you know we're interested documentary. returns home on w dot com. this is d w news live from berlin gains for the far right in general elections in sweden this week and democrats see a substantial rise in their vote after a campaign that focused on migration mainstream parties on the center left and center right have been left well short of a majority we'll have analysis from our correspondents in stockholm also coming up

tens of thousands of russians take to the streets to protest against the government's pension reforms hundreds of arrests are reported after the rally in which come as polls show falling support for russian president vladimir putin. and in sports an expensive outburst first serina williams at the u.s. open a seventeen thousand dollars fine for williams' angry confrontation with an umpire over a controversial call her outburst overshadowed not only osaka his own historic victory . american and state it's good to have you with us the future of the social democrats led government in sweden is hanging in the balance tonight after voters gave a boost to the far right exit polls show that around one in five voters and bank the national. list sweden democrats the party led by jimmy aka son fought

a campaign focused on immigration the gains for the far right will make it harder for the mainstream center left or center front to form a government. correspondent barbara faisal is outside the swedish parliament in stockholm and she joins us now for more hello to you barbara so polling stations have now been closed for a couple of hours and we're hearing the first exit polls have been coming in what are they telling us. now we've seen now the first results trickling in about a third of the voting stations and the regions have been counted and we see so little movement that means in the latest according to the latest results the democrats have been sliding down to third place with a round eighteen percent and the conservatives have. a very slight. gain over

them but all this is not yet certain so we see that the results are still in flux and nothing is decided yet in the two big blocks the center left bloc in the center right bloc are still sort of neck and neck and indeed it will be very difficult for them to form a government even if they have the system of minority governments they could easily have a majority against them so they have to reconfigure and that would mean a major shake up of politics as they have functioned for decades now. all right so you mention the sweden democrats hovering around eighteen percent so that seems to suggest that essentially one in five nearly one in five swedish voters back to party with neo nazi roots what does this mean for a country that at least in the past was considered a bastion of liberal values. it's a major shake up for sweden it really means that the country seems to sort of take

a new direction i mean sweden used to be the humanitarian superpower on the international stage for decades all was and there was sort of like a fixed image sweden's weeds are liberal they are tolerant they're open the embrace of the cultures and all this is now the question because it has shown that there is an underbelly of swedish politics and of course of swedish mentality of part of the voters here of people in this country who don't agree with that anymore who feel insecure or who really do follow the calls of the right to being populist to sort of go in for the fear mongering that has been really dominant throughout this election campaign and who believe the slogans of the right wing populist that everything will be better once the migrants are completely blocked from street in as many as possible thrown out that's really what it comes down to and yes it is

a major change in direction for sweden all right barbara you mentioned that it's clear that no party is going to be able to secure an outright majority so what's going to happen next just how long is it going to take until we see an established government in sweden. well this can drag on because it used to be quite an easy system you had either the center left bloc of the center right block having the nose sort of in first place and then the others would say ok we tolerate you and it was all sort of like a game that they had set rules that was already fixed from the beginning and this is not going to work anymore so they will have to sit down and say do can we sort of form different kinds of coalition they've for instance never had anything like the grand coalition in germany that means like a whole bunch of smaller parties would have to really sit down and thing do we have things in common can we find common ground can we make compromises that is

something that simply hasn't been done and it's going to take time and it is will be very difficult so the old party system the old block system here is also shared tonight and things will completely change and have to change on that front barbara hazel reporting for us from stockholm many thanks indeed. well here in germany some five hundred protesters follow the call of far right groups and march through a town in the east of the country following the death of a twenty two year old german man marchers walked silently through the town of coton which is about one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of berlin police say the german national died after an altercation with afghan migrants but the circumstances of his death remain unclear an autopsy showed the man died of cardiac arrest which was not directly connected to the dispute two afghan men has been have

been taken into police custody on suspicion of homicide. or reports from syria say russian and syrian aircraft have resumed intensive air strikes in the province of it live i witnesses in a monitoring group told news agencies there were several fatalities in the area is the last larger region in the country held by rebel forces observers say the army of president bashar al assad is preparing a large scale assault to retake italy backed by russia and iran. there's hardly enough time to put out the fire in this town and seven if that. then a second strike happens. to those who will show they're going to the lowest we're going to give us a little this member of the right helmets after several prayers after having been hit himself. the law. will.

go the comes to his aid and now the blast goes off nearby. so. the footage shows how desperate the situation is for civilians in their lives and for those trying to rescue them. is the second day of heavy bombardment in syria with reports of helicopters dropping barrel bombs on several rebel held town and villages this man from southern it has a son by his side the trying to escape the brunt of the airstrikes goodman where. we were displaced by the russian strikes barrel bombs and shelling. they hit us with everything. and we're heading toward the northern area where. you know them and. they're not alone aid organizations say hundreds of families from it left are

fleeing their homes so far the attacks if not hit a major city in an area that is home to three million people but the signs are not good president assad's forces are determined to end the conflict at whatever cost for civilians. well thousands of russians have joined to nation wide rallies against the government's proposed pension reforms the plan would increase the pension age by five years to sixty five for men and two sixty for women the independent monitoring group says police arrested nearly three hundred people anti corruption activists alexina of all me urged supporters to join the protests before he was sentenced to thirty days in jail for organizing an authorized public event. on joining us now from the russian capital moscow bureau chief your overshadow good evening to you yuri so what more can you tell us about the extent of these protests are they only about this rather unpopular pension reform or is there more to it.

well the pension reform is something that to makes people in russia really angry as for today's protests marianna alex a volley and opposition politician who is in prison though you sounded cold for these protests and at the end of the day much fewer people was on the streets this sunday than in his previous protests this was partly because not only wasn't there but also because young people are not so excited to protest against pension reforms and young people are actually the glee intel of not following nevertheless there was a protest in all of russia with violent clashes with the police hundreds of russians have been arrested in nineteen cities a big bunch of them was detained in st petersburg where the police arrested up to five hundred people though many people disapprove of that planned pension reform

there is no real then jal danger to the president going to putin and his policies his rating has fallen but dramatically he also told to people on television the other day and presented himself as a good president who has improved his somewhat well yury along with all these widespread protests across russia today there are also local elections held for governors and regional parliaments what about those elections do any of the candidates pose a threat to putting the grip on power or that of his party. i don't think so since his reelection in march president vladimir putin has formally been in the saddle and saying through the election today he's got his people who through all to the country now in almost all local governments and parliaments. as far as become see this election have no surprises that the election campaign was of the

weakest in a long time with no real competition in most regions in most cities the result has already been taken for granted we spoke to the election observers from the goals it's an movement for defense of voters' rights and they said that that state counted that's have been the running nearly opposed people who coots compete with the those in power are not allowed to run at all the same situation by the way we have here in moscow where the mayor stood against gagnon a man or a practising protege of let me putin by the way he has a great chance to be reelected to why because instead of real opposition candidates he faced absolutely faceless candidates who was not at all dangerous for him and in that sense the election for mayor in moscow sums up the condition of democracy in all of russia all right here a shadow over importing from moscow many thanks. sports news now and twenty year

old not only osaka defeated serena williams in a thrilling u.s. open final on saturday but it was williams whose actions have claimed most of the headlines williams has been fined seven hundred thousand dollars for three code violations during the second set after being warned for a coaching violation williams was docked a point for smashing for racquet then after calling the chair umpire a liar and a cheat williams was docked an entire game with her idol losing her cool jeff a nice corner santa cruz through the final games to win in straight sets. well williams' outburst have somewhat overshadowed osaka achievement but in tokyo the fans are only interested in their champion a twenty year old made history at flushing meadows and back in japan a country hailed it's here. this was the moment japanese fans celebrated their

new u.s. open champion the way. they are the osaka is the first japanese born tennis player ever to read a grand slam. she might have moved to the u.s. that the age of just three but now more than ever finds here in tokyo walking to celebrate her as their road. to this moment i'm astonished to hear a japanese player has won the grand slam. i hope osaka will continue to do well since she's still young. paine hokkaido the pride of japan has worn very special for. others i didn't expect to receive such a great present from a grandchild i hope she'll continue to perform well and avoid injuries who seem to need. asarco is making history just twenty years old it's no wonder she's the toast of tokyo. and

a quick reminder now of our top story. the far right in sweden has made gains in general elections exit polls give the sweeping democrats around nineteen percent of the vote it's unclear which of the mainstream parties will emerge as the largest force. air up to date now on w news will be back again at the top of the hour i marian evans team from all of us here in berlin thanks for watching. bursts. home of species. the holy words if you can't. get those are big changes and most start with small steps but globally do you just tell stories of crudeness people into innovative projects around the world. to use the country's military to stop religious solutions and

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