coming up, all the sport including the look ahead to the relegation battle dominating the final day of the english premier league season. hello and welcome to bbc news, live in istanbul with me, anna foster. i want to talk you through what is happening here because this is the moment the two candidates and turkey s 64 million voters have been waiting for. all these people crowding in here. let me show you into this room. it looks like quite a crowd of people. they are the election observers and you can see the ballot box is going to be lifted into the corner of the room and in the next few minutes it will be broken open and those votes will start to be counted. out to be high once again. last time nearly 90% turned out for the vote and right across the country this scene is happening now. the votes are being counted. the first presidential run off that turkey has seen. ordinary people up and down the country from the biggest city here in istanbul, the earthquake zone in the s
is ahead of his challenger, kemal kilicdaroglu. around 64 million turks were eligible to vote turn out in the first round was closing in on 90% and they had a choice between two veteran candidates. the election takes place amid a faltering economy, with inflation in double figures and a cost of living crisis. our correspondent anna foster is in istanbulfor us. this is in istanbul for us. this is in istanbulfor us. is the opposition party headquarters this is the opposition party headquarters in turkeys biggest city and you can see i run this place a high of activity at the moment as votes are being counted in the turkish presidential runoff election. the country hasn t seen anything like this before. previous presidential elections, president erdogan has one outright and one more than 50% of the boat both times. this time it was different and he was run close by an opposition, unity challenger second michael representing his party but joined together various opposition pa
ittems to help tackle the rising cost of living crisis. the people of turkey 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 long time authoritarian leader, recep tayyip erdogan and his main rival, the secular opposition leader, kemal kilicdaroglu. here they are voting in the last hour. 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, 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. 0ur middle east correspondent anna foster is following polls are open now right across turkey and they ll stay that way until five o clock local time this
crisis at the border. they are on pace for more than 300,000 migrant encounters in just the month of december. about that, welcome back. i m john roberts. welcome back to you. jacqui: good to be with you for a second hour. sandra smith has the day off. i m jacqui heinrich. president biden spoke with his mexican counterpart as it threatens hundreds in millions facility, biden administration is choosing not to send migrants to ice detention centers that are sitting completely empty. what is the reason for that. jacqui: complete coverage now, texas lieutenant governor dan patrick responds, but first, william in the los angeles newsroom. why aren t the ice facilities being used? jacqui, the president has said he does not want to use them. otherwise, does it make sense to be releasing thousands of migrants a day with a slip of paper, while thousands of detention beds taxpayers paid for daily go empty. take the center in california. 2000 beds, fully staffed, and operational t