remember. you know this one and only. true long believe the deadly easter sunday bomb attacks which left almost three hundred dead were carried out with the help of an international network. campaigning on a promise to stop the civil war in the east of the country and reopen dialogue with moscow t.v. star and political newcomer a lot of you are still in secures a landslide victory in ukraine's presidential election. and the king of bahrain it reinstates the citizenship of more than five hundred people after an outcry from human rights organizations however the problematic situation and the gulf state

received little attention from long term ally the u.s. . you're watching r t international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned four pm welcome to the program. the easter sunday bomb attacks that left two hundred and ninety people dead and hundreds more injured in sri lanka were carried out with the help of an international network that's according to government officials we do not believe these attacks were carried out by a group of people who are confined to this country there was an international network without which these attacks could not have succeeded. today special forces also blew up a van near one of the targeted churches witnesses reported it had been parked there since the explosion on sunday.

we heard a loud bang and we fainted let's all remember we heard a loud explosion and everything collapsed we've managed to protect the children but when i came here i found out that my son in law and my son. i wish to express my heartfelt salute our sins to christian communities affected one that was oppressed and with all the symptoms of such cruel foreigners.

we cross live now to doctor my grandpa just had a political sciences at egypt's one university welcome to the program now what's your reaction to the claim that an international group was involved in the attacks . now. that there is an ethnic diversity in this society it is peaceful society apart from the common tigers wars we didn t. have any conflicts conflicts in this peaceful island however there was a warning issued by the national chief. ten days ago and this negligence show. this warning if it was taken into account and taken seriously all those casualties would have been avoided.

i believe that. islamic jihad group that was issued a warning against. it has links with isis in addition to the tamil tigers because in the one nine hundred ninety s. after the defeat of tamil tigers they. changed from warriors defending their stronghold into terrorism. the being terrorists can cooperate with any. other terrorist radical islamist group like. i said in my town the government is said to declare a nationwide emergency for midnight does that suggest that they're still a threat. i believe this is a national disaster because this scale i mean if you look at the map and the

locations of the hotels and the church shoes in eight places eight places coordinated and today they declared the police declared that seventy eight does ignited bumps were found. this is a lot this is a national catastrophe if those bombs were set off imagine the number of casualties and number of destruction it's it's a collateral damage food such a small island yes they have all the right to declare a state of emergency so as you were mentioning the warnings were not necessarily heated that were heard earlier and those detonators were found at the bus station today so how safe should people feel right now. i mean

the warning states that people should stay home as much as they can they shouldn't go out unless they. there is. a necessity to do this otherwise they are trying to pinpoint where the terrorists because they say they are confined in the island because the best thing they did is they see all the borders immediately after the bombs after the attacks so they are sure that the attackers are inside and those who are messed up minded those attacks inside confined inside so they are looking for them and. if you are following what happened yesterday when the police was raiding one of the apartments three policemen were dead because

suicide bombs from sidon set off a bomb to kill as many people now you are talking about suicide attacks those suicide the terrorists. have nothing to fear of so this is the most dangerous attacks when you have people who are desperate. dr might get buttressed had a political scientist at egypt's hell when university thank you so much for joining us. a political outsider known for playing a president and a t.v. show will swap acting for the real thing after winning ukraine's presidential election with almost all votes now counted a lot of the alinsky has secured a landslide win over the incumbent petro poroshenko we got reaction in the capital q. you can pick which. is the same crew a bit of a less a status but if your rule is known as the guy then let him try but it will be very

hard i do not turn to him. which there it's unusual when suddenly a person who works in a completely different field becomes a president of a country it is unusual but at the same time it's natural selenski rightly said that he was created by. that's an example of everyone's discontent with the policies which were carried out people are willing to change especially the youth. earlier my colleague andrew farmer spoke to oksana boyko the host of r.t. as political talk show world the part about the vote for change in ukraine. well i think political technologists and analysts will be trying to decipher this victory for months if not years to come you said that people voted for change yes i would agree with that but i think it's also difficult to understand what exactly led them to make such a decision i mean the one clear indication would be the polls prior to devote which show that almost half of the ukraine in the electorate said that under no

circumstances they would vote for the incumbent. that shows you that he had very very very strong negative speech i suppose of the benefit from because while you listed some of his campaign promises he's usually criticized for being very very alive on substance he didn't actually make many complain promises and he's in there with you to deliver and will is still very much on the up and why people voted the way they did. to project an image of a strong watch on needed and standing up to russia's president vladimir putin given the front pushing to last would you don't question how much of a factor that played in the election i think it's it's an interesting point to consider and i would just add that it's not only he's complained that focused on that his entire policies for the last three or four years focused on standing up to do russian aggression and given that these elections produced the highest margin of

victory in the ukraine's. recent history i mean. you've got almost three times as many votes as per cent i think the ukrainian electorate is getting a little bit tired of that kind of message and that's not nothing surprising because people in every country first and foremost want bread and butter issues economy living standards education health care etc i mean at the end of the day every country has a different politics but people in all countries want the same things and i think one of the big. mistakes was to stress so much his wartime strong image at the expanse of the promises that he made five years ago i think it's also going to be quite a bit of a challenge for the lansky as well because the ukrainian electorate has a very short political fuse they like president one day they totally dislike him two years later i mean in thirty years that ukraine has been independent they only

elected one president for the second term and that's i think one of the reasons why sudan ski's already saying that he's only going to stay for one term because securing the second one would be increasingly difficult and i think maybe he will fill that portion because spain if you years down the line. for more on this we're joined live by international affairs commentator marco gastric lewinsky's untested as a politician all together could that make him more susceptible to parliamentary pressure . well he has a certain knowledge that he'll want to be filling and they'll be a lot of people in the ukrainian parliament which will. provide it and they'll certainly try to steer him in their direction it's a question really of how strong he is in terms of his own views or whether he has them but the greater pressure on him might be the fact that while the population of

peter got rid of one oligarch poroshenko they may have gone from one to another of the sponsors and skis and ski his name is green and he's a big green he's in the hands really of an even worse all the guy. who's got a very checkered record in centuries past activities so the question is is a new broom sweeping clean or was a very much tarnished with the old brush well speaking of influence ukraine's sick and tired of foreign influence that's according to one of the defeated candidate also in be left on the west. well the answer is no he won't because ukraine is at the moment totally dependent on western good will for all the remaining financial. subsidies that it's due to receive it's in the hands effectively the e.u. and the u.s. the u.s. as a whole floor agency the security in ukraine dedicated to cia and f.b.i.

and national security agency staff so really the u.k. the u.s. and sorry the u.s. is the power behind was thrown and at the moment zelinsky has no ability to really get out of that and should he even try well as your guest referred to earlier as was the possibility of change and indeed a color revolution not to be excluded if he doesn't play ball with what for example the americans want when the first instance i think the people will be tossed to control who will be the only guards who run the day to day business of the ukraine now you got the vast majority of the vote but is this more of a pro is the linsky or an anti pressure. zelinsky represents something new what it what it represents he represented aggressive war rhetorical he tried to be the maggie thatcher of the ukraine he tried to really present himself as a wartime leader and at some point the population got

a little bit sick of the cost of war we tore their pockets and their bellies are empty and when they see the corruption. presided over that it makes it even more irritating and they start thinking are we being given a story here should we get rid of him so. the governors of the various districts over ukraine replaced with only got the middleman who is removed then the oligarchs got even more so the population clearly voted against poroshenko and there were the representatives now there voting also it was something new and against the rhetorical war and they see that in zelinsky the question is will that inskeep be able to provide its against the probable positional the other forces i just mentioned marco gastric international affairs commentator think you for joining us on the program today more stories right after the break stay with us here on r.t. .

but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. you somehow want to be rich. but you'd like to be close to see what the forty three of the more people. interested always in the logs. should.

welcome back journalist organizations have condemned french police after reporters were detained on saturday during the twenty third consecutive weekend of yellow bus protests are to charlotte even skate looks into the story. well the two independent journalists were among the more than two hundred individuals who were detained by police arrested in act twenty three the names are gassed by the glance and also alexis curry learned we know that the paris prosecutor has said that they were arrested for participation in a group to commit violence degradation now the interior ministry has been talking about the arrests of these journalists it said that the police c.r.s.

these officers are out every week they're out to try and make sure that there is safety for the demonstrators and the journalists to carry out these protests and also to cover these protests that have been happening now since november every week since november here in france but that statement from the interior ministry then goes on to say that if journalists are deemed to have committed an offense then they are likely to also be detained and arrested by the officers on the ground now the national union of journalists in france sees that as being a threat and it has gone even further saying it believes that some journalists are being specifically targeted. there is the question the merging is their determination to intimidate journalists we have an impression some of them are being targeted since the end of last movement opin it the number of incidents targeting john that's when they're filming photographing how has the walk the press and nimitz the coverage of events which represent crucial public interest it's now

five months since this protest movement began twenty three consecutive weeks of protests and every week sounds a little offices around the streets to trying to control this protests last saturday twenty three there were some sixty thousand offices deployed across france trying to control those protests and we've also seen the protesters turning on the police in recent weeks pacifically on saturday where they would protest is filmed screaming at the police go kill yourselves let's take a look at the violence that marred yet another protest. so what can put out the fire of these protests that have been going on for so long

in france president michael in hopes that the speech he's due to make on thursday to outline his response to the big debate this is the debate that they started to ask people what their issues were in france that will actually call the protests will it well i'm not so sure because so far nothing has been able to stop these protests. the king of bahrain has reinstated the citizenship of more than five hundred people and falls a wave of condemnation from global human rights groups almost one thousand nationals have had their citizenship revoked since the uprising in the country back in two thousand and eleven. reports. 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 mosque 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 citizenship 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 bird to demonstrate so through sales of weaponized the aba dhruva case of citizenship to punish normal average bahrainis were 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 former senator 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 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 must see 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. violent clampdown. bahrain was different from the other arab countries oh sure they bashed protests the heads in like everyone else the difference is no one really cool 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 no 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 to have it at this point threaten 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's 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 beyond change authorities

claim a serious security threat remains and their actions are aimed at achieving stability bahrain's interior minister claims terrorists coordinated with iran iraq and has by a group and lebanon have undermined peace in the region. that's our global wrap up of the day's news for now thanks for tuning in. after the previous to age of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of go home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective and i'm used to surprising. when not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you just think i was going to

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for common ground. securing a close victory in a hotly contested election benyamin netanyahu has become the first other prime minister to hold office for five terms will his right wing coalition very all hope for peace with palestine once and for all i ask danny aiello and forward up the foreign minister of israel. president. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is a victory for the. palestinians wondering whether any progress. will

. be brave enough to make steps towards solving. problems will his coalition support taking a hard line away from peace danny aiello on former deputy foreign minister of israel welcome to the show it's great to have you with us lots to discuss when i mean that's when the asshole has won a new record term as israeli prime minister now he supports the settlement his backers sabba hardline view on the palestinians and says next term going to be absolutely nothing to advance the peace cause forward. i think actually that there is a better chance to move forward because not only because the b.'s on his fifth term . and the veteran and these very secured himself he's a man of. history scholar his father was a history professor and i believe he is very much. interested to put

his mark to leave his mark. on history and for that any agreement with the palestinians a long term agreement would be very very important for him and i think on the basis of the trumpet playing which we did too much and i think we're going to talk about that through and yeah we're going to talk about the plan a bit later in the show before if you allow me i would like to go step by step and deconstruct all possible sides so whatever is going on right now between israel and palestine so the public is the israeli public getting a bit tired maybe of maintaining the occupying force of the fance budgets of rockets from gaza and all the war that brings with it are they ok with it well i can tell you that the israeli public. israeli public would very much like to see peace with security with dignity would recognition and everything that it entails

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