beatsder van der bellen his rival. fears of a fresh unrest in baltimore as a judge rules a white police officer not to blame in the death of freddie gray. the african-american died in police custody last year. , we begin in syria, and scores of people have been killed in bombings in 2 government stronghold. both cities host russian military facilities. they are also home to president bashar al-assad's halloween minority. the islamic state group has-- alawite minority. the islamic state group has claimed responsibility. this is by far the worst violence to hit these 2 cities. the latest report saying almost 150 people killed. what more can you tell us? reporter: according to a monitor, the latest fertility figures 40 -- fatality figures, 48 people killed. will also go dead up. the percent either of these 2 -- first time either of these 2 cities have been attacked like this. 2 locations themselves, the same city where the russians have a naval base, and that in the southern part of the province, also where the russians h

van der bellen. although, mr. van der bellen, he is not the ideal candidate as well. couple of days ago, there was a show on television, private tetelevision in austria, and it was embarrassing. it was done without a moderator, just the two candidates. it really was embarrassing. it is a damage for this presidential function. peter: ok. alan posener, ewald konig playing down fears in austria. you have dismissed events in austria as the politics of a viennese coffeehouse. i would like to draw your attention to an article i was reading in "the new york times" about a week ago or so. under the title, austria and the future of europe it said, , "history's shadow of rapid nationalism and xenophobia kept at bay since the end of world war ii is lengthenening across e continent. this is serious." alan: it is very serious. the newspaper needn't look to europe to say that. it is lengthening across america, too. we have, with mr. trump, the presidential candidate of the republican party, it is a western phenomenon. no longer can the americans say it is a european phenomenon. whe

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he's opposed by former green party leader alexander van der bellen, who supports admitting refugees. hoefer has a small lead in what has been a very close race but there are absentee ballots still to be counted, with the outcome expected tomorrow. earlier, i talked about this election with reporter zeke turner of "the wall street journal," who joined me via skype from austria's capital, vienna. why is it that the centrists were knocked out so early? what is going on that you had candidates that are such opts opposites. >> this is a question echoing in germany because in this part of the world they make the grand coalition when two big parties from the left and right of center get together and sometimes they drag each other into political no man's land. for example, the center left chancellor, followed merkel's refugee policy and said people were welcome to come to austria and he had to change course and do an aboutface and talk about border controls and caps. and this is what i mean by no man's land. its' hard to trust politicians when they are in this context where people from the f

the country's new president is the mild-mannered economics proffer alexander van der bellen backed regallythe greens but then by everybody as they tried to keep the far right out. so europe will abbreviate the sigh of relief but can't ignore the collapse of the center and the rise of extremes of both left and right. centrist politicians who face wipeout points out it's far from just an austrian problem. >> should the rest of you be worried about this? >> i think the entire europe should worry about what is going on in the entire europe without specifically looking into one country. it's not what is going on in austria, so much different from what is going on in other european countries. ♪ >> reporter: at a party in a vienna beer garden last night. norbert was prematurely celebrating victory but 49% of the vote is hardly defeat. >> woodruff: >> woodruff: center-left parties have dominated austrian politics since world war ii, but they were eliminated in last month's first round of voting. >> sreenivasan: back in this country: the u.s. supreme court struck down the murder conviction for a de

alexander van der bellen won 50.3% of the vote, defeating far-right candidate norbert hofer who won 49.7%. hofer ran on an anti-migrant platform and would have become the first far-right head of state elected in europe since 1945. back in the u.s., the democratic national committee has allowed vermont senator bernie sanders to appoint five members to the committee that authors the party's platform. democrats said clinton was allowed to pick six while sanders picked five, based on the number of popular votes they had each won to date. dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz will choose four members. sanders chose the scholar and racial justice activist cornel west, leading environmentalist and 350.org co-founder bill mckibben, native american activist deborah parker, minnesota congressmember keith ellison who chairs the progressive caucus, and palestinian rights activist and scholar james zogby. attorneys for an indiana woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for what she says was a miscarriage have asked the indiana court of appeals to overturn her sentence. last year purvi patel was convicted o

former green party leader alexander van der bellen won a narrow victory decided by absentee ballots.as an independent. >> his challenger, norbert hofer was hoping to become the european union's first far right head of state. >>> rescuers are searching for two indian climbers missing on mt. everest. >> it comes after a deadly weekend on the world's highest peak. sumnima udas has the story. >> reporter: it's the ultimate achievement. scaling the top of the world, mt. everest, at 8,848 meters, almost 30,000 feet. but the deaths of four climbers in as many days has shaken the mountaineering community. phurba sherpa fell to his death while fixing the route just a few meters from the summit. dutch climber eric arnold, a triathlete died from a suspected heart attack. he was on his way down after a successfully summit. australian national maeeia strydomed died fromald tud sickness. and on sunday, indian climber subash paul, also died. danger is inherent here. more than 250 mountaineers have died since the first official ascent in 1953. but still every year, hundreds are drawn to it, willing