this is the w. news live from berlin polls have closed in lebanon the first parliamentary election in nearly a decade the vote count is now underway an unprecedented number of independent candidates are hoping to shake up lebanon's political establishment under prime minister saad hariri. also coming up turkey's president after one kicks off his election campaign and one that moved 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. and the long fall from grace for the man who was once germany's highest

paid blue chip c.e.o. u.s. prosecutors have indicted the former volkswagen boss as german prosecutors examine this case what's ahead for martin been talking on. twitter thanks for joining us the book out it is underway in lebanon after parliamentary elections ended a short while ago it's the first vote held under a new electoral law designed to give smaller parties a better chance but observers expect the race to come down between the western backed prime minister saad hariri and the iran backed militant group hezbollah. lining up to elect a new parliament for the first time in nine years the war in neighboring syria security concerns and disagreements between rival parliamentary blocs delayed this

vote until now many voters deeply frustrated. with had enough of clans that have ruled us for fifty years. but nothing has changed you will add of justice yet you have been an old prime minister may well become its new one billionaire businessman saad hariri heads up the coalition campaigning for votes from simians and moderates but he is under some pressure these companies are foundering and many resent his cooperation with hezbollah. the radical shiite group has pointed to its military successes in syria in an effort to secure more votes it set to profit from electoral reform i thought but we're going through difficult times military success and hezbollah are particularly needed without hezbollah we also have terrorists in this country and every few gee crisis similar to that of syria and iraq

a view to your. new non-denominational protest parties are hoping to challenge the political elites in this election but that chance is a slim due to high electoral thresholds and old political alliances. let's go to d.w. correspondent who is following the story for us from beirut as well the polls have closed officially but there are still some reports that there are people queuing when they shut. well that is right what's happened is that until this afternoon the watertown arc was pretty low and reports started emerging of how unless such incident invests in their report or not is pretty high so the shia parties have rushed their supporters to watch and vice versa the other parties have done the same thing in afternoon about two o'clock different political leaders appealed to that water to get out in high numbers and walt so essentially what's happened is even though the closing time of the shutting down time of the polls was an hour ago is still going on but they're not letting freshwater scum in that are going to say

that only according to the law all those who are inside the polling booths or in the bed of three of the polling booths can watch others cannot but it's been really seen as an exercise to increase of water turnout and have more and more people get out there to vote and since you mentioned a sort of rush to the polls from the various factions do we know what turnout has been like overall well the final figures not out yet and it should be out soon though on to the south to noon it was pretty low it was about twenty four percent in the last elections about a decade ago in two thousand and three it was fifty four percent now even if it is risen from twenty four percent and some of the election experts here in lebanon are saying that on on average forty percent different political parties was asked of watertown and already like the hezbollah saying that on average the water tunnel is forty percent it's still no and that bill would go on to say a lot about. trust off the lebanese people in the exercise of conducting elections

though i have to be to rate the final number is not yet out now these are the first elections that have happened since two thousand and nine and a lot has changed in nine years what are the issues that have been on voters' minds this time around. well you know they've been many issues and will to mind garbage prices electricity the presence of syrian refugees there are about four million lebanese in this country and one and a half million syrians and of course the palestinians a half a million palestinians have been living here for decades but the bigger issue the programs in everybody's mind is the sectarian politics they say there are many sects everybody needs representation nonetheless they don't want the nature of the politics per se to be sectarian because according to them this allows countries like saudi arabia and iran to interfere in this country which is happening at a broad scale largely that's what's happening in lebanon the lebanese feel how can they change that reality they feel it's a tiny country they do not have enough say in their own affairs and countries like

saudi arabia lead on even some of the western countries in fact in lebanese policies thanks very much a. correspondent in beirut iranian president hassan rouhani has warned the united states that pulling out of the nuclear deal would be a terrible mistake the twenty fifteen agreement lifted sanctions against iran in return for teheran's promise not to try to make a nuclear bomb us president donald trump has condemned the deal as flawed and threatened to leave while tehran says it is complying but not seeing any benefits for heart rouhani told a rally in the city of subs if that he was ready for any decision that trump might make. oh if the us to pull out of the nuclear deal they will soon realize that this decision will become a historic regret for them so you will. we tell the whole world america europe the east and the west we will not negotiate with anyone over our

country's weapons and defense. oh on them we will build and stockpile weapons equipment and missiles as much as oh country requires. so. now to some other stories making news around the world pakistan's interior minister has been shot in the arm in an apparent in an apparent assassination attempt he was at a meeting with supporters in his home district in central punjab province and a man shot at him thirty forces arrested a man thought to have been the attacker. a bombing at a mosque in eastern afghanistan has killed at least fourteen people and wounded many more police in a host 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. spanish rescue services

say they've pulled nearly five hundred people from the mediterranean sea in two days it's thought that 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 since the killer way a volcano erupted on thursday the 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. has launched his campaign for a snap general election that he called for june twenty fourth he has been addressing crowds of thousands gathered in istanbul everyone told them he would resist any attempt from in or outside to divide the country and promise to make

turkey stronger both domestically and globally as much on the line for everyone in the upcoming ballot winning it would secure him as new presidential powers that were only approved narrowly last year. for more about the start of the election campaign in turkey let's go to our own yulia han and istanbul 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 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 numis mission 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 turkey never gave up the goal of joining the european union unfortunately his european counterparts are not 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 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 the media coverage mainstream media coverage is overwhelmingly pro ad one

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 palm 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 that's the scandal that refuses to die in the latest twist in volkswagens diesel emission fraud case u.s. authorities have issued an arrest warrant for former c.e.o. martin venter caught on the embattled executive was at the center of the diesel scandal which saw u.s. regulators suv e.-w. for cheating on emissions test for rental car and the one time king of german

industry it's been a long haul. this is the village in munich where mountains into court has been living since he left fox falcon in twenty fifteen his v.w. c.e.o. he was the highest paid executive in germany not only has he been indicted in the united states there's also a warrant out for his arrest now on to german law however he can't be extradited still he is at risk and if he enters the u.s. he faces a rest before talking to other countries he'll have to check carefully whether they could detain him and extradite him to the u.s. . he's put the world's biggest carmaker back in the headlines car sales are strong despite the diesel emissions scandal v.w. has a large pile of cash despite billions in penalties but the risk is of intercon could drag them down again american allegations of systematic deception at the highest level of g.w. have not gone unnoticed by politicians in germany. it's not for me to decide if

he's guilty or not that's the job or the courts but it's interesting that in the us they're not afraid to tackle executives. for me top managers who've been earning top salaries can simply claim they knew nothing they must take responsibility. the key question is what did winterkorn know and when did he know it. although he told a parliamentary investigation that he had not known about the intentional cheating of deception but is mounting evidence that he did know about it before the scandal broke in september twenty fifteen. july two thousand and fifteen a senior executive is said to have spoken to him to call on the phone and told him we've been cheating in the us the same month a lawyer for the company says he talked of into court about the cheat software and how best to pursue damage control human and public prosecutors in germany are also

investigating for him to call on suspicion of fraud and market manipulation at a major sunday newspaper is reporting that v.w. is considering suing him for damages on the german law executives can be held responsible for losses whether they knew about misconduct at the time or not if oversight was unduly lax. to sports now in november will be returning to the bonus league after four seasons in the second division number one inside house and two nil to secure at least second place in the table have won the german championship nine times but the last time that happened was fifty years ago. and in formula one driver ferdinando along so has again proved his versatility by winning in a different serious this time in the world in durance championship the spaniard triumphed in a toyota on his debut in the sports car series. alonso also impressed when he raced for the first time at the indianapolis five hundred last year the double f one

world champion overturned a formula one next weekend for his home spanish crown free. you're watching news back at the top of the hour. after the break with all of saturday's big action thanks for tuning in. a. blessing. and a curse. a source of nature and inescapable feet. long sometimes the trouble comes first such if. there's a song.