we meet the south african woman who used her own experiences of period poverty to help empower girls in hundreds of schools by delivering free pads. hello, i m nancy kacungira. turks have gone back to the polls for the second round of the turkish presidential election with voting now under way in a presidential election run off between the long time authoritarian leader, recep tayyip erdogan and his main rival, the secular opposition leader, kemal kilicdaroglu. in the first round earlier this month, president erdogan won 49.5% of the vote just over 4% more than his rival. both candidates are chasing support from nationalist voters these are the live pictures from istanbul turkey s biggest city, where reports say there s been brisk voting. people displaced by february s earthquake have been taken back home by bus to cast ballots. turnout among voters in the diaspora appears to have grown since the first round. earlier we spoke to our middle east correspondent anna foster w
punter president erdogan claiming victory, as yet not officially announced, but to all intents and purposes, that seems to be the case. we have seen the opposition candidate kemal kilicdaroglu also giving a speech and he was strongly worded but he did not explicitly admit defeat. let s speak to arda tunca. he s a columnist and economist at politikyol. we have talked a lot in recent days and weeks about the turkish economy and weeks about the turkish economy and it has been that hot button issue for the politicians and the daily issue for turks. what is the state of the economy? what is it like on a daily basis, living in turkey? it like on a daily basis, living in turke ? , ., ., ., ., ., turkey? it is hard for a lot of eole turkey? it is hard for a lot of peeple in turkey? it is hard for a lot of people in turkey turkey? it is hard for a lot of people in turkey but - turkey? it is hard for a lot of people in turkey but the - turkey? it is hard for a lot of l people in t
downtown to testify on the stand himself in his civil fraud trial 10:00 a.m. eastern awaiting that departure at trump tower. there is a possibility we ll hear from the president before he goes inside the courtroom. we ll cover that as it develops. first, however, democrats at each other s throats on israel. america s support for the war fracturing that party. hope your weekend was joyous. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. congratulations on the bengals. you have a lovely outfit on today. dana: compliments are out of the way. a growing number of democrats oppose president biden s support for the israeli war effort. you can see it in the polling. infighting is even spreading to the president s own re-election campaign. bill: also dividing the democratic base. look at this scene in washington, d.c. on saturday. thousands of pro-palestinian protestors flooding the capital wanting the u.s. to pull funding out of
assistance, potentially with post conflict reconstruction efforts. there is also a number of bilateral issues on the table between turkey and the united states that were in the discussion today. but i think secretary blinken began this trip in turkey moving then on to greece, jordan and a number of other countries as a way of signalling to turkey the importance that the us places on trying again to get turkey on board. initially, turkey had taken a very measured response to the attacks in terms of the language that the president was using and not necessarily taking a very condemnatory tone. however, that s changed quite a bit and i think the us is very much trying to secure turkey s corporation as a key player in the region. how influential do you think he is? we will hear from him shortly. how important is turkey s relationship with the us and how much influence does antony blinken have there? it is a very tense relationship,
conflict. preventing the gaza conflict. preventing the gaza conflict from spreading is a key objective of the us secretary of state antony blinken who is beginning a fresh round of diplomacy in the middle east. he s been meeting with telki s president erdogan in istanbul and also been in crete talking to greek prime minister kyriakos mitsotakis, before heading tojordan. washington s heading to jordan. washington s priorities heading tojordan. washington s priorities are to prevent the war from becoming a wider regional confrontation and to secure an increase in humanitarian aid to palestinian civilians. before mr blank and left he had this to say. mr antony blinken. as we have said from day one, we have an intense focus on preventing this conflict from spreading. a big part of the conversations we will have over the coming days with all of our allies and partners is looking at the steps they can take using the influence and ties that they have to do just that, to make sure that this