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
just closed and the result is expected to become clear in just a few hours. 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 two times president recep tayyip erdogan and the opposition leader, kemal kilicdaroglu. the election takes place amid a faltering economy, with inflation in double figures and a cost of living crisis. both of the candidates have been out to cast their vote. this was the incumbent president, recep tayip erdogan, in istanbul. he arrived by limousine, with the crowds kept back behind barriers, and more or less had the polling station to himself, when, along with his wife, he cast his ballot. and at exactly the same time as that was happening in istanbul mr erdogan s opponent, kemal kilicdaroglu cast his vote in ankara. the polling station was a little more crowded, and the supporters were able to get up a little bit closer, but everything seemed
cost of living crisis. now on bbc news unspun world withjohn simpson. hello and thanks forjoining me here at the bbc s headquarters in central london. is there any sign yet of the much heralded counteroffensive by ukraine? for the west, in ukraine, if they were to go too early ahead of all of that hardware being in place, then we could see the front lines we see now in place for some time to come. after the g7 summit in hiroshima, is a chinese attack on taiwan more likely or less likely? i think for now, xi jinping has made the calculation that he simply can t afford to invade taiwan. and should we lose sleep at night for fear that artificial intelligence, ai, is going to take over the world? we ll have to have systems in place to police it. - we almost need a new police force entirely focused on al. i the city of bakhmut, in ukraine, now seems to be pretty much entirely in russian hands. capturing it took almost a year and cost thousands of casualties and all for a place t
cost of living crisis. 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. welcome to istanbul, where the people of turkey have gone back to the polls for the second round of the turkish presidential after two weeks ago, none of the candidates managed to reach over 50% of the vote. let me show you where i am. this is one of hundreds of thousands of polling stations across turkey. schools are where the voting tends to happen and there has been a steady stream of people coming in. there is a board by the door and it shows which classroom corresponds to the ballot box they have been allocated. and then they had inside underneath a huge turkish flag which is hanging from the ceiling, where they get a far simpler ballot paper than two weeks ago, because that time they were presidential and parliamentary elections. people have been telling me today that the ballot paper was so long last
hello i m anna foster. turkey s long time president, recep tayyip erdogan, has declared victory in sunday s presidential election run off, he can see here in december that president erdogan supporters are convinced that he has one a third term as president in power here in turkey. he has been in power as prime minister or president for more than 20 years now, people have been voting here all day and just in the last hour as president erdogan made his speech at his home in insertable, it was relayed at the screen here outside the party headquarters. it is where people have been coming for the last few hours. they have been arriving on every mode of transport possible. there been on motorbikes and lorries and sound in their horns. you can see thejubilation here, you can see the flags. you can hear the chance and cheers. because when president erdogan divert declared victory, they had it close at the start but thenit they had it close at the start but then it appeared that presi