this is bbc news. i'm anna foster live in istanbul where.... boats in istanbul where. . .. are boats in istanbul where.... are being commented in the turkish boats are being commented in the turkish presidential runoff. ballot counting is under way as recep erdogan and his rival kemal kilicdarouglu battle it out in a run—off for the presidency hello i'm. lewis vaughn—jones the white house and us republicans have reached an agreement �*in principle�*, to raise the government debt ceiling and avoid a default britain's government is discussing plans for supermarkets to cap the price of basic food items to help tackle the rising cost of living crisis.

hello and welcome to bbc news, live in istanbul with me, anna foster. this is the opposition party headquarters in turkish biggest city and boats are being counted in the turkish presidential runoff election. the country hasn't seen anything like this before. in previous residential elections president one has one outright. this time it was different. he was run close by and opposition unity challenge with kemal kilicdaroglu presenting the opposition party and drawing together of other opposition parties as a candidate to try and remove the long—standing leader for power. the situation we have now is that the ballots have been made, closing polling close at 5pm local time and boats are being counted. now it is the reason all the people here are playing close attention to

the tv screens. you might be able to hear the sound of the tv bouncing off the walls in this opposition" courses in istanbul. they're looking at the count. what they don't have here in turkey is exit polls. when the polls close in other countries you might see a projection that the broadcasters would forward thinking who they would win. here it is different stuff that you mean news agencies are putting out different pictures as to who might be in the lead at the moment. the state news agency exercises and a lot of control over state media and put president ardoin in the but the alternative news agencies backed by the opposition have a different tone. what we can hear at this point it is really tight. and it's very, very close right now between the two candidates but until we have a final results, it is almost impossible to predict which of the two men might make it over the line and get more than 50% of those votes, have income

turkeys next president. whoever it is lifted deal with economic problems, immigration problems which came to the fore in this election campaign. there's so much to deal with and that is waived both candidates over the last few days i've called on their supporters not to be complacent. they were out 14 two weeks ago and really, both men push their supporters and their teams to go out once again and vote in this crucial election today. translation: this is the first time in turkey's democratic life - that we have seen such a vote in the presidential election and there is no country in the world that such a vote has been organised but turkey has fought a democratic battle in the best way possible with a 90% turnout in the first round and i think it will also do so again today in the same way. translation: | am calling i upon all my citizens to turn up at the ballot boxes. i urge them to cast their vote and then protect their votes

because this has been an election held under intense circumstances. they have been all sorts of slanders but i believe in the of turkish people. there were two to see where that hard work has paid off notjust in the run—up to the election but over the run—up to the election but over the last two years as whether the campaign and messages have starts to emerge and both sides of try to galvanise turkish voters. i spoke to some of them at a polling station earlier about some of the issues that would affect the way they voted. will hear a bit laterfrom will hear a bit later from those voters at the polling station in istanbul but one thing that has been really important notjust during the runoff but during the election two weeks ago as well is how things have

been panned out on social media. particularly in terms of disinformation that might been spread by people within one or other of the candidates. let's talk to a member of our bbc verified team looking at what has been going on on social media and try to make sense of some of those opposing messages. shayan sardarizade joins me shayan sardarizadejoins me know and what differences have you seen today in compared to two weeks ago. tiara in compared to two weeks ago. two weeks auo in compared to two weeks ago. twr weeks ago throughout the day why the polls were still open we were getting some video and claims online, if you remember, two weeks ago, a day before polling day we had ago, a day before polling day we had a situation where twitter had to block several accounts belonging to opposition accounts, a handful of loan accounts about and tweets that were critical of president to one at the request of the turkish

government. elon musk waited into it and commented on it and said we had to do it otherwise voters in turkey would not have access to twitter. the turkish government had threatened to block twitter if they didn't do it. at the same time, during the day my two weeks ago, we had a few videos, viral videos where it was being alleged that things are going in favour of president everyone and not this time around during most of the day it was quite. in the last hour, i would say we had some suspicious content that is being shared online, particularly by opposition accounts. in one you can see president heard one in the polling station with a what of cash and he is literally handed out cash to his supporters on polling day. this is something that she did not use or do according to our colleagues in istanbul this is

something new that he has been doing in the last few months on the campaign trail handing out cash but it's one thing to do it on the campaign trail another thing to do it on polling day as a polling station handing out cash to people will raise eyebrows. another thing we have seen which is similar to a few videos we saw two weeks ago which is basically you can see by the papers and someone stumping those ballot papers for president ardoin, which has been filmed and shared online today. we are looking into it and bear in mind we are not suggesting their massive fraud going on but these are things were investigating and looking into and sometimes a really difficult to find out what is going on and which polling station and all those things we are trying to figure out notjust during the polling when it was up but also for the rest of the day.

it's interesting because you said it is very difficult to verify those videos and decide who is pushing that information out but that is fuelled by what is said on the ground here by the two sites. we are in the opposition headquarters and in the opposition headquarters and in last ten minutes they were urgent election observers at all those pulling stations to stay by their ballot boxes and keep a close eye of what is going on. make sure that nothing happens without you having ice on it. i think that is one of those occasions where all of those things can combine what is being said by officials and what is being seen on social media, and can really sometimes create an overwhelming wave of a narrative that we don't always know the truth of.- wave of a narrative that we don't always know the truth of. yes, 'ust to cite a few — always know the truth of. yes, 'ust to cite a few recent i always know the truth of. yes, 'ust to cite a few recent examples, h always know the truth of. yes, just to cite a few recent examples, the | to cite a few recent examples, the brazilian election next year and the us residential election of 2020 are

two examples of instances where nonsensical claims, for the games, or unproven claims, started trending and going viral online and and a lots of people genuinely believe them and it led to action and violent incidents. on the ground in legislative chambers of those two countries and in the case of the 2020 us election, a couple of people actually dying. so these unproven claims online, somebody claim fraud, somebody seen the election has been stolen. when they gather pace and in lots of people believe them they can cause quite a lots of chaos and that is where teams like bbc verify come in as we see these claims come in we try to popular investigate and find out where the videos come from, who was funded and what is being shown and can we confirm what has happened

on polling data? and put the reporting on hand and if we can to consider videos and allegations and say there's nothing going on here, we have confirmed for this reason are that reason that nothing suspicious happened here. it's our job to do that as well.— job to do that as well. thank you sha an job to do that as well. thank you shayan sardarizade, _ job to do that as well. thank you shayan sardarizade, from - job to do that as well. thank you shayan sardarizade, from bbc. shayan sardarizade, from bbc verified really looking into something which is really important in this election here in turkey. we have heard these two narratives from the two sides but when they started proclaiming impropriety at the ballot box we have to dig into that and bbc verified is that well. i think it's crucial in moments like this when the votes are being counted and people are waiting anxiously to find out what the result might be. i told he would hear from result might be. i told he would hearfrom some of result might be. i told he would hear from some of the people we spoke too early on at one of the polling stations who told me about some of the big issues for them when it came to casting their ballot in this election.

gender equality, above all, is the main issue. and this is a very big problem in this country. whether it be gender equality, the cost of living crisis, we are utterly unable to afford the prices. the poverty threshold is 30 — 35,000 liras and this is terrible for us. i can say cost of living and equality of men and women. equality in general. these are the issues where we suffer the most and why we care so much about this election. these elections affect is the most in terms of economic crisis. i think that the election is the point of last return. especially in larger cities such as istanbul because it has become impossible to live in the cities. we have a very big problem with rent prices. besides, the issue of gender equality we keep going backwards. in order to stop this we need all of the country to vote in the election.

my country knows peacee. the establishment . of a true democracy. this is all i wish for. i have reached a certain age. i want nothing else for myself, my my grandchildren. - i want a good life, good country. our country faced a lot of things. covid, earthquakes, but we are still fine. we're not going to the kind of shortages that we hear about happening in other countries. we still get to eat, wear, buy what we want. this is what we are voting for. i think that gives you an idea of what some of the presidents will have to deal with. the turkish economy, the following from the earthquakes, immigration is a big issue and it's notjust those domestic concerns as well. turkeys place in the world and the fact that he looks east and west and the place he looks east and west and the place he does have in terms of brokering early talks between russia and

ukraine after the invasion even though they didn't progress so far. the green deal that kept ukrainian green influence people who needed around the world. that was done by turkey. wherever you are and where are you watching it, it would be importantjust not in turkey but globally as well i think that is why people are which and with such anticipation to find out which was due to us in the next few hours. we are expecting to be a quick count of the last time we had 25% of the ballot boxes had been counted in the first hour after the polls close. so we could have the result in the next two hours. don't go anywhere anna, will be back once you get the result. president biden and the republican house speaker kevin mccarthy have reached an agreement in principle on a new government debt limit, ending weeks of wrangling. democrats and republicans have untiljune the fifth to approve the deal and prevent the us government running out of money. president biden described the agreement as a "compromise", while speaker mccarthy said it

"was worthy of the american people". in an interview with fox news sunday, mr mccarthy also said he expects the agreement to attract support from a majority of house republicans. let's hear what he had to say: 95% of all those at the conference were very excited but think about this. we finally were able to cut spending. we are the first congress to vote for cutting spending year after year. we are able to do this after the president said he was not even going to talk to us. this is really a step in the right direction. it's puts us at the trajectory that is different. we put a statutory cap on only spending i% for the next six years so we let government grow, but at a slower rate. our washington correspondent jessica parker told me earlier why this is such a big deal. well quite a big deal in a sense that there was thejune fifth deadline and actually still is thejune fifth deadline the treasury has put out there. it is not an exact science but it is about the moment they think they could run out of money in terms of being able to pay their bills, and many people

have wanted this could have catastrophic consequences not just for the us economy but globally as well. so there is a lot of relief that a deal has been reached but it is a deal between the white house and kevin mccarthy, the republican house speaker. there are still some way to go and not a lot of time to get this legislation over the line. so what is going to happen now is us lawmakers are going to get the legislative text, we are told, that they have been working through the night , negotiators, to get that text finalised. then there's lawmakers in congress will get 72 hours to look over that text before a vote in the house on wednesday. that is the plan put out by kevin mccarthy, and that a vote in the senate after that. so all eyes on congressmen and women in terms of what they are same

for the particular concern is, could you see may be those to the right and to the left on the democratic party, unhappy with the agreement reached. maybe on the right they don't go far enought. may be for those on the left to go too far. there could be a lot of pressure on kevin mccarthy and joe biden to get this deal over the line in order to avoid that a default that is looming and is looming fast. just very briefly, can we get a little bit of the detail? where do you think this leaves mccarthy now? of course, kevin mccarthy has been seen as quite a weak speaker. it took a long time and several rounds of voting to even be elected. he is obviously out on the airwaves this morning, on the hard sell. and he will hope, i am sure, that if he can get this through and through the decent numbers, sort of a caucus in the middle, more moderate congressmen and women in the republican and democratic party, that will strengthen his speakership.

he is saying he expects the majority of his party to back the plans but of course it is a little bit premature at the moment because those lawmakers have not actually even seen the full legislative text yet. but he certainly going around saying, "look, we have got spending cuts". they've also got concessions on things like tighter requirements for food stamps but there are things thatjoe biden is going to be able to point to and say it is a win for him and particularly notable, actually, forjoe biden and the white house, is it looks like this agreement will mean that we won't be looking at going that raising that the debt ceiling until after the next us presidential election. that is significant forjoe biden because he did not want to be in the situation having this fight again as he was trying to get re—elected to the white house. ukraine says russia has launched one of its biggest waves of drone attacks on kyiv — killing one person and injuring at least two others. ukraine's military says 5a

drones were launched — and 52 were shot down. russia has stepped up its attacks on the capital kyiv trying to weaken its defences. our diplomatic correspondent james landale is in kyiv with more details. what we think is at least what we've been told by the authorities is that overnight 5a drones were launched against targets across the country. they say that 52 of them were brought down, so two managed to get through the air defenses. we don't know precisely where they landed or what damage they caused yet, but clearly the vast majority were targeted at the capital here in ukraine. we heard explosions throughout much of the night. they say, the authorities say, that they shot down over a0 of those drones, which is still an astonishing strike rate. and as a result of that, inevitably there were some casualties because of whenever these drones are destroyed in the sky, obviously, you know, debris falls. we know that one man died near a petrol station. there have been reports of a few casualties. we know some fires broke out in the south west of the capital.

one warehouse was pretty completely destroyed. but definitely the beginning of an uptick of activity. this is now, we think, the 14th strike against the capital since the month began. and so that's pretty much one every other day. so we are seeing an increase in russian attacks, just as we are seeing and i think an uptick in ukrainian attacks in parts of ukraine that are controlled and held by russia at the moment ahead of what people are expecting, ukraine's here in the uk, the government says it in discussions with supermarkets over the introduction of a cap on the price of basic food items. supermarkets are expected to be allowed to select which items they would cap. a similar agreement is in place in france. it would be a voluntary scheme. our reporter nicky schiller is in the newsroom with more details on the plans. the idea is to limit the price of basic food items to help

tackle the cost of living. talking about things like bread, milk and sugar. food prices in the uk rose last month atjust over i9%. that is the second highest in 45 years. these plans at the moment are at their early stages. we are told that it would be a voluntary agreement with the major supermarkets to lower the price of some items. those items would be decided by the supermarkets. ministers are keen to stress that there are no plans for a mandatory cap. my understanding based on the discussions last night, this is about having constructive discussions with supermarkets about how we work together, not about any element of compulsion. the british proposal is a similar scheme that has been introduced in france. there the government agreed with major retailers to set what they called the lowest price possible on a range of items. across other parts of europe,

there could be caps on prices. in croatia it includes sunflower oil and flour whilst hungarian supermarkets are mandated to keep a range of prices low including chicken breast and pork leg. in france, the retailers picked up the cost with lower profit margins however, some experts say the uk market is different. the supermarket model over nearly 100 years has been to break even on basic goods and make the profits on nonessentials and non—grocery on payments from suppliers and by cutting costs. so, logically, they are already keeping the cost down and we know they are transferring some of those profits from nonessential goods that they get and from alcohol and chocolate, for example. there are some concerns of the proposals could hit small shops in the uk and the british retail consortium which represents the big retailers are sceptical of the plans. it is a meaningless pledge. it would not make a jot

of difference for customers and our stores because we have the most competitive grocery market in western europe and that is driven by customers looking for the best prices. going forwward some experts say it will be the high price of food rather than energy bills at the centre of the cost of living crisis. live now to julian jessop from the institute of economic affairs. thank you for coming a programme. thank you for coming a programme. thank you. what do you think of this idea? i thank you. what do you think of this idea? ~ �* , . thank you. what do you think of this idea? ~ �*, ., ., ,, thank you. what do you think of this idea? ~ ., ,. idea? i think it's a harmless public relations for _ idea? i think it's a harmless public relations for the _ idea? i think it's a harmless public relations for the government - idea? i think it's a harmless public relations for the government and l relations for the government and supermarkets but the reality is prices will be falling over the next few months and some have started to soak. i am concerned that it could backfire in a number of ways. one of your guests said earlier, the supermarket sector already operates on very thin profit margins and there is a risk that if some prices are held down, supermarkets might

try to compensate in our the weeds. reducing quality or quantity and raising prices for those goods that are kept. there is a risk it has of harming the people it would help. why do you think the government is thinking about introducing it? it is im ortant thinking about introducing it? it is important in _ thinking about introducing it? it is important in a _ thinking about introducing it? it 3 important in a cost of living crisis where food price inflation is high for the government to be seen to be doing something and i think that is another one of the risk here. it is open to go for other measures of. people would argue that these voluntary measures should be made compulsory which would be a lot more conjugated or extended to other sectors. for example, in the housing sector, often suggested we could have more stricter controls on roads despite the evidence it hands up reducing the supplies of housing and damage and renters.— damage and renters. sticking on this secificall , damage and renters. sticking on this specifically. they _ damage and renters. sticking on this specifically, they are _ damage and renters. sticking on this specifically, they are similar - specifically, they are similar schemes in other countries. what you make of that? we schemes in other countries. what you make of that?— make of that? we have a smaller roblem make of that? we have a smaller problem than _ make of that? we have a smaller problem than other— make of that? we have a smaller problem than other countries -

make of that? we have a smaller- problem than other countries because our markets sector is precisely so competitive. it's hard to believe that any of these companies are making excess profits on basic items. the reality is if they were forced to keep prices lower on those items they will try to make of the difference elsewhere. i risk is that these price caps tend to become price of targets and even if costs continue to fall, some countries might be tempted tempted to maintain prices at the kept number so they end up being higher than they otherwise would have been. qm. end up being higher than they otherwise would have been. 0k, we must leave — otherwise would have been. 0k, we must leave it _ otherwise would have been. 0k, we must leave it there, _ otherwise would have been. 0k, we must leave it there, julian - otherwise would have been. 0k, we must leave it there, julian jessop i must leave it there, julian jessop thank you for your must leave it there, julianjessop thank you for your time and come in on the programme. jessie and her story this hour that we are keeping our eyes and ears on are the events in turkey. hugely consequential presidential election. the first two where runoff election. on the left of your screen there is a incompetent president erdogan who has been in powerfor decades and

hasn't yet been taken to a runoff election like this. he has his previous two in this form. straightaway by getting more than 50% of the vote in the first round of voting. a few weeks ago we had a first round of voting with lots of candidates, president erdogan did finish first in that election but just shy of the 50% threshold. he had 49 point 0%. quite nice enough, so that's why we are in this situation. you can see that ballard's papers there and just two choices on the ballot paper facing millions of turks and they have been voting throughout the day but voting has now stopped and we are in the crucial counting phase. so, across the country, millions and millions of ballots are being counted and we believe that in the next few hours we should be able to know whether the opponents or president erdogan

who holds on. we don't know yet what we would bring you the results as soon as we can. i am lewis vaughn jones this is bbc news. hello. the big picture weather—wise this week is for things to remain largely dry with some spells of sunshine, but within that big picture there are some subtleties, some nuances. in the best of the sunshine with shelter from the breeze it will feel warm, but where you are exposed to quite a brisk wind at times, it will actually feel fairly chilly. today, a little bit cooler than yesterday for many of us, a fair bit of cloud for northern ireland, western scotland and also for eastern and central parts of england, just perhaps getting into east wales, but for west and south wales and certainly south—west england, that's where we've got the best of the sunshine and the highest temperatures up to 2a or maybe 25 degrees. tonight, a lot of the cloud will melt away. we will see maybe one or two mist patches where the winds are light. it stays quite breezy down

towards the south and the south—east. an area of cloud rolling into some eastern parts of england. across some parts of scotland temperatures really will drop away. some places will get down to freezing. into monday, high pressure still with us, but around the edge of the high you can see the isobras actually fairly tightly squeezed, so that shows that we will have some brisk winds in the north of scotland and also across the east and the south of england. that really will take the edge off the temperatures. so for monday morning, an area of cloud across eastern england tending to retreat back towards the coast. cloudier skies in the north of scotland, but elsewhere quite a lot of sunshine. where the winds are light across northern ireland, parts of north—west england, western scotland, that's where we'll have the highest of the temperatures — up to around 20, 21 degrees. conversely, for some northern parts of scotland and eastern parts of england, it will feel a little bit chilly. regardless of the feel of the weather, the sun, if you have it overhead, is strong — high uv levels. so bear that in mind if you're out and about for any length of time. into tuesday, again a zone of cloud

across the eastern half of england, best of the sunshine further west. that nagging wind down towards the south—east corner making it feel a little bit chilly. further north and west, though, glasgow could see highs of 2a degrees. i think it will be northern and western parts of the uk that see the highest temperatures through the middle of the week. this area of high pressure, if anything, pulling away north—eastwards was so will maintain quite a brisk breeze for some southern and eastern parts at times, keeping more cloud and a cooler feel here. the highest temperatures further north and west, up to around 25 degrees.

this is bbc news. the headlines: counting is under way in turkey's first ever run—off presidential election. the incumbent president recep tayyip erdogan is hoping to hang on to power after securing 49% of the vote in the first round but it remains too close to call. mr erdogan's main rival is the secular opposition leader, kemal kilicdaroglu. he's urged voters to get rid of the authoritarian regime in the country. the white house and us republicans have reached an agreement in principle to raise the government debt limit and avoid a default. the president called the deal "an important step forward" — while the house speaker, kevin mccarthy, said