has been announced that snap elections will be held in early september president alexander venter beland made the declaration alongside chancellor sebastian clips after scandal brought down curtains far right coalition partner in a hidden camera video vice chancellor heinz christians appear to offer a new part of government contracts true woman posing as a russian oligarchs needs that's in exchange for her backing his party's election campaign. earlier we spoke to de w.'s barber of ezola and asked her whether voters are likely to punish chancellor kurtz's party at the ballot box for forming a coalition with the far right in the previous government so far the popularity of course has been splendid i mean he has done a very good job of selling himself as a reformer of austria off course the other parties here the opposition can stroll all those big promises back into his face now and say what have you achieved just a made just gamble and made to austria a laughing stock all over europe by by the publishing of these tapes the corruption and the typical austrian swamp that's been that has be

the chancellor asked president alex under-funded beland to cold snap elections the president who can just hold parliament's back the move and he had strong words for the alleged corrupt deputy. from 2 of the excluder better who the leaders of the republic have broken the trust placed in them this is outrageously disrespectful to the citizens and i cannot tolerate this lack of respect these are those because you could go to the. this is the video behind the scandal austria's vice chancellor. caught on tape apparently soliciting campaign funding in return for lucrative government contracts as a meeting in a villa on the spanish island of straw for thought he was talking to the niece of a russian oligarch in addition to illegal donations they discussed the possibility of her buying a stake in austria's biggest tabloid to generate favorable coverage ahead of the 2017 elections but it was a sting and the video was leaked to the media all right let's get some more on the story and for that we're joined by a correspondent bob these also standing by in vienna hello to you barbara so do we kn

pipeline project that would run directly from russia to germany earlier today president alexander vendor beland of germany's neighbor austria rebuffed u.s. efforts to scuttle the project vendor belen 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. be an energy giant in austria is one of 5 energy firms partnering with russian state energy company. plans to build nord stream to the others are n.d. of france dutch shell and winter's haul and unit per 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. take a look under the cover of the chinese economy and their relation and their economic relations with the u.s. in

let's turn back to meteorologis chuck beland see what's in store from the weather today.pic's worth 1,000 words. take a look. sunshe on a tuesday morning, a nice art to finishtoday. so far here in the month of may, almost a fullnweek in ow. it has been warm and wet. 6.5 degrees warmer than average, and about an inch rainfall i surplus washington. similar to lasthear w we had one of our tenme warst mays on record. in faad, we h four 90-degree days in h the firstlf of the month last year. and then the bottom fell out and it rained the last of theon m. let's hope we can avoid the ta rain. mostly mid 50s inhe suburbs now. 52 leesburg. 56 gaithersburg. up to 62 at marine base nt qo. headed for afternoon temperatures today in the low 80s. so nice and warm today. subpoena's -- ssun' not down until after 8:00. the high downtown, around 82 degrees. download the nsbc washington ap. rolot of changes. starting tomor a lot more clouds and way tyler tomorrow. most areas will barely -- way bettertomorrow. most areas will be barely in the 70s. ne 15 degrees lower. the front comes southwa