d.w. . this is t w news live from berlin and tens of thousands of people take to the streets across europe to protest against far right parties and show their support for the e.u. recent polls show nationalist and populist parties are likely to make major gains in the european parliament elections which begin this coming thursday also coming up in austria as president calls up elections after a corruption scandal forces the resignation of the country's far right place chancellor. and indian voters reach the finish line polls close on the final day of

the country's marathon a general election prime minister narendra modi is seeking a 2nd term. thanks for joining us tens of thousands of people have been rallying across europe ahead of the upcoming european parliament elections they're protesting against nationalist and far right parties and showing their support for a stronger and you recent polls show anti e.u. parties are likely to do well in the elections which kick off on thursday in britain. a show of love for the european union. but tough love. in cities across europe tens of thousands join pro even anti nationalist rallies like here in germany urging people to not vote for nationalists but also urging europe to do much better many protesters. worried that nationalist parties could

make substantial gains across the continent. which didn't come as i think you have to send a signal against nationalism you just have to make it public i don't know if there's anything to stop people from choosing an end to democratic party but we have to show that many are against it and. i think through the european parliament election a signal can already be sent about it and i think it would clearly be against rex's and yes i also hope that the election goes in the direction of centrist policies and to the left and that there isn't a populist advance hundreds of civil society organizations back the rallies calling for better climate change policy and a more humane stance towards migrants but as the 28 e.u. members prepare for next weekend's vote poll suggests their fears are justified centrists sit to lose while far right nationalists and n.t.e.u. parties are expected to gain. austria as president has called for new elections in early september president aleksander found

a bell and made the declaration after a corruption scandal brought down the coalition government of conservatives and the far right freedom party in elsewhen follow the release of video footage taken in 2017 showing the vice-chancellor heights questioned apparently offering lucrative government contracts to a woman posing as a russian oligarchs nice in exchange for her backing his party's election campaign that year. austrians will be voting for a new parliament but voters will have to wait until at least september transfer sébastien courts and president alexander fundable agreed to the general election roadmap during talks on sunday on the bill and said austria's reputation has been damaged by the actions of the country's now resigned vice chancellor. the president said the government needs to regain the public's trust. it's more i just get found we need to take all necessary steps to repair the reputation of our public officials and government representatives. this is an issue of national interest

as well as of austria standing in the european union and the rest of the world unseen. in the region when your own. chancellor chords also said the government was examining the video and considering taking legal action he said the videos content required careful attention from government investigators and i live for the moment that due to the issues raised by the video we need to answer all open questions really determine they range from abuse of power to possible legal consequences. to their lives that question is set to be answered in the coming days during talks between courts funded ellen and the freedom party's designated leader norbert hoffa. he. is following the story for us from vienna let's bring in right now about it good to see you sir snap elections coming up this september but the day to day running of the country still has to

happen until that how is austria's government going to continue to function. that is the one big question because the best of course doesn't seem to have 2 sided yet this is a young politician who has a lot of charismatic who is really high in popularity ratings here in austria and she usually wants to appear decisive and is quite quick out of the blocks but this time everybody has been waiting since saturday around noon he wants to make a declaration he came out hours later he didn't really say very much same same game on the sunday so we don't know yet he has 2 options basically he can be courageous and say i go with a minority government and i just carry the government till the elections and their freedom party from the coalition or the sort of. the less so way the sort of compromise solution here just reform kampenhout and have some new figures in it and

and then say ok we just carry on we once ability we would just carry on chill the elections in early september which is more than 3 months away which was something that would probably damage his reputation too so he doesn't yet know what to do and that seems something that also is true for the freedom party the discredited right wing populist party in austria 2 because then you leader. today showed that he does know yet which way to turn people on the ground as they're reacting to this seeming collapse of the government and this call for snap elections. i mean the when we heard the president earlier talk about. people losing trust austrians losing trust in politics in their politicians and in political institutions because this is just the end like with the bang office string of scandals that has been plaguing this government and all these scandals came of the source of all these scandals was the

right wing populist freedom party so i talked earlier during the day when there was a pro europe and a pro democracy demonstration also in vienna i asked some people what they thought about the situation some kind of resistance towards the current administration the government's pretty completely corrupt and happy trust it and we need a new face absolutely it's an absolute disaster the trenches so you know now we have the chance to change it all for the better the suspects of that's the only for visas there's so many of very happy about 2 terrible colliton stepping down. that isn't enough even if the freedom party is removed from the government they've had enough time to put their people into important positions. so this is a far from over the. course of this in the long the 3 i think we can see and we can hear obviously that people are quite concerned they do want change and some even

fear that the rocks in austria might be deeper than is even evident at the moment my and these people who we heard from they may be voting in the european elections coming up this week is this scandal going to affect the austrian vote in those elections. it will certainly affect the austrian vote because there's supposedly the freedom party will be reduced back to its core voters they will be there they will turn out because they believe in their party and they are dyed in the rule dyed in the wool populist really and. conspiracy theories about this. already strolling around however we don't know yet how it's about student cards the prime minister the chancellor here will be fairing and where the opposition party for instance the weekend social democrats or greens or the liberals can sort of gain from the scandal that is yet to be seen but something that is very likely the

outcome off the scandal in austria is that this is a warning to european conservatives against going into coalition getting even to close politically with right wing populist parties that had been one of the dreams of the italian league leader material salvini he wanted to sort of get together was conservatives and sort of make this big quasar equalisation in the european parliament and they have been warnings from several european countries from the netherlands from germany's from conservatives there who said don't do it see austria as a dire warning lot of fast moving developments thanks to bob levey still in vienna for following all of them for us. and that will take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world around 2 thirds of swiss voters have backed tighter gun control in a referendum the question was whether access to semiautomatic weapons should be

respected and more training required for owners to land has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world. republican lawmaker justin amash has broken ranks with his party to call for u.s. president donald trump's impeachment the michigan congressman accused of impeachable behavior stemming from special counsel robert miller's investigation on russian interference the report found no criminal conspiracy but left open the question of whether trump obstructed the investigation. after. a bomb blast has hit a tourist bus in egypt's famed giza pyramids at least 17 people were wounded but no deaths have been reported it's the latest blow to the country's tourism industry which had been showing signs of recovery after years of political turmoil and sporadic violence. polls have closed in the final day of voting in india's general election with 900000000 eligible voters it's the biggest democratic election in the

world voting took place in phases over 6 weeks one of the seats contested on the final day was in the city of daraa nasi the region prime minister narendra modi himself represents modi is expected to win his popularity with his constituency has been dented by a construction project. has this report. the holy city is a piece of bigotry much put about him and considered the spiritual capital of the country. but now and i connick bought of the temple city is in ruins. close to $300.00 houses some of which did back to the 17th century have been torn down around kashi which would not. devoted to the hindu.

temples are left standing. the demolitions ought to make way for the cost she called her daughter and ambitious infrastructure project of prime minister no dreams of more the. more he represents wanted to see in follow him and. when he was elected 5 years ago he promised to modernize be insensitive by preserving its rich culture and ahead it to. look goods not scoff at the scream when donkey scouting double possible the point of them saying look here comes more these development. model michelle grew up in the narrow lanes around. he down a shop here but when the parties came knocking to tell him to get out he put titian the high court. but after 15 months of fighting he gave up for what he claims is not enough money and the promise of a new shop in the quarter door. the area around the temple has traditionally been

a stronghold for more these b.g.p. but now bonnie says locals feel that the party is crushing the soul of caution. to remove what's my disabused shiva the city of mody whatever changes made you want to happening here. it was the city of temples now it's the city of ruins the current. prime minister wants to be directed from what i see. and the controversy seems to have little impact on his chances. despite anger among slope was barnett is nearing and more these 50 the prime minister has to be to be claimed that the whole unit will gang up called upon him to contest from local see that the question of not whether the prime minister will win but about just how large a margin he is going to win with. on the campaign trail he is treated like a celebrity. his stop has been the main draw for the b.g.p.

across the country. modi has said that the want for the b.g.p. is a vote for him. many who can see no alternative to walking for the prime minister. even the opposition has pretended to be candidates practically giving him a walkover. hindu nationalism has been a bold plank for the b j p and the prime minister is counting on this holy cities indorsement to once again be the country. this is your vision song contest winner has received a warm welcome back home in the netherlands duncan lawrence was greeted by huge crowds at amsterdam's schiphol airport a day after the event a 25 year old brought the netherlands its 1st victory in the contest since 1970 and his ballot arcade is sure to linger in our minds for a while. you're

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