this is t w news live from berlin eleven and goes to the polls for the first crack parliamentary election in nearly a decade security fears and a tug of war over election reform to lay voting for years now in unprecedented number of independent candidates are hoping to shake up lebanon's political establishment and their prime minister saad hariri. also coming up turkey's president everyone kicks off his election campaign and one moves the polls up to next month and now faces a credible threat to his power from an opposition alliance we'll go to istanbul for

the latest. on the bundesliga has seen the penultimate day packed with drama teams at the top and bottom of the table have a lot on the line our sports calls correspondent will take us through the back of the action. i'm irish waiter thanks for joining us voters in lebanon are heading to the polls to elect a new parliament today for the first time in almost ten years sunni prime minister saad hariri and his future movement party are expected to retain power but this election will be the first under the new country's elected to the country's new electoral laws they replace the previous winner takes all system with proportional representation which has brought the country's sectarian power struggle into sharp focus. let's go to correspondent who is following the story for us from beirut where these elections are underway what is the current state or mind set of

prime minister saad hariri are we thinking that these elections are going to confirm the status quo or has he lost the confidence of his supporters or sorry the person who has gained in popularity after last year's incident when he was signed to riyadh even though when he came back to lebanon he did do the resignation but he has gained popularity in the lebanese are blaming saudi arabia for that misadventure as. having said that house are very spotty the future movement of problems is an open question at the moment even though they may get more seeds sati these parties facing a lot of competition this time around you mentioned briefly how the political system in the country has changed from a simple majority to a proportional representation system which means a lot more electoral map has undertaken even the candidates who win seats would be those in deserve categories depending on the sects from muslim or christian sects they come from but they will be a much sharper division so i ate that factor and secondly that

a lot of the sunni leaders have this time stood up daring salary the supremacy daring the supremacy of the clan in the bastions of the future parties it remains to be seen how future movement performs now i'm sure this is the first election since two thousand and nine a lot has changed in the last nine years what are the issues that voters have on their mind today. well this election essentially is the first election off the lebanese generation after the civil war generation the last election was all around the civil war and the candidates who were former warlords as in the people who fought in the civil war and then became politicians but this election is the first one hundreds and thousands of lebanese are going to be watching for the first time and for them it's not about the civil war but it's about how to take lebanon forward so in a way they say well it is quite important that the elections are happening in this eleven these democracy at least trying to be a functional democracy in the middle east and they say issues are garbage crisis

issues are electricity but broadly for them these things the country cannot move forward unless and until they can deal with the sectarian problems here and they can deal with foreign meddling. briefly if you can speak you've mentioned saudi arabia are we seeing any foreign powers trying to exert their influence over the outcome here many rounds or spiritual leader so to say ayatollah khomeini has clearly backed as well ah it's not a secret that hizbullah and is. funded by iran saudis are believed to be funding a certain sunni candidates in the past but there is no clear proof whether they have done this or not but essentially in a nutshell it's important lebanon is specifically a tiny country but specifically important in the broader politics in the middle east because of iran and saudi arabia as these new war over dominance in these nomic won't have her for us in beirut thank you very much. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world a bombing at

a mosque in eastern afghanistan has killed at least fourteen people and wounded many more police in hall said the mosque was also being used as a voter registration center for elections later this year no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. iran's president has signed rouhani has issued a warning to the u.s. president against pulling out of the iran nuclear deal for han he said abandoning the deal would be a historic mistake but said plans are in place should. trump is due to decide on the deals fate by may twelfth spanish rescue services say they've pulled nearly five hundred people from the mediterranean sea in two days it's thought that the good weather prompted people smugglers to attempt the crossing from northern africa the united nations says more than six hundred people have died in such attempts so far this year. lava has been bursting out of a new crack in the ground on hawaii's big island the latest as the killer way of ok no opted on thursday volcanic activity has been accompanied by

a series of earthquakes two thousand people have had to flee their homes and at least five houses have been destroyed. turkish president to one has launched his campaign for a snap general election that he called for june twenty fourth he's been addressing crowds of thousands gathered in istanbul told them he would resist any attempt from in or outside the door to divide the country and promise to make turkey stronger domestically and globally there is much on the line for everyone in the upcoming ballot winning it would secure him sweeping new presidential powers that were approved only narrowly last year. for more about the start of the election campaign in turkey let's go to our own yulia han it is stumble yulia what was president everyone's main message today. well his main message today was that the constitutional changes wanted for in last year's referendum now need to be institutionalized turkey needs to finish the transformation to

a full presidential system the sooner the better only then he says everything will improve the economy will improve the inflation rates will go down and turkey will become a free and democratic country that's really what he said a quote free and democratic country with the necessary global standing so his message clearly is a vote for me and everything that's not going well right now will get better he specifically talked about turkey's military intervention in rules and syria saying quote again our soldiers are ready for new missed missions suggesting that the turkish army will not retreat anytime soon this is clearly him appealing to nationalist voters and he had a message for europe he said turkey never gave up the goal of joining the european union unfortunately his european counterparts on north working towards that same goal so that was his message in the past the opposition in turkey has been very

divided and we see you know these four opposition parties coming together to form a coalition are they looking to actually be a threat to air to water or is he still expected to maintain power in the way that he has. well a few weeks ago a few days ago even many here would have said this election is already decided in favor of missed out on he holds all the necessary political power as media coverage mainstream media coverage is overwhelmingly pro outdrawn pro-government pro islamic rooted a.k.p. but now that we know about the election alliance for position parties will form an alliance at the pol them entry level and we know the candidates for the presidential election as well many people here got actually more excited thinking that these elections are going to be much more interesting than we thought and they're hoping the election and the opposition candidates can force miss out on into a second round of voting at the presidential level and that they can break the majority

in parliament. is really a hand in istanbul thank you very much. to bring us league of football now and i'm joined by tom gennari from our sports desk to talk us through the penultimate set of games it's a big day on saturday yesterday wasn't it so it was a very big day yeah now as usual for the penultimate in the final match then going to be one of the games kickoff aside a three thirty so it was makes for a very exciting and dramatic couple of hours. who've had a fantastic run out this season had a big chance to guarantee their second place finish in the table they played away from home i was booked and we're going to start off i believe by taking a look to see how they go. childhood's youngest ever coached on many tesco has turned back the clock on his side's fortunes this season the royal blue is on the verge of their highest league finish in eight years. but they were

uncharacteristically sloppy at the start of this one almost gifting hour fifteen bogus and an early goal the icelandic strike aired tonight by the narrowest of margins. just as our expects to friends fall asleep. cross comes short was flicked in by two low camera the defender left on martin oceans of space to back his second goal of the season. the tiredness was clearly infectious chalco were at game court napping and this time they were punished by the quick thinking phillip max. but parity lasted just seven minutes in bogus and the unfortunate man this carries had a rebounded off his thigh and into the net. and that was it for the goals going marker rishta here were denied a second equaliser by the assistant referees flag. it looked to be the right decision. i shall call it is that from the back right now as i held on to victory

sealing second place and a spot in next season's champions league i'm happy for for the fence for the support us and i'm very happy for the for the team for each single player so with him he's a lot for us today on the up and finishing above trifles dortmund's. so down we saw that shot that had a pretty dreadful season last year and they've balance back release a perfectly now is how much does this have to do with their young seemingly inexperienced coach i know for a lot of it i mean today deserves a huge amount of credit is that a brilliant on this season done really well it's true he was thirty inexperienced when he arrived he had previously been the head coach as good big i will but i was any for the short stint last season. of course in the second division now the man hired in the sporting director of shark a christian hard though has previous when it comes to placing his faith in quite young and inexperienced managers he was the man who got minds hired you haven't

shopped until the stalker so he obviously has a very good all right for picking a young coach and he's not afraid to put his faith in somebody without that much experience and he made a very good choice with so many contests has gone from tenth last season to second this time around and of course as we heard in the report they finished above proves your dormant and anyone who can do that is a favorite with the fans that's pretty good showings there from one year to another in our time at the top of the table now what's happening at the bottom of the table yet of course all of the teams were in action yesterday as i said hamburg was spoken for i've lost all of their games so that means that the relegation battle is only going to be decided finally on the last day of the season mites who were also involved in the dogfight down at the bar and had a big chance to save themselves if they got three points from dortmund that's no easy place to play anyway let's take a look and see how they go on. some don't win fans look like they already had their minds on the beach but for the most part the yellow wall was as imposing as ever

was france and minds think alike the last time out meant they could secure their safety with a win it signal a do not park and after just three minutes they took the lead. scored on his debut last weekend and the midfielder repeated the trick here to make it one nil. the twenty year old clearly delighted to be his hometown club's hero again. and pay to his day got even worse just nine minutes later when the public at last he sent in a teasing cross and yoshinori muchos glancing header found the corner of the net the japanese striker putting another season of top flight football within might seize reach. but they weren't home and dry yet jaden century treat his way past daniel brzezinski and cross for maximillian philip who half the deficit he won with just fifteen minutes on the. that was enough excitement for might sneak shut up shop and reach half time with their lead intact after the break they dug a defense kept dormant attack it by one final chance did come home signs why in the

ninetieth minute but myself mountains had i was governed up by four. and with that might seize bundesliga status was safe shots and his team have rescued themselves with two huge wins in two weeks a tenth straight season in a top flight awaits. with all that was said a very very exciting last day of the season at one time we certainly are there is a lot still to be decided i mean if we have a look at the table we see of course that by munich and shall have guaranteed the champions league qualification for next year there are still two places to be filled but there are four teams chasing them so that's dortmund hoffenheim by laver cues and abi like so that's going to be tight and of course the relegation battle at the bottom of the table as we mentioned is also yet to be decided freiburg or spoken hamburg are still in trouble and that's going right down to the wire so some big fixtures to look out for next weekend definitely all on the edge of us it's time again i for my sports department thanks very much. you're watching d.w.

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