question is whether he's got any ability to really run this country given his lack of experience robin forresterwalk live for us and care frank you for that update robin. now we're expected to find out later on sunday who the protest leaders in sudan have chosen to take over a transitional government they're doing that to put pressure on the ruling military transitional council so it hands over power to a civilian led government thousands of demonstrators have been staging ongoing protests outside the army headquarters former president omar al bashir was removed in a coup earlier this month while a court in algeria has summoned the former prime minister and current finance minister in an investigation into the alleged misuse of public money hundreds of thousands of algerians are holding rallies calling for wider political change after president abilities beautifully stepped down earlier this month. while the fire that engulfed not to don earlier this week has forced wishes to find other places to celebrate the easter holiday. parishioners who normally celebrate easter mass at the historic paris

president in sunday's second round runoff against the incumbent petro poroshenko al-jazeera as robin forrester walk a went to hometown to find out more about the man whose only experience of politics is playing the president on television. this is the wreak crook at home in english a city built on iron ore and steel production. and birthplace of a man who is promising to reshape ukraine's political landscape the law to made a zillion ski. zielinski place 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 he can tell us about the zielinski. this is a city of manly 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 good people like him this is the apartment block zielinski grew up in and his

landscape in opinion polls ahead of sunday's second presidential election runnels al-jazeera as robin forrester walk on visited the ukrainian seaport of adesa to find out why partially because fighting for his political survival was. you know desa ukrainian multiculturalism finds its truest expression. in a music with many different roots to. give a new york of an order that is like new york city of immigrants settled by people of various information greeks germans jews moldovans russians ukrainians and this book a creates this music of the work with that the move to the same diversity may explain why voters you know desa rejected the incumbent president in the first round of ukraine's presidential election petro poroshenko came third 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 church splitting from the moscow patriarchate. critics here say that policy

events keep proposing direct talks with russia to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine zero as robin forrester has the latest from the capital kiev. and silver the mood since he announced his decision to run in this presidential race four months ago when he was a comedian and he was not a politician but he has been catapulted to the front of his race because of his successful television series in which he placed the president like no other a president who takes on ukraine's corrupt or they got a political system successfully. the candidate he's running against me incumbent president petro poroshenko says do not trust the law the new zealand is not a servant of the people and is a servant of an only god only god or a shrink who claims he's going to billions of dollars of ukrainian taxpayers' money at the problem for petro poroshenko is that his campaign hasn't really. resonated with ukrainian voters who haven't bought into his brand of ukrainian nationalists him and many believe that he's going to tackle corruption so it can be believed opinion polls that is ukrainians are expected to deliver a

around seventy five percent of his voters the vote his rival petro poroshenko has conceded defeat robin forrester walk of reports from kiddo. having played the role of president in a t.v. show below to meet zelinsky is now on course to make that role a reality winning an overwhelming majority of votes cost on sunday. thank you to my parents for their support and for living through all of this thanks to my team for their strength and stamina has my wife heard all of the things that was said about me in this campaign and perhaps she would never have married me faced with defeat president petro poroshenko was magnanimous but he will continue to play a role in ukrainian politics the ukrainians dear ukrainians i want to underline that the new president will face strong opposition very strong but i want to say that the country our ukraine which is the best in the world well only benefit from it. poroshenko painted zelinsky as naive and experienced dangerous for a country at war with russia with questionable links to an unsavory oligarch. but zelinsky patrice himself as a simple guy who had come to brea

our correspondent robin forrester walker has been to his hometown. this is the wreak crook at home in english a city built on iron ore and steel production. and birthplace of a man who is promising to reshape ukraine's political landscape the law to made a 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 he can tell us about the zielinski. 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 good people like him. this is the apartment block zielinski grew up in and his parents still live here now it's clear he's come from humble beginnings rather like the character in his t.v. show but there

become ukraine's next president in sunday's second round runoff against incumbent petro poroshenko robin forrester walker went to the then skis home town to find out more about the man whose only experience of politics is playing the president on television. this is the reak cricket hold in english a city built on iron ore and steel production. and birthplace of the man who is promising to reshape ukraine's political landscape the low to mid zielinski. zielinski place 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 he can tell us about the zielinski. war on this is a city of mentally ill 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 good people like him this is the apartment block zielinski

tops the list of countries with the highest rates of measles infection from the capital kiev robin forrester walker reports. when you later contract the daughter was given an emergency vaccination but it was too late to be effective. or. she was intoxicated by the virus she was hospitalized was really stressful ukrainian hospitals are a nightmare. on facebook urged others to get themselves and their children vaccinated but reaction was mixed with dimming adding you live people blamed me for overloading my already sick child with things that scene's and i would be to blame when the child gets sick the anti-vaccination movement is unfortunately very developed here and many people are very aggressive or although year later was herself in the one nine hundred ninety s. it's not clear why she wasn't protected but then but she is of russian vaccines may lot have been effective or effectively administered the measles outbreak in ukraine isn't just a result of negative attitudes towards vaccination it's also about systemic problems within ukraine's health care system. generations of ukrainians have

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's not really a debate it's a slugging match an appearance is it deceptive because although there appear to be more for sanko supporters in here this evening pitcher poroshenko he's trailing in opinion polls by a huge margin. so unless something rad

of the vote as rival petro poroshenko was backed by the west has conceded defeat al jazeera as robin forrester walker reports from the capital. well we'll have that report and a bit later for you but. he is from the ukrainian congress committee of america he says there are concerns that selenski does not have the experience to negotiate an end to the war in eastern ukraine with russia. you have to understand that a lot of his campaign promises were just that very short sentences he proposed doing a major restructuring of the. military structure in ukraine without any explanation about head how getting that passed in parliament and similarly he's proposed we all restarting the minsk agreement talks the normandie process inviting the united states and the u.k. into that however that doesn't take into account that russia as the other party in mediation needs to agree to that russia is the party in the means process that has violated it according to the international observers so to say that he will restart it doesn't take into account that he needs to be dealing with russia and does that mean thi

country it seems many ukrainians from all over ukraine have backed him for president thank you robin forrester walk in kiev the news coming out of the runoff election there is that the comedian candidate volodymyr is a lenski has won the runoff well in a landslide quite simply around seventy three percent of the vote that's his headquarters on the right hand side he was on stage earlier celebrating with the media crowding around a little bit more quiet on the other side the headquarters of president petro poroshenko looks like he will be president poroshenko as he has been defeated. quite handsomely in this runoff election in ukraine. the rest of the day's news that come on al-jazeera there is more political uncertainty in mali as attackers target an army post just days after the prime minister resigned. and a report of my course of a is bringing back our relatives of people who went to the front lines of the syria . hello there we've still got plenty of wet weather over turkey at the moment the satellite picture is showing all that cloud rotating a verse also affecting us in syria and lebanon

inskeep proposing direct talks with russia to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine here's robin forrester walk with the latest from kiev. this is the more square behind me the epicenter of political earthquake in ukraine's recent past in the two thousand and four and twenty fourteen revolutions well today in ukraine another perhaps political earthquake if as expected the law to me is in a complete political. wins this vote and becomes ukraine's next president he already is a president but an entirely fictional one on his television series servant of the people in which he plays a president like no other president who has managed to tackle ukraine's entrenched corrupt political system so ukrainians either believe that zelinsky can somehow carry out those kinds of reforms and be that fictional president in reality or it's a big protest vote against petro poroshenko the incumbent who has for the last five years done. objectively military. rable job trying to keep the lid on the conflict against russia in the east and who's managed to get western support for ukraine and get sanctions levied a

three percent on a promise to end the war in eastern ukraine and to root out corruption from kiev robin forrester walker reports on the challenges the lenski now faces. there's no sign of the political protest kiev's independence square is famous for. but rebellion is in the air now that ukrainians have elected a comedian to be their president. election observers praised what they called the colorful and competitive campaign i would really fall hard to light to correct your late the citizens of ukraine for their deep commitment to democracy demonstrated in competitive elections in which they have really free choice given ukraine's history of contested votes and violent revolution sunday's election went so smoothly that both candidates agreed ukraine has set an example to other countries in the region including russia a russian meme is now circulating featuring russia's most popular comic alongside let me putin putin is saying don't even think about it. thank you thank you thank you a more democratic ukraine might even be a way for president elect to me as a lenski to tackle the conflict in easter