this tuesday w. news live from berlin polls have closed in lebanon in 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 had a long 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 long haul from the grave 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 his case what's ahead for moscow inventor connie. thanks for joining us. is underway in lebanon after parliamentary elections ended a short while ago it's the first photo held under new electoral laws designed to give smaller parties a better chance but observers expect the race to come down to 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 vote is deeply frustrated. with had enough of clans that have ruled us for fifty years. with the old guard but nothing's changed you will add of justice yet not an insult prime minister may well become its new one billionaire businessmen fat high riri heads up the coalition campaigning for votes from simians and moderates but he is under some pressure his company's 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. but we are going through difficult times military success and hezbollah are particularly needed without hezbollah we also have terrorists in this country and

every few g. crisis similar to that of syria and iraq a view to your. new non-denominational protest parties are hoping to challenge the political elite in this election but that chance is a slim due to high electoral thresholds and old political alliances. and have is our correspondent in beirut has been following the story for us as well let's start very simply we know that polls close a short while ago what's the turnout and like. well the interior ministry in lebanon has said that as of six pm the time was about forty six percent but remember even after that supporters have been outside polling booths so at least in the better for the of the polling booths and they have been allowed to watch until after seven pm which is when they were when the polls were supposed to close so we saw waiting for the final figure though by six pm it was forty six percent and this over the last few hours we've also seen different political parties appealing to

that was just to go into high numbers and cost their ballots and this is happening centrally because in some sunni areas a lot of sunnis cast their ballots so the shia parties are their supporters to go in and pass their waters but now there's been some reports that even though voting has been stopped officially people are still queuing to vote after they shot what's the story there well as i was just saying you know this is sort of the last minute attempts by different political parties to make sure that at the end they can make up the numbers in some cases like in the case of hizbullah in many areas they have kept their waters back so they could actually assess how different districts and how the waters there are working so they could then send and push an entire bulk of their supporters to go in their districts and watch the exit polls are not out yet but we have heard from hamas which is an ally of the hezbollah that amal and hizbollah have done very well and have pretty much won the two important seats in south though that's not surprising because south is dominated by milan is there

were expected to win that anyway what's going to be important here is to see the really what the final turnout is going to be in the last elections in two thousand and nine the final turnout was fifty four percent but thus far as i said it's only forty six percent but only as of six pm this evening as you mentioned the last elections being in two thousand and nine eleven has changed in the last nine years what are some of the issues that have been on voters' minds today. well you know last election was essentially an election where the generation that was a part of the civil war in lebanon witnessed it. they were the main water this time around you have a lot of hundreds and thousands of first time voters though it is unknown whether they've gone out really and want to deny numbers or not because while there is a sense of achievement that lebanon is finally having elections and the lebanese do take pride in it and think that lebanon is after all going on its past to be a functional democracy there is also disillusionment with the whole process and young people especially feel the nothing specific is going to change however as far

as the issues are concerned garbage crisis electricity problems the fact that there is no electricity at every second now you need to have generator facilities to have power connection but we need the people here feel that if lebanon has to change the sectarian politics here has to change the even though there is a proportional voting system this time around the seats are still divided on the basis of which sect you come from in christianity and islam and all of that in overarching man i helped foreign powers like saudi arabia and iran to interfere in lebanese affairs and they own people feel that as long as they cannot change the nature of politics here they cannot stop foreign meddling. for us in beirut thank you very much 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 temperance promise not to try to make a nuclear bomb us president donald trump has condemned the deal as flawed and threatened to leave or tehran says it is complying but not seeing any benefits told a rally in the city of subs of that he was ready for any decision that trump might make. oh if the u.s. offers to pull out of the nuclear deal they will soon realize that this decision will become a historic regret for them or you will. see. we told the whole world america europe the east and the west we will not negotiate with anyone over our country's weapons and defense. oh. oh we will build on stockpile weapons equipment and mistrials as much as our 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 attempt assassination attempt he was at a meeting with supporters in his home district in central punjab when a man shot at him security 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 and hostage 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 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 sense 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 on june twenty fourth he has been addressing crowds of thousands gathered in istanbul area one told them he would resist any attempt from in or outside to divide the country and promise to make turkey stronger domestically and globally there is much on the line for the upcoming ballot winning it would secure him sweeping new presidential powers that were narrowly approved 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 are not working towards that same goals 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 the media coverage mainstream media coverage is overwhelmingly pro ad one pro-government pro islamic group 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 of 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 to double is really a han in istanbul thank you very much folks fog and bottled former c.e.o. martin venter korn may face civil penalties in germany for his role in the carmakers diesel emissions scandal the state may also qual back some of the millions he earned as the head of the w this comes after u.s. authorities issued an arrest warrant for venter corn the one time king of german industry it's been a long fall from grace. 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 he was as i feel enters the u.s. he faces a rest before talking to other countries he'd 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 vince a con could drag him 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 of 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 constantly 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 and deception there 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 divin to cohen 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 even the current public prosecutors in germany are also investigating him to call him on suspicion of fraud and market manipulation and 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. sports news now number will be returning to

the bundesliga after four seasons in the second division number one inside house until to secure at least second place on the table there about how one the german championship nine times the last time that happened was fifty years ago it was. at the top of the hour bundesliga show follows after the break thanks for tuning in . we make up over a week what tells of the under budget we are the same the services. they want to shape the continent's future could be part of it and join youngsters because they share their stories their dreams and their challenges the seven percent platform for africa charting.