live from washington, this is bbc news. ukraine s most senior security official tells the bbc the country is ready to launch its long expected counter offensive against russian forces. turkey prepares to go to the polls in one of the country s most divisive presidential elections. still no deal on the us debt talks, but reports say president biden and epublican house and republican house leader kevin mccarthy will speak by phone. hello, i m carl nasman, thanks for being with us. we start in ukraine, and an exclusive report. the country s most senior
there are around 3 million in the country and immigration has become a hot topic. both sides have been trying to outdo each other in terms of how many refugees they can remove from this country and how quickly. so what do people in istanbul think about all this? the poles will open it to clock in the morning. will open and they will spend the day, right through until 5pm, casting their votes. this one is simple one ballot paper, two candidates. when the polls close at 5pm, the counting will start immediately. we expect that as people in turkey will start to think about going to bed, a lot of that counting will be have been done and we will have a clearer idea of who turkey s next president will be. report there on turkey s election taking place tomorrow.
casting their votes. this one, unlike two weeks ago, where you had presidential and parliamentary elections, this one is simple. one ballot paper, two candidates, so that when the polls close at five o clock, counting will start immediately. and we expect as people in turkey start to think about going to bed, a lot of counting will have been done and we will start to have a clearer idea of who turkey s next president will be. anna foster reporting from istanbul. here in washington a deal has not yet been reached on raising the federal government s debt ceiling. but the latest according to the reuters news agency is that president biden, who s at camp david and the speaker kevin mccarthy are speaking by phone. and time is of the esenece as the us faces risk of default if an agreement is not made injust over a week. earlier today, speaker of the house kevin mccarthy struck an optimistic note when speaking with reporters on capitol hill, saying, each