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
and we will try to watch those throughout the programme but we will also look at some of the top business stories because they are developments in banking. first republic has failed in the us but it has been rescued and of course there are concerns about the wider banking industry and another us bank has collapsed and that has caused shock around the world. first republic will be taken over byjp morgan in a deal orchestrated by regulators and it has been under pressure for weeks as customers withdrew cash over worries about its future amid a rapid increase in interest rates. these coming just after the collapse of silicon valley bank. first republic has seen the deposits it held full sharply by more than $100 billion of the lost confidence in the bank and the rescue deal now meansjp morgan will take over $203 billion worth of loans and other securities from first republic. amid concerns about the health of the wider banking system, thejp morgan boss said this has helped to st
right now in texas, the manhunt is intensifying for the suspect police say fatally shot five of his neighbors execution style. what we know about the victims including one who was just 9 years old. flood waters are still rising in parts of iowa as residents are using boats to salvage what they can from their underwater homes. we ll take you live to davenport. and on this international workers day, as many as 1 million demonstrators are taking to the streets of france amid president macron s decision to raise the nation s retirement age. we ll take you live to paris. and we begin with breaking news on the state of the u.s. banking system. overnight, federal regulators moved to close down first republic bank and sell its assets to jpmorgan chase. this morning first republic s 84 branches in eight states reopened as branches of jpmorgan chase. this is the third and actually the biggest u.s. bank to fail this year. it s also the second largest bank by assets to fail in u.s.
leaders rare and public back and forth over controversial judicial reform plans. good morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin this morning in kentucky, where two blackhawk helicopters crashed overnight. officials say they went down and trigg county, which is just north of the kentucky tennessee state border. the crew was flying a routine training mission at the time. the army has just confirmed several casualties. we don t have an exact number yet. this photo from wk dz radio shows flames from the crash. here s what one witness who lives about a half a mile away from the crash site saw and heard. two helicopters came over pretty low and all of a sudden, soon as i got older house, something loud banging everything shut down just all of a sudden, so we joined the truck came over here. that s what we ve found two helicopters so still waiting for more information from the army about how many people were on board ea
earlier today, despite objections from china. mccarthy stressed the need to speed up arms deliveries to taiwan. china, which has long considered taiwan as part of its country, denounced the meeting, accusing the us of seeking taiwanese independence. it comes on the heels of other high profile summits, including then speaker of the house nancy pelosi s trip to taiwan last year. speaking after the meeting, mccarthy responded to warnings from china of escalating tensions. well, my first message to china, there is no need for retaliation. the one thing i will say to china, at no time, ims speaker of the house, there is no time that china is going to tell me where i can go and who can speak to, whether you be so all you befriend. the california visit is not the first stop on president tsai s trip. last week, she flew to new york where she met with three us senators. tsai then made her way to central america for official visits to guatemala and belize, two of taiwan s few allies on