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worry about family members i feel very shame because of the germans to europe and the refugee crisis inside its own cloaks until the past. week on day w. . bush . is d. w. news live from berlin the return of the far right in austria the conservatives strike a deal to bring the anti immigration freedom party into government europe's youngest leader promises built crackdown on illegal immigration and strengthen the economy
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but what does austria's move to the right mean for the continent we'll bring you the latest from vienna also coming up. a tight race to replace south africa's jacob zuma as the country's ruling party prepares to vote for a new leader but can the scandal weekend and seat back public win back public trust in time for the two thousand nine hundred. and good as they get soccer munching back to make mincemeat out of hamburg going into the winter break taking them for fourth place in the standings. and welcome to the program austria is on track to become western europe's only country where the far right party in government after the conservatives struck a coalition deal with the freedom party austria's new. the boston courts will
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become the continent's youngest leader after his party won october's elections with a hard line against immigration will go to vienna to find out what the return of the far right means for the country's future but first we have this report the deal is done for a new government in austria and it's one that shifts the country sharply to the rice sébastien courts the leader of the conservative people's party will become chancellor and europe's youngest head of government at just thirty one. he has partnered with col heinz taka the leader of the far right freedom party their top goal to curb immigration. our goals are very clear we want to reduce the burden on taxpayers we want to strengthen our position to secure our social security system above all we want to ensure more security in our country including fighting illegal immigration. kurtz's
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hardline stance on immigration was one of the main reasons he topped the october poll he addressed the anxieties of many voters about the refugee crisis calling for tougher border controls and promising change his party won the election with thirty one point five percent of the vote. you know it's very more look exactly two months ago the austrian people voted they made a clear decision for a change in our country. and we want to secure this change together in the next five years. austrian president alexander found a balun is expected to swear in the new government on monday but it's not one that he like the green leaning politician is an open critic of the far rice just one year ago he narrowly won the presidential election against the freedom party's candidate. for more on this let's cross now to journalist john commons in vienna
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john it's good to see you the far right freedom party have been in a coalition government in austria before so this is not the first time what impact are they likely to have well i think we've seen already from the kinds of statements that have been coming out of the coalition negotiations what kind of impact the freedom party the populist far out party here are likely to have in government certainly mr coates has made some concessions it would same to get this coalition off the ground and as your reports are fairly clearly stated in that package most of those concessions seem to be around the idea of clamping down on immigration and. refugee policy and that kind of thing and also some kind of far reaching reforms in the areas of the social partnership here in austria so i think they're going to be the major themes that will see the freedom party here take the lead on ok and the party is potentially getting some of the biggest
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ministries foreign interior and defense should the european union leaders be worried about this. well certainly the the freedom party leader hans christian strucker is going to be the deputy chon so that he that's certain they will say as he said that the interior ministry which is a very powerful ministry here in austria and the foreign ministry as well looks like it's going to go to someone who's up a lot a lot allied to the freedom body at least whether or not the european union should be worried about these i'm not exactly sure i mean it will remain to be seen in what direction the government goes i suppose what's interesting i think there is the reaction from europe so far i mean back in two thousand when we had this. this conservative and freedom party government the first time around of course the e.u. impose sanctions on austria there were protests there was a huge reaction from brussels and from all across europe this time there's been
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barely a week it's as though the whole political landscape has shifted so far to the right now that this has become simply an ordinary occurrence ok a different reaction a different situation during the campaign refugees and border security dominated it why did these far right positions go down so well with austrian voters. well i think you have to remember that austria did accept a lot of refugees back in twenty fifteen in fact in terms of population as many as as germany back in that big wave of migrants that came across the west balkans and i think there are legitimate concerns about always people that arrived people are concerned about border security they're concerned about the social system here and whether it can carry that can set about finding jobs and accommodation and so on those kinds of concerns are also seen in germany and i think what coolants did very well as you realized very early on that this was of art you know that he could play on those kinds of fears that people have and he could make that into a winning proposition for the election back in october and so i think that's that's
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proving to be correct john cummins in vienna thank you. in india gandhi has taken over as the leader of the main opposition congress party the forty seven year old becomes the sixth member of the narrow gandhi political family to head the party gandhi faces the tough task of resurrecting a party that's struggling to make a comeback from its worst ever election showing in two thousand and fourteen that's when the hindu nationalist b j p of prime minister narendra modi swept to power with a landslide victory. you're watching u.w. news still to come the final bundesliga games before the winter break are on top this weekend and dortmund under new coach peter stone face a tough task against hoffenheim. now some of the other stories making news around the world a powerful earthquake has struck indonesia's main island of java killing at least
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two people and injuring many more the six point five magnitude quake destroyed dozens of homes and forced authorities to evacuate patients from damaged hospitals . lawmakers in peru have presented a motion to impeach president pedro pablo over undisclosed payments from brazilian construction company his consulting firm received nearly eight hundred thousand dollars from ota brushed more than a decade ago the president says he will not resign and has denied any wrongdoing rumania is holding a funeral for king michael who died earlier this month after a long struggle with leukemia and skin cancer the ninety six year old ruled romania twice before being forced to abdicate by the country's former communist regime in one nine hundred forty seven representatives of many of europe's royal families are attending the ceremony. the founder of canadian pharmaceutical giant apple tax
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barry sherman and his wife have been found dead in their home and trauma police say the circumstances of their deaths were quote suspicious sherman seen here in a laboratory made his fortune from manufacturing generic drugs. to help workers who contracted the ebola virus in sierra leone have filed a lawsuit against the government accusing it of mismanaging funds they also allege in adequate resources from the government led to their infection more than three thousand people died of the virus in the country between two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and sixteen. now to south africa where a potentially historic vote is set to take place delegates from the country's ruling a.n.c. party are gathering right now to elect a successor to president jacob zuma and a tight race is shaping up one of the front runners is dumas ex-wife and foreign foreign minister and. summa she's a leftist who has vowed to improve prospects for the country's black majority she's
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up against deputy president zero am opposed is a business friendly trade unionist and one of the wealthiest people in africa the winner will likely be south africa's next president for more on this joining us from johannesburg is journalist with the mail and guardian philip devitt philip it's good to see you it's a close race between the two potentially splitting the party rather evenly could this balloon into a larger crisis for the antsy. well it could indeed and the races got closer in the last couple of minutes with the announcement that the delegate who way expected to vote on it let me smoke will not take part in list thirteen now to see kent that means that these two frontrunners are within a couple of percentage points of one another and the ac does not deal well with that kind of uncertainty it's tends to repeat itself upon since it didn't two thousand and seven with
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a close race at the top so it's looking grim for the party at this stage you just mentioned that this could potentially hurt jacob zuma ex-wife but just before the meeting he announced free education for more students how could this be thinking if it can helpful for her or just dramatic announcement this morning the president basically saying that somehow trick or one thing fully fund to reach an accommodation and meals for students that make a saint of the population reaction coming you know that already telling us that it simply cannot be done that there is not money in the budget that you have to cut start on social expenditure on health expenditure which is a political nonstarter so it seems to be that the president is trying to throw some uncertainty into the race and trying to project his administration as one that will have a ready transform south africa that will introduce free education with the septics being their own course some of them easy mo would be the person to continue with
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those kind of policies where solar him up was up would not despite this uncertainty and the crisis potentially within the party and she is almost certain to win the elections next year why is that. a.b.c. sports has been declining for some time now but it's standing well so since it isn't the stage ruling it really isn't this isn't even provincial and local. issues thanks. to you but less to see if they can maintain. the same or with their will after smaller parties and some kind of coalition government and no projection at this point showing that they. are to any serious contenders fillip to vote in your highness burke thank you very much. to the bundesliga now are munching glad back were hoping to end a run of three games without a victory when they hosted hamburg who face the threat of relegation and glad back
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did not disappoint brazilian striker rafael struck two goals within five minutes late in the game to seal the deal for gladbach three one the final score a big day for gladbach and a big day for us. it's the final weekend of play in the bund as laid out before the winter break and dortmund in particular are hoping to make the most of it under new coach peter dortmund broken eight match winless streak earlier this week but they face a stern test at home against hoffenheim. found the solution to endorsements both in this league a free fall just two days after taking the helm the former cologne coach led the black and yellows to victory at mind but this weekend he faces a test in front of the club's home supporters. this is i'm really looking forward to the home game there's no doubt about it it was very important for us to
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go into this match in the back of a win feeling positive and playing at home with a sense of achievement the criminal. has been working hard with his players over the past few days the austrian coach sees himself as something of a psychologist he'll go head to head with you on saturday night off and i'm boss watch dortmund's last game from the stands fueling rumors that he's being lined up to become dortmund's new coach this summer. and i was a chance to spend half a year here is so huge and so great that's how i see this opportunity the topic of nigel's man doesn't concern me but i will say that he's a good man and always does a great job. has no desire to play games with the media not goldmines focus is firmly on remaining above dortmund in the standings after this weekend's clash. doesn't know if we need to be prepared even though there are a large number of dortmund players but even with their missing players they still have a top quality squad but so do we and we feel good going into the match. a hard fought
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battle is in store but dortmund are hopeful another win can mark the end of the wildly volatile part of their season. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you. have struck a coalition to bring the far right freedom party into government sébastien courts will become the continent's youngest head of state after his party won october's elections with a hard line against immigration. and join me again at the top of the hour if you can thanks for joining us. where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and if you newspapers with official information as
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