we did it together. the t.v. stars set for ukraine's top job exit polls a comic a lot of mirrors in lenski has secured a massive lead over incumbent president petro poroshenko has voted to send a strong message to the countries that ruling class. a series of deadly explosions interline can reportedly killed at least two hundred seventy people and injured hundreds more the targets were hotels and churches as the island's christian minority celebrating easter sunday. and in the week's

main stories from our team there was no clues in between donald trump and russia as the report finally publishes its conclusions. it's nine o'clock here in moscow and you're watching the weekly on international with me in india today welcome to the program from winning viewers to winning a voters exit polls in ukraine suggest a political newcomer known only for playing a president in a t.v. sitcom is in line to get the job for a real volodymyr is a landscape is so secure an assailable leader of incumbent petro poroshenko who has already conceded defeat well across the election with us now are you have been following this and if we start with the polls they said zelinsky would triumph

because conceded but did they expect the margin to be so huge well the answer is yes and no but yes it is fair to say. that the people in zelinsky steam just didn't expect it to be that good but now as you've said it is almost certain that the next leader of ukraine will be vola doomer selenski or as president that's the nickname the funny nickname that he's already got and you know that he won in round one with just over thirty percent of the votes against sixteen percent that was the score of petro poroshenko that was a massive margin even back then but. pretty much who knew that his lead will become that comfortable in the second round we saw the celebrations and has campaign h.q.

and these were some of the first words that came from me from villa dimmers then ski when he was there standing in front of his supporters. yeah well i'm not officially president yet i can speak as a citizen of ukraine all countries of the former soviet union take a look at us everything is possible. when mr selenski says everything is possible that is of course something that you were talking about someone with no experience as someone who was in government he was never in politics he was an m p didn't have any positions both on a regional level and on a national level but he was one of the most popular comedians in ukraine and three and a half years ago he started a t.v. show where he transforms from a schoolteacher to the president because of all that the hatred and resentment

with the political elite in ukraine and now it looks like this story has come true it's really going to is an incredible story if we look at what's happened with the president petro poroshenko said you know next month he'll be stepping down he does appear to have been on the back foot throughout this campaign doesn't he trying to keep his job and. i mean he can see that same cricklade is pretty spectacular it took him about eight minutes or so to come out and say that he lost without even waiting for official words olds but the margin in these exit polls again is just so large that for him it's clear that he's going to lose his job so let's have a listen to what petro poroshenko said that was about eight minutes after the polling stations closed. i. never give up if it doesn't go against.

the word so winston churchill which i always called never give up i hear when i see the results of the exit poll. demand i now call my boom and congratulate him. i mean very gracious when he said you know i'm going to call him to congratulate him and then he also said this is how things are done in europe you know about the family said it was interesting what he said and he said you know he was going to continue to fight but then see if he has ground work always out basically three and a half years to come pain in the role of a president on t.v. . but the country the problems haven't gone away the problems have not gone away and in. his the president that he played it was not easy for him but he was just so bold and so daring in

what he did that's not going to be easy to do in real life let me just go back to petro poroshenko for a second what he said was about his future campaigns for the parliament because i can tell you that. the parliamentary elections are coming up in autumn and for now it is controlled by. coalition so. dimmers events he sorry is in a position where probably it's like a bit like donald trump when for him it will be difficult to push through all these reforms while the parliament is still controlled by the coalition and the supporters of the president who is still the incumbent leader of ukraine but if you think about some of the things that are going to be important for the rest of the world we already heard from mr zelinsky that he is ready to have direct

talks with. and this is definitely a sign that something can change he is seen by someone as slightly more than petro poroshenko but if you listen to all the rhetoric by mr zelinsky it isn't really the case he's the one who gave all the business that he had in russia as a comedian as an actor he was taking part in a lot of shows in this country he starred in russian movies he gave all of that when the war in ukraine started but just for you to get an idea of what kind of roles he had what kind of characters he played to have a look at this. anyway

the whole of this is based on exit poll data we still have to hear from election authorities we want to get the official numbers but as i've said many times the margin is just way too big for poor showing koch to turn this around he'll be stepping down the new president of ukraine is this is president they say life or at least life is stranger than fiction and i think in this case it really is in a particular thank you for keeping us updated on this. the latest developments from today a series of easter sunday bomb attacks in sri lanka now local police say the number of deaths from the blasts on churches and hotels has increased to two hundred and seven this is video showing the first blast at st antony's church in the heart of

the stray lankan capital colombo eight blasts in total rocked the country on sunday a twelve hour curfew was declared immediately afterwards and access is temporarily in block to social networks including facebook for fear of fake news spreading many of the victims were from the christian minority who are celebrating their holiest day dozens of foreigners are among the dead and we should warn you that the following images are disturbing. thirteen people have been arrested in connection with the attacks this is video of

a suspect during an operation in the capital suburb of damage to go there are also reports that police found a truck which they suspect may have been planned for use in the attacks. his defense minister said the culprits were religious extremists while the country's prime minister has promised that the people behind the attack will face a stern response. the first explosion occurred around nine am local time in total five blasts in the capital including a church and three luxury hotels the latest attack also happened in colombo at an apartment block during a police raid which left three officers dead about forty kilometers north in the city of. another place of worship was hit as was a. popular tourist destination on the opposite side of the island and following that a small hotel in front of a zoo was targeted this is the aftermath of one of the explosions no group has yet

claimed responsibility for the attacks sri lanka is mainly buddhist country less than ten percent of the population are catholic who make up a large proportion of today's fatalities world leaders have condemned the attacks and expressed their condolences speaking at the easter service at the vatican pope francis denounced today's events as crew violence and expressed his support for all those affected. i wish to express my heartfelt solidarity with the christian communities affected while it was a prayer and with victims of such violence. political and geo strategic expert javid rada says there had been disquiet between religious communities in the lead up to sunday's atrocities. i think there was a level of ability. to use of the good only our girl was in some sort of life doing. some of the national groups and we should not forget the phenomenon of

. all. was from one community. in mind when be able to down an insurgency particularly in a lot east of. government that it's all over the. mind very big dark insurgency and then they they all to use. the same side bombing not that is this something again has happened now after nine nine nine years but at this particular point point of dawn there are new dynamics to be used to do that situation there are other factors like you know putting everywhere in the board well i think the message is quite get out to the community which. the message is to try to fight them to give them obvious from places and also the messages to the foremost who have been doing this for the lanka i think it is going

to come down hard on this link and economy it is going to be negative really disturbed when it comes to. the situation in the past changing. after t.n.s. occasion and almost nonstop media coverage of the so-called russia gate scandal the having redacted whatever point finally sorted it out the document dropped on thursday with feeling that there was no cooperation between donald trump or any american with russians in the twenty sixteen presidential election. special counsel's report states that is quote investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activities donald trump isn't off the hook in the eyes of the democrats and many media outlets a few days ago the u.s. house judiciary committee issued a subpoena for the unredacted report to be made available as many parts of the

published version have been blacked out the focus now shifts to the possible obstruction of the investigation by the u.s. president more on all of that now from our senior correspondent mark asked if. two years america waited for this hoped and prayed it would unmake trump or exonerate him that the new report would end this two year long drama about collusion hacking and conspiracy people would get closure what america got was this page of the redacted page censored into elegibility obviously some of this stuff could pass for modern art and as with 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 we're going to blow report outlines disturbing evidence. president's trip in gage 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 scalia 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 you have 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 to weapons 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 trump 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 politically the democrats smell blood they have trump and like blood hounds still mercilessly dog him for obstruction and anyone that gets in the way the messenger

included they ministration has a new face than any messenger and one with a lot more stature he's the country's attorney general he said half a dozen times no collision occlusion 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 part of was 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 who hated trump hated him more and vice versa if anything this report is going to america and americans further apart but hey i got to tell you at least in my view a fracture is a happy. the funding to save not

a damn cathedral left the end of as protesters saying rant on saturday it's our next story after this break. what holds us do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be thrust into. something i want to be. that you'd like to be close to see what the fuck are you the more people. are interested always in the lawyers are. there certain. welcome to the program the global treasure up in flames france and the rest of the world this week have been coming to terms with monday's devastating fire that valve is not shut down cathedral in paris investigators believe the blaze it may have been the result of ongoing restoration work or possibly an electrical fault sauced evenings easter vigil normally held or knocked down was moved to

a nearby church president has pledged to rise the building from its ashes after dramatic scenes of the historic spire collapsing shook the world. i i. you know says there are two fronts which is burning really says she saw her two friends she's heard of paris and so that's a part of our culture we are losing tonight says city look at notre down is the

heart of paris it is granger our it is monumental it is horrible to see everything that we had alarm going off and smoke centuries of our heritage. was. a. place that. it's very sad it's one of the great monuments of france i'll leave that far away so it's devastating but a monument like this is burning. and in motion. i say this to you solomon else i think 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 this is what our history deserves it is our destiny didn't. try footage obtained by all video agency of up to shows where the fire tore through the eight. hundred fifty year old building and as you can see from the images the damage is extensive the cathedral is one of the most popular tourist attractions and pulling in thirteen million visitors every year the spire on the roof collapsed but the famous twin towers as well as the north rose window both of which were built in the thirteenth century were saved so too was the cathedrals most precious relic of the crown of thorns the former deputy director of culture at the u.n. heritage agency unesco says not to damn well now have to go through reconstruction rather than restoration. now we think destruction that.

we all use is going. to be very. well have to be. reconstruction. of. major structural problems this will. say today. much of course. on the order of that many many hundreds of millions of dollars in a way was also a symbol of what modern society can do. you know about one hundred years ago hundred years ago because you know when two major. regimes and there's been. two. people generations so very. ready we have to continue to say. be able to. relate to the future to. the aftermath of the not to blame the new focus for the latest yellow vests

protests weeks of relative calm turned violent during saturday's protests with anger directed at wealthy french town is one of many for the cathedral's for power within hours police for braced for trouble and deployed take acid and water cannon in paris. i. know they were executing the mail they got we have to save. but why do they give so

right away for a monument and for nothing else all of our lives is going to hurt them or not all the people reach people can afford to give millions to repair it or their vocation of not to damage charity helping the poor who denounce the government policies that have allowed this or nigger acts to enrich themselves they can hand out charity money but really it's because of those people that we have so much inequality in trunks but in fact when we always have strong mobilization we're going to express our goals more and more unstable we specially hope that the government will accept our demands. and we up next the latest episode of worlds apart here on r.t. international so don't go away. my body told me that are belong with the board if my thoughts my mind was.

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these drugs any. any you know this. one they get about the. make money. and that's what a. lot of welcome to all the parties there is a lot of talk about reform and leadership at the united nations podium and a lot of working against it in the u. n. korea there's that's not simply. the un members have always guarded against the

system being hijacked by. the united nations after a change when its own system is structured in a bay to cement a status quo as a means of ensuring neutrality to discuss that i'm now joined by helen clark former prime minister from new zealand and a former administrator of the u.n. development program but i'm such an honor talking to you thank you very much for your time the last time we talked you were in the process running for the post of the new u.n. secretary general the job that you did in four out of five permanent members supported someone else and i know that you believe that it was partly because you were a woman what made you reached out conclusion. well i think gender was an aspect but i think there are clearly other major aspects as well one of them is just straight geopolitics the person who succeeds must not in the end have a veto from any permanent member and secondly there's the issue of style of sick in

general and in reality the great powers have never knowingly selected a secretary general. who was going to speak truth to power some have surprised the late coffee anon for example on the issue of the iraq war but generally people who are. now in a strong leaders like myself. probably a little bit threatening particularly when they're women because strengthen women and sin a little bit differently for the strength of men but having said all that i have no regrets i think it's important that many women ran the majority of candidates were women from what i know it was the u.k. that supported t.r.e. candidacy i am. one hundred percent sure that it was only due to your professional qualities and not that change of commonwealth solidarity. firstly the u.k. always said they thought it was time for women secondly they also were on the

record as saying they were looking for.