in the sense of parliament here in germany ok the social democrats came out on top in this election they haven't been doing very well over the past couple of years in germany they performed rather poorly in the federal election last month the state election must be a welcome relief for them and this is a huge relief they're very joyful as we saw just saw in the report and it's a victory of the kind of which they haven't had for years and especially in this year they have all lost the last three regional and central elections so for them it's really something that will give them a new push and especially important for martin shows the party leader who can all be pretty certain that he will remain part of you know for the full for the next few months at least for the next couple of years probably. thank you so much. from d.w. politics and you are watching news still to come the kenyan businesses losing money as uncertainty mounts over the country's national elections that's

coming up in business. now to some of the other stories making news around the world today iraqi state media say government troops have taken control of areas around the kurdish held city of kirkuk kurdish officials have reported clashes but this was denied by iraqi authorities the operation comes three weeks after iraq's autonomous kurdish region for independence kurdish troops seized the oil rich city in two thousand and fourteen during the fight against so-called islamic state. venezuelan president nicolas maduro has hailed the results of regional elections his ruling party won nearly all twenty three contested state governorships opposition leaders have said they suspect elections for all independent polls had projected the opposition would win a majority due to mature as poor handling of venezuela's economic crisis. now the government of the spanish region catalonia is less than two hours from

a deadline to clarify whether it has declared independence from spain last week madrid gave catalan president collis put your money until today to explain a speech he gave to the regional assembly in that speech he said he was proceeding with independence we bought proposed suspending implementation to allow for talks with the national government while spanish prime minister mariano rajoy has rejected talks he warned that if catalonia has declared independence madrid could suspend the regional government. offer more on what secession could mean that madrid brings the reason under direct rule of course joining us from the catalan capital barcelona is of course one of barbara vessel barbara what can we expect to happen in catalonia today.

metra is talking about a clarification but it is very unlikely that we are going to get this because what curtis which amount is we'll be trying to do and that's what government sources here in barcelona say said beforehand is to prolonging the thirds that he started with last week so he will say yes we want independent our independent however we want talks we will do this later he is what you will be trying to prove along this holding game that he started however what we had happened is that puts him on manage himself to to sort of be stuck in a trap a political trap because he can really move either way is if you know declares independence today which of service say is unlikely then madrid will take over immediately that is on thursday if he says if he if he keeps on the holding game then his left wing supporters the hard left is to u.p.d. will desert him and say if you don't push for independence now we go away so the

government will that will collapse anyway so whatever he does it will be wrong. ultimatum hanging in the air today in spain barbara the clock is ticking towards that today what's the mood on the streets in barcelona. people are who are a bit infamous loner feels a bit at like after heavy hangover it's like they really got drunk on high political emotions a week ago and now everybody seems pretty subdued people are really worried about their after they heard that a number of international and big national companies big banks for instance said we will immediately move our headquarters to madrid if you carry on like this and many people of course are asking themselves where will this lead will it lead into immediate economic collapse also we are seeing are people here are seeing that

tourism is falling off is going down the people who was hotels here complain that tourists are leaving that they're not coming anymore to barcelona there as they usually do so there is a very worried mood in the streets barbara thank you so much barbara basler in barcelona. and as barbara pointed out there are huge implicit business implications to barcelona as to catalonia is independence bit investment in companies are leaking out of the catalan capital in the wake of the political crisis helena has more right terry barber was talking about the impact on tourism we also know the investment suffered as business uncertainty follows where there is a political crisis and this is certainly spain's worst political crisis in decades and investors are asking what is catalonia exactly dazed these days is it a part of spain or an independent state now last week catalan president carter's

preaching will declare that catalonia was proceeding with independence just not yet instead he was asking for new negotiations with spanish authorities we're waiting to find out what he's going to say in a few hours but meanwhile many businesses will have had enough already we've seen forty four major companies move their headquarters out of catalonia since that referendum now most of them went to madrid among them gas not total if annoyed about ists sell next and colonial not all of these are listed on spain's main stock index that's the ibex thirty five or so go on all the big banks is now headquartered in violence here sabah dell has gone to counter in fact only one ibex listed firm that's the drug maker griswold's still remains in catalonia now the companies that are leaving now they account for approximately one hundred and fifty thousand jobs in the region we're talking about a combined net profit of over eight billion euros last year worst of all all of

this comes as a total to surprise to many in catalonia. it sounded so good spain's economically strongest region freed from any financial commitment to the rest of the country the downsides not according to those who spearheaded the independence movement. that. there is so much fear so much fear and they are saying the banks would leave it alone or banks will leave it alone or do you think they will leave and of course they won't but they will stay they will stay here not to help us but because it is in their own interest we know that much. i guess the last three years i got. partners. turns out the banks aren't staying

there among forty four companies that have moved away since the referendum over two thousand smaller ones had already left over the past two years for good reason says joseph. he runs a bakery chain and serves as president of the car saloni and business association. it would affect all cattle when companies it would mean a loss of markets. is made up of the twenty seven nations to which we set out i mean that was when we get big issues with orders systems and taxes we will loose competitive us. you know say the most competent people. being locked out of the e.u. would be a problem for the baker and maybe more so for the banker kaiser bank one of the country's big four announced its move to valencia only days after the referendum desperate to calm clients into the business so far were calm but as soon as we

perceive any kind of uncertainty for you maybe we will get our money out of. the system doesn't inspire confidence in me and so that's why i decided to withdraw all my savings. as tension mounts many fear a piece of scenes like these in barcelona last week the prospect of big businesses leaving has left some catalans ready to follow the big corporations and move away from home. we've got business uncertainty causing problems in kenya as well the count down there is on until people go to the polls to cast their vote once again in a presidential election rerun in italy over a week now it's certainly been a turbulent couple of months for the country the latest turns in opposition leader raul adding a withdrawal from the ballot for investors that political uncertainty means they are holding on to their cash and businesses a feeling the pinch. everything made here is for home use this nairobi based

company money fact as plastic plates bowls and cups this powder from the synthetic material melon mine is processed in seventeen machines. no hero we use so much the cord pressure molded where we are by. that much to do a few so press. the high pressure. high temperature the material is president around one hundred fifty degrees celsius and then comes the finishing but at the moment several machines in the hole have been turned off. during dissolution period what you are facing though it does not go so we've had some problems with getting a bit much to do i deployed. during election week last august the company's revenue fell by a few percentage points then kenya's highest court declared the results invalid the company has been heavily affected by the political instability. like household

goods and things like this are moving very slowly because people are saying to me just want to my cash for now wait till after the election and any other any other additional extra expenses can wait so it is a postponement in expenditure and this causes of course a big ripple effect in the economy other industries are also feeling the pinch of fewer tourists visiting kenya construction is slowing down and investors holding on to their capital a drop in economic growth has now become standard in election years but the decision to a now this year's results and really hold elections has worsened the situation we've had pleasure and social coming from the kenya private sector alliance which gets but for the last one month since kenya supreme court ruled but we should have . the country has lost close to one billion dollar loss in terms of business there have been many protests in their obesity center and it's

a major problem for self-employed people like david michael who operates a taxi out. what got you are going to count current enough money people continue to demonstrate so it will be difficult to take care of all families. in the media as it well the main opposition candidate has announced he won't be running in the repeat election no one in the country knows how things are going to continue or whether new elections will even be held and certainty remains but many people in kenya only want one thing. it's painful we wanted to end so that we can continue to work normally. but you. are of course terry grief now turning to outrage in the wake of this weekend's deadly bombings and you have more on that now that's right helena angry protesters

taking to streets to the streets there this fall the government says the number of people killed in a truck bomb attack over the weekend has gone up to two hundred seventy eight another three hundred are injured the bombing occurred in a busy commercial district in the capital mogadishu it's the deadliest single attack in the country's history the government has declared three days of mourning . the crowd marched and chanted against the islam ist militant group al-shabaab. the group has staged similar attacks before but never at this scale as well as those killed hundreds more were seriously injured. so. it was a massacre what happened yesterday and i never saw such a thing in the last twenty seven years i witnessed a little boy's head laying on the ground and his mother and other children with their heads were also caught in the explosion.

police said a truck packed with hundreds of kilos of explosives blew up outside a hotel at a busy intersection in downtown mogadishu close to government offices embassies restaurants and kiosks the blast flattened several buildings and set a nearby fuel tanker on fire rescue workers said it would be difficult to determine how many people were killed because the intense heat from the blast meant the remains of many people would never be found many people are still trapped in the rubble of the collapsed buildings. local hospitals were struggling to cope as casualties arrived. as well as those killed hundreds more were seriously wounded. what we've seen is very unusual the hospital is overwhelmed by both dead and wounded we also received people whose limbs were cut away by the bomb this is really

horrendous unlike any other time in the past. another explosion struck the capital's medina district local officials said that blast killed two people somalia's president mohamad abdulahi mohammad has declared three days of national mourning. we have some breaking news coming in at this hour in that catalonia story a leader collis push to mont has released a statement in which he failed to give a clear answer to whether to whether or not he has declared catalonia independence he offered to meet with spanish prime minister mariano rajoy as soon as possible to discuss the situation. now with some sad soccer news and in an asian goalkeeper his diet after a collision in a league game choi rule who played for indonesian team has a lot collapsed after colliding with two players in the penalty area the thirty

eight year old was rushed to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries and doctors said his death was the result of head and neck trauma who had been a mainstay at his club since one thousand nine hundred nine you're watching d.w. news still to come a drive to bring more color to the ukrainian capital kiev we look at the art collective responsible for more than fifty large scale murals throughout the city. all that and more still to come with t.w. news. interested in everything wanting to improve thanks. having countless ideas and writing them down. from their head. polymath who made

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are in the lead in an election that has pushed all three of further to the right the anti immigrant freedom party could enter government as criticism coalition partner. well for more on the austrian elections let's go straight over now to professor reinhold get enough from university in austria welcome professor is it a foregone conclusion that austria will now get a right far right coalition government or is there a chance that sebastian courts might continue the current coalition of the social democrats. it is very much like here that you could bring in. the you and the right this is directly the boss of either of these fifteen thousand democrats he.