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thank. you. again. for ukraine's leading role exit polls say and belong to me as a lenski has secured a massive lead over incumbent president petro poroshenko as though to send a song to the country's ruling class. a series of explosions. at least two hundred seventy people but hundreds more targets the hotels and churches as the island's christian minority was celebrating easter sunday. and in the weeks main stories from the tape there was no collusion between donald trump
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and russia as the miller report finally publishes its conclusions. in the weekly here on all the international with me in a direct to to us all highlights from the last seven days and all the latest up to date stories welcome to the program from winning view as to winning a vote exit polls in ukraine suggest a political newcomer known for 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. who has conceded defeat correspondent. explained what it 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
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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 and 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 very. very well 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 own people. when he said
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he's united everybody we've obviously time will tell us the style is very different 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 calmed european politicians down by saying that he wants to keep working in the so-called normandie 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
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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. lensky 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 the 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. it looks like it's been on the back foot he's really been trying to keep his job but when you look at how quickly he conceded one
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hundred it was so far off i'm 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 he 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 his party has a majority in parliament he reiterated that he's not giving up to journalists when
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he has his press conference let's have a listen to bits of what he had to say. if it doesn't get. sense the words. which i always follow. when i see the results of the exit poll. demand i now call my congratulate let's go back to all of them are selenski 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 simlins answer was yes i'm ready but if the people tell me they're ready for so perhaps we're just going to wait and see and so an analyst martin mccauley it will be difficult for us to live up to the promises he's made to the ukrainian public. everyone knows who he is everyone newsreel looks like but the big tasks begin to me immediately because he's promised if you look at his economic
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program it's very very. liberal judges will prove. health services will improve education will improve and you all know how we're going to do that. because corruption is the male. brain cancer which is affecting. you call your life every president in two thousand and four has put country corruption at the top of the list lavelle job fighting for their own political life and we know that but republishing who did that look what's happened here. that tell from a series of explosions in sri lanka has reached two hundred seven according to police churches and hotels across the island were targeted on easter sunday the first blast to hit at st antony's church in parts of the sri lankan capital colombo there were a further seven explosions at twelve he was declared immediately afterwards and access has temporarily been blocked to social networks including facebook the fear
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of spreading many of the victims were from the christian minority who are celebrating the how this 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. tainting an operation capital suburb and that there are also reports that police found a truck which they suspect may have been on for use in the attacks defense minister
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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 bombing occurred around nine am local time in total five classic the capital including a church and three luxury hotels the latest attack also happened in colombia as an apartment block during a police raid which left three officers dead about forty kilometers north of the city of the combo 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 was found near colombo international airport this is the off the mouth of one of the explosions no group has as yet claimed responsibility for the attacks trying to raise a nany this country less than ten percent of the population a conflict in mexico a large proportion of today's fatalities world leaders have condemned the attacks
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and expressed their condolences speaking at the easter service at the vatican pope francis denounced today's events as cruel and violence and expressed his support for it. i wish to express my heart filled solidarity with the christian community. with. my live. with now is done with a breed an attorney and a counterterrorism expert coming on to talk about this awful event that we heard about eight blasts and the further explosive devices found off to relative calm intra lanka do you think this is the start of a. campaign. you know it's interesting i think it very well might be obviously the communications and the information about radical islamic terrorism such as that was seen by this is calmed down since
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some of their holdings in iraq and syria have predominantly been defeated and been done with but at the same time what isis did was really spread an ideology of self-fulfilling prophecies of some of these radical islamic extremists specifically in these attacks well it hasn't come out who is responsible it has come out that there was a group of police in sri lanka warned of an attack by a group labeled and t.j. and this was an islamic radical islamist group here so they're still waiting to see some some of these things but this is one of the things that isis promulgated and really brought out to some of their adherents is look it's not about our landholdings anymore because they were losing those holdings it's about the ideology we spread we need to show that this is the end times and to carry out these attacks no group has yet admitted to carrying out the attacks but you've mentioned dices who do you think's in the frame. well i think that some
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of it i mean i would not be surprised at all to find out this is a radical islamist group i mean it we can look at groups in a just such as boko haram who have pledged allegiance to isis but now that the news has come out that isis has been defeated groups might be less likely to want to pledge their allegiance so it could be it could be any we could be looking at a resurgence of al qaeda or some other offshoot there's a group called and she did and t.j. the national group which is in sri lanka so they're not sure if that could be one of those but again we look at the victims here so we're talking about three christian churches these are followers of jesus celebrating the resurrection on easter sunday not just catholic churches they were catholic and a protestant church of the zion church there and so it was just a targeting of christians and then a targeting of three hotels which were a five star hotels that are generally typically looked at as being western all of these are targets christians western expansion as you know hotels tourists from western countries anybody who's fought against islamist groups so these are all
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looked at as targets of radical islamist so that's why i would not be surprised if any of these radical groups are in the running for this yeah i mean they're all reports that the government had prior information that the attacks might to. the attacks do you think perhaps too well planned to prevent all serious questions facing the government in terms of security and services now. absolutely i mean i think this is one of the things you know as has been stated sri lanka is not known for a very large majority muslim population being predominately buddhist and so it is going to be important but i think one of the countries it's been a very good example that's predominantly muslim has been egypt with its muslim president el-sisi who's really taken it security services to make sure that they protect christian churches now unfortunately that's a that's a tough thing there we don't want to be stating that we always have to be protecting christians and christians are to always be guarded and protected but that is something i'm sure sri lanka will have to look at i think the main thing
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and the irony in this all is that this is a holiday where christians minorities that worship jesus christ that are celebrating easter are celebrating a day where where where the savior has been resurrected where death has been arrested and so you know it really shows the depravity of soul of life the darkness and some of these extremists that will go out and want to kill those who are are worshipping basically the greatest love of all according to the christian church and so this is it's a day of celebration it's a day it's a day not for morning which apparently and unfortunately has come there and will need to see governments ramping up that protection and making sure that we continue media coverage there has to be coverage we have to know we can't brush this under the rugs we have to make sure that that we probably that we declare that these are happening that this is a real threat and that we are going to take care of that. attorney and counterterrorism expert thank you very much program and sharing your views.
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know with moving the embassy to jerusalem the mission of jerusalem is our capital. he said that there would be some faint things that israel will not like either so this is why i think the palestinians should come with opening the minds. to the negotiations. welcome back to the program after a two year investigation and almost nonstop media coverage of the so-called russian scandal. said one of report finding sorted out the document dropped on thursday revealing that there was no cooperation between donald trump or an american with russians in the twenty sixth presidential election. the special counsel's report states that his quote investigation did not establish that members of the trump
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campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activities. isn't off the hoped in the eyes of the democrats and many media outlets a few days ago u.s. house committee issued a subpoena for the redacted report to be made available as many parts of the published version had been blacked out the focus now shifts to the possible obstruction of the investigation by the us president more from our senior correspondent lourdes garcia. two years america waited for this hoped and prayed it would unmake 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
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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 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 scalia 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
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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 full 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 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
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end of my presidency i'm. you know this report has trump politically the democrats smell blood they 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 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 possible because attorney general barr wants to represent our trouble i think he should resign they are 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 reports and did nothing
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those who hated trump hate 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 a fracture is a happy. a global treasure up in flames france and the rest of the world this week have been coming to terms with monday's devastating fire. cathedral in paris investigators believe the blaze may have been the result of ongoing restoration work or possibly an electrical fault substate evenings east of the tell me how to knock saddam was moved to a nearby church president micron's has pledged to rise the building from his ashes off the dramatic scenes of the historic spire collapsing shook the world.
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was. a. very special it's very sad but it's one of the great monuments of france we've not far weeks was dennis. but a monument like this is burning. and in motion. i say this to you so now 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. by our video agency right meszaros where the fire tore through
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eight hundred fifty of our building and as you can sing from the images the damage is extensive the cathedral is one of the most popular tourist attractions and putting a. spire on the roof collapse but the famous twin towers as well as the north wind both of which were built in the thirteenth century were saved so too was the cathedrals most precious relic the crown of thorns the former deputy director of cultural heritage. or now have to go through reconstruction restoration. now with the struction that. yesterday all this is gone. we have to completely different things and what will have to be. really a major structural. separation. major structural problem this will. say today. how much it cost certainly.
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many many hundreds of millions of dollars even in a way was also a symbol of what modern society can do. you know about one hundred years ago and a few years ago if you don't well two major. and there's been all. the generations so i know my feeling about it and. we have to continue to say which and be able to. bring it to future generations. coming up next to them that with max and stacy here on alt international with us. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next that multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the
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home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people. one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to go. by the way what is it that flying here. for you could only be done little ball just meant to sit. simpers you did something to me if you don't have to keep. the mission if a thing like that plane. they were among the group was. the movie did well yeah except you're then he says and pulls with folks like me the
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folks with the security just hold it while you go pick up. a. little psycho. closure we're going to produce a. month and it is. to the pacific that this was the last stop that the push and i was. on max kaiser one more of my guide to financial survival this is fun it's a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these hedge funds are simply not accountable and we're just getting more and more exposed that
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chancellor brink of second bailout for banks those are the words spoken by big queen in the genesis block those are the first words to the mood with max and stacy right this is the historic headline that was the times of london which was coded into the genesis block that of course appeared on january third two thousand and nine is it a reference to the purpose of bitcoin to disrupt a banking system or was it just a random headline to try to date when the genesis block was born one of the mysteries of bitcoin that we still debate today was at the beginning of the story
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january third two thousand and nine or was a october thirty first two thousand and eight when the suppose she white paper was published a peer to peer an electronic cash system was that the beginning was it the cypherpunks twenty thirty years previously when did big queen really began i think it really began on january third two thousand and nine because that's when they pushed the code into the production environment onto the internet and that's when we got a first look to see whether or not this thing was going to work this was the moment this is the genesis block and it's called the genesis block for a reason. what is the big big question is magic internet money is a new type of digital currency big coin is decentralised digital scarcity to me bitcoin is uncomplicate a ball and.
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