anybody's guess it's for more let's bring in our correspondent max hoffman his standing by at the headquarters of sebastian courses people's party in vienna max hello to you so polls are now closed and the 1st projections of projections are emerging what are you hearing. well you're a little too early because we don't have those 1st projections yet but there are some numbers that we are getting and if they are true i'm not going to say specific numbers yet it looks like big gains for the austrian people's party where we are at the headquarters right now and everybody is waiting for those projections there's just like we are so we're seeing in the back here are members of the austrians people's party with a big screen in the back and those that's where we'll have those projections emerge very very soon are at max so even if courts is a party does end up being the frontrunner i he'll still need to form a coalition government talk us through what options he has. it really depends on the actual numbers you know he will have at least 2 options if you want to stick with the coalition of the only 2 p

our correspondent max hoffman is at the headquarters. the people's party in vienna max is about in quotes has done very well how much of a surprise is this. was ahead in the poll says not a surprise that one that was actually quite certain it wasn't that far ahead in the polls he certainly got samples from the far right freedom party from bill for this election but it also just paid all that his campaign was entirely focused on good news a lot of stories especially among young conservatives if you can see that here at the election headquarters of the aussie people's party earlier when he came to take his seat i. am the reason fits a huge amount of trust and a lot of responsibility to just put it on and we accept it with humility and full of respect and i promise that we will do our best to live up to the stressed and get to work for our beautiful austria. thank you very much for this beautiful moment i was. and he was a beautiful mum to continue vesting course is going to have to form a coalition government how are the other parties how d

ok max hoffman in. vienna for us thanks very much. pro-democracy demonstrations in hong kong have intensified on what is now the 17th weekend of protests sunday's demonstrations were part of an anteater tele tarion is a rally planned in 60 cities worldwide protests in hong kong quickly turned violent as protesters threw firebombs and bricks at government buildings police responded with tear gas rubber bullets and water cannon that fired blue dye used to identify offenders more easily despite a police been a major march is also planned for tuesday when china celebrates the 70th anniversary of the communist party taking power. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world in moscow tens of thousands of people have rallied to demand the release of jailed opposition protesters the prisoners were arrested during demonstrations against the barring of opposition candidates from local elections the wave of protests erupted in july and worsened with crackdowns by police. at least 5 people have been injured after a fire brok

well joining me to discuss this further is data recorder spondon max hoffman in vienna max thanks for joining me sebastian courts his government was brought down by that scandal i was just talking about has he managed to shake that off. well the people that were seen in the video you just mentioned rebecca were exclusively members of that far right freedom party so it was easy for sebastian cause to distance himself from the freedom party and he did that immediately sensing that his coalition really had absolutely no chance of continuing so he didn't try to hold on to the coalition he said this is it i cannot continue with that but that's not the only thing there's also the part that he has survived a number of minor scandals since it doesn't seem to stick people like him he's very successful so i went on the streets of vienna yesterday to try to find out what's behind this success of sébastien coats and what he's actually going to do with it after the election here's the report. in austria this is called. love us exley and i has good reason to give out lots of them on the campaign tr

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 that the freedom party is the party where on the issues that the very close to that is they already had a program they already had a coalition that coalition was supposed to hold until 2022 so they wouldn't have to do much work to get back into the game again so that's number one number 2 is maybe he wants t

for more let's bring in our correspondent max hoffman who's outside a polling station in vienna so sebastian curt's has long been leading in the polls max is this election a foregone conclusion. if you look at the numbers at the she has a huge huge advantage about 10 percentage points those are the polls around 34 percent in the next party will probably come in and around 2425 percent so the problem of course is that all the other parties basically all the other parties have excluded to form a coalition with the far right freedom party the only party that really has done that is the one. that gives him many more options and you know in short there really won't be any way around our courts to form a coalition. so it was a freedom party of course max that caused a scandal that brought down his last government why isn't he ruling out forming a partnership with them. first of all he's very close to the freedom party on many topics for example on migration 2nd of all they already had a program in place because that was the coalition that broke down before the summer but the plan was to stick toge

ok did abuse max hoffman in vienna thanks for that. pro-democracy demonstrations in hong kong have intensified on what is now the 17th weekend of protests sunday's demonstrations were part of rallies against beijing's rule planned in 60 cities worldwide protests in hong kong quickly turned violent as demonstrators through fire bombs and bricks at government buildings police responded with tear gas rubber bullets and water cannon that fired blue dye used to identify offenders more easily despite a police ban a major march is also planned for choose day when china celebrates the 70th anniversary of the communist party taking power. and return to nigeria now where some of the boys rescued from an islamic school in the country's north have been talking of the abuse they experienced there around $400.00 boys and men were freed from the institution and could do not when police raided it last week 7 people have been arrested. this gun saleman spac tell a story of horrific abuse. the 15 year old was one of hundreds rescued from an islamic scho

and our correspondent max hoffman is and to the headquarters of the people's party in vienna hello to you max so we've been hearing a lot of jubilation there where you are so it seems a bust of course has indeed done very well and that's despite the scandal involving his previous coalition partners did voters just not care about this scandal. first of all yes you're right the people of the austria because party switch to the party bowed right away because this is. they have a set of records of the highest result of a head but it's the largest gap that they ever had to the 2nd place party you have to think about it that they will come out with 37 percent 50 percent it's or it's a very good expose well you could see from the social democrats now to push all students did you hear about that scandal you have to remember that said that's terrible you know that all right freedom party they lost 10 of us so that's a huge loss that was not a to soko oh by the way it seems that if you the party has already got used to the idea that they will not be part of the next government. all right max so

all right for more let's bring in our correspondent max hoffman who's standing by at the headquarters of some boston courts as peoples party in vienna hello to you max so how are party members expecting the vote to turn out for them. according to procedure the election headquarters or just warming up as you can see in the back can't wait to get those 1st projections out of the 5 o'clock local time here or talk to some of them as you know surprisingly low to the sea yet again on the ballots would be already a success of course the polls puts about their coats and his politics about what these she lists are but i guess what we're seeing here is that nobody will see her if you buy her expectations or to try to build up the focus turns out the was. which. will max as we know course is previous government collapsed because of the scandal involving the far right freedom party and yet he said he's still open to forming a new coalition with them why is that i. was 2 reasons for that one official one is of course it's a process it's trying to put all his options open but the truth is of course

our correspondent max hoffman is monitoring the election for us in vienna i asked him whether we can assume the course and his people's party will indeed finish 1st it looks like he there won't be any majority against the austrian people's party of which of course a bust is the lead candidate on top of that some or even most of those parties have excluded to go into a coalition with the far right freedom party that believes that the only options through courts on top of that he has a lead of about 10 percent in the polls so you can choose is called a supporter and he hasn't excluded anything so the chances are very very high that the last chance it will be also be the next reside in the building behind me the austrian chancellor rhee quotes all right well we know that courts is previous government collapsed because of a scandal and viral involving the far right freedom party. and yet courts has not ruled out forming a new coalition with them why is that. the answer is quite simple if you look at all the different parties that he could strike a coalition with the freedom party is on m

the far right freedom party collapse in may after series of scandals hit his coalition partner max hoffman is in vienna and sent us this report. in austria this is called a pussy. now of us exley and i has good reason to give out lots of them on the campaign trail along with turquoise colored muffins she's running for the austrian people's. marty and will be on the winning side on sunday also because of this man is a bust encodes doesn't and if he did like that has a very direct honest and clear way of talking that you can understand he doesn't try to use the typical politician style he just says things that make sense to people like the thing at the for you because every since. it seems to be a winning tactic despite a number of scandals in the last months quotes and his party have polled around 34 percent of the vote 12 points ahead of anyone else here's an example for that so called clear speech. also according to should be no guns gobby our political direction is very clear we have ended 60 years of death policy we have reduced taxes step by step and we have a forceful strategy in the

so what's ahead for austria deb used max hoffman following this vote for us in vienna good morning max there are a number of coalition options today for some boss the courts the once and future chancellor what are his most likely choices do we know. are those 3 options in the report brian and let me walk you through them so 1st of all you have the freedom party the far right freedom party that seems like a very unlikely option at the moment because the freedom party itself has said they want to go back into the opposition and if they change their mind which is not a given at all it would probably not be a very viable coalition with all the scandals of the last months then you have the social democrats but the social democrats and as a bus to austin peoples party are very far apart on different topics especially when it comes to social policy and migration so that basically leaves the greens and many experts here in vienna think that is the most viable option of course they also have differences social policy on migration but it won't when it comes to the economy or a green economy they

did have used a max hoffman joins us now from strausberg for the very latest on this where the european parliament is meeting today good morning to you max it can you give us the take away from what's happening today in strong's burg. the 2 main messages from almost everybody who's involved in the negotiations of gregg's were 1st of all no deal scenario and no deal brags in the 31st of october on the 31st of october is becoming increasingly likely that's not a surprise but maybe surprising to some is that john code you are the head of the e.u. commission also said he thought a deal was still possible and that is the man who met boris johnson the u.k. prime minister on monday we don't know a whole lot about that meeting and with don't go don't go you never know if you still has a card up his sleeve but as you mentioned the problem remains the insurance policy against a hard border between northern ireland which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland which is part of the european union and really no details there what a solution could look like ok no details max but could that me

brussels bureau chief max hoffman has been following discussions of the european parliament and sent this assessment. no deal bragg's it is getting more and more likely some even believe it is the most likely scenario now that is the main message coming out of stroudsburg where the european parliament was in session but there was also the message from the head of the european commission john crow we still have time we can still strike a deal the problem of course is that nobody here knows what this deal could look like because apparently there are no concrete proposals from the u.k. government on that so what we are doing is getting closer and closer to the braggs a deadline on the 31st of october without a real solution in sight the e.u. on its side is preparing for the scenario probably the only thing it can really do at this moment. but meanwhile scotland's 1st minister is in balance today to discuss bracks it make a list urgent calls for a new referendum on e.u. membership but w.'s minister has found out if that doesn't happen the sturgeon is willing to put all options on the tab

max hoffman reporting for us there as those of us on the line unveils for a proposed cabinet thank you very much. more than 100 victims of hurricane doreen in the bahamas are asking what went wrong after they were kicked off a ferry to the u.s. the people thought they were being allowed to leave their devastated islands for florida before being told to leave the vessel because they didn't have us besides video of the incident has since gone viral of the ferry operator has apologized saying there was a misunderstanding with u.s. authorities. already. for her from her birth where they hope said crushed instead of leaving the storm ravaged home for florida over 100 passengers have to disembark from the ferry in freeport in the bahamas on sunday night. it was saying that they just got a call from c.b.s. he. didn't need to know not everyone that doesn't have a u.s. cities are probably going to be stricken has to come that passengers had bought tickets for over $100.00 and were left without further guidance the ferry departed without them i think it's like you need everyone to come back to y

up after the break it's the bundesliga with max merrill match day 4 is in the can did freiburg manage to stay in the mix at the top when they battled hoffman on the answer to that and much more on the book's leader. that's coming up right after the break the state of. the. many who tried getting around the berlin wall met their deaths. as a child he was already dreaming of a skate. at the age of 20 he was the last person to be shot for trying. to short life. skeff royal. in 60 minutes on d w. natural riches. precious resources. and a rewarding investment. of farmland has been called easy hope is a growing goal to the country has an abundant supply and leases it to international giants the government is after high export revenues for corporations high profit margins. but not everyone benefits from the booming business. when i saw that of those who were clearing the land i was devastated going to give me to how could they bulldoze the land without my permission and what i knew it belonged to i mean the woman. expropriation. via mental destruction starvation. the price of our government and corporate. the selling out of our country. dead donk