a free ukraine. it is also crucial ukraine do everything possible to strengthen its resilience against russian election -- russian aggression. ukraine's election starts in less than two weeks and will be a crucial test of the democratic process. to conduct free and fair elections without harassment of campaign staffer media is a standard that should not be needed to be repeated at this moment. speakers mentioned internally displaced people's. doainian officials need to what is necessary to ensure the rights of the tens of thousands of internally displaced peoples from crimea and more than one million from the donbass. those living under occupation or have temporarily fled occupation have the right and expectation to be treated as full citizens in ukraine. all ukrainians including crimean's also have the right to expect institutions with integrity and accountability, with corruption minimized and justice for all. despite recent setbacks and controversies, the united states stands ready to do its part

money in the ukraine. with the date the information was published even though the investigation is not exist and there is no investigation but all the data all the information has been leaked to mass media for instance. the court ruled back then that those actions were against the law and those two. citizens they damaged crane's foreign policy interests and they interfere in the u.s. election that's what the course. of the last two years is a different. being very popular the investigation into. russia's intervention. pretty much what you see in the report has not been published at the time but this is not just information from mass media talk about no that came from ukraine's court. should matter for anyone to say. but no one paid attention and we do know about the actions of. his company and the election and you asked was. a prosecutor general he sure. when he was. no way he had position in mind. it was not new back then it was the us would not support him during the election. it was supposed someone els

in ukraine are free. to do what you have in the past and what you are defending you are defending by this issue so in months the candidates and its public debate on television would be to present a defense of the left but mr models for example who was fond of a socialist party or so basically i would like to err i would like to err again what you are saying is just you know what is beating them with propaganda what i already experienced on international assessment of international a good decision we had a lot of force all sort of presenting so so would you go companies ok i want to get all of this to have you create them ok to say not just in the couple of minutes just in the couple of minutes we have left i want i want to get the word on this on what we've just been hearing and i want to ask you as well about this accusation from from moscow that what happened in ukraine. in two thousand and fourteen in which code which was. was removed was was not this this was not a democratically elected government th

go she'd go on ukraine and when he mad they ukrainian ambassador sorry the american ambassador in ukraine marriage of and of egypt meant that the united states kind of indorsed he sports you know mr selenski it's possible victory for russia maybe it will be easier to talk to mr zielinski because mr selenski is not a shame to speak russian in public please note that in your report that your shoulder tried before our discussion they ukrainian citizens who are on syrian your reporter's question you know when they didn't speak english they spoke russian you know russian is very widespread in ukraine so far shingles language polish it was a disaster here and tegan iced a lot of people in ukraine and that was reflected in an article for example by political magazine an american public asian which criticized mr poroshenko for this kind of language policy so for russia he would be just a new face that we could talk to also probably yuri boyd the fourth cager date who is behind this war in their opinion polls since ukraine is not a free country i don't think we should believe all the polls he sudd

the ukraine in the community. sees ukrainian. people live in crimea live a russian life they have fifty cities and. russian citizens they have the full pensions of the russian state in eastern ukraine russia wasn't willing to offer people that same perspective basically becoming a defacto part of russia people did not get russian they didn't get russian pensions and the fighting continues in crimea it could be active phase of the standoff was very short and basically since the end of march twenty fourth teen russian forces be in control and you've had this long standoff between russian supported separatists and. me. in which people are still dying where fighting goes that is very different situation here in crimea our correspondent nick connelly joining us tonight from the city of sebastopol in crimea on this five year anniversary of the annexation of crimea by russia nic thank you very much. the pressure continues to mount on the u.s. aircraft manufacturer boeing the black box data flight recorders in the recent ethiopian airlin

crimea is ukraine and must be returned to ukraine control. as bill has said several times, the driemia declaration consciously harkens back to the 1940 wells declaration when secretary of state wells declared the u.s. would not recognize the de facto occupation and control of the baltic countries of estonia, latvia, and lithuania by stallone's soviet union after the perfidy of a packet. as bill said in the introhistorical is very relevant to the challenge facing us. in the spirit of the russian czars, peter, cath are rein and stallone. current the russian president putin clearly consciously styles himself a gatherer of what he cease as russian lands. regardless of international laws, norms or the view of neighboring countries. in so doing putin has rejected the rules of the game that soviet leader breznev agreed to in the helsinki act. and in a specific ukrainian context, the first russian president embraced is in the bud a pest memorandum. five years later we the international community struggle for adequate responses to the ray dressing of

between russia and ukraine. cranes are not course for naser membership and they have been changes to ukrainian constitutions constitution that kept the country's course for. the possible to just continue developing the economic ties and just ignore that out has that. been tried in that i am myself as an expert on constitutional law and it's not the final law in ukraine. i mean these amendments you can write anything you want. any course you want. it doesn't matter that's for nato. well none of the twenty eight. members of nato want to buy tickets for the fight for the war against russia washington for instance they have here still with external control over ukraine and they use ukraine as a means of fighting russia. but americans they do not want to accept ukraine into nato because all these disputed. border. plus take that agreement which was dropped because the agreement on borders and let's say. the fact that ukraine is the only country in europe which still fails to agree on borders and we have very long bor

in ukraine are free. to do what you have in the past and what you are defending you're defending by this issue so all in monza candidates and its public debate on television would be to present a defense of the left by mr models for example who was founder of a socialist party or if that so basically i would like to err i would like to err again what you're saying is just you know what a beating can with propaganda what i already experienced on international assessment international a good position we had a lot of course i'm all sort of presenting so so will just go companies ok i want to get all of this to have you create them ok different just in the couple of minutes just in the couple of minutes we have left i want i want to get the word on this on what we've just been hearing and i want to ask you as well about this accusation from from moscow that what happened in ukraine. in two thousand and fourteen in which yannick which was. was removed was was not this was not a democratically elected governmen

in the rest of ukraine ukraine is trying to come here have a hell of a hard time passing through some very strict border checks. and challenging but of course mean challenging russian president vladimir putin and there doesn't seem to be much of an appetite for that either around the world are there any critical voices in crimea who are speaking out about the. well that's very difficult there is a russian provides for prison sentences of up to five years for quote challenging russia's territorial integrity so that can be a facebook post saying that crimea is ukraine even like liking a post like that can put you in great trouble and they have seen people. to house arrest be going to prison for this kind of claim most of the most. most direct and open challenges to russia's control has been so i have left most craning key have tried to keep in touch with. but open dissent open criticism of russia's control of the region is very difficult and it is very difficult as a journalist trying to talk to people to encourage people to open up about these kind of things in front of the camera what

new good if ukraine doesn't allow fish from ukraine under the ukrainian market then i'll take my fish to russia change my flag and apply for political asylum but he's given . we still have hope. but i don't know how much longer it will last. carol contended that germany's. played a really tough of the campaign attack. from the thing in the film saying. some of the slugs template. ninety minutes w. an extravagant didn't. really know their stuff. which flowed and still punished. the party and checked with suspicion is from around the world. groups every week double. israeli warplanes have carried out retaliatory strikes against targets in gaza israel says it was targeting infrastructure of the militant palestinian group hamas that's in response to a palestinian rocket attack could hit a town north of tel aviv in the evening hamas said it had reached.

keep ukraine in the west of. when i. become president and he moved toward russia that would not be seen very favorably by washington by trump and therefore you couldn't have a conflict so we're looking at you become the president in three weeks' time. at a very interesting scenario in ukraine where you couldn't move towards much more towards the russian few weeks of. london and. thanks very much for bringing us up to speed on ukraine's presidential election. next week just. got you covered for breaking news alerts and links to videos news from around the world. breaks it. is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency. for you'll be to stay here. mark was the day that when he was. the first time i noticed something was. pretty much one of the first start to. something that. wasn't what i wanted to do. to get this website began featuring. the. p.b.s. critic. i snuck out of the united states. into russia political. men they know as bad wolf. you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it

going to be if ukraine doesn't allow fish from ukraine onto the ukrainian market then i'll take my fish to russia change my flag and apply for political asylum but he still gives. a nice. we still have hope. but i don't know how much longer it will last you. to go india more than twenty five hundred points within thirty five years. that's her mission coming back a day from concord in northern india she's revolutionizing access to safe sanitation in her hometown but to leave it to the future they were shall go to find if you go i would leave you. in thirty minutes w. . writes it means rex. with great importance to me if he knew we'd taken the flag to the history of the relationship between the change in the continent and the downtown downs. of hydrogen. in seventy five minutes he don't think. i'm not laughing. because sometimes i. think. you think that it's drama because it's all that who am i might go join me i need to get my feet up. israeli warplanes have carried out retaliatory strikes against targets in gaza israel says it was targeting infrastructure of the militant palestinian gro

the last time ukraine went to the polls in twenty fourteen the country was in freefall russia had just invaded an annex the crimea region and pro russian separatists had seized control of part of the country's east five years on though what are the issues foremost in ukrainians minds. connelly reports. more than ten thousand people have lost their lives since war broke out in eastern ukraine back in twenty fourteen millions have been forced to leave their homes as the shooting continues political attempts to end the conflict remain stuck in no man's land but the fact the fighting didn't spread further and that ukraine's army was able to regroup essential to president petro poroshenko as campaign one is message to voters is clear only he can keep ukraine safe and stand up to russia. but five years of war have also left their mark on ukrainians pockets in europe second poorest nation real incomes are still lower than they were before the war as household bills have skyrocketed. over three million ukrainians have left the country in search of work it's these people pensioners and those on

if ukraine doesn't allow fish from ukraine under the ukrainian market then i'll take my fish to russia change my flag and apply for political asylum but he's just. a nice. we still have hope. but i don't know how much longer it will last you. we make up of what we watch as a caucus that under such a fight we ought to seventy seven percent. want to shape the continent's future to. be part of a joint effort in youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their challengers. the seventy seven percent. platform for africa it's. not about to be they will not succeed in dividing us about not succeed in taking the people off the streets because we're tired of this dictatorship. taking the stand global news that matters. made from minds. this is g.w. news why but from berlin tonight israel striking back after rocket fire from gaza. israeli warplanes level and alleged hamas headquarters in gaza city after a rocket attack a move in several people near tel aviv prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying big .

from western ukraine the first language is ukrainian. almost half the population of mario bull is russian and russian is spoken on a daily basis there was serious clashes here after the annexation of crimea in twenty fourteen. the town hall was in flames when opponents of the new power in kiev tried to win the upper hand in the city but they failed maria is convinced that russia was behind this attack. this is where people gathered who had been brought in by bus from russia they demonstrated here and occupied the town hall. they set fire to car tires in the street. chanting out slogans like. get over here putin at this place out. they were trying to imitate a crimea scenario. in the hopes of seizing this region just as quickly as crimea then claiming it as russian. it would dilute. the war has dramatic economic consequences to the city the port of mario paul estimates its losses since the outbreak of the war at two hundred million euros key cargo handling from the donbass region has declined when the russians built the crimean bridge it

creating a really popular political myth in ukraine. only and. the existing political system on his own. but how much of an outsider is really his critics argue that in reality he's anything but. pain. of the oligarchy. have made famous. one of ukraine's richest men and an arch enemy of president petro poroshenko selenski denies there is anything untoward about their relationship but the questions remain in servant of the people. of president protocol out of the window much to the delight of the crowd. within weeks his enemies begin to sabotage his plans preparing for his impeachment. he would do in real life is anything but clear but for now it looks like. this time on the political stage and without the script. well it's free and now a vasella for the trucker a political analyst in kiev thank you sir for joining us this evening what does flat america lenski actually stand for well it's difficult to define because what we know about his program is basically what he said in his movie in number of his movies and different you tube per current loss

presidential election coming up in ukraine and. poland entry election in october and therefore the mark be some pressure on the ukrainian side to start with independence from you know outside forces are now on the other hand the americans may very well have made such threats as it were to the prosecutor because they've got their their own process js that they're looking after and i think the whole murky affair suggests how murky and opaque ukrainian politics actually is and how difficult it is to assess what's happening and as far as you're aware there is any proof been put forward here of u.s. involvement in ukraine's legal sector other than words. well we know that the the u.s. has played a big role in the creation of the new regime in kiev going back to twenty fourteen and the sniper attacks in the my done square and all the rest of it i mean that's why the presidential election is coming up now because it's five years since those events and you know that the u.s. has hardly made a secret of its goals in ukraine so in a sense it

up the street or seek ukraine the way the relationship between russia and ukraine is extremely dynamic. basically even today it has yet to find a definitive form. you foresee skiffy to at a point in time in the past crimea was handed over to ukraine it passed from the russian to the ukrainian soviet republic within the framework of the soviet union. it's difficult to see that as a justifiable act was the it was a step within the framework of a single state and when one state is suddenly replaced by two independent states it's logical that both will stake a claim. time will pass and the relationship between the two countries will find a form roundabouts. but the most important thing is that the voices of the people who live here are heard just. in the eyes of most of its inhabitants much has changed for the good since russia annexed crimea for them a look back evokes little nostalgia. skop and sheesh that time and again throughout the history of crimea there have been efforts to establish an independent state and in that respect we can say that if crimea belongs to anyone who belongs to

very big both in ukraine but also in the world here in ukraine we see that there plain gas card still also they are supporting with russian money one of the political forces one of the presidential candidates but also they are playing a big part in the e.u. by simulating some of the countries to be on the side the truth may be a question of perspective but the results old friendship ties severed seem impossible to reverse jonah how al-jazeera kiev when assamese from thailand where the election commission has withdrawn its unofficial vote count from sunday's election after increasing allegations of cheating and voting irregularities the results showed the party allied with the ruling military as winners with just under eight and a half million votes but some parties are rejecting that figure as wayne hay now reports from the capital bangkok. there were many complaints of discrepancies on election day both from voters and election monitors as well and it seems some of those concerns are only growing now that the election commission is finalizing the results remembering these are still p

>> what's interesting about ukraine, we care about protecting the election but ukraine is an important if we connect the two, we look at building resilience in the ukraine as a way to protect our own election. ukraine has world class engineering talent and also understands geopolitics just because of where they live, israel being the other example. the problem is civil society doesn't have the technology expertise. all the engineers want to work in e-commerce and they're losing the commercial advantage to belarus right next store. if you look at what the u.s. government can do, the u.s. government has lots of mechanisms to support civil society, lots of resources to support civil society. and it does it all around the world. but the u.s. government can bring those two ecosystems together and build world class companies, invest in world class capabilities to fight disinformation in ukraine. this is already happening with cybersecurity. all of us rely on top world class talent for dealing with hacking and traditional cybersecurity issues in ukraine because they're the best in the world.

then in one thousand nine hundred fifty four the peninsula became part of ukraine. i a demonstration in the crimean capital simferopol in march twenty fourth team was an overwhelming show of support by the majority ethnic russian population of crimea in favor of leaving ukraine and joining russia. legendary culture. i that sentiment was reflected in the outcome of a referendum a few days later. some of the multiple sclerosis by on march sixteenth the referendum was held in crimea this referendum took place in line with international legal standards and the rules of democracy. eighty two percent of the electorate voted as the district teaching territory must have stable leadership the fact is that only russia can provide it. a totally offical order but only current crises. understanding the present situation requires a look back at the region's complicated history. in seven hundred eighty three emperors catherine announced that crimea had been incorporated into the russian empire. two hundred thirty one years later president vladimir putin signed a treaty absorbing c

no, but ukraine is not an nato ally.ut it is important not to blur the line between an ally and a partner. 0ur security guarantees apply to nato allies, no nato ally has been attacked... recently, president poroshenko pushed through a change to the ukrainian constitution to commit ukraine to a pursuit of nato membership, and indeed, eu membership as well. from what you're saying, it is quite clear that ukraine stands no chance of becoming an actual member of nato, does it? ukraine receives a lot of support from nato and nato allies. and they are grateful for that. we have also helped them to curb incidents with their naval capabilities and we will continue to help them do that in georgia and other black sea countries. what are the chances of ukraine becoming a full nato member? i will not speculate about the chances, nato allies have reiterated the decision we made some years ago that ukraine will become a member of nato, but we haven't set any timetable for that. just on this point you make about the actions taken to de

is a universally known face in this country that's been having been on ukraine's t.v. screens for so many years now and not having tracked much in the way of scandal has been a huge advantage to me and it's basically free campaign advertising the fact that so many ukrainians seemingly willing to vote for him is a sign of a deep deep disappointment with the existing political class both feel the top front runner is going to michigan have been on principle seen for decades time in which ukraine has really fallen behind its neighbors and failed to make good on its huge potential in terms of political development economics millions of ukrainians working abroad because they simply caught on enough to survive back at home so people obviously were willing to take that risk to take that jump just by the fact that obviously he has no political experience as. president petro poroshenko appears have made it into the runoff how is he taking this. well we haven't heard much from him yet but it's kind of clear where the next round the election is going to go how he's going to positi

turning now to ukraine which is going to elect a new president on sunday it's a full. national vote since two thousand and fourteen when the my don revolution led to the fall of the pro russian government two well known political veterans and the running along with a surprising newcomer who's made a strong showing in opinion polls one of their media zelinsky now he is a comedian famous for playing the president in a popular t.v. show now he wants the role for real. first person to do the silly petrovich illiberal. good morning mr president. an ordinary man taken by surprise catapulted into the top job by a string of coincidences that's the story of the hit ukrainian servant of the people now its lead. is poised to become ukraine's president the second time and this time it could be the real polls consistently put him ahead of both the incumbent president petro poroshenko and ex prime minister yulia timoshenko and there's the rub where both his closest rivals have been at the forefront of ukrainian politics for decades selenski is a blank page he's never previously been

the people that came on to ukraine screens yesterday on the channel. this oligarch who's carry out the country that he's being linked to that doesn't necessarily mean financing in a direct sense but there are worries that selenski given his long term association with the has some kinds of commitments so that something is expected of him way to become president and it's definitely clear that he has a real axe to grind with president bush and co and basically any president of the poroshenko in office here in kiev would be a win for him let's talk about petro poroshenko he won by a landslide twenty four what's gone wrong. back in twenty fourteen when he was elected russia had just annexed the crimean peninsula the war in the east just just going to be looking for the safe option a safe pair of hands so that if he was a willingness to give him the benefit of the doubt now five years on the economy is still in a worse state than it was before them are down before the war people's real incomes really have taken a beating the stories of corruption. every day

nick joins us from ukraine's capital. besides. the people of. good evening phil well he's definitely keeping his options open on the really big questions he says he'll put it to the people through referendums but he is quite open about the fact that he's no policy expert and he's open about having a team of professionals that were around him but i think he's really trying to focus people's attention on a change of style on greater openness and about concentrating on economic development rather than the identity issues about language and confrontation with russia that have been so important to ukraine's politics the last five years and where is the money coming from who is financing his campaign. i think this campaign doesn't necessarily have to cost a lot of money as the report mentions most of his campaign is online so doesn't this really need huge amounts of cash having said that the most valuable part of his election campaign has been for free it's being the airing of the third season of his show. the people that came on to the ukraine screen

very big in ukraine but also in the world here in ukraine we see that their plane guess card still also there supporting with russian money one of the political forces one of the presidential candidate but also they are playing a big part in the e.u. by simulating some of the countries to be on their side the truth may be a question of perspective but the results old friendship ties severed seem impossible to reverse jonah how al-jazeera keo. more from london about fifteen minutes including of course all the latest from westminster now back to elizabeth thank you very much now a hamas affiliated newspaper is reporting that a deal has been reached between hamas and israel to reduce tensions palestinians meanwhile are preparing to mark the one year anniversary of weekly protest along the border fence let's go to our correspondent harry force that he's joining us live from gaza so talk us through what's reported to be in this deal harry. well this is all according to the newspaper which is a hamas affiliated newspaper so it does come with a good deal of weight and it is reporting that a de

polls in ukraine suggest president poroshenko is heading for a runoff having come second to a t.v. comedian. there is the last sunday on that means bringing you the biggest stories covered here over the past seven days and also the weekend developments. back to friday first of all though it was supposed to go down in history as the day that britain finally divorced from the european union that's been turned on its head with drawn agreement to suffered a defeat. a look back over the u.k.'s stuttering. finally the date is here march twenty ninth twenty nineteen and this story for britain marking its departure from the european union. or wait a second. a day like any other except with less clarity about what happens next then the very day the twenty sixteen referendum shocked the world the u.k. has voted to leave the european union. article fifty was triggered on march twenty ninth two years ago the article fifty process is now underway and in accordance with the wishes of the british people the united kingdom is leaving the european union so many promises made and shattered since the

what hunter biden knows about that ukraine, who knows.o, it's a very, very troublesome issue and has all the markings of payoffs to the biden. >> laura: joe, we have to get your reaction to the report tonight, really quick. >> there's no question about it that this has all the markings of bribery and extortion and it's something that deserves and full-blown investigation into the conduct of the biden family in ukraine. there's very disturbing details about it that are about to come out. and i think once those details come out, i think there's going to have to be a full-fledged criminal investigation. >> laura: and revealing, perhaps, deep connections to how the mueller probe started? >> oh, absolutely, because whaty happened was the ambassador there, who has been removed, was involved in generating false information about manafort, other information that went into the so-called black, binders. >> laura: all right, joe, hold that. we have to take a break. we'll be right back. my final thoughts. .. all money managers might seem the same, bu

he's one of ukraine's richest men and an arch enemy of president petro poroshenko. selenski denies there is anything untoward about their relationship but the questions remain in servant of the people. president protocol out of the window much to the delight of the crowd. but within weeks his enemies begin to sabotage his plans preparing for his impeachment. he would do in real life is anything but clear but for now it looks like. this time on the political stage and without the script. so besides transparency. good evening phil well he's trying to keep it very light on the detail as i mentioned the report he says he'll put the big questions to the people and referendums he is quite clear that he's not a policy expert and that he's got a team around him of professionals for that office and the question will be if you craniums on sunday really. put their trust in him and really believe that he can make it as president at the moment is close suggestion that this is about protest and when it comes to the crunch on sunday that they will pull back from taking that jump a

you went to ukraine.sort of occupy bid the russians. what did you learn about what they're doing? >> first, we saw a number of tactics we've never seen before. we're seeing the systematic and customized targeting of disinformation on messaging platforms. it's very clear to me that the new front for disinformation is platforms where the barrier of entry is a phone number. it's much more believable if somebody is in your contacts list, you get information from them, you're much more likely to believe it. we're seeing the manipulation of audio and spoofing of phone calls. we're seeing manufactured revenge, manufactured hacking of e-mails that get dumped onto the public domain. we're seeing a growing ecosystem of illicit merchants who are selling these capabilities on the deep and dark web. >> when i hear all this, it sounds very difficult to figure out how to counter it. do you think the american government is on top of this? do you think the trump administration is sufficiently attentive to it? >> what's in