Bethany Bell
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 29 Aug
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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.
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.
So it's expected that the faithful will gather below his window to receive that blessing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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%.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
because he said Mr. Keekle was trying to purge it of Conservative Party loyalists, something that he denies.
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.
The People's Party has supported the Ukrainian government.
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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