A shot in the arm for populism in europe as conservative sebastian coats wins ospreys election by embracing the policies of the far right. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us the crisis in catalonia has taken another turn this morning as the regions leader ignored a deadline to clarify his position on independence instead Catalan Leader collis put him on call for two months of dialogue with spain and a meeting with the countrys Prime Minister but driv had given pushed him up until ten a. M. Local time today to say whether or not he planned to secede if he pushes ahead with plans to breakaway then madrid could suspend catalonia is autonomy. Well joining us now from the couple on capitol barcelona standing in front of the Regional Parliament is t w correspondent barbara bays or hi barbara the deadline for catalonia to clarify its position on independence has come and gone and still we dont have a yes or no answer from the catalonian leadership why is the Catalan Leader playing so cagey what really puts to mind is trying to do here terry is right that tiger because whatever he does its wrong had he declared independence today he would have gone down a march or in flames obviously because madrid is just waiting to take back control from catalonia had he sort of drawn independence as madrid wanted him to do he would have gone down. Within his own camp and they would explode the government which they still might do so we know from past experience that writing the tiger usually goes wrong and it seems this game is going wrong for a card is put cement were still waiting for madrid to clearly say how they want to react but so far pretty much every minister in the government the Central Government there has given his opinion and rejected the letter that put him out wrote this morning and rejected this sort of equivocal yes independence a bit but lets talk about it ok so the equivocation is really neither yes nor no what what is it going to do about this are they going to read this as a no or as a yes sir how are they going to rehab. They will essentially react the way they wanted to react all the time they will call elections they will somehow figure out a way to draw our powers back from catalonia make the people here go to the polls again and vote for a new government and express their opinion that way because of course what madrid made clear immediately after this whole crisis had started and was kicked off by put it meant and his followers was go the legal way respect the rule of law which they didnt do and now its too late madrid doesnt want to enter into talks with them now because they say not on this basis first you have to independence so its a really in no win situation for the catalonian Regional Government here standoff continues Barbara Basler there in barcelona thank you so much. Now to austria and a young man who promised to shape shake up austrian politics thirty one year old Sebastian Cortes is on track to become the countrys next leader near final results from sundays election put his conservative Peoples Party in first place but also claiming victory is the power right Freedom Party founded by nazis after the war the party was once shunned as too radical but now they could play a kingmaker in austrias new government thanks they call him divert see the whiz kid at thirty one the conservative sebastian could spark comes europes youngest head of government promising a new kind of politics talk today we have a strong mandate to change this country and i thank you for making that possible. The far right Freedom Party led by Hans Christian strata achieved close to the best results in its history and looks most likely to form a coalition with the conservatives both parties that campaigned against immigration and islamic the will for change in austria is widespread and strong a series of scandals hammered the social democrats of outgoing chancellor christiane can hes now facing a spell in opposition. Its about defending modern diverse and democratic austria that will be needed more than ever in the next five years. Yet another surprise came for the greens their vote fell by nearly two thirds making even their presence in the next parliament uncertain. Wrangling over the shape of the next coalition can now begin to lift the far rights likely return to governments in wealthy austria will worry a European Union already unsettled by brics it and rising extremism. Of more on the elections in austria lets bring in professor i hold get Brook University in austria welcome professor first of all tell us more about Sebastian Cortes who is set to become austria next chance for how did he rise so for so fast its just thirty one years of. First of all he adopted the issues from the Freedom Party and he also had a right wing populist course in this Election Campaign and secondly the conservatives werent there in a deplorable situation when he took over so he. Changed the conservatives the conservative party and he was very successful with this new well right positioning. Theres been a lot of intense International Interest in this election also because in the run up to sundays election the far right Freedom Party were ahead out in front for much of the campaign now Sebastian Cortes managed to turn that around how did he do it. He had opted for hit up its his from the get up that it quite successfully and it was a fight between the three of them quit sent it back and for a long time in this Election Campaign it seems to me it was. Kept behind the other two finally he could he could. Make it a real success and so he got this twenty six percent but the quits to a certain extent just took the issues from the. So kurtz kind of outflanked Freedom Party on the right as it were now its expected the courts will form a government with the far right Freedom Party what kind of policies can we expect from such a government it will restrict its policies to specialists is socialist because its also more restrictive as far as migration and is concerned and certainly less pro european position which means that he would be rather. Favor of hungary and poland and not so much of france Germany First thank you so much that was Professor John holt gatton there from ins Brook University in austria ok bye bye. See a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today here in germany the social Democrat Party has won a key Regional Elections in lower saxony and americas conservatives came in second with their worst result in decades the outcome could weaken merkels political footing as she sets out to form a governing coalition after last months national. Filipino Security Officials have said that the last remaining leaders of an Islamist Militant Group laying siege to the Southern City of morale we have been killed the two brothers were aligned with socalled Islamic State they were killed in a military operation after a tip off from a rescued hostage and venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has hailed the results of Regional Elections as ruling party won nearly all twenty three contested state governorships opposition leaders have said they suspect Election Fraud independent polls have projected the opposition would win a majority too timid to roast poor handling of medicine waylands economic crisis. And portugal has been hit by a Record Number of forest fires burning across the country three people have been killed meanwhile in spain fire crews have been battling wildfires that killed two people in the countrys north west authorities said winds from hurricane ophelia off the Atlantic Coast were worsening the flames. Iraqi troops have begun an operation to reclaim kurdish held territories in the province of kirkuk in a statement the military said it has already taken control of an oil and Gas Companies south of kirkuk Government Forces want to retake military bases and oil fields that kurdish fighters seized three years ago in the campaign against the socalled Islamic State kurdish officials have called the operation an unprovoked attack local media have reported some fighting tensions have been high in the kurdish region following a controversial independence referendum last month lets bring in correspondent campbell mick dermot here here hes in care cook and joins us now on the line good to see you there kemah can you tell can you confirm the iraqi forces are advancing towards kirkuk whats the situation on the ground. Yeah i can confirm that for you we are were in south cook at the moment we just actually drove south on the baghdad road down to where kids were holding the mic. Positions until last night and we actually came across the rocky the forces who have advanced there is so that the peshmerga have withdrawn there is no line currently between coke city and the advancing iraqis there are just some some volunteer peshmerga here on the road with no defenses and no no orders and its its not clear how the iraqis are going to continue advancing ok so the iraqi forces are bent saying whats the potential for this getting out of control could we be witnessing the start of another military conflict in iraq i mean it is extremely tense here right now and the volunteer go we you know the saying that theyre ready to fight even if their leaders and the official peshmerga have withdrawn so i think you know the chances that clashes could break out and escalate a very real and even if only to say that i dont want this to you know descend into another civil conflict in iraq at least two groups are supposed to be allies at least to some degree the Kurdish Peshmerga and the iraqi forces supposed to be fighting together at least the socalled Islamic State what does this mean for n t e s operations in iraq. Yeah i mean this this is just something that they would want to capitalize on now so the diesel engines that we just saw are on the road at the same soldiers you know weve been embedded with in mosul until recently and now theyre theyre advancing against peshmerga positions so certainly isis will be looking you know at ways they can exploit this and certainly while eyes are on here on cookbook you know that means fuel holding forces in mosul and other places in iraq where you know isis may be looking to make a comeback well this has diplomatic background this crisis that were witnessing going back to the kurdish reffer independence referendum which baghdad the government in baghdad rejected are there any efforts to result this with diplomatic means. I mean this certainly and you know the americans are trying to bring them to the table but you know the head of the vote you know baghdad was very clear they didnt want the kids to hold the referendum the kid said they would hold the referendum and then hold negotiations well now thats happened but that said theyre not willing to negotiate they have issued a series of all to masons to the kids including giving back territory in the disputed territories like cook which theyve held in since two thousand and fourteen the cuts took this territory without fighting when the Iraqi Military left you know ahead of an isis advance so they dont feel like they want to give it back even you know leaders now i appear to be withdrawing units without you know without this resulting in outright hostilities today but i mean its very fair brawl its hard to say whats going to happen now im sure campbell thank you so much for that update Kamal Mcdermott there in correspondent in iraq just south of the city of kirkuk thank you so much thanks guys. And before we go just a reminder of the top stories were following for you here today on the news kettle anyas separatist leader ignores a deadline to give a clear answer on his plans for independence by today so instead he calls on the spanish Prime Minister to hold talks over the next two months. And austrian conservative Sebastian Cortes is on track to become the countrys next leader of his Peoples Party looks set to come first in the countrys election after campaigning on an anti immigrant rightwing platform. Thats all you news for now we have more for you coming up at the top of the next hour im rita will be with you then i mean while the final latest news and information on our website if he w dot com thanks for watching. Stories that people will hold on for information provide the the pennines