us did not do that i was very pleased with this in fact president poroshenko was complaining to us that we weren't doing enough to support him and our response was consistently we don't pick people when zelinsky want to a landslide victory with over 70 percent of the votes the u.s. embassy was the 1st to congratulate him and also then to partially go for his efforts to further democracy democracy in ukraine the u.s. claims it was neutral regarding who would win but during the election campaign the ambassador was asked if the lansky was the right person for ukrainians to unite around and his reply added up looking very much like an endorsement of pressure. is vladimir's lenski the former actor who is now the front runner in the presidential election this month the person around whom ukraine can coalesce it's an candidate who has established himself as against the establishment and now the ukrainian public is faced with this choice do they want someone who is just going against the establishment promising massive reform where they want someone who maybe has been disappointing to them in s

embassy was 1st congratulated also thanked poroshenko for his efforts to further democracy in ukraine the u.s. claims it was new to him regarding who would win join the election campaign the ambassador was asked if selenski was the right person for ukrainians to unite around and his reply and it looking very much like an endorsement. is vladimir is lenski the former actor who is now the front runner in the presidential election this month the person around whom ukraine can coalesce it's an candidate who has established himself as against the establishment and now the ukrainian public is faced with this choice do they want someone who is just going against the establishment promising massive reform or do they want someone who maybe has been disappointed to them in some respects but has done more in reform than anyone else in ukraine for the past 20 years and stood up to putin journalist martin summers police washington isn't quite telling the truth when saying it doesn't support a candidate. i mean poroshenko seems to be very much the supported supported by both the europeans and the a

secretary pompeo called candidate zelensky and then president poroshenko on the eve of the elections. president trump called to congratulate president dlenski on the night of the election. as you know, senator, you took part in a presidential delegation along with secretary perry myself and the eu ambassador to be there for the inaugurati inauguration. we had a lengthy meeting with the president then. since then president trump has written to president dlenski indicated he would welcome him for a visit to the white house. we have engaged in a number of ways. our u.n. ambassador hosted the president for a dinner in brussels. he has also made the rounds in why were. is in berlin today and paris yesterday. we are reaching out in a variety of ways. i hope we are able to assemble another trip to ukraine in advance of his white house visit in the next several weeks. finally, i do want to put one point out there. it is very important that we do note forget about the people of the dome bus. their living through a war on their territory of a prewar population of 4 million. it's down to 1.5 to

much progress as he hopes and won't find situations to me if he different to his predecessor petro poroshenko he's definitely changed the negotiating team and tried to work towards changing improving those atmospherics bring in people who maybe hand find a better way of speaking to their russian counterparts in all of this but at the end of this the the really longest leaves in all this are in the kremlin that supports those separatist regimes keeps them alive and equally even if he really wants to make the compromises to really see progress happen there is a very determined civil society here in ukraine that has seen thousands of soldiers dying that isn't really in the mood at least now it seems to allow him to make anything that would seem like kowtow to the russians in the last 30 seconds that are remaining is there anything that germany and chancellor merkel can do to a concrete lee help end the war in ukraine. well the hope here in germany is definitely to set back in motion that peace process and today was really all about getting in touch with it like getting to know one another on the

there is some hope of peace there was not with poroshenko fighting want to achieve anything more at the shit some sort of i think he'll manage to end the war he talks in a totally different way of course we want to be together again we want these board accused to be over. in his inauguration speech full of the misery linsky made much of wanting to win the hearts and minds of people living in separatist held territory speaking to them rather than speaking about them but as his 1st weeks in office draw to a close selenski still owes ukrainians a no answer what diplomatic steps to see intend to take and what concessions is he willing to make to return donetsk and lugansk to ukrainian control for now selenski is keeping his cards exceedingly close to his chest. whereas i know about some of the other stories making news around the world. sudan's opposition has rejected a plan by the country's military rulers to hold elections within 9 months it comes a day after a deadly crackdown on a protest camp left at least $35.00 people dead opposition leaders are calling for a campaign of civil disobe

with there's some hope of peace there was not with poroshenko fighting want to achieve anything. i think he'll manage to end the war he talks in a totally different way of course we want to be together again we want these board accused to be over. in his inauguration speech full of the ms alinsky made much of wanting to win the hearts and minds of people living in separatist held territory speaking to them rather than speaking about them but as his 1st weeks in office draw to a close selenski still owes ukrainians a no answer what diplomatic steps to see intend to take and what concessions is he willing to make to return donya it's going to haunt sgt ukrainian control for now selenski is keeping his cards exceedingly close to his chest. well it has been 30 years since this image here was seared into into our collective memory that iconic photo of a lone man facing down a column of armor tanks defiance of the brutal crackdown in tiananmen square when chinese soldiers shot and killed hundreds of their own armed fellow citizens the spring of 1989 in that spring students occupied the

talks with putin are going to resolve this what would there's some hope of peace there was not with poroshenko fighting want to achieve anything. i think he'll manage to end the war he talks in a totally different way of course we want to be together again we want these board accused to be over. in his inauguration speech. he made much of wanting to win the hearts and minds of people living in separatist held territory speaking to them rather than speaking about them but as his 1st weeks in office draw to a close selenski still owes ukrainians a no answer what diplomatic steps to see intend to take and what concessions is he willing to make to return. to ukrainian control for now selenski is keeping his cards exceedingly close to his chest. that report by nick connelly of japan is a country of many contradictions stick sex for example the subject appears to be out in the open with pornography comic book sold at nearly every convenience store but japan is also extremely conservative with parents tiptoeing around the subject of sex a survey released last year suggests sex education at school is

that will had of the general staff of the ukrainian army that that was a provocation prepared by poroshenko during his campaign. there it's outrageous. incredibly outrageous. because on the position of ukraine they're. virtually. because 1st that that was a provocation it was staged we have a number of issues regarding people detained in ukraine. they say there is they just follow the orders we know that about that however they violated russian law and they have to answer for that but we need to settle this according to the law and we are. working on the chook mr choked we know that he helped to liberate 4 people from the. he. alan their own d.n.a. republics in the donbas so we need to have better context here of to have a better dialogue then we will have results if we knew authorities in ukraine are ready to cooperate we will cooperate we may have a lot of progress. and. that's the last question i'm sorry but this is a last question because we are starting our bilateral meeting after that this is start you mentioned already your recent interview to the financial times which was broadly qu

but there's some hope of peace there was not with poroshenko fighting want to achieve anything wrong at this at some sort of i think he'll manage to end the war he talks in a totally different way of course we want to be together again we want these board accused to be. in his inauguration speech is alinsky made much of wanting to win the hearts and minds of people living in separatist held territory speaking to them rather than speaking about them but as his 1st weeks in office draw to a close selenski still owes ukrainians a know what diplomatic steps to see intend to take and what concessions is he willing to make to return. control for now selenski is keeping his cards exceedingly close to his chest. and before i let you go and remind you of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour the u.s. president has told british prime minister to make. that britain stands rather a quote. trade deal with the u.s. one. of the prime minister deserve more credit for homework negotiating a bridge the deal. you're watching from berlin coming up. with a special edition on the women's wor

with there's some hope of peace there was not with poroshenko fighting want to achieve anything. i think he'll manage to end the war he talks in a totally different way of course we want to be together again we want these board accused to be over. in his inauguration speech followed him as alinsky made much of wanting to win the hearts and minds of people living in separatist held territory speaking to them rather than speaking about them but as his 1st weeks in office draw to a close selenski still owes ukrainians a know what diplomatic steps to see intend to take and what concessions is he willing to make to return. control for now selenski is keeping his cards exceedingly close to his chest. here's a recap the top story that we're following feel today mom 30 years of the chinese government counted on a bloody crackdown on student protesters intent on one square security has been stepped up around the square in central beijing where the massacre took place. and u.s. president dollar trump has offered britain the possibility of what he called a very substantial trade deal once b

well these are concerns that were raised again by his previous to petro poroshenko because if this pipeline is completed that means that russia can supply its customers in western europe western europe and that's mainly germany along with other european neighbors with gas while bypassing ukraine and that are not only means that ukraine loses money money currently gets for the transit of russian gas to western europe but more crucially the theory here in kiev is that if ukraine is no longer crucial to the security of those gas shipments to western europe if russia can still earn that money from its western european gas customers without ukraine then it will be in russia's interest or russia will be free it to destabilize ukraine and to really ramp up the pressure not only in the currently separatist held regions but across ukraine people here in kiev say it was only at that gas pipeline really that meant that back in 2014 russia stopped where it did or at a correspondence nick connelly in kiev and. reporting here in berlin to both of you thank you what is a killing that sent shock waves thro

with there's some hope of peace there was not with poroshenko fighting want to achieve anything wrong a question some sort of i think he'll manage to end the war he talks in a totally different way of course we want to be together again we want these board accused to be over. in his inauguration speech followed him as alinsky made much of wanting to win the hearts and minds of people living in separatist held territory speaking to them rather than speaking about them but as his 1st weeks in office draw to a close selenski still owes ukrainians a no answer what diplomatic steps to see intend to take and what concessions is he willing to make to return don't you it's going to haunt sgt ukrainian control for now selenski is keeping his cards exceedingly close to his chest. that support but it obviously connelly but here in europe and around the world many countries have tightened their borders to refugees but as many western nations turn away asylum seekers uganda is vote coming more people than ever approximately 1000000 refugees most of them from south sudan now call uganda whole in fa

well president poroshenko president selenski predecessor also had ukraine on a firm path toward the west so that's not really any different they do have a deep and meaningful partnership as it's called with the european union they also are on the path to nate eventual nato membership if certain reforms are taken so that isn't really different than under push and go now president putin may have hoped that things would be different and he certainly put a test to president selenski soon after the election what he did was he offered passports russian passports to citizens in dawn bus saying that all of you eastern ukrainians come in be russian citizens now president zelinsky handled this rather coolly and here's where a sense of humor does come in handy he said look if you have a russian passport you can be arrested for peaceful passports you don't have freedom so you will offer passports to those suffering russians so certainly he's held up well so far under kremlin pressure and we'll see how that continues but again a pretty successful 1st trip for zelinsky here in brussels right teri schu

his success in the election has pushed out the hardliners from west ukraine who were dominant and poroshenko years what are the concerns that you would have about her overseeing this particular section of facebook. well i mean the fact that mr crook has worked for a neo nazi party i mean you know the fact is just if you're putting someone doesn't matter to you and say russian that means ukraine is their business i mean i'm say russia is sort of a mainstream thing in ukraine nowadays that's not really the issue here the issue is that facebook a company which has certain rules and community guidelines against extremism has literally implied somebody from a neo nazi background to take over their operations in ukraine i mean it's very very worrying because obviously i mean. she's obviously got a certain ideology perhaps she'll be totally fair in the way she implements the. job she's been given because you have to ask questions and you have to wonder like i mean our face have facebook i'm going to make a statement on this are they going to say they've had some guarantee you some missed crook that

secretary pompeo called candidate zilinski and then-president poroshenko on the eve of the elections. president trump called the congratulate the new president on the night of the election. senator, you took part in a presidential tell gation along with secretary perry and myself and our e. rumplet -- our e.u. ambassador to be there for the inauguration. we had a lengthy meeting with the new president then. since then president trump has written to the new president, indicated he's welcoming him for a visit to the white house at a time yet to be agreed. we hope that is soon. we have remained engaged in a number of ways, our e.u. ambassador hosted president zilinski for a kinner in -- dinner in brussels. he's made the rounds in europe, he was in berlin today and paris yesterday. we are reaching out in a variety of ways, i hope we're able to assemble another trip to ukraine in the next several weeks. i do want to put one point out there. it's important we don't forget about the people the dombas. they are livering thru a war on their territory. of a prewar population of about four milli