aspiring story about survival hormones to get the cellist. i was the only one. what long music german watch now on youtube b w darker ah ah, there wasn't a w news alive or from berlin holes have just closed infant lens parliamentary elections be very popular. prime minister santa marine seeking a 2nd term in office, but she is facing a strong challenge from the far right. bringing the latest as results. come. also coming up the show. emotional goodbyes and you,

great. as more civilians are evacuated from eastern front line cities, some people have spent months sheltering investments. plus cleanup operations underway after storms batter, several us states leaving at least $26.00 people debt, arkansas declares an emergency and calls in the national guard after multiple tornadoes leave a trail of devastation. ah hello, i'm clare. richard, and thank you so much for joining us. we'll turn to our top stories in just a moment, but 1st we have some breaking news coming, and russian media are reporting an explosion in a cafe in st. petersburg has killed a well known russian military blogger that then it to tar ski. let's get straight across it to our correspondent jennifer paul. gosh, she joins me from riga, where dw has been operating since t w was banned from russia. jennifer,

what more can you tell us on this developing story? yes. clear. there was an explosion in a st. petersburg, cafe, called street bar. as a result, one person was killed and 15, others were wounded. this city's emergency services said that there was a loud popping noise, but no subsequent fire in the cafe itself. they think that a gas cylinder might have exploded indoors and according to russian media out that front bank at this cafe belongs to organ or group founder, you pretty portion. and today that was a creative evening for the famous military war correspondent and military blog of levy and thought that a scheme which real name his real name is maxime find you. and he has more than half a 1000000 foul words on telegram and subscribers until a grant telegram, and provides often commentary on wash as warrant ukraine. and according to russian use media, they are reporting that the person killed when that they're reporting that the interior ministry confirmed that the person kill was actually bloody. and that ask

you also on bank of the media that front banker reports that a statue at rod as a give to flood, leant that, that he exploded in the cafe and he was gifted this dead to add by woman that is now wanted. but we have to wait for more information to surface surface or jennifer . thank you so much for that update will of course be bringing you more on this breaking story as it comes in now, fighting does remain intense in eastern ukraine. the military managing to hold off russian troops on the front line, but civilians are being urged to evacuate. let's take a look now at what people are going through in the city of a d. v. aka, which has been left in ruins, driving through the budget streets in the eastern city of div curve who is the police are looking for those who want to leave. you put it behind several mahogany number for the last 4 months. this basement has been home to 73 year old. helena.

but she's decided that's what it's time to go from thornton washing is lot of wish i couldn't take it any more. our house is destroyed and i spent most of the time in the basement of really a few by yet every one is afraid. everyone, when local officials say the town has been almost completely destroyed in recent weeks. this is melissa stoney, me situation has changed in the past month for since the beginning of march of disco has been under aircraft bombing and artillery file bavaria no. since then, almost all buildings have been destroyed through no one if submitted his iep would think it in nearby shes if you are the people working for the charity international

lions clubs of a lovely a trying to convince residents to move to safety adult level will the of, of volunteers say many are reluctant to go, but not the biggest part of the job is convincing them. the evacuation is the easy part backing of div her. it's an emotional departure for helena. a trained to safety but far away from the place she calls home all polling stations have just closed in finland, parliamentary elections, and it is shaping up to be a close race between the 3 main parties. ballots from early voters have already been counted with a record 40 percent of voters at choosing to cast their votes in advance. social democrat, prime minister, a santa marina, hoping to secure a 2nd term in office. but she's facing a strong challenge from the far right leader rica pura so let's get

more on this story. and now for my finished colleague and freelance correspondence, and as far as de anna, welcome. this is a knife edge election. we know results of the pre vote. just coming in, can you tell us what they're telling us about how this is shaping on? yeah, the pre vote indeed represents around half of to vote. that will be cast in these elections when we're looking at quite high turn out around 80 percent and total. so you know, 40 percent record number of people voting ahead of election day. and those results are just fresh and the conservative. so the national coalition party has 20.8 percent of the vote, followed very tightly by the social democrats 20.7 percent of the vote. and then the fins party coming in the 3rd at 18.6 percent. but this knife, it's feeling off of the election hasn't subsided yet, so especially supporters of the nationalist party as well as smaller parties such

as the greens, the left will have come out only today. so we will have to wait till some time to see how those 3 main parties are shaping up to be ok. we'll be keeping an eye on it throughout the evening. can you put this into perspective though, for an international audience who is watching? we know that finland has a 1300 kilometer long border with russia. it's set to formally join nato as early as next week. what might election results mean for security policy in finland? while in the next 2 economy, economy and economic issues, a security has played a large role in these elections because of the war in ukraine because of finish support for ukraine. and then, well, as you said at the fresh natal membership and especially in regards to nato, we might see some kind of a smaller or larger than you know, involvement of finland in the alliance. especially the conservatives have all ready

for a long time advocating for finland to join nato. and so we might see that heavier presence of finland in nato, but also maybe a heavier presence of nato in finland, which is, as you said, bordering russia is a lot of open questions that will hopefully be answered a bit as we go throughout the night. one thing that does seem pretty certain is that we're likely to have a coalition government. what do you think of the likely lineup might look like? well, we're quite used to in the nordics and then philip to these larger coalition governments, right? so it will be for, it will be 5 different parties forming the government. it will take some time. and we will see either, you know, a conservative lead government maybe with the involvement of the social democrats. but what will be very interesting is if the nationalist, the fins party come out 1st and they start negotiations. there are already quite some parties who have said they wouldn't cooperate with them as the social

democrats on the marines party or, or also the greens, the left. so if they will have to retract on those promises that were made in the selections for the 1st time and finish history as well, we'll have to see if that happens. okay, well, thank you so much for that update. that's my colleague and service date. we're going to bring you back in the studio of course, later in the evening at to get more as the results come in. appreciate your time. thank you. so we can turn out to some other stories that are making news around the world. the humanitarian group. esa, wes, meditate. i. ne, says it has rescued. 92 migrants from an overcrowded dingey off the libyan coast. the charities, as the group included over 40 unaccompanied miners, the rescued migrants have been transferred to the ocean viking rescue ship on route to the italian port of salerno. hundreds of firefighters of immobilized to tackle a massive forest fire in the center of the south korean capital sol. hundreds of

residents were evacuated from the affected area as helicopters battled to prevent the fire from spreading. oscar winning and japanese composer, real itchy, psycho moto, has died at the age of 71 from cancer. he was an electronic music pioneer and 1st made waves as one of the co founders of b, groundbreaking, yellow magic orchestra. in his native japan. later he became renowned for his film work winning an oscar, a bath to a grammy and 2 golden globes for his scores them more than any warmer arkansas governor aysa hutchinson says he is running against donald trump to be the republican party. his next presidential candidate trump became the 1st former u. s. president ever to face criminal charges earlier this week. but holes show he still by far the favorite among republican voters and stay in the region. arkansas has been one of the states hardest hit by the storms battering the

west, mid west, and south authorities. there have declared a state of emergency after the state was hit by multiple tornadoes. at least 26 people have been killed in the extreme weather. a shredded roof and battered cloth rooms. i all the remain of this arkansas high school students here just beginning to come to terms with the damage done by the tornado. i'm a sophomore. i've been here since 1st grade and at the school i just, i love it. we have very many traditions that i'm very proud of the school and i'm just really sad. oh, fact that it's gone, but i know we will come back stronger and we can build a better school in keep those traditions going. residence in areas of at least 8 western and southern states were affected by the heavy storms that brought dozens

of tornadoes. these devastated towns and cities often leaving bubble in their wake. this is the moment that the deadly storm approached the city of little rock in arkansas and this driver managed to capture the terrifying moment when the tornado hit ground. i think the government has promised assistance to the areas affected as rescue efforts continue measuring the full extent of the damage could take month to football now and the buddhist league, whereby munich coach or thomas taco saw his new site, a beat. his former club mauricio dormant for 2. it was one of the biggest matches

in germany, football for years with a dormant going into the game in 1st place. but an awful gold keeping mistake helps and a buyer back to the top. not since the champions league final of 2013 has a meeting between these 2 old rivals. been such a high stakes affair. torment were flying high before these fixture, but in 23 disastrous minutes were brought crashing down to earth. winds opener on 13 minutes was the result of a surreal gold keeping blunder from dormant stud, cagle, colbert, a long bow by dianne a corner from inside the bye, and hoff catastrophically misjudged by the keeper. it was a nightmare star for the swiss, and worse was on its way. a simple corner saw dorman suffer their next set back. when matthias denise had out was turned home by thomas miller and 5

minutes after that mula made it 3 when a luckless kobus buildable at his feet off the diving to stop lea voice janae's long range effort 23 minutes into his career as by a coach thomas tofal could hardly believe his luck, while dolan's dreadful, 1st half had put their seasons work in jeopardy. the 2nd 45 brought yet more goals, starting with the whole to the host, courtesy of kings. we c'mon. then following this foul on g. bellingham in the by and bolts and re chon fly at home, a spot take to make it one. but it was a goal, more of consternation than of consequence, much like dorman 2nd school by tanya marlyn in the 19th minute. the damage of course, had long since been done. disaster for dormant as by and retake top spot in the put his legal with 8 games left to play. just before we go are minder

of our top story, russian media reporting and explosion in a cafe in st. petersburg has killed a well known military blogger lathan at harkey. 16 people also rooted in the blast . we're bringing you more on this breaking news story as we have it. we back at the top of the hour in 45 minutes time with one. until then you can check out our website, d, w dot com or follow us on social media. i'm claire richardson, berlin from the whole team. thank you so much for joining us. ah, every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some tips one day and in the foot of the rig.