president has called for fresh elections in early september amid a corruption scandal president alexander vander belen made the declaration alongside chancellor sebastian kurtz after the scandal that brought down the coalition government of conservatives in the far right freedom party the announcement follows the release of video footage showing vice chancellor heinz christian straka apparently offering lucrative government contracts to a woman posing as a russian oligarchs needs to exchange for her backing his party's 27000 election campaign. vessel is following the story for us from vienna barbara how are people reacting there to essentially the collapse of the government in snap elections. people think a many people think that is worse high time because this government has been plagued by scandal after scandal even before even so i gate as they call it here said of course published and sort of really led to this government crisis now that will then in the end they get new elections in september but people really have seen that suppressing kurds the chancellor who has a high popularity persona

president has called for fresh elections in early september amid a corruption scandal president alexander vander belen made the declaration alongside chancellor sebastian kurtz after the scandal brought down the coalition government of conservatives and the far right freedom party the announcement follows the release a video footage showing vice chancellor heinz christians apparently offering lucrative government contracts to a woman posing as a russian oligarchs nice in exchange for her backing his party's 27000 election campaign. austrians will be voting for a new parliament but voters will have to wait until at least september chancellor sébastien courts and president alexander funded been agreed to the general election roadmap during talks on sunday funday berlin said austria's reputation has been damaged by the actions of the country's now resigned vice chancellor heinz because . the president said the government needs to regain the public's trust. it's more. we need to take all necessary steps to repair the reputation of our public officials and government representatives in. this this is

and a reminder of the top story we're following for you austrian president alexander vander bell and as said elections for early september the announced the snap vote alongside chancellor sebastian curse it comes after a corruption scandal brought down curses far right coalition partner. you're watching the news on my globe who will be back at the top of the hour with more news as over and stay tuned for the bundesliga show coming up after the break. my 1st vice i was just sewing machine. where i come home women are bound by this ocean for. something as simple as any home to write about is that it isn't. since i was a middle god i want to have a bicycle off my home and it took me to and. finally thinking about invention buying but 3 times because sewing machine sewing i suppose was more apt procreate for girls than rising up.

nicky your fighting spirit was right there with me every step of the way austrian president alexander vander been is also in attendance bernie ecclestone of course a giant from the formula one mode as well has stayed away he said they didn't want to see nicky allowed a date that nicky lives on for him so after this public masters the lights are going to be a private funeral just for family members close friends of niki lauda and he's going to be buried actually wearing his ferrari racing over what was his legacy well his legacy is his legacy and of course his you know just in sporting terms he goes out as one of the most successful drivers in the history of formula one but it was far more than just his race wins which you know captured people's hearts you mentioned the horrific crash that niki lauda was involved in in 1976. and it really was a miraculous recovery after that crash when he was in hospital recovering being treated for his injuries that he sustained he was actually read his last rights he came back close to losing his life in that incident but missed only 2 races following that

the country's president alexander vander bell and announce the vice chancellor. will take over the top office. but of them going to turn those ladies and gentlemen this is a provisional solution for the next few days until we have a solution that can carry us to the new elections in september to see how this break. in the streets protesters celebrated his downfall he will not only be remembered as austria's youngest chancellor but also its shorter serving head of government. staying in austria the capital vienna is playing host today to the on 20 world summit that's an annual conference on climate change set up by the austrian born actor. mega he'll be joined by. a swedish student who's been leading the school strike movement known as friday as the future is travelling to vienna by train up to speaking in copenhagen at the weekend she called on politicians to enforce the paris climate agreement to reduce carbon emissions and to tackle the climate crisis. now one way of reducing carbon emissions is possibly by promoting public transport in the small european state

stream 2 pipeline project that would run directly from russia to germany earlier today president alexander vander bell and of germany's neighbor austria rebuffed u.s. efforts to scuttle the project vendor balun who was attending the sochi dialogue forum in the russian resort town said austria is not going to leave the north stream to project an austrian oil and gas corporation o m b especially. in energy giants in austria is one of 5 energy firms partnering with russian state energy company on plans to build nord stream to the others are n.d. of france rolled out shell and winter's haul and yoona part of germany the austrian leader also notably listed current developments surrounding iran alongside russia e.u. relations on the agenda for his talks with russian president vladimir putin. time now for a quick break but just on the other side markets continue to be on shaky ground but transpacific trade relations may be getting even worse going forward especially in the tech sector professor richard wolfe lens is a hand to take a look over of the chinese economy and their relation and their economic