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
to see without the gates working why queues quickly began to build. now, last night the home office said that the problem had been fixed and today two airports, heathrow and gatwick, told us that things were running as normal. heathrow saying, as we are currently aware, the egates are functioning as normal. gatwick saying, the immigration egates are now back in full operation. all support teams have been stood down and we are back to a stable operation. now, the immigration services union says that between 60% and 80% of all people arriving here in the uk will use the e gates. however, yesterday, there was no threat to national security because of where the gates weren t working. people arriving simply went to a desk manned by an officer, as we used to do before we had the biometric passports. what is interesting is although the gates have been in place since 2008, it was a couple of years ago that officers went to the home office with an inspection and asked about contingency plans