welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines. early results are expected shortly in turkey's presidential election — could the country he heading for a run—off vote? italy, germany, now france — president zelensky visits emmanuel macron, to discuss further military support for ukraine. to thailand — where the military—backed government is set to lose to pro—democracy parties in the country's national elections. reports that at least five people have died in myanmar — as a powerful cyclone crashes into the country.

it's seven in the morning in singapore, and two in the morning in turkey — where voting has closed in one of the most critical elections. the country is deciding whether president erdohan remains in power after 20 years. it is expected to be a close race between him and an opposition leader kemal k l cdaroglu. he is a former civil servant who heads an alliance of six opposition parties, both secular and islamist. he promised to scrap many of the powers acquired by mr erdogan and return turkey to a parliamentary system. and also called for better relations with the west — including renewal of turkey's bid for membership of the eu. the current leader recep tayyip erdogan first came to power as prime minister in 2003 and became president in 2014. under him turkey enjoyed strong economic growth, but it's been hit by high inflation, and the recent

earthquakes in which tens of thousands died. he's also become increasingly authoritarian with more powers in the hands of the president, and tighter restrictions on free speech. both candidates have dismissed the other side's claims to be in the lead. these are live pictures of erdogan�*s supporters in ankara. we can see him standing there coming onto the stage and as we understand it, we are expecting him to address the crowd and his supporters shortly. remember we did hearfrom the opposition a little while ago. but as we can see there, recep tayyip erdo an arriving where his ak party is based. the party official twitter account posted a video of party

supporters weaving flags in front of the party headquarters saying the balcony is ready combination awaits its leader. —— the nation. in previous elections, erdogan has given a speech for the balcony of ak balcony whenever his is when an election which has been almost every election since 2002. there are thousands of people as you can see there, all ready and waiting to celebrate. even flags, singing songs. and as we are expecting, president erdogan is about to deliver a speech at any time and we are hoping to bring it to you live. butjust hoping to bring it to you live. but just to say, hoping to bring it to you live. butjust to say, that hoping to bring it to you live. but just to say, that a hoping to bring it to you live. butjust to say, that a large proportion of the votes have been counted but i want to emphasise that the result is not yet clear. in fact both sides as we have been reporting, the president's allies and those of the opposition unity candidate,

kemal k l cdaroglu claimed to be in the lead as the results come in. lots of analysis right now of course both from our teams, spectators in turkey spectating that the country could be heading to a runoff vote because as of now it is not clear in fact whether erdogan or the opposition have been able to secure more than 50% but ultimately the supreme election counsel has to announce the official results. a little while ago we heard from kemal kilicdaroglu who accuse the governing party of blocking tactics by falling objections to ballot boxes and areas where he was doing well. the vote comes against the background of soaring inflation and the aftermath of devastating earthquakes. to set the scene for my speaking here now from our senior international correspondent. 0ur senior international correspondent, 0rla guerin, has sent this report. people talk excitedly a tense moment in a tight election. here in ankara, voters

spotted two people in one polling booth. the police were called in. the ballot box matters in turkey, and the opposition are on the lookout for fraud. this is a pivotal vote which could mean the end of the erdogan era. president erdogan�*s supporters insist he is going nowhere. this man tells us he will still be president tomorrow because he always wins elections, and he will keep developing turkey. the authoritarian leader voted in istanbul, looking sombre, with election officials standing to attention. he said he is praying for turkish democracy. the president's smiling, secular rival, kemal kilicdaroglu, says democracy would be a lot better off without him. applause and cheering

well, kemal kilicdaroglu has emerged here now having cast his vote. everyone is trying to get a picture. he's the focus of a lot of attention here today, a lot of hopes, he's promising to bring a new beginning, to bring spring to turkey. and waiting for him patiently, for hours, three generations of one family who hope today will change everything. they've brought baby mira along. 0utside her home for the first time ever. "i don't want to be afraid when i speak," says her aunt, sanem. "now i'm giving you an interview and i'm scared. i simply want to live without fear. we have been silent for so long." but president erdogan

has been pulling out all the stops to survive, invoking religion, as he often does. last night he prayed for his political life in istanbul's iconic ayasofya, which he reconverted to a mosque. and a huge crowd prayed with him. win or lose, for president erdogan, some have fears about what may come next. we are concerned a little bit what may happen both ways. if he's elected, we don't see a good future for the country. and if he's not, things may get messier, so wejust... we will wait and see what happens. be don't want mess, we want to be happy with our children and we want to live happily in this country, we love our country. exactly. for now, the count continues

with claim and counterclaim about who is ahead. at the president's headquarters, the party is already getting started. the opposition say to wait for the final result. there is a long night ahead. 0rla guerin, bbc news, ankara. 0ur senior international correspondent they are talking about what a long night ahead voters have in front of them. i want to take you back to the seatin want to take you back to the seat in fact where the president erdogan has been addressing thousands of his supporters. that is the scene live right now and what we have heard from the reuters news agency in the last few minutes, some comments coming in from erdogan where apparently he has been saying that, we don't know exactly the results but preliminary results show that we indeed are far ahead. those are the comments and claims coming in from president

erdogan. he is also divided according to reuters news agency, that both domestic and abroad vote counts will continue. and just to say as well that according to these comments coming in, erdogan is also said that, that they, presumably they need in the opposition, are trying to fool people in saying that they are ahead. just to emphasise that he is also said, we don't know the exact results, but at this point in time, according to turkey's president, erdogan they do not certainly show an outcome at this point in time. ijust put the course that more than 87% of votes have not been counted. that is according to the supreme election counsel. the head of the supreme election counsel has been saying 87.13% of the votes have been counted. and we are expecting the final result when

all of the votes have been counted. but according to our teams on the ground in turkey, and idea on when that will happen. but we will be sure to bring that used you as and when we can get it. results of the turkish election could be crucial for the war in ukraine. while president erdogan is a mediator between moscow and kyiv — the new leader could take a different stance on the war. speaking of support — france has promised ukraine dozens light tanks and armoured cars — after ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky finished talks with his french counterpart, emmanuel macron. in thejoint statement presidents have also called for more sanctions against russia. it's mr zelensky�*s third visit to a major european power this weekend. he was in germany earlier, and on saturday he was in rome meeting italian leaders. 0ur paris correspondent, hugh schofield watched president zelensky arrive. in any major way.

france is giving plenty, at least it is certainly very proud it is now a significant contributor to the ukrainian arsenal, with its caesar mobile artillery unit and light tanks and some air defence. it may well be there was more to come. basically the briefings before this were not to make a big announcement, the centrepiece of the meeting, that was not the point, it was much more coordination in advance of the counteroffensive which everyone says is coming and ahead of other big meetings which will be taking place in the coming weeks, the g7 coming up, nato and so on. that is how we have been briefed in paris. things are fine now and have been for a while. this is not that recent but a year ago they were not set fair. i think we can only say that there were tensions, not that president macron in any way sided with russia but there were perceptions that he was less than clear

in his support for ukraine, and there was a sort of ambivalence about the french position, linked, everyone said back then, to historical, emotional ties with russia, and a need to distance france from the automatic position of the west led by the united states. that was the argument back then which people attributed to macron�*s decision to keep open the line of communication with putin through the initial part of the war. but that stage ended and because the situation now has become much clearer now in the sense that the west as a whole regards putin as being quite unequivocally the aggressor in all this and ukraine unequivocally as the victim and the country that needs to be salvaged and rescued and given a clear independent future, the picture and the lines are clear and france and ukraine are back as fully fledged friends.

to thailand now and general elections happening there too initial results in thailand suggests two opposition parties are on course to win an election for the country's parliament. the pheu thai party and the progressive move forward party have pulled ahead of conservatives backed by the military. but their efforts to form a government might be blocked by members of thailand's senate, who've been hand—picked by the military. the results make it all but certain that the conservative prime minister, prayuth chan—ocha, has failed to win another term of office. live now to bangkok — wherejonathan head is standing by. always great to get you on the programme what is the mood fair this morning?— this morning? stunned would not be an exaggeration _ this morning? stunned would not be an exaggeration and _ this morning? stunned would not be an exaggeration and delete i be an exaggeration and delete it if you happen to be a supporter of move forward. this is quite and extort —— extraordinary results a

brand—new party that had the most radical agenda including issues like amending the royalty film —— defamation law, lese—majeste which would have been political points in a decade ago, i think couple for any party to propose that. it shows how much public opinion has shifted. there was an incredibly enthusiastic effort by move forward to get people to vote for it and although it is largely seen as a young party, young voters and are not particularly numerous —— numerous in the society but it was the efforts of the young people to get their elderly relatives and older generations to vote seems to have defied all expectations. no one thought move forward would be the biggest part of the larger share of national vote. so the political landscape has profoundly shifted. 0f political landscape has profoundly shifted. of course you mentioned that caveat about the unelected senate, 250 seats only 500 and the elected lower house who do get to vote. the senate could only vote on the formation of a government it

cannot do anything after so i cannot do anything after so i cannot see any way in which conservative parties could use the senate to form and administration. theyjust don't have enough seats. this has been a complete reputation of the conservative military backed parties who have dominated thai politics for the last ten years.— dominated thai politics for the last ten years. does that mean then that they _ last ten years. does that mean then that they will _ last ten years. does that mean then that they will sort - last ten years. does that mean then that they will sort of - then that they will sort of stay quietly into the night, will they take this defeat which as you point out, has been stunning, relatively peacefully? i5 been stunning, relatively peacefully?— been stunning, relatively peacefully? is a very open question- _ peacefully? is a very open question. there _ peacefully? is a very open question. there has - peacefully? is a very open question. there has not i peacefully? is a very open - question. there has not been, and the broad terms, pro—democracy elected government in the last two decades that was not ousted by some extra parliamentary means. there have been to military coups. we've seen prime ministers banned by the constitutional court which is notoriously conservative institution. we have seen parties dissolved as well. will they try those tactics, already someone has come up with a technical complaint against move forward which the election

commission, constitutional coup —— court could view as grounds for dissolution. but given the public mood that is a risky manoeuvre for them to try. remember, a lot of the sentiments that have been driving these young politicians in move forward is the same as the sentiments you saw in the mass street protests that consumed bangkok for over six months three years ago and those protests themselves were provoked by the controversial dissolution of move forward's process or an equally youthful party so i think a lot of thai people are saying that we need to break this cycle we cannot just keep going that every time a popsicle —— popular government either the courts or military move into dissolving. we will be interesting to see whether the powerful conservative establishment here thatis conservative establishment here that is aligned with the military and with the royal palace, whether it recognises that perhaps, the mood has changed to intricately react to give up these kinds of manoeuvres and tiling could go into a rather more democratic

future. earlier i spoke to pongkwan sawasdipakdi from the center for strategic & international studies in los angeles. about the elections in the results. here's her reaction. i was pretty surprised by the result because i obviously, following the polls and i definitely did not think that the move forward party would surpass the votes for pheu thai. why did you think that? from what we have heard from our reporters in teams on the ground, the move forward party seems to have apparently present a new way forward and that has been the appealing factor for them amongst thai voters. because i think in the first two rounds it was clear that pheu thai was leading for a bit and if we know something about thailand is that there is also

there is the rural and city divide in the a lot of the policy in pheu thai have been successivelysupporting the economy of the rural area so it was not clear at the beginning how much the poll actually reflected the vote outside the city. when actually the results came out i was a bit surprised, but hearing a lot from people around me and on social media it is clear that the move forward party is still as a hope for them because they are really clear on many points including reforms that you have heard about that, the reforms on military, on the lese—majeste law and on the social welfare of people in thailand's people represents that hope. ijust did not really expect it to perform this well. although i really expected them to get plurality butjust not this much. it is remarkable when

democracy has its say. but in terms if what the next steps are, because even if we do get a clear outright outcome in this where the next steps to perform a government and how easy will that be? to form a government and how easy will that be? it definitely will not be easy and at least the official results, i don't know how long it will take the election committee to come out but it might take them up to 60 days that is the deadline than they have to come up with the official reports. so it maybe a little bit until we get the official results on who gets how many votes and how many seats in the parliament. so that is one thing. just leaving things about the election commission behind, there are several scenarios that could happen following the election. so the first scenario is probably from something that we all respect or we all expected to happen, or i would like to see it happen is that we have the government led by the move forward party joined with the pheu thai party

and other smaller parties on the pro—democracy side and this would expect the centre to respect the people of the country so i don't know how much that would happen. the scenario two or second scenario that we might have as we have a minority government meaning the current government parties forming a coalition and then now they get the vote from the 250 senators which were appointed by the military. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. look at this bay. it's absolutely beautiful today. and we have to be 100% sure before we do anything that could damage this beautiful environment.

a canadian company called planetary plans to capture and store carbon in these waters by pumping in an alkaline mineral called magnesium hydroxide via an outfall pipe. it's got the community concerned with the question remaining — why here? well, planetary says after extensive research on potential sites, the cornish coast provides the ideal conditions because the water is shallow and turbulent and the currents keep water near the surface for a long time. a very small trial took place last autumn, and the environment agency has asked for more information on the potential impact on this marine habitat. and the climate credentials are under scrutiny as more questions are being asked. the company's hopes for a may orjune 2nd trial are looking uncertain. you're live with bbc news. one of the strongest storms to hit the bay of bengal in recent years — cyclone mocha — has inundated parts of myanmar, cutting communications

and destroying buildings. at least five people are reported to have been killed in the country and the city of sittwe is said to be deep in water, with winds of 200 kilometres per hour causing chaos. disaster officials in bangladesh said there'd been no major damage. around a million rohinga refugees are living in flimsy camps around the city of cox's bazar — 1,300 of those shelters have been damaged. rajini vaidyanathan is in cox's bazar — and sent this report. cyclone mocha arrived with great force. winds gusting at high speeds. it hit the bangladesh—myanmar coastline. as the cyclone intensified, so did the panic. here in southeast bangladesh, hundreds of thousands left their homes in coastal areas for shelter. some even brought their livestock. janat carried her two—month—old

baby from their home on the banks of a river. every classroom in this school is absolutely packed with people who've left their homes, seeking shelter from the cyclone. there are many mothers with babies, there's young children, the elderly and the sick. almost everyone here is from a low—lying coastal area in fishing communities, and they're terrified about whether their homes will still be standing once the cyclone passes. for now, it's about finding a space to settle here. we metjanat again as she searched for a place to sit with her baby, imran. for her, this cyclone is part of an endless cycle. translation: last year, another cyclone destroyed my house. - we repaired it, but now i feel it is damaged again. how can i live if this keeps happening? i can't afford to rebuild it.

we are very poor. nature was also punishing the poor in the world's largest refugee camp nearby. hundreds of bamboo shelters damaged by the storm. rohingya refugees who'd fled persecution in myanmar more than five years ago already live in miserable conditions. this cyclone just made things worse. as families return from the shelter, relief that no—one was killed in the storm here. evacuations are credited for saving lives as the extreme weather continues to disrupt them. rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news, cox's bazar, bangladesh. live to ankara now where turkey's president recep erdogan is delivering speech

after parliamentary and presidential elections. just with most ballots counted in turkey's elections, there does not appear to be a clear winner, with a run—off vote looking increasingly likely. official figures indicate that president recep tayyip erdogan has achieved just under 50% of the vote. in the past half hour he told supporters that he would respect a run—off vote if it became necessary. according to afp, erdogan says his ruling alliance won saying they were surely sided

lots more for you on the bbc live page and across bbc news but for now that's it.— but for now that's it. thank ou for but for now that's it. thank you for watching. _ hello. the weather over the weekend varied quite a bit from day to day, sunnier moment, cloudier moments, but we still managed to reach 22 celsius in kew gardens, making it the warm spot. how about monday? sunny spells in the forecast, scattered showers, too, but we're focusing on the dry weather, and indeed, it will be a mostly dry day for many of us. now, on the satellite picture, there is a line of cloud across the uk, that is a weather front, it's been bringing rain. and early in the morning, it is going to be raining across east anglia, the south east and central southern england as this weather front gradually moves towards the east. but behind it, a large area

of high pressure is building in, and that means settled weather for many of us. so here's the forecast through the early hours. you can see where the cloud and the rain is. but even once the weather front clears away, still a few showers behind it. it will be on the nippy side across some parts of the country. temperatures in glasgow and edinburgh around 4 celsius, but in the southeast, around ten celsius. so early in the morning, there will be some cloud and rain in the southeast. eventually that weather front clears away, and then it's a case of sunny spells and scattered showers maybe in northern ireland, scotland, northern england and further east as well. the temperatures pretty disappointing for this time in may, typically around about 13—14 celsius. and it will actually be quite chilly along the north sea coast, where we'll have a keen breeze out of the north northwest. high pressure very close by on tuesday. in fact, light winds expected across many western areas. it'll feel a little bit warmer. further north, though, showers are expected across scotland, northern england, certainly into yorkshire. temperatures recovering somewhat, especially where the winds are lighter out towards the west, perhaps as high as 17 celsius in belfast and also in cardiff. and then that high pressure is pretty much on top of us.

midweek, we've light winds, but i think variable amounts of cloud. now, if we look at the air mass map, and that's the temperature of the atmosphere, you can see these yellow colours and actually a drift of warmer weather from the south. so, yes, temperatures will recover a little bit as we head towards the end of the week. in fact, that's reflected in the forecast here until friday. you can see we're sort of generally in the high teens towards the end of the week. and from the weather icons, you can gather it is going to be a mostly dry week as well. bye— bye.

citizens in thailand and turkey have voted in elections that may shape the future of this region. we'll bring you what we know of the results. and unrest in pakistan continues, as former prime minister imran khan calls for nationwide protest. hello and welcome to asia business report. i'm karishma vaswani. millions of votes are being counted across turkey and thailand, with both countries holding once—in—a—generation elections. with most ballots counted in turkey's crucial general election, there does not seem