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in december twenty fifth teen western ukraine was hit by a power failure hundreds of thousands of people were affected in what turned out to be the first successful hacker attack on a power grid the attackers managed to break into the grids network system and then just before christmas they disconnected several substations the result blackout. russia was widely believed to have organized the attack. in spring twenty seventeen krypto one spread around the. targeted windows computer systems that were still using outdated security protection users had to pay money to unblocked their. computers europe and the u.k. were hard hit hospitals and automobile factories were forced to shut down the national german rail system was also affected total damage estimates range from several hundred million euros to about four billion but those responsible for the attacks didn't make a lot of money from their blackmail efforts only about one hundred thirty thousand dollars. in march twenty eighth the german government was hit by a powerful cyber attack. the attack targeted a number of german ministries. an

school so highly let's say to win this so many of the regions in ukraine all but one i believe in western ukraine. the incumbent president if that was the only reason that the president poroshenko took that because he hasn't. really elucidated spoken much about his policies and so that's what we are now expecting in the coming days to hear from c.n.n. skeet about what players pose for ukraine and its future really interesting times there robin foresty of walker force in care. policy in europe because shin fein leader mary lou mcdonald has called for an end to violence rioting in northern ireland after the murder of journalist lara the key head of the irish republican party made the comments cheering easter rising commemorations in belfast twenty nine year old mckee was shot while observing rioting in london diary's crank in the state on thursday night's double says no progress can be made through armed action it's past time now for these groups that masquerades as republicans to pack up and pack it in to end their activities and to let the people get on with the work of building a new united irel

provocation to boost his electoral chances because from what i can read it looks like western partners of ukraine are also interested in seeing these both of these elections to proceed in the most transparent and fair fashion am i wrong on that. and i think that again is our big questions about the western policy issue as to as you can because the best i'm going was the fact the support of the violent of us law of our of the u.k. and government the government of the other college which was a partial government but also. kind of a also less to say there is only got us and this was supported by opinion by the united states the fact that. there is this almost always the help of a. i don't protest police by elements of my down position fight against asians so the question is what would be policy always the worst if a person called the teacher that is a jew annoyance or you can select and so on even so the thought because the western governments is that they support democracy and fear. but first the elections and you can show that this was not the case because of evidence of thought or. kind of all su

in previous years political analyst martin summers told us why he sees the decrease in western support for ukraine a significant. open the amount of money that they've committed to the election suggests that they're losing face in the puppets in ukraine. is clearly a busted flush and they don't particularly want to waste anymore time and energy trying to keep him in power no doubt they will be beating a path to zilinskas door at this minute hoping that if he does win that they will be able to influence in the directions they would like to see but they clearly clearly if they don't see it was one of the candidates think that's hopeful for ukraine and hopeful for the general situation because we do need you know independent people who go a bit and independent doesn't suit and maybe he's going to come up with some more sensible policies than we've seen in the last few years we'll have to see it's not clear. governments are being urged to play a more active role in policing the internet as facebook boss mark zuckerberg calls for more regulation online he says he wants mechanisms put in place to reduce

proposing direct talks with russia to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine with contenders have pledged to keep the country on a pro western course more from robin foresty a walk in kiev. this is the mind square behind me the epicenter of political quakes in ukraine's recent past in a two thousand and four and twenty fourteen revolutions well today in ukraine another perhaps political earthquake if as expected to me is in and 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 all the guard corrupt political system so ukrainians either believe that zielinski 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 not a terrible 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

with petro poroshenko he claimed that he had done a lot for ukraine and that he had kept it on its european path that he had managed to get western support with ukraine's war against russia in terms of sanctions against russia done things like it visa free access for ukrainians to europe. but ukrainians just didn't get this message or didn't really see the real changes that they wanted changes in terms of the tackling of this sort of systemic corruption where you have this oligarchy can lead to controlling things now many ukrainians see it was part of that problem being a wealthy businessman himself and there was scandal still surrounding him. and his political elite so yes i think it's about the ukrainians deciding that they had had enough of that this was a protest vote and this idea that it couldn't get any worse that they had nothing to lose and i think this hope that somehow volodymyr zelinsky can turn fiction into reality in terms of that honest character that he plays on television a man from humble beginnings who is going to somehow play things differently in this country and take on that corrupt elite that is the hope bu

so all that still to come but first ukraine's western backed president petro poroshenko has conceded defeat after a second round of voting for the shanker said he would not be leaving politics and promised to fight on comedian and political newcomer volunteer is zelinsky one with an estimated lead of forty five percent of voters focused on the struggling economy selenski has promoted talks with russia to settle the conflict in eastern ukraine. say. we did it together thanks to everyone now there will be no pathetic speeches i just want to say thank you. the very. last never given this is what i was told until i saw the exit polls they are obvious and they give me the grounds to now call my a president and congratulated. well. he is the director of communications media for the congress committee of america he joins us now from new york to talk more about this so quite a development this in ukraine a comedian who is now about to become the next president of the country what does what is it that mr zelinsky was able to capture about the public mood in ukraine that the got him elected. a

what russia does but they were born in ukraine so if we are for the current western polish just like there is nothing in common between russia and ukraine they wouldn't be able to leave in russia because they would be korean citizens and you would have to rewrite all the western history of russian literature because then they would be considered ukrainian writers which of course they weren't they were russian writers but you're exactly right about. that of the situation and the western reaction was absurd there was a moment of panic before the second round of action when suddenly all the western newspapers started writing they didn't ski's inexperienced that putin may out to eat him and suddenly they were full of praise for poroshenko let me just call to the new york times rolled in a detroit credit i had a television character for president crazy and that's what they wrote about bush in court he crashed his shelf ball issue for us yes thirty thousand people killed and they call and we're going down fifteen percent in two years he's trails polisher favorites but he can take radiate fo

and specifically also by western governments and by western media folks in ukraine politics they become integrated into. government of ukraine they become integrated in the military in the national guard in the police and security service and this is part of the should now as a help our basic get you over so you can government this help of his alliance of all you've got people that this means so this would be again the still of. issue before and after the second elections because of how they can still. hurt you but i won't. say they got as passion politician and this may be again the beacon still see if. they are say in the u.k. your politics but i think even if the last people managed to win the elections still if i thought. they basically were on low and the few would need basic i just because a few films of such fun i think musicians so this is i think they get to late from just seven dust to i think this is obviously in part of the show and it's still better to be late as i'm not at all well i'd bet it's a bit late then never as as you know we see here in russia anyway we have to le

russia of crimea and he's prevented ukraine from splitting up he's been quite good on foreign policies had the western powers support ukraine and push on those with those sanctions on russia even got videos visa liberalization for ukrainians and yet they see horace sankoh as part of the problem they didn't deal with corruption properly and so a lot to me is the lenski is this guy who comes along with an amazingly successful t.v. series playing a fictional president that promises to solve the problem of ukraine and all its corruption and ukrainians from from from the east in the west russian speaking and ukrainian speaking ukrainians everyone seems to be getting behind zielinski despite the fact that he has zero political experience robin thank you. the iraqi city of kabul is planning a major expansion of a key religious site to cope with a growing number of pilgrims thirty million people visit the shrines of hussein on our bus each year. reports now from kabul. this is why millions come here each year to see the shrine of the most revered and mom and shia history imaam hussein. with more than thirteen

the americans have been lusting after ukraine shoot ukraine joining nato then of course russia will be and circles on its western borders and nato aircraft operate in for ukraine could reach moscow in twenty twenty five minutes so that is a very very explicit five five minutes medical oh no it's just there i feel condor thought of while miles away from waffle of missile say it would take them on three minutes so this is the reason why russia said it was a rather line nato membership for ukraine and this is precisely the reason why they agreed and resonator shank leaning toward it if they're going to take lucia the argument nato always makes is that these are sovereign countries and they have the right to be in military alliances but if the flipside of that is looking at it from russia's point of view is that your expansion is creating instability and a threat to our security they never look at the how the the country that is being targeted how they see things they used to do that during the cold war don't do it anymore. well if if their sole concern to the country is being free to choose their alliances why is t

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 against russia and he's managed to get these are liberalization but ukrainians it seems are not interested in this they think it's it's still all the same old corrupt political system that failed to tackle and therefore they may well be deciding that they've had enough not just of petro poroshenko but of the pope political system and they are willing to take a gamble on a very unknown quantity for a lot of mere zielinski. it is the second day of voting in egypt's controversial referendum which could extend president abdel fattah el-sisi is term until twenty thirty poll is happening over three days but human rights groups say the referendum won't be free or fair voters are also deciding on whether to allow the president to appoint top judges and to expand the role of the military security has been increased across egypt. we're getting reports that an army camp in mali was attacked today in the town of which is northwest of the capital bamako the camp was report

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 against russia and he's managed to get these are liberalization but ukrainians it seems i'm not interested in this they think it's it's still all the same old corrupt political system that failed to tackle and therefore they may well be deciding that they've had enough not just of petro poroshenko but of the pope political system and they are willing to take a gamble on a very unknown quantity for a lot to me a zillion ski. returning to today's attacks in sri lanka we're joined by roll raymone who's an associate editor at royal new media website focusing on sri lanka roll thanks for making the time for us i don't mean to be glib with this first question but how you feeling after such a day off to our correspondent just kept telling us of the also a shock that people felt today. yes. i suppose on some level i'm i'm. i haven't really dealt to you what's going on in reality and i'm dealing with it on a on a well on a professional level but i don't think i've sat

ukraine remains high on th agenda for western countries. >> do you think ukraine voted for zelenskiyanyone who could embody change? >> this was definitely a protest vote. it was zelenskiy or poroshenko. by e timeu get to the second round, the numbers are overwhelming. it was not poroshenko, ie, zelenskiy. the guy is 41 years old, a communicating with people who did not come toage under the old k.g.b. dominated stem. so he understands the people a is a good communicator. but the reality is, and he said it in a famous debate a couple of days ago, he says, to pore sherchg o's face, he says i am not your opponent, i'm your sentence. this was a referendum on poroshenko and he failed it. >> he's promising to break tim is. can he break the system if he doesn't have parliament behind him? and, two, theystem is to endemically corrupt and influenced by russia so many so much since independence in the '90s. >> breaking the system can mean a lot of things, it canean breaking it and rebuilding something great in its place. it can also meainn breit and making it worse than it is now. so it's terri

constitutional court about elicit enrichment as well, that means that there is jeopardy for ukraine in terms of the western eyes isn't it? >> i believe exactly corruption and rule of law of the two of the most important fundamental challenges for ukraine, and you see by the results of this election there is a drive for new faces. all entrenched politicians actually suffer to a kind of setback, but fundamentally ukrainians have a kind of hope that -- the issue of fairness, the issue of rule of law, the issue of corruption will be handled better, and it's one of the reasons for the world you see in front of you. >> thank you very much indeed for giving us your time. >> very nice to see you. >> the minister of foreign affairs and has been since 2014 here in ukraine talking about hopes for the future and lots of concerns about what's going on in crimea and the southeast of this country. back to you. >> and ahead of that widely anticipated second round of elections in a few weeks time. thank you for bring us that interview. >>> china will continue to suspend u.s. tariffs on vehicles and auto parts the country s

hands, thinking he has a president who is going to force concessions out of ukraine, they may have to give up its pro-westernrientation. there is debate about whether or not this is a victory or defeat for vladimir putin. the other analysis is vladimir putin should be worried about the fact ukraine has had a democratic transfer of power in which a sitting president lost an election, conceded defeat, and russians might think they want to see the same thing happen in their country. zelensky is not the kind of ukrainian president that vladimir putin contains two some kind of raging nationalist. he talks about the need to unune the coununtry and says all ukrainians and russian s speakes ould be considered patriots and he is jewish. ukraine is the only country in the world, except for israel, that is said to have a jewish president and jewish prime minister at the same time. when y you think about russia being in the -- russia talking about ukraine being in the hands of ultranationalist's, that is something to keep p in mind. for the voteout for president in macedonia. results show the left candidate and the cons

not going to try and solve that conflict by force also saying that he'd continue ukraine's cooperation with its western lenders the interesting thing will be to see if tonight we do get that debate and if we hear more detail from him what it sounds like now if they do meet in the olympic stadium they won't be on a single stage they haven't been able to agree instead they'll be all separate stages at either end of the football field and make a lot of people are asking what russia's role is in all of this does moscow have a preferred candidate here. here's the thing the candidate who actually travel to moscow before the first round euro boyko something that had been a common feature of ukrainian politics in the past he only came fourth place i think the war really has changed the tone here and being seen as too friendly with moscow doesn't pay off in ukrainian elections but on the other hand there is a lot of interest in this election in russia certainly i think there is a certain level of exhaust system for russian observers about elections that don't have a predestined outcome spokesman saying that he'

crisis reach crisis research institute mark armin believes western states are entering a period of uncertainty in their relations with ukraine under its new president well he'll be warmly received but also in a sense warmly in the hope that he's going to turn out to be more a portion called foreign policy than perhaps many of his voters thought it would be so that the west is a little bit worried. and president they were used to a president who cooperate very closely with nato and with european union with the international monetary fund and so on has been humiliated and mr zelinsky is an unknown quantity so there's a great deal of effort going on now to warm up to him by western diplomats but it certainly reflects the fact we're not really sure what his policy is going to be as indeed nobody's entirely certain even possibly mr sloan school himself is not absolutely certain what he's going to do so far in the sense of victory their new train does join a rapidly growing list of countries but leaders he started their career is far away from politics. i am. i think. you're fired you're fired rob. ok let's bring you some news jus

of the people's republic of donetsk and lugansk now these territories of the ukraine declared independence from the western backed government established fact during the my don uprising of twenty fourteen he later said that perhaps the same would extend to all ukrainian citizens in general now the newly elected ukrainian president. said that the crown that the kremlin should not try to seduce ukrainian citizens with russian passports and in a tit for tat response he also determined that russians would be able to easier get ukrainian passports in the future and today putin responded to this statement saying that russians and ukrainians are actually one nation they are two peoples that pointing out that they're one nation and that they share many historical and cultural similarities. but you can move into ukraine and russians they are brothers moreover i believe that this is one nation with the coach to linguistics and historical feet shoes but it is in fact one nation if we have joint citizenship both russians and ukrainians will benefit. now a lot of your putin also said that it would be fair if the ukrain

state who'll do for love to during these five years and even earlier but because ukraine is under control of the western powers i mean even if you have a lot of of you know us or counselors and different international unit institutions in kiev and they are really strong. to control the country and all the other side how do we know. he was elected. also because he get just support of call might skew. or are you direct and i guess dad he supported just the lens now he knew he would want to be blamed for it sure well what about the relations then between russia and ukraine are they set to change do you think. it's positive because there's an excuse docking about the means grim and are very important to do to make peace but do question is do do you know do it nationally to acquire very strong in. military in the army but not only in the army also in different armed groups. and they will accept this trend and it's all so i don't know if united states and nato powers really want peace in ukraine ok bruna and i said told to leave it there that was printed political analyst thank you thank you so far and since

well the answer is no he won't because ukraine is at the moment totally dependent on western good will for all the remaining financial. subsidies that it's due to receive it's in the hands effectively the e.u. and the u.s. the u.s. as a whole floor agency the security in ukraine dedicated to cia and f.b.i. and national security agency staff so really the u.k. the u.s. and sorry the u.s. is the power behind was thrown and at the moment zelinsky has no ability to really get out of that and should he even try well as your guest referred to earlier as was the possibility of change and indeed a color revolution not to be excluded if he doesn't play ball with what for example the americans want when the first instance i think the people will be tossed to control who will be the only guards who run the day to day business of the ukraine now you got the vast majority of the vote but is this more of a pro is the linsky or an anti pressure. zelinsky represents something new what it what it represents he represented aggressive war rhetorical he tried to be the maggie thatcher of the ukraine he tr

well the european union is involved in ukraine and it strongly supports the western path in the modernization strategy of the previous governments and presidents what is wishful thinking is the idea that with a new president the country could easily need the so-called carbon hagan criteria to guide the country into a full membership this would require so many more steps that we certainly don't see anything like this happening in the term of this president most likely of the following ones so if people just hope that things would get better by the fact that he says he wants to get more western on it forty depends on who his team is who his advisors are and how he addresses all the high flying hopes that he created we still don't know in what direction this is moving he says it's western but there's not much the european union can do other than supporting the government with money with expertise with guidance what the country needs to do is to do its own reforms and not wait until the european union takes it over which will certainly not happen the unseen you heard earlier brooke that he said h