said it was the most unfair election in years and he felt saddened by the troubles awaiting turkey. aru na iyengar reports. ecstatic erdogan supporters outside the presidential palace in ankara last night. earlier in the day, the president had sung to the crowd and recited a poem. this erdogan supporter says, bye bye mr kemal. thank god islam has won. translation: we are very happy. full ofjoy- - i can t even contain myself. i thank god. big celebrations, but they don t show that this was the biggest challenge to mr erdogan s authority in years. he became prime minister in 2003, later becoming president. to build up that position, he has stifled all opposition. his non religious rival, kemal kilicdaroglu, says the election was unfair. mr erdogan had one big advantage almost total control of the media. mr kilicdaroglu s chp party had campaigned against crackdowns on dissent, and for a return to an independentjustice system and parliamentary democracy. a sombre mood her
Back in december, the optimism of the Ukrainian Forces was fading. There were fears it would be a bad winter and the russians were targeting Generating Stations and heating plants. But ukrainian engineers worked like crazy to restore power. And anyway, the winter wasnt that bad. Now some Military Experts in the west are even daring to suggest that the russian army might simply collapse over the next few months. Who knows . President xi jinping of china has presented himself as a deal maker in the war, but his proposals have so far been pretty vague and, perhaps not surprisingly, much more favourable to his friend Vladimir Putin than to ukraine. Theres less noise about a chinese invasion of taiwan, but many taiwanese leaders think itll happen by 2029. In the us, since december, ex President Trump has been accused of various crimes and been sued successfully for one of them. Yet his popularity with the Republican Party has soared, while his main rival, ron desantis, has faded. Now trump
25 degrees. lots of dry weather, some sunshine and very little rain in the forecast. of what he says were untruths and tries to change the narrative about his relationship with a younger colleague. what are the questions now for itv? the mother of caroline flack, an itv presenter who took her own life during intense media scrutiny three years ago, tells this programme itv haven t learned the lessons since then. they treat them as commodities. and i know it s a lovelyjob, and i know that you earn money, but also, the television stations earn money from them. but they re not commodities, they re people. we ask a former sky and itv executive and a former culture minster what questions they want itv to answer now. also tonight: ahead of the inauguration of president erdogan of turkey tomorrow, we ll ask what that means for the rest of the world. and this. matilda composer, actor and lyricist tim minchin on his next musical groundhog day. he talks about rejection, his mental healt
punter president erdogan claiming victory, as yet not officially announced, but to all intents and purposes, that seems to be the case. we have seen the opposition candidate kemal kilicdaroglu also giving a speech and he was strongly worded but he did not explicitly admit defeat. let s speak to arda tunca. he s a columnist and economist at politikyol. we have talked a lot in recent days and weeks about the turkish economy and weeks about the turkish economy and it has been that hot button issue for the politicians and the daily issue for turks. what is the state of the economy? what is it like on a daily basis, living in turkey? it like on a daily basis, living in turke ? , ., ., ., ., ., turkey? it is hard for a lot of eole turkey? it is hard for a lot of peeple in turkey? it is hard for a lot of people in turkey turkey? it is hard for a lot of people in turkey but - turkey? it is hard for a lot of people in turkey but the - turkey? it is hard for a lot of l people in t
the last few minutes of the official result. the turkish electoral body so that they have counted 99.4% of the votes, which had given erdogan 52% 50 2.4% of the the votes, which had given erdogan 52% 50 2.4% of the vote. he needed more than 50%, more than half to remain in power in turkey. kilicdaroglu. when he spoke earlier, his words were received here on the streets of istanbul and by his supporters a. i would like to thank each and every member of our nation who has once again given us the responsibility of governing the country for the next five years. it was difficult for kilicdaroglu. he was really the antiestablishment character. the antique kilicdaroglu candidate. he formed a table of six, with all of these different parties led by the chp. they were seeking to unseat president erdogan. he made a speech before the result was officially confirmed. he did not concede the presidency, but talked about dark days ahead for turkey. my real sadness is for the difficulty