collapse of the right wing coalition government all eyes are on the front runner former chancellor sebastian kirks and his conservative austrian people's party church is expected to win handily but will probably need a coalition partner to secure a stable majority and who will pick is currently anybody's guess. for more let's bring in our correspondent max hoffman who's outside a polling station in vienna so sebastian kurtz as you know max has long been leading in the polls is his win a foregone conclusion. let's put it this way there really is no way around cool it's also because most of the other parties have ruled out a coalition with the far right freedom party. has not he's expected to poll with more than 10 percent of the vote ahead of all the others so that is very very comfortable margin and so the answer is quite simple yes it's likely that the next will be courts so as you mentioned he is not ruling out forming a government with the freedom party and yet that is the party that led to the scandal that brought down his previous government why has he not ruled it out. of the 1st thing is th

sebastian kirk is on track to return as chancellor. his partya projecting one over percent of the vote. the party tripling its share. negotiating a deal might be a tough task. neither seem willing to compromise. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. francine: think you so much. let's kick it off with trade. plans -- it current is in response to bloomberg reports that the administration is looking at ways to probe into china. it is coming to a time where china is going to continue opening up its market. joining us now, jean-luc. what have the chinese said? >> it has been pretty restrained so far, about 30 or 40 minutes ago, we had a spokesman from the chinese foreign ministry give the most direct comment about the news. -- thathasize they financial cooperation has been good for both current -- both countries. said that sort of thing would cause a lot of instability and goal markets. francine: what impact might this have on trade talks that a schedule for next week in washington