economy it is going to be negatively disturbed when it comes to. the situation in the posture. and you know all details from sri lanka we will bring it to you but moving on now to another big story of the week after a two year investigation and almost nonstop media coverage of the so named russia gates the heavily redacted moeller report finally sorted it out the document dropped on thursday revealing that there was no cooperation between donald trump or any american with russians in the twenty sixteen presidential election. the special counsel's report states that his quote investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activities a pretty definitive statement but donald trump isn't off the who can the eyes of

the democrats on many media outlets a few days ago the u.s. house to destry committee issued a subpoena for the on reductive report to be made available as many parts of the published version have been blocked died the focus now shifts to the possible obstruction of the investigation by the us president or in all bonds from our senior correspondent maracas the ever two years america waited for this hoped and prayed it would unmake trump who will exonerate him that the new report would and this two year long drama about collusion hacking and conspiracy people would get closure what america got was this page off the redacted page sensitive into any legibility obviously some of this stuff could pass for more than ott and as with odds everyone interprets this report how they want and they're having a good day i'm having

a good day q who is called. no collusion no obstruction even it is incomplete for me to work with him only report outlines disturbing evidence. president's trip in gauged in obstruction of justice and oh there is kind of confused so was mueller trump may have been cleared of collusion but obstruction of justice. in the. mueller writes that it's so complicated he couldn't decide whether trump tried to obstruct justice or not by the guilty no innocent the conclusion the congress may apply the obstruction laws to the president's corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law specifically mueller found eleven instances where trump potentially tried to obstruct justice and democrats have

jumped on it the miller report prints a disturbing picture of a president who has been weaving new web of deceit lies and improper behavior and acting as if the law doesn't apply to him it's a very interesting and very disturbing read that does not exonerate this president the whole repercussions for the country of having a president who lies to the country who misleads the country you urges others to do so a president to. to my reading of the. mother report almost certainly obstructed justice certainly intended and attempted to obstruct justice and if true this alleged trumped tantrum is only making it so much sweeter the president slumped back in his chair and said oh my god this is terrible this is the end of my presidency i'm. you know this report has trump political the democrats smell blood they have trump and like blood hounds still

mercilessly dog him for a structure and anyone that gets in the way the messenger included they ministration has a new face in any math error and one with a lot more stature he's the country's attorney general he said half a dozen times no collision no question no lawyer no legal presentation presenting its conclusion six times the attorney general getting out there and getting his narrative his take on it as vigorously as possible because attorney general barr wants to represent our trouble i think he should resign they are calling for to resign a traitor a sellout they scream and they want mueller himself the darling just a few months ago to be hauled before congress the mueller reports and did nothing those who hated trump hated him more and vice versa if anything this report is going to america and americans further apart but they go to tell you at

least be a fracture is a happy. allows for russia itself the report claims there were a fox of moscow meddling in the twenty sixteen election in quote a sweeping and systematic fashion moscow responded saying the investigation shows no evidence of such actions as expected there was a wave of reaction to the release all of the miller report your some of the views shared with us. they still can't get to a point where the president clued in with russia in fact they say quite categorically it did not happen so then why would the president knowing he is innocent obstruct buller put that in as a matter of pure politics as a sop to the democrats who are on the commission twenty five attorneys all of them democrats most of them hillary supporters a large number of them hillary donors and we had to do something in the report to make them happy why did this investigation even begin i mean was there wrongdoing

there was there you know falsification of documents to get pfizer warrants there's a lot of embarrassment here we're talking about millions upon millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars of time wasted if things happened for something that legitimately had no basis in fact and any evidence that might have been presented to start this similar investigation all last night we had chuck schumer saying that well how dare william barr you know come out and speak before we get the report what kind of report with this be after that we're going to start hearing about how the redactions are the way a way to hide the real truth and it's really never going to end we're going to continue to see one thing after another with trump but they went immediately from russia collusion to try on taxes trying financial statements and william bars obstruction so i mean the arguments haven't stopped yet they're not going to stop but we do have what seems to be a very conclusive case of absolutely no collusion. right moving on ukrainians are choosing their next president it's an unusual choice they face at the ballot box

the incumbent leader is facing a serious challenge from a counter that well who's hardly your run of the mill politician he's in fact an actor and a standup comedian the election for us is our tease is you've got hi there. yes we've heard what the life imitating art come to this we've seen that stevie in the played lots of flashy art rageous statements claims counterclaims old leading up to today how it's playing out so far well you know i will be zero. a bit more specific about who ukraine is choosing from so the choice is the current president petro poroshenko with something about twenty years of experience in politics who won sixteen percent in the first round and the second choice the choice sorry is comedian vold immersive lenski with twenty years of experience and showbiz who got a bit more than thirty percent and the first round and mr poroshenko i can tell you

just before the voting began who relied heavily on anti russian or even nationalistic sentiment what he did was he called on all ukrainians to appear at the polling stations and preditions all colorful ukrainian church which are known as because however when he showed up in front of the cameras at his polling station he was wearing a plain classic suit that was he that was his shirt and his choice but mr selenski was wearing something more casual he was wearing just a plain white t. shirt under the jacket and he was an absolutely great mood and he said the reason for that was and that music which his wife played for him in the morning and perhaps you got a little bit carried away with his joy and optimism because he actually showed his ballot to determine lists where the ticket was next to his name which is

a no no that's illegal according to ukraine laws and it's been reported that he's already agreed to pay a fine and that should only be about thirty bucks so not really much harm for him now i can tell you that porsche in close h.q. is treating its guests with sandwiches cookies and coffee and a lot of glasses full of alcohol have already been seen in mr selenski waters after all everyone's seen all. the opinion polls and all that which included debates and. other things going to his way ahead of the second round there had been fears though of a regular laurette sees in the build up as i said there are so many claims and counterclaims any details what are we hearing but we definitely know that there have been hundreds of regularities believe that number getting even close to thousand and these there were these included a protester

a topless protester appearing at one of the polling stations screaming stop raping ukraine and mr selenski hometown one horribly drunk woman decided to eat the ballots but i can tell you that these kind of things. it is very likely that they won't affect the results and the election won't be called and valid pretty much the same number of regularities we saw during the first round but there is no regularity of a much different that is widely being talked about in this country especially by officials in russia we know that it's believed that possibly even millions of ukrainians live and work and this country but they didn't get a chance to vote not a single polling station was opened in russia and also there are the far eastern parts of ukraine the some areas in the lugansk

regions which are still ward or no polling station is there either and this also does definitely cast a shadow on the election you people not being able to citizens of ukraine basically you're saying not able to vote in russia even though they are in other european countries and it's one of the big issues coming out of today plenty more it's been an emotional few weeks there in ukraine i'm sure the voters are weary but we'll know more in two hours time go. thank you very much. the flood of cush swiftly pledged by french billionaires to save nothing a dime cathedral left a yellow vest protesters seeing red for suffering these protests will take you through france's a mostly charged week as well there after the week. trump

said many times that you know we got to be. advantages you know with moving the embassy to jerusalem there with the mission of jerusalem as our capital. he said that there will be some painful things that israel will not like either so this is why i think that other students should come with opening the minds to the to the negotiations. the housing crisis was the result of securitizing mortgages that were resold to dozens of times and then like goldman sachs was betting as their own clients and they were engaged in massive fraud again bailed out by timothy geithner and his friends and now they can't go of that controlled demolition of the housing market is that all housing is concentrated in a few hands like blackstone as a gift from their friends of the central banks and the result is medieval.

kind of. a world treasure up in flames fronts on the rest of the world this week have been coming to terms with monday's devastating fire that rubbish not the dumb cathedral in paris investigators believe the blaze may have been the result of going restoration work or possibly an electrical fault saturday evening easter which normally held in not for. it was moved to a nearby church well attended as well present has pledged to rise the building from its ashes after dramatic scenes of the historic spire collapsing shook the world.

law ah ah. france which is burning reduces caesar hoto from caesar to fire is and so that's a part of. we are losing two nights says city of just not true down is the heart of paris it is granger it is monumental it is horrible to see resing we have learned growing up in small centuries of our heritage.

a. but it's very sad it's one of the great monuments of france we've got far away so it's devastating but a monument like this is burning. and then most of. i say this to someone else and we will rebuild this great cathedral together we will appeal to the greatest talents to help restore not true them because this is what the french people expect and it is what our history deserves

it is our destiny. drone the footage obtained by our video agency ruptly shows where the fire tore through the eight hundred fifty year old building as you can see from the images the damage is extensive the cathedral is one of the most popular tourist attractions in europe pulling in thirteen million visitors every year the spire on the roof as we say collapse but the famous twin bell towers as well as the north rosa window both of which were both in the thirteenth century were saved so too was the cathedrals most precious relic the crown of thorns. the former deputy director of culture the u.n. agency unesco say it's not that i have to go through reconstruction rather than restoration. now. yesterday i mean all use is gone. and what would have to be.

really i mean reconstruction. major construction projects this will. say today. many many. more than. one hundred years ago a hundred. more. and there's been. protests weeks of relative turn violent protests with anger directed wealthy

french donors who had pledged money for the. police were braced for trouble. i. know they were executing the mail they call it we have to save money but why do they give so right away for a monument and for nothing else while the villages cannot hold them are not true

dollars for all the people of reach people can afford to give millions to repair it at their vocation i'm not to damage charity helping the poor we denounce a government policies that have allowed this only guards to reach themselves they can hand out charity money but really it's because of those people that we have so much inequality in trunks but unfortunately we always have strong mobilization we're going to express our goals more and more unstable we especially hope that the government will accept our demands for french billionaires and wealthy families race to boost their cathedral repair donations with one more goal pledging one hundred million euro law international offers analysts we spoke to though that stark stark display of inequality has frustrated many in france who are struggling to get by. they're shocked by the fact that in one night. the very rich people can give more than one million euros to rebuild.

it's not a problem they're giving money to rebuild the problem is that all these people making very very rich these last fifteen years ten years ago we had three thousand less in the mirrors there were thirty governors now there are one hundred. their wealth is growing very fast and they using all the opportunities given by the european union and the french system this is pushed by. to send their money away in offshore countries and where the shocking for the universe is that that money that they're giving by people to the very kind it should have been already in the in the hand of the state. death row itself in the dock next in our documentary the ultimate penalty this is r.t. international.

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