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hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up exit polls show austria moving to the right at sebastian kurtz on course to be the world's youngest. civilians and syrian i still find rocca under a negotiated deal as u.s. bank syrian forces begin a final assault to take back the city also. i've been in hong kong where a gathering of pack of people from around the world is breathing new life into the city's indigenous culture. the top story this hour the number of people killed by powerful truck and car bombs in the somali capital has jumped to more than two hundred hundreds more were injured in the blasts on saturday which hit the center of mogadishu as well as a residential district somalia has declared three days of national mourning

caroline malone has the latest. when people in somalia's capital mogadishu a trying to come to terms with one of the worst car bomb attacks ever a truck bomb exploded outside a hotel at an intersection lined with government offices restaurants and shops hours later a second blast struck another business district in the city most of the buildings in those areas have been destroyed still being pulled out of the rubble president mohammed up to live visited the scene and his government has declared three days of mourning and they said you are the. target of these terrorist is not government officials but civilians as you see here there are no government buildings only civilians who are going about their daily life we have to come together and fight these monsters until we eradicate them from our country and speaking to our jazeera

the united nations deputy special envoy to somalia say despite such attacks the security situation around the country has improved a great efforts have been made by the government to particularly secure city but also other areas and in the country but nevertheless when one is desperate enough to get through these kind of things do happen and we've seen it yet again into mali and fortunately doctors are doing their best with limited resources to deal with the many people who have been injured dozens are in critical condition several have lost limbs so. what happened yesterday was incredible i have never seen such a thing before and the death toll is uncountable corpses were burned and no one could recognize them. attacks on soft targets like markets and restaurants have become common in somalia and what sets this one apart is just how large it was and the devastation it has caused right now people are in short hospital supplies like

blood are i did he needed many are wondering how someone was able to drive a view called packed with explosives into the heart of the city catherine soy al jazeera nairobi kenya. exit polls in austria put thirty one year old conservative sebastian kurtz on course to become the youngest leader in the world early indications show his center right people's party in the lead with thirty point two percent but once mighty social democrat party did looks out for third place but is now projected to get twenty seven point one percent that puts heinz christian struck freedom party in third place on twenty five point nine percent we may end up for me a coalition with kurtz who stole some of his thunder by talking tough on immigration . in the last hour the leader of the people's party sebastian kurtz is said that he will fight for a new style of politics in austria. today the voters men and women in this country gave us a great mandate we must be aware of this opportunity the women and men are putting

their hopes into this movement we will strengthen all of our fight to bring about change in this country i invite you to go on this path with us there is much to do to establish a new style of politics in this country. let's get more now from david the people's party headquarters in the enter and i suppose the atmosphere there and the people that you've been speaking to that sort of sentiment for something new and for some sort of change very much reflected in the conversations that day that. yes when he came on stage i lost count of the number of times he said thank you to his supporters he said that. they had made for him. an impossible mission possible and that was a very good way of putting it because he said that when he first started his movement as he called it five months ago when he broke up the grand coalition

people look down on his his whole approach they said he's never make it. made clear victory here but we must remember mario these are projections still only projections so the counting is changing the project has a change in a number of seats and j.j. but what it is very clear is that he has the majority of the votes and he will have the largest number of seats in the in the national parliament of which there are one hundred eighty three but he will need to get an absolute majority the help of a coalition partner at the moment there's a big struggle for second place between social democrats and the freedom party the hard right freedom party and you can hear the cheering going on in the background every twenty minutes or so and they're changing those projections some real results are coming in at the same time. so the getting projections of each polling station gives the final count but there are also some seven hundred fifty thousand also

a postal vote and they got to be counted as well so there's still a lot to play for the second the first place but it's very clear that the past has become the youngest ever chancellor in waiting. for australia and that he is going to change the whole style and approach and has been described and his story crossroads nothing like this choice for decades for the austrian electorate and they've decided elected a creditor side of the turn right and very strongly right and so we're facing a coalition between the center right and the hard right and we can expect that's going to cause difficulties in the european union and also many of the minority muslim community here are worried about what might come out of. it and. in terms of that if you have as you say the social democrats on the far right party surely neck and neck who is most compatible with him is he likely to form

a coalition with. i can tell you mary who is most unlikely to form a coalition with and that is all coalition partners because that grand coalition with the social democrats failed there were internal divisions internal arguments the two leaders hated each other and they kind of see curtis coming in on the writing on the victory returning to his old partner in without doubt try to get a coalition together with the freedom party the right after all and the whole election campaign it was failing many their policies using their policies a waving the islamophobia card if you like are worrying about immigration he was getting votes from stealing some of their policies so i think is most natural part of a partner is going to be rich in the structure. that is probably what we'll hear in the next twenty four hours a coalition talks will start and they'll begin to talk about the sort of policies

they want to put out and that's going to be a big problem by many in the muslim community here because they feel more vulnerable after such an emphatic turn to the right and also of course of i've said before this new vision of europe the. triangle of merkel had a reinvigorated vision a reformed european union well i think. the neighbor here in austria will make that much more difficult there's another big hurdle with changing the face of the european union after breakfast and i think the that's going to be very difficult once again. thank you very much david chaytor following all of those developments there from vienna. a final assault on the way to fight is still holed up in pockets of the northern syrian city of raka u.s.

bank syrian forces say almost all civilians in about two hundred seventy five i saw fighters have left under a deal that was brokered by tribal leaders on saturday between two and three hundred mostly foreign fighters remain in the city meanwhile syrian government forces have retaken the town of mayor dean in eastern syria after intense fighting with ice. this is a major gain in the race for territories previously held by the armed group over the past months mandaean had become a refuge for myself fighters from syria and iraq as itself became caliphate crumbled syrian army units are now in control of several strategic roads leading to i still controlled neighborhoods within their us or province. date from antakya in turkey's hatay province. fighting in iraq is confined to a few areas in the center of the city the s.d.f. which is a coalition of kurdish and fighters backed by the united states of america the shelling of those areas with the hope to try to evict eyes of fighters from from

there there's been an attempt to back by the term for a deal backed by tribes in iraq how to convince ourselves why it is to work with draw but that didn't work some of the foreign fighters insist that they would like to stay and fight to the death but this is why the significant development of this says that i said is losing ground is losing their self-proclaimed capital in iraq they're putting out but also in the aisles of this suffering some major setbacks the loss the city of. pulling of towards areas of the border with iraq in two thousand and fourteen or fifteen i was hoping to use iraq as a platform to expand further towards it live. and let. that narrative is now being reversed iraq's kurdish leadership has rejected baghdad's demand that it cancels the outcome of last month's a session referendum as a precondition for talks to resolve the dispute iraqi president fired my sume an

iraqi kurdish president massoud barzani have met in so many a to discuss the recent military standoff between their forces in the disputed city of kirkuk oil rich cocoa is claimed by both governments tensions have risen since the kurdish secession vote on september twenty fifth that baghdad sees as illegal. catalonia as president has less than twenty four hours to say whether or not he'll declare independence following the controversial secession referendum at the start of the month if card is pushed him on says yes spain's prime minister might take the unprecedented step of removing the regionals the region's political autonomy sunday gager reports from barcelona. facing up to the biggest challenge of his political career all eyes are on catalunya as president cutlass prejudgment the man who could be about to declare europe's newest state here remembering the life of the last man who declared an independent cattle and republic. in one thousand nine hundred forty

this was with former castle and president louis combines was executed by firing squad for a belling against the military rule of general francisco franco with only hours to go until was depleted what except for defies the order from the dread to end his drive for secession he gave no clue as to his intention. on behalf of the government and myself i want to reiterate our commitment to peace civility serenity and also from this our democracy as the inspiration for the decisions we have to make on the eve of the day when mr president is expected to confirm or deny his declaration of independence his presence here at the memorial ceremony for a hero of catalan independence is not going unnoticed and many here are drawing parallels with that situation. there has been much emotion stoked here in the past few weeks but the attempt to frame this as a story of oppression of

a wealthy region by the central government is not convincing the european union despite the violent crackdown by madrid on any attempt to push ahead with self-determination if the spanish government try. to catalonia are me. that they can. answer them with a peaceful. position we will never use the balance to defend our arguments. on. the catalonia of today is different from the embattled place it was during the spanish civil war but for those gathered. the specter opossum heroes of the cause is never far away even if catalonia is pro independence politicians step back there's no guarantee that they won't pay the price for their part in spain's current constitutional crisis sonny diagonal al-jazeera barcelona. and watching our

. program and bring you all the latest from venezuela as the country votes in regional elections which could hand the opposition and not the victory of a president but their right. and wishing. that its residents fight back against the terrorists they say are ruining that beautiful city. we got more clout on right making its way towards the black sea it was the caspian sea some rather lively sliding in here as you can see just spilling out of northern turkey using a cross. and also we're looking at some very wet weather here as we go on through the next day the northeast of turkey also catching a little bit of that very heavy are right on the northern flank you see mabel even see some snow over the high ground for the south no sign of any snow here of course

just pretty hot kuwait city getting up to thirty five degrees celsius of heart of snow across the arabian peninsula here in doha but have highs of around thirty eight degrees but i would probably get up to around thirty five celsius just want to shower down towards the fall south of but essentially i think it will be largely fine dry and sunny meanwhile far and sunny for a good part of southern africa a few showers just getting across the southern cape from time to time a bit about well it's just coming in here rather breezy as well for the eastern cape as we go on through monday but for most it will be fine sunny and settle harari gets up to around thirty three degrees celsius and ten in the rave out around twenty the central parts of africa showers across central regions with more wet weather for west africa.

welcome back you're watching our let's take a look at the stories making headlines the death toll from the powerful truck and car bombs that exploded in the somali capital mogadishu on saturday is reported to

have jumped to two hundred government has declared three days of mourning. projections in austria but thirty one year old sebastian kurtz is conservative policy in the lead with about thirty one percent of the vote in might form a coalition government with the far right freedom party which is in third place behind the surge democrats. and us by syrian forces say almost all civilians in about two hundred seventy five i still have left the northern syrian city of raka under a deal brokered by tribal leaders on saturday. well now what voting is underway as well in venezuela as all twenty three states elect new governors the regional vote is the first since and you super body was created by president nicolas maduro that has the power to overrule opposition m.p.'s and amend the constitution polls have put the opposition on course to win many of the state votes to raise a boat has the latest from the city of but diary in the east of the capital caracas . we're here in a polling station in baghdad if you're following home neighborhood of about two

million people seven thousand of them i'm expecting to come here to vote with been told that turnout has been pretty low here compared to previous elections where you could see long lines of people coming here and this mostly affects the opposition because many are disenchanted after months and months of violent protest that they were not able to achieve what they were expecting which was presidential elections and national presidential elections venezuelans have been struggling with a deep political and economic crisis with shortages of points of medicine and among other things. they are still on the single mother i have three children and my daughter can't find work we have to find a solution and will need to find a solution to venezuela's problems. in the last election that happened here in venezuela last july smartmatic the company in charge of the electronic voting system denounced that the turnout had been manipulated by the government but the

opposition is from vince that they be able to control this because they fully quoted the previous election and their money tours were not press and well that's not the situation this sunday their monitors from the opposition press and in this voting center and that's what makes a big big difference this election for the government is a way of seeing whether their support base continues to be strong to which i just took office the governorship where the bastions of these most of the socialist party and if they lose in some crucial areas this will suddenly show that the economic crisis has in a way affected the popularity of the president and all the party for the opposition however this is a way of showing their strengths on the streets during the protests is also happening in the violence and it's definitely a preview for the presidential elections that could happen next year. well moving to kenya now where the opposition leader has held a rally in the city of mombasa always urged his supporters to boycott the presidential election it follows days of violent protests to spy

a government ban to protesters were killed during clashes with police on friday as anger over an increasingly uncertain rerun scheduled to take place later this month . myanmar has held a ceremony to mark two years since the signing of a cease fire with several armed groups eight of me on mars twenty one ethnic group signed up to the peace accord in two thousand and fifteen but many didn't participate including ranger fighters and military crackdown on the ranger has prompted accusations of ethnic cleansing against me on mars army or than half a million ranger fled across the border to bangladesh since the end of august. officials say that wild elephants attacked and new camp where ranger refugees was sleeping killing a woman and her three children in southern bangladesh as the number of people arriving in the country rises camps are becoming more and more overcrowded and that makes it easy for families to get separated and for children to get last june met one refugee at kuta pollen camp in cox's bizarre he started

a lost and found service to help reunite them. number two hundred. four come almost sane the time had come to try and make a difference. one day the morning i was going to work i saw one lady who was sitting in front of the gate and crying when i asked what happened she said my baby's been missing since last night and i can't find him after opening the office that day i was thinking about it and i was feeling very bad i was thinking how can i help her that was in late august just as the massive exodus of rwanda refugees fleeing violence in me and more was beginning since then more than five hundred thousand people have arrived in bangladesh. come all himself or him to refugee who's lived here for years noticed that more and more families were getting separated in overcrowded camps so he set up a lost and found booth from behind this microphone at the could to prolong camp he

makes announcements about unaccompanied children that have been brought to him as well as individuals who have been reported missing by their relatives he says that there have been more than fourteen hundred people reported missing and estimates that more than seven hundred families have so far been reunited and. i have family too i have kids too if i lost my own kids then i would feel very bad so until i'm able to give the lost children back to their parents i remain distressed when i can return children to their parents then i feel a pace kemal knows the chances of children being found increases when people can continue to communicate with each other that's why he's also set up a charging station where refugees can charge their mobile phones for free come out had been working as a security guard for an aid organization when he first got the idea for this initiative to use the money from his own savings to run a microphone and start calling out the names of the missing and the lost now he is doing this full time. normal hamad was frantic when he couldn't find his two and

a half year old son. my people told me that i should go to the booth with a microphone where a person named kemal will announce my baby's name i searched all over for my son and still couldn't find him when i was about half of the way to the booth i heard that they were announcing that they had found a child then when i arrived i found my son with kemal now reunited with his son mohammed tells us he's not just relieved but also extremely grateful to come out but for every happy parent we find there is a distraught one. my son has been missing since last night i searched for him yesterday all day and night as she waits for news alongside her other son while hamad aziz elmore reaches desperation only deepens come all is all too familiar with this kind of suffering it's why he sits in this booth despite the heat it's why he works from early in the morning until late at night. finding children helping adults making a difference one name at

a time. a major improvement but the key to prolong camping cox's bazar bangladesh. hong kong is hosting people from all over the world with one thing in common they're all haka it's a minority group of hand chinese scattered across southern china and dozens of other countries but the language and culture is rapidly disappearing as difficult pollen explains. a love song passed down through generations the villagers fear they'll be the last to sing it there are few young people left in this haka village and paddling most have gone to live alongside the dominant cantonese speakers leaving behind their ancestral homes heritage and mother tongue. culture hakkasan language full of which it would be a pity if it is gone seventy million hakka live worldwide but few speak the

language that's apparent the world hacker conference where english cantonese and mandarin are spoken of hong kong's past and present leaders opening the event it's the biggest gathering of the haka diaspora held every two years and this year an unusual scene a younger audience accompanying their parents and grandparents eager to rediscover their identity a thing of pop pop like environment for a few people the cars are so we don't have a chance to protest for hustling goal i have so. old here fifty heritage to my children to my grandchildren or maybe even though i cannot speak in heart. i know some of the. hong kong used to have hundreds of traditional haka villages most have disappeared and the remainder are only recognisable by their dissing to ancestral hall. the hard to worship their ancestors and believe they're

always with them once the head of the family dies their name gets engraved in the hall so the next generation respect their lineage and never forget their roots the community was thriving until the one nine hundred fifty s. when hong kong's government closed all schools where children spoke their indigenous languages and fought was among the first batch to be educated in cantonese hearing the language for the first time of the school the the all clear part of college the haka language you cannot be a. free man that you are really even worse of the same course everything is the same as cannot just accept the spill how can so i thing to revive it is to revive their language in the last century many families stop speaking in the haka to avoid discrimination taking it to the brink of extinction experts say if the haka want to reclaim their vanishing heritage a push for revival has to happen now if you go pollen al-jazeera hong kong it's

well known that the ancient city of venice is sinking it's also shrinking residences steadily leaving because it's been overrun by tourists but locals have been to change that with an anti terrorist campaign charlie and for. venice the timeless city that tourists seem to have little time for twenty million visit each year three quarters of them only stay for twenty four hours they follow the same route see the same sights the impact is devastating fed up residents and leaving for ever one thousand each year for them house prices are astronomically high the crowds unbearable italian city no longer caters for them they say here feel i want to call you can you fly in the you can life food now you can buy only bags you live you see here we see this as if we came in venezuela how is it possible to appreciate a city where. shops only for. the craft

are not working in their shops. residents are protesting against the visiting cruise ships that dwarf the city a damage the environment you nest is threatening to blacklist the world heritage site unless action is taken a campaign to enjoy and respect venice is under way police move on to us to sit on steps and encourage them to visit less popular attractions but there are no plans to reduce tourist numbers only we. we agree cruise ships shouldn't pass by sand marks but we need to keep five thousand jobs we are looking into a different road regarding the trippers we are working on a possible experimental closure of sun mile square tourists would have to book a free visit to try and encourage the right type of business in the city has also introduced by putting up these posters over venice tourists can be fined two

hundred forty dollars but picnicking on a bridge like this one hundred twenty dollars for littering they can also be charged for holding too long which many of these birds will be guilty of the generally. piero dream is one of few remaining artist making it steer the gondolas which helped make venice famous. challenge is to show them the real venice not because we want to create a museum there because we think that this is the most intelligent way to visit here and the only way to keep the nancy alive. but hoping for tourists who go with the flow is like venice battling against the tide charlie under al-jazeera that is. but look at the stories making headlines now somalia has declared three days of

national mourning after saturday's bomb attack in central market issue the number of people killed by the powerful truck and car bombs in the somali capital reportedly jumped to more than two hundred hundreds more were injured in the blast which hit the center of the city and a residential district somalia has declared three days of mourning what happened yesterday was incredible i have never seen such a thing before and the death toll is uncountable corpses were no one could recognize them austria has turned to the right in its general election with early projections putting thirty one year old sebastian cuts conservative party in the lead with more than thirty percent of the vote is likely to lead a coalition government with the far right freedom party which is fighting out with the social democrats for second place. today the very men and women in this country gave us a great mandate we must be aware of this opportunity the women and men are putting

their hopes into this movement we will use all our strength and all of our fight to bring about change in this country i invite you to go on this path with us there is much to do to establish a new style new culture of politics in this country. now the final assault is underway to root out i still fighters still present in pockets of the northern syrian city of raka u.s. backed syrian forces saying that almost all of the civilians in the city along with about two hundred seventy five i still fighters have left and this was all part of the deal that was brokered by tribal leaders on saturday there are between two and three hundred mostly foreign fighters still inside the city. and iraq's kurdish leadership has rejected baghdad's demand that it cancels the outcome of last month's secession referendum as a precondition for talks to resolve the dispute iraqi president and iraqi kurdish president massoud barzani to discuss the recent military standoff between their

forces in the disputed city of kirk. with all of our top stories that will be more on everything we're covering and the news hour i'll be back with that in about twenty five minutes time the inside story is next. syrian democratic forces launch a major operation against. fly in the capital u.s. backed rebels say it's the final push for a so what's next. for thousands of civilians trapped in the conflict this is inside story.