i. think. campaigning on a promise to stop the civil war needs to become treat and reopen dialogue with moscow t.v. star political newcomer to mr lynskey secures a landslide victory in ukraine's presidential election also to come the death toll soars in sri lanka to almost three hundred people after a series of bombs rocked the country's east to celebrations more than twenty people have now been arrested and the king of bahrain reinstates the citizenship of more than five hundred people are cry from human rights defenders however the

problematic situation in the country receives little attention from the us a long term ally of washington. hello there just got my levon am here in moscow he watching the international now a total political outsider famous for playing a president in a t.v. drama or swap back for the real thing after winning ukraine's presidential election with most votes now counted linsky has secured a landslide win over the incumbent petro poroshenko. as more details. well people inside ukraine and outside ukraine couldn't stop wondering what his first move you're going to be when it comes to how he's going to deal with russia and what's his plan for the war in ukraine's east and what we did we

hear from him at his first press conference as essentially the president alike were the usual words like the minsk agreements or the normandy format this is when the president or top diplomats of russia and ukraine get together with the leaders of france and germany but i have to say that vladimir is a lens he says that it is time to end the war now porsche and cold couldn't do it in five years and pointing that out was one of mr zilinskas best weapons during the campaign so lets his message is human lives we have to think about now and that's why it is time to. urgently but to what extent that would be correctly communicating with vladimir putin the president of russia for example mr selenski didn't elaborate on that when he was talking to the journalists he fell short of it although he did mention that he wants to start

a new information war and that's how he put it to win the hearts and minds of the people that are living in the breakaway regions of ukraine. we will abide by the normandy full marks on the minsk gruesomeness to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine this. reboot and i think there will be some post and all changes on the news or the least good journalists we will need your help very soon we will be launching a powerful information to end the conflict in the donbass if we stick to domestic issues of ukraine when it comes to government positions boredom or zelinsky won the admiration of the people by saying that he. to bring in completely new people and in fact when just three days before the vote he was introducing his team to the country there was only one familiar face one person who. actually served as

a minister in the government of course and co no word from sergey lavrov but we did get something from the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman marie is a horrible and there was a tiny bit of a positive tone in her facebook message ukraine has the chance for a reboot not in the sense of moving the country's wealth from one person spock it's to another but a real conscious consolidation of the people not based on force but on building a common agenda for the country ski already received congratulations on the phone from the world's most powerful people like donald trump or emmanuel macron and he even deserved a tweet from the u.k. foreign secretary this is what he said we look forward to working together as the u.k. continues to support ukraine her chosen euro of land to path reform process and security something else that i want to point out here is that inside ukraine though there

are voices and people who are saying that this was not a vote in favor of all of them or specifically but more of a massive protest against the administration of petro poroshenko here's what was said by one of the candidates who didn't make it into the run up more than seventy percent voted not just for change of president this school is not specifically for the name selenski this is a number of ukrainians against the war hyde six is the destruction of the economy against external control. and just to follow up on that we have to remember the current state of ukraine under the incumbent president petro poroshenko there were so many serious hole that he was given after the my done revolution but right now ukraine always billions and billions of dollars to international and

domestic lenders it's still among the poorest countries of europe and of all dimmers alinsky will definitely have to come up with some radical reforms which won't be popular and i'll tell you what he didn't talk about them when he was complaining all he talked about were positive things are definitely going to win as i've said the hearts and minds of ukrainians but he didn't talk about unpopular reforms and this is something that definitely he'll have to think about right now. but i was trying to speak we can cross live now to political analyst he's with us this morning good to have you on firstly let's start with mr glenn glenn ski and what he has said he said that his victory has united the country do you think that's the case. i think it's a case in the sense that a large majority of ukrainians voted for him against to a certain extent of my don't eat idea of it but it's not

a united country in the sense that it is an electorate it's very different you have people more or less. electorate for example and people who are still very. close and. they're all united against the system so i think that now it will be very difficult to him for him to have to seventy per cent of the electorate in favor of going for. development is it did it surprise you to know that they went to somebody who is completely untested no i don't i think it's it's very understandable because you know you had no real political freedom in ukraine for years and you had a good hard repression to guard against real little position so it is not all done

and i outsider came and regrouped all people where for one or another reason opposed to the trend and that was carried on for a last five years especially of course but not only were a lot sort of economical policies and so on so what are his policies and i mean what are people hoping. people are being aware of their m.p.'s what is very difficult. not only because. there are strong dungeons in ukraine there as there is something like a deep state who'll do for love to during these five years and even earlier but because ukraine is under control of the western powers i mean even if you have a lot of of you know us or counselors and different international unit institutions in kiev and they are really strong. to control the country and all the other side how do we know. he was elected.

also because he get just support of call might skew. or are you direct and i guess dad he supported just the lens now he knew he would want to be blamed for it sure well what about the relations then between russia and ukraine are they set to change do you think. it's positive because there's an excuse docking about the means grim and are very important to do to make peace but do question is do do you know do it nationally to acquire very strong in. military in the army but not only in the army also in different armed groups. and they will accept this trend and it's all so i don't know if united states and nato powers really want peace in ukraine ok bruna and i said told to leave it there

that was printed political analyst thank you thank you so far and since then ukraine feelings are rapidly growing list of countries with leaders who started their career is far away from politics. think. i. think.

you're fired breadfruit you're fired. if. she does all that busy. for me. in other news this morning the death toll from a series of eight explosions and she rang again has jumped to two hundred ninety with up to five hundred others injured churches and hotels across the island were targeted. i.

was thinking we heard a loud bang and we fainted that's all i remember we heard a loud explosion and everything collapsed we managed to protect the children but when i came here i found out that my son in law and my son had died. i wish to express my heartfelt solidarity with the christian communities affected one that was a prayer and with all the victims of such cruel foreigners. i. want to mainly put this country with substantial muslim and christian minorities the

country's defense minister has said the culprits were religious extremists while the country's prime minister has promised that people behind the attack will face a stiff response as a mark of commemoration with the hundreds killed the lights of the eiffel tower in paris were switched off while leaders around the world have been united in the condemnation. analyst jeff it around a says that there had been disquiet between religious communities in the lead up to sunday's atrocity. i think there was a level of uncomfortable or to be. committed to use of the bigot only our girl there was a some sort of life. between some of the nationalist groups and we should not forget the phenomenon of. terrorism environment is not at all good news. it was heat from one thousand nine hundred three two thousand and nine when be able to see particularly in the last east off city sitting in government that it's all over in

two thousand and nine and then big dark insurgency and then they they all to do. this one side bombing not that is this something again has happened now nine nine nine years but at this particular point point of time there are dynamics to get used to situation there are other factors like dash dash has been operating everywhere in the board well i think the message is quite get out who did this from community michnik up at all and some portion of the student can fucking mission. the message is to try to fight them to keep them 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 gordon negatively to start of when it comes to. the situation is of changing. faster to come vietnam is seeking justice for the victims of the agent orange. during the vietnam

war by saving the months until you company will have a look at that price of the stories on the way just after the break. trump said many times that you know. got. vantages you know with. the recognition of jerusalem as our capital. there would be something. like either so this is why i think the palestinians should come with open. minds to the. we're going to shoot. anyone else seemed wrong why don't we all just all.

get to shape out this day become educated and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she still looks for common ground. the king of bahrain has reinstated the citizenship of more than five hundred people who follows a wave of condemnation from international human rights groups almost one thousand national. citizenship revoked since an uprising in the country back in twenty eleven many opposition figures were imprisoned at the time or fled abroad with more

is more against the. 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 and bahrain authorities have revoked the

citizenships of nine hundred and ninety nationals the third of them just last year among them the move the undesirables the human rights defenders the political activists journalists and so on everyone who can't seem to shut up this verdict demonstrates no through source of weaponized drew the caisson of citizenship to punish normal average bahrainis. and guess what happens if you complain about it yeah he lose your citizenship or get jailed or exiled this is win win for the king anyway. so much for everyone out. they need the glamour of the formula one there is a farmer sinister side to brain revealing the country is a deeply repressive state where anyone critical of the government can be jailed merely for posting a tweet yes but the king is also merciful he takes with one hand but

gives with the other his highness's issued orders to reinstate the citizenships of more than five hundred people citizenships so if you were sentenced to life in jail you still 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 in common is they really didn't like it ergo violent clampdown. bahrain was different from the other arab countries oh sure they bashed protest the

heads of like every word out the difference is no one really cooled 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 removal 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 well bomb syria over mere ruelas tweets sanction iran just out the habit at this point threaten venezuela interfere meddle in its politics trample its sovereignty because well because but bahrain with its torture abuses classical courts are making drunk on power. that is where they draw the line. it's just going too

far. enough to do you could 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 to claim the country security has faced an intense threat in the world and all actions have been aimed at achieving stability interior minister blames terrorists coordinated with iran iraq and hezbollah group in lebanon for undermining peace in the region we spoke to the former and page about for those who came under government pressure himself he believes that the raney's won't receive a great amount of international help to restore the human rights. i was a part of the first group were their citizenship very well 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 an all clear was 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 a social death unfortunately there are those standards and the foreign policy of many western countries mainly u.k. united states it is so much of a program to kill policy when they did what their 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 humor as well is used in bahrain particularly but meanwhile it's being backed totally by these their national allies the united kingdom may not the states and not only that even 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 as eyes so we see

those. not logic behind it. 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 herbicides dioxin a highly toxic element of the so called agent orange herbicide was used widely against vietnam during the war is being linked to birth defects cancers and also whether major health problems.

and i panetta the vietnam association of victims of agent orange asked u.s. court to reopen a previously dismissed through forcing to get its own son say it says she believes the recent u.s. court rulings have set a precedent on sunset itself which is now a part of the pharmaceutical giant by admits responsibility for creating agent orange but not for the damage associated with it it non is helping in the storable case will add weight to their claims in one thousand nine hundred for a class a class action lawsuit was settled acts of court to compensate u.s. soldiers who suffered from agent orange over ten years a total of almost two hundred million dollars in cash payments were distributed working at a back to three thousand eight hundred dollars per veteran investigative reporter dave lindorff splays that for courts to rule in favor of american soldiers but not

for actual victims in vietnam smacks of double standards. the u.s. what for i think over a decade a suit by vietnam veterans who were getting the same kinds of 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 and total immune illness and 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 massive spring of defoliants is is simply the most incredibly double standard behavior you imagine and there's a lot more vietnamese are suffering from agent orange and then there are american veterans and that brings up so they are not he will back again as usual with more

stories on the headlines and thirty five minutes. when the whole make this manufacture consent to step into the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round if suddenly the one percent. we can all middle of the room say. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. more somehow i want to.

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