you should go 1st does it change the course of history. raising the arm curtain starts september 30th on g.w. . this is d.w. news live from berlin austrians cast ballots in the snap general election the former chances of ostend courts in the entente favorite to lead a new government could he choose once more to form a ruling coalition with the far right will go live to b.n. also coming up clashes erupted pro-democracy protests and hong kong police fired

tear gas at demonstrators at a global anti totalitarianism rally it comes as mainland china prepares to celebrate 70 years of communist rule our correspondent is in the middle of those protests. i'm married to evanston it's good to have you with us we began in austria where voters are going to the polls to elect a new government sunday's snap election comes after a corruption scandal in may prompt of the collapse of the right wing coalition government all eyes are on the frontrunner former chancers abbas and courts and his conservative austrian people's party chords his party is expected to win but will probably need a coalition partner to secure a stable majority and who he'll pick is currently. anybody's guess.

all right for more let's bring in our correspondent max hoffman who's standing by at the headquarters of some boston courts as peoples party in vienna hello to you max so how are party members expecting the vote to turn out for them. according to procedure the election headquarters or just warming up as you can see in the back can't wait to get those 1st projections out of the 5 o'clock local time here or talk to some of them as you know surprisingly low to the sea yet again on the ballots would be already a success of course the polls puts about their coats and his politics about what these she lists are but i guess what we're seeing here is that nobody will see her if you buy her expectations or to try to build up the focus turns out the was. which. will max as we know course is previous government collapsed because of the scandal involving the far right freedom party and yet he said he's still

open to forming a new coalition with them why is that i. was 2 reasons for that one official one is of course it's a process it's trying to put all his options open but the truth is of course that it's very close to the freedom party to get on certain topics for example on the migration some people say that is his preferred coalition but the trouble with that of course is that the freedom party at the moment is scandal ridden and what it's about their courts needs is a stable coalition the freedom party might not be able to provide them. and yet we do see that course himself appears to have escaped largely unscathed by this scandal does this tell us that austrian voters just didn't really care about the corruption scandal that took place before the summer. if you look at the numbers that's largely true the freedom party will use compared to 2000. the team got

a whole lot simpler 5 percent which is not a lot if you look at the scope of the scandal swirling really does seeds i go a lot of people don't believe the saddles although i care about the scandals but of course here in indiana big cities there are those who were quite a different opinion and i met some of those on their way to the polling stations. there were kind of shots rock or its own definitely not a people's party freedom party coalition we've seen that wasn't such a good idea i'd say about it for ages of us if we seek this if it if i hope it would be a setback for the freedom party and they want to get into government why they say they're just too far right they're almost like nazis and i can't stand that it's kind of like. the thing with missile field i want to see less cheating less going behind people's backs so we got so much brutality. i just wanted to get better. and. so you can see those of the people in the big cities the

situation is large this is different when we go to the countryside where a lot of people still sticks to freedom party that's where they get all their votes so do you expect them to get 20 percent of the votes or even the ones it's. tough on reporting for us from vienna thank you very much. to afghanistan now where a low turnout in saturday's presidential election is threatening to undermine confidence in the vote just 2000000 people or 20 percent of registered voters showed up election day was marred by taliban violence after the islamist group had warned voters to stay home but some voters refused to be deterred. by do the not voting was no option he waited patiently to cast his ballot in kabul he's part of afghanistan's urban middle class and he can't believe so many people in his country are turning their backs on democracy. so i think afghanistan

should take a lesson from other democracies as many people should vote as possible it's a good thing to be able to choose who's president that's the only way things can improve. but incumbent president ashraf ghani is not getting sued by the last vote he's governed for 5 years but critics say he's failed to bring peace taliban extremists are stronger than ever they view ghani as washington's puppet and refused to negotiate with him but he's still the favorite in this race vowing another try at peace talks dualists. you read a piece is the most important thing our country needs that this election will make it possible yes it will give us the mandate we need to create peace. but the

taliban disrupted saturday's ballot with numerous attacks despite heavy security fear kept many voters at home but frustration with the economy and corruption also played a role critics give afghanistan's chief executive part of the plane he's got the strongest challenger despite having govern together with him in the current coalition raising doubts that he's a true alternative and i'm on condition would you invite you cannot see saturday's elections as a victory for democracy because turnout was way too low so far we just have unofficial numbers but everything points in that direction is unusual so by dula didn't stay home though even amid rumors about election manipulation he thinks afghanistan needs democracy and he plans to head back to the polls if the presidential contest goes to a 2nd round in november. let's get a check now of some of the other stories making news around the world. in moscow

tens of thousands of people have rallied to demand the release of jailed opposition protesters they were arrested during demonstrations against the barring of opposition candidates from a local election the wave of protests erupted in july and has also been fueled by allegations of police violence. 2 people have died and 5 more were injured in a roller coaster accident in mexico city one of the attractions of rail cars left the tracks during the ride and fell 10 meters to the ground investigators are treating the incident as a negligent homicide. millionaire you're on must has unveiled a spacecraft designed to carry people and cargo anywhere in the solar system and return to earth must display the rocket at the space x. launch facility in texas he said the starship as it's called will blast off in one or 2 months for a test flight. which. now pro-democracy demonstrations in hong kong have

intensified on what is now the 17th weekend of protests sunday's demonstrations were part of global anti totalitarianism rallies planned in 60 cities worldwide protest in hong kong quickly turned violent as protesters threw firebombs and bricks of government buildings police responded with tear gas and water cannon the fired blue dye used to identify offenders more easily despite a police ban a major march is also planned for tuesday when china celebrates the 70th anniversary of the communist party taking power. all right let's go live now to hong kong where our correspondent sharlet charles a pill is standing by so charlotte we saw more intense clashes today we mentioned this comes on what's being called anti totalitarianism day do you feel this contributed to the level of violence in hong kong what have you been seeing.

very violent scenes on the streets of hong kong once again today mariano we've seen multiple rounds of tear gas fired in several different locations around hong kong including outside government buildings and here in what is usually a very busy shopping district we've seen water cannon back on the streets as well they've been firing their blue dye at protesters that's something we've seen multiple times now police using up blue dye to try and identify people who are taking part in the protests on the front lines not because of what has been quite a fierce quite a strong crackdown from police right from the moment that this protest began earlier on this often a protest is on now starting to clear the area but most classes have been left behind that will always have been the case so many weekends previously that will always be those small groups of people who want to stay here to the end to engage in those face clashes that we've seen so many times with the police. all right well

there is additional significance today comes just a couple of days before the celebration of china's national day we also mentioned this anti totalitarianism day how has that affected the mood. they've been a huge number of events planned in the build up to choose day the 70th anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china that's been protests planned the leader but yesterday that was also the 5th anniversary of the umbrella movement that pro-democracy movement in 20 putting the grip hong kong this really is a few days that people here observers have been looking out very closely predicting that there would be a significant amount of unrest on the streets not is exactly what we have seen now the protests that took place today this anti totalitarianism protest it did not receive the approval from police making it on goal food but as you can see that

hasn't stopped people coming to the streets anyway for another very violent day in the build up to choose day and that big anniversary and charlotte briefly if you can is the is the violence going to continue or are there efforts to deescalate. but some people that we've spoken to think that quick a media crackdown by police as soon as the protests started was to send a message send a signal that they will not tolerate on the rise protests over the coming days that they are really trying to crack down on violence people that we've spoken see protesters they say they're not going to be deterred they still plan to come out particularly on tuesday in fact some of them say they may even go home early tonight and get ready for those big what expected to be big protests on tuesday. correspondent charlotte charleston pill in hong kong for us thank you so very much . to sports now in german soccer where are the live sick had their best ever start

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money off the interest after the break there was more i could be for like 6 how rich threading a pastor up i'm a tondo who finished good to make it 3 nothing the impressive 19 year old in his 1st bonus league appearance the season repaid his confidence in spades. emile forsberg put light sick on the board with this fluke of a goal shot his new bill will be furious with this how looked after putting in such a strong performance between the posts she won is how it stayed like 6 suffered their 1st going to sleep to defeat the season coach not this month giving this sober assessment period it felt like shelters were a bit more switched on and we simply need to do better if you want to become a top table and to do we really played well we were always dangerous in the cold to take even if they are a threat anyway this is a top top team and today it was a game on a very highly. before me and yeah we had our lucky moments and we had to suffer but

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