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Turkey: "a political earthquake"

Reality Check: Turkey elections, prosthetic leg that "feels", Mexico elections, climate doom, water for Africa.

The ruling AK party suffered a dramatic loss of support in yesterday's general election. To stay in power, it will have to seek a coalition partner, but no one wants to work with them.

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Pro-Kurdish HDP supporters celebrate winning their first parliamentary seats

The big winner was the HDP, a traditionally pro-Kurdish party that has widened its agenda to a more inclusive platform - pro women, pro workers' rights, pro gay issues. The party secured over 10% of the vote, and will enter the Turkish parliament for the first time.

Also in the mix is the thorny issue of foreign policy. The AK's support for anti-Assad rebels in Syria has been widely criticised by all opposition parties, and the AK will be hard pushed to find a coalition partner who will go along with the current policy.

All in all - another election in the autumn seems to be on the cards.

Dorian Jones reports on the results and what they mean for Turkish politics and President Erdogan.

The prosthetic leg that "feels"

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The new prosthetic leg represents a major technological and medical advance

In a medical first, a team of Austrian doctors has developed a prosthetic leg that can 'feel' and send sensations to the person wearing it.

Prosthetics expert, Hubert Egger, from the University of Applied Sciences in Linz, explains how it works.

Mexico mid-term elections

Mexico has been voting in regional and parliamentary elections over the weekend. Ulrich Brand from the Latin American Institute in Vienna discusses the results and their importance.

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Is climate change an even bigger threat than we thought?

Climate doom around the corner?

As the G7 turns its attention to climate change today, controversial climate doomsayer, Guy McPherson, explains why he thinks the end may be closer that most people imagine.

Water for Africa

An Austrian project is improving water management and empowering farmers in dryland areas of Kenya and Uganda. Inger Anderson of the International Union for Conservation of Nature explains what the plan, in association with the Austrian Development Agency, is achieving.

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