Bethany Bell
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
And that's a term that's worried some Austrians because it's a term the Nazis used for Adolf Hitler, although some other Austrian politicians have also used it. And he's embraced conspiracy theories, claiming that a Dean Worming agent was effective against COVID-19. And also when he was interior minister in 2018, the domestic intelligence agency officers were raided.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
because he said Mr. Keekle was trying to purge it of Conservative Party loyalists, something that he denies.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
They have similar policies on a number of different issues, notably immigration. Both take a very tough line against migration. But they disagree quite strongly on the issue of the EU. The Freedom Party is very Eurosceptic. The Conservative People's Party is very pro-EU and they also disagree on aid for Ukraine. The Freedom Party is friendly towards Russia.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
The People's Party has supported the Ukrainian government.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
He's controversial, right? He's abrasive. He has a very pugnacious style. He's called President Van der Bellen in the past, who's 80 years old, he's called him the mummy in the Hofburg Palace, where he has his office. His views on immigration and gender politics have upset many people. However, at the same time, he is a clever strategist. Even his opponents say so.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
He's brought his party to the best result they've ever had. And he has shifted his tone just before the election. He shifted his tone to appeal to more middle of the road voters. He said he wants to be what he calls a folks councillor, a people's councillor.
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Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
The Pope has been showing improvements over recent days. The Vatican bulletins have shown an improvement in the stability of his health. And today, the doctors who've been treating him at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome said that the Pope was now able to be discharged. They said that he had...
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Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
had very serious crises during the time he was in hospital to what they call life-threatening episodes, but that he'd never been intubated and he'd always remained alert and oriented. Now they say he's in a stable clinical condition.
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Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
He'll be allowed to go home, but he needs to have two months at least, they say, of convalescence and with drug therapy and rest so that he can improve and start work again.
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Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
They haven't offered any detail about what his schedule might be. At the moment they say the very important thing is for him to continue his therapy, his physiotherapy, his drug therapy and this convalescent period. But they say that... Before he leaves hospital, he will appear from his window from the papal apartment in the Gemelli Hospital and offer a blessing there.
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Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
And that will be the first time he'll appear in public since he was admitted to hospital, which happened on February the 14th. and then he'll return to his residence at the Vatican. Apart from a photograph that was released last week and a voice message by the Pope, he hasn't been seen at all since he was taken into hospital.
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Mayor of Istanbul dismisses charges against him
So it's expected that the faithful will gather below his window to receive that blessing.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
The youngest victim of the attack has been named as André Gleisner, who was nine years old. In a social media post, his mother called him her little teddy bear. It's also emerged he'd been a member of the Children's Fire Brigade in the town of Varla, an hour's drive from Magdeburg. The fire team there paid tribute to him. Four women, aged between 45 and 75, were also killed.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
They've not been identified. The Christmas market area is now open to the public again. Police cordons have been removed, but the stands and the stalls remain closed. It's quiet and eerie. People are slowly returning to the site of Friday's attack. This man saw it happen.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
The suspect, Talib al-Abdel Mohsen from Saudi Arabia, has been remanded in custody. He faces charges of murder, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm. The German ambassador to the UK, Miguel Berger, said there had been warning signs.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
The Saudi authorities said they had warned about his extremist views several times, adding to the pressure on the German government to provide answers about whether more could have been done to stop the attack.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Magdeburg is in mourning. Outside a church close to the Christmas market, people have been laying flowers and lighting candles. Many were in tears, struggling to understand how an evening of holiday celebrations could turn into such a nightmare. This morning, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz placed a white rose at the site. He said the attack was a dreadful tragedy.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
Other national and regional politicians joined Mr Schultz in paying tribute to the victims. But as they left, there were angry shouts from the crowd. Go away, they yelled. We are the people. More details have emerged about the suspect, who's been named by police as Taleb al-Abdel Mohsen. Originally from Saudi Arabia, he arrived in Germany in 2006 and was recognised as a refugee in 2016.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
He worked as a psychiatrist at a specialist clinic in the nearby town of Bernburg. The clinic said he'd worked there since 2020, but had not been on duty since October because of sickness and holiday. Officials are still working to clarify the motive. Germany's interior minister, Nancy Faeser, said the suspect was believed to hold Islamophobic views.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
At a news conference, the chief prosecutor in Magdeburg, Horst Walter-Norpens, outlined one theory they were investigating.
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Five dead and 200 injured in Magdeburg Christmas market attack
At the news conference, police also said the suspect had driven the car using a route meant for the emergency services, which didn't have barricades, but they denied a lapse in security. The market itself has been closed and is cordoned off. In the words of one local official Christmas in Magdeburg is over.
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
Mr Khanna said the Syrian asylum seeker hadn't previously attracted the attention of the authorities. He said the man, who had a valid residence permit and no criminal record, appears to have been radicalised online in a short space of time. Investigators had found an Islamic State flag in his apartment. The Syrian was arrested soon after the stabbings.
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Diplomacy gathers pace over war in Ukraine
Police say a delivery worker, also from Syria, stopped the attacker by driving his vehicle at him. Residents of the town of Villach have laid candles at the scene. The attack comes at a time of heated debates over asylum laws in Austria and a political crisis after a far-right party won September's election but was unable to form a coalition.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
The head of the Conservatives, Chancellor Karl Nehammer, said his party and the Social Democrats had failed to agree on key issues. He said he would resign as Chancellor and party leader in the coming days. The far-right Freedom Party, the FPO, won the general election in September, but Mr Nehammer and the other parties had ruled out forming a coalition with the FPO leader, Herbert Kickle.
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Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
Analysts say the collapse of the talks means that likely options could be a coalition between the Freedom Party and the Conservatives or a snap election.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
This took a very long time. It took five months. That's the longest in Austria since the Second World War. So this is a really it's been a long and tortuous period of coalition negotiations. First of all, it was these three parties who were trying to form a coalition. They spoke until the beginning of January and then their talks failed.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
After that, the president said to the far right Freedom Party, which, as you said, won the election in September. They then began talks with the Conservatives. But in February, that collapsed as well. And then these three centrist parties got back together again, the Conservatives, the Social Democrats and the small liberal news parties.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
And they have been able to put together a coalition which now has had the green light from the party members of the Liberal Party. So tomorrow the government will be sworn in and Austria will have a government. But it's been very complicated.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
Yes, it's been a very complicated decision. The head of the Freedom Party was given a chance to try to form a government in January and February. He didn't manage that. His reaction today, though, has been that this three-party coalition is, in his words, a bitter pill for Austria. And he said it's... their fear of new elections, which is the heart of Austria's democracy, in his words.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
And he's called this a coalition of losers. And the polls have actually suggested that were there to be an election quite soon, the Freedom Party would be likely to increase its share of the vote. It got about 29%.
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UK announces European plan for peace in Ukraine
in september but um it's at the moment that the poll suggests that it wouldn't get enough to get a majority so the sort of difficulties in the coalition forming um have just expressed a general difficulty here in austria um but for now the government is set to take to take shape tomorrow and we'll see what happens then bethany bell with me from vienna
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Millions hit by huge winter storm in US
The Euro-sceptic pro-Russian Freedom Party, the FPO, won the general election in September. But the head of the Conservatives, Karl Nehammer, and other parties had ruled out forming a coalition with the far-right leader Herbert Kickl. But now Mr Nehammer has resigned.
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Millions hit by huge winter storm in US
And the new head of the Conservatives, Christian Stocker, says he now expects the Freedom Party to be tasked with forming a government. If we are invited to these talks, he said, we will accept the invitation.
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Moscow says West "fragmenting" over Ukraine
Austria has a new government after the longest wait for a coalition since World War II. It's a three-party coalition of the Conservatives, the Social Democrats and the Liberal Neos. Their first attempt to form a government collapsed in January. The Euro-sceptic Russia-friendly Freedom Party was then given a mandate to form a coalition that failed last month.
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Moscow says West "fragmenting" over Ukraine
Following that, the three centrist parties managed to agree a deal. The Conservative People's Party controls the Interior and Defence Ministries, the Social Democrats have the Finance and Justice Ministries, and the NAIAs have the Foreign Ministry and Education.