this is the w.'s line from the polls in iraq are now closed after the country's first parliamentary election since the government declared victory over islamic state. despite their security and sectarian tensions have been a big issue i'll take you to baghdad for the night host also on the program. the regional parliament in spain's catalonia region is set to vote on a new t.v. but it is the favorites interested in ending the feud with madrid. italy might finally be about to get

a new government after months of deadlock the leaders of the five star movement on the northern league set a deadline for a deal to be done. then but does make a phone call homburg has been relegated to the second division for the first time in their history after yet another season of trolls and defeats fans for years and finally been realized had been in the bundesliga since its inception in one thousand nine hundred sixty three now. i'm phil graham welcome to the program. we're receiving reports of a bomb attack in iraq in which at least three people have been killed the explosion happened just south of the oil rich city of kirkuk and this news just cut comes just hours after polls closed in iraq's first parliamentary elections since the government declared victory over islamic state militants security forces in the

area say the blast is linked to the election. iraqis have gone to the polls i cited strict security controls and border fencing insite though a high priority for the voting public and the candidates in the ballot the influence of neighboring iran several mean runners have close ties with turan wins from them in gains from shia muslim candidates iran's dominant faith could bolster support for the regime the fight for power is mainly split between the pro western incumbent prime minister had a body and had a midi from the iranian backed militia popular mobilization forces seen as having led the fight against islamic states. armory is close to the people because he fought while others were sitting on chairs and got money therefore i believe hardy alarm really is best for the people. of the north. we shall. x.

prime minister nuri al maliki also closer iran is also back on the political scene but any hopes of a triumphant return have been dice spec irruption allegations and major losses to the islamic state great back in twenty fourteen also in the running is muntasser the former journalist is best known for throwing two shoes at then u.s. president george w. bush during a press conference in two thousand and eight. fifteen years since the fall of saddam hussein the oil rich country still struggles to provide parent why and authorities estimate the country needs close to ninety billion dollars to rebuild infrastructure badly needed informers law mixtape strongholds like mosul repeating local life here though is another matter. and only a shade in it means nothing to me they have done nothing and nothing has changed we are living like the homeless we have no clue just north or no electricity look at

this things are still the same they come and give us a kilo of rice or lentils and say vote for. the next prime minister will face several other challenges smoothing the rift which is deepened during about his tenure some sunnis even planned an election boycott while authorities were on high alert to quash any lingering islamic state support of the deadly correspondent kareen is covering these elections from baghdad in cooperation with the iraqi channel al rashid the t.v. welcome to. the prime minister partially a security curfew to encourage more people to vote or did this work yes well according to my impression of what i saw today it didn't work because on our way to a voting station you saw a lot of people walking and some of them complained because they had to walk for on forty five kilometers to reach the voting stations but after that after the curfew

was said. it didn't change too because we were on our way back and it was the same amount of people who were in the streets and not even more i'm talking to the people they have a big question about the whole election today and what's going on yes talk about that are you do do people expect the usa the election to change anything. i talk to people in baghdad i talk to people in the north and north of iraq in mosul i talk to the people in their bill and according to my impression you know they don't believe there's going to be any change because they say how could change happen if the government according to what they say is corrupted how could change happen if daily you have daily terror attacks how could change happen if the politicians are not even listening to us and talking to us they have their own way of life they have to own way of of style and that's why they don't represent us and they are questioning them the credibility of today's election is being really questioned and

according to what i saw today and to people i talk to and to observers that i talk even there it is the participation in the election isn't so hard to now we don't have any official numbers but if you talk to the people and observateur they tell you that some voting stations like a school here in new in new iraq and also in another school in the south end of of baghdad maybe twenty to twenty five percent came to this station so all in all the participation wasn't so high that people question the whole election today and the credibility of today's elections but we do know that a number of the candidates to have close ties to iran including the al i marry a scene of hide around about is my right challenger so what kind of influence does iran have on iraqi politics. iran has an effect on iraqi policies and not only miri but also if you talk about neural maliki what we saw in

the report you just you just showed but when i talked to the people and today it should be election for the people for the iraqi people they are fed up of any influence coming from outside from any interference from outside from iran from saudi arabia from the u.s. they tell me we want to be a free concert you want the one who decide we want we want to present our own politics and not politics from outside foreign policy taking control in our own homeland and there is another gap you can see what the politicians are doing and what really iraqi people want iraq iraqi people want an independent politics whereas if you look at the politicians they are supported different politicians and i am very solid body they are supported from foreign countries and that's what the people here in iraq say it's enough we don't want and this is exactly another very practical example to say to show that they think nothing is going to change because

they are not represented through the politicians but their politicians doing their own things without going back to the people and representing the voice of the people. abdul karim in baghdad thank you. the parliament of spain's catalonia region has been voting for a new leader a step that could and months of deadlock pro independence parties are backing kim torah who has vowed to continue the independence fight against madrid cuts alone it has been without a government since that late last year when ridge removed college food to most cabinet which involves allies then one regional elections in december and have been trying to form a government ever since if the regime is still without a government by the twenty second of may catalonia will face fresh elections. are journalists on a yahoo affair is in the catalan capital boss of the news a welcome called aspersion one has dominated kim torah to succeed him as lead the

following spent today debating that nomination what happens next. well i will do something a problem of us have an answer that we always saw the first around in the parliament in torah didn't get an absolute majority in the first round because sixty six m. is voted to save or sixty five i can stand there were also four abstentions but if he can turn our house has the same result as today on the wrong way he will be the next the president because one day in the second round he will only need a simple majority and today in his speech or he insisted that he said that he will be deprivation of president and that would someone is that a good tomato president and that that he will work hard in that bends also that's what anya instead of the fact that he's open to dialogue with the spanish government or kim torre is also

a hardline independent supporter so what is that likely to mean for the region's relations with the spanish government. welcome to arise a lawyer and to writer cultural activist a strong ally of woods i'm on his a strong supporter of the indefinite and most men in catalonia and he said today that he will work for it in that invents of catalonia his opens a dialogue and also the spanish government but the spanish and government government are mentioned and it's open to dialogue within the framework of real on today interrupt insisted that he asked for mitigation to the president of the european commission asked a mediation in day in days to solve the problem and got him on the spanish press regard to came to ascot has proved the most puppet you've said he's a close ally is there is there any evidence that he's not his own man. yes is

a very strong ally of us puts them on skin tara he's a member and then he of the mom's bar chain the cutting of parliament and goods among chose controller to be that the next cut to the president because this week spain blocked. him on from being the next president so put him on chose tkinter up until all the opposition parties said that he's a puppet of it's a month or so because he said there's a provision of candidates and that their legitimate candidate is split among them that would amount good to make use a few points on a lot of fairer and barcelona thank you thank you my pleasure. it's we could soon have a new prime minister two months after the country's election resulted in political deadlock of talks in rome between the populist five star movement and the nationalist league party appear finally to be making progress but the party's

leaders hope to propose a new prime minister by sunday. they could be the end of the waiting game my tailor salvini head of the far right northern league made his way through a throng of journalists but gave very little away after weeks of stalemate it was up to luigi to mile sell of ynys potential partner from the populist five star movement to reveal what's in the works. for you first of all we are very proud we have arrived at this point yesterday evening we finally laid the foundations for an agreement with the league launching our project for a government of change this afternoon our deputies plus experts will start working on a coalition agreement that remains our most important focus. of the people there will be a place that will be. just last monday the talian president's. declare that negotiations to build a new government had failed for weeks he had been pressuring the two biggest

parties to come to an agreement threatening to call fresh elections if they failed to do so. now it seems increasingly unlikely that italian voters will have to go to the polls again the end of the political impasse is largely down to one man silvio berlusconi. the former prime minister has allowed the northern league to form an agreement with five stars he has traditionally been allied with the league but he's let them make a deal even though that means he's likely to go into opposition the two parties are looking to form a government this weekend on sunday they hope to be able to name their new head of government they'll present their candidate to the president who have final say. on to sports football and hamburg have crashed out of germany's point as they go for the first time ever to stay up they needed to beat munchen blood back and vols burke to lose to and votes berg to lose to cologne and while hamburg did post

a two one victory against glad back vosburg refused to play along and beat cologne in their encounter hamburg had been the only club to stay in the bundesliga since it was founded in one thousand nine hundred sixty three but all good things must come to an egg. the homburg club must be set back to zero they counted every second they spent as the only ever present club in the bundesliga. but hamburg glory days are long gone the club successful period a distant memory even the nine hundred eighty three european cup triumph. recent years have been filled of relegation dogfights they managed to save themselves time and again but despite the huge fanbase they family drop down to the second division the club structural problems have been partly to blame frequent changes in the coaching staff this season left them without

a long term plan. christian tate says helped inspire a revival in recent weeks but it came too late to spare them. the first bundesliga relegation of the fifty five years. but will not have been a long time in the making. that's it up to date at the top of the hour of good. german is a strong country. we have achieved so much we can do this and it's something hindustani we must overcome it in the. going where it's uncomfortable global news that matters t.w. made for mines.