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kiev. ukraine's comic actor volodymyr zelinsky owes his success in the first round of the presidential election to t.v. fame and a protest vote by young people frustrated by corruption and the slow pace of reform in one of europe's poorest countries living in. the people are more important to me more than political ambition the people are both everything the ukrainian people are waiting for us but who will get the last laugh linsky will now face far more forensic scrutiny of his so far rather vague plans for the country for us. to do is actually clean up corruption institutions make them independent ensure that the. second judiciary system what though was done before by president bush and it was a fake clear before those sorts of broad brushstrokes may not be enough against the incumbent president petro poroshenko the chocolate billionaire with a taste for a second term yeah. i will understand the signal that society sending to us in power is a harsh lesson for me and for our whole team and they lead us to correct past mistakes. poroshenko has been quick to seize the initiative telling young vo

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130 kilometres north of the capital, kiev, part of ukraine has been cut off for more than 30 years.ng for the exclusion zone, which is quite exciting. sort of a forbidden place kind of shrouded in mystery. this is a controlled zone, a contaminated area almost twice the size of london, that we have special permission to visit. we're going into the epicentre of an explosion. it happened on 26 april 1986, a day the world never forget. archive: the soviet union admitted this evening that there's been an accident at one of its nuclear power stations. archive: perhaps the worst accident in the short history of the world's nuclear power industry. we're taking a tour of the chernobyl nuclear power plant with our guide, stanislav. safety regulations mean we have to protect our clothes from radioactive dust. if know one rule. if you follow all rules, you don't break rules, everything will be ok. and 28 year, a little bit more past after my first coming to chernobyl npp and everything is ok, god bless us. with us is a scientist whose life's work has hinged on that one terrifying night in sovie

it's the last hour of voting in ukraine kiev readies to the nines its next president and it's been a slightly unusual race the incumbent leader is facing a serious challenge from a candidate who's hardly your run of the mill politician he's in fact a nutter and standup comedian called a deliberate who joined me earlier to explain how it's all been going to date. so the choice is the current president petro poroshenko with something about twenty years of experience in politics who won sixteen percent in the first round and the second choice is comedian bold immersive lenski with twenty years of experience in show biz who got more than thirty percent and the first round and mr poroshenko i can tell you just before the voting began who relied heavily on anti russian or even nationalistic sentiment what he did was he called on all ukrainians to appear at the polling stations and preditions colorful ukrainian church which are known as because however when he showed up in front of the cameras at his polling station he was wearing a plain classic suit but mr selenski was wearing something m

ukraine from the weekend. again, i asked the chairman and president of vtb bank whether he felt that this meant there was a new opportunity now for the start of a new relationship with kiev ukraine >> many people see him as a new generation of politicians who really wants to change things in ukraine, who want to establish peace and who is not corruptive who will bring a lot of changes to ukraine some other think he is just a puppet of one of the most vicious in you auto crane, and he will be just playing -- he will be a toy in his hands it's very early to say that. i think wreshd see at least first hundred days of the new president, but there is definitely hope. i think we very much believe in this >> just to reiterate what i said in the interview that we did much earlier this morning those remain his views, and not the views of cnbc, of course >> later on in the week we'll be talking to the central bank governor it's a key decision week on rates. we'll have that. of course, as the next 24 hours unfold, we'll learn an awful lot more about the new relationship between russia and north korea back to you. >> after first quarter sales came in below forecasts at 3.52 billion

from ukraine's capital kiev, here's our correspondentjonah fisher. was three years ago and the first episode of his television show. servant of the people. last night, action became fact and the music from the tv show last night, fiction became fact and the music from the tv show was played as volodymyr zelensky was told for the second time. this time for real, that he was ukraine's next president. translation: to all former soviet countries, look at us. everything is possible. across town, the president poroshenko conceded while muttering darkly that the kremlin would be celebrating the comedian‘s when. that the kremlin would be celebrating the comedian‘s win. ukraine could be quickly returned to the russia orbit. relations with russia will now be the key issue for the soon to be president zelensky. can we expect any change in ukraine's relationship with russia? the population is pretty decided upon towards what russia is. the vast majority sees it as an aggressor. so there's no real scope for president zelensky to try to strike some sort of deal ov

going to d do away with the o od elite and and t t corruptioion that has plagued the ukraine since independence. kievthere are people who are worried about this. they think volodymyr zelensky is not going to be up to the job. he will be manipulated by corrupt forces. some think vladimir putin is rubbing his hands, thinking he has a president who is going to force concessions out of ukraine, they may have to give up its pro-western orientation. there is debate about whether or not this is a victory or defeat for vladimir putin. the other analysis is vladimir putin should be worried about the fact ukraine has had a democratic transfer of power in which a sitting president lost an election, conceded defeat, and russians might think they want to see the same thing happen in their country. zelensky is not the kind of ukrainian president that vladimir putin contains two some kind of raging nationalist. he talks about the need to unune the coununtry and says all ukrainians and russian s speakes ould be considered patriots and he is jewish. ukraine is the only country in the world, except for israel, that is

ukraine and moscow. jonah fisher gave us the latest reaction from kiev. e. and to be quite frank, i think enthusiasm, excitement is not really the word to describe what has happened here. there was not a massive groundswell of opinion, a lot of ranting behind mr volodymyr zelensky. we sell the combination of the deep held frustration that the ukrainians have for their political leaders, their politicians. a large pa rt leaders, their politicians. a large part of what we saw in the huge victory for volodymyr zelensky with a protest vote. people liked what they sell, seeing him on television. but what we sell principally, from talking to people, is that they wa nted talking to people, is that they wanted to deliver a message to the politicians that they have had enough of the way things have been. with it also be fair to say they we re with it also be fair to say they were completely ignoring the national interest peered they were very much concerned about domestic issues. so russia has slipped on the agenda for ukrainians? look, volodymyr zelensky made —— t

little idea as to tell us more about how it all went from twenty fools got a crime is in ukraine's capital kiev. for sake of managed to bring many more supporters to the stadium the invalid emits a lenski dates and soo from thatt point o of view whehen you weren sight you could quite easilyy have the impression that t pitca person who was winning because things that he said were gettin. huge cheers well things that religion is a lenski said were tending to be boot but one of them is a let's get kept his poise throughout that even when the trooper cinco unexpectedldly moved from his stage at one end of the stadium. to the lynskey ststage at the other end of the stadium that was unscripted talansky was also not thrown by that i think the general impression is that pitcher person could may have under. estimated polygamiststs lansky's rhetetorical skikills he came up with a lot of sound bites he's a perfrformer he had thought this through and he'd planned to come up with sound bites and things that he could attack. petro poroshenko on and there's a lot more substance that he can attack p pitcher p

live now to robyn force a walk in the ukraine in capital kiev it looks like a resolving victory for not in is a landscape in the second round of the election how did he do it. how did he do it indeed well it appears that what mr zelinsky had was brand recognition of unparalleled scale being this fictional president in his runaway success television series. where he played the president of ukraine and ukrainians i think had an awful lot of hope that somehow he might transfer into real actions as president of ukraine he has now spoken to his supporters and to his campaign members back here at headquarters and he said he thanked everyone for their involvement and of course to the ukrainian people for choosing him and he said that what happened in ukraine would set a good example to other post soviet countries that could become more democratic. in the way they govern now with me to talk about how mr may in fact govern is michael. said ski from the globe who's a global affairs analyst michael thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera this evening. what is now going to happen we have a pr

kiev. everyone in ukraine is wondering what's going to happen next. here'sjonah fisher in kiev.entire election campaign. but he has now gathered a team of experts around him, advisers, some of whom are well known in ukraine, and they are trying to put together those plans which they will have to begin to put into practice probably in about three or four weeks' time when comedian volodymyr zelensky becomes ukraine's president zelensky. stay with us on 0utside source. we will be going live to westminster as mp5 come back after their break and already there is pressure on theresa may. climate change protesters, who've staged a week of demonstrations in london and edinburgh, have been holding talks to decide the next phase of their campaign. more than 1,000 people have been arrested since the protests began. today around 100 activists demonstrated at the natural history museum. the mayor of london sadiq khan said the protest was taking "a real toll" on london's police and businesses. 0ur correspondent caroline davies reports. central london, day eight of the protest. tents still lie

eastern ukraine to get a russian passport kremlin's the crease is aimed at residents in the regions of the nets can lugansk or pro russian separatists rebels have declared independence from kievselenski accuse moscow trying to legitimize legitimize their military presence in occupied ukraine though russia denies that sending troops into the country. more from london a little later in the news hour now though let's go back to martin in doha barbara thank you very much now north korea's leaders arrived in neighboring russia for thursday's meeting with vladimir putin came in the port city of lady of all stock two months after the breakdown of the second summit with donald trump in vietnam told reporters he is keen to discuss the future of the korean peninsula with the russian president. i came to russia with a warm feeling of our people i hope this visit will be successful and rewarding and that during the talks with esteemed president putin i will be able to specifically discuss issues of resolving the situation on the korean peninsula and development of our bilateral relationship and i've been speaking to mark fitzpatrick who's the director of the nonproliferation program at t

and that just want a ukraine correspondent joins me from kiev nick this is turning out to be quite an extraordinary election all these electric shenanigans going down with the ukrainians are going to vote in the runoff. well i'm rich this definitely is no ordinary election a comedian winning the first round on april fool's day now the top two candidates turning up to clinics to give blood tests for drugs even giving giving hair samples in the case of petro poroshenko this is pretty colorful stuff even by ukrainian standards this is already dividing ukrainians and there's an extraordinary attention being given to this and we're still more than two weeks away from the second round and for many potential debates earlier today i went on to the streets of kiev to talk to people and see what they thought about this battle. to go and have never seen anything like this before so it's something new it's really cool to follow it's also because. this is a show it's meant to be a debate where people can see who has what it takes to lead ukraine into the european union. so i would expect in meetin

kiev. ukraine's comic actor volodymyr zelinsky owes his success in the first round of the presidential election t.v. fame and a protest vote by young people frustrated by corruption and the slow pace of reform in one of europe's poorest countries living in. the people are more important to me more than political ambition the people are both everything the ukrainian people are waiting for us but who will get the last laugh linsky will now face far more forensic scrutiny of his so far rather vague plans for the country for us. to do is actually clean up corruption institutions make them independent ensure that they deliver second judiciary system what there was done before by president bush and that was a fake clear if you want those sorts of broad brushstrokes may not be enough against the incumbent president petro poroshenko the chocolate billionaire with a taste for a second term yeah. i will understand the signal that society sending to us in power is a harsh lesson for me and for our whole team and they lead us to correct past mistakes. poroshenko has been quick to seize the initiative telli

security council is currently holding a meeting on the situation in eastern ukraine called by kiev's representative after wednesday's decree signed by vladimir putin that simplifies procedures for donetsk elegance residents to get russian citizenship let's listen in. when you course i'm grateful to the briefers over there even but to be perfectly honest i didn't quite understand it at the briefing want you to the movie said that the briefing having to do with the issue not upon the request of the ukrainian side brings us into this chamber today and how does this relate to the mets could be a matter of even your hands are going to know that in the assessments that we've heard from mr miller and mr sidekick. they'd do last have we the discussion of the issue because they describe the dire situation that many ukrainians in certain areas have done is going. to find themselves they will just who are not in the control of key of the new. will was not high the lawyer were surprised by the initiative to lincoln vien the meeting today by the korean colleagues which was immediately supported b

political novice drilled a media selenski faced off in a final debate at kiev's olympic stadium ahead of sunday's runoff election today ukraine is observing a day of silence with political campaigning banned the day ahead of the vote. officials in afghanistan say they have ended in assaults on the communications ministry in the capital kabul all the attackers have been killed after an hours long siege the violence comes a day after peace talks between the government and taliban insurgents were canceled and cut off. egyptians have begun voting today in a referendum that could grant the country's all thord tarion leader. sisi another term in office the proposed changes to the constitution would also give the former army general more power over the judiciary a move heavily criticized by international human rights groups. this was supposed to be his second and last time in office but it jepson president of the c.c. is poised to extend his rule until at least twenty thirty gyptian citizens are voting on constitutional changes including one that would allow us c.c. to run for a third presidential term in all likelihood without any

political novice a lot to me as selenski faced off in a final debate at kiev's olympic stadium ahead of sunday's runoff election today ukraine is observing a day of silence with political campaigning banned the day ahead of the vote the. egyptians have begun voting today in a referendum that could grant the country's authored tarion leader abdel fattah el-sisi another term in office the proposed changes to the constitution would also give the former army general more power over the judiciary a move heavily criticized by international human rights groups. this was supposed to be his second and last time in office but a gypsy and president of the c.c. is poised to extend his rule until at least twenty thirty gyptian citizens of voting on constitutional changes including one that would allow us c.c. to run for a third presidential term in all likelihood without any real challengers the changes are also meant to give the former general more control over the military and judiciary which rights groups say he's used to silence his critics. polls suggest the referendum will pass. constitutional amendments are necessary and important

he is live in ukraine's capital, kiev. phil, this wasn't even close.ictory was so big? >> alex, it seems that people in this country just wanted change, and they were desperate for anything other than the status quo. and so enter volodymyr zelensky, this totally inexperienced comedian and actor, someone who became famous in this country who pretending to be the ukrainian president on a tv show, a show called "the servant of the people" that shows an honest school teacher who accidentally becomes president and then goes on to fight against corruption and oligarchs and try to clean up the political game in this country. it's hugely popular here. and so is zelensky's campaign is essentially based around the same ideas. he says he is going to do the same things. he hasn't said how, though there hasn't been a lot of detail in his campaigning so far. but it was still enough for according to the exit polls, around 73% of voters to back him, which is a pretty extraordinary victory. he will inherit a long list of problems from a weak economy to that ongoing fiv

kiev. it's the final stretch of ukraine's presidential election. and this man is all set to win.ht—hearted videos on social media. his campaign has barely existed in real life. his avoided debates, rallies and political speeches. his left his opponent angrily chasing shadows. country of 45 million people cannot vote for a virtual person who they only see on screen and in film. the polls suggest that the ukrainians are about to do just that. incredibly, the less mr zelensky has said about politics, the more popular he's become. in major state m e nts popular he's become. in major statements they made some major controversy. they cause an uproar, really because there are sometimes illogical arguments, and it's better for him tojust illogical arguments, and it's better for him to just keep silent. there is no doubt that a large part of the support is a protest vote. people in the ukraine are fed up with the politicians, they are often corrupt. many people also see a friendly familiarface. someone many people also see a friendly familiar face. someone who many people also see a frien

ukraine makes. and official kiev has been denied the russian market it seems to me that and i'm not singing the praises of color money but i'm sure people like him are saying look this this is a dead end we're not going to be embraced by the european union any time soon we're considering all of its problems there has to be some kind of we approach moment with russia and i know that's very hard in ukraine right now but there seems to be in opening at least. in london go ahead. the that was a very good point that i've made in a my report presented for the. book through think tank over the report title will tighten the sanctions on russia who are saying that in order to resolve the ukrainian problems ukrainian people need both europe and russia because this is a country which is leaning both over the way which is european union and this is a desirable young joc younger generation of young people there and also. with eastern potus aligning towards the towards the russia and i think that the unifier mr zelinsky involvement devolving into the as an entity is a perfect state for doing this i mean we have to u

ukraine. let's bring in our correspondent in kiev nick conaway for more on this of very unusual election hi nick good to see you so a comedian could become ukraine's next president how has the lansky managed to gather so much support. good morning sue me well i think you have to understand all this that selenski is someone who's known to almost all ukrainians he's been at the top of this country show business for the last decade he didn't need to explain who he was to anyone but unlike his main competitors he hasn't been involved in frontline politics or any politics and so he's not associated with that baggage with the disappointments and the corruption of ukrainian politics in recent years so in that sense he had a kind of clean start he also led a very positive campaign focused on optimism something that picture pushing co failed to do instead focusing on kind of aggressive war rhetoric with the conflict with russia that his critics would say he's promising all things to all people he has been pretty slow to give much the way of detail of what he wants to do we were expecting to hear more on

no visible lowden mayor selenski faced off in a final debate at kiev the lympics stadium ahead of sunday's runoff election today ukraine is observing a day of silence with political campaigning banned the day ahead. in the libyan capital tripoli crowds of protests against the military offensive led by were loaded. who opposes the u.n. recognize government this as news broke that the u.s. president had called haft r. and a surprise show of support he already has the backing of egypt saudi arabia and russia . to sports now when the match day thirty kicks off today and two teams are in a heated fight to win the championship both byron munich and dortmund are buying for the title and one of the closest campaigns in recent years with just one point separating them at the top of the table. there's no. in the title race defending champions bar in munich face believe a mixed the same team will meet in the cup semifinal four days later it's no easy task for the league leaders given that women are the only team who are beaten since the winter break. the missions of the we have to focus on the first much because the second one is

from ukraine's capital kiev, here's our correspondentjonah fisher.. it was three years ago and the first episode of his television show. servant of the people. last night, fiction became fact and the music from the tv show was played as volodymyr zelensky was told for the second time. this time for real, that he was ukraine's next president. translation: to all former soviet countries, look at us. everything is possible. across town, president poroshenko conceded while muttering darkly that the kremlin would be celebrating the comedian's win. ukraine could be quickly returned to the russia orbit. relations with russia will now be the key issue for the soon to be president zelensky. can we expect any change in ukraine's relationship with russia? the population is pretty decided upon towards what russia is. the vast majority sees it as an aggressor. so there's no real scope for president zelensky to try to strike some sort of deal over the conflict in the east or it negotiate over crimea, for example. he may try to do that but at the same time i think

selenski faced off in a final debate at kiev as a lympics stadium ahead of sunday's runoff election today ukraine is observing a day of silence with political campaigning banned the day ahead of the. british league match day thirty kicks off today and two teams are in a heated fight to win the championship both by in munich and dortmund or vying for the title in one of the closest campaigns in recent years with just one point separating them at the top of the table. there's no margin for error in the title race defending champions by munich face believe in next the same team they'll meet in the cup semifinal four days later it's no easy task for the league leaders given that women are the only bundesliga team who i'm beaten since the winter break. their missions of this because we have to focus on the first match because the second one is a cup game and in their stadium so it has its own character it's a knockout game so it's because we have a bundestag a match at home which we want and have to win but we face an opponent in very good form. and as it wouldn't form this. title rivals dortmund have

fictional persona as the ideal president of ukraine but that may well be quite far from the reality well we're going to have a chat about that now with a professor. from kiev. academy thank you very much professor for agreeing to talk to us on al-jazeera about this how did it come to this ukraine is it war still with russia with russian backed militants separatists in the east of the country why would you crazy and want to elect a comedian to be their commander in chief well let me explain to you well we saw as their eyes are fortunately practically every way the united states yuki q-tip but here in the ukraine there is a specific sit. keesha a person who is totally inexperienced in politics so he would like to see just to see from t.v. movie in the presidential chair how could it affect the loop of seeing the incumbent president but to do i mean the forms in succumb theoretically to forms we shall necessary but we shall very difficult to do in time of war in time of you can difficult economic situation many of this informs on the populace and necessary but say unpopular and at the same time we have freedom of media and freedom to criticize the government

not ukraine where a packed stadium in kiev has watched the most unlikely pairings like a time out ahead of sunday's presidential election runoff the incumbent the petro poroshenko was up against comic actor volodymyr zelinsky who played a president on t.v. and is now hotly tipped to become the real thing and he joined me earlier in the studio with the details. that was a stadium which actually hosted the final of the euro twenty twelve it was almost eight years ago now the two presidential candidates are debating there but i just want to make it clear that these were the debates in the country which is actually the reason for all the bitterness between the western world and russia all the sanctions boy because when people are refusing to talk face to face and here referring to the most high ranking officials it all began after the events in ukraine in two thousand and four take now let's go back to the dates so that. they are ahead of the presidential runoff but in the first round the comedian bloomers olinsky performed way better than expected he won a bit less than a third of all the

let's take you to kiev where exit polls in ukraine suggest a comedian with no prior experience of politics country's president. he isa he is a man with very little policy, he has been running on criticism of the existing president, the chocolate billionaire, who became president five years ago. exit polls suggest volodymyr zelenskiy has taken the majority. the proportion of 75—25, roughly, three quarters of the vote going to him. ukraine is an enormous country, but they pull in a lot of places. 400 polling stations, 70,000 voters would have taken part. so it looks like volodymyr zelenskiy will be the president, not an unfamiliarjob will be the president, not an unfamiliar job to will be the president, not an unfamiliarjob to him, because he has been playing the role of president in a comedy show. the pope has condemned the attacks in sri lanka describing them as a ‘cruel act of violence‘. speaking at his annual easter day address at the vatican, pope francis said he stands by the victims of the attacks saying that christians have been hit by'mourning and pain‘. our rome correspondent james

an open joins me now from the ukrainian capital kiev and really a new chapter in ukraine's history is about to be written robin. i so yes indeed it is and what an extraordinary election it has been a and a and a very interesting campaign as well in terms of how zielinski very smart tech savvy social media savvy people put together a very twenty first century campaign as opposed to the incumbent president petro poroshenko which was something far more conventional and as a result well we see that outcome now more than seventy percent of folks karst in favor of the world to me as if you were with me to talk about that campaign and also what's next for selenski and his political program although i've a sack of good. excuse me ok for the civic network the poor. old. was this a free and fair election what was your what's your take on that the get your organization we observer the selection in each of the stages from the official start to feed that and we have to assessed it as a free and fair and very competitive because we're also of candidates had access to extra mani and t.v. channels th

well a little earlier, i spoke to our ukraine correspondent, jonah fisher, who was at the zelensky campaign headquarters in kiev it is now official that the next president will be zelensky, a comedian with no political experience and one who is currently starring in a television series in which he plays a fictional president. the series is a bit like the west wing with jokes but he is now the president. as you can hear in the background he is giving a victory press conference and he is confirming that fact will follow fiction and he will go from being best television president to being the real president. extraordinary stuff. the fact he has won by so much, what does it say about people's attitude to mainstream politicians in ukraine? only a part of this boat is really a vote for zelensky. a huge part is about ukraine giving two fingers to ukraine's politicians and president, the political system which many ukrainians think has failed them time after time with politicians having far too close relationship with rich oligarchs. this has been a vote for mr zelensky on the ballot paper but most people are looking f

kiev. it's the final stretch of ukraine's presidential election and this man is all set to win.his campaign has barely existed in real life. he has barely existed in real life. he has avoided debates, rallies and political speeches and left his opponent angrily chasing shadows. translation: a country of 45 million people cannot vote for a virtual person but they only see on a tv screen and in film. but the polls suggest ukrainians are about to do just that. incredibly, the less volodymyr zelensky has said about politics, the more popular he has become. when he made major statements, they really made some major controversy and caused an uproar because there was sometimes illogical and he i think understood that but it's a matter for him to just keep silent. there is no doubt that a large part of volodymyr zele ns ky‘s that a large part of volodymyr zelensky‘s support as a protest vote. people here in ukraine are fed up vote. people here in ukraine are fed up with their politicians and they are up with their politicians and they a re often up with their politicians and they are of

thing is, i think russia was hoping that with a different man in power in kiev, perhaps he can build bridges between russia and ukraineone of the pro—kremlin paper described mr zele ns ky the pro—kremlin paper described mr zelensky as a moderate, praise his restraint and coming from a pro—kremlin paper, that is praise indeed. thank you so much. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good afternoon. most of us clinging on to warmth sunshine for what is left off this easter monday. but we have seen a bit more high cloud streaming from the south turning that sunshine a little hazy. these clumps of cloud will continue to work northwards through the night, in fact the cloud across the far south—west of the uk may be thick enough to produce just the odd shower. pretty mild in the south and the west. temperatures in london, cardiff and plymouth holding up at 12 celsius through the night, chillier further north and east. in fact, across north—east scotland, we could just see a touch of frost in one or two places. tomorrow, for many, will bring sunshine with some high cloud, again turning that sunshine a little

easier for ukrainians and breakaway regions to obtain russian passports kiev has been fighting moscow backed rebels in eastern ukraine since two thousand and fourteen. all sudanese protesters are helling a breakthrough in talks with north terry leaders they've agreed to form a joint council to pave the way for civilian rule so downs longtime leader omar al bashir was ousted by the military earlier this month that after mass protests one photographer has been capturing some of the images of this uprising he doesn't use i bring him and money curd ball talked with him in the capital khartoum. oh for thirty two year old mohammed this is history in the making has been documented the sudanese uprising since it started in the summer and today he's taking pictures of the incoming caravans joining the demonstrators in front of the army headquarters in the capital shift. as. my pictures of the coming generations the suffering experienced by people in my photos should not be forgotten. when we took to the streets we were just calling for our rights we should not have been met but some of the violence we see in the pitches. at t

there you go thank you very much for that jonah hol following that election in kiev all speaking there about the election in ukraine taking an unexpected turn also a first for slovakia anticorruption candidate zadok up to tova as won the country's presidential election making the country's first female leader a liberal lawyer who has no previous political experience of being a governing party candidate in a second round runoff vote capital of the is pro europe he told supporters he still have victory as a signal for change should we see one into the largely ceremonial position in. i accept this result with great humbleness and sense of great responsibility i think all of you for being here with me and i promise you that i will be with you let's look for things that connect us let's place to work for a better slovakia's above all the fights fought for personal gains let's invite other people in pursuit of ideas and values that connected us through the election we will have more from london for you a bit later on now back to elizabeth in marion thank you very much now among the stories still to come in the news hour

selenski proposing direct talks with russia to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine robin for a stay of walkin out from kiev. this is the square behind me the. political quakes in ukraine's recent past in the two thousand and four and twenty fourteen revolutions well today in ukraine another. political earthquake if as expected. a complete political. wins this vote and becomes ukraine's next president he already is a president but an entirely fictional one on his television series so. of the people in which he plays a president like no other president who has managed to tackle ukraine's entrenched all the guard corrupt political system so ukrainians either believe that zelinsky can somehow carry out those kinds of reforms and be that fictional president in reality or it's a big protest vote against petro poroshenko the incumbent who has for the last five years done. objectively not a terrible job trying to keep the lid on the conflict against russia in the east and who's managed to get western support for ukraine and get sanctions levied against russia and he's managed to get these are liberalization but uk

russia to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine with contenders have pledged to keep the country on a pro western course more from robin foresty a walk in kiev. this is the mind square behind me the epicenter of political quakes in ukraine's recent past in a two thousand and four and twenty fourteen revolutions well today in ukraine another perhaps political earthquake if as expected to me is in and a complete political. wins this vote and becomes ukraine's next president he already is a president but an entirely fictional one on his television series servant of the people in which he plays a president like no other president who has managed to tackle ukraine's entrenched all the guard corrupt political system so ukrainians either believe that zielinski can somehow carry out those kinds of reforms and be that fictional president in reality or it's a big protest vote against petro poroshenko the incumbent who has for the last five years done. objectively not a terrible job trying to keep the lid on the conflict against russia in the east and who's managed to get western support for ukraine and get sanctions levied against russia and he's mana

change of leadership in ukraine has spurred for a dialogue between moscow and kiev can this crisis be stopped from becoming a frozen conflicts or is it too late to talk about this here today with me is thomas graham heard the secretary general of. the new multi-polar world is fraught with danger and potential conflict trios looks even in wealthy unstable europe will the diverging interests of twenty first century trigger wars in regions where it never seems possible before what makes international organizations like the u.s. see the influence existing conflicts and just deal with the results his own response needed more in the future. it's really great to have on our show it's the first time you're on my shows and very happy to have you as a guest and have lots to discuss let's start of with ukraine i know that you've been saying they are going to see could serve as an honest broker between russia and ukraine but the two countries have been at odds for like five years now why do you think that your organization has enough clout to actually push moscow in kids to a great three. look we