so you see petro poroshenko is saying that once you take over ukraine and selenski will not be able to withstand this so this is his message then as you mentioned. he is a comedian and is an actor and three and a half years ago. a show that nobody had ever seen in ukraine appeared on t.v. . played the part of just an ordinary teacher of history at school who all of a sudden becomes president just because he's sick of everything and the reason why many people are voicing voting for him because for them that they see it as this is a dream come true as. such as a sort of a concept why don't we give it a try because he's seen as someone with no political experience whatsoever and what mr once is to completely get rid of the old political elite he introduced his team last night and there were no familiar faces pretty much whatsoever. what he also wants to do is to prosecute the people from the previous government he's openly saying this even once them to be in jail if they're proved to be criminals and this is the point he kept on making during the debates. over to you which is first of all

debates on the stage will come back to that a bit later debates between the current president petro poroshenko and the comedian both dimmers and then scale let's focus on the turnout a little bit it is quite good roughly the same as in the first round so we are expecting probably a bit more than sixty five percent of the people eligible to vote. we were hoping that roughly the same number will cast their ballots this is a runoff because there was no clear winner in the first round. was a bit more than thirty percent and sixteen percent somewhat like that for petro poroshenko the current president and by three pm it was clear that almost a half of the voters came to the polling stations which is five minutes before they close again and rather good result petro poroshenko who was relying a lot on the anti russian sentiment and nationalist sentiments he called on all voters to show up in ukrainian national shirts known as. however he

played a president on television now he's one for real after incumbent petro poroshenko conceives the. thanks for joining us we start in sri lanka where world and religious leaders have condemned a devastating wave of easter sunday bombings at least two hundred seven people were killed and hundreds more wounded luxury hotels and churches were targeted police say most of the eight bombings appear to have been suicide attacks the government has blamed religious extremists but so far no group has claimed responsibility. so hospital in the capital colombo was overwhelmed people brought in victims any way they could to. the outside shock and disbelief at the scale of the violence. no one expected easter sunday to end in this way i heard the explosion and then the roof fell on us we took the children and run out but when i came to the hospital i saw my brother in law and some on the ground. among the buildings hit the five star shangri-la hotel in colombo. many had been enjoying a special easter break first when the blast went off. it was one of several luxury hotels and a church targeted i

stadium capacity seventy thousand and the place was immense he says he wants to debate with petro poroshenko no dusty t.v. studio for the landscape who prefers to talk to his supporters direct through social media. feelings once again selenski throwing down the gauntlet and once again go left with no other option but to agree. to observers with a late night reply by video message that you want if it's the stadium you want then so be it i'll be waiting for you when pershing could travel to paris to meet him a visit intended to underscore his diplomatic standing still and again picked him to the post meeting mccall and his advisors hours before pushing. all the tension in ukraine was focused on the mood music between the presidential candidates and their french toast down to the number of minutes spent at the elite palace. less than forty eight hours after his return from paris. was walking the turf of the olympic stadium. his challenge to bring the stadium debate forward had simply been ignored with his poll ratings fly high he's apparently in no mood to compromise three weeks have now passed

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 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 a president in a t.v. sitcom is in line to get the job for a real volodymyr is a landscape is so secure an assailable leader of incumbent petro poroshenko who has already conceded defeat well across the election with us now are you have been following this and if we start with the polls they said zelinsky would tr

incumbent sepp petro poroshenko ends item is in ski facing off at a debates that i 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 coul

something else that petro poroshenko is doing is trying to make the voters associate mr selenski with an all the guard who actually owns the t.v. channel where most of these alinsky shows are run now if we look at the media and himself as he said he starred in and he played the part of the president and you t.v. show that appeared in ukraine three and a half years ago and this is playing the part of an ordinary schoolteacher of history who all of a sudden becomes president because he hates everything that's happening in the country and because 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

after the first round petro poroshenko was losing almost fifteen percent to boredom or selenski. rather unexpectedly the comedian won more than thirty percent of the vote and petro poroshenko the current president scored sixteen and it was clear that debates could be the tool for the leader to somehow change the situation. but then this was a proper attack by misters and in ski. you could see that people who are his advisors or something they were eager to step in with that kind of moves he said let's do it on a stadium petro poroshenko. didn't respond for several hours but then when it was well into the night it was already early morning i remember seeing a tweet from petro poroshenko had about three thirty in the morning he came up with a video saying let's make it happen on a stadium and then it happened on a stadium to be honest with you i expected more people to call me and i expected more viewing more reaction from the audience even though there was a great deal reaction but again just because it's ukrainian just because everything's unpredictable i don't know maybe it's ma

being very familiar to everyone he didn't have the political baggage of his competitors both petro poroshenko and former prime minister yulia timoshenko who were the front runners going into the first round they were all associated with the corrupt politics the past twenty years and he could come away as a fresh faces someone from a younger generation and as his critics would say someone who promises all things to all people he's been pretty pretty slow to give detail what exactly he wants to do and in the last two weeks since first round we thought we'd hit him or we thought he'd come face to face with petro poroshenko but it seems like he's been doing his best to avoid coming face to face with the incumbent let's have a look at how those last few weeks mean panning out. 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 they did because of this man comedian and actor the misled president pershing because challenger has turned ukraine's politics on its head in a matter of months when selenski deman

alinsky putting him or over seventy percent on almost double as many votes as the incumbent petro poroshenko that looks to be a position and a very difficult to come back from for the sitting president petro poroshenko out on the streets of kiev today to turn out seems pretty big we were in the suburbs of kiev earlier on in the middle class district lots of support from zelinsky there here in downtown kiev a lot more sympathy for the incumbent people telling us that they think you know they have something to lose and don't want to risk putting someone without experience in the top job voting now taking off a bit most people seemingly having posted already in the early hours but polling stations will still be open for another four hours. what are the candidates focused

less than forty eight hours after his return from paris petro poroshenko was walking the turf of the limbic stadium alone with his supporters his challenge to selenski to bring the stadium debate forward had simply been ignored with his poll ratings fly high selenski is apparently in no mood to compromise three weeks have now passed since the first round of voting but ukrainians are barely any wiser about what their presidential candidates plan to do three weeks debating the how and the when of a potential debate instead of discussing the issues of which there are more than enough in a country locked in standoff with russia with more than a million refugees and millions more leaving the country in search of work so lets his critics argue that's no coincidence they say as a newcomer to politics he has little to win and much to lose debating the details of being president today ukrainians have one last chance to hear their next president whoever that will be set out his vision before they go to the polls that is if selenski can finally agree on the terms of the debate. coming up next o

the result was a bit of a blow for incumbent petro poroshenko who conceded defeat the divide to stay in politics are shanker had presented himself as an experienced paris hands but it seems many ukrainians were looking for a fresh approach where we can says i think we'll see some changes let's hope there for the better and that ukraine see some real developments of the issues that you know the most important thing is that the war in solution should remain the will yet to move the system we've nothing to lose things can't get any worse than they already are selenski is young and full of energy care if he's an actor and a clown we're going to see some big changes he'll be better than poor schenkel one hundred percent. but if you craniums believe fail to solve their problems it's not clear why selenski will either the close his he's being to political power is playing a fictional president in a sitcom. and while his campaign was media savvy it was light on concrete policy ideas. he inherits a country burdened by a separatist war in the east rampant corruption and a sluggish economy sele

ukraine's next president voting stations are open in today's runoff election incumbent president petro poroshenko faces below them years a landscape a comedian who played a president on television now and you do it for real. thanks for joining us more than one hundred thirty people have been killed in explosions at hotels and churches and sri lanka at least six blasts have been reported in the capital colombo the town of no go and go and the eastern town of budget koloa the explosions went off simultaneously a church in colombo was one of the buildings hit other targets were high and hotels several foreigners are reported to be among the dead. and more details on this develop. story i'm joined now by. kara head of the institute of national security studies in colombo sri lanka mr of a good mystic kara you witnessed one of the attacks today you were inside one of the targeted hotels when it all happened can you tell us about what you saw. the attack was addition. to five first blast went off and this was at the breakfast area on the third floor where the blast went off because it was so many peopl

it wasn't just petro poroshenko who was his victim in all these comedy serious and fact he was pretty much attacking the entire ukrainian political elite but here's something. where he played the role of a future president who used to be just a schoolteacher let's watch bits of the trailer about sitcoms. but. now a real surreal twist wouldn't it the way the fictions become. not that it's up and yet it's not done just yet because it's going to go to a second round isn't it well it sounds like a perfect plan to become president but at the same time who knows three months ago when we saw the early voting yesterday just off the pole station stations open at eight o'clock in the morning you machine could turned up an hour late and she veteran of the political scene but a vote for her isn't it. see has been in the korean politics for more than two decades but it's definitely a bad move for her because she used to be considered the number one favorite she has so much experience in a way she was the symbol of the opposition in ukraine after serving a jail term under victory in a cold which bu

in ukraine now incumbent president petro poroshenko job is on the line today and the country's presidential runoff as opponent is will load and there is a lengthy a comic actor who plays a fictional president in a popular t.v. show polling stations will be open until early evening with preliminary results expected a few hours later reelection opinion polls show the landscape with a big lead over incumbent president poroshenko. today's election comes with the 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. and 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 sit next to the locus and waits for it to stop and listen to what was washed off. just don't feel stupid we aren't supposed to pick up anything suspicious because when you turn on the steamer it could explode. and kill us through. neverland's because held by the ukrainian military the sepa

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 after that on the election rules and that doesn't look good for the incumbent he looks to be trailing a limousine lengthy by about two to one selenski all around seventy percent or shank around thirty percent that's basically the same pattern we saw from the first round so nothi

petro poroshenko has been tarnished by allegations of corruption but he's keen to play up his role or know why to 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 i reforms are not finished yet and we will not allow anyone to stop them my mother with this emotionally. diverting 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 thanks for joining us president poroshenko is under threat of losing his job to a politically inexperienced volodymyr zelinsky what are the opinion polls telling us at this hour. well the last opinion polls we have off from the last stand last week where there were no opinion polls allowed to be held the day before and on the day of the election but those do seem very decisively in favor of this insurgent candidate for the most alinsky putting him or over seventy percent on almost double as many votes as

now he is the real thing and competent petro poroshenko has conceded. and a determined authority to quote they get the three points they needed to keep pace with byron munich at the top of the table. 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 fifty world leaders have condemned the coordinated attacks the targeted luxury hotels and churches where worshipers had gathered for easter services police say thirty two foreign nationals are dead after those attacks. and the country is in mourning let's take a look. so hospital in the capital colombo was overwhelmed people brought in victims anyway they coat. that. outside shock and disbelief at the scale of the violence. no one expected easter sunday to end in this way i heard the explosion and then the roof fell on us we took the children and ran out but when i came to the hospital i saw my brother in law and son on the ground. among the buildings hit the five

it looks like petro poroshenko has 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. might find himself in a situation that's similar to that of donald trump when his decisions could be blocked by the parliament where the coalition where the main party is petro poroshenko as party has a majority in parliament he reiterated that he's not giving up to journalists when he has his press conference let's have a listen to bits of what he had to say. it doesn't give. the words to churchill which i always follow. when i see the results of the exit. demand i now call

olinsky performed way better than expected he won a bit less than a third of all the votes and petro poroshenko got almost two times less than that sixteen percent president poroshenko came to power as a result of the mind revolution in two thousand and fourteen and that was when the president was considered pro russian victory in a cold which was overthrown and back then it was a few months after the martin revolution porcher and co won the presidential election in the first round obviously was more than fifty percent of the votes now his support according to the pre run of opinion polls ranges from twenty percent to forty percent which is obviously not enough to win the second round this time and twenty nine thousand so what he's trying to do is play the anti-war card he's trying to portray selenski as a russian puppet or as the man who won't be able to withstand all this russian aggression as petro poroshenko calls it the let's take a listen with what he's saying and how he's trying to push that idea through. you know you should probably i believed. lansky does not want to surrender ukraine

the background of both these men who were running for president in the second round petro poroshenko the current president and it looks like he's going to be losing that job he came to power as a result of the mind on revolution in two thousand and fourteen but he wasn't really a child of that revolution because his political experience dates back to the late ninety's he never had top of the most high ranking positions in government but he was always there you know somewhere out there closer to the government closer to the president and he wasn't the leader of the money down revolution either but he was allied with them and this generated a lot of support for him when he ran for president in two thousand and fourteen and that was an easy win for him he won in the first round and obviously that was a reason for a very high xpect. he was expected to turn what's going on in the country around he was expected to get rid of corruption in fact he's a wealthy businessman himself a billionaire he was expected to give up his business but it looks like he lost all the support of ukrainians in

petro poroshenko left we can see men and camo flaws with ukrainian flags so yeah you can see them right there so he's trying all kinds of tricks mr nestor was saying that some of the tricks were dirty but i just want to remind you of the score in the first round so yes people were saying that the polls were showing that is supposed to go first and when this first round but nobody expected him to win more than thirty percent of the vote right. almost two times less than that on the show people were saying he was lucky enough to get into the second round because you know too much and it was very close as well but it still was a very bad result for him and now even some of the most optimistic pro president polls are showing that he is not going to win more than forty percent of the vote so it's a very tough one for him and we're going to be watching what's going to be said right there on the just before we let you go do you think a. sizeable proportion if. this today or does it look as if this this is a comic actors linsky knows how to talk to a crowd before shank is the president will it

channel selenski program appears on who opposes present president petro poroshenko . supports a landscape they just want to shoulder at. poroshenko is the president ukrainians have him now the chocolate billionaire who rode his confectionery fortune to the presidency in the last election to many he represents everything that is wrong about ukraine now corruption and low living standards he made his name as a pro european anti russian candidate and he's sticking to it the british leave us we have passed the test for our european ways and it means everything we do to head in the european direction is absolutely right with an outsider comedienne all but poised to become president many ukrainians do not seem to believe he's playing games with the country's future. so let's talk a little bit more about that future nick because i mean what does the landscape campaigning tell us about the current state of ukrainian politics so i think it's definitely abouts. despair contempt deep disappointment among many about the state of ukrainian politics about the place your class that i

presidential runoff the plane the president took on television now he's the real thing incumbent petro poroshenko has conceded to street. in the homestretch of the poultice league goalkeeping and timely goal scoring have put back within a single point of the league's top to bottom. hello i'm terry marchin good to have you with us police in sri lanka say the death toll from the devastating wave of bombings on easter sunday has risen sharply to two hundred ninety five hundred people were also injured in the coordinated attacks that targeted churches where worshipers had gathered for easter services and luxury hotels most of the eight bombings appear to have been suicide attacks the government is blaming religious extremists but no group has yet claimed responsibility. just hours after the series of bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels sri lankan security forces carry out a read on a house in the capital colombo a further explosion rips through the building killing three police officers along with the police special task force the sri lankan military has been deployed in the search for the per

petro poroshenko has been tarnished by allegations of corruption but he's keen to play up his role i know why this stage. it was a little cheer for me but 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 from i am a little bit semantically. after hurting the president went on to an easter mass but perishing because days in office look to be numbered. joining us now from the ukrainian capital kiev correspondent nick connelly nick president bush and co is under threat of losing his job to a political eunuchs 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 after that on 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 around thirty percent that's basically the same pattern we saw from the first

volodymyr zelelensky is set to face petro poroshenko in a runoff. polititics, more anti-demonststrate -- antigovernment demonststrations are expected this week. to have you with us. coming up, the ridesharing app lyft is the next to go public with a big stock offering. we will get reaction from los angeles for you. of a grammyth nominated rapper. shoty hussle was yesterday. that and more to come. stay with us. ♪ good afternoon. we begin in turkey, where vote counting is underway. the party of erdogan has suffered a blow by losing control of ankara for the first time. the opposition is just ahead in the race, with less than 30,000 votes in. counting is still underway inn istanbul. here is the president speaking as results were coming in. >> every victory and every loss is the will of our nation. .e have to accept this fact people's admit we won werts in cities we won, but were not successful in cities we lost and we will act accordingly. >> let's get the latest and bring in jasper mortimer. what is the latesest on the accocount in hihis temple? is no

of voting in ukraine's presidential elections he's come in well ahead of incumbent president petro poroshenko. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us it is being called a severe setback for turkey's president rich of tire paired one is a key party has lost control of the capital ankara in local elections and is also facing defeat in istanbul these elections are seen as a referendum on his leadership and many voters say they are completely unhappy with the way he's handling the country's economic downturn. it's an unfamiliar position for red chip tayyip erdogan in local elections seen as a test if you support voters delivered the turkish president his worst night ever at the ballot box during his ruling laid across the country over a role in economic downturn and high inflation and unemployment left vulnerable but said sim cards it there is. i believe the only reason we couldn't get the results we wanted in some cities. is that we couldn't express ourselves enough to our nation. and we failed to win their hearts you know everything all moments all that are. k.p. is sit to lose the capi

well in ukraine the president petro poroshenko continues to trail behind television comedian of blood to me as a landscape in opinion polls ahead of sunday's second presidential election runoff robin forrester will visit at the ukrainian seaport adesa to find out why parson co 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 is like new york city of immigrants settled by people of various initiation greeks germans jews moldovans russians ukrainians and this book a creates this music of the work with the move to the same diversity may explain why voters in odessa 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 also docs

next president's early results give little to me is that in ski a landslide win over incumbent petro poroshenko who has conceded defeat. in the studio to discuss what it all means for ukraine. now we can say with almost one hundred percent certainty that president or. zelinsky will be in charge of ukraine for the next five years and let's be fair this triumph was expected because not a single opinion poll tipped porsche and co to win this head of the runoff but that margin that is incredible that is really a sensation and a complete disaster for. when it became clear that it's a total triumph for of all dimmers alinsky he decided to stick to his own style of communicating with his audience through snappy videos and online posts and in fact he posted something that was recorded on a phone which looks like an instagram story or a video for friends let's have a look at it very. very well i want to thank everyone for being with us these four months that is of course. not me the work we've done together the main thing that we've done we've united ukraine united our lives united our people. when he s

will call this is about two things first it's about generational change so petro poroshenko and third place units in washington selection of figures that have been at the forefront of ukraine's politics for decades selenski someone who on the one hand is known to almost old ukrainians through his work in show business in act as a comedian who has no baggage of that kind who hasn't been involved in frontline politics or politics of any kind for that matter so he's promising at least basic and a generational restart and his major concern he says is corruption the thing he says is holding ukraine back on realizing on its immense potential this after all is ukraine's is europe's rather poorest country still and he says by fighting corruption bringing people even people with top level involved in politics to account for their corrupt dealings he can help release that you cannot potential and really help ukrainians decent living at home rather than being forced to leave the country as millions of ukrainians have been in recent years leaving the country in the hope of finding decent wages an

now he's the real thing incumbent petro poroshenko as conceived. on car last month 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 fifty world leaders have condemned the coordinated attacks that targeted luxury hotels and churches where abortion purse had gathered for easter services police say thirty two foreign nationals are among the dead most of the eight bombings appear to have been suicide attacks the government is blaming religious extremists and made several arrests but no proof has claimed responsibility so far. just hours after the series of bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels three law. and insecurity forces carry out a raid on a house in the capital colombo a further explosion rips through the buildings killing three police officers along with the police special task force the sri lankan military has been deployed in the search for the perpetrators of sunday's deadly bombings. prime minister run ill

will call this about two things first it's about generational change so petro poroshenko in third place units in washington selection of figures that have been at the forefront of ukraine's politics for decades selenski someone who on the one hand is known to almost all ukrainians through his work in show business and act as a comedian who has no baggage of that kind who hasn't been involved in frontline politics or politics of any kind for that matter so he's promising at least basic and a generational restart and his major concern he says is corruption the thing he says is holding ukraine back on realizing only its immense potential this after all is ukraine's is europe's rather poorest country still and he says by fighting corruption bringing people even people.

where the main party is petro poroshenko his party has a majority in parliament he reiterated that he's not giving up to journalists when he has his press conference let's have a listen to bits of what he had to say. if it doesn't. sense the words that winston churchill which i always follow. i hear when i see the results of the exit poll. demand i now call my congratulate let's go back to the dimmers a lens case 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 simlins 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 historian and analyst martin mccauley believes it will be difficult for mr selenski to live up to the promises he's made to the ukrainian voters. everyone knew 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 judge is going to improve. health services will improve education impr

was a bit more than thirty percent and sixteen percent somewhat like that for petro poroshenko the current president and by three pm it was clear that almost a half of the voters came to the polling stations which is five minutes before they close again and rather good result petro poroshenko who was relying a lot on the anti russian sentiment and nationalist sentiments he called on all voters to show up in ukrainian national shirts known as. however he appeared had a polling station wearing a classic suit well that's his choice when it comes to all the words alinsky look a bit more casual he was wearing a suit too but. there was just a plain white t. shirt he was very happy and great mood and one of the reasons for that according to mr bennett was that his wife played that song for him in the morning. though he couldn't remember the actual lyrics of that then he perhaps got a little bit carried away with all the success that's expected according to opinion polls and he actually flashed his ballot which is a legal he showed it to the cameras and now gets. what he's facing a fine something

presidential election with most counted linsky has secured a landslide win over the incumbent petro poroshenko so let's get more reaction now from. our correspondent who's been following this story illegal morning. i have to play the president for a real world for what can we expect from him well people inside ukraine and outside ukraine couldn't stay. wondering what his first moves are going to be when it comes to how he's going to deal with russia and what's his plan for the war in ukraine's east and what we did we hear from him at his first press conference as essentially the president alike were the usual words like the minsk agreements or the normandy format this is when the president or top diplomats of russia and ukraine get together with the leaders of france and germany but i have to say that while there is a lens he says that it is tied to the war and now petro poroshenko couldn't do it in five years and pointing that out was one of mr selenski best weapons during the campaign so lets his message is human lives is all we have to think about now and that's why it is time to act urgent

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. zelinsky will be in charge of ukrain

lansky has secured a massive lead over incumbent president petro poroshenko as voters send a stock prices so the countries are moving clocks. in. a series of deadly explosions and blanco reportedly killed at least two hundred seventy people and injured hundreds more the targets were hotels and churches as the island's christian minority was celebrating easter sunday. and in the weeks main stories. there was no collusion between donald trump and russia as the report finally publishes its conclusions. i want you know we can hear a lot international with me. it's our highlights from the last seven days and all the latest up to date stories welcome to the program from winning a view is to winning voters exit polls in ukraine suggest a political newcomer known only for playing a president in a t.v. sitcom is in line to get the job for real the lot of. appears to have secured an assailable lead over incumbent petro poroshenko who has already conceded defeat across the election for us is. now the polls said he would triumph but the margin was that expected. first of all we can say with almost ab

where the main party is petro poroshenko his party has a majority in parliament he reiterated that he's not giving up to journalists when he had his press conference let's have a listen to bits of what he had to say. if it doesn't go against. the words that winston churchill which i always follow. i hear when i see the results of the exit poll. i now call my congratulate let's go back to all of them are selenski 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 simlins 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 a prank if they will the analysts motm the colli believes that part of the loss is down to his failure to solve the country's problems. if you look at opinion posed in the past month or so more more ukrainians would want some solution to the problem of the conflict and don't. look for better relations with russia to look forward to and they didn't think that. he was ceded far to prove pro wester

mistakes like making a ton of promises you can't keep petro poroshenko came to power after the my dad revolution he was loved in america and europe ukraine was then desperate for a strong new leader what did the people hope to get from mr poroshenko a country with no corruption less poverty a proper alliance with nato and the you and to the civil war in ukraine's east at hold men abroad he lost a lot of support by failing at all that would probably want to exception ukrainians can stay in the you for ninety days without a visa the president did his best to cut off all possible ties with russia and that was the essence of his campaign it was russia has been waging a hybrid war against a country for five years and train is under the threats of fools going to war with russia the tactic didn't really work in the country where millions still speak russian and have relatives there it looks like it probably won't help mr poroshenko in the run off either almost fifteen percent is just too big of a margin even in round one all the hugs and kisses from nato's most powerful people have a sell by