plus exit polls are showing comedians a lot of years of lenski has won a landslide victory in ukraine's presidential runoff race he played a president on television now he's the real thing incumbent petro poroshenko has conceded. i'm calm assman thanks for joining us we begin in sri lanka following a devastating wave of easter sunday bombings that killed at least two hundred seven people and wounded more than four hundred and fifty world leaders have condemned the coordinated attacks the targeted luxury hotels and churches where abortion purse had gathered for easter services police say thirty five foreign nationals are among the dead most of the eight bombings appear to have been suicide attacks the government is blaming but just extremists and made several arrests but no group has claimed responsibility so far. so hospital in the capital colombo was overwhelmed people brought in victims any way they could to. outside shock and disbelief at the scale of the violence. no one expected easter sunday to end in this way but the explosion and then the roof fell on us we took the children and

is a lenski is a russian speaker he says he wants to bring the nation together that's what he ran on to heal ethnic divisions is that would won him support and could he be the man to do that well there is no division such as we usually talk about in public discourse the main division in ukraine is not about language it's not about religion the main division in ukraine right now is about the way the country's going to be developing and what has happened over the last five years ukraine has made a choice and it's a european choice it's a european path of development as a result the war started with russia supported. separatists and creamier was annexed so selenski has no opportunity it's not possible for him to bring the nation together the nation is together. he can do is he can soften the course he can actually what he can do is he can bring ukraine back to the point when ukraine either is undecided or the country is not moving steadily steadily in european direction ok you're saying there's no i think divisions but there is definitely an ethnic division in the east of the country we

a landslide victory for a lot of me as a lenski a comedian who played the president on t.v. is elected to lead ukraine. protest leaders in sudan vowed to escalate their rallies saying they no longer recognize the transitional military council. did you actually talk. and censorship and scandals hamper efforts to showcase the world's fastest growing film market at the beijing film festival. an overnight curfew is in place in sri lanka social media has been shut down after the worst attacks to hit the island in years over two hundred people were killed and more than four hundred fifty. injured in a blast the attacks targeted three churches in colombo negaunee batticaloa in the easter sunday services also blasts that four luxury hotels and a guest house in colombo as well as a house where three police officers were killed while trying to capture suspects eight suspects have been arrested but the defense minister says most of the blasts were suspected suicide attacks men elfin and as reports now from colombo. carnage in churches on one of the most important days of the christian

in russia had been able to vote they wouldn't probably vote even lenski and poroshenko his share of the vote would have been even less in april is going to you in london it was quite remarkable it was still could happen but it was remarkable that you didn't have tory a newland visiting during this election here i mean there was no overt western support of puerto shank oh though he was their candidate when he ran the first time go ahead in london. well that's very true i do agree with you but i think the last month scandal with the defense procurement scared out of americans from being involved in supporting the support of junko and so we have the. previous guest rightly that we have a two dimensional win for mr zinni to keep first of all is the. corruption scandal over related to the end of the fence procurements related to the son of the close of business partner mr poroshenko and the other one is the fact that mr leask is a well known actor and he blamed a president and he and then he seriously called seven of the people and so and and the main character who is the historian had a lec

stars set for ukraine's top job exit polls a comic a lot of mirrors in lenski has secured a massive lead over incumbent president petro poroshenko has voted to send a strong message to the countries that ruling class. a series of deadly explosions interline can reportedly killed at least two hundred seventy people and injured hundreds more the targets were hotels and churches as the island's christian minority celebrating easter sunday. and in the week's

lensky invited all representatives of the media to start a new information war to win the hearts and minds of ukrainian citizens that are now currently living in the breakaway regions. or that least do you journalists we will invite you in the near future this is our plan preparation we would be very hard on the information to finish the war in. it looks like it's been on the back foot he's really been trying to keep his job but when you look at how quickly he conceded one hundred it was so far only minutes to do that he decided not to wait for any official announcements from the election authorities but again that's all because of this massive margin which is a pretty much it's impossible to turn this whole thing around but petro poroshenko said that he's staying in politics and for him this is probably the beginning of another campaign campaign ahead of the parliament elections now there is a situation in ukraine right now and perhaps there is a lenski might find himself in a situation that's similar to that of donald trump when his decisions could be blocked by the parliament wher

was very supportive of russia did not quite make it to the next round what links if any does the lenski have with russia. so having a bit of trouble hearing here but the thing about the let's get it really appeal to voters is a positivity campaign was not about the war but standing up to russia and it seemed like a look basically like a lot of more hard work ahead for ukrainians bring that in that livingstone that support the army and basically sit out this conflict with russia solecki came in with a new tone using social media or all of the conventional campaigning trying to tell people they have a chance of changing things in a hurry and improving their situation fast that something that appeals to should with younger voters but not only and it seems to really appealed across the country i'm going to ask you know the question nick i hope you can hear me what does this mean now for poor shango he has lost to a political novice he's out of office what does this mean for his future.

a lot of mirrors in lenski has secured a massive lead over incumbent president petro poroshenko has voted to send a strong message to the countries that ruling class. a series of deadly explosions interline can reportedly killed at least two hundred seventy people and injured hundreds more the targets were hotels and churches as the island's christian minority celebrating easter sunday. and in the week's main stories from our team there was no clues in between donald trump and russia as the report finally publishes its conclusions. it's nine o'clock here in moscow and you're watching the weekly on international with me in india today welcome to the program from winning viewers to winning a voters exit polls in ukraine suggest a political newcomer known only for playing

for ukraine's leading role exit polls say and belong to me as a lenski has secured a massive lead over incumbent president petro poroshenko as though to send a song to the country's ruling class. a series of explosions. at least two hundred seventy people but hundreds more targets the hotels and churches as the island's christian minority was celebrating easter sunday. and in the weeks main stories from the tape there was no collusion between donald trump and russia as the miller report finally publishes its conclusions. in the weekly here on all the international with me in a direct to to us all highlights from the last seven days and all the latest up to date stories welcome to the program from winning view as to winning a vote exit polls in ukraine suggest a political newcomer known for playing a president in a t.v. sitcom is in line to get the job for real volodymyr is a lenski appears to have secured a landslide win over incumbent. who has conceded defeat correspondent. explained what it means for ukraine. now we can say with almost one hundred percent certainty that president or.

the election rules and that doesn't look good for the incumbent he looks to be trailing a limousine lenski by about two to one selenski all around seventy percent pushing on around thirty percent that's basically the same pattern we saw from the first round so nothing much changing if anything since king creasing his lead in the last few days before that last poll. this is been an election that has really taken everyone by surprise just a few months ago zelinsky wasn't political scene here nelse is kind of to see on new year's eve on live t.v. and now you you see the poor for shaker the incumbent president doing his darndest to try and talk to people who maybe are disappointed with him who are frustrated about corruption the slow pace of reform and get them to pull back from the brink of the last moment and to go for him as a safe pair of hands because as as the polls have it and as the kind of feeling on the street here and here on this beautiful spring day seem to suggest it's not working there's been some discussion about how the candidates have been light on the issues one of the candi

for the oligarchs to extort public funds and at that point it went to anti government and limit as lenski the current frontrunner was the stand up comedian who was actively promoted by television station for many years so they are linked and as far as reports go they are linked not only professionally but they all are also in good terms ok does that link being that he would be the kind of candidate who is president would take the country more on a closer tact to ours moscow towards russia or would he would he be one who would be open to the some of the comments to the lenski made. in the meetings with the businessmen or meetings with the with the experts were surprisingly close to what for instance volume of putin the president of russia saying but many people think that it's not about his it's not about his stand but it's about his poor judgment judgment an inexperienced the fact that he's an experienced. zelinsky is basically a screen unto which many craniums project their expectations he didn't make strong policy stance at that point so it's very difficult to say who actually selenski

played a president on television now he's the real thing exit polls show comedian football there's the lenski winning a landslide victory in ukraine's presidential runoff incumbent trope or shrink as his seat also coming up shocked and shattered in sri lanka after a wave of devastating bomb attacks on to easter sunday seven blasts ripped through luxury hotels and churches and eight the explosion went off during a police raid the death toll now stands at two hundred seven with hundreds more injured officials are blaming religious extremist and it made several arrests plath latest column. i'm calling aspen thanks for joining us exit polls from ukraine's presidential election points to a landslide victory for the comedian well the mayor selenski those polls show the challenger won over seventy percent of the vote that's well ahead of incumbent petro poroshenko was already conceded defeat and congratulated the political novice on his big win. he went from playing a president on t.v. to being one in real life this is the moment of law to me as the lenski the new president elect of ukraine found ou

ukraine's presidential election points to a landslide victory for the comedian of a lot of mayors a lenski those polls show the challenger has won comfortably with over seventy percent of the vote that's well ahead of incumbent petro poroshenko who's already conceded defeat and congratulated the political novice on his big win. oh wow. he went from playing a president on t.v. to being one in real life this is the moment lot of years olinsky the new president elect of ukraine found out he had won on the world stage he's just the latest political novice with an affection for social media to sweep aside the old guard. ah very hard thing you know thank you everybody so lansky actually studied law at university but never practiced instead opting for a burgeoning comedy career in two thousand and fifteen he began starring as a fictional ukrainian president and the servant of the people his own political party was eventually named after the t.v. show. selenski has been the unlikely front runner for most of the election with poll ratings flying high he even went so far as to not show up for one of

very clear policy positions so the way to understand this election is not so much as a vote for the lenski yes as a vote against poroshenko and all the things that poroshenko stands for which has been the line ukraine has been following since the events in mind done in february two thousand and fourteen so it is an affair a repudiation of that policy and you're perfectly correct if those millions of ukrainians who are now in russia had been able to vote they would have probably voted even more for selenski and poroshenko share of the vote would have been even less in radio is going to you in london it is quite remarkable image still could happen but it was remarkable that you didn't have tory you knew and visiting during this election here i mean there was no overt western support of puerto shank oh though he was their candidate when he ran the first time go ahead in london. well that's very true i do agree with you but i think the last month scandal with the defense procurement scared out of americans from being involved in supporting the support of junko and so we have the. previous gues

the votes in ukraine yes stay on with around half of those votes counted comedian follow him as the lenski we can tell is leading the polls in the first run the ukraine's presidential election so far he's won just by thirty percent of the vote and will be up against incumbent president petro poroshenko later this month and in the second round because said to get frustrated when they get fifty percent plus one. was. i think the tank has been watching this election closely yeah what's he bringing to the polity than here looks like people want to change but has come deeply unhappy this morning by the looks of it of course the countenance still happening. kevin it is still happening and we cannot say for sure we can not be certain that it is petro poroshenko the current president he's going to make it in the second round because the margin of course it isn't that tight but there's still a difference of about two or three percent but by the looks of it yes it will be dimmer zelinsky and petro poroshenko and guess why a comedian is almost. two times more votes than the incumbent president it's b

way the posho go i for poroshenko i respect him and the good things he has done this time for the lenski we can trust him partially because clever but he's corrupt a live in vote who is a push up with i'm very keen for poroshenko he's professional a true statesman of last like. petro poroshenko has been tarnished by allegations of corruption but he's keen to play up his role i know why the stage with the ability of people we made great progress in integration into the family of european nations we have done everything possible to strengthen our transatlantic integration our reforms are not finished yet and we will not allow anyone to stop them my mother with a similar sleep. after voting the president went on to an easter mass but poroshenko his days in office look to be numbered. joining us now from the ukrainian capital kiev is correspondent nick connelly nick president bush and co is under threat of losing his job to a political unix periods a lot in near selenski where the opinion polls tellings. well the last poll we have is from the end of last week no more polling was allowed afte

five percent the election is a decisive one for the country of forty four million people with the lenskiproposing direct talks with russia to resolve the conflict and eastern ukraine well our correspondent robin forrester will could joins us now live from a polling station in the capital kiev robin beyond his suggestions of direct discussions with russia what more do we know about selenski as potential plans for ukraine. very very little the whole campaign has been the substance from this latest he can confide his campaign it's been something of that unprecedented nature the way it's been conducted so sure video and posts viral videos very very little in terms of engagement with policies and discussing his platform for a future ukraine and certainly no engagement with any of the other candidates and i think this is really a big concern for many who are worried about what is in the state presidency it looks like but they also those ukrainians who will be voting for him today are hoping that his approach is going to be a little bit more soft a little bit more in terms of the way they see t

ukraine between incumbent president petro poroshenko and the political novice comedian rajan is a lenski the latest opinion poll suggests zelinsky is well ahead of poroshenko the election is a decisive one for the country of forty four million people with a lenski proposing direct talks with russia to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine. people living in libya's capital have reported hearing airstrikes and explosions overnight as warlord khalifa haftar tries to take control of tripoli the city's only functioning airport has now been reopened after a nearby fighting forced it to shut down clear for half the began an offensive to retake the capital three weeks ago he's fighting against the united nations recognized government that's based there several senior members of saddam's former ruling party have reportedly been arrested thousands of demonstrators are keeping up the pressure on the ruling transitional military council they want inquiries into alleged abuses carried out by the former regime the public prosecutor says x. president al bashir is being investigated for money launderi

all the actor and comedian writing me as a lenski is the frontrunner to become ukraine's next president and sunday's second round runoff against incumbent petro poroshenko robin forrester walker went to the lenski his hometown to find out more about the man who is only experience of politics is playing the president on television. this is wreak cricket hold in english a city built on steel production. and birthplace of the man who is promising to reshape ukraine's political landscape. zillion ski. zielinski plays a humble history teacher who becomes ukraine's president in the hit comedy t.v. series servant of the people. the real zelinsky has no political experience but ever since announcing he wanted the top job he's been favorite to win i asked a local historian what could be the can tell us about the zielinski. war this is a city of mentally iron and steel the kind of character that will never let you down here locals who know him say success inspired selenski and his comedy troupe. you always wanted what was best not just for him but for his friends his family would never reach just

ukraine's president petro poroshenko and has rival actor and comedian brought to me as a lenski have gone head to head in a live television debate several thousand spectators turned up for the event in kiev's and take stadium opinion polls suggest the lenski will win sunday's runoff vote three weeks after he beat in the fast round robin forrester walker was at the base. would you believe for a few weeks in the run up to the second round runoff and it's not beat about the rate it's about whether or not this debate is going to happen. in the big stadium but it did happen but it's an extraordinary thing it's absolutely what we have two presidential candidates now all this. stage four though. they were facing each other from opposite ends of the football pitch we're standing on it your car should go the incumbent president was over that he's thousands of supporters are up there are there all the saw that broke down here and i know you're all decides to pull out to be is elaine steele should pull to cheering and cheering it all the more right moments she did something to the spectacle it'

demand i now call my congratulate let's go back to the dimmers a lenski press conference where one of the questions was are you ready to accept petro poroshenko as help and are you ready to put him in some sort of government position mr zuma lenski answer was yes i'm ready but if the people tell me they're ready for it so perhaps we're just going to wait and see the story not unless the mountain mccauley believes it will be difficult for mr ranson to live up to the promises he's made to the public. everyone knows who he is everyone knows really looks like but the big tasks begin to me immediately because he's probably if you look at his economic program it's very very. liberal judges reprove. health services will improve education improvements we all know how we're going to do that . because corruption is the male. brain cancer which is affecting. you created life presence in two thousand and four has put country corruption at the top of the list live ended up fighting for their own political life and we know that but republishing who did that look what's happened here. the death toll

twenty four percent it's a stunning rebuke for ukraine's political stablish minutes specially as lenski has only ever been involved in pretend politics before. he went from playing a president on t.v. to being one in real life this is the moment fall a dream is a learned skill the new president elect of ukraine find out that he'd won on the world stage he's just the latest political novice with an affection for social media to sweep aside the old guard are very northing your thing you ever bought him . selenski actually studied law at university but never practiced instead opting for a burgeoning comedy career in twenty fifteen he began starring as a fictional ukrainian president in the sitcom servant of the people. his own political party was eventually named after the t.v. show selenski has been the unlikely front runner for most of the election with poll ratings flying he even went so far as to not show up for one of two scheduled stadium debates against incumbent petro poroshenko the fact that ukrainians have already spent years watching him play it being president and they have hel

acting for the real thing after winning ukraine's presidential election with most votes now counted lenski has secured a landslide win over the incumbent petro poroshenko so let's get more details now and talk to r.t. is political talk show host parks on the boy hello oxana looks to talk about clearly the people of ukraine a voted for change how much change can make spec do you think this new president well i think political technologists and political analysts will be. trying to decipher this victory of 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 devoted which show that almost half of the ukraine in the electorate sat under no circumstances they would vote for the incumbent. that shows you that he had very very very strong negative speech i suppose we benefited from because while you listed some of his campaign promises he's usually criticized for being very very light on substance he d

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 person go on becaususe if. a person whose record of five years in office he kept reading out questions

now exit polls in ukraine suggest that a former comedian voting there's a lenski has won the first round of the presidential election there so then skee a political novice who has campaigned against rampant corruption has taken just over thirty percent of the vote incumbent president petro poroshenko took less than eighteen percent ukraine's next president will be tasked with finding a solution to corruption as well as overseeing a five year old conflict against pro russian separatists in the east of the country well jonah hall is live for us in kiev and joins us now to tell us more about selenski is when was it unexpected. it was not expected the poles have been tipping it for some time it's certainly an unlikely victory though this is a man as you point out a comedian turned actor he has no political experience whatsoever to the extent that he's put out any policies they're extremely vague there's no detail to them he's played the part of the president in a successful and popular television series here but that's really what most people know about it they don't know much more they don'

time to get serious in ukraine comedian of all to me is the lenski wins a landslide victory in the presidential runoff for the incumbent better bosanquet it's a crushing defeat. and a letter to a survivor find out how school students are pledging never to forget the holocaust as those who experienced it first hand the press to leave the stage. cheema the sri lankan government has confirmed that police received a tip off ahead of bombings of churches and hotels that killed at least two hundred ninety people on sunday but an official spokesman said the information was not passed on to the prime. a minister or any of his cabinet members another explosive went off today as a bomb disposal team try to diffuse that they've been no immediate reports of injuries from the blast so far no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks but officials believe a local extremist group was behind them. the bombings have left families in grief and shock around the country. this woman is being forced to endure what no parent wants to go through. she's waiting outside the hospital hoping to hear news of her daugh

the population hates that too and for many people in ukraine the reason why they're voting for is lenski is the concept let's give it a try let's make this dream come true a person was no experience in politics let's just at least give them the opportunity to try and get rid of the old political elite and this is the cards that he's playing he's saying that he won't have any of the portugal people in the new government if he wins and he in fact promises to start legal cases not only against the people in government right now but maybe even petro poroshenko himself to take a listen. over to see which of the business. first of all i would like to see that i'm not your opponent i mean your job. so it looks like it will be very difficult for petro poroshenko to really turn this around the margin is just very big according to opinion polls indeed he was more emotional he was more aggressive even though i can say today during these debates many people said that he looked a bit old fashioned but this is what politicians do after all maybe he was a bit better this time in terms of how he interac

of next week's presidential runoff election front runner and professional comedian of all of the lenski the not agreeing to the event choosing a debate on friday instead for a shank it was seeking a second term but many ukrainians are unhappy with the economy and corruption it's the first round of voting is a lenski secure at thirty percent of the votes ahead of the president sixteen percent and polls are predicting a win for the political novice voting is about to close in finland's general election where climate change is one of the main issues it's the first time the global warming dominated an election campaign the anti immigrant friend party and opposition social democratic party are some of the parties in that race. the president of the seychelles has delivered a plea to save the oceans from deep underwater drone five hundred and twenty four meters. below the ocean sufis. it is a privilege to address you from the beating of brouhaha over the whole planet danny pharo was on a submarine under the indian ocean as part of a british led research expedition the seychelles is one of the

say isn't it though and of course i'm satisfied we voted for the lenski everything is cool though we didn't expect poroshenko to make it into the second round as everyone starts the runner up with. everyone including yulia timoshenko herself the former prime minister is a heroine of the country's pro western movement she spent years in jail on what she says were politically motivated charges she called the exit polls dishonest and asked supporters to wait for final results. the central election commission said no systematic violations had been registered touring the poll despite allegations of widespread vote buying when acknowledging more than two thousand complaints the body said reports of irregularities would be reviewed but none required immediate action. there he is a member of ukraine's parliament he quit president poroshenko his parliamentary group over the handling of corruption and he became one of mr so let's he's in boxers he spoke with the w.'s nick com. what does zelinsky mean for ukraine. changes so this election in ukraine was quite unusual because. it was not. an all

presidential election suggest that the former comedian vladimir's the lenski has won the first round with just over thirty percent on the vote incumbent president petro poroshenko is seeking reelection but he's in second place and the early results from talking to local elections are showing mixed fortunes for a ship and his ruling ak policy. they are currently ahead in istanbul's municipal rice box crucially the party has slipped behind the main opposition in the capital ankara. more now on our breaking news story out of algeria this hour local media reporting that a caretaker government is going to set out with many ministers relieved of that they can take government will run will be headed by nuri dean but dolly who will remain in place as the country's prime minister well there is imran khan joins us now over the phone from neighboring tunisia iran what more you hearing about this. well what we're hearing is this is in effect a cabinet reshuffle plus. any idea behind this is to try and appease some of the protests the protesters demand have been protesting for the last six weeks

comedian is set to be ukraine's next president rodham is lenski was the wild card in the election with no political experience other than playing the president on television but he has now secured a resoundingly victory in their all votes exit polls give him seventy three percent of the vote while the incumbent petro poroshenko got twenty five percent. you know . i will never let you down i may not formally be president yet but as a citizen of ukraine i can tell all cost soviet countries look at us everything is possible. our shango has already conceded defeat but has also said he has no plans to quit politics altogether. do you. agree. do you crane's this month i will leave the post of the head of state this is what most of you have decided and i accept this decision i will leave office but i want to announce firmly i would not leave politics. alive now to robin far stable pay any crane in capital kiev and rob it has been a remarkable rise to prominence for not to me as a lansky but has it been fueled by his popularity or frustration with the ruling elite. ever since he announced that

country conducting a presidential election that was competitive and allowed voters free choice as lenski as resoundingly win against incumbent petro poroshenko represents a desire for real change within the country by living standards have been falling you know she but i was. i like very much that finally he himself says a man with the people has become president but i can't say that i'm very emotional about it but i like it but finally someone who was not a politician has come into power. just to show you just when you do so here goes another to do the thing is pushing did not do anything that it pushing to was the problem as lenski said join the debate on their results of your mistakes that's it full stop ever emoted not against par shank oh. sure sure why did the muscles olinsky i feel disappointed because of selenski i've nothing against him personally face incapable of the job can't talk can't even put a sentence together what can i expect from him. something russia says he learned skills when is not unity from moscow to improve ties with kiev robin firstly walker has more. we've ha

the latest opinion polls suggest the lenski is leading. forty five percent the election is a decisive one for the country of forty four million people with mr the lenski proposing direct talks with the russians to resolve the conflict in the eastern ukraine robin first a walker joins us live now from the capital kiev as far as mr selenski is concerned does he have any political policies at hold that we actually know about. but as you said he's willing to hold talks with most and in attempt to try to resolve the ongoing conflict in the east of the country and also over the issue of crimea which as many of our viewers will know was the knicks by vladimir putin the russian military back in twenty fourteen but other than that he hasn't said an awful lot he's kept an extremely tight campaign in which he's kept quiet and has relied very much on his 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 m

joe lenski, bbc news.rd who'll return to wembley next month to take on manchester city in the final and their manager never thought they were out of it despite being 2—0 down. you always believe you can score one goal. because in all the games, we a lwa ys goal. because in all the games, we always competed until then. and it wasn't different today. we knew, we tried, and sometimes it happens. i think today, we showed our strength asa think today, we showed our strength as a squad, or believe meant, and i'm very proud. it's tough, sometimes the pain makes it grow. you have to feel as a group. we all stick together because it's our identity. it's relentless, asa it's our identity. it's relentless, as a squad we will never give up. and we will come again here. everton down to michael caine during the warm up due to illness, scoring the only goal, his first league goal for two years. that result means arsenal remain in fourth while marco silva's side leapfrog watford into ninth. i'm really happy. 5-6 now. fant

job is on the line today in the country's presidential runoff is opponent is the load amir's the lenski a comic actor who plays a fictional president and a popular t.v. show polling stations will be open until early evening with preliminary results expected a few hours later pre-election opinion polls showed selenski with a big lead over for shango today's election comes with a conflict in ukraine's eastern donbass region still unresolved after five years of fighting and the war played a big role in the presidential campaign. he'd have to sit down in eastern ukraine for the past five years many have moved away yet children still live here. as i did when i was shooting we go to the changing room in the kindergarten because it has no windows we see next to the lockers and waits for it to stop and listen to it all as much half or more just. videos to put we aren't supposed to pick up anything suspicious because when you turn on the stair it could explode. and kill us the motion which it. never gets held by the ukrainian military the separatists are just two kilometers away the two sides sh

stories that we're tracking for you at this hour exit polls show comedian of a lot of mirrors the lenski has won the ukrainian presidential election and he wanted in a landslide 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 nex

ukraine will choose between income and petro poroshenko and political know of as logo mirrors the lenski in the second round of the country's presidential election yesterday the two candidates made a final bit for support when they faced off in front of thousands of followers and olympic stadium. for. the toss of a coin kick things off. but this was not a football match it was an election debate on a scale ukraine had never seen before. in the country's largest stadium incumbent petro poroshenko until the challenger the comedian followed him is a lens made that cases. got to go first. reported to you i am not a politician. i am not a politician at all. i am just a person in ordinary person your caprice law schools come to break the system there i am the result alexia which. you are losing but i am the result of your mistakes and promises what will you be so because alinsky has made a career out of making jokes but his candidacy isn't one and just a serious other stakes the staunchly anti kremlin parra shanku assumed office in twenty fourteen shortly after russian forces annexed crimea an

stadium sunday for a debate between ukrainian president petro poroshenko and his rival volodymyr the lenski however as reported zaleski failed to turn up for the event the two go head to head later this month animal action run off. fresh off his victorious reelection israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has convened the first meeting of his new cabinet who was never really awarded a record fifth term after elections last week although he is likely to soon face entitlements on corruption charges. in sudan the interim military council held its first meeting today after seizing power from veteran leader omar al bashir the new head of that council lieutenant general abdel fatah board chaired the meeting in the capital khartoum earlier he responded to protesters demands by promising to form a civilian government within two years but the sudanese people are keeping up the pressure they presented a list of demands to military rulers including immediate civilian control of the government. outside the military headquarters in khartoum protesters are making their voices heard fed up with decades

economic scandals involving politics in terms of the story well it doesn't seem to be harming william as lenski at all in the polls if anything his lead ahead of proportion go seems to be increasing but obviously he's competitor his his his rival president poroshenko is portraying this as. one of his priorities he says alinsky will come to power and give this bank back to his back. to the owner of the t.v. channels that made zelinsky famous in the first place and it by observers to seeing this is a signal really the courts are taking one look at the polls and are convinced that he will be the next president trying to get ahead of the curve trying to not to do something that will get them in the good books of ukraine's likely future president what about the economic agendas of both candidates. well that's the big question mark here when we have this election campaign has been dragging on for months and we've had precious little in the way of detailed manifesto pledges i'm here in front of kiev lympics stadium where the two candidates are finally going to come face to face tonight for a debate in

i'm for the lenski we can trust him partially because clever but he's corrupt. but i'm very keen for poroshenko he's professional.