Hello im Maryam Namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up somalia declares three days of mourning after the most powerful bomb blasts to ever hit the capital more than two hundred people are reported dead. Objections put austria Sebastian Kurtz on course to be the worlds youngest leader to moving his party to the right. While the mental model of them are well worth. Making a difference one name at a time the man who set up a lost and found booth to reunite separated ranger family. And wish you werent here and its residents fight back against the terrorists they say a ruining nest city. In sport Roger Federer gets the better of his drake rival rough start repeating about for the fourth time this year when the shanghai master starts. Was. A massive bomb attack in the center of somalias capital on saturday is now reported to have killed more than two hundred people hundreds have been protesting on the streets of market to shoot voicing their anger at the attack it was the most powerful bomb blast to ever hit a city which suffers regularly from these types of attacks a Residential District was also hit by a smaller car bomb somalia has declared three days of national mourning. Its still not clear who was behind these blasts senior members denied responsibility Catherine Sawyer reports from nairobi in neighboring kenya. When people in somalias capital mogadishu are trying to come to terms with one of the worst car bomb attacks ever a truck bomb exploded outside a hotel at an intersection lined with government offices restaurants and shops hours later a second blast struck another Business District in the city most of the buildings in those areas have been destroyed still being pulled out of the rubble president mohammed up to life from a jew visited the scene and his government has declared three days of mourning and you are the. Target of these terrorist is not government officials but civilians as you see here there are no government buildings only civilians who are going about their daily life we have to come together and fight these monsters until we eradicate them from our country. Speaking to our jazeera the United Nations deputy special envoy to somalia say despite such attacks the security situation around the country has improved a great efforts have been made by the government to particularly secure city but also other areas and in the country but nevertheless when one is desperate enough to get through these kind of things do happen and weve seen it yet again into mali and fortunately doctors are doing their best with limited resources to deal with the many people who have been injured dozens are in Critical Condition several have lost limbs so. What happened yesterday was incredible i have never seen such a thing before and the death toll is uncountable corpses were burned and no one could recognize them. Attacks on soft targets like markets and restaurants have become common in somalia this one apart is just how large it was and the devastation it has cost. Right now people are in shock hospital supplies like blood are i did he needed many are wondering how someone is able to drive of year called packed with explosives into the heart of the city catherine so you are dizzy nairobi kenya. Of war whats happening in somalia we can speak to david autor hes a counterterrorism and Security Consultant with t. J. s intelligence consultants here in london thank you very much youre coming in to speak to us this attack has all the hallmarks of an al shabaab attack and yet theyre denying it why arent this is the mother of all bombs you know and you know are they in the most city of this just reminds of also what happened you know in one thousand nine hundred eighty when we had the twin bombs in the u. S. Embassies of tanzania and so on and also in kenya so i think you know this is going to be one of the biggest ever bombs that you know the new civilian government you know has actually witnessed and reminds us of also the nine eleven attack you know in new york city so you know i dont know how you know they got a new government is going to cope you know with these kind of attack but you know it is really really devastating and the amount of lives that have been lost you know with even frightening a group like al shabaab to deny responsibility but i think you know it covers all the hallmarks of our if you look at the activities that theyve been doing for recently weeks and months and how does it work with in somalia or are they a monolithic group or are they becoming more splintered more fragmented more decentralized as weve seen with i. C. L. And al qaeda in recent years of course if i were. There is a liberalization that split into two you know just about a year ago when i still came into being and you know some of the factions you know formed you know the slum extent of east africa and i was of which really wants to be kind of a somalia based Organization Despite the fact that he has links with with our qaeda core and works alongside with groups like this let me get my grip. Very want to show that you know they are kind of you know assuming they are basic on those issues but they have different factions and say you know theyve got their eyes who fucks you which you know is actually fighting against you know their kind of faction so you know it is a little bit difficult for us to determine which of the groups but this really bears the hallmarks because if you look at the recent attack that accord on the levels of september twenty seventh seen when i attacked you know somalia a military base also used similar tactics you know of using the car bomb you know to strike against you know we had targets so it it would be really difficult you know to deny these theyve been operating in their region for over a decade now and what youre saying are they getting stronger of course you know are getting stronger because you know what you can see you know within somalia is you know youre have you know the recent president just change in you know his security achieves a war that has an effect is you have this gap where the new military chiefs you know would then you know be able to take over from the ones so this also creates a serious problem and as we know turkey has also introduced a new military base which was just to buy the fest and what that means is you know there is a plan by the somalian government to then pilot out which has been responsible for for fighting against all these different factions you know is kind of very very heavy on the hands of the somalian government which is better than the Previous Administration in terms of how it wants to talking but it is still weak right comparatively and i suppose this is this is a big problem now because now that the government in somalia has its fair share of challenges both economic and political if the government that is struggling to assert its control over the entire country what how then do they respond to a group like this two attacks like this one needs to change in a counterterrorism strategy of course you know there is much that needs to be done you know previously weve been able to keep. A lot of advice to you governments and how to tackle these issues where the most important thing is for this woman in government to understand that in order for you to try to solve the problem of. You know you have to really look at the right problems you know so we have put ourselves you know in positions where we work with local organizations that is more important for us to give confidential solutions to the government of somalia so if theyre interested in actually having to deal with these issues there is a play turia of issues that needs to be done you know or think you know we would be able to advise the government on all confidentiality on the best way to go forward with this well thank you very much for sharing your analysis with us david autor thank you very much. When our exit polls in austria thirty one year old conservative Sebastian Kurtz on course to become the youngest leader in the world early indications show his center right Peoples Party in the lead with thirty point two percent the once Mighty SocialDemocrat Party looks at the third place but is now projected for second place with twenty seven point one percent thats despite a series of blunders and scandals during its campaign that put science question struck as far right Freedom Party in first place on twenty five point nine percent but he may end up forming a coalition with curts who stole some of his thunder by talking tough on immigration a current has declared victory and says he will fight for a new style of politics in austria believing theyre not real and i mean today the very two men and women in this country gave us a great mandate we must be aware of this opportunity and women i know men are putting their hopes into this movement we will use all our strength and all of our fight to bring about change in this country i invite you to go on this path with us there is much to do to establish a new style new culture of politics in this country. Well lets get more from david Peoples Party headquarters in vienna and so david atmosphere around there must be quite buoyant given that kurtzs is still on course for getting the most votes. Thats right mariama essentially is no doubt now that the projections and the counting thats still going on does indicate an emphatic picture ie for a man who turns out to be the worlds youngest leader only thirty one Sebastian Kurtz as he said in that short speech he gave here to his supporters has made the impossible possible this has a turning point in austrian politics and it actually means that we will see a whole new dimension in the politics of the European Union as well as the domestic policies here in in syria itself now to analyze exactly what it means both for austria and indeed for the European Union i have with me a political scientist professor hinds. Now looking at this everybody thought perhaps that the wave of right wing populism was over its clearly not its clearly not an election shows. We have a party system and to sweep artist in is here to stay for the time to come including those as a right wing populist party but having said so of course this is a time because europe saw and to strengthen not disappear in time to come. We have a kind of checks and balances now which is three parties and none of them do have a constitutional majority of which is a group thats right hundred eighty three seats nobody can stand on their own because they dont have enough votes but at the moment everybody is assuming that the coalition will be between the Popular Party and the Freedom Party the hard right Freedom Party is that the way you think its going to go thats possible its likely but its not the only option out option of course would be a continuation of the grand coalition of recess which by. The leader so that. Option the least likely option would be the social democrats and Freedom Party its still possible but thats not likely so now looking at the implications of this implications both here with the Muslim Community and perhaps indications on the European Union side as a whole what was it do you think that swung it for the right here in austria. The party and the Freedom Party today for how she immigration laws im thinking islamist parties pose of time so if we have a government of the two of them we can expect. A loss as well. So that was one of the reason of course for their own party its not the only reason because the Freedom Party was. Already for the last decades i mean we didnt have to. Concede so there are issues as well and to set. A conservative you know strip maybe in europe because all of our you want to social democrats are losing as well and briefly professor what does this mean for the future hopes of reform inside the European Union because austria seems to be turning towards a visit grad group towards the east towards the troublesome twenty years old. But i remember she was telling me much shape for india opinion is not in question so there are sort of freedom projects that are going to play maine and. Presidency. Next year. Of the European Union and the Freedom Party doesnt want to be isolated so we will remain we seem to have Opinion Union but that might be some closing up and warming up is to be shaken up thats thats post. But its not necessarily a bad thing to have close relations with a neighboring car departed should not be an identity of to the European Union. Professor thank you very much for that analysis so weve heard that the kurds its about kurds whos celebrating what seems to be an emphatic victory tonight is still waiting for word from the president hes not being called on to launch talks for the government so were still waiting to see exactly when that will happen probably tomorrow morning will be a great deal of change in the results of the counting continues its just a case of exactly where the social democrats and up but it does look like the hard right to Freedom Party will be invited into a coalition at the moment with the worlds youngest leader the chancellor in waiting at the whiz kid as they call him Sebastian Coe ok david thanks very much david. Was more to bring you in this program venezuelans voting as well in Regional Elections over there which could hand the opposition another victory over president the duros catalonia as president calls for calm on the eve of spains deadline for him to clarify whether hes declared independence or not and that in sports the dodgers make perfect start in their championship series and you will have that story much more. On now for the latest from syria where the final assault is underway to reach how i still fight is still holed up in pockets of the Northern City of raka u. S. Bank Syrian Forces say almost all of the civilians and about two hundred seventy five i sell fighters have left under a deal that was brokered by tribal leaders on saturday between two and three hundred mostly foreign fighters still thought to be inside the city. As update from an taqiyya in takis high. Province. Fighting in iraq is confined to a few areas in the center of the city the s. D. F. Which is a coalition of kurdish fighters backed by the United States of america the shelling of those areas with the hope to try to evict eyes of fighters from from there theres been a little to back to buy at a time for a deal backed by tribes and you know how to convince ourselves why it is to withdraw but that didnt work some of the foreign fighters insist that they would like to stay and fight to the death but this is why the Significant Development of the centers that i sit is goosing ground is losing their selfproclaimed capital in iraq. But also in deals all of this suffering some major setbacks the loss the city of. Pulling of towards areas on the border with iraq in two thousand and fourteen or fifteen i was hoping to use iraq as a platform to expand further towards. And let. That narrative is now being reversed. Iraqs kurdish leadership has rejected baghdads demand that it cancels the outcome of last months a session referendum as a precondition for talks to resolve the dispute rockey president for my sermon Iraqi Kurdish president Massoud Barzani have met in so many a to discuss the recent standoff between their forces in the disputed city of kirkuk oil rich cook is claimed by both governments tensions have been on the rise since the kurdish the session on september twenty fifth that baghdad sees as illegal. A rebel the former governor of aden whos leading a movement for southern yemen secession says a referendum would be announced there. Iris beatty set out his secession plans to thousands of supporters gathered on saturday in yemen his main Southern City they were marking fifty four years since the october one thousand nine hundred sixty three uprising against the british so bady has previously declared a council that wants the south of yemen to secede from the north south yemen was previously an independent state from one thousand nine hundred sixty seven to nine hundred ninety when it merged with the north or catalonia as president has less than twenty four hours to say whether or not hell declare independence following controversial secession vote there at the start of the month if carters pretty month says yes and refuses to back down or in spains Prime Minister precedented step of removing the regions political autonomy sonicare go reports from barcelona. Facing up to the biggest challenge of his political career all eyes are on catalunya as president cutlass prejudgment the man who could be about to declare europes newest state here remembering the life of the last man who declared an independent catalan republic. In one thousand nine hundred forty this was with former castle and president louis combatants was executed by firing squad for a belling against the military rule of general Francisco Franco with only hours to go until this depleted what except for defies the order for the dread to end his drive for secession he gave no clue as to his intention. On behalf of the government and myself i want to reiterate our commitment to peace civility serenity and also from the same democracy as the inspiration for the decisions we have to make on the eve of the day when mr preacher one is expected