including a look ahead to the nail biting final day of the english premier legaue season. hello and welcome to bbc news, live in istanbul with me, anna foster. with a key strategic position, a growing regional influence and difficult economic times the future of turkey is today being decided in the run off round of the presidential election. around 64 million people are eligible to vote turn out in the first round was closing in on 90% and they have a choice between two veteran candidates. immigration has been top at the topics of discussion for the last few weeks as the two candidates vying for votes. this is one of the polling stations you will see up and down the country. voting always happens in schools. i have been outside this one for a few hours then people have been coming in through the day. they head into these classrooms and each one like a separate ballot box and they give their name, because the vote and get photographs of both candidates. they have to st
coming up, all the sport including the look ahead to the relegation battle dominating the final day of the english premier league season. hello and welcome to bbc news, live in istanbul with me, anna foster. i want to talk you through what is happening here because this is the moment the two candidates and turkey s 64 million voters have been waiting for. all these people crowding in here. let me show you into this room. it looks like quite a crowd of people. they are the election observers and you can see the ballot box is going to be lifted into the corner of the room and in the next few minutes it will be broken open and those votes will start to be counted. out to be high once again. last time nearly 90% turned out for the vote and right across the country this scene is happening now. the votes are being counted. the first presidential run off that turkey has seen. ordinary people up and down the country from the biggest city here in istanbul, the earthquake zone in the s
meanwhile, his opponent, kemal kilicdaroglu, said it was the most unfair election in years and that he felt saddened by the troubles awaiting turkey. our senior international correspondent, orla gerin, reports from the turkish capital ankara. the recep tayyip erdogan juggernaut rolls on. and tonight in the turkish capital, the streets belong to his supporters, who have stuck with him through thick and thin and hyperinflation. translation: we are blessed that our president is leading us again. there is no better feeling than this. let the world hear it. he is the leader who has taught the entire world a lesson. and here he was, serenading supporters, or trying to. from a bus top near his home in istanbul, having beaten off the biggest challenge in years. the only winner, he said, is turkey before stoking divisions with an attack on the opposition and the lgbtq community. earlier he handed out cash outside a polling station, like a modern day sultan. one who has now ext
woman who disappeared last year. a suspect pinned an officer to the ground and trapped him in a head lock. more on those stories throughout the hour. check that out. first the u.s. supreme court in session right now with major cases still on the docket and possible decisions today as the court prepares to issue new rulings. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: hello, how are you doing? here we go. halftime? here we go, bill hemmer. good morning at home. 35 cases yet to be decided as we await today s opinions. big ones we re looking for. two cases on affirmative actions challenging school policies using race in deciding admissions in order to achieve the diverse student body and the other is workplace speech and first amendment whether or not a public accommodation law can be used to compel an artist to speak or stay silent. wow. the justices examining an election redistricting battle out of north carolina. a state court through out the congr
putin. the bbc has verified this video. this video showing the moment the drones hit the building. on the left hand side that small hand object coming into view and then that explosion. and we have an update on this. we have been on social media hearing from ex president of russia, dmitry medvedev saying, in that post on social media, that the alleged overnight drone attack on the kremlin left moscow with no options but to, quote, eliminate ukrainian president zelensky and his clique in kyiv. the latest response have their so far. our correspondent will vernon has been monitoring events from moscow. the statement from the kremlin saying that ukraine used two drones to attack the kremlin building last night saying that russian forces managed to bring those forces down and that there were no injuries and that the president himself was unhurt although they did say that this was in assassination attempt on putin s life. it is not actually clear what actually happened but those vi