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 together un

news these are our top story is former austrian chancellor sebastian curt's is poised to return to power after his people's party won snap elections but he'll have to find a coalition partner the vote was held after a corruption scandal involving the far right freedom party triggered the collapse of course as governing.

on sunday after former chancellor sebastian kurtz's government collapsed last may his coalition partners the far right freedom party faced 2 corruption scandals curt's is likely to win the election but he'll need a partner to form a government leaving all in play for in a pope leaving all to play for in post election coalescent talks. in austria this is called pussy. love 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 party and will be on the winning side on sunday also because of this man is a bust encodes. and if you think has a very direct honest and clear way of talking that you can understand he doesn't try to use a typical politician style he just says things that make sense to people like the thing it did 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. put it to should be nice guns gobby our political direction is very clear we have e

university of innsbruck told us there's a good chance curt's will manage to resurrect his old coalition despite the scandal . i think that sebastiancould be sticky to lead in the polls he's leading by about 12 percent of the social democrats so evil be to clear in their of today's snap elections and he will be given the right by the federal president to form a new government which most likely will have to be a coalition government because of all the criticism about his previous coalition of the far right freedom party the 1st try to enter into negotiations with other parties particularly greens however i don't think there will be a coalition between these 2 parties because there's a great deal of difference particularly on migration and pressure to policies between could speak with party in the green party so what you might see could turn to the far right freedom party to really install look like blue coalition of the far right and the conservative party. this week saw a fresh wave of global climate protests including in canada where 6 thousands took to the streets and cities across the country among those taking part in the rally

this is d w news these are our top story is former austrian chancellor sebastian curt's is poised to return to power after his people's party won snap elections but he'll have to find a coalition partner the vote was held after a corruption scandal involving the far right freedom party triggered the collapse of course as governing coalition. protesters have clashed with police in hong kong it's the 17th consecutive weekend of pro-democracy protests in the city the latest on rest comes in the run up to ceremonies on tuesday marking 70 years a communist rule in mainland china a major march is planned for the same day in hong kong despite a police ban. in moscow tens of thousands of people have rallied to demand the release of jailed opposition protesters those activists were arrested during previous demonstrations a wave of protests erupted in july after opposition candidates were barred from running in local elections. the rebels in yemen say they have launched a major attack on the border with saudi arabia the hooty insurgents claim to have captured as many as 2000 saudi troops and d