helped him ascend to the post selenski projected a sense that people could trust him by a supporter sankoh the more experienced candidate was seen as corrupt speaking earlier just after casting his own vote so once he was calm and optimistic. we still are today it will be a victory for ukraine the victory of a fair choice we've united the country and now look we've also united the journalists. many ukrainians are looking for something new frustrated by the slow pace of reforms and wearied by a five year conflict in the east of the country selenski they hope will usher in an era of change. joining us from selenski election event in kiev is

separatists took control of parts of eastern ukraine the conflict in the donbass is ongoing which part of sankoh used to go after his opponent through his minutes of a corridor to proof even how is he going to fulfill the functions of commander in chief of the loser of your team has already said that you are inexperienced through the debates over the deliberate jeff beatty you should have started four years ago not in twenty fourteen when ukraine needed the efforts of all volunteers fear i would rather win the world than it was hiding from his conscription notice it would be nice to do some agreed with power shankar's line of attack yes courcelles i'm a military man and i can't imagine zelinsky as commander in chief a man that has never served in the army in his life you can you call him this was it not you but selenski supporters what shite a voice that. disapproval of the incumbent's track record to show the your partner shank who has only rob does the people created everything let's see what lane ski will do you will see we already saw what pershing quit date he had five years ago what a sham

incumbent at rocor shango has already conceded the race poll showed seventy three percent of the vote or sankoh took home around twenty five percent. and a wave of easter sunday bombings in sri lanka has killed at least two hundred seventy people hundreds more than two and. police say thirty two foreign nationals are bunk of the dead the government has blamed the litters extremists and arrested several suspects nationwide curfew is in place social media has also been lost in the country. while france is honoring the victims of the sri lanka attacks by turning off the lights of the eiffel tower a landmark on the shawm a mass in paris is known around the world and this was the scene just moments ago. terrorists and whites and you'll see that glowing tower going dark. french government flipped the switch as a gesture of mourning for the lives lost in those sri lankan. you're watching the news live from berlin up next is close up our documentary film about life in new zealand after the terror attacks there i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour and don't forget all the latest news and i

helped him ascend to the post selenski projected a sense that people could trust him by a supporter sankoh the more experienced candidate was seen as corrupt speaking earlier just after casting his own vote selenski was calm and optimistic. julie who still today it will be a victory for ukraine the victory of a fair choice we've united the country and now look we've also united the journalists. many ukrainians are looking for something new frustrated by the slow pace of reforms and wearied by a five year conflict in the east of the country selenski they hope will usher in an era of change. joining us from selenski election event in kiev is correspondent nick connelly nick given how how big this victory is for selenski are you surprised at all by this margin by this result. is not just me that surprised lots of selenski supporters seem pretty surprised when it eight o'clock local time the ballot boxes were closed off and suddenly we had the first exit poll there was two or three minutes shouts of kind of excitement a real shock here at selenski selection party this is something that many pe

paro sankoh heads to paris often has been in visit french president in model ma cry set to receive both rivals in the elysee palace. a ceremony to present this year's for stage just world press for a war took place in amsterdam last night while the top prize went to veteran photographer john moore for this photo it shows undocumented migrants two year old you know a sanchez and her mother sandra as they were taken into custody after entering the u.s. from mexico while the picture fueled outrage about the trumpet ministrations policy of separating parents from their children it emerged later that in this case mother and daughter were not separated but ended up in a detention center before being released a few weeks later and allowed to apply for asylum. well this year's contest also presented a new order for photo story of the year on the winner in that category is dutch swedish photographer peter to help on his focus was also on migration he followed families and children trying to make their way from honduras to the u.s. as part of the migrant caravan that made headlines last year the

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leaving the incumbent leader petro poroshenko trailing in second place ahead of the second vote part of sankoh has been calling on his rival to hold a public debate so once he added in one condition though a draw. both candidates invited journalists and photographers to the pre debate blood giving. has more on the two arms. they counted on him gave them all kind of help and thought he'd take the x. soviet republic somewhere new the result roughly eighty five percent of ukraine voters want to show petro poroshenko the door the western establishment is baffled for them choosing between someone as hated today as the chocolate king pershing co and funny guy all of them are zelinsky aka is a president is a tough one backing the winner of round one who has no political background at all is like opening pandora's box while look at who he's been destroying with jokes for years the names are all they're way behind him now how's that for a political background. and we didn't know any. we will bring back crimea. ok this is. what about his own sitcom launched in two thousand and fifteen selenski character

the most famous celebrity in that country just think about what he was doing when high wildhorse sankoh was failing first of all he was in charge of the most popular comedy show in the country where all he did was constantly make jokes about the craney and political elite and a couple of years ago he started a sitcom where he starred himself playing the part of a schoolteacher who suddenly got a chance to become president have a look at the trailer. but. you know with a twist events fiction coming just as possible when that thing first came out looks like a perfect plan to become president when we were covering this yesterday when the polls are. very familiar face of course is. a vote for her isn't it unfortunately for her she's only common stored for now with more and more of will come in you did so much because she's been there for about two decades a long history of being a politician she used to be a prime minister she even served a jail term under president big three in a cold which she was clearly the symbol of ukraine opposition for quite some time and she was clearly the favorit

almost complete zelinsky has taken seventy three percent of the vote while the incumbent bets reporter sankoh has managed only twenty four percent it's a crushing defeat for ukraine's political establishment is especially given that selenski has no political experience. it was a stunning victory for a political novice selenski has appended the status quo in ukraine shortly after exit polls delivered him a landslide he addressed his supporters on social media. team but he says hello everyone which was i wanted to thank all of you for joining me on this journey for the four months of important work great work that you did we did it together we united ukraine we united our people we united our country the streets you know let's go. there. the result was a bitter blow for incumbent petro poroshenko. you conceded defeat the divide to stay in politics par schank i had presented himself as an experience pair of hands but it seems many ukrainians were looking for a fresh approach when he says i think we'll see some changes let's hope there for the better and that ukraine see some real development but

comedian the load amir selenski and incumbent president petro poroshenko sankoh has been holding a rally with supporters in the capital kiev opinion polls show him trailing badly making tonight's debate his last chance to boost his chances did he is nick connelly sent us this report from kiev. a sitting president rolling up his sleeves to give blood for drugs test live on t.v. not something most ukrainian voters ever expected to see but see they did because of this man comedian and actor realty lidsky president personally because challenger has turned ukraine's politics on its head in a matter of months when selenski demanded drug and alcohol tests pershing co had little choice but to agree after picking up just half as many votes as alinsky in the first round pushing those had to play catch up with his younger rival. gives lympics stadium capacity seventy thousand and the place was linsky says he wants to debate with petro poroshenko no dusty t.v. studio facility who prefers to talk to his supporters direct through social media really. feeling once again selenski throwing down the gaunt

helped him ascend to the post selenski projected a sense that people could trust him by supporter sankoh the more experienced candidate was seen as corrupt speaking earlier test after casting his own vote selenski was calm and optimistic. we still are today it will be victory for ukraine the victory of a fair choice we've united the country and now look we've also united the journalists. many ukrainians are looking for something new frustrated by the slow pace of reforms and wearied by a five year conflict in the east of the country selenski they hope will usher in an era of change. well joining us from kiev is our correspondent nick calmly nick this is a huge victory for selenski who has no political experience has the significance of this result sunk in yet for the ukrainians. good morning terry well i think there's lots of scratching of heads amongst that at least people are really kind of taken aback by the extent of that victory for. him picking up almost twice as many votes as the incumbent so far we haven't heard any more from him so let's speak very briefly to the press at his el

well it seems that he's likely to be less provocative and our sankoh was in his last couple of years it seems very much as they are saying i was trying to hold on to power by being. driven by the nationalist card. you know by by provoking the russians and the rebels in mass a little bit selenski doesn't seem to find the reaction certainly into the less cold and to the national salamander i mean it's cool spectrum so it's possible he'll be slightly less provocative if i don't see that lansky wants him to ask a later conflict. on the other hand as he said he doesn't seem to be very willing at least at this stage to make concessions so while i don't see things getting any worse under his presidency at least in the short term i don't see any reason short term to be just really optimistic for a solution. you never short of excitement in ukrainian politics is going to be rather interesting year in domestic politics there thanks for your analysis paul robinson international affairs analyst historian on the program with us today. the death toll from a series of explosions in sri lanka has re

for electoral advantage we don't get much news really from dawn better than the easter thing as her sankoh will try and use the threat from russia more vociferously ahead of april twenty first i don't think he can be much more will sit for us than he has been his position on the bus region is very clear namely that there has to be a military victory against russia or something that can be sold effectively as a as a defeat of russia. in order to retrieve a reabsorb those regions and there should and there will be no need to go she ations as he puts it on on their knees with ukrainians on their knees. zielinski has said that he by contrast is willing to work with anyone and is willing to negotiate for peace in the bus so those are rather starkly different approaches to the east and to russia we know have a purported evidence from the former the whinging in secret service operative and the other half of the vessel. of claiming the cia to plant sabotage in eastern ukraine do you think the united states is is there or let alone the i.m.f. obviously. and that it has to be very very careful so it

that's a slagging match an appearance is it deceptive because although there appear to be more far sankoh supporters in here this evening petro poroshenko he's training in opinion polls by a huge margin so it's something radically radical happens this evening out since he doesn't say the right things but they still hold cause to cause a major political upsets in ukrainian politics in the election on sunday and i tell the story as a following crime activists have gathered in a number of here.

some of the like but i am a fish every week a new sankoh brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump through the eyes of the outstanding that's right out of the script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means. as we turn the cameras on the media focused on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most embed is a free palestine a listening on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera news hour live from doha in london these are your headlines the military in sudan is defending the coup on thursday which for move president omar bashir from office it says it has no ambitions to hold on to power but the protest organizers are calling for more demonstrations. it is the eighth consecutive friday of demonstrations in algeria protesters say they're not satisfied with the departure of president. this month and want an overhaul of the political establishment. at least five civilians have been killed during fighting on the outskirts of the libyan capital rockets and shells fired by forces loyal to the wall or twenty four

my main street every week a new sankoh brings a seemingly simple breaking story and that of course is dominant. town through the ice into the clouds channelise that's right out of a hamas group that calls for the and i'll ation of israel that is not what that phrase means he joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media and focused on how they were brought on the stories that matter the most in bad news a free palestine and listening on al-jazeera. top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera the u.s. house judiciary committee has begun proceedings to get robert models full report on russia's alleged role in the twenty sixth election attorney general william has only released a four page summary so far british m.p.'s have narrowly passed a bill forcing the government to avoid a no deal that amendment passed just by a single vote and is yet to be approved by the upper house and the u.n. secretary general is calling for calm in libya where troops loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar are heading towards the capital after his forces will fight what he calls the remaining t

presidential runoff robin forestay will come visit the ukrainian seaport of adesa to find out why a par sankoh is fighting for his political survival. you know desa ukrainian multiculturalism finds its truest expression. in the music with many different routes to. give a new york of an order that is like new york city of immigrants settled by people of various ethnicities greeks germans jews moldovans russians ukrainians and this book a creates this music of the work with that the move to the same diversity may explain why voters you know desa rejected the incumbent president in the first round of ukraine's presidential election petro poroshenko came here five years old from ukraine's revolution russia's annexation of crimea and the conflict in eastern ukraine on result. poroshenko has campaigned for reelection on a platform of ukrainian nationalism he has promoted ukrainian language culture and religion backing the ukrainian all to doc's church splitting from the moscow patriarchate. critics here say that policy has alienated odessa and none of the previous presidents have ever try to measure

anyways because he's the least of all evils then she goes on to say his voters don't trust too much sankoh usually they consider her a betrayer of the country a phony a friend of the russian someone who is corrupt and who would sell her country in a heartbeat but then the stuff here goes on to say the lenski is also not trusted her friends consider him to be a clown who just like trump started a joke they got way out of and they consider him to be a pro russian and they also make a big deal out of the fact that apparently he doesn't speak ukrainian very well now tamil i see that you're smiling and peter you're nodding to me why don't we get your reaction to honest. it's interesting that people say that asking is going to tackle corruption and. he's our whole but actually nobody has any indication off how he's going to be able to achieve that he has no or nothing to show to prove that he's like capable off dealing with such an important issue and he was heckled corruption only in a sitcom and as an actor like he has. people that he cares about corruption and he's a able to tackle it but act

those sanctions on russia even got videos visa liberalization for ukrainians and yet they see horace sankoh as part of the problem they didn't deal with corruption properly and so a lot to me is the lenski is this guy who comes along with an amazingly successful t.v. series playing a fictional president that promises to solve the problem of ukraine and all its corruption and ukrainians from from from the east in the west russian speaking and ukrainian speaking ukrainians everyone seems to be getting behind zielinski despite the fact that he has zero political experience robin thank you. the iraqi city of kabul is planning a major expansion of a key religious site to cope with a growing number of pilgrims thirty million people visit the shrines of hussein on our bus each year. reports now from kabul. this is why millions come here each year to see the shrine of the most revered and mom and shia history imaam hussein. with more than thirteen thousand employees some say it's a city and it's growing every year to take you through a sign for me with the current stable security situation in gener

anyways because he's the least of all evils then she goes on to say his voters don't trust too much sankoh usually they consider her a betrayer of the country a phony a friend of the russian someone who is corrupt and who would sell her country in a heartbeat but then the stuff here goes on to say the lenski is also not trusted her friends consider him to be a clown who just like trump started a joke they got way out of and they consider him to be a pro russian and they also make a big deal out of the fact that apparently he doesn't speak ukrainian very well now tamil i see that you're smiling and peter you're nodding to me why don't we get your reaction to honest. it's interesting that people say that asking is going to tackle corruption and. he's our whole but actually nobody has any indication off how he's going to be able to achieve that he has no or nothing to show to prove that he's like capable off dealing with such an important issue and he was tackled corruption only in a sitcom and as an actor like he has. people that he cares about corruption and he's a able to tackle it but act

or sankoh is seeking a second term but many ukrainians are unhappy with the economy and corruption in the first round of voting selenski secure at thirty percent of the votes ahead of the president sixteen percent and polls are predicting a win for the political novice. headlines on al-jazeera sudan's main protest group is demanding an immediate handover of power by the military to a civilian government their representatives are meeting army leaders in the capital hard to him to reach a consensus on a transitional government the military council says political parties can decide on a civilian prime minister but once to hold on to the interior and defense ministries. we are your brothers in the armed forces are asking you to support us with your initiatives to break through the transitional period we need and hope all of you within a short span of time come to a consensus and agreement upon one figure a patriotic independent person to lead the government libya's government forces say they've shot down a fighter jet belonging to warlords after these pictures appear to show the aftermath