mohammed jeffords arief hit back in a tweet calling trump s comments genocidal taunts. venezuela s president nicolas maduro has called for early elections of the country s opposition controlled national assembly maturin made the call in a speech to celebrate the 1st anniversary of his disputed reelection which he described as a victory for venezuelans amid a growing humanitarian crisis in the oil rich nation. former actor and comedian volodymyr selenski has been sworn in as ukraine s new president in his inaugural speech alinsky announced he would immediately dissolve parliament and hold early elections the political novice takes over after defeating pietra poroshenko and then landslide victory last month but. the t.v. series game of thrones as come to an end but another saga may be about to begin and
that selenski is being sworn in as the new president of ukraine we re looking at live pictures there from the parliament the comedian and actor won a landslide victory in last month s election despite having no political experience selenski was shit was known for playing the president in a popular t.v. sitcom there he is. you watching. the fun. to get.
a 2nd term and what would that mean for the country. also coming up an anniversary here in germany at the core of the country s democracies the basic law was enacted 70 years ago speaks to this talk president spoke on short book about what it means for germany today. hello i m terry martin good to have you with us former actor and comedian volodymyr selenski is being sworn in at this hour as ukraine s new president selenski won a landslide victory in last month s election but there s still little known about the future direction his leadership will take he has no political experience although then playing the president in a television set call this election is widely seen as a protest vote against the failure. about going president or ashamed.
for more now d. w. as nick connolly joins us from outside the ukrainian parliament in kiev nick a t.v. sitcom actor who played the president is about to be sworn in as as the real thing is supposed to be a surreal moment for ukraine. good morning terry well he has just walked down the red carpet since ukraine s parliament behind me to begin his inauguration this has indeed been a pretty surreal couple of weeks here the campaign it was often difficult to tell what was fact and fiction so let s give the candidate using clips of himself from the series in which he played a president to become the president for real something which he did very successfully but it seems ukrainians have got used to that thought of the comedian being then you present extraordinarily quickly i think it really takes that outside perspective to really remember quite how unusual situation is let s take
well definitely there s a lot of nervousness as well as to what s next in store for him. potentially of see you there is always a possibility that the judiciary under a new president could look into his business dealings definitely there have been lots of accusations from the selenski camp about pushing those not him so much personally as his closest team and their involvement in disposability dubious government procurement contracts for defense having said that apart from an affair which the president who was overthrown by the modern revolution and who is now in russia all of ukraine s other post-independence presidents are in country and have more or less basically enjoyed immunity but it is difficult time for him now what his future will be we do have a parliament elections in the autumn so potentially pushing through much try and stay along and make sure his party stays in parliament but the extent of this defeat is really shocking this is something that how we haven t seen uk