comedian said ukraine's a leading role early result of the law demands the landscape has secured a massive lead over incumbent president have to push aside to send a strong message to the country's ruling class. a series of explosions in sri lanka killed at least two hundred seventy people but hundreds new tall gives one hotels in churches as the island's christian minority. and in the weeks main stories. there was no collusion between donald trump and russia and the report finally publishes its conclusions.

you know what you know we hear a lot international with me in india which highlights from the last seven days and all the latest stories welcome to the program a political newcomer known for playing a president in a t.v. sitcom is in line to become ukraine's new president according to a partial vote count a lot of me as a landscape appears to have secured a landslide win over incumbent petro poroshenko who has conceded defeat correspondent explained 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 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 our people. when he said he's united everybody we've obviously time will tell and yes 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 zelinsky call 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 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. 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 the war in. 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 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 there is a lengthy 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 party has a majority in parliament he reiterated that he's not giving up to journalists when he had his press conference let's have a listen to bits of what he had to say. if it doesn't get.

sense the words that winston churchill which i always follow. when i see the results of the exit poll. demand i now call my congratulate let's go back to the dimmers a lenski 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 zuma lenski 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 story not unless the mountain mccauley believes it will be difficult for mr ranson to live up to the promises he's made to the public. everyone knows who he is everyone knows really looks like but the big tasks begin to me immediately because he's probably if you look at his economic program it's very very. liberal judges reprove. health services will improve education improvements we all know how we're going to do that

. because corruption is the male. brain cancer which is affecting. you created life presence in two thousand and four has put country corruption at the top of the list live ended up fighting for their own political life and we know that but republishing who did that look what's happened here. the death toll from a series of explosions in strong lanka has reached two hundred seven according to police churches and hotels across the island were targeted on easter sunday the first blast hit a st antony's church in the heart of the sri lankan capital colombo there were a further seven explosions a twelve hour curfew was declared immediately afterwards and access has temporarily been plucked to social networks including facebook for fear of fake spreading many of the victims were from the christian minority who were celebrating their holiest

day dozens of foreigners are among the dead and we should warn you that in following images all disturbing. thirteen people have been arrested in connection with the attacks this is video of a suspect detained during operation. of intimate there are also reports that police found a truck which they suspect may have been planned for use in the attacks because defense minister has 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 blasts at the capital including a church and three luxury hotels the latest attack also happened in colombia colombo at an apartment block during a police raid which left three officers dead about forty kilometers north in the city of new combo another place of worship was hit as was the to callao 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 like it is a mainly buddhist country less than ten percent of the population like to make up a large proportion of today's fatalities world leaders have condemned the attacks

on express their condolences speaking at the easter service at the vatican pope francis denounced day's events as cool violence and. expressed his support for those affected. i wish to express my heartfelt solidarity with the christian community spirited while it was a prayer and with all the victims of. violence political and strategic experts of it are honest says there had been a disquiet between religious communities in the lead up to sunday's atrocity. i think there was a level of uncomfortable among different communities of the do good only after there was a some sort of lighting between some of the nationalist groups and we should not forget there the phenomenon of terrorism and violence is not at all good they knew . it was beat from one thousand you could three. thousand mine when there was an insurgency particularly not east of sri lanka sitting in government

that it's all over two thousand and nine when big got rid of that insurgency and then they they all took. this one side 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 detect situation in syria link up there are other factors like dash dash has been operating everywhere in the board well i think the message is quite clear to the christian community which make up at all and push and honesty and confabulation. messages to try to fight them to keep them from diversion places and also the message is to the foreigners who have been doing this for the lanka i think it is going to come down hard on this feeling economy it is going to be negatively to disturb when it comes to. the situation is a posture. year investigation and almost nonstop media

coverage of the so-called russia gate scandal haven't done to them have a point finally sorted. that the document dropped on thursday revealing that there was no cooperation between donald trump or any american with russians in the twenty sixth 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 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. house judiciary committee issued a subpoena for the unredacted 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 or a lot from our senior correspondent mark death. 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 off the redacted page censored into elegibility obviously some of this stuff could pass for modern art and as with ott everyone interprets this report how they want and they're having a good day i'm having a good day q it was called. no collusion no obstruction if it is incomplete or they were going to blow the report outlines disturbing evidence that president trump in gauged 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 and in

the air 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 mueller found in levin 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 who. 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. units report has trump political 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 the administration 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 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 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 incapacity a factor is a happy. the funding to save. the we've got a vast protesting right on site today and so on that story after the break.

trump said many times that you know we usually got. advantages you know with moving the embassy to jerusalem day with a mission over jerusalem as our capital. he said that there would be some painful things that israel will not like either so this is why i think the palestinians should come with open minds to move to to negotiate. the housing crisis was a result of securitizing mortgages that were resold to dozens of times and then like goldman sachs was bet against their own clients and they were engaged in massive fraud again bailed out by timothy geithner it is friends and now they go of that controlled demolition of the housing market is that 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 let's.

welcome back to the program the global up in flames france and the rest of the world this week have been coming to terms with monday's devastating fire. in paris investigators believe the blaze may have been the result of ongoing restoration work or possibly an electrical fault saturday evenings east of brazil knew how to not saddam was moved to a nearby church hasn't gone has pledged to rise the building from its. a. dramatic scenes of the historic collapse shook the world i was.

in zero six zero to france which is burning really says are host of france's are out 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 grander it is monumental it is horrible to see everything that we had alarm going off and smoke centuries of our heritage. was. a live.

i said. it's very sad it's one of the great monuments of france we've not far away so it's devastating that a monument like this is burning. and in motion. i say this to someone else that 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 didn't. drone footage of tank video agency a fire. 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. yeah the spire collapse but the famous twelve hours as well as the both of which are built in thirteenth century was saved so too was the cathedrals the most precious relic of the crown of thorns the former deputy director of culture at the u.n. heritage says not saddam will now have to go through reconstruction rather than restoration. now we think destruction that. yesterday and all this is gone. we have to completely be free and what we have to be done is really i mean the construction. of the major construction project this will be difficult to say today. how much it cost certainly 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 morally. you know about one hundred years ago hundred years ago if you don't well two major. asians and there's been a lot worse than three. generations so i remember. we helped to renew the safeword. the will too. if you change in. the aftermath of the not to blaze gave a new thought because for the latest yellow vests protest weeks of relative calm tone file and staff says protest but i have directed and wealthy friends surprised our sums of money for the conferences the power within hours police were braced for trouble and deployed takeouts and water cannon in paris. i.

i i. i i. i i don't think you can email though cause we have to save. but why do they give so right away for a monument for nothing else all of our lives cannot hold them are not true dollars for all of the rich people can afford to give millions to repair it but there are occasional not or dumbest charity helping the poor we denounce a government policies that have allowed this only guards to enrich themselves they can hand out charity money but really it's because of those people that we have so much inequality and wrongs but if 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 billionaires and wealthy families raised to boost the cathedral repaired donations with one local pledging one hundred million euro alone and international affairs analyst we spoke to things that 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 billion euros to rebuild. the public 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 she's given by

the european union and the french cease and desist pushed by. to send their money away in offshore countries and where the shocking for the universe is of that money that they're giving by people that are very kind it should have been already in the in the end of the state. coming at least as well as a part international to stay with us. i am.

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as this is the last stop that. has. make this manufacture come sentenced him to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the fine merry go round. the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick.

hello and welcome to all the part there is a lot of talk about reform and leadership at the united nations podium and a lot of working against it in the your inquiry there's that's not simply. the un members have always guarded against the system being hijacked by others in the united nations after a change when its own system is structured in a day to samantha status quo as a means of ensuring neutrality to discuss that i'm now joined by helen clark

a 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 jindal was an icepick but i think there are clearly other major aspects as will one of them is just straight geopolitics the person who succeeds must in the end have a veto from any permanent member of. the sick. and in reality the great powers have never knowingly selected a general. who was going to speak truth to power no some have

surprised. coffee for example on the issue of iraq but generally people who. know us strong. leaders like myself. they're probably a little bit threatening particularly when they're women because strength and women assume 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 in. the u.k. they always simply thought it was time for women secondly they also were on the record as saying they they were looking for leadership qualities so i wasn't the only person they.