this is a lie from berlin a corruption scandal brings down one of europe's high flying populous austria's vice chancellor heinz christian straka is forced to resign that's after the far right leader was filmed of legibly offering government contracts in exchange for campaign donations also coming up. australia's ruling conservative coalition scores a shock when in the country's election the opposition labor party concedes defeat on a disappointing night. welcome

to the show austria's coalition government ease at risk of collapsing after their country's vice chancellor and far right leader heinz christian straka was forced to resign struck us stepped down after germany's spiegel magazine and sue deutsche a newspaper published a secretly recorded video of him from 2017 it appears to show offering government contracts in return for campaign donations. austria's vice chancellor we did not want to be seen on t.v. . apparently soliciting complained funding in return for government contracts at a meeting and. they were talking to the niece of a russian oligarch in addition to illegal donations they want him to buy a stake in office because tabloid to generate favorable coverage in 2017. but this

was a sting and the video was leaked to german media who published it on friday. during . his i know that i spend almost 7 hours it's mating it was a d.n.r. from 5 am to midnight. during the course of this meeting i insisted that being broken. i repeatedly made this very clear. i did not do anything illegal and i never have despite putting his innocence. up and he resigned on saturday. right freedom party in the governing coalition with the chance of the courts and his people's party. put a huge strain on this right wing alliance if the government folds new elections could follow this time without. earlier we spoke to.

one of the outlets which broke this story we asked him whether his magazine had been expecting to resign. it might be possible cause some of the things we talked about are really wary. well for austrian viewers obviously they were really damning and he almost showed his real face and it was a different face they knew. from from the campaigns so we thought it might be possible but we didn't expect that what more can you tell us and i realize you might be hampered to some extent but what more can you tell us about the source of the video. we can't talk about the source of the video we don't comment on that because we have to protect our sources but the thing i can tell you is that we heard of the existence of this video. while back but we took kill kill

this month that we've finally got our hands on the video and. possibility to check it to look at it it's almost 67 hours long so it took them some time to authority check it the make sure that it's not faked well you bring up the fact that it's not dead it that it's not fake how can you be certain about its authenticity exactly. we you know it's a lot of material and we are looking at it we were pretty sure that it's almost impossible to fake all of this but of course we wanted to make sure that nobody the . temper of the the audio or with the video so we asked aspect sports from from institutes in germany forensic experts to take a look at it to make sure that the video and the audio hasn't been manipulated. for one thing and also it shows the real the the people we while it shows those to political and also it's located at the place we thought it supposed to be located

because we knew the place where they supposedly met and all of that checked out and there was no no. well no hints or no. no what other place in that was that that could be seen so well you mention the fact that you received the video this month and some people might question you know on the eve of the european elections the timing why specifically now. well the thing is we couldn't publish right away of course because we have to check it and make sure it's not a minute for lent and so and we did that and we were sure it's authentic and we probably would have been criticized if we would have sat on it for another couple of weeks till after the election as well so the way it was a tough call but i couldn't sit on it and i'm on full freedom with there should be legal thanks much for joining us thank you much. the scandal in austria has

overshadowed all rally of right wing populist leaders in the on track i had been scheduled to speak at the event the leader of the alternative for germany your question said austria is freedom party would remain an important partner despite the revolution he joined other speakers including france's marine le pen and the netherlands heard hilda sin predicting historic results for nationalist parties in next week's european parliament elections. our correspondent rebecca rivers is covering that event for us and joins us now from milan rebecca the event has just started i understand what's happened so far. actually michael it now is actually coming to an end behind me here you can probably him a terror cell be there heads be could be the person who organized this event and indeed launched the alliance of the parties who have been speaking here today we've heard from representatives from all the 12 parties they highlighted they are

focusing on their their similarities rather than a differences they all are calling for more importance to be placed on national governments they want to bring power back to the national governments they say that brussels has had too much power they are also calling for changes to immigration on these topics and they are united in some of the biggest cheers were for france's marine le pen she spoke of. she blamed europe for globalization which she said is led to inequality even in europe but really the biggest cheers were reserved for mattel yourself bt he came to the stage play with to it to you know pavarotti is nessun dorma and sort of adding fuel to the argument that something is really using a lot of this pan-european policy idea to rally for domestic politics.

here you mentioned the interior minutes. minister for italy material what else in greater detail do you believe that he wants to achieve through this rally. well the rallies to drum up support for the alliance which was little moments last month the alliance of the european alliance people and nations they have as i just mentioned everything they mention in this speech is something that they really hope to do they want to empty europe and change it from the inside they're really hoping to bring this their idea is to bring power back to the sovereign nations they believe the process has taken too much away from them and they really want to shake things up they're hoping to unite the far right parties which are currently split into 3 different factions in the parliament they've had moderate success with that a lot of parties have come on board but there is some major ones namely poland's more justice party and hungry speech dance party they've not signed up yet but

they're still trying to make as much of an impact come after the elections next week. rebecca very briefly do you believe that he actually has the power to do this. it's it's too hard to say yet the basically the parties that have joined they they are united on on many issues but there is still many things that they not united on it remains to be seen whether or not they can stay united once they are banded together in the parliament and we also didn't know how many seats or how many parties will actually join after next week's elections there's no doubt that they are bigger and stronger and that they will gain more seats in the parliament so there's a chance that they will be able to effect some change but just how effective they can be really remains to be saying decorators on for us thank you so much. let's turn now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world.

thousands are marching in warsaw to celebrate poland's membership of the european union and head of key european parliament elections next week european council president donald tusk is among those taking part opposition leaders hope to get out the e.u. vote poland's conservative government is highly critical of the e.u. and its institutions. iran's foreign minister has called for china and russia to take concrete actions to save his country's nuclear agreement visiting beijing mohammad. called on friendly countries to step up their trade with iran in the face of renewed u.s. sanctions on the country. officials in afghanistan say several children were killed when an explosive device attached to a motorbike went off in a market in western herat province another 20 people were wounded including the district chief no one has claimed responsibility for the bombing

there's been a shock result in australia's national elections prime ministers scott morrison is conservative coalition has retained office despite having trailed in the polls beforehand the country's general election now pretty clear in a victory speech to supporters morrison described his election win as a miracle cure regionally one power less than a year ago becoming the 3rd conservative prime minister since 2013 it's still unclear if morrison will win major government. authority or have to rely on support of conservative independents he ran a campaign sander don his personality and on the risks posed to the middle class by opposition leader bill shorten and the labor party. reporter juried has been following the australian election very closely and joins me now in the studio for more this is clearly a major upset that's right such

a long time now it had been predicted by opinion polls in fact the exit polls today after the election that bill shorten would be the new prime minister but it just wasn't to be this is such an upset queen for the incumbent scott morrison he's really pulled back from the brink this was just completely unexpected and we're seeing some interesting parallels people are comparing this to the opposite of donald trump in 2016 in calling bill shorten the. election hillary clinton so this is just it's hard to overstate how much of an upset this is so what exactly went wrong for the labor party they put forward a very ambitious policy agenda on climate action and increased taxes on the wealthy and comparatively the government's policy agenda was was not as

extensive as labor's and perhaps. overwhelming verges read what it was trying to achieve voters consistently put climate change as the number one issue affecting them and when you put the tea party side by side in fact had more to offer in that respect they were much more ambitious they wanted to get trend towards renewables and things like electric cars for example where is the government was quite happy to just on its commitments to the paris accord but not go further than that because of it was worried about the economic impacts so yeah it clearly agenda didn't connect to viruses also to i think personality played. to bill shorten as someone. i don't necessarily like he is he was involved in the downfall of 2 prime ministers and i think people with suspicious of him and perhaps

scott morrison a bit more in 10 seconds can you tell us what this means for voters it depends on how the qods full in the shape of the government. can form a majority or minority government will determine how far he can push is a new agenda thanks so much for joining us. the began a very ron was already one of the world's most expensive cars now there's a version built of lego bricks and it's priceless after 8 months of development and more than 10000 hours of construction time the late go to god is ready composed of more than $1000000.00 lego bricks it seats 2 passengers and boasted top speed just over 20 kilometers per hour so far he's not for sale. and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. austria's far right vance chick vice-chancellor has resigned from the country's coalition government and is stepping down as the leader of the freedom party that's after german media

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