lira has hit record lows of to washington announced hike steel and me i m terry of imports. in manny s capital bamako opposition supporters are urging voters to be vigilant to doing sunday s presidential runoff vote they accuse the government of electoral fraud in the first round last month the incumbent is expected to win a second round the election has been my. by threats of violence and security will be tightened. german chancellor angela merkel is in spain where she has agreed and new approach on migration of prime minister. the two leaders were holding informal talks and growing migrant as their. spanish prime minister pedro sanchez welcomed his german counterpart to southern spain for informal talks a new deal took in fact spain will take back migrants already registered there to
a lot more from italy in the next week on this particular issue all right barbara rachel for us in brussels thank you barbara. now the votes are still being counted in turkey s elections but peridot one is on course to win another term as president everyone looks likely to secure more than fifty percent of the ballot and avoid a runoff vote a strong outcome for his party in the parliamentary vote would allow him to remain in office with greatly expanded powers the opposition is alleging manipulation saying there tallies showed a one polled worse than the results reported by state media. let s go to our correspondent yulia han is there for us hi yulia you re at the headquarters of erda one s a k party and the results are coming in what is the latest. well yes many supporters of mr out on in his ruling justice and development party are coming here now they re joining a celebration so to say that they are so missed out on in his party as the winners
democracy alone this whole nation for tories and i think we should rise up just to make sure that democracy is maintained in this country and those opposition candidate not have beer they re talking to my colleague adrian krishna well we re joined now by our africa correspondent and he s in sierra leone s capital freetown area we are expecting a ruling any moment from the high court on whether this runoff vote can take place to morrow have you heard anything yet. well i m right now in front of the high court and people are curious waiting for the results but so far nothing has come out and it is not clear what will actually happen there s also a chance that the high court will transfer the case to the supreme court but you need to know that there s very little trust in the new digital system yet in sierra leone remember the country has had a civil war more than ten years that just ended in two thousand and two and after was the truth and reconciliation commission he also blamed the sys
hundred fifty thousand civilians are believed to be trapped there and hundreds of thousands more in the surrounding region. philippines president has announced he is what s drawing his country from the international criminal court following its decision last month to investigate his deadly drug war thousands of suspects have been killed by police under deter just crackdown he accuses the court of being used as a political tool against his country and sierra leone will hold a runoff vote for president on march twenty seventh after the first round of voting ended in a stalemate opposition leader julius narrowly won the first round with forty three point three percent of the ballots he will face off against the governing party s candidate somewhere a kemar who took forty two point seven percent. we re now in british scientist stephen hawking has died at the age of seventy six his family says the physicist
demand to explain why a russian made nerve agent was used to poison and expire prime minister truism that he has rationed retaliate tree measures but moscow says it would respond to london is also nation until it receives samples off the chemical substance. which it is. an explosion struck the convoy of the palestinian prime minister as he made a rare visit to the gaza strip rami is understood to be safe the palestinian presidency has blamed hamas for the explosion come us has denied any involvement. in. sierra leone will hold a runoff vote for president after the main opposition syrian people s party finished like the ahead of the ruling old people s congress party in the first round of the two parties have alternately ruled the west african nation since independence from britain in one thousand nine hundred eighty one.