including a look ahead to the nail biting final day of the english premier legaue season. hello and welcome to bbc news, live in istanbul with me, anna foster. with a key strategic position, a growing regional influence and difficult economic times the future of turkey is today being decided in the run off round of the presidential election. around 64 million people are eligible to vote turn out in the first round was closing in on 90% and they have a choice between two veteran candidates. immigration has been top at the topics of discussion for the last few weeks as the two candidates vying for votes. this is one of the polling stations you will see up and down the country. voting always happens in schools. i have been outside this one for a few hours then people have been coming in through the day. they head into these classrooms and each one like a separate ballot box and they give their name, because the vote and get photographs of both candidates. they have to st
central gaza. the israeli military says its forces have killed around 8,000 palestinian fighters in the war so far. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says the total number of dead since october 7 is now more than 20 thousand 400. speaking at a weekly cabinet meeting, israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the war had come at a very heavy price for israel. the israeli military says 14 more soldiers have been killed in gaza since friday, bringing the total during the ground assault to 153. these are israel defence forces pictures from operations in khan younis. saturday was one of its deadliest days, but mr netanyahu said his forces had no choice but to press ahead. translation: the war has | taken its toll, but we have no option but keep fighting. 0ur troops have eliminated thousands of terrorists so far. we are fighting with full force until the end, until the victory, until we fulfil our goals. those are the elimination of hamas, the return of our hostages,
hello and welcome to bbc news, live in istanbul with me, anna foster. this is the opposition party headquarters in turkish biggest city and boats are being counted in the turkish presidential runoff election. the country hasn t seen anything like this before. in previous residential elections president one has one outright. this time it was different. he was run close by and opposition unity challenge with kemal kilicdaroglu presenting the opposition party and drawing together of other opposition parties as a candidate to try and remove the long standing leader for power. the situation we have now is that the ballots have been made, closing polling close at 5pm local time and boats are being counted. now it is the reason all the people here are playing close attention to the tv screens. you might be able to hear the sound of the tv bouncing off the walls in this opposition courses in istanbul. they re looking at the count. what they don t have here in turkey is exit polls. w
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
and the winning team s captain being strechered off after collapsing on the pitch. all: what happened to - the math teacher s garden? it grew square roots. from larking around in school to being crowned britain s funniest class, we ll speak to the 10 year old behind their winning joke. and in weather, it s going to be a sunny, coola and in weather, it s going to be a sunny, cool a day for many but the dry story continues and will do so through much of the coming week. all of the details right here on breakfast cooler. it s sunday the 28th of may. our main story questions still remain this morning as to why passport egates stopped working at major airports across the uk. tens of thousands of passengers were left waiting hours as passports had to be checked manually. the home office says the issue has now been fixed, as vincent mcaviney reports. woman: this is gatwick s line. at the start of a bank holiday weekend and half term, it was the last thing these travellers at ga