But you. Claim. This is d w news live from her lead turkeys president suffers a low in local election as the opposition celebrates as it gains control of the capital ankara the commercial capital just stumbled looks set to follow and what does it mean for president ever to want and for the future of the country. Also coming up she could have faced death by hanging down the vietnamese woman accused of killing the north Korean Leaders half brother winds of Early Release well have all the details on a bizarre case in malaysia and no laughing matter Comedian Volodin heres
a lengthy wins the first round of voting and ukraines president ial election is coming well ahead of the incumbent president Petro Poroshenko plus. A look at the. Disaster for artist Charlotte Clare he loses engine power in the closing laps a lot of talent to win his first race of the season at the Bahrain Grand Prix. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program its being called a stunning setback for turkeys president right to
closer to the human coworkers. which t.v. cranes presidential elections where a t.v. comedy star seems to have won the first round with over seven. percent of ballots counted voting near selenski leads with a bit less than a third of the vote the forty one year old is the star of a popular comedy show and has never held political office the incumbent pressure poroshenko is landing second place in yesterday s election with sixteen percent of votes in his favor former prime minister yulia timoshenko is said to be knocked out of the running in third place the top two candidates advance to a runoff bomb due to be held in three weeks. so could you crave top politicians soon be a comic nicolas connelly joins us now from kiev so nick as we heard there around seventy percent of the votes have been counted cancel inskeep already been named as the winner of this round. could offer news there well i don t think there s much
oligarch who owns the t.v. channel selenski program appears on who opposes present president petro poroshenko people don t support the landscape they just want to shoulder at night it s a faceted. poroshenko is the president ukrainians have 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 living standards he made his name as a pro european anti russian candidate and he s sticking to it briefly we have passed the test for our european ways and it means everything we do to head in the european direction is absolutely right with an outsider comedienne all but poised to become president many ukrainians do not seem to believe he s playing games with the country s future. so let s talk
one villain for the camera. 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 in 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 it s a view that it was can move resilin ski is new he s not part of the system he s against the system and there are demands for change in this country. selenski may not be entirely outside the system many say he s in the pocket of an oligarch who owns the t.v. channel selenski program appears on who opposes present president petro poroshenko
shots of that commanding lead as you said of a ten percent that selenski has in front of president but you re pushing because there s little chance of that being closed lots that was down to young people i m here in front of the main building of kids university so let s getting very well amongst the under thirty s i think the interesting things to look for today will be for the battle for second place so all the polls consistently giving petro poroshenko the lead there but it s only a couple of percent and here in ukraine it s the top two candidates who go into the second round so there is counting going on the tymoshenko team says that they have regions regions where they do well haven t counted yet so essential there for more disputes and a narrowing of the polls but yesterday was all about selenski and that shock when i mean we journalists talk about political earthquakes too often but this really was this was someone who came from nowhere and who only announced his candidacy on new