together. for the new president. president. two hundred sixty people were killed in explosions hundreds more injured. were targeted during easter sunday celebrations.

as the report finally publishes its conclusion. here on. the program. a political outsider playing a president in a t.v. sitcom is in line to become ukraine's next the results. petro poroshenko who has conceded defeat. to discuss 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 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 believes 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 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. 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 that 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 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 he has his press conference let's have a listen to bits of what he had to say. if it doesn't.

sense the words that winston churchill which i always followed. here when i see the results of the exit poll. demand i now call my congratulate let's go back to the dimmers the landscape's 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 lensky 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 story in an honest market mccauley believes it will be difficult for most is that i ask you to live up to the promises he's made to the ukrainian public. everyone knew who he is everyone knows really looks like but the big tasks begin in the immediately because he's promised if you look at his economic program it's very very.

real improvement. how we're going to. grow up the way. they can defend. every president. has put. up at the top of this list. biden for whom this isn't like aminu that but reporters did that look what's happened here. the death toll from a series of explosions in this rankers reached two hundred sixty two with hundreds injured churches and i was held across the island we're talking to the sunday the first blast hit sent out. church in the heart of the capital colombo there were further seven explosions many of the victims were from christian minority backgrounds who were celebrating their holiest day dozens of foreign nationals are also among the dead we should warn you the following images are distressing. it. was.

was . thirteen people have been arrested in connection with the attacks this is a video of a suspect attained during operation in the suburb of the capital because the french minister said the culprits were religious extremists while the country's prime minister's promised people behind the attack will face a stern response. the first bombing happened around nine in the morning local time in total five blasts hit the capital including a church of three luxury hotels the last of them happen in colombo at an apartment block during a police raid that left three officers dead and about forty kilometers north of the city of new gumbo another place of worship was hit that church was also bombed in

a popular tourist destination on the opposite side of the island after that a small hotel in front of a zoo was also targeted local media are reporting an improvised explosive device was found near colombo international airport we can show the aftermath of one of the explosions no group has yet claimed responsibility sri lanka's a mainly buddhist country with substantial muslim and christian minorities while leaders have condemned the attacks and expressed their condolences speaking at the easter service at the vatican pope francis 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 all the victims of the surge in violence it is your strategic analysts java run us says there's been disquiet between religious communities in the lead up to sunday's atrocities. i think there was a level of uncomfortable or tea among different communities of the good only off

there was some sort of lighting between some of the national groups and oddly should not forget the phenomenon of terrorism and violence is not at all where the new to the stealing it was heat from one thousand nine hundred three two thousand and nine when there was an insurgency particularly in the north east of sri lanka sitting in government that it's all over the. mind then they got rid of that insurgency and then they did alter the development of the suicide bombing not that is this something again has happened now after nine nine nine years but at this particular point of time there are human dynamics to get used to to the situation in syria link there are other factors like dash because dash has been operating everywhere in the board well i think the message is quite clear the mission community which neck of around seven percent of the civilian population. the message is to terrify them to give them obvious from diversion places and also the

messages to the foreigners who have been doing this to lanka i think it is going to come down hard on these people who can economy it is going to be ordinary it is really disturbing when it comes to getting sri lanka the situation in the past changing. this week has seen the release of the long awaited report the heavily would that document reveal there was no clue between president trump and russia in the run up to the twenty sixteen u.s. 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 and despite those conclusions from the attorney general donald trump was an off the hook quite yet around ten percent of the report was blacked out on the house judiciary committee has issued a subpoena for the full version to be released for democrats the focus is now

shifting to possible obstruction of justice by the u.s. president more on the lot from our senior correspondent where i guess they have. 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 off the redacted page censored into illegibility obviously some of this stuff could pass for modern art and as with odds 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 a mole 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. in the air 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 mueller 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 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 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 trump political 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 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 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 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 could be a factor as happy. as for russia itself the report does claim there are facts of moscow meddling in the election in

a sweeping and systematic fashion most correspondents saying the investigation shows no sign of such actions as expected the was a wave response to the release of the report is some of the views our guests shared with us. they still can't get to a point where the president clued with russia in fact they say quite categorically it did not happen so then why would the president knowing he is innocent obstruct buller put that in as a matter of pure politics as a sop to the democrats who are on the commission twenty five attorneys all of them democrats most of them hillary supporters a large number of them hillary donors and we had to do something in the report to make them happy why did this investigation even begin i mean was there wrongdoing there was there you know falsification of documents to get pfizer warrants there's a lot of embarrassment here we're talking about millions upon millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars of time wasted if things happened for something that legitimately had no basis in fact and any evidence that might have been presented

to start this similar investigation all last night we had chuck schumer saying that well how dare william barr you know come out and speak before we get the report what kind of report with this fee after that we're going to start hearing about how the redactions are the way a way to hide the real truth and it's really never going to and we're going to continue to see one thing after another with trump but they went immediately from russia collusion to try on taxes trying financial statements and william bars obstruction so i mean the arguments haven't stopped yet they're not going to stop but we do have what seems to be a very conclusive case of absolutely no collusion. front since coming to terms with last monday's fun of the ravages not to the cathedral in paris investigators believe the blaze may have been caused by on going restoration work saturday evenings easter vigil no money held in the today was moved to a nearby church as the dramatic scenes of the historical spot collapsing shook the world. on.

a. a. you know says there are two fronts which is burning really says she saw her two friends she's heard of paris so that's a part of our culture we are losing tonight says syria just not true down is the heart of paris it is granger it is monumental it is horrible to see everything we have to learn going down to smoke centuries of our heritage.

let our love. was. a live. live. i said it's very sad it's one of the great monuments of france we've got 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. drawn for the video agency ruptly show us where the fire tore through the eight hundred fifty year old building as you can see from the images the damage is extensive the cathedral is where the most popular tourist. auctions in europe getting around thirty million visitors every year and the spire on the roof collapsed to the two bell towers as well as the north rose window both of which were built in the thirteenth century were saved so to the cathedrals most precious relics the crown of thorns shot up due been skewed and the divisional off the. crowd has turned out to hear it. but one hundred fifty meters away from a not so dumb cathedral this is one of many vigils being held around france vigils taking place in other cities is just new york. president mike corn has said that he will rebuild not done cathedral and he said he will do that within five years

but you want to we will rebuild not even. and i wanted to be completed in five years we can do this there was a huge reaction a huge outpouring from people as a result of that fire last night here on the streets of paris thousands upon thousands of people gathered and they watched and waited with great breath to try and find out what was going to happen and how much damage there would be the card actually erupted into huge celebrations and claps and that was after the news came that the firefighters the king on that fire had managed to be able to stop the building from collapsing which will of course say that restoration work well there was a reason that they didn't use the water from helicopters and that's because they were trying to keep that structure stable and they thought that if the pressure of water

coming down from helicopters that could actually cause further damage to not donations have been coming in thick and fast many people described their hearts as breaking over. that fire some had said that paris had had it so great that. it's french heritage it's part of art that burns with it when managed to preserve that forty eight hundred years and today unfortunately it went up and plains i think touches everyone it's poignant it's heartbreaking the firemen did all they could but there are some things will never get to them for the. shocking we find comfort in the fact that there are no victims but it's our french historical heritage and we all share memories of when we visited for you but now it's fragile and other buildings like this one of the former deputy director for culture at the u.n. heritage agency unesco. have to go through reconstruction rather than restoration.

now we think destruction that. yesterday that we all use is gone. we have two completely different things and what we have to be. reconstruction. of. major structural problems this will. difficult to say today. much of course certainly on the order of that many many hundreds of millions of dollars that he will in any way was also a symbol of what modern society can do for the morning because you know about one hundred years ago hundred years ago if you get away two major more. regimes and there's been. two. for your generation so i remember a feeling of it with everybody we have to continue to say if we were to. be able to

. get to the future to. the aftermath of the ultra dawn blaze gave renewed focus for the latest yellow vest protests weeks of relative calm turned violent during saturday's demonstration anger was directed at wealthy french project vast sums of money for the cathedral to repair within hours. of the trouble and deployed to. paris. i.

know they were executing the mail they got we have to save money but why do they give so right away for a monument and for nothing else all of our lives just cannot hold them are not true dollars for all the people of reach people can afford to give millions to repair it at their vocation and not to damage charity helping the poor we denounce a government policies that have allowed this only dogs to reach themselves they can hand out charity money but really it's because of those people that we have so much inequality in trunks but unfortunately 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 french billionaires and wealthy families race the books the cathedral repaired donations what local pledge the hundred million euros and international affairs analyst we spoke to things that i thought displays of inequality how frustrated many in france are struggling to get by. they're shocked by the fact that in one night. the very rich people can give more than one

million euros to rebuild. the party 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 timeless billionaires there were thirty governors now there are one hundred. their wealth is growing very fast and they using all the opportunities given by the european union and the french system this is pushed by now money. to send their money away in offshore countries and where the shocking for the your best is that that money that they're giving by people that are very kind it should have been already in the in the hand of the state there's the headlines for this hour join us again at seven am oscar time for the latest global news update.

after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the hope the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective and i'm used to surprising us all why not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not the or else i just think i was going to go. by the way what is it that sliding here. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also

a very dark side. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very first character that you type into the search for it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results diced on what they think you should be see if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist the more rope we give them the sooner we all hang. out what politicians do. we put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president but you. want to be.

too great for us this is what. you do the. interest is in the water. flow and welcome to crossfire we're all things are considered peter lavelle what is the definition of insanity doubling down on the conspiracy theory and why russia

may be the key to peace on the korean peninsula. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow dmitri he's a political analyst with spook nick international and in nicosia we crossed alexander christopher oh he is the director and writer for the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it let me go do i cyprus first. i really have to say watching the panels and phyllis panels on c.n.n. and and miss n.b.c. it looks like a psychiatric. ward and they're all going through some kind of group therapy they can they can't even get past denial so they're doubling down that's what i'm calling this program your reaction yet peter i you know i really hope that they release an underage back did you report.