that's not german entrepreneur award winner two thousand and fifteen as he travels through asia looking for the next big business idea. our ten part series founders valley starting october twenty third on d w. this is the news a live from berlin iraq takes a step closer to civil war celebrations in care cook as a rocky forces seized control of key sites in and around the kurdish held city the operation comes weeks after kurds voted to declare independence from baghdad. also

coming up 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 and voters turned right in austria a thirty one year old is poised to become the country's new chancellor at the head of a conservative nationalist government we will take a look at what this could mean for europe. i'm sara kelley welcome to the program thanks for joining us. iraqi government forces have moved into the disputed city of kirkuk in a bold move to retake lands from the kurds witnesses say that iraqi troops have taken over the governor's headquarters and seized a military base and

a gas and oil fields footage from the city shows non kurdish residents out celebrating in the streets welcoming the soldiers thousands of kurds are said to have fled the city kurdish officials have called the iraqi advance an unprovoked attack and tension has been high in the kurdish region following a controversial independence referendum last month. for more on the story let's bring in our correspondent kathy auden she is in the air bill the capital of the autonomous courage of the kurdish region in iraq and one hundred kilometers north of kirkuk kathy thanks so much for being with us what are your hearing from your what are you hearing from your sources there in care cook what's the situation there on the ground thank you very much for having me everything seems to be the moment and there are iraq buses that in the city and on the outskirts we've seen a withdrawal of so her head of hosts who are holding the city since twenty four

when the iraqi people's. head of the isis three is so headed families have told me that they. have. both regions but i've also spoken to some of their contacts in the city xenia technically is that everything is fine has but everything's died down now you know sunny pretty pleased about this so a difference of opinions we have yet to minute just whether there is often the tensions what are we to make for the dynamics and also the justification behind this offensive i mean is this simply to do with the independence referendum felicity. yeah i mean the way that this is being spread by the officials in baghdad i mean they're using the language of not

violent you know saying that they're just going into best use areas and that there will be no attacks rehabs going to graves you know out there like me that those used to be over but it is it is seen as punishment for all of the referendum that is. the twenty fifth of september just only a few weeks ago in essence that the kurdish government has been under pressure from the international community from baghdad neighbors turkey and a ramp. to cancel the result of a lot of pressure not to declare independence and cook has really been one of. the places that is this tension conflict historically has happened. so decades as then interethnic into religious strife there and an expression of that today baghdad wants to keep the oil fields back in her under its control

can sell its own oil but can't say no that's under our control and some of the ones i see. cook city people populations coming out with. in order to defend the city which of the two more questions evening kathy just tell us very briefly what is this likely to mean for the fight against the so-called islamic state because we know for example the iraqi government and the kurdish peshmerga forces they've been part of a coalition fighting the group together. absolutely focuses the facing off against each other in our prayers and trained in us. but the united states itself sent us a very open position on how to mediate between those that the fight against isis is dying down there and we have a few small areas but very broad as isis. promises

since very recently is free advice so this isn't really some people see it is a second to accomplish that these issues exist. as they were not then don't live and looks like now they're being dealt with on the street truthful which we didn't think was going to have. you that diplomacy would be the way to go but. cathy auton correspondent with the very latest on the situation and co cook thank you so much for your reporting and let's turn to some other news now because the death toll from a huge truck bomb explosion in the somali capital mogadishu has risen to more than 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. 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 his own and his mother and other children were also decapitated is that by the inclusion of a little girl you know what and i think that little girl and. the police said a truck packed with hundreds of kilos of explosives and 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 worker 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 no. food most certainly is just lose you go through what we have seen is very unusual the job of the hospital is overwhelmed by both dead and wounded lose of bodies 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 it's good to hear that their leaders in doing so you know so 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 mohammad abdul hakim mohamed has declared three days of national mourning. let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world officials in portugal say that dozens of wildfires in the north of the country have left at least thirty two people dead a number of others are missing 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 or worsening the flames and ofelia has left three people dead in ireland the storm made landfall earlier today with waves up to ten meters high hundreds of thousands have lost their electricity the government says that it is the country's worst storm in fifty years officials canceled some flights and asked people to avoid unnecessary travel. europe is on the verge of getting another nash. analysts

government with far right policies following elections in austria conservative leader 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 is 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 coots 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. because you've all earned it through

hard work and dedication which. ok to have the same time i need to tell you that to morrow 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 be treated to be here 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. for cruz i'm shocked and outraged i truly have to say what i can say more i'm very disappointed that the austrians vote like this for instance i. don't if you screw it i think the result is great is cool i think it is

great that the sun leader the other candidates are all tricksters i voted for q it seems good indeed on the income this has told me having come 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 the took an anti immigrant anti islam position during the campaign. despite good says pro e.u. pledge observers say a rightwing alliance risks driving a wedge between vienna and brussels. german chancellor angela merkel says that austria shift to the right is not a role model for germany especially when it comes to immigration marco's conservative c.d.u. party is in a reflective mode following a defeat in state elections in lower saxony the loss could make it more difficult

for say to you leader and german chancellor 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 are 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 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 in the midst of the sea in the us 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 that. 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 this. social democrats smiles the s.p.d. celebrated their victory in the ozarks and the were convinced refusing to build one of the coalition bungler 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 studios 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 debate 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 central 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 try and 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 event sets the tone of what is going to happen in lane on 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 talk of a sparrow with the latest from berlin thank you british prime minister to resign may is due to have dinner with the head of the european commission british media are calling her meeting with john called younger emergency talks may meantime insists that the meeting was long planned though it was an ongoing person official scheduling it comes at a crucial moment ahead of us i meant to say you villagers on thursday and friday

probably they are due to decide whether negotiators can move on to discuss post gregg's that trade ties with britain many in the u.k. fear that ongoing political deadlock will lead to british to britain leaving the e.u. without a trade deal in place 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 opposition imposition of direct rule by madrid spain deputy prime minister said i yes i am stakes on some of the said that catalonia is 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 sort of you're watching news still to come on the program it has been one hundred thirty million light years in the making find out why a new era in australia to me has opened with the discovery of two colliding nor on stars. but first it is business news with beneficial in who we have right here and ben we are talking about how the catalan crisis is impacting business are we sure are in there's a lot to talk about sara many banks are shifting their headquarters to other parts of spain to ensure that they keep operating within the european union in case the region breaks away hundreds of other companies too and spain's oldest family business a wine maker who didn't you order them to us is the latest to say it's pulling out its main office the drain on wealthy catalonia is growing and it's putting

countless future investments at risk. 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. the point that there is so much fear so much fear and they are saying the banks would leave it alone no 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 not to help us but because it is in their own interest we know that much. gets the last three years now i got it. partners who found that is wrong. 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 boe 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 lose competitiveness. is it important to 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 we've come but as soon as we perceive any kind of uncertainty maybe we will get our money out of there. she said

the system doesn't inspire confidence in me 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. i asked our financial correspondent in frankfurt about the risk of contagion for the eurozone. the right then and on the markets and among experts the first talk of contagion can be heard marist ops felt for example the chief economist of the international monetary fund has warned that the longer the escalation goes on between barcelona and madrid the more likely it is to have a negative impact on other countries in europe but i think what's been happening in catalonia and spain since the referendum also has the potential to release scare

off some of the secessionists not only the forty four major companies you just told us about left catalonia after the referendum happened but also around about five hundred smaller companies this enormous exodus of economic power out of catalonia might cause some of those surveyed secessionists in catalonia to think again and would you say that's why the shrugging off the political risk because there's there's so much political risk right now not just in spain and it doesn't really seem to matter which country it is or which region the markets just shrug it off. that's one reason many people in business think that all this political uncertainty makes the case for unity makes a strong case for the eurozone and the european union to stay together with all the flaws that we continuously have been talking about another reason is that the

economic and business numbers remain strong the international monetary fund just increased its global growth forecast for this year and for next year and many businesses have reported strong earnings and i expected to continuously report strong earnings this week we'll get quarterly earnings reports from a huge amount of companies including s.a.p and diner and the upbeat mood on the market seems to indicate that investors are bracing for positive use their contribution in profit for us thank you very much. sara thanks so much fan we're going to turn now to something that is being called the most intensely observed astronomical event to date and in a new era in austria anomie scientists around the world say that they have witnessed the collision of two ultra dense stars for the very first time the collision of the two dead stars called neutron stars caused a ripple in the fabric of space it was first observed on earth in the u.s.

with the help of gravitational wave detectors astronomers around the world were notified so that they could focus their telescopes on the event scientists say that the collisions like this are likely responsible for much of the gold and the platinum that exists in the universe. let's get more on this now from steven smart he is joining us from darshan which is near munich and he happens to be an astrophysicist who took part in the observations big you so much for being with us this afternoon we understand that you and your team you you actually witnessed the crash of these two ultra dense neutron stars for the first time ever walk us through what exactly you discovered and why this so significant. yes on the seventeenth of august virgo the collaboration announced that a new source of gravitational waves this week is very different to what they find before because the signal lasted for for sixty seconds which is much longer than a black hole mergers they have discovered which last less than

a second it was also accompanied by a detection of gamma rays from space from two orbiting satellites so what we did and many other groups did over a period of two weeks afterwards was identifying a new source of optical an infrared light in a galaxy call n d c three four nine three c m distance and c m sky position as estimated for the gravitational waves and this point source and optical light is the first time we have exactly identified where gravitational waves have come from and we can pinpoint exactly the star merger and its position on this guy what's of all their interest the nasuwt physics incredible stuff and i want to ask you just briefly now before we go because we know that albert einstein that he first predicted the existence of these gravitational waves about a century ago why do you think it took so long to get out of their existence. and took a hundred years to build an instrument that was capable of making this measurement

the measurement you have to me is a distance measurement you've got to measure space and time you got to measure a distance of four kilometers to one thoughtless the size of a proton it's amazing the physics experiment is amazing distance measurement and it's just taken not long to actually get the technology to measure it and that's that's done and what we call a loser interferometer and that's where do i go get his name from it's the equivalent of measuring the distance that the nearest star to the with human hair it's a fantastic distance measurement just to make the technology work absolutely incredible stuff and stephen's part we thank you so much for joining us this afternoon to tell us a little bit more about this and why it is such a significant thing that you and your team have witnessed there we appreciate it thank you. you're watching news a quick reminder of the top story that we have been following for you there have been celebrations in care cook as a rocket forces move into the kurdish held city it is a move that could transform the balance of power in iraq reports say that thousands

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