i. think. t.v. star and political newcomer vladimir zelinsky secured a landslide overwhelming victory in ukraine's presidential election with many foreign leaders having already congratulated him also to come this hour the king of bahrain reinstates the citizenship of more than five hundred people after human rights groups condemn the country's policies we look at why the move could prove in significant. and the death toll so. much three hundred people after a series of bombs rocked the country's east celebrations more than twenty people

have now been arrested. this just on nine in the morning here in moscow you're watching international now a total political side famous for playing a president in a t.v. drama or swap acting for the real thing after winning ukraine's presidential election with most votes counted linsky has secured a landslide win over the incumbent petro poroshenko well let's get more details now from he joins me in the studio elliot to the outside world this might sound a bit of a shock this victory but i mean if you were closely following it he'd been leading to some time for first of all he was in the first round and the margin was quite big because for poor shango it was sixteen percent for four dimmers umansky was almost. as much just over thirty percent and this second

round loss for the current president is an absolute disaster and as you said ukraine shows someone who in fact was already ruining the lives and careers of politicians not in real life however in his own t.v. sitcom and we do understand that in the history of the world there were other people who were very successful in show business whose careers took a sharp turn and i just want to remind you of some of these examples.

and. you fire your fire. asleep. there it is all become an hour reality right now and as you've seen various degrees

of success for has previous answers so to say but definitely the career of living residency is now a book that's just being opened he's already received congratulations on the most powerful people on this planet for instance donald trump and manual macro on the phone and here's what the u.k. foreign secretary tweeted we look forward to working together as the u.k. continues to support ukraine her chosen your old land to path reform process and security but you really shouldn't be fooled that much by all these messages of congratulate. because previously we heard a lot of skepticism from politicians and experts because indeed with absolutely zero political experience and zero tod's to the major leaders in europe choosing mr selenski as the next president of ukraine could be something like

opening a pandora's box there what's been the reaction of russia that most been said from the well the reaction from russia has been we already heard from the. russian foreign ministry spokeswoman marie is a hard to know word from the senior politicians yet however what she said was that ukraine now has the chance for a reboot not in the sense of moving the country's wealth from one person spot kids to another but a real conscious consolidation of the people not be some force but on building a common agenda for the country. ok so we're talking about sort of policies and what's the lens. what are his plans what's he said he's going to do well about an hour after the first exit poll results came out and petro poroshenko actually said

that he lost he admitted the victory there was a lens. he had to think squash from journalists and the first ones were quite tough we understand that ukraine is in a very difficult situation some of them were about its ties with russia and also obviously the rule. of all there was a lens he says that he will continue to rely on the minsk agreements although he wants to relaunch these negotiations to possibly obviate some of these decisions and also he said that for him it is definitely our priority to stop those still at least to stop the war he says the most important thing is human life for the upcoming president. we will abide by the normandy full marks on the minsk process to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine this. reboot

and i think there will be some personnel changes or that least do journalists we will need your help very soon we will be launching a powerful information to end the conflict in the dawn bus. something else that's very important it was the most significant part of his campaign probably his promise was to bring all the new people into government but perhaps that will be quite difficult for him because the parliament of ukraine is still controlled by poor schenkel speedball his call ish in the new parliamentary elections are only do this autumn so he might find himself in a situation which is rather similar to donald trump when his decisions could be blocked by the part of new challenges ahead ok thanks. for trying to thank you. and other news the king of bahrain has reinstated this is the ship of more than

five hundred people follows a wave of condemnation from international human rights groups almost one thousand national is have had their citizenship revoked since an uprising in the country back in twenty eleven when the opposition figures were imprisoned at the time or fled abroad. breaks down the situation in the country. this really is evolution look here if someone's being a nuisance like activists or the opposition a normal dictator would get rid of them but it's messy and everyone complains in bahrain they've come up with a novel way of getting around that it's simple and genius new citizenship new voice the un high commissioner for human rights is deeply concerned that one hundred thirty nine people in bahrain were convicted of terrorism after a mass trial which reportedly did not meet with international fair trial standards

one hundred thirty eight of these people so all but one had their nationalities revoked standards mandates it works since two thousand and twelve according to the americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain authorities have revoked the citizenships of nine hundred and ninety nationals the third of them just last year among them the will of the undesirables the human rights defenders the political activists journalists and so on everyone who can't seem to shut up this bird to demonstrate so through sales of weaponized drew a case of citizenship to punish normal average bahrainis. and guess what happens if you complain about it yeah he loses us citizenship or get jailed or exiled this is win win for the king anyway. so much for everyone outs.

they need the glamour of the formula one there is a farmer sinister side to bahrain revealing the country is a deeply repressive state where anyone critical of the government can be jailed merely for posting a tweet yass but the king is also merciful he takes with one hand but gives with the other his highness has issued orders to reinstate the citizenships of more than five hundred people citizenships so if you were sentenced to life in jail you still work and die in prison but as a citizen how much more mercy do you want understand also this is been a stressful time for the king he and his family really didn't like the arab spring all that commotion and protesting and cools for democracy and commoners they really

didn't like it. violent clampdown. bahrain was different from the other arab countries oh sure they bashed protests the heads in like every word out the difference is no one really called for the king to step down france and friends didn't bomb it like they did libya the u.s. didn't fund rebels in the islamists like they did in syria europeans didn't call for regime change like they did in egypt you know why because bahrain is a friend whom to the largest u.s. and u.k. naval bases in the region holding the pre stages title of major non nato ally. these gulf partnerships are critical to achieving shared regional objectives

defeating isis countering radical islamic terrorism protecting global energy supplies and rolling back iranian aggression with friends like these who needs human rights bahrain can get away with murder and the west will turn a blind eye and i mean a blind eye they know full well what the king is up to what his henchmen commit what suffering they heap on the people human rights issues included allegations of torture arbitrary detention political prisoners arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy restrictions on freedom of expression the press and the internet substantial interference with the rights of peaceful assembly and freedom of association remarkable they'll bomb syria over mere ruelas tweets sanction iran just out the habit at this point threatening then he's aware or interfere meddle in its politics trample its sovereignty because well

because but bahrain with its torture abuses farcical courts and a king drunk on power. that is where they draw the line apparently that's just going too far in our strategic approach it is important to acknowledge with a degree of humility that there are some things that are beyond our power to change . well the authorities in bahrain claim the country's security has faced an intense threat and all actions have been aimed at achieving stability interior minister blames terrorists coordinated with iran iraq and the hezbollah group in lebanon undermining peace in the region we spoke to the former and page imad photos who personally came under government pressure he believes that bahrainis come rely on international help to restore their human rights says the west is has to close

a tight with the country. i was a part of the first group were their citizenship being revoked in the south end of november two thousand and twelve and they start with our group and that was. an order from an assyrian curio no evidence or at all it claims is being given to us political and economical rights you will lose it and you don't have any access to that health care nor do they do cation i describe it like as social debts unfortunately there are standards and the foreign policy or many western countries mainly u.k. united states it is so much of a program to kill policy when they deal with the allies when the international community it is especially more rights international we did a good thing in all the reports that i was i was the type of the humor as well

lucian's in bahrain particularly but meanwhile is being backed totally by these their national allies the united kingdom may not the states and not only that even though they are supporting them internationally and they mention in many of their speeches that bahrain is going on right track bar they are proud to have such allies so we see there is no logic behind it. the death toll from a series of explosions and sure lanka. has jumped to two hundred ninety with up to five hundred others injured churches and hotels across the island were targeted on easter sunday you can now see the first blast that hits in tampa nice church here in the heart of the shrinking capital colombo many of the victims were from the christian minority who were celebrating their holiest day dozens of foreign nationals are also among the dead might find the following images disturbing. that .

was why i was well this is footage of a suspect in operation in a suburb of the capital police say at least twenty four people have now been arrested in connection with the attacks however no group has yet claimed responsibility and his defense minister said the culprits were religious extremists while the country's prime minister has promised the people behind me attack will face a stern response. the first bombing happened at around nine in the morning local time in total five blasts hit the capital including a church and three luxury hotels the last of them happened in colombo at an

apartment block during a police raid which left three officers dead about forty kilometers then north in the city of lagos another place of worship was hit and then a church was bombed at. a popular tourist destination on the opposite side of the island after that a small hotel in front of a zoo was targeted local media also say an improvised explosive device was also found near colombo international airport this is the aftermath of one of the explosions sri lanka is a mainly british country with substantial muslim and christian minorities speaking during nice to service at the vatican pope francis gave his support to all those effect. you see there and i wish to express my heart little solidarity with the christian communities in the affected world it was a prayer and with all the victims of such cruel foreigners then put a year as a mark of commemoration the three hundred six. the lights of the eiffel tower in paris was switched off by leaders around the world have been united in the

condemnation strategic hamish javid ran that says there had been disquiet between religious communities in the lead up to sunday's atrocities. i think it 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 nationalist groups and oddly should not forget the phenomenon of terrorism and violence is not at all good news. it was heat from one thousand nine hundred three two thousand mind when be able to bomb an insurgency particularly did not east off city link up sitting in government pod that it's all already two thousand and nine then big goard of dark insurgency and then they they all to do. this one 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 group dynamics to be used to do that situation incident got there are other factors like dash dash has been operating everywhere in the board well i think the message is quite good out who did this from community which make up it on someone posted on a student in confabulation it did the messages to the defied them to give them obvious from diversion places and almost all of the messages to the foremost would have been doing this through lanka i think it is going to come down hard on this lincoln economy it is going to be more negative really disturbing of when it comes to. the situation is a posture. vietnam is seeking justice for the victims of the agent orange herbicides used during the vietnam war by saving its producer the monsanto company will have a look at that in more detail in a couple of. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the housing crisis was a result of securitizing mortgages that were resold to dozens of times like goldman sachs was betting as are all 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 housing is concentrated in a few as like blackstone as a gift from their friends of the central banks and the result is medieval.

welcome back now vietnam is demanding justice from the agro chemical giant monsanto after a series of u.s. court rulings awarded millions of dollars in damages to the american victims of besides dioxin a highly toxic element of the so called agent orange side was used widely against vietnam during the war is being linked to birth defects conses and other major health problems.

and i open letter the vietnam association of victims of agent orange asked a u.s. court to reopen a previously dismissed lawsuit against monsanto the association believes the recent us court rulings have set a precedent in santa itself though which is now a part of the pharmaceutical giant buyer admits responsibility for creating agent orange but not for the damage associated with it investigative reporter dave lindorff believes for courts to rule in favor of american soldiers but not the actual victims in vietnam smacks of double standards. the u.s. fought for i think over a decade. of vietnam veterans who were getting the same kind illnesses that the vietnamese people are getting because they handled it and because it was sprayed on

them and finally they won and the government now accepts that fourteen diseases. auto immune minson cancers are presumptively caused by exposure to agent orange so you know for the u.s. to do that for its own soldiers and then not do it for the people who were actually the targets of this mass food spraying of defoliants is is simply the most incredibly double standard behavior imagine and there's a lot more vietnamese suffering from agent orange than there are american veterans . being playing that american intelligence reports have warned britain the telecom giant huawei has been funded directly by chinese spy and security agencies the revelations come in the wake of possible cooperation between me and. my bomb

network with more on the story has evangelized cips us. just when it looked like the u.s. china relations were being somewhat patched up the cia house fired out its strongest accusation so far warning that the chinese telecom giant while we have the potential to eavesdrop globally after claims it's received funding from a branch of the chinese at teligent network it all comes as while we could be said to play an instrumental role in setting up a five g. network infrastructure these allegations may not be a public bombshell washington has said it all before while we spying for beijing stealing american companies secrets and it's not getting the message to all pulled sanctions on iran either the u.s. is still pushing to extradite while he's that you chairwoman. dictating canada back in december at the request of the united states for making deals contrary to the sanctions this has all too familiar ring to it currently there is no evidence and

while the cia drags its heels over claims of chinese intel funding huawei is the nine everything. does not come into unsubstantiated allegations that evidence from anonymous last december china accused the u.s. of quote throwing stones in glass houses after the week weeks revealed a list of spy equipment u.s. embassies had purchased ruled wife for cia n.s.a. operations it included spy ties pretty much the whole suit shirt buttons and even night vision and g.p.s. gear despite this battle against wall with a telecom firm currently holds less than one percent of the u.s. market in comparison with all that has about eighty five percent of the chinese tablet market in twenty six percent of the whole mobile market share in china some big numbers considering their repeated concerns over old alleged cyber security flaws apple's cloud allows the authorities to request from u.s. companies whether that's cool or abroad or let's take for example another us tech company h.p.

the company produces various hardware including laptops and it spends among the all hundred us government contractors and it sells its products. two governments worldwide so with the cia stressing its fears of the so-called five eyes alliance the u.k. australia new zealand and canada how culpable will these countries be if washington is each dropping. so that brings you up to date don't forget we've got plenty stories at our website so you can find that at. auntie's how they dealt how to international memorial awards twenty nineteen are now open for entries the media professionals are eligible whether you're a freelance journalist work for all terms of media or part of a global news conference to participate send us your published works and video all written for much go to award dot altie dot com and then to now.

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of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. i imagine are times when you're watching going underground and while we're away we'll be screening some your favorite episodes of the season coming up in this show pakistan's high commissioner to london speaks to going on the ground about china russia brecht's it's not turning the kashmir crisis into a nuclear catastrophe and u.k. labor leader german corben tells m.p.'s to apologize before suspending them for perceived anti semitism but nothing from him a pm he was on wednesday his judgment on a murder by those allied to the party that made theresa may british prime minister

the murder of patrick lupin in his home in north belfast on sunday the twelfth of february nine hundred eighty nine was an appalling crime he was shot fourteen times as he sat down for dinner with his wife and three children we speak to the widow and son of a murdered human rights wiped out for new can killed with collusion between m i five and terrorists all the civil coming up in today's going underground but first while the e.u. looks away from democratically elected politicians in court in madrid and in today's demonstrations in france where thousands have been injured while not an american nation accuse your human rights abuses will be equally lord no not venezuela but the largest country in latin america brazil here is the now jailed presidential candidate speaking on r t the former ecuadorian president rafael correa before he was banned from running for president again by. my party wants me to run for president i support my candidacy and i'm ready to win the election and it is possible to restore brazil's economy to make sure that we see economic

growth again create new jobs and help the poor become less pool if they know that i can achieve those things if they don't want to but who are they because this is what. luna's lawyer queen's counsellor an internationally renowned human rights barrister geoffrey robertson q.c. said on monday's show there is a mentality in the judges. determined no matter what to keep him in prison so that bowl scenario has a clear run would have beaten both scenarios not according to the brazilian embassy in london they told going underground unfortunately the words of mr geoffrey robinson do not correspond to the truth in brazil the judiciary is fully independent and due process of law is faithfully observed the specific case of former president lula has already been analyzed by different judges in different levels of jurisdiction mr robinson suggestion the president lula's can.