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ittems to help tackle the rising cost of living crisis. the people of turkey have gone back to the polls for the second round of the turkish presidential election, with voting now under way in a presidential election run—off between long—time authoritarian leader, recep tayyip erdogan — and his main rival, the secular opposition leader, kemal kilicdaroglu. here they are voting in the last hour. in the first round earlier this month, president erdogan won 49.5% of the vote — just over 4% more than his rival. both candidates are chasing support from nationalist voters. these ar...

just closed and the result is expected to become clear in just a few hours. around 64 million turks were eligible to vote — turn out in the first round was closing in on 90% — and they had a choice between two veteran candidates: the two—times president recep tayyip erdogan — and the opposition leader, kemal kilicdaroglu. the election takes place amid a faltering economy, with inflation in double figures and a cost—of—living crisis. both of the candidates have been out to cast their vote. this was the incumbent president, recep tayip erdogan, in istanbul. he arrived by li...

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 ...

new laws are intended to limit asylum seekers coming into the eu. eu member states and the parliament have agreed on this overall law on an approach to asylum seekers. it is intended to speed up and standardise the amount of people coming into the black. it proposes to do that with five new eu laws. the first of which would be the speedier vetting of arrivals using biometrics. that could be facial recognition technology, fingerprinting. which could be done at one of these new border detention centres that are being thirdly, an accelerated consideration of asylum cases, so the eu want...

♪ you're live in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim acosta in washington. we begin with president biden playing salesman in chief. the white house has been briefing house and senate democrats on the tentative deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling. a source says that a midafternoon phone call between president biden and house spe speaker kevin mccarthy has not happened yet. the call was to finalize the remaining details. experts say a default would be disastrous for the u.s. and global economies and that threat is still looming ominously at this hour. on capitol hill, lawmakers sound lik...