w. . this is news a lot from thailand's pro-military party takes the lead in much anticipated elections the vote counting is still underway but partial results give the edge to the party supporting the ruling military regime critics accuse the military of having stacked the political in its favor to live in bangkok for analysis also coming out. to stricken cruise ship viking scott reaches shore after a parent died in stormy conditions off the northeast coast nine hundred passengers

and crew were still on board hundreds more had been airlifted to safety while the ship was still at sea. and zimbabwe struggles to cope after cycling our correspondent meets the people searching for answers about the fate of their loved ones for over a week after the huge storm struck. a michael thanks for joining us early results from thailand's long delayed general election show the country's pro military party with a lead over its main challenger that's with election officials saying that ninety percent of ballots have now been counted. this man former army chief. has led thailand's military coup five years ago he wanted voters to keep him on.

prime minister promising stability to face the opposition type party which will raise questions about the fairness of the poll saying the rules favored the military. let's bring in correspondent bastien heartache he joins us live from bangkok bastian the election commission is reporting most of the votes are pro-military and it's likely ahead what more can you tell us about the initial voting and why we're seeing these kinds of results. well so there's been a couple of big surprises here in this election night so far and one of them is as you say that the military party has come in so strong we didn't expect that to happen right behind me is the party had quarter of the prototype party which is the party of former prime minister yingluck shinawatra was ousted by the military in the last back in two thousand and fourteen now they had expected that there were going to be even winners in this election now it turns out it's

a neck and neck race really and then the next surprise to a good election commission just announced about an hour ago that they'd stopped counting at ninety three percent without giving an explanation for that so now everybody's wondering what why what's the reason for that why could they have stopped counting there are a lot of rumors going on there's still a couple of seats still missing that have been allocated yet and it's so close that maybe the reason is that maybe it's going the wrong way for the military maybe they're not there they're not it's not the result isn't as good as they liked it but those are rumors and we have to wait and see they said they're going to announce the preliminary election results tomorrow we have to wait and see if that really happens michael now obviously you're standing at the opposition party headquarters but you've been so i can imagine that they're not very happy with so doing. you know that the counting stopping but you've been on the streets all day

you've been reporting on this how would you describe the general climate on the streets today and right now at this moment. but i think initially people were excited to go out and vote because they haven't been allowed to do that in well in since two thousand and fourteen but that vote without election was actually canceled afterword so the last election that counted was back in two thousand and eleven so they wanted to go out and you know exercise their democratic rights and go vote and you know but now since we're hearing that there is these difficulties is if you look on social media for example people are extremely upset about the fact that they don't know what's going on why aren't they getting the results and they're they're afraid that there's going to be you know back tattling and meddling in the election results so it could possibly be that

people you know they're going to be very upset in the aftermath of this that they're going to look not like what they see and not like the results of this election and then we're going to have to wait and see what happens then are they going to be more protests or might there likely be another coup michel. thank you that's the best in heartache in bangkok. the stricken cruise ship viking sky has safely reached shore after a harrowing night in stormy conditions off norway's west coast. this was the scene in the town of boulder a short time ago as the ship limped into port with about nine hundred ass injures and crew still on board townspeople lined the harbor front to welcome the ship to safety a happy end to an emergency that authorities say very nearly turned into disaster. passengers rushed to shield themselves from sliding furniture and falling ceiling panels as heaving waves tossed the cruise ship from side to side some said those waves had smashed chip windows and sent cold sea water gushing in.

elsewhere on board the mostly british and american travelers could do nothing but sit and wait for their turn to be airlifted to safety. amid winds of nearly ninety kilometers per hour and waves over eight meters high the viking sky sent out a mayday call early on saturday afternoon it had suffered engine failure and was beginning to drift towards the rocky shore fearing the ship would run aground the crew managed to anchor in the bay an area known since viking times is treacherously difficult to navigate. the cult and. this is clearly a serious situation this is a cruise ship with one thousand three hundred passengers on board is stuck in one of the north and europe's worst stretches of water scattered with reefs so this is a serious situation as it will show an author and he's mobilized five helicopters

for the operation though some had to be diverted to help a second vessel nearby the freighter with a crew of nine also suffered engine failure delaying the cruise ship airlift. rescue passengers have been brought to a reception center on land clearly this was not the kind of adventure they'd had in mind when they booked their cruise. now to some other stories making news around the world members of australia and new zealand's indigenous communities have come together in sydney to show solidarity with the victims of last week's gun attacks on two mosques in christchurch new zealand has announced it will hold a national remembrance service on march twenty ninth for the fifty people killed in the attacks. chinese president xi easing ping is visiting monaco as part of a three nation tour in europe monaco previously signed a deal with chinese tech company while way to develop its five g.

telecommunications despite controversy over china's influence in five g. she's visited in europe is aimed at boosting trade talks. to mozambique and government says half a million people have been affected by the devastating cycle needed more than seven hundred people have been confirmed dead after the storm raged across mozambique zimbabwe and malawi the true death toll is believed to be much higher efforts are still underway to assist survivors. our correspondent has been in zimbabwe taking a look at the aftermath of cycling each day there he sent us this report from some of the communities hardest hit by the storm and the severe flooding it caused a once bustling village reduced to a rocky field coppa was home to more than three hundred residents and government facilities when disaster struck on the night of march fifteenth residents were

sleeping. very few of them survived those who did have recounted the horror they experienced in india. that i was asleep and suddenly woke up to the house destroyed but the house was full of water but it was the first thing we thought was to rescue the kids. then we realized this child was already dead. after that moment is when we all got swept away by the raging floods somewhere but not at all when you take this right here used to be a town that is now under rubble stones came up from the mountains and swept through the city and now a lot of people are believed to be under these stones and residents tell me that more than three hundred people could be under this rubble a lot of people want closure of knowing whether they had relatives are still in this place or they were washed away by the river downstream the relatives of the

victims have been using whatever tools are at hand to sort through the rocks and rubble there hoping to recover their loved ones many still don't have final answers about the fate of their families what we're looking for right now is a structure if we know we our relatives are like it would be it will be somehow because right now we don't know we still have that feeling maybe they're separating the same with. but recovering bodies can be extremely difficult and the emotional toll is a men's families with as many as ten members were swept away by the floods leaving few survivors. some of them discovered by t. the boards are now on leave if you're in the region you know so we are feeling you begin at six. thirty we have some d.n.a.

just for a little then just you being buried you know and they do in fact there has been extensive damage to the country's infrastructure and there have even been geographical shifts rivers have formed in residential areas a further sign of how much time recovery is likely to take. the auschwitz museum in poland receives over a million visitors every year with many documenting their time there by taking photographs and videos of the former nazi death camp but it appears that a significant number have been in poor taste which is led the museum to issue a request for visitors to behave more respectfully joining me now in the studio to tell us more about this is the g.o.p. reporter pablo foley ilias problem my first thought in hearing this is an institution that figured so prominently in the whole accost has people behaving disrespectfully it's just hard to believe it is really hard to believe on the one hundred days and then of i have to say personally it doesn't shock me in some ways

because of the incidents that i've seen a concentration camps actually here in germany but you know we'll get to that perhaps a little bit later on that the reason why this was issued by a museum was because they they came across like you said before a significant number of photographs that were just in terrible poor taste people posing smiling were actually just seeing some of them now standing on train tracks which let's not forget with these with the train tracks which carry trains which carried people essentially to their deaths where they were murdered. you know one point one million people were murdered a concentration camp and one point three million people actually were passed through. between one nine hundred forty in one thousand nine hundred five now the nazis began gassing people there in one thousand nine hundred forty one and you know it wasn't over ninety percent of those who were killed were jewish but it was also you know there were other people as well who were murdered there non jewish

joel sorry non jewish poles roma savia prisoners of war jehovah's witnesses homosexual men i mean you know this is an absolutely dreadful place to think that people are taking photographs in such poor taste is incredibly alarming and shocking we're seeing a handful of photographs there but i imagine that it was more than just a few bad apples. that would cause museum directors to say listen this is got to stop you're absolutely right i mean this is something that funnily enough i actually remember something from a few years ago that this came up again that there were photographs taken in auschwitz and other concentration camps like i mentioned before that were just in also taste and in fact at the museum released a tweet and they said that remember that you're at the site where over one million people were killed respect their memory there are better places to learn how to walk or on a balance beam than the site which symbolizes the defra taishan of hundreds of thousands to their deaths so there was you know you can almost you can see the anger even tweet but i think the best is actually if we hear from

a representative from the museum because you actually sent the w am response to add to all this issue that they feel was so important there are also incidents when people behave inappropriately in this site and it doesn't matter whether it's something people think about or this is something dumb because people are not aware of being disrespectful and we need to respond we need to react to this is one off part of our mission to protect the dignity of the victims to protect the memory of it's an extraordinary that they would have to actually come out with a statement about this and do something to help people to behave respectfully i'm curious you say that you've seen this in the past yourself i have seen it here in berlin not so far away is of course the memorial near the brandenburg gate and of alton seeing people you know posing there now it's not the same as going to a concentration camp but i've also seen it in concentration camps here in germany

people taking photographs mining laughing the kind of photographs you see people taking at the beach incredible thank you for bringing this around tension. you're watching news from berlin coming up next world story it's the weekend reports don't forget you can catch all the latest news and information around the clock on our website. thanks for tuning in. african. president the long. head of the rwandan patriotic front in. the rebel army and in the one nine hundred ninety four genocide wasn't when little in the rooms there wasn't to be you.