taking just 16 percent and that does appear to be some good news for the greens party they've gained 14 percent of the vote is enough to get back into parliament or dominate cain joins us live now from vienna on the exit poll suggesting here that the party of sebastian kurtz of one. this was an election that sebastian could said he didn't warm to 1st that was an election he said his country didn't need and yet in the end it looks like propelling him back into power and all that despite the fact that parliament back in may said it had no confidence in him well now this is how he says this election result is a victory for him. if you are in the reason for it's a huge show of confidence it's a big responsibility and we're humbly and respectfully accepting that show of confidence i promise we will do our best to do this result justice to do the best work we can for our wonderful austria thank you very much for this beautiful moment . and although it already the conversation has started about possible coalition partners and the greens party demanding they say radical change from ku

parties possible kingmakers include the right wing austrian freedom party and the green party the previous governments with sebastien kurds at the helm fell in late may after a vote of no confidence this was triggered by an exposé showing its coalition partners offering political favors to a wealthy woman claiming to be from russia in exchange for donations for his election campaign is that it became known as the affair as the video was shot on the island the head of today's vote we gauge people's expectations in the streets of vienna. which i think the worst outcome would be. the same as it is and of the coalition went on and we. we were confronted with. some point i am excited about the race for the 2nd place it will be end up in the 2nd place position for the past one and a half years under the black and blue has already been a shock and you have the feeling that the country is going completely in the wrong direction and when you beat the happened it was kind of a relief like somebody's pressed a stop button. this up bringing a hard line got professor of political science at i

has favored other parties such as the greens at the same time obviously there is a dissatisfaction among certain groups of voters and this dissatisfaction has been taken up by the right wing populist by the f.t. they have managed to turn that into support for their party and to protest votes really from both the left and the rights of the traditional parties have been losing we're just about a minute and a half away from those exit poll results that we have been anxiously awaiting but what do you think the consequences will be for chancellor merkel and her government here in berlin. biggest question is how well or how badly the social democrats through because that will have a big influence on what happens in this leadership choice that the social democrats have to complete within the next couple of months and there is the possibility that the social democrats at the grantham father the rank and file will say we do not want to continue in this coalition with angela merkel's government if that is the case the government could fall apart pretty quickly if the social democrats do fair

election campaign in these recent elections with the notable example of course of the green party which didn't rise as high as some polls predicted but clearly the issue of the environment was on the agenda that but it's interesting i was and i got in on it was somebody who didn't want the party to aim for government participation too fast it was always concerned that it could be too early for the party and clearly we're seeing here co-pastor a leader who's ready to go for it well the other co-leader who was out there press covers your morton he stressed that these 2 regional results or an improvement in the party's virgina significant to must be said nearly doubled are showing how significant is that surge in support for the. well there's 2 aspects to it the. voted in the eastern states where there was the most potential for them i think it's safe to say that according to the polling that we know they are nowhere near cheating such results in the west and that's also something. morton was asked about because the east feels very much emboldened by that they clearly tapped into voter dis

conditions we set so binding rules is the solutions as we develop and spokesman for the green party thank you so much and you. that's the business update here in t w thanks for watching. get. kicked off. the only way seems to come down to the sentence to thank my ammunition and joy comes to a final train because sometimes the much crime amas champion beyond. the german for crushing. joy for a moment quest to accomplish is all. i am to a strong dollar show for. i'm not all think the gem mild i guessed sometimes lamp but i stand up in which are the 7th me to geminids think steven for gemma culture up looking at the stereotypes the quacks fit any years think the sleeves or the country that i now not blame kiev needed seen me thickness graham us day out delete thus it's all that out look at it bob nuked good my mate joke to join me for meet the jevon fundie duppy of post naturally richards with a and precious resources the some time to room warning investment farmland yes because the easy your peers a green colin to the country has enough bunton sumach lisa's it to inter-national her trance t

response to growing environmental awareness or is it is this them trying to green germany's green party who've been doing well i think both there was a poll released today nationwide showing that 2 thirds of germans say they think that action on climate on the climate crisis is more important than economic growth 2 thirds that's a pretty strong number. of thing well so we go we have to let me go on there has been a decided shift toward the green party isp. in cities so there is definitely pressure on this government to act and that the chancellor is due to speak at the climate action summit in the united nations on monday and she really needs to go there with something to say because germany is falling drastically short of its climate goals for 2020 so she's promising they're going to meet them by 2030 but the fact is if you ask me about the shift to the green party there is not a single voter who shifted who would be won back by this package is too little too piecemeal so she has to weigh the flag but nobody's watching. writes this i would you agree with milind of this is this is not an annou

and an organic farmer the green party politician has been campaigning for years for environmentally friendly farming to be a hoarded with subsidies. on the south on the side but on the other side there are powerful lobby interests it's not as if money isn't being made from farming in europe and that's a profitable business in the food industry as one of the e.u.'s main export earners so naturally there is here to ensure that the a lot of money on to the agricultural sector one overs a new one and that got. martin hustling says taxpayers' money is currently being used to interrupt the support of the corporations but that it should serve society as a whole. the european parliament has been negotiating the redistribution of farming subsidies for months a total of $55000000000.00 euros per year the largest slice of the e.u.'s expenditure. powerful lobby groups are clamoring to maximize their share. but whose interests will prevail. in the european parliament martin hoisting is part of a team negotiating farming issues for the green party and he's preparing for him to bake scheduled for

likely to happen. absolutely we have seen it was the green party the green party when. it started in germany nobody wanted to cooperate with the green party we have seen the same after the reunification with the left wing party nobody wanted to root together with the left thing party today they are normal coalition partners and this is a matter of time and although the f.t. will be a coalition partner in due course and we are very confident that this will happen now you are seen as a moderate within the f.t. and one of the $118.00 members who signed a letter warning of the extreme right wing within the f.t. but candidates of the extreme far right have been successful of being now running the f.t. no certainly not because it's the f d which was elected by the people and this means we have obviously the right politics we have the right program we are going into the right direction and we are one a.f.p. and you have in every party you have certainly people who have different opinions are more ride one are more left and this doesn't matter because we have to discuss we have to find the b

but the problem is is it's manmade or not and we see a great. propaganda from the green party which was very successful in the big climate campaign in the european elections and now we've seen that even the growing the green party is losing and there's a lot of people not only f.t. voters that's the propaganda that's what i've got on the it's only it's almost a religious belief of the idea that man can change it's not for 2 degrees in science that's what it's not science it's the i.c.c. there's also a. the minorities who are still 9 this and i tell you you should have read to galileo galilei if there's only one person who is right who says no then the 99 percent who say yes they will not succeed because science is not a question of quantity ledgers but just what you're saying you're saying that the scientists who say that climate change can't be caused by man are part of the past conspiracy that they all say i'm not talking about conspiracy but i see the green party in germany and leo posing this direction really wants to. make people think that policy can really change the world cl

those in charge to ensure that brandenburg does not have a social democrat left party green party coalition. and we certainly want to encourage and go sense laving to take on this responsibility and the next few weeks and months to come with the election campaign it will be driven by a clear approach we'll be fighting for every vote because our policies are for all voters whether they voted for archives or not but at the same time we love be setting the course of a clear demarcation line to the far right alternative for germany which is why we will not be entering into any kind of government coalitions with them and this is very clear it's a line in the sand for us against a mindset that is all about generating fear and not building bridges which is what we want to do about the future this is true for saxon a this is true for brandenburg this is true of the national c.d.u. as well this is a clear position that we have agreed on in the executive committee of the party thank you mr sentient and thank you anika it. ladies and gentleman. harshness of course we are disappointed about t

. propaganda from the green party which was very successful in the big climate campaign in the european elections and now we've seen that even the grain the green party is losing and there's a lot of people not only f.t. voters that's the propaganda that's what gonda is it's only it's almost a religious belief of the idea that man can change it's out for 2 degrees it's science that's what it's not science it's the i.c.c. is there's also a. minorities who's denying this and i tell you you should have read to galileo galilei if there's only one person who is right who says no then the 99 percent who say yes they will not succeed because science it's not a question of quantity which is but just what you're saying you're saying that the scientists who say that climate change can't be caused by man are part of the best conspiracy there and that they all say i'm not talking about conspiracy but i see the green party in germany and be open with exist direction really wants to. make people think that policy can really change the world climate and this is a story in germany is responsib

has been a very good day for the green party, the resurgent green party, they are now back in parliament, with around 14%. the big question now is who sebastian kurz will be able to form a coalition with. will he try and reform an alliance with the freedom party or will he decide to try and make a pact with the green party, possibly also a three—way pact with the greens and the liberals. that all could take a lot of negotiation, a lot of bargaining and those coalition talks are likely to go on for weeks, if not months. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news... people have been queuing up in the french capital, paris, to pay their last respects to the late president, jacques chirac. they'll file past his coffin, in the cathedral at les invalides, on what's been decreed a day of national homage. mr chirac, who was twice prime minister, and mayor of paris, died on thursday aged 86. his funeral will be held on monday pope francis has inaugurated a large statue dedicated to migrants at the vatican. the life—size sculpture depicts dozens of migrants and r

parliament will be the green party back in force after a period in the political wilderness and potentially in a position to join a coalition with the center right this was an election sebastien court said he did not want at 1st one he said his country did not need and yet in the end one which has propelled him back into pole position to return to power dominant kain al-jazeera vienna. well i'm joined in the studio now by. a correspondent at the austrian news magazine profile thank you for coming in to speak to us so it was a vote that he didn't want to happen but how my. be feeling now after these results tonight well he's certainly the big big winner of the night i mean he took a big gamble 2 years ago when he went into coalition with the far right was not very easy to sell this in europe it was not easy to sell it at all. and now he has won even more votes after this collision with the far right blew up after 18 months only after a corruption scandal and all of these out of the obviously the far right party have been punished for it but he seems how did sebastian kurtz emerge

for the green party here in germany good to have you with us and you were so in this report we just heard that europe is equally responsible for india's environmental problems what is germany doing about that well we have a lot of discussion about the situation and i agree that germany could do much more as europe as a whole could do much more we are talking a lot about higher standards ecological and economical or social standards human rights standards but our government has one weakness they think our government thinks that the responsibility lies with the computer consumers and they should just buy fair trade course and i think this is not what politicians are for or decision to do you suggest i suggest what we also suggest our government should take over responsibility and find binding rules for souls import of those clothes and this would make a huge difference was the brands have a huge challenge to change the situation well of course we've we've seen already some initiatives only one the so-called green button initiative was launched only yesterday it's a labeling system tha

10%. it's been a very good day for the green party, the resurgent green party. they are now back in parliament with around 14%. the big question now is who mr kurz will be able to form a coalition with. will he try and reform an alliance with the freedom party or will he decide to try and make a pact with the green party, possibly also a three—way pact with the greens and the liberal neos? that all could take a lot of negotiation, a lot of bargaining and those coalition talks are likely to go on for weeks if not months. bethany bell reporting from vienna. more than 70 flood warnings are in place across england and wales, with more heavy rain forecast. here's a flavour of how different parts of the country have been affected. lifeguards at crantock near newquay have reported the cliffs there have become dangerous as a result of spring tides and the big surf. steps leading to the surf life—saving club have also been washed away. people are being urged to avoid the area. this was the scene near cardiff. buses have been replacing trains between machynlleth and newtown. people are be

with a u.k. passport who is a berlin he's a blogger political advisor and a member of the green party he says boris johnson is turning the conservative party into the rx at party but this week has shown that it's a dangerous game so let me start out by asking you alex you say that boris johnson appears to have lost control but appearances can be deceiving how does he actually perhaps overplayed his hand or could it be that he is playing into the hands of his. and could he wind up winning the end game. well i think we can't write him often and this is my point particularly because he has some very strong characters behind him who are very good at the da cause she say so we can't write him off at the moment it looks like those who are opposing a no deal breck's it including those who want to remain in the e.u. are winning the game they've always they done very well in parliament by defeating him in these votes this week which has been a very difficult time for the prime minister given how he has been promised of the such a short amount of time so it has not been an easy week for h

if in the rest of europe there aren't instances of christian democrats and green parties in coalition together certainly that's the case in some states in germany but here the sticking point might well be on immigration because the green party is a party of the center it believes it's social agenda is not compatible with the sorts of him immigration policy that mr cortes has been in charge of always government has anyway for the past few years so there is the sticking point the stumbling block which means it could be many weeks before there is a stable coalition agreed thank you very much with the latest from vienna dominic kane thank you tell me. you have al jazeera live from london more still ahead us democrats say public support is growing for an impeachment inquiry to president donald trump. and tens of thousands take to the streets of moscow to protest against the jailing of physicians activists. there's no letup in the stormy weather that's been part again across northern parts if you have one system makes its way across the british isles into the north sea and scandin

go into a coalition with the resurgent green party or even try a three—way coalition with the and the liberal party? interesting rebuff to those critics of mr kurz‘s decision to form a coalition in the first place. they said he would be tainted by them and cause conservative support because judging by this result he has not been damaged and innocence he has been damaged and innocence he has been revitalised but what has happened. after the scandal there has become a much stronger position for his party and an endorsement of a career that's relatively in the early stages. he is relatively young to be the chancellor of austria? yes he is 33 years old but he is in a delicate position now. his next coalition partner is a very big decision for him because it would be... the easiest option would be to possibly in terms of content to try and renew a coalition with the far right freedom party. they share a lot of policies in common when it comes to things like anti—migration. however, that is very risky because the freedom party is very unstable at the moment and one coalition has alr

assert option for your quits would be a kurdish and is the green party but the rays of the green party doesn't really want to have a coalition that's a conservative biopic quits where phones where people have. bought into kurdish which supports more or less he issues or the other options some more difficult for him. in a move that sounds like it's straight out of science fiction the pentagon said on monday that it is seeking to boost the immunity of u.s. soldiers open to protect them against chemical biological attacks through the use of gene anything but their office the so-called human upgrades could be weaponized kellam open explains. the soldier of the future won't just be battle trained and ready to kill they'll be genetically engineered to withstand a biological attack the pentagon has a plan for editing the d.n.a. and creating super soldiers why is defense advanced research projects agency doing this to protect a soldier on the battlefield from chemical weapons and biological weapons by controlling their genome have in the genome produced proteins that would automatically

parliament will be the green party back in force after a period in the political wilderness and potentially in a position to join a coalition with the center right this was an election sebastien court said he did not want at 1st one he said his country did not need and yet in the end one which has propelled him back into pole position to return to power dominant cane al-jazeera vienna as a just provides is a correspondent for the austrian news magazine profile she says kurtz has defied some expectations to become the big winner on election night. he took a big gamble 2 years ago when he went into coalition with the fire it was not very easy to sell this in europe it was not easy to sell it at all. and now he has won even more votes after this collision with the far right blew up after 18 months you know austria is a relatively conservative country if you look at the election results tonight every region outside of vienna has turned into his turquoise. party colors so he with this conservative and their immigration stance won over a lot of the voters that voted for the far right

green party who are back in parliament he looked quite happy there just a 2nd ago walked off stage dominic as you were talking looks quite happy. how much of a not pave will as happened to the political landscape there. well there are 3 particular parties who will look at this election result all these exit polls let's be clear yes 2 thirds of the votes have been counted because the say a 1000000 postal votes which also be counted so these are exit polls right now at 3 parties will look at this and take different draw different lessons from it 1st of all the freedom party they have lost more than 20 seats their vote is down more than 10 percent almost caused what they received 2 years ago that is a clear repudiation for them from the electorate the social democrats who voted with the freedom party to kick out mr kurtz in may they have polled their worst ever showing since the 2nd world war so clearly a bad day for them and then there's the green party in the previous parliament they have one seat now it looks like they'll have $1415.00 maybe more than that maybe even 20 seats in pa

said in 2nd place the greens take 10.7 percent a very good result for them regional party the brandenburg united civic movement free voters take 5 point one percent the business friendly f.t.p. at 4.4 percent gaining some but not enough to win any seats in the state parliament and other parties completing the picture at 3.8 percent we also have projected results for you from saxony chancellor merkel c.d.u. which currently governs in the state comes in at 32.5 percent coming 1st but significantly weakened the left party is at 10.3 percent losing almost half of their voters the s.p.d. a junior coalition partner in the state drops to 7.8 percent significantly down the far right comes in at 27.8 percent placing them 2nd and the greens take 8.2 percent very good for them here to the f.t.p. at 4.5 percent won't get any parliamentary representation here either and the others account for 8.8 percent of these projected results so now the big question is who will the c.d.u. in saxony and the s.p.d. and brandenburg team up with for a coalition one thing is certain despite their good numb

very difficult to desert option for your quits would be a coalition is the green party but the face of the green party doesn't play to vaunt to have a core of vision is a conservative but what showed say election was that the limited the upper limit of that i mean freedom party if there were these but the has been reached sort at that etc and doing all over europe i guess so all the best for our own theories but they're not. going increasing steadily in the future if in that with the same coalition as it was in position before does that mean that everything stays the same of there are any changes. now days of change because now the chancellor who. got hundreds of very freak. freedom party so that. the benefit of courts so he's the one who will decide what each shoes are and what that a position is and not allow. it to get the ministry of interior you know what that means you mr finitary what if we don't. so if we could see a nice day is that if we don't buy fish that my when the issue of take her to kurdish and we do not have. it together so awkward it's my friends with me to have i

the green party but the base of the green party doesn't lead even want to have a correlation with the concern about the people who it's where fines for people have. bought in the kurdish and which supports more or less he's issues or the other option some more difficult for him. cinema chain in the united states is bound to me to go is from wearing costumes masks and face paint in screenings of the new joke a film he said is just the week prior to the premiere. gigi's ms joker. of the band comes amid fears of possible violence during screenings concerns were raised by families of victims of a mass shooting at a batman movie back in 2012 when a dozen people were killed then there were claims that the killer may have been inspired by the joker character the studio distanced itself from the violence denying that the dark knight rises movie influence the perpetrators actions the latest release won't be shown in the venue in colorado where that massacre happened earlier in the week the u.s. military should warnings to its service members about a mass shooting threat showings of the joke a

coalition as the green party but the base of the green party doesn't really want to have a coalition with the conservatives who it's where phones where people have to be bought in the kurdish which supports more or less he issues or the other options are more difficult for him. children's toys who are in the crosshairs on cheese day as the french government signed an agreement to combat gender stereotypes trying to ensure toy makers and sellers don't automatically push those for girls and cars for boys this new directive 6 to attract more girls toward science activities stating that gendered divisions in stores are a thing of the past and that they should be scrapped before christmas the aim said is to broaden children's about generations so they're not influenced by stereotypes as they grow up where looking so worried in the creation of the toys and also how they are represented in advertisement and the way their assault fighting discrimination later on requires action right from the very 1st days and while some are welcoming the move of this claim is a form of gender engi

8.6 percent. so make the greens party did perform better than ever then it they've ever performed in an eastern german state how do they explain that. is that they actually didn't match what the expectations were in the end because they were expected to double their results that's what the polling indicated that didn't really come true but the greens certainly admit that the issue of environmental protection climate change was on people's minds and their co party leader harvick this morning told public radio that he also sees a very different trend he says he doesn't see a shift to the right through the f.t. he sees an energized and emerging democratic debate in that it's now up to other parties to. explain to voters that they offer solutions to the problems that they face every single day so a very different take on that and i also was reminded today of after the general elections i'm going to set off to have to do party suffered some losses that nobody can form a coalition against as well that is something that the. can now watch other parties do can those parties this fragmente

of the 2020 s so for instance the leader of the green party declared herself bitterly disappointed however the chancellor seemed to anticipate criticism like that she said scientists may tell us we could and should move faster but the fact is politics is. the art of the possible and what's possible right now is only a compromise that does take everybody along so that was her answer to the critics that's even in the middle of all this what does this mean for the country's budget where this has been a very important point because of course germany has that strong tradition of a balanced budget as melinda knows this is something that generates a lot of domestic debate especially recently because interest rates are so low and so a lot of people are saying it's almost criminal that you're not borrowing right now especially when you have such a major climate infrastructure need and the rates are so low they're negative but it's what this agreement says that they're going to abide by their budget plans are going to abide by the balanced budgets and that for the 1st few years they will pul

green party who are expected to do extremely well in sedate polls and the polling habits of people in kemet in the difference that can really be seen in how those 2 cities have developed especially in the last 30 years since the 2 geminis reunited in 1990 s. is still suffering somewhat of a big stand because the exodus of people after the wall fell in 1990 leipzig on the other hand is booming and it attracted a lot of international business and also a lot of international residents but we'll see exactly how that plays out in just a couple of hours time keep ready for us and saxony thanks very much. and our team coverage of today's elections continues throughout the day sumi someone's gonna will be here with results and analysis as the polls close that's coming up in just under an hour now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world hostilities are flaring on the israel lebanon border the lebanese militant group hezbollah has fired a barrage of anti-tank missiles at an israeli army because israel responded by shelling a village in lebanon there are no re