he told jokes about the president now he is the president comedian a lot of a zelinsky wins a landslide victory in ukraine's election but with no previous political experience how will he tackle the many challenges ahead what's the punchline this isn't. hello and welcome to the program on imran khan comedian without him as lenski played a fictional president for years now he's going to play it for real but stand up comedy is one thing standing up to russia and the myriad of other problems facing ukraine is another thing altogether outgoing president petro poroshenko says zelinsky is too naive for hard politics but it is the dissatisfaction with old faces like that's probably benefits of the comedian he's campaigned on an anti establishment anti corruption platform and that seems so resoundingly with his supporters selenski won with more than seventy percent of the votes this is what he had to say. we did it together thanks to everyone now there will be no pathetic speeches i just want to say thank you. zelinsky is going to have to deal with ukraine's numerous challenges ending a five ye

zelinsky is going to have to deal with ukraine's numerous challenges ending a five year war with moscow back separatists in the east that's killed more than thirteen thousand people fixing a struggling economy and the government's rising debt following through on his promise to fight corruption and stamp out the influence of oligarchs and also pushing through much needed reforms zelinsky doesn't have a proper party of his own and he's likely to face stiff opposition in parliament. i let's bring in our guests joining me on skype from care valentini professor of political science at the national university of kiev academy from berlin where we broke now jon benet professor in european studies at stanford university berlin and also on skype from moscow dmitri babbage political analyst so god near newsagency welcome to the program let's begin with valentyn yeah first it's clear that the new president has significant challenges on his hands but haps the most important one is to actually get some parliamentary support he doesn't have a political party is there a danger he could be a lame duck

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 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

zelinsky is not a sign of equality will start to school zelinsky is a sign of equality with disruption so expect the unexpected. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome but we begin the day counting bodies and pointing fingers in sri lanka nearly three hundred people died yesterday in multiple suicide bombings in churches filled with christians and hotels filled with foreign tourists and easter sunday massacre that now ranks as one of the deadliest terror attacks since nine eleven today the government of sri lanka issued an apology admitting that it had intelligence intelligence warnings about possible attacks yet did nothing to stop them the political consequences of such a grotesque failure well they will have to wait tonight a state of emergency has gone into effect there are concerns that more suicide bombings may be planned authorities have arrested twenty four people and say a local islamist group was responsible but the level of organization and coordination is leading investigators to say that this attack was made possible with internation

to the son of the close of business partner mr poroshenko and the other one is the fact that mr zelinsky is a well known actor and he claimed a president and he and then he seriously called seven of the people and so and and the main character who's the historian lecture. became the president because of the fact that he was against the corruption so i think that those. serious originating with the moods and the spirit within the ukrainian society which doesn't want to see any longer professional politicians who are more opposite and they want to see an ordinary man because mrs i think these are ordinary man and his campaign was conducted through the social media and it certainly resonated with the young generation so i think that if this can be the same. president same as with regard to bernie sanders gregson or mr donald trump the people are shifting throned or professional politicians now to the people who are easily accessible all resonate with the general mood of the nation and misses and indeed is resonating with the general mood of the nation you know john let's go back to californ

say this is someone who's not serious about politics but given the extent of his loss i mean zelinsky picked up almost twice as many votes in the first round as did he surprised us all yesterday with his his agreement to this to this test and he's willing stood up this morning to give not only blood tests but also have another test to prove his health and his fitness for office to the ukraine nation i mean do we know how these images and the blood says how that's going down with ukrainians who will be voting in the run all. well this definitely has being the number one topic of discussion today it's been all over social media in ukraine people barely been speaking about anything else it's definite dividing people there's a real group people who feel this is not appropriate this is not what the president should be doing all those seemingly intrigued by the whole prospect i spoke to people on the streets let's have a look at what they have to say. never seen anything like this before so it's something new it's really cool to follow it's also. it's an issue this is a show it's meant to b

he told jokes about the president now he is the president comedian a lot of a zelinsky wins a landslide victory in ukraine's election but with no previous political experience how will he tackle the many challenges ahead what's the punch line this is inside. hello and welcome to the program on imran khan comedian and let him as lenski played a fictional president for years now he's going to play it for real but stand up comedy is one thing standing up to russia and the myriad of other problems facing ukraine is another thing altogether outgoing president petro poroshenko says zelinsky is too naive for hard politics but it is the dissatisfaction with old faces like that's probably benefited the comedian he's campaigned on an anti establishment anti corruption platform and that seems so resoundingly with his supporters selenski one with more than seventy percent of the vote this is what he had to say. we did it together thanks to everyone now there will be no pathetic speeches i just want to say thank you. zelinsky is going to have to deal with ukraine's numerous challenges ending a five

full of demands zelinsky is victories not unexpected the polls have been tipping it for weeks but it is a pretty unlikely political victory this man has no political background or experience he played the part of a president in a t.v. series but that's really all anybody knows about him they don't know what he stands for they don't know who backs him importantly they don't know who may influence him in the future and in what direction but above all of that this was a protest vote by a sizeable proportion of the population angry angry and frustrated with politics mainstream politics as they have been this has been a rejection of those politics of those leaders. and the old ways in ukraine. election night at the zelinsky campaign headquarters it's a has a lot of fare a long way from the stuffy formality of the more established parties which is little surprise a lot of ears in the near certain winner of the first round of ukraine's presidential election is a comedian turned actor whose only experience of politics is playing the part of president in a popular television series he may soo

flood to meet zelinsky i fictional president now it seems the president elect. fiction has become fact. zillion ski and his team consider break this election victory but defeating corruption. and then during the war with russia he's going to prove. what in english. but ukrainians have showed little patience for presidents to deliver for steelworker. well he's from the ukrainian congress committee of america he says there are concerns that he does not have the experience and the go she had 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 how to how getting that passed in parliament and similarly he's proposed restarting the minsk agreement talks normally 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 midst process that has

it will apply to mr zelinsky so it is unfair to use the old rules of the new game the new generation my generation is fed up with the professional politicians and people who. well we wanted to who. can speak the language because most of the people who are interested in it to be. and this is what just like every well everywhere else in the world here john you know it would be very difficult because of the political discourse in ukraine now in the ukrainian ization that push and co is pushed so hard with his. very dubious allies these militia groups and far right is but it didn't serve him well in the first round of the election and maybe this is what ximenes he and others are going to say is that this track is not working we have to try something else go ahead in california. you know there in the late mr zilinskas path to victory over there to ukraine's or the russian speaking part and there's the ukrainian speaking part which is the unskilled is a russian speaker but he's also come out what allow the russian speaking people to be marginalized but he also speaks ukrainian as and is ac

zelinsky is hope but we want change. blood to me. a fictional president now it seems the president elect. fiction has become fact. zelinsky and his team consider break this election victory but defeating corruption and ending the war with russia is going to prove harder word in english. you're right. he may be funny but ukrainians have shown little patience for presidents and failed to deliver. an open joins me now from the ukrainian capital kiev and really a new chapter in ukraine's history is about to be written robin. i so yes indeed it is and what an extraordinary election it has been a and a and a very interesting campaign as well in terms of how zielinski very smart tech savvy social media savvy people put together a very twenty first century campaign as opposed to the incumbent president petro poroshenko which was something far more conventional and as a result well we see that outcome now more than seventy percent of folks karst in favor of the world to me as if you were with me to talk about that campaign and also what's nex

it's all about this man comedian volodymyr zelinsky plays a fictional president on television now he looks set to be elected is the real thing selenski poll twice as many votes as the sitting president in the first round of voting and is on course for a decisive win. today it will be victory for ukraine the victory of the fair choice we've united the country and now look we've also united the journalists. many ukrainians are looking for change frustrated by the slow pace of reforms and wearied by the five year conflicts in the east of the country with russian backed insurgents. i'm voting for the young the candidate of hope the choice is obvious the war is dragging on and that's awful. we need something new we've had enough of the old faces we've seen them all before the with the passion for poroshenko i respect him and the good things he has done. i'm for his alleged scheme we can trust him partially because clever but he's corrupt. but i'm very keen for poroshenko he's professional a true statesman of loss that. petro poroshenko has been tarnished by allegations of corruption but h

that the people in zelinsky steam just didn't expect it to be that good but now as you've said it is almost certain that the next leader of ukraine will be vola doomer selenski or as president that's the nickname the funny nickname that he's already got and you know that he won in round one with just over thirty percent of the votes against sixteen percent that was the score of petro poroshenko that was a massive margin even back then but. pretty much who knew that his lead will become that comfortable in the second round we saw the celebrations and has campaign h.q. and these were some of the first words that came from me from villa dimmers then ski when he was there standing in front of his supporters. yeah well i'm not officially president yet i can speak as a citizen of ukraine all countries of the former soviet union take a look at us everything is possible. when mr selenski says everything is possible that is of course something that you were talking about someone with no experience as someone who was in government he was never in politics he was an m p didn't have any position

you are losing but i am the result of your mistakes and promises was what your visa zelinsky has made a career out of making jokes but his candidacy isn't one and just a series of a stakes the staunchly anti kremlin parra shanku assumed office in twenty fourteen shortly after russian forces and next crimea and russian backed ukrainian separatists took control of parts of eastern ukraine the conflict in the donbass is ongoing which part of schenkel used to go after his opponent here gives minutes ago there were people who think that the how is he going to fulfill the functions of commander in chief of the conservatives if your team has already said that you are inexperienced their version of each other versatility or that just be tricky you should have started four years ago. in twenty fourteen when ukraine needed the efforts of all volunteers for the avid reader in the world that it was hiding from his conscription notice of a history of the group some agreed with poroshenko as line of attack was caused by a military man and i can't imagine zelinsky as commander in chief a man that ha

back at zelinsky h.q. and this man former finance minister alexander downer look could provide the experience the candidate lacks something like an act of blind faith though isn't it to support a man with no political background or experience culture of why should people do it . well that's a good question right and just maybe because they trust him more than the alternatives that's it. and they. blindly bluntly actually saying that we don't want. a continuation of foreign forces you know with what we don't want people don't trust running the country so this is the shiny new look i'll take that in your brain and younger voters in particular will surely love how many hard to like the five all of them is immense his promise to change everything even if he so far made only the vaguest suggestions about how he plans to do that will have to change fast as voters' minds become far more focused in the second round. so this man zelinsky is a political unknown his policies are unknown but he does seem to represent

basically fed up with you know they want it and yeah but you're very good in doing so when he when zelinsky was talking about wanting to. do it very early on in the campaign he said he wanted direct talks with russia and he would say he was really condone you know you know exactly be because he walked away from me we tracked it down by election yes you know it but now he's going to be president it may be different well his first tweet tweet tweet. in two languages russian and ukrainian interesting i'm not going to read a lot into it yeah ok so let me go do something and. we go to case in amsterdam the interesting thing is that as mary were saying there are people that are sick and tired of this conflict that shouldn't be going on at all in the donbass but unfortunately again we go back to corruption there are quite a few people that are making money off of contraband smuggling all kinds of things like that and that conflict is very good for them go couldn't do anything about it i can't see how in the world is going to be able to do anything about it because it's a close circle he's not in t

followed a mere zelinsky victory is not unexpected the polls have been tipping it for weeks but it is a pretty unlikely political victory this man has no political background or experience he played the part of a president in a t.v. series but that's really all anybody knows about him they don't know what he stands for they don't know who backs him importantly they don't know who may influence him in the future and in what direction but above all of that this was a protest vote by a sizeable proportion of the population angry angry and frustrated with politics mainstream politics as they have been this has been a rejection of those politics of those leaders and the old ways in ukraine. election night at the zelinsky campaign headquarters it's a casual affair a long way from the stuffy formality of the more established parties which is little surprise for the. the near certain winner of the first round of ukraine's presidential election is a comedian turned actor whose only experience of politics is playing the part of president in a popular television series he may soon be playing the

leader in charge of ukraine but i put my hope in mr zelinsky and i hope that he will make such a great president he may want to accept it and when i'm doing what i think we should do is that the first round is over when we have a second round i'd like to have all of you come back and we will discuss the final round of ukraine's presidential election that's all the time we have gentlemen many thanks i guess in london and in california and thanks to our viewers for why. seeing us here at r t c a next time and remember. that bread for a single purpose. they have a soup and. they start training very young. they months of intensive school. rats. and they save lives. u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defense office says we're going to tax and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the walls with their money others wi

that didn't happen but the exchanges between the debaters were quite tough and at some point mr zelinsky said this let's have a listen. which first of all i would like to see that i'm not your opponent i'm your judge. yeah i mean what's interesting if we look at the former i have to mention it because it's probably a bit alien to a lot of western countries fall into the conflict and start of the not insert start with the concert i'll just go back to what mr zanti said a bit later but then if you look at how the debates were organized a patrol or senko said he was ok with having the debates there on the stadium but then he rammed into his studio of a t.v. channel where the lenski shows are wrong and he asked mr zanti to come in and have a debate with him immediately that was five days before friday but selenski was already in france having a conversation with emanuel macron but mr poroshenko the president forced the people from that channel to call mr zelinsky and there was actually a live phone conversation on their mr he said no i won't call. later i'll see you have to state that you kn

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 can tell us about the zielinski. this is a city of mentally iran and steal the kind of character that will never let you down here locals who know him say success inspired zelinsky and his comedy troupe. you always wanted what was best not just for him but for his friends his family would never read 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 is one big difference the real since he is a very powerful business associate who's helped him get to where he is now. he called one of ukraine's most powerful oligarchs owns the t.v. station that hosts zelinsky shows the oligarch lives abroad and is wanted on embezzlement charges ukraine's incumbent president petro poroshenko accuses me of being called a puppet. many men here have died in the fighting agai

flood to meet zelinsky a fictional president now it seems the president elect. fiction has become fact. zillion ski and his team consider break this election victory but defeating corruption. and ending the war with russia is going to prove harder word in english. he may be funny but ukrainians have shown little patience for presidents and failed to deliver. and robin is joining us live from kiev now so when can we hear more from selenski robin about how he plans to govern now that he has been given this huge mandate by the people. everyone is waiting to find out more devil in the detail to zielinski plans and i imagine and we expect that in the next few days he will stay to give a big press conference and talk about those policies but we can narrow it down to three key areas sorting out the economy. dealing with corruption and making it more democratic system in ukraine and. dealing with the ongoing conflict in the east of the country between ukrainian and separatists pro russian forces that are actually backed by vladimir putin's russia and i think everyone he

followed a mere zelinsky victory is not unexpected the polls have been tipping it for weeks but it is a pretty unlikely political victory this man has no political background or experience he played the part of a president in a t.v. series but that's really all anybody knows about him they don't know what he stands for they don't know who backs him importantly they don't know who may influence him in the future and in what direction but above all of that this was a protest vote by a sizeable proportion of the population angry angry and frustrated with politics mainstream politics as they have been this has been a rejection of those politics of those leaders and the old ways in ukraine. election night at the zelinsky campaign headquarters it's a has a lot of fair a long way from the stuffy formality of the more established parties which is little surprise a lot of the near certain winner of the first round of ukraine's presidential election is a comedian turned actor whose only experience of politics is playing the part of president in a popular television series he may soon be playing

so this man zelinsky is a political unknown his policies are unknown but he does seem to represent for many people hope it was just five years ago that protesters were out of the square behind me in my down square the second revolution in this country in fifteen years they protested here against corruption for a different kind of ukraine a different future of moving closer to european structures the e.u. nato and so on instead what do they see they have a frozen conflict in the east corruption is still right some say it goes all the way to the top so we have this rejection of mainstream politics to the extent that people are prepared to embrace a sort of blind faith in a lot of myths alinsky he's not there yet of course he's got a fight and win the second round yet and those policies of his such as they exist will come under far greater and closer closer scrutiny in the weeks ahead when it's played out to john herb sousa former u.s. ambassador to ukraine now director of the eurasia center at the atlantic council who joins us live from washington d.c. mr has welcome to the program so ro

back at zelinsky h.q. and this man former finance minister alexander downer look could provide the experience the candidate lacks something like an act of blind faith though isn't it to support a man with no political background or experience whatsoever why should people do. well that's a good question right just maybe because they trust him more than the alternatives that's it. and they. all line. bluntly actually saying that we don't want. a continuation of current policies you know with what we don't want people who don't trust running the country so this is the shiny new look i'll take in ukraine and younger voters in particular will surely love many hard to like the five all of them is immense his promise to change everything even if he so far made only the vaguest suggestions about how he plans to do that will have to change fast as voters' minds become far more focused in the second round so that was john a reporting will now speak to him bring him in from kiev join us a little be interesting to see

concerns and suspicions about how zelinsky is going to govern and about his own potential ties to. the campaign he said very very little in terms of substantial policy plans he said that he's still pro european and he's certainly not willing to qatari cut deals with with russia. but he was pretty tricky as not a servant of the people as his as his t.v. persona was about but a servant of one particular all the dark a man called eagle column or who owns the television station that zelinsky t.v. shows were broadcast dog but zelinsky has claimed all along that it's just a business relationship and that when he entered politics he's been allowed to go in on his own and that he was still and is willing to take on all the oligarchs including who these days is outside of the country and who is accused of siphoning off billions of dollars of ukrainian money through his own banking banking system so a lot of questions around zielinski. and his lack of experience but tonight at least it seems ukrainians are willing to give this man a child's thank you very much with all the latest from here r

choice is very simple either or either hope or a like with zelinsky is hope but you must mean we want change. flood to meet zielinski i fictional president now it seems the president elect. fiction has become fact. zillion ski and his team consider break this election victory but defeating corruption. and ending the war with russia is going to prove harder word in english. he may be funny but ukrainians have shown little patience the president's failed to deliver first you walk. here. fane leave them there in a mcdonald's call for an end to violent rushing in northern ireland following the murder of journalist a key the head of the irish republican party made the comments during easter rising commemorations in belfast twenty nine year old the key was shot and killed while observing rioting in london various creggan a state on thursday night. is cast time now for these groups that masquerades as republicans to pack up and pack it in. their activities and to let the people get on with the work of building a new united ireland that's right and that we all want an army and that will be a

the election with us now are you have been following this and if we start with the polls they said zelinsky would triumph

poroshenko painted zelinsky as naive and did 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 break the oligarchic system a corrupt system many ukrainians believe poroshenko as a wealthy businessman belonged to it was either a protest vote or a genuine belief that a comedian might make a worthy commander in chief a martyr just maybe it is time maybe those would think differently i majority the choice is very simple either or either hope or a like with zelinsky is hope but you must mean we want change. blood to me and zielinski i fix a new president now it seems the president elect. fiction has become fact. zillion ski and his team consider break this election victory but defeating corruption and ending the war with russia is going to prove harder word in english. guy because. he may be funny but ukrainians have shown little patience for presidents and failed to deliver roman for a steelworker al-jazeera. shin fein leader marion mcdonald has called for an end to violent riot

zelinski's platform focuses on corruption. he has made specific proposals and scored points when emmanuel macron agreed to o meet him. poroshenko has positioned himself as a leader who will stand up to russia. whoever wins, they will have to deal with russian-backed separatists in the east. moments after a saudi teenager made headlines, two other saudi women are in the same situation in georgia. they fled because of fear of their own family. >> they are sisters. they fled saudi arabia, where they allege they were prisoners of their family. >> according to media reports, they used their father's phone. enforce maleed to guardianship. they fled d to one of t the few countries that does not require visas for saudi citizens. begann the capital, they posting pleas for help. georgia confirmed they have provided i information about how asylum. for they set online, family members have arrived to take them home. georgia authorities say no family members who could endanger them are in the country. the case is reminiscent of a saudi teen

going into the final round of its presidential election and it looks like the comedian volodymyr zelinsky is going to win by a landslide does he have a viable economic agenda. i'm sleeping near the office all young professionals in manila dealing with iran's commute. this is your business. and welcome as ukraine prepares for the final round of its presidential elections on sunday the court has ruled that the nationalize the nation of ukraine's biggest land up the vote bank was illegal the ruling has sent shock waves through the country's financial sector the fresh ruling is huge as a setback for incumbent president petro poroshenko in this weekend's presidential race. every third ukrainian has a bank account here it's the country's biggest lender the news that it might be returned to private ownership as unsettled the bank's customers. before the bank was nationalized in twenty sixteen it had piled up almost six billion dollars in debt the government bailed the bank out and nationalized it blaming fraudulent lending practices and money laundering by co-founder igor kohler moyse key and ot

president it's petro poroshenko himself who's now playing catch up in a new political reality where zelinsky is making the rules that your stadium it is then i'll be waiting for you vladimir aleksandrovich. ukrainians then work up to these images both candidates arriving to take blood tests as demanded by zelinsky in his opening gambit president poroshenko is not only accepting the challenge to debate in front of a thousand strong stadium audience he's also willing to put his medical history up for discussion against the challenger more than ten years his junior selenski is making good on his promise to turn ukrainian politics upside down the only question is how ordinary ukrainians will react to this unlikely battle of the candidates. this year germany is marking hundred years since the founding of the influential house school of design if you're a fan of. an ascetic you want to pay a visit to the brand new museum which opened today in the city. that's where the movement going to start more than a thousand items on display or five floors the museum for these icons of progressive design in t

agreed with power shankar's line of attack yes courcelles i'm a military man and i can't imagine zelinsky as commander in chief a man that has never served in the army in his life you can you call him this was it not you but selenski supporters what shite a voice that. disapproval of the incumbent's track record to show the your partner shank who has only rob does the people created everything let's see what lane ski will do you will see we already saw what pershing quit date he had five years ago what a sham going to a body bag. selenski enjoys a healthy lead in the polls with ukrainians fed up with that political class sunday's vote may well prove that inexperience is not always a bad thing. and a quick reminder of the top stories we're following for you in northern ireland police have arrested two teenagers in connection with the murder of a young journalist on thursday they are on the key was hit by a bullet actually covered a riot in the city of london during the violence erupted after officers searched the home and the area. you're watching t w news life from berlin up next a docume

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 tried to really present himself as a wartime leader and at some point the population got a little bit sick of the cost of war we tore their pockets and their bellies are empty and when they see the corruption. presided over that it makes it even more irritating and they start thinking are we being given a story here should we get rid of him so. the governors of the various districts over ukraine replaced with only got the middleman who is removed then the oligarchs got even more so the population clearly voted against poroshenko and there were the representatives now there voting also it was something new and against the rhetorical war and they see that in zelinsky the question is will that inskeep be able to provide its against the probable positional the other forces i just mentioned marco gastric international affairs commentator think you for joining us on the program today more stories right after the break stay with us here on

joining us now from zelinsky election event in kiev is d w correspondent nick connelly nick exit polls have been released the crowds at the event where you are must have been jubilant. you have to. come to you michael i'm having a bit of trouble hearing you again the line is very cold this is packed here this election party we're expecting volume is let's get any minute now to come and talk to us again the first time we spoke to people was just off the release of those exit polls when the poll colin when the ballot box closed an hour ago back then he kept it very brief thanking his supporters and his votes is now expecting a bit more in the way of detail this being one of the main criticisms of his campaign so far that he has been noticeably short on the detail and reluctant to really open the calls and tell people what he plans to do nick will try this again no it's very loud where you are but as far as we know zelinsky has won by at least seventy percent of the vote how we're liable for those exit polls. last time around this is the second round of ukraine's election this runoff in t

zelinsky and in the boss there was a victory for a boycott who was. different policies from bush uncle in terms of his election platform so this is actually a major issue and. actually you can there's also the why that because the boss said by just going from the boss which is the focus you see the form you can of national media intervention. did not actually participate in elections and same applies to kamya and i was a major production agent which was the next bash since since then my down even so this is a very posh legion which was when you first in all other actions since nine hundred ninety one but it did not participate in this round of elections now i think it's also very clear from the polls that the voters in the west and the east of the country have some would different priorities people in the west though who are far more insulated from the conflict and don't boss tend to be more hawkish while the people in the east are far more in favor of negotiating the. war do you expect any change in the dynamics of that conflict the conflict in dun b

what does zelinsky mean for ukraine. changes so this election in ukraine was quite unusual because. it was. broadcast in all eastern candidates like russian speaking ukrainian speak and the frame of whole campaign was old and new old against new new against old it means that society was very eager to have changes to have politicians who can destroy the status quo of oligarchs elites of establishment. rich people become suroosh poor becomes poor and oligarchs and his themselves including current president who is the main. today in ukraine that is why they made this choice and if you look at numbers all politicians number two and number three. they have less in the result. of this limited political experience but i believe nobody waiting for likely strong deep knowledge about everson from human people for moral leader who can say that i want to destroy the status quo i believe he would want to be a part of those if you will successful as an individual as a business and media market much more before when he started to show some core musculature of he's actually directed by the people a

zelinsky comes to the candidacy by way of a hit t.v. show called servant of the people where he plays an outsider elevated to the presidency. so does playing a president on t.v. teach you how to do it and real life supporters and analysts have different views. i don't know if there is such a person as the protagonist in the series but i'd like to believe in that with you if you take over cylin skiis knew he was not part of the system says he's against the system and there are demands for change in this country. it was a landscape may not be entirely outside the system many say he's in the pocket of an oligarch who owns the t.v. channel zelinsky program appears on who opposes present president petro poroshenko people don't support the landscape they just want to shoulder at hewitt's it's offensive to. 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 livi

what does zelinsky mean for ukraine. changes so this election in ukraine was quite unusual because it's a first time when it was. an all pro eastern candidates like russian speech and ukrainian speaking the frame of whole campaign was old and new old against new against old it means that society was very eager to have changes to have politicians who can destroy the status quo of oligarch elites of the stablish one two and rich people become so rich poor becomes poor and only got cities themselves including current president who is the main only got as for today in ukraine that is why they made the choice and if you look at numbers all politicians number two and number three percent consumer do guess that they have less in the result than this confessed of course because of itis limited political experience but i believe nobody wakes in fall so i plead strong with deep knowledge about everson from human people for moral leader who can say that i want to destroy the status quo i believe he would want to be a part of those

he's the head of the second vote poroshenko has been calling on his rival to hold a public debate zelinsky added in one condition though a drug test both candidates invited journalists and photographers to the debate blood giving. as more on the two. rivals. they counted on him gave him all kind of help and thought he'd take the x. soviet republics somewhere new the result roughly eighty five percent of ukraine voters want to show petro poroshenko the door the western establishment is baffled for them choosing between someone as hated today as the chocolate king pershing co and funny guy all of them are zelinsky aka is a president is a tough one backing the winner of round one who has no political background at all is like opening pandora's box well look at who he's been destroying with jokes for years the names are all they're way behind him now how's that for a political background. we didn't know any. we will bring back crimea. ok this is. what about his own sitcom launched in two thousand and fifteen selenski character just a schoolteacher on a fast track to be president turns the whol