twenty. two this is about a fifteen people smoke this one figures. you can find these drugs in any city in the united states that you walk along as you want to get about to. make money. and that's what a. we did it together. the t.v. star search for ukraine's leading role that pulsate com a comic actor. lansky has secured a massive lead over incumbent president petro poroshenko as voters send a stock prices so the countries are moving clocks. in. a series of

deadly explosions and blanco reportedly killed at least two hundred seventy people and injured hundreds more the targets were hotels and churches as the island's christian minority was celebrating easter sunday. and in the weeks main stories. there was no collusion between donald trump and russia as the report finally publishes its conclusions. i want you know we can hear a lot international with me. it's our highlights from the last seven days and all the latest up to date stories welcome to the program from winning a view is to winning 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 real the lot of. appears to have secured an assailable lead over incumbent petro poroshenko who has already conceded defeat across the election for us is. now the polls said he would triumph but the margin was that expected. first of all we can say with almost absolute certainty that the next president of the. will be followed him or selenski who is now no one as zero president that is his new funny nickname that was given to him by his supporters and let's be fair as you've said everyone expected him to win after opinion polls before that showed similar numbers and actually no opinion fall no opinion poll story ahead

of this runoff pointed to portioning close victory so expected. this margin it is absolutely incredible selenski is now trying to keep up with the format of how he communicated with his voters mostly the younger generation ahead of this election one of the first videos that he posted on his team's facebook page was this. very similar hi everyone i want to thank everyone for being with us these four months that is of course work work which you've done not me the work we've done together the main thing that we've done we've united ukraine united our lives united our people. and it's a big question that he's putting i mean we saw his news conference it was his first news conference since the polls closed what came out of that just compare that that phone video that we've just seen it looked like an instagram story and he

was smiling he was easy go and it felt like he's just that ordinary guy someone who's just from. someone who was chosen by the iranian people to rule the country as an ordinary person but if we go back to the press conference that came just twenty minutes after this video was posted roughly. this was when he had to answer serious questions and one of the first questions was about how he's supposed to deal with russia now that he's going to become the leader of ukraine and also what he's going to do with the war in east ukraine and in some way he calmed down the journalists and also i believe leaders in europe by saying that he's ready to continue working in the so-called normandy format that's

when negotiations between the leaders of ukraine and russia happen with the leaders of france and germany taken part he also said that he supports the so-called minsk agreements and he wants to update them somehow relaunch them somehow but he is ready to rely on these agreements something else that came out from mr selenski during that press conference was that he wants to start a full on information war to win the hearts and minds of ukrainians that are now in these separatist regions take a listen. not least do you journalists we will invite you in the near future this is our plan preparation we would be very hard on the information to finish the war in. now it appears that throughout this campaign that.

was really on the back foot is trying to keep his job but he really didn't waste any time can see. it took him. took him about eight minutes to say that he lost he said right away that he's going to congratulate all dinners and then ski in fact he offered him all kinds of help but it is now clear that paul it's his political career is not over he's going to continue he's going to take part in the parliamentary elections where in fact. he has a majority in the ruling coalition is controlled by petro poroshenko those parties are pretty much he has a majority in the ukrainian parliament right now so of all dimmers alinsky might find himself in a situation which is somewhat similar to that of donald trump where he wants to change things but his decisions could be blocked by the parliament parliamentary

elections in ukraine are coming up later this year in autumn and petro poroshenko was trying to push that message very hard when he spoke to the journalists shortly after the first exit poll results came out. it doesn't. do that since the words that winston churchill which i always follow. when i see the results of the exit. demand i now call my congratulate. well before we move on i just want to come back to the supposedly new leader of ukraine ball dimmers and then he just to remind you he is the man who didn't have any career in politics but for more than twenty years he had a massive career in show business and i want to show you some of the highlights of that.

but perhaps his most important role in his most successful sitcom isn't all that funny that was when he started playing the role of a president in what we now know as a servant of the people in fact that's the name of his party that hoping to succeed with as well during the parliamentary elections he played the part of an ordinary schoolteacher that sitcom started running on the air three and a half years ago. the role of a person who is just

a schoolteacher but then he becomes president because of the absolute eagerness of the korean people to get change in their country and for all of us as observers this is absolutely incredible this is fiction becoming reality and this is what we've just seen in ukraine after two rounds of elections the incredible the role of an actor who plays a president who becomes a president. thank you very much for keeping across all of this thank you. ok someone else who has been closely following this election is the author and russia analyst martin mccauley martin thanks for coming on to the program it's been quite dramatic if you've been following this this evening the lines he says his victory has united the country is this just a little bit of initial euphoria talking to you think mountain or do you think you can do it. well it's great name recognition every ukrainian news you

see linsky is here nobody will say who is the linsky who is this new president everyone knows who he is everyone knows really looks like and so on but the big tasks begin to leave because he's promised if you look at his economic program it's very very big he says live exam this will improve. health services will improve education will improve him so i. know how we are going to do that and then he says of course corruption corruption is the main. the main cancer which is affecting. ukrainian life every presence and to. have put put corrupt at the top of the list and events up fighting for their own political life i mean know that that repression could did that look what's happened to him and he appointed me really to take of odessa to clean up. and clean up corruption there he only lost eighteen

months you know the words the corruption is now so in demick that selenski is going to real problem when it comes to challenging it the other thing is that the military on the whole back has backed. so therefore he's got to enter into a dialogue with military and say right i'm going to continue the policies that. you in fact initiated and we're not going to diverge we're going to work out our polls it together and we're going to consult you and so on. and he has no economic bactrim he studied law have to study economics so he will then rely on. economic. critics economic advisors oligarchs and people like that and out of that he would then try to put together policy measure say the the coalition the ruling coalition. control is part of many ways you can't really

do anything until new elections and almost certainly there's elections will give his party was wonderful name seven of the people a majority so he will look for that they need to be jurors and if he doesn't get a majority then have a coalition so that he can then put to parliament what his policies are and hope that he can have more success than part of shrinker tremendous defeat with publishing co also a tremendous defeat for germany. merkel was very close. and she invited the. parisian to go to berlin and treated both equally when he was invited to leave paris. treated to lansky as the new president. and president was part of the the under room so therefore. of the normandy meeting this coming together the minutes process it will in fact take polish paris and the

crawl that he will see himself as the great man who can now lead some progress to get some progress in the conflict in the donbass and france will then see it as taking over germany is playing the leading role in ukraine lots and if we look at the reasons why selenski has been successful. one of the candidates say it's the candidates that was knocked out in the first round said the election proves that ukraine is sick and tired of external influences have a quick listen before we go on. more than seventy percent voted not just for a change of president this score is not specifically for the name selenski this is the number of ukrainians who are against the war says the destruction of the economy against external control if you heard those points there are in such a high percentage voting unhappy with lots of reasons does he have

a point. he has a point because many are trade ins. zilinskas made this point if you look at opinion pros in the past month or so more more ukrainians want some solution to the problem of the conflict in donbass they would they look for better relations with russia to look forward to and they didn't think that. he was ceded far to prove a western pro-american because he relied on the americans not only for the military hope but also for economical he was to prove native and so on and so what many ukrainians would like now would in fact be crane instead of poles but of course where does investment going to come from where's the expertise going to come from to get the economy going because. together with moldova ukraine is the poorest state in europe that's up to disgrace given the natural resources given the great argue culture tradition that you create has ukraine country hasn't been doing so

badly but ukraine should in fact be much more prosperous country and the big question is why has ukraine failed over the last twenty five years thirty years to growth be opportunities which are there and of course it's easy for many ukrainians to say right the americans are defeating far far too much in our country the germans are interfering and so on we want to rule ourselves but where is the expertise who's going to invest in ukraine and be very very interesting to see this verse meeting with president putin because what he was also what is going to do when he sees president putin he said i'm going to make a lot of. this question ventures great is he going to laugh at you or with you because putin is enormously experienced politician meeting. would be very interesting to see how it works out yeah lots i mean talking about experience and very quick take a running out of time or kind of think well is announced

a cut. stage on the political stage especially given in the west that the that was actually quite popular. here well he's because he's a t.v. personality he presented herself very well and i would expect a honeymoon for him say three or even six months everyone looking forward to him and talking to him and saying right what are you going to do we're going to help you and so on and therefore he will then grasp the best opportunity to work out what's the best way pulls the way forward for you because you can ukraine desperately needs. to sort out the problem of corruption and the oligarchs the economic wealth of the country is controlled by a very small elite that wealth is going to spread throughout the country and the wealth is there the great natural resources the highly educated population and therefore everyone will be saying to him right now i use

a catalyst are you the man who can actually take ukraine forward where oppression can fail to michigan fails and all the others failed and we're looking to you the world is very old we're all very optimistic but a new leader and of course is a charismatic figure everyone knows him and he's presented to a very well let's hope then out of the first three to six months when he goes along the world talking to people and he will draw up policies which will push economically especially economically ukraine forward and one of the key things will be resolving the donbass problem because it is weighing very heavily hold ukraine yeah ok. he very much yeah for coming out of the program and discussing last call the author and russia analyst. or you. know the latest developments from today's series of easter sunday bomb attacks in trying to local police now say the number of deaths from the blast on churches and

hotels has increased to two hundred seven this is video showing the first blast at st anthony's church in the heart of the sri lankan capital colombo eight blasts in total what's the country on sunday a twelve hour curfew was declared immediately afterwards and access is temporarily been blocked 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 we should warn you that the following images disturbing. of the. of the.

thirteen people have been arrested in connection with the attacks this is video of the suspect attained during an operation in the capital suburb. there are also reports that police found a truck which they suspect may have been planned for use in the attacks as 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 hit the capital including a church and three luxury hotels the latest attack also happened in colombo as an apartment block during a police raid which left three officers dead about forty kilometers north of the city. the place of worship was hit as was the to kalau 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 and no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks frank with a mainly buddhist country less than ten percent of the population a catholic make up a large proportion of today's fatalities world leaders have condemned the attacks and expressed their condolences speaking at least a service at the vatican pope francis denounced today's events as crew violence and express to support act. wish to express my heartfelt solidarity with the christian community. with. such. a political and geo strategic. disquiet between religious communities in the lead up to sunday's atrocities. i think there was a level of armed conflict ability. to use a bigot only off there was

a some sort of lighting between some of the nationalist groups and we should not forget the phenomenon of terrorism and violence is not all good the new. it was heat from one thousand you could. close in mind when there was an insurgency particularly in the north east of sri lanka sitting in government that it's all over in two thousand and nine when big dark insurgency and then did they alter. the suicide bombing not that is this something again has happened now after nine nine nine years but at this particular point point of time there are new dynamics to be used to dig situation in city link there are other factors like dash dash has been operating everywhere in the board well i think the message was quite clear to the community which make up it on seven percent of the student in confabulation. the message is to try to find them to give them obvious from diversion places and also

the messages to the foreigners who have been doing this through lanka i think it is going to come down hard on this linking economy it is going to be negatively to disturb when it comes to. the situation in the pasture. after t.m.'s to cation and almost nonstop media coverage of the so-called russia gate scandal the hadley went back to normal every port finally sorted out the document dropped on thursday with feeling that there was no cooperation between donald trump or any american with the 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 but donald trump isn't off the hook in the eyes of the democrats and many media outlets

a few days ago the u.s. has conditioned 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 us president more on all that from our senior correspondent. two years america waited for this hoped and prayed it would make trump all exonerate him that the new report would and this two year long drama about collusion had king and conspiracy people would get closure what america got was this page after redacted page censored into in legibility obviously some of this stuff could pass for modern art and as with art everyone interprets this report how they want and they're having a good day i'm having

a good day q who's called. no collusion no obstruction even it is incomplete for me to work with him only point out one disturbing evidence. president tripping gaged in obstruction of justice and so 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 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 new web of deceit lies and improper behavior and acting as if the law doesn't apply to him it's a very interesting a 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 room to trump politically the democrats smell blood they have trumped up 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 and 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 presents 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're calling for bud 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 report 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 hey i got to tell you at

least in my view a fracture is a happy. i made a documentary called black lives and diction here on alt international so stay with us. we came here where did you work before you came here when you lived. in many us states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor of the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up the right to live among us some even proven innocent years on death row and how many more is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront let it be an arms race in this offense very dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. should this have to be pursued as i live the good faith confident. we have many things in this world this isn't enough for everyone and why some

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