will face off once again at the end of the month in the next stage of an election that has been viewed as a referendum on the now 20-year tenure of president erdogan. jomana ca ra cha is joining us now. what would this runoff look like? what s happening behind you? it s still a pretty boisterous scene even at 2:00 in the morning in istanbul. reporter: it is, jim. we are right outside the headquarters of president erdogan s a.k. party here in istanbul. as you can see, hundreds and hundreds of people have been turning up here. you ve got families who are out here. you ve got people who are driving around on motorbikes and their cars waving the turkish flag and the flag of president erdogan s party. this looks like a celebration, but there is no celebration yet. as you mentioned, this is still too close to call. we understand from the country s supreme election council that nearly 90% of the vote has been counted so far, but they haven t given any indication of what these cand
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour at the u.s./mexico border. it s been three days since the end of title 42, the pandemic-era policy that slowed the number of migrants allowed into the u.s. with thursday s expiration, many border communities were bracing for a surge of migrants. at least for now, that has not happened yet. homeland security officials say there were about 4,200 encounters yesterday. that s a big drop from the day before. and yesterday s numbers are less than half of the 10,000 seen at the u.s./mexico border in the days before title 42 ended. just minutes ago, we heard from president biden as he completed a bike ride. here s what he had to say about the situation down at the border. how do you think things are going at the board, sir? much better than you all expected. do you have any plans to visit the border? pardon me? do you have any plans to visit the border? not in the near term, no. no. it wou
started the russia collusion story and went in and told barack obama all about it she was trying to link trump to russia to get attention off email scandal. we thought that hillary got the russians to make the story up. it turns out hillary s guy made up the pee pee tape lie. and then they just pin it on a russian. the democratic national committee had this guy, charles dolan, he goes to russia. checks into the ritz carlton and asks for a tour of the presidential suite. and then the golden shower story drops. nobody at the ritz carlton told him this. not the bellman, not the cleaning ladies, not the manager. maybe he got so drunk on vodka he forgot it actually happened to him. so the pee pee tape was hillary team s idea. what else did we find out from durham? we found out the fbi shut down two investigations into the clintons, two separate fbi field offices said wait a second, clinton foundation is a foreign money laundering scam. we should probably look into it. but andy mcc
people from the surrounding structures injured. a fire had been hampering rescue workers in their search for victims. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the media show. china and the information war. hello, welcome to this latest edition of the media show, and we will spend the programme talking about china s media strategy. i m sure you have seen tiktok has been in the news. its ceo was in front of us lawmakers taking lots of questions about whether tiktok, which is owned by a chinese company, potentially poses a security threat to the us. now, tiktok absolutely denies that. chinese state spokespeople have been saying they deny that as well. but it has raised broader questions about what china hopes to achieve with its media strategy around the world. how is it trying to create narratives that suit its goals? how is it, on occasions, trying to put disinformation into the information ecosystem? let s start by understanding these broad ambitions of president xijinping
. a warm welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. and i m max foster. just ahead on cnn newsroom we are sadly now into the window where so many of the ambulances will likely be taking people who perished. i hate to disappoint you, but the biden economic plan is working. this is a blue collar blueprint to rebuild america. responsible nation would have put out some kind of statement saying head s up, this is heading your way. just want to let you know. it is thursday, february 9. in turkey and syria, the death toll is now more than 16,000. rescue crews are getting desperate to find survivors. in northern syria, there are mountains of rubble. officials in damascus say close to 300,000 people have been forced from their homes. this video shows a crew working to clear debris despite limited resources. and white helmets are digging mass graves for the victims. the syrian government wants international sanctions lifted so