the show could oh. yes it's a. quote i've only said for couric a number thirty eight fronted. this is the news live from berlin argentinians go to the polls in mid-term legislative elections is a key test for president morris your mockery who is seeking to refresh a mandate for his pro market reforms former president cristina fernandez is hoping

to make a comeback with a bid for a senate seat will go to buenos aires for more also coming up. calling a snap election appears to have paid off big for japanese prime minister shinzo abi unofficial results indicate a landslide victory for his ruling conservatives. i meet a few money welcome to the program. have been heading to the polls in legislative elections half of the country's know how seeds and a third of the senate seats are in play now president this year mark three and his conservatives who are part of the governing coalition hope to gain an outright majority has pursued pro growth economic policies and labor market reforms the star of the left wing opposition is former president cristina fernandez who is running for a senate seat. well i'm now joined by karen and off she is she works as

a correspondent in buenos aires kerry it's good to have you with us so president reseal and his governing liberal party of a likely to win this election. during the last months it's sit in that morrison marcus government party we quite easily today not at all parts of washington if they're generally speaking the chances to gain quite a lot more call in the parliament but during the last days things might have slightly changed two months ago and activists for indigenous rights have been disappeared in particular india and in the meantime the government has not at all show performance in the united nations together many actions some argue that state forces were going. implicated in the disappearance and so it's a bit difficult to predict that had just moved to date. and so what was the

main issue during this election campaign in argentina. as just mentioned during the last day of the final the body of some gentleman nat'l that at the same time it's also clear that these elections are more eastern markets business or into politics so his complaint was focused on coming to be in saying that economy is to move and in fact macro economic numbers have been getting better but he has not managed to cope with the high inflation and it might reach around twenty five percent this year so many argentines are struggling to cope to live to manage to live with the salaries so mockery promised more reforms also of the labor market a position to play in europe become pain that recently forms rise the gap between rich and poor. former president cristina fernandez is also hoping to make

a comeback could she end up as the opposition leader against machree. she already is until she has. an extra parliamentary opposition the population argentina is very polarized and why did say that many argentines voted more rigs to mockery just order to avoid any comeback offers deny that man that's another thing but she is the only one that could get the country out of trouble. she has been running for a seat in the senate and the principal has ideas and this is the most important district in the country around a third of the vote just a few and make her primary elections she go to win with a slight lead but even if she should get on the second place today the still will grab her seat in the senate. this might not necessarily be bad news from overseas record ask her claiming opposition leadership and probably meant could divide the

opposition karen nanda of joining us from point us i have a sink you. time now for some of the other stories making news around the world russian opposition leader alexina vallone has held a rally in his hometown of to being released from jail he served a twenty day term in moscow for organizing what officials call an authorized protests that only has held numerous rallies across the country since announcing his intention to stand in next year's election against president vladimir putin. iraq and saudi arabia have founded a joint cooperation council in a move aimed at improving bilateral diplomatic relations tensions between the two has been high in the past iraq has a shia majority population and close ties to saudi arabia's regional rival iran. hundreds of hardline buddhists have marched in myanmar to protest against their

government's plan to allow up to six hundred thousand refugees back into the country they fled after myanmar's military began raiding and burning their villages now many members of myanmar's buddhist majority view the room as illegal migrants. japan's prime minister shinzo has swept to a resoundingly tree after taking a gamble with snap elections abizaid abroad democratic party is set to have a two thirds super majority in the lower house of parliament now that paves the way to make changes to the country's pacifist constitution on sunday he pledged to do firmly with threats from north korea that dominated the campaign a coronation for every seat one tradition in japanese politics prime minister shinzo robbie had quite a few carnations to peer thanks to his coalition's big landslide. retaining a supermajority of two thirds in parliament was one of the conservatives goals they want to reform japan's pacifist constitution which restricts the military to

self-defense they point to the threat from north korea as proof that the constitution is outdated. calling snap elections was a risk but the gamble paid off handsomely when i made the call he was facing low approval ratings after a string of government scandals pushing elections forward was a master stroke of politics his rival yuri koori the governor of tokyo was rising in the polls but had little time to prepare. her take on the issues should have appealed to the voters but it clearly wasn't a winning electoral strategy. because you know enough about this japan's opposition didn't have the time or perhaps the inclination to unify the left liberals candidate former chief cabinet secretary yukio edano came in a distant second. prime minister was able to

convince voters he was better on security and turnout may have been affected by heavy rains not a good sign for new beginnings well earlier we spoke to our tokyo correspondent michael pena and asked him to explain what kind of japan shinzo obvious trying to create. you know i think the keystone to understanding his vision is that you know she kind of feels that japan in the post-war era somehow had its pride damaged and i think this is kind of at the heart of what motivates him he believes that japan should become a nation which in his view is a normal nation with a normal military which has normal nationalism and pride so while this is not a mainstream view in japan it's very much been part of obvious character all throughout his life and it's what you know it's one of the things which has guided him and part of that is his family history because his own family was deeply involved in

a world war two incidents and he feels that needs to be reevaluated catalonia is regional government is due to meet on monday to decide its next steps in the push for independence now this comes after spanish prime minister mariano rajoy moved to trigger article one fifty five which would impose central state control of a cuts alone ian with both madrid and barcelona digging in their heels as finance on both sides are hoping a sense of unity prevails. dancing towards independence while hundreds of thousands of pro independence supporters protested in barcelona over the weekend others took to the city's streets with a different expression of regional solidarity. the traditional sadhana dance was suppressed by the fascist dictatorship of francisco franco who saw our regional culture as a threat to its authority the people of god in government no have the same frame of mind. the franco people who go for their songs and get on sunday

evening just what the i mean i think i can tell you what i'll do when you leave me these years to give you five years from now if you can hear from now you know what we will be but. catalonia is newest battle for independence has pushed spain into uncharted territory modern spain has never reasserted control over any of its regions which it may do if the senate triggers article one fifty five of its constitution later this week some catalogs are on edge we can all do that sort of on that side of this equation is the pain i think that we are now if we are not being too bad that in times now we have to be a lot fighting speak we the other part to be explained by we've got on fire and we have to i rise to. a solution. catalonia is not spain's only region with autonomous aspirations in madrid some worry about

a slippery slope you know if we are not all in agreement with the constitution they should sit down and talk and see how it can be amended we're starting to take spain as part of it at the end we'll end up with twenty five different countries. by uses neither madrid nor barcelona has shown much sign of backing down for now spaniards can do little but wait and in barcelona dance. thousands of people rallied in the maltese capital sunday to on the investigative journalist. she was killed by a car bomb a week ago a murder that shocked the mediterranean island was a passionate anticorruption investigator who wasn't afraid to probe government officials and their family members. this was not a vigil it was an act of collective anger protesters upset over the assassination

of journalist daphne. called for the resignation of the island nations police commissioner they threw coins at a banner of laurence chanting shame on you and to no change no justice. was an investigative journalist who specialized in corruption cases just before her death she posted a message saying that in malta there were crooks everywhere she died when a bomb planted in her car exploded. at another rally close by in the capital people remembered her passion. i would say she was at the present and in equal measure. the way she wrote the elements of it especially but in reality she was one of the ones who really on earth the biggest scandals in recent years. others in the crowd spoke of their desire for a new model. we're here because we want to show the next generation and

believe in freedom of speech we will not be silenced always speak out against injustice when we see it disappear freedom of speech as it's being attacked in the country. the leaders of multis main political parties were not in attendance at either rally one said he knew guillotines family did not want him there. over ten thousand people gathered in berlin sunday to protest against racism and hate in german politics the demonstration was aimed at the far right alternative for germany dozens of deputies from the party are set to take their seats in the bundestag on tuesday after the party finished third in last month's federal elections. hate has no place in the people's house that was the message of today's demonstration as thousands marched on berlin's bundestag. and most of the

protesters showed up because they're worried about the. ninety two deputies from the far right party will enter parliament in less than two days from now. we must live together people together and we must not allow this process most of these things to come through. i think today as a german you hold a special responsibility to ensure that parties like the f.t. don't have a say in politics. and can organize the demonstration he came to germany as a refugee he says the protests should be a wake up call to f.t. voters. the voters to reflect their mindset you know they voted for a party which said a lot of racist things which is not ok. so it is a wake up call and we want to stress that racism. allowed in. the a.f.d. was voted into parliament almost a month ago with thirteen percent of the vote they'll be the first party right of

the conservatives to enter germany's parliament since the fifteenth most of these protesters know that today's demonstration was largely symbolic but it does act as a reminder that the vast majority of germans are in fact against the f.d.a. and this might be food for thought for german political parties as the german parliament convenes for the first time since the election on tuesday. well you're watching the news from berlin the bundesliga show with. is coming up after the break with all of sunday's goals and don't forget you can log on to d w news for more thanks for watching. with different languages we fight for different things that's fine but we all stick up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of press.