do you think that the refugee journey to life in germany and the prospects for those returning home. to join the discussion on t w dot com and on facebook. prospects for returning. to the w made for mark. this is d w news of live from far lead voters turned right in austria and a thirty one year old is poised to become the new chancellor the head of the conservative nationalist government we will take a look at what this could mean for gura. also coming up germany's social democrats

getting a boost after winning a regional election that could be a setback for chancellor angela merkel as she holds talks on forming a federal government in berlin. and scores of people are still missing after saturday's powerful truck bomb in the somali capital mogadishu the explosion killed hundreds of people and the death toll may rise even further. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us europe is on the verge of getting another nationalist government with far right policy is following elections in austria conservative leader sebastian kurtz came out the winner in sunday's election which saw him adopt the anti immigrant policies of his extreme right opponents a coalition has yet to be negotiated but it's looking likely that curt's will need

the far right freedom party to form a government the next austrian chancellor has not only drawn attention for his policies but his age as well. sebastian is said to be the world's youngest leader and he supporters can't get enough. the thirty one year old has led the center right people's party for just five months. has steered the party rightward on key issues and to victory in austria as national elections. oh i have a big request for you used today to celebrate. you've all earned it through hard work and dedication. to me at the same time i need to tell you that to morrow all the work starts we didn't just run to win the elections we did it to bring austria back on top. so

we're going to speak to somebody. we ran in this election to achieve real change. how could scopes to achieve this change is up for debate. the former foreign minister appeal to conservative and right wing voters with pledges to reduce immigration shut down migrant routes kept benefits to refugees and bar immigrants from benefits for five years a divisive stance in austria. from korea i'm shocked and outraged i truly have to say that i can't say more i'm very disappointed with the austrians vote like this for instance or. if you screw it i think the result is great is cool i think it is great that i could see the sun leader the other candidates are all tricksters i voted for quality since good indeed on the income this has sold me having cut in cold scrape. could says party is still far short of the numbers needed to form

a government he will have to form a coalition he's most likely partner. the far right freedom party that took an anti immigrant anti islam position during the campaign. despite court says pro e.u. pledge observers say our right wing alliance risks driving a wedge between vienna and brussels and earlier we spoke with wolfgang weller he is a professor of political science at the university of vienna we asked him how a young man like sebastian kurtz came so far in austria and politics so quickly. well some people have charisma others don't have the charisma and this is one of the missions you will probably never answer satisfactory but obviously the course has this charisma factor and he has it peeled to a large relatively large constituency. he has remained on message

during his entire campaign and he has managed to. hit what used to be the main issue of discussion at least in the population in in the last two years or so. germany's conservative c.b. your party is in a reflective mode following a defeat of state elections in lower saxony the loss could make it more difficult for c.d.u. leader and german chancellor angela merkel as she enters talks on forming the next federal coalition government. on the morning after an election it's a political ritual to present a bookie or flowers even if there's nothing to celebrate the c.d.u. suffered a defeat in lower saxony this past sunday the defeat party chief anglo-american carefully tried to keep away from this week's explode tory talks with the center left green party and the free market liberal. christian democrats are going into

these exploited tory talks knowing that we have the strongest force among those involved and that we want to negotiate fairly with everyone but i don't see the lower saxony election result as weakening us and this task. is nevertheless the defeat already has spurred the debate within the christian democrats on the party's future political orientation. it's untrue sure to show our entire political program it must be clear that an alternative to ass on the right side of the political spectrum is not necessary. i believe a shift to the right would simply be the wrong signal that people want us to solve their problems. pressures also coming from the cd used to variances to party c s u the party fears losing the elections in bavaria next year and sees its only viable chance of moving further to the right members of the scene those with

a lesson learned is that we need to form a stable government in berlin and the near future. a government in which we as the c.d.u. and sees you leave a distinctive conservative moderate. conservative. so confident. the center left green party is one of the two potential coalition partners of america's christian democrats together with the free democrats both also have lost votes during the election and those saxony and both made it clear today that they do not want to give up ground during the upcoming talks about the social democrats today it's all smiles the s.p.d. celebrated their victory in those saxony and were convinced refusing to build another coalition with anglo america has already paid off. and for more on this let's bring in our political correspondent thomas sparrow who is standing by in our parliamentary studio hello to you thomas i want to begin first with those clear calls from within angela merkel's conservative bloc for

a move to the right however it seems as if the chancellor is not in favor of turning well and that's because of the debates in the conservative bloc in the c.d.u. c.s.u. because one of the main elements of. success in the past few years has been that shift of party to the center of the political spectrum the essential political spectrum where she has been able to take away some of the key debates of other parties for example at the same time however it is important to stress that in the recent federal elections the conservative bloc lost nearly a million votes to the far right alternative for germany so there's a clear need a clear debate within the c.d.u. c.s.u. to try and find ways in which they could probably get some of those votes back so that's a debate that you have in the conservative bloc on the one hand how to keep that profile being in the middle of the political spectrum on the other hand how to get

those votes back from those people who switched from the c.d.u. to the f.t. and a lot of questions also with regard to what this will mean for governing because merkel says that this regional election a setback that it won't impact her national level coalition talks which we know start in two days' time many analysts though on the other hand think that she has been weakened by this result thomas what would you say is the most fair assessment of the situation. well a bit of both sorrow obviously the argument by the c.d.u. is that a regional election is a regional election and there's something to do that because in regional elections in germany we've seen that some of the local elements tend to be at the forefront however we have also seen in plenty of regional election that this is not an exception that then sets the tone of what is going to happen in lynn and from that perspective you can say that i'm going to merkel is slightly weakened from the result in lower saxony and that she would have always the preferred a better result thomas sparrow with the latest from berlin thank you

in other news the government of spain has told catalonia separatist leader that he has until thursday to withdraw any moves toward independence or face serious penalties this could include the imposition of direct rule by madrid spain as deputy prime minister so i assigned as they sometimes media says that catalonia is future to respond failure to respond to the original deadline set for today is unacceptable and. the government regrets that the catalan president has decided not to respond to its request of last week i don't think it's very difficult to say either yes or no to the question of whether he has declared independence or not. this is a question that cannot remain unanswered i don't think it's a complicated question with something as important as this we need clarity so.

officials in portugal say that dozens of wildfires in the north of the country have killed at least twenty seven people more than five thousand firefighters are struggling to contain the blazes in neighboring spain fires killed at least three people authorities say that winds from tropical storm ophelia off the atlantic coast for worsening the flames and ofelia has virtually shut down ireland where the storm made landfall earlier today one person has been killed by a falling tree and twenty percent of households have no electricity the government has told people to avoid unnecessary travel. venezuelan president nicolas maduro has hailed the results of regional elections his ruling party won nearly all twenty three contested state governorships the opposition leaders have said that they suspect election fraud independent polls have projected the opposition would win a majority due to my daughter's poor handling of venezuela's economic crisis. the death toll from the huge truck bomb explosion in the somali capital mogadishu

has risen to over three hundred the bombing took place in a busy commercial district on saturday it is the deadliest single attack in the country's history the government has declared three days of national mourning. the crowd marched and chanted against the islamist militant group al-shabaab the group has staged similar attacks before but has not claimed responsibility for this one the death toll is rising quickly it stands at more than three hundred with hundreds more wounded. so. it was a massacre what happened on saturday. i have also 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 were also decapitated that by the explosion. and i think that

a little girl and. 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 and restaurants 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 means the remains of many would never be found. people are thought to still be trapped in the rubble of the collapsed buildings local hospitals were struggling to cope as casualties arrived. oh oh. oh sure certainly it's just a little you got what we have seen is very unusual the job of the hospital was

overwhelmed by both dead and wounded but we also received people whose limbs were blown off by the bomb of. some of this is really horrendous unlike any other time in the past to go get entirely getting from doing to those a little. two hours after the first blast another explosion struck the capital's medina district local officials said it killed two people. somalia's president mohamed abdulla he mohamed has declared three days of national mourning. time now for sports news and legal action only a point in the standings separated leverkusen from wolfsburg heading into their match on sunday both sides were looking to make up ground in the top half of the league have a look. it took until midway through the first period for late the close encounter with the to get interesting a late accusing call an occult havoc in the woods but box unless bendis smashed in

the opener his first goal of the campaign. was but hit back just before the break through oh no liverpool for devo the regi one moan a tough time. lead the queues and then reach at the lead when argentinian striker lucas and la rio continued his good start to life in the bundesliga. but yacob last of cuffs he snatched a point for the wolves in sixty nine minutes the fourth draw in a row under new coach martin schmidt it did not play the coups enough the straight home league win. you have today thanks for watching. why are people in east africa threatened by starvation what are the causes of the situation. we focus on five specific problem areas. this human journalistic project tries to find the answer.