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have just closed in all stratas national election that could swing the country to the right and pave the way for europe's youngest later thirty one year old foreign ministers bason courts is tipped to become chancellor of his people's party has taken a hard line against refugees in the run up to the courts is widely expected to go into government with the far right freedom party led by heinz christian shaka which is campaigned on an anti immigration and anti islam platform. let's cross now to vienna where correspondent max hoffman is on the story for us max polls have just closed there in austria is there any indication of who is going to come out on top. for now we don't have any numbers yet from this day so we'll have to stick to the polls that we had last week and they see a three way race as we know between the pace of the conservatives with the thirty

one year olds a pastor called the right wing populist if you and also the social democrats with the now a chance this young can if the polls are any indication and they have been pretty consistent in the last dates it is cool it's who will come out on top and speed. so the social democrats in the right wing populist will battle that out for second place and that will probably make the difference which coalition we will see in australia ok we've been hearing throughout the day that migration was a huge issue in this election tell us a little bit more about how that influenced voters. if you look at austria it's always been part of the major migration routes into the european union the western balkans route from syria and also the mediterranean route coming up from italy and that's why there is a big sensibility here by people for this topic and if you look at the last decades it's always been a winning topic mainly for the right wing populists and now is a bust and coach has taken some pages out of the playbook of the right wing pop was

saying he will stop illegal immigration he already did that as the foreign minister and it seems to have worked although we will of course have to wait for the final results today we're expecting exit polls in about ten minutes time but while we wait you mentioned earlier sebastian cortes he's thirty one years old he's the foreign minister right now he's tipped to become austria's next chancellor what kind of world expect from sebastian course as austria's later. he even makes a manually mark all the thirty nine year old president of france look like a senior e.u. citizen here thirty one years old that's very young but he's been consistent he has he has filled the role of foreign minister and what we can expect of course is austria moving to the right which means it might be closer to some eastern european partners like hungary like poland like the czech republic then germany and france especially if he keeps all the promises regarding migration policy in the european union it might not make things easier on

a european union level where mccall has big plans for the european union and it's completely unsure if the courts especially if he has a coalition with the right wing populists will go along with or not what about the current social democrat chance earn christian caryl is there any hope of him remaining in power. it doesn't look like it right now max are you still there. it looks like we've just lost max we do apologize because that was max hoffman reporting for us from vienna as we await the latest polls from australia's national elections we'll have more on that coming up in a few minutes we do apologize that the line dropped out let's have a look now at how immigration has shaped the austrian election campaign. thirty one year old sebastian cortes only became leader of the people's party in may since then besides economic reform he has made immigration a cornerstone have his election campaign. ends and i'm going to strike

a very clear path which is going to reduce illegal migration to zero who sets off illegally must be stopped at the border taken care of and sent back it can't be that the traffickers decide who gets through and not we as a republic or the european union. his views echo those of the anti immigration far right freedom party. indiscriminate mass immigration from outside europe naturally islamist terror into the heart of europe. and what we have now is that through the many associations structures and mosques there is such a tenacious and dangerous structure that i say ban the radical islamic organizations mosques and kindergartens and expel their members i'm sure. his words found favor with austrians who fear the country is losing its national identity could went into the election

a strong favorite to be austria's next leader. but he will still need a coalition partner will it be the far right freedom party. incumbent chancellor christiane karan of the social democrats started the campaign strongly but he became bogged down in internal scandals and accusations against the media that played into the hands of his opponents who are also busy trying to outdo each other on immigration control. australia is not the only election that we're watching for today because regional auctions are also being held in the german state of lower saxony three weeks after national polls the vote is being watched very closely as a barometer of public sentiment as chester on the americal tries to form a coalition government now this is. expected to be a tight race opinion polls put merkel c.d.u. slightly ahead the social democrats close behind that the far right alternative for germany is expected to enter parliament in the state for the first time but it's

not expected to do as well as it did three weeks ago in the national elections more let's cross over to our correspondent michelle a corner she's standing by for us in hanover michelle good to see you many are seeing this as a test for chancellor merkel why exactly is it such a test well this is all pure psychology this is the first opportunity for people gets to go to the polls poll some six million here in lower saxony and vote for those big parties angela merkel seaview and the social democrats and what we've seen here is the kind of very summit hoped for at the national level you see the old parties the big old parties the christian democrats are going to mackerels party and the social democrats have a very tight race here indeed there was a fierce debate between the two top candidates and it's a neck and neck race it's very much back to the future it's a kind of election race we're used to here in germany back from the nineteen

eighties so the parties feel more comfortable with yet and yet it's much tighter we simply don't know who's going to make it all right it's a blast from the past or say what kind of implications could the result have for the coalition talks with the national government that begin this week. well those coalition talks in berlin where postponed until this is all over because the big question here is what kind of coalition could be formed here in lower saxony it seems quite evident that a continuation of the social democrat green coalition we've seen here is most likely not going to be on the cards there are different mixes indeed we could see a left leaning social democrat green left party alliance and if that happens if the left party makes it here into the regional parliament that could make it more difficult to reach some kind of agreement with the greens at the national level so it could all get very complicated he is well that could feed right through to those talks that's michelle

a curfew reporting for us from lower saxony thanks very much let's return to our top story this hour australia's voting and national elections we have a correspondent in vienna max hoffman who's following developments there for us as we wait for the first accept polls max what's the feeling there as this is building . yeah everybody's very well can't wait any more because the projections are really do within the next seconds the feeling here is that most people think the polls will be correct the polls we saw we've seen over the last week so save us and chords coming out on top and probably the right wing populist coming in second and the social democrats as coming in third but of course you have the margin of error in these things and if you look at past elections in the last year for example concerning bragg's it or in the united states i think everybody analysts experts and also journalists have become more careful in predicting what

is going to happen tell us a little bit about this figure of sebastian cortes you were saying earlier he's thirty one years old he used to be the foreign minister how did he manage to win the trust of so many austrians at such a young age. well hang on before i answer their questions we do now have the first projections here and that's why i've been looking down underneath the camera and it looks like indeed sebastian cordes one it with over thirty percent of the votes keep in mind these are projections and the race for second place between the social democrats and the right wing populists at the moment too close to call are too close to call but we do have courts there with over thirty percent of the votes what does that mean for australia right now locksmiths a lot of analysis for you as we wait for that second place call to be made. well it basically means that cool it's can choose the coalition partner he wants even if he chose to take whoever comes in third place he would get a majority a pretty comfortable majority with well over fifty percent but he has indicated in

the past and what he did and said during the campaign made it clear that his preference seems to lie with the right wing populists with the f.p. and that also is because many people in austria feel like the grand coalition that has governed over the last ten years so the social democrats and the conservative sort of has run the line hasn't been been able to fulfill the promises it's made there were some scandals and so the most likely scenario is that we will see a right wing coalition all right that right wing coalition that you mention would consist of the freedom party led by heinz questions. a guy who has some complicated feelings about europe what would it mean for europe if australia comes led by a strong right wing coalition. well those theories have become a little less complicated in the past but you're right of course the f.p.u. in the past was very euro skeptic that's the only problem that. assad has or h.c.

still has they call them in austria has with his past some say or you know it's been virtually proven that he was part of the neo nazi scene in austria a couple of years ago he said that was a mistake but still you know in a country like austria and also looking upon austria from germany that is difficult and on the european level as well what we do think will happen is that austria will get closer to its eastern neighbors countries like hungary like poland the czech republic that all form the so-called these are groups that in the last years or so has been very skeptical of what's happening in brussels with the e.u. institutions and shot himself has already brought that into the discussion saying listen we might want to join them so another country they're making the more powerful potentially increasing the rift that you have between eastern europe. countries western european countries like france and germany all right i just want to remind our viewers who are just joining us right now we have early exit polls indicating that sebastian cortes has won with just over thirty percent of the vote

now these are early exit polls they're not confirmed we're standing by to find out which party won second place as max was telling us earlier right now it's between the freedom party that's a far right populist party and the social democrats who are currently in power in austria max i want to come back to you to talk about what's going on with the social democrats we saw them dramatically weekend here in germany we saw. pop up surprisingly in france at the expense of the more traditional parties what's going on with the social democrats why they're so unpopular across europe right now. we've been looking into that phenomenon that for quite some time and of course every country is different. but an overall problem of the social democrats in europe seems to be that their traditional clients cleon tell their traditional voters aren't there anymore you know the traditional working man working woman going to to their shift every day coming back that doesn't seem to be the dividing line anymore between blue collar and white collar the dividing line seems to be

more cultural some people who want an open society who are for globalization maybe even digitalisation for migration and then people who are against it and want to keep the ways they had in the past are very worried about their cultural identity maybe as christians something we do observe here in austria but also in germany and that seems to be the dividing line and the social democrats really haven't sorted themselves out in many countries yet one exception of course the u.k. where you have labor with jeremy corbin and he's been quite successful in the last months but of course you have a very special situation in the u.k. with gregg's it's so not comparable to other countries and here the social democrats had some problems with with the campaign some call it the bad luck campaign but there seems to be you know not only bad luck because the s.b.u. apparently had some websites with fake news about. their campaign rival is a bust in courts which of course caused them some trouble and the once very

youthful and energetic captain who was a hope for the democrats here in austria has lost some of his glamour ok so we've got this young guy right he's thirty one years old he's going to become europe's youngest leader based on the exit polls that we have now he is set to win with over thirty percent of the people's party house it going to be welcomed by a figure like angela merkel who's a forced term chancellor now he's a new young comer. well i'm going to medical could be his mother yes definitely but don't underestimate quotes by the way we do think he would be world wide the youngest leader if our information is correct that many have underestimated him for his youth in the past but he was foreign minister now for some years and he filled that role he always knew what to say to be popular with many austrians he says he's the one who closed the western balkans route to migration from syria for example made a success of that he said very early on that he wanted to stop negotiations for the

accession to the european union with turkey something that was very popular with many e.u. citizens not only in austria so if there's one thing he knows how to do is how to sell him self and he made it possible even at that young age to take very traditional party very proud party you could say that's been around for decades into his own hand molded to his image and basically have one thing as the main part of his program himself and self is a leader about party and we just our mind viewers who are just tuning in that we do think that he has over thirty percent of the vote in australia watching us based on exit polls we also have the freedom party that's the far right party coming in at twenty six point eight percent max you were telling us a little earlier that it's still too close to call who's in second place right now is the freedom party and the social democrats is that still the case as far as your information goes. yeah we don't have an update on those projections.

they're based on the data that's already been counted so usually at seven hundred this time you have about twenty thirty forty percent of the vote that's come in don't forget in austria many of the polling booths closed very early some as early as twelve o'clock and you even have some cases where they just open up for half an hour because they're so few people voting on the big cities it's different they're open until five o'clock and that's why it takes some time for the results to come in and then of course you have the. absentee ballots that take even longer to come in but within the hour or so we should have pretty reliable numbers and we already have strong indications of course the ones we mentioned before with those of us to quote the leader of the conservative. being in the lead and probably being the next the next translate here in austria probably being the next chance and what's that going to mean for the world max we talked about some of the implications for europe what does sebastian course mean internationally despite the fact that his junk that's just sort of an interesting factoid that what we're going to see policy wise

. well maybe we should go to it without any disrespect towards the austrians but it is a small country with not very many people so its weight internationally is not going to change that much because you know it's a bust in quotes but he has done some things that were noticed internationally for example a speech in front of the united nation plenary assembly so he knows how to touch some points he would try to set the agenda but i think the real power he can wield or the influence he can wield is not going to be on the level of the united nations it's going to be on the european level where he will have some allies in the east and it depends how he will play his cards especially with germany that's always been a very big influence on austria all right thanks for reminding us to keep things in perspective we have some results now coming in i want to give our viewers the latest information as we have it right now the first results from this poll are

showing that the conservative people's party led by sebastian course the man we've been talking about for the last ten minutes have thirty eight point two percent it's a very tight race though for second place this is where things get really interesting we have the far right freedom party with twenty six point eight percent and that puts them narrowly ahead of the social democrats led by austria's current chancellor christian kern they have twenty six point three percent so again twenty six point eight percent versus twenty six point three percent it's too close to call for who's going to get second place in the smaller parties the liberal neo's have five point three percent of the greens are on four point nine percent and peter pill says list that's a party founded by a former green lawmaker has four point three percent now remember a party needs four percent of the vote in order to enter excuse me in order to enter austria's parliament. ok bear with me now we're just finding out where we're going next to me asked the producer what's coming up next. all right we have some

news from somalia a devastating attack on the somali capital has left more than one hundred thirty people dead hundreds more wounded many are fighting for their lives after a massive truck bomb blast reduced buildings there to rubble the explosion took place in the capital mogadishu want to busy street near ministries and the government reportedly placed the blame on al-shabaab an extremist group for this attack a second smaller blast also took place in the city's medina district adding to the destruction. the first blast tore apart a busy street in central mogadishu. it said cars on fire and flattened buildings. offices restaurants and kiosks that once stood at this intersection on no more a popular whose house was reduced to rubble not far from the somali foreign ministry. security forces had been trailing this truck when it suddenly blew up

locals described the explosion as the most powerful they'd seen. it's really terrible with a heavy heart i would say this is the worst attack i've ever witnessed a lot of people died and many properties were lost. this is really devastating to know this is such a scene before. a lot of buildings disappeared completely became a problem. a lot of dead bodies at the scene a little bit bodies i myself only counted more than twenty five bodies on the scene after that there was a second blast. another bomb more date casualties from the second blast in the medina district were brought to a local hospital. some people are now recovering but they lost limbs at this are still fighting for their lives. what happened yesterday was incredible i've

never seen anything like it. it's impossible to carve the number of dead many bodies were burned so badly that no one could recognize them. at the site families were still searching for loved ones among the debris. somalia's president has declared three days of mourning. as mogadishu grieves those it has lost. and we're turning now to our top story this hour austria's national elections we have the first results from the poll we want to share them with you again keep in mind these are preliminary results that could change but right now we have the conservative people's party led by sebastian courts at thirty point two percent it's a tight race for second place look at this the far right freedom party have twenty

six point eight percent and that puts them just ever so slightly ahead of the social democrats which are led by austria's current chancellor christian care and they have twenty six point three percent you can see some of the smaller parties listed there the neos five point three percent and big losses for the greens they've just got four point nine percent peter post says list that's a party founded by a former green lawmaker he's got four point three percent and a party needs to get four percent of the vote in order to get any seats in parliament so what does all this mean let's go back to vienna where max hoffman is standing by to break down the latest results on this election for us max reactions to these initial results what can you tell us. well i mean we're all looking at second place now it's pretty clear that it's a bust and courts will win this with his piece of the conservatives but who will come in second place because the social democrats have fared a little better than many people expected it looks like they're not going to lose a significant amount of votes of course if the projections we have at the moment

are confirmed later on in the evening we have a huge amount of votes that have gone to the right especially from from the greens that have lost a lot of votes but you have the conservatives with about six percent more than last time you have the right wing populists the freedom party with about this correctly six percent more than they had last time so that's a total of twelve percent a clear victory for the right no question about it ok is it going to be up to sebastian courts who he wants to make this coalition whether his the obligated to go was a part of that comes in second place. no no no he's not at all obligated he can go with ever he you know if you forge a coalition with whoever says ok let's sit down let's make this program and we all stand behind this program at the moment it seems most likely this is going to be the freedom party at least if you detect anything from how he conducted himself

during the campaign what he said during the campaign how he got along with the with the leader of the freedom party for example and you know you shouldn't forget that it seems quite clear that the grand coalition was not anymore what most people in austria favored it had a bad reputation at the reputation of not doing the things that need to be done and that's why you have the stunning in a way because you have this young man's best in courts who of course is part of this party that was part of this grand coalition and yet he was able maybe through his usefulness to make it stick with people that he can change things although of course he was of a party that did not change things in the last years. that's an interesting point you make talk us through just very briefly what the difference is going to be for austria to have this very strong right wing coalition government that we could potentially see in the coming years. it's not the first time we've

seen this coalition we had from two thousand to two thousand and seven. back then of course there was. a sharp change in the migration policy and this topic has been become even more important with the migration crisis from two thousand and fifteen so that's where we think we'll probably see the biggest changes at least in rhetoric and then we'll have to see how the whole coalition positions itself towards all the reforms that for example french president in monterrey mexico has planned for the european union they might be opposed to many things there all right max just briefly tell us when can we expect final results in this election. preliminary final results probably within the next one and a half hours official final results than on monday although we'll have to wait until thursday to have all the absentee ballots count but we'll have a clearer picture this evening of what is going down in austria and reporting for

us from austria where the race for second place is heading up next i'll be checking back in with you very very soon we appreciate your live reporting and your wives analysis as we get these first results from the poll. we're watching t.v. news coming to you live from berlin you can find more about the all straight alexion and the results on our web site that address for you is do you dot com or you back at the top of the hour with more including the race for second place in australia's national election i'm sara harm in berlin thanks for watching us this. it's a wild week going d.w.b. here everything revolves around our animal kingdom and their two legged faith. hope for sea turtles in favor of the biosphere n.g.o.s rescues turtles by moving

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