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a strong message to the country's moving clocks. a series of deadly explosions in sri lanka reportedly killed at least three hundred seventy people and india hundreds of targets were hotels and churches as the island's christian minority. to some. main stories there was no collusion between donald trump and russia as a report finally publishes its conclusions. you're watching the week here on r.t. international with me. to highlights from the last seven days and all the latest of today's stories welcome to the program from winning winning voters exit polls in ukraine suggest a political newcomer no. only the playing a president in a t.v.

sitcom is in line to get the job for real volodymyr is a lenski appears to have secured a landslide win over incumbent petro poroshenko who has conceded defeat correspond to explain what it all means for ukraine. now we can say with almost one hundred percent certainty that president or. zelinsky will be in charge of ukraine for the next five years and let's be fair this triumph was expected because not a single opinion poll tipped porsche and co to win this head of the runoff but that margin that is incredible that is really a sensation and a complete disaster for. when it became clear that it's a total triumph for of all dimmers alinsky he decided to stick to his own style of

communicating with his audience through snappy videos in online posts and in fact he posted something that was recorded on a phone which looks like an instagram story or a video for friends let's have a look at it this was the video when waldemar he said he united ukraine with his election victory very. everyone i want to thank everyone for being with us these four months that is of course. 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. when he said he's united everybody believes that obviously time will tell and yes the style is very different that's for sure now ever since. the exit polls came out he obviously had to hold his first news conference what came out of that which was much more serious than just recording videos on phones and immediately he was given

questions about what he's going to do with russia what he's going to do when it comes to dealing with the war in east ukraine and in a way mr selenski call european politicians down by saying that he wants. to keep working in the so-called normandy format that is when leaders of russia and ukraine communicate together but in the presence of other european leaders the leaders of germany and france in fact we didn't really see these kind of talks happen for quite a while now also he said that he's still supporting the so-called minsk agreements he wants some sort of updates and then he wants to relaunch the process but this is what we hear from russian politicians all the time which this is what we hear from western politicians all the time there is no alternative to the minsk agreements

now there is something else that really caught the attention of the journalists there. and then ski invited all representatives of the media to start a new information war to win the hearts and minds of ukrainian citizens that are now currently living in the breakaway regions. or that least do you journalists we would invite you in the near future. preparations we would be very hard on the information to finish the. it looks like petro poroshenko has been on the back foot he's really been trying to keep his job but when you look at how quickly he conceded one hundred it was so far only minutes to do that he decided not to wait for any official announcements from the election authorities but again that's all because of this massive margin which is a pretty much it's impossible to turn this whole thing around but petro poroshenko

said that he's staying in politics and for him this is probably the beginning of another campaign campaign ahead of the parliament elections now there is a situation in ukraine right now and perhaps. might find himself in a situation that's similar to that of donald trump when his decisions could be blocked by the parliament where the coalition where the main party is petro poroshenko as party has a majority in parliament he reiterated that he's not giving up to journalists when he has his press conference let's have a listen to bits of what he had to say. it doesn't give. the words to churchill which i always follow. when i see the results of the exit. demand i now call my graduate let's go back to. press

conference where one of the questions was are you ready to accept petro poroshenko as help and are you ready to put him in some sort of government position mr selenski answer was yes i'm ready but if the people tell me they're ready for it so perhaps we're just going to wait and see. the latest developments from today a series of easter sunday bomb attacks and the police now say the number of deaths from the church has. 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 a loss in total want 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 a fake news spreading many of the victims that were from the christian minority who are celebrating their holy state dozens of foreigners are among the debt we should

warn you the following in the trees. was. thirteen people have been arrested in connection with the attack. of a suspect detained during an operation and. there are also reports that police found a truck which they suspect may have been use in the. case defense minister has said the culprits were religious extremists while the country's prime minister has promised that the people behind the attacks face as a response. the first explosion occurred around nine am local time in total

five balls at the capitol including a church and three luxury hotels the latest attack also happened in colombia at an apartment block during a police raid which left three officers dead about forty kilometers north in the city of it and they go 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 local media also say an improvised explosive device. near columbus international airport this is they often laugh for one of the explosions no group has as yet claimed responsibility for the attacks sri lanka is 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 the easter service at the vatican pope francis denounced today's events as cool violence and expressed his support for all

those affected. they wish to express my heartfelt. the christian community while it was a prayer and the victims of such violence political and geostrategic expert javid around us says there had been disquiet between the religious communities in the lead up to sunday's atrocities. i think there was a level of uncomfortable. among different communities of the do good only off there was a some sort of lighting between some of the national groups and we should not forget the phenomenon of terrorism and violence is not at all good news. it was heat from one community three. thousand mind vendible to insurgency particularly in the north east of. sitting in government that it's all over in mind

then big dark insurgency and then they they all tell you. the same side bombing not that is this something again has happened now off nine nine nine years but at this particular point point of time there are new dynamics to be used to dig situation in syria link up there are other factors like dash because daschle has been operating everywhere in the board well i think the message is quite good out to the community which make up at all and some portion of the student confabulation. the message is to try to fight them to keep 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 link an economy it is going to be negatively to disturb when it comes to putting sri lanka the situation in the posture. after a two year investigation and almost nonstop media coverage of the so-called russian scandal they have really went to act and would have

a point final so to terms the document dropped on saving that there was no co-operation between donald trump or any american with the russians in the twenty sixth presidential election. special council'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 activity. but donald trump isn't off the hook in the eyes of the democrats and many outlets a few days ago the u.s. has committee issued a subpoena for the unredacted report to be made available as many parts of the published in black current focus now shifts to the possible obstruction of the investigation by the u.s. president more on all of that from our senior correspondent. two years america waited for this hoped and prayed it would unmake trump all exonerate him that the new report would end this two year long drama about

collusion hacking and conspiracy that people would get closure what america got was this page after redacted page censored into illegibility 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's disturbing evidence that president trumping gaged in obstruction of justice and all of this kind of confused so was mueller trump may have been cleared of collusion but obstruction of justice scalia and in the air mueller writes that it's so complicated he couldn't decide whether trump

tried to obstruct justice or not either guilty nor innocent the conclusion that 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. struck to justice and democrats have jumped on it the miller report brings 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 it was 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 wounded trump politically the democrats smell blood have trumped up and like blood hounds still mercilessly dogged 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 collusion 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 possible because attorney general barr

wants to represent our trouble i think he should resign they're calling for barr 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 who hated trump hated him more and vice versa if anything this report is going to america and americans further apart but they got to tell you at least incapacity of fractures a happy. thought the funding to save a theater left the yellow vest protest rant on saturday it's our next story after this break. the housing crisis was

a result of securitizing mortgages that were resold to dozens of times and then like goldman sachs was betting answer all clients and they were engaged in massive fraud again bailed out by timothy geithner and his friends and now they go of that controlled demolition of the housing market all the housing is concentrated in a few hands like blackstone as a gift from their friends of the central banks and the result is medieval.

welcome back to the program a global treasure up in flames france and the rest of the world this week when coming to terms with monday's devastating fire that ravaged not saddam cathedral in paris investigators believe the blaze may have been the result of ongoing restoration work or possibly an electrical fault sauce tapings that only held him not to down was moved to a nearby church president has pledged to rise the building from at sasha's after dramatic scenes of the historic spieth collapsing shook the world.

to france which is burning reduces user hoto from the far east and so that's part of what we are losing tonight says secure not true john is the heart of paris it is grander it is monumental it is horrible to see everything we had to learn growing up in small centuries of our heritage. was. a it.

respected. and it's very sad it's one of the great monuments of france we've not far away so it's devastating but a monument like this is burning. and in motion. i say this to you solemnly we will rebuild this great cathedral together we will appeal to the greatest talents to help restore not tradition because this is what the french people expect and it is what our history deserves it is our destiny. and footage obtained by all video agency of up and 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 in europe pulling in thirteen million visitors every year. with collapse but the famous twin bell towers as well as the north rose window both of which were built in the thirteenth century was saved so too was the most precious relic qualified ones the former deputy director of culture the u.n. heritage agency unesco says not for one louv to go through we construction rather than restoration. now we did distraction that. yesterday i mean all this is gone. we have to be completely free and what would have to be. really a major reconstruction. of a major reconstruction project this will. difficult to say today. much of course certainly on the order of that many many hundreds.

in a way. more than society can. know about one hundred years ago hundred years ago because you know when two major. asians and there's been. two. generations so i. think everybody we have to. be able to. get to the future. protests weeks of relative calm and follow protests. and wealthy friends. and the. police were priced the trouble. and more to paris.

i. know they were executing the mail though cause 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 i'm not sure dumbest charity helping the poor would denounce a government policies that have allowed this to enrich themselves they can hand out charity money but really it's because of those people that we have so much inequality in france but in fact when we always have strong mobilization we're

going to express our goals more and more unstable with specially hope that the government will accept our demands as billionaires and wealthy families race to base the cathedral repaired donations with one local pledging one hundred million euro alone in international affairs analyst we spoke to thinks that stock display of inequality has frustrated that many in france who are struggling to get by. they're shocked by the fact that in one might the very rich people can give more than one billion 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 at ten years ago we had three thousand less billionaires there were thirty governors now there are one hundred. their wealth is growing very fast and they using all the approaches given by the

european union and the french system the says pushed by now money. to send their money away in offshore countries and where the shocking for the universe is a 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. to let like there's a documentary called the ultimate goal to have a lot of international so they stay with us. join me every first date on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

the housing crisis was the result of securitizing mortgages that were resold the dozens of times and then like goldman sachs was betting answer all clients and they were engaged in massive fraud again bailed out by timothy geithner and as friends and now they go of that controlled demolition of the housing market is that all the housing is concentrated in a few as like blackstone as a gift from their friends of the central banks and the result is medieval as. i do thing the numbers mean something they've matter to us with over one trillion dollars of debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you loan to the old rich eight point six percent in the world markets closed their personal somewhat four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and we rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two

point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one one business shows you know bored to miss one and only boom box. it was.

a learning new details about the killing of an. employee who was murdered on the job. only say the. sheriff's office says he goes by the nickname. twenty one year old james rhodes is charged with the murder of twenty year old.

forty. nine she collapsed. before she. even a few steps towards her daughter's digital. she says tonight the pain of shelby's loss is real i'm going to make sure if it takes the last breath in my body he needs to get that down and.

we begin today shows a look at the chaos surrounding executions in the united states now that many of the drugs used for lethal injections are no longer available the execution drugs scarcity stems from the receipt of manufacturers in europe and united states to live to be used to people to death. i think the job of defending. the most unpopular amongst our society is absolutely indispensable part of our society. all of my clients have already been tried convicted and sentenced to death in the ohio state court system. every execution has been scheduled schoolin back to june third of two thousand and nine. committing suicide three days before the execution.