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
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
faces four counts of first-degree murder after his arrest in pennsylvania on friday. kohberger drove across the country in a white hyundai ilan extra from idaho and arrived in pennsylvania at his parents s house right around christmas. while law enforcement was tracking him every step of the way. there are lots of new developments in the case, including how authorities identified and arrested the suspect. let s get right to jean casarez. jean, you just spoke with the suspect s attorney. what are you learning? that s right. this is the chief public defender for monroe county, jay salabar. his client is not going to fight going back to idaho. he s not going to fight extradition. she s shocked a little bit. he s calm right now. he is very intelligent. in my hour conversation with him, that comes off. i can tell that. and he understands where we are right now. i have spoken to his family last night. i spoke to them for approximately 15 to 20 minutes. they re also very shocked
with the president, make up the indian parliament. the critics are saying that by deciding to not invite president draupadi murmu to the ceremony, the government has violated the spirit of the constitution and prime minister narendra modi inaugurating the building on his own, he should have got either the president or the presiding officers of both of the houses to inaugurate the ceremony. let s bring you more on one of our main stories today. the election in turkey, the run off for the election. earlier, we saw pictures of the incumbent, recep tayyip erdogan, and he was handing out money to supporters who were gathered outside the polling station where he cast his ballot. these banknotes he is handing out with 200 lira, which is about $10 each. he also shook hands with supporters who
you for. thank you forjoining us. | great role in today s result. thank| you for. thank you forjoining us. i just want to show you some pictures of recep tayip erdogan at the polling station earlier that fit quite nicely into the discussion we have been having because he is shown here. you can see he is handing out notes. these are 200 lira notes worth about $10. he was handing them out to people the polling stations. mainly children, it appeared to be. he pulls that wad of notes out of his pocket. it is something he has done before. handing out notes, handing out toys sometimes to children. a very strange thing to be doing on polling day but these are some of the live pictures that we have been seen through the day today. as i said, there is less than an hour left a voting now and what will happen when we had 5pm here local time is these classrooms were turning to counting stations. they open the boxes here. they ll start counting those abodes. they will take them off to be input into