oh mm mm ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, italians go to the polls where they're expected to take a har right term. we'll go live to rome and take a look at the leader who's tipped to become the countries next prime minister and with lead to the most right when government since world war 2. also coming up lot

of mirrors, the landscape urges russians to refuse to fight and ukraine. ukraine's president promises safety to russian soldiers who laid down their arms instantly comes as security forces arrest hundreds more protesters opposed to russia, military mobilization. and germany's chancellor on the hunt for new energy partners in the middle east of shoals, visits, saudi arabia, in search of alternatives. to russian oil and gas and is now heading to the united arab emirates and katara. ah, i'm marian evans, dean. it's good to have you with us. italians have begun casting their balance in a vote that it's expected to bring seismic change the far right canada, ga maloney, is forecast to top the pole and become italy's most right wing leader. world war 2

polling stations opened about an hour ago and voting will continue until about 11 p . m local time. whatever the outcome italy's fractured political spectrum means that no party will be able to govern alone. and it could take weeks before a coalition is in place of victory for maloney would represent a remarkable rise for her party, which only got 4 percent of the vote in the last national election in 2018. our correspondent that julia sal deli is covering this election for us then she joins us now from inside appalling station and central rome. good morning to you, julia. so can you explain to our viewers the appeal of georgia maloney's party and also the other right wing parties in italy? yeah. what has a drawn voters to georgia maloney right now? is that actually the fact that she wasn't opposition? she wasn't part of the recent governments of italy and that has been an important

factor in making voters want to go for her and see some change. clearly, there is a lot of dissatisfaction with, with what the other parties have done in the last few years. and that has been drawn out. certainly italy is traditionally a conservative country and the fact that georgia maloney, even though there are still some radical elements within her party. and she has also said some radical things in the past has tried to make herself into a more, a traditional, liberal conservative has also drawn people who would not have normally voted for someone so far on the rights. and these are all elements that play into why we are expecting to see her succeeded in these elections. julia just stay with us for a moment because now we want to take a closer look at georgia maloney and then we'll continue our conversation after the report. she describes herself as a mother, italian, christian, ga, milani's, reaching for power in italy,

promising to revive the country and put the interests of italians 1st on the campaign to wield their charismatic leader of the brothers of italy. a party with neo fascist roots took great pains to appear and moderate by the parties logo contains a tri color flame, a symbol of the extreme riot in italy, and their hard line views on abortion. same sex marriage and immigration from africa and the middle east are clear indications of the parties true platform. i mean, there is still imagining they profit you could i, any, have you seen the pictures of ukraine and for a producer like women and children who are fleeing to war? but i don't, those images seem strange compared to the images of bodes full of grown man. tell us that we have seen arriving here in recent years, because when people run away from a war, you see women and children coming because the men are fighting. but if just men are

arriving, then they can only be running away from war after leaving the women and children to fight only by minnock on barbarians. ah, maloney's supporters can't seem to get enough of such talk, but her popularity is also the result of a credibility crisis facing the parties in the previous government. i feel the passion that she has, the clarity, that simplicity, even when she tackles important issues, is on any guy in italy. we should welcome foreigners in need, but we need to think of ourselves 1st developing center. melanie has vowed to support ukraine and nato, and she says that she's pro european, but she often views you rules as an infringement of it all is sovereignty. her critics fear the right wing populace will change the country and it's values for she's never, ah, gone away. celia are with us. it's just changing a little bit in the fraser to new makeup. but you feel with ours,

our fear here is that we would go back in time. and instead of going forward in terms of friday in terms of other type of progressive kind of mindset. so we would go back to on era that way we fear we in for the most no legal to the young despite such concerns, georgia maloney has a good shot at becoming the countries next. prime minister envoy that i think will jalissa delhi is still with us. so julia, if melanie does top the poll as is predicted, just how difficult will it be to form a coalition? well for once it looks like it's actually going to be quite easy because her coalition is the only coalition that is actually running together in these elections. and it seems like all of the leaders of, of the parties in the coalition looking at your bill to school, when you are mottos, and vini, they're all going to be willing to go into

a government with georgia maloney. so we're likely going to see a government forming a quickly if they do when the election. now there are 2 issues that could come into play. number one who is going to lead this government. obviously georgia maloney would like to become prime minister, but we will still have to see whether she manages to convince her coalition partners to support her in that. and secondly, we'll have to see whether squabbles or ambitions within the coalition in the coming months, once the government is formed, may risk actually maybe bringing it down quite quickly. i wouldn't be surprised if 1st squabbles within the coalition in the coming months or what caused problems. d w is julius how daily reporting for us from rome, julia, thank you so much. let's get a check now. some of the other stories making news around the world images have emerge of protesters and the iranian city of mashhad, burning a statue of

a cleric whose $979.00 assassination was one of the triggers of the islamic revolution. some 40 people have died, an anti government protest triggered by the death of a woman arrested by a ron's religious police for not wearing her head start properly. a commission set up to investigate decades old human rights abuses in mexico has gathered evidence of torture and murder. investigators have connected the crimes to an army base near the capital. one. hundreds of people disappeared from the 1960. so the 1980s as the ruling party, brutally crack down undecided to visit. as of today, nasa officials have cancelled tuesdays planned launch of the artemus moon rocket. the space agencies as a tropical storm headed for the us state of florida is creating unfavorable conditions. officials also say the rocket may need to be hauled away for a safe storage until the storm has completely passed. russia says, thousands of reservists have answered the call to fight in ukraine,

while others have been fleeing the country or staying and protesting against vladimir putin mobilization order as moscow bolsters it's war effort. russian installed officials are holding a so called referendums that would lay the groundwork for russia to annex for occupied regions of ukraine. ukrainian officials and witnesses say that a residents are being coerced into taking part, often at gunpoint at the you, in general, assembly russian foreign minister is that a gale of ralph said the 4 regions will be under russia's full protection if they are annexed by moscow. for more we can stick to our correspondent in manuel shares, who's standing by for us and key of hello to you, emma. so how did love rob's latest statement go down and ukraine? well, i care any or any other of his statements or go down ukraine. i will not change, it stands, it will not be impressed also by statements coming from the russian side. last

night, ukrainian president vladimir zaleski, addressed a russians directly in russia. and he does that afternoon. he wants to pass a clear message directly to the russian population. he called her for sold is a conscript, are joining the russian army now to not fight against ukraine to surrender at the 1st opportunity. and he says that no matter what happens with that mobility mobilization ukraine, a will prevail that so. so the feeling that we get are when talking to the population for them, it doesn't change much or you know, here on the ground in back, in february, experts were not very optimistic as to how long the ukraine an army could hold on against a russian one. yet we're over 7 months into that war and they managed to resist quite well so far. and am i weren't even hearing about these so called referendums that are underway in the occupied territories and eastern ukraine. it,

sir, is the same as the spirit of resistance here. in ukraine, from the ukrainian side, people leading in those occupy territory report that those are sham referendums are being held and sometimes outgoing point. so you have armed russia officers or proxies coming to houses, trying to force people to vote. so these will not be recognized by the international community, nor would it be recognized by ukraine. and we have to keep in mind that, you know, there's a vast amount of population in those regions who fled eh, did to so as not to leave under rush on occupation. that was dw corresponded and manuel shes in k f m i l. thank you. so much one of the strongest storms on record in canada has left hundreds of thousands of people without power storm. fiona slammed into the south eastern provinces of nova scotia and

newfoundland prime minister justin trudeau has cancel a trip to japan to visit the affected regions. he says he's deploying the military to assist with cleanup efforts. fact warped us in gulf homes in the province of newfoundland. some were swept away completely as storm fiona reached. hurricane force winds brought down trees and far without knocking out electricity to hundreds of thousands. the prime minister, fed canadians would come to get there to deal with the disaster. canada. people have seen their homes washed away in the winds. rip schools, roofs off this canadian, as we always do in times of difficulty, we will be there for each other. for we are by the one who have conditions in many areas and people have been asked to move to higher ground. the tone is, at all turns purposes we are already in a state of emergency, here, has just gone to the formalities mill. so anybody that's being told to leave their

homes, you need to leave. it is not the 1st time that each have been hit with storms. but fiona is being caught. one of canada's most severe on record. the prime minister thief canada has to adapt resilient infrastructure as climate change fuels ever more. bob foot storms, german chancellor ala shoulds, has visited saudi arabia and is now headed for the united arab emirates and katara . during the 2 day tour of the gulf, germany is seeking new energy partnerships to make up for the loss of russian oil and gas supplies. a whistle stop tour of 3 gulf states in 48 hours. that doesn't give german chancellor shawls much time for lengthy talks. he met saudi arabia's crown prince. mom had been sal man for the 1st time. they focused on energy security. as get out on this is also about the fact that german companies can play a major role in further developing the economy here,

as well as the use of oil and gas and other resources. and in developing hydrogen technology. the fact that this is possible was something we discussed here give is, investment is a key topic, because saudi arabia is a major exporter of oil, as well as natural gas in the future. the country also wants to become a world leader for hydrogen projects. germany is eager to profit from this. financial goal for this of in the future is all going to be about creating opportunities on a large scale of use of hydrogen in germany, which is produced here. and in other places interested. casting a shadow over the visit is the issue of human rights and the murder of saudi journalist jamal cassandra, 4 years ago for which u. s. intelligence says the saudi crown prince is responsible over. we also discussed political questions. him questions about human rights or questions about civil rights in and for freedom to express different opinions or from group discussion? well, to course, these are important issues and part of the conversation here's react poor women's

rights record is another highly sensitive topic. saudi arabia's trying to appear more modern and organized a meeting with a group of young women for shoals, your watching d. w. news. or reminder of our top story. italians have begun casting their balance and a vote that's expected to bring seismic change the far right candidate ga maloney's forecast, the top, the pole, and become italy's most right. when leaders since world war 2 i'm married and seen from me and the entire team in berlin. thanks for watching. mm hm. mm hm. how did she become at all hitler's favorite director.