correspondent barbara faisal is outside the swedish parliament in stockholm and she joins us now for more hello to you barbara so polling stations have now been closed for a couple of hours and we're hearing the first exit polls have been coming in what are they telling us. now we've seen now the first results trickling in about a third of the voting stations and the regions have been counted and we see so little movement that means in the latest according to the latest results the democrats have been sliding down to third place with a round eighteen percent and the conservatives have. a very slight. gain over them but all this is not yet certain so we see that the results are still in flux and nothing is decided yet in the two big blocks the center left bloc in the center right bloc are still sort of neck and neck and indeed it will be very difficult for them to form a government even if they have the system of minority governments they could easily have a majority against them so they have to reconfigure and that would mean a major shake up of politics as they have functioned for de

barbara faisal reporting for us from stockholm many thanks indeed. well here in germany some two and a half thousand protesters followed the call of far right groups and marched through a town in the east of the country that was following the death of a twenty two year old german man marchers walked silently through the town of could ten which is about one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of berlin police say the german national died after an altercation with two afghan migrants an autopsy showed the cause of death was acute heart failure that was not directly linked to his injuries the afghan men have been taken into police custody. reports from syria say russian and syrian aircraft have resumed intensive air strikes in the province of its live eyewitnesses and a monitoring group told news agencies there were several fatalities the area is the last larger region in the country that's held by rebel forces observers say the army of president bashar assad is preparing a large scale assault to retake it live backed by russia and iran. there's hardly e

data because bond and barbara faisal is in the swedish capital still welcome so a dead heat between the two major blocs who gets to try to form a government of one of their options. maybe because they have at the moment are still one seat ahead the social democrats get the first chance to form a government also they are the incumbent government and they might really try from their position to talk to the other parties but it is going to be difficult because on the other side you will have you have an alliance of four parties maybe two of which will have to switch allegiance and go over to the democrats and social democrats and say ok it is more important that sweden gets a democratic and stable government and we stick to ideological differences and this is the point that parties need to do need to make now that this is the point where they need to cross and say we have to lose what we did always in the past we have to overcome that and just try something new so the far right sweden democrats their side of racing but they didn't do as well as many as were predicting i think phil what hap