Parliamentary elections so let s take this story now to our correspondent nick connelly he is on the story in the ukrainian capital kiev force good evening to you nic so the president he must be laughing all the way to the parliament building his party controls parliament this should make it very easy for him i would think to to get legislation passed to keep his campaign promises will it. well brant these are really uncharted waters for ukraine politics as you mentioned this is the 1st the ukrainian politics the 1st ukrainian president to have an absolute majority in parliament his strategy of pulling those elections forward really banking that honeymoon he had with the voters really seems to have paid off not only that but also he s a rule new p.c. boards palm and not one of his new members of parliament has sat in parliament before you ve got a t.v.
And for more i m joined tonight by a group of seeing who is considered an authority on india s space endeavors his latest book is entitled the indian space program india s incredible journey from the 3rd world towards the 1st mr singh joins us tonight from manchester in the u.k. mr singh welcome it s good to have you on the day how did you feel today when you saw that rocket launch and head for the moon. it s a liberated and really this was as you know the 2nd attempt it s a very complex and intricate and isn t that what you want and one of the things i think that been missing is that not many people recognize that this would be the mockery that was used today is a relatively new can occur and it s only today that you and it s operational like
A thin layer of electrically charged particles above the surface. and the rover will be able to collect data for a few earth days then it will go dark for 14 days that s when the temperature drops to $160.00 degrees below 0 celsius. the orbiter will spend a year gathering data about the moon the objective is to fill in the gaps from india s previous mission it has 8 measuring instruments on board their function is to investigate the moon s fin atmosphere and show which minerals and chemical elements make up its surface. for the 1st time a special radar will be used to determine the location and quantity of frozen water . india s mission is the 1st to bring this type of instrument to the moon.
Test of selenski his mettle and his real determination to fight corruption will be how he deals with. the channels made him a star in the 1st place and who s been really instrumental with his media resources in helping his political rise to power. used to own ukraine s biggest bank but it was nationalized under the previous government with support from western lenders because it s alleged. billions to buy real estate around the world including in the us if it turns out the business interests are now going to be given preferential treatment of the government the credibility in terms of fighting corruption will obviously be short. or correspondent nick connelly on the story for us tonight talking about the fallout from this weekend s parliamentary elections nick as always thank you. well in hong kong it appears to be going from bad to worse over the weekend in thai government