translation: | would - like to thank each and every member of our nation, who have once again given us the responsibility of governing the country for the next five years. president biden urges lawmakers to pass the deal struck with republicans to raise the government debt ceililng. the agreement prevents the worst possible crisis. a default in the first time in our nation's history. fix, default in the first time in our nation's history. a drone attack on — our nation's history. a drone attack on kyiv _ our nation's history. a drone attack on kyiv but _ our nation's history. a drone attack on kyiv but presents i our nation's history. a drone| attack on kyiv but presents a lens is as the country's air defences averted the worst. in the uk — more details about itv host phillip schofield's relationship with a much younger colleague — which led to him quitting the network.

where rejep tayyip erdowan is beginning another five—year term as president, after securing more than 50% of the votes in the run—off election over the weekend. it's the first run—off ever seen in a turkish presidential election. there were joyous scenes on the streets of istanbul and ankara as mr erdogan celebrated with his supporters after winning around 52% of the vote. thousands gathered on the streets, waving flags and singing songs. erdogan gave a victory speech in front of the crowds gathering at the presidential palace in the capital. he spoke about stability and prosperity, building stronger economy and leaving disputes behind. our senior international correspondent, orla guerin, 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 extended his reign for another five years.

his rival, kemal kilicdaroglu, ran as mr nice guy. but then veered to the right, vowing to send all refugees home. supporters chanting his slogan today — "everything will be beautiful." "he is our hope," she told us. now defeated, he fears a much bigger troubles are ahead for turkey. the choice here was stark. two very different options. a seasoned autocrat or an untested democrat. most voters went with the devil they know. the process is carried out very carefully here. you have to arrive with a voting slip and with your id. your name is checked on the list, and after you vote, you sign that

you have done so. there are observers here too, from all the political parties. but president erdogan has gone into this contest with key advantages — not least almost total control of the media. ozcan aker, a retired lawyer of 90, came out to vote for change. translation: in turkey currently there's - a dictatorial regime. i'm voting to return to democracy. first of all, there is no justice. the president holds executive and legislative powers. this is the biggest mistake. tonight, packed victory celebrations outside the presidential palace of a thousand rooms. recep tayyip erdogan is newly emboldened. the opposition is badly bruised. and this strategic nation

has chosen its path. sinan ciddi is an expert on turkish politics and foreign policy and an associate professor in security studies at marine corps university in the us — he told me about the challenges ahead for president erdogan. well, there was great expectations raised that this could be essentially the final lap for mr erdogan, who has been in power since 2003, either as prime minister or as president. not least because was presiding over quite a weakened and fragile economy, at the back end of a devastating series of earthquakes, but also this endemic corruption, nepotism and just an authoritarian term, which as you can see from the result, at least 50% of the country wanted to get rid of. but some people including myself have been saying this is a deeply authoritarian system and elections may not necessarily be enough to just

push him out of the way, but it does look like at this hour, just in the preliminary results, he just won the election without any sort of substantial chicanery to sort of unseat him. so we are unpleasantly surprised on some levels, but he has secured another five years in office. there are a couple of campaign issues, one in particular was the economy. people in turkey are struggling with spiking inflation and spiralling lira, its currency. do you see him changing any of his economic policies over the next five years? we will have to wait and see. as we have been watching this today, the turkish currency has been struggling to hold its value against the us dollar and the euro simply because turkey lacks foreign currency reserves to maintain this currency at its present level. basically, a lot of economists

are urging mr erdogan to essentially return to economic orthodoxy, such as raising interest rates as quickly as possible, and essentially reining in government spending as much as possible. we will have to see in the coming days what kind of economic message he will send to the markets, simply because he is under tremendous pressure and throughout the election cycle, he has been spending, spending, spending, simply to keep the economy buoyant and alive. so that he can essentially maintain the facade of growth so that he doesn't get punished at the ballot box. but at this point in time, unless he introduces capital controls or unless he goes back to economic orthodoxy, i think the turkish economy is likely to face a severe balance of payments issue and could default on several loans. turkey's external debt is approaching 500 billion us dollars and total debt is estimated to be about $700 billion.

the country is up against a real set of troubles here. us presidentjoe biden says the debt ceiling bill is now ready to move to congress after further talks with the republican house speaker kevin mccarthy. both have reached an agreement in principle on a new government debt limit, ending weeks of wrangling. joe biden believes mr mc carthy acted in good faith. we have reached a bipartisan budget agreement and we are ready to move to the full congress. i think it is a really important step forward. it takes the threat off the table, protects our hard earned economic recovery and it also represents a compromise which means nobody got everything they want. but that's the responsibility of governing. this deal is good news is i believe you will see for the american people.

the agreement prevents the worst possible crisis and default for the first time in our nation's history. the speaker and i made clear from the start that the only way forward was a bipartisan agreement. that agreement now goes to the united states house and to the senate. i strongly urge both chambers to pass that agreement. i think he negotiated in good faith, he kept his word and said what he would do and did what he said he would do. i suppose you want to make it look like i made some compromise, and i made a compromise on the budget. it could cause more controversy getting rid of the debt limit, although there is the idea that as a later date, decide whether or not the 14th amendment, how that actually would impact on whether or not

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more importantly, they are going to delay another budget increase until right after the 2024 election. we do know, at least, what has been reported is that there are several programmes. for example, supplemental nutrition assistance programme, that they are trying to change work agreements such as people have to spend time working up to 54 of their single with no dependents. we are thinking they will not be the pause the student loan programme and that those individuals who took out student loans, 60 days after the budget deal is signed, they will have to start paying that back but on the other hand, they did keep the spending of, for the veterans. although medicare, medicaid will be increased to make sure that they are paid in full. i mean, 'ust a

they are paid in full. i mean, just a ample _ they are paid in full. i mean, just a couple of— they are paid in full. i mean, just a couple of days - they are paid in full. i mean, just a couple of days ago - they are paid in full. i mean, just a couple of days ago we | just a couple of days ago we were hearing that they were far from any sort of agreement. may be the easy part was actually drafting the spill of the budget but now the hard part begins in the us. you have both sides. you have ultra conservative republicans and the ultra liberal democrats. but they're actually going to be able to pass this? give the mic i think they are. it is a compromise, as president biden says and a compromise means and not everybody gets what they want but, look, the real winners in all this at the american people. irate winners in all this at the american people. winners in all this at the american --eole. ~ ., , american people. we can finally aet back american people. we can finally get back to _ american people. we can finally get back to what _ american people. we can finally get back to what we _ american people. we can finally get back to what we do - american people. we can finally get back to what we do on - american people. we can finally get back to what we do on a - get back to what we do on a regular daily lives and not have to hear both sides claim that the other side is going to drive us to the brink of extinction which, has paralysed a lot when we start hearing in the media that, you know, our jobs are going to be... the us has never defaulted on its debts and devote as much, much

different than a government partial shutdown, for example. in the event that this isn't passed because they stab 72 hours till the cat there is underwear than say they go back and there is going to be a lot of political wrangling and we can see that starting to happen so what exactly can we expect if it is not passed by that june for the deadline? if it if it is not passed by that june for the deadline? if it is not passed. _ june for the deadline? if it is not passed, there _ june for the deadline? if it is not passed, there are - june for the deadline? if it is not passed, there are some | not passed, there are some things they can do to not default and what they have done in the past, both republicans and democratic led presidencies, have shut down the government for some amount of time. sometimes it is a day. that imposes a big threat on mostly governmentjobs but it does shut down part of the economy and so, again, i think it is not the right thing to do to the american people to have this kind of football. these things should have been ironed out a long time ago and letting

people think were going to default on our debt and those jobs etc, to me, it isjust unconscionable. jobs etc, to me, it is 'ust unconscionable.�* jobs etc, to me, it is 'ust unconscionable. this is bbc news. as food and utility prices rose and customer numbers fell it became too difficult to stay open. became too difficult to stay 0 en. ., , became too difficult to stay 0 en, ., , ., , became too difficult to stay oen. ., , ., open. people are struggling and there is less _ open. people are struggling and there is less money _ open. people are struggling and there is less money to - open. people are struggling and there is less money to go - there is less money to go around and eating out is a luxury. around and eating out is a luxu . , ., , . ,

luxury. her story reflects others in _ luxury. her story reflects others in the _ luxury. her story reflects others in the capital - others in the capital particularly in central london where 500 venues have closed in the last three years. in walthamstow grace will now be selling herfood walthamstow grace will now be selling her food to shops. one way to keep her brand alive at a time when it wasn't possible to keep her restaurants open. you're live with bbc news. let's return to our top story — the re—election of president erdowan in turkey. shayan sardarizadeh from our bbc verify team has been looking at the claims and counter—claims on social media in recent days. yes, i mean, the interesting thing about today was, two weeks ago during the first round, as the polls were open and people were voting, we were seeing lots of claims in videos going viral, particularly from the opposition side claiming that there were acts of fraud or untoward incidents happening at polling stations, showing videos and putting them online. today, most of the day was fine until the last couple of hours

until we saw a video president erdogan at the polling station where he cast his ballot, and you can see him flanked by supporters, and someone is filming him, and he has a wad of cash and he is handing out money to his supporters, which raised our brows because obviously although he has been doing that on the campaign trail in the last couple of months, doing it on the campaign trail is one thing, on polling day at a polling station, that's obviously a completely different matter. there are a couple of videos that went viral on turkish social media which show ballot papers with pictures of mr erdogan and the other candidate, and somebody was basically stamping the ballot papers for mr erdogan, in total three orfour ballot papers in that particular video. we don't know which particular

polling station that was filmed at and what exactly was going on, so we're not claiming anything suspicious happened, it just that was the video that went online, but apart from that, no major incident or major online claim. after the results were announced, looking at opposition social media, it does seem like there has been quite a lot of disappointment and also some anger, we have seen videos of some opposition supporters in front of the headquarters of the chp, the opposition, some of them chanting slogans against the opposition and saying the opposition needs to be rebuilt, others are saying they ran mr erdogan very close, but at the same time it does seem that on the opposition side, it seems like it was a chance missed. i want to ask about the media, because we were hearing reports that some reporters had been beaten up. mr erdogan dominated

the airwaves in this election, so explain to us what part the media had to play in this outcome. obviously, mainstream media in turkey plays a huge role in reaching voters and all the people of turkey. the way it works in turkey, particularly under president erdogan is, he wields a lot of power and influence with mainstream media sources — pretty much all of them more or less either directly or indirectly support him. so on that basis he has an enormous amount of power and influence over turkish voters. opposition supporters, they mostly rely on social media and online platforms to try and get the message out and try and get voters to come

out by showing videos of their rallies and also particular messages that they tried to make viral about the turkish economy and the way president erdogan has been running turkey for the last few years — they claim he has been quite authoritarian. but even there on social media and online platforms, they basically face a huge challenge because the turkish government is one of the leading governments in the world in terms of sending requests to major online platforms like twitter, facebook, instagram, tiktok, youtube, asking them to take down content that the turkish government doesn't like, and they don't like content that is critical of the government and the president. so on the eve of the first round, we had an incident when the turkish government asked twitter to block four accounts and 400 tweets from turkish opposition activists for residents of turkey and the threat was that if they didn't,

it would block access to twitter for turkish voters. russia has carried out the largest ever drone attack on the ukrainian capital kyiv since the invasion began. but president zelensky said his country's air defences had managed to thwart much of the attack. one man was killed by falling debris and several fires broke out. from kyiv, james landale has sent this report. this is what the skies over kyiv looked like in the early hours. unmanned russian attack aircraft coming in waves. being destroyed by ukraine's air defences. officials said more than 40 drones were brought down. but there was still damage nevertheless as debris fell to the ground, striking buildings, killing two people and injuring more. in the south—west of the city, fires broke out in several buildings including a large warehouse that suffered severe damage. as firefighters fought the blaze, they discovered parts of the russian drones that survived the explosions. but none of that stopped people coming out to celebrate the anniversary of kyiv�*s birth, more than 1500 years ago, in a show

of some resilience. kyiv is what gives me strength. look around, like, there are a lot of people today. i haven't seen this much people, like, since the beginning of the full—scale invasion. the sky is protected very well now in kyiv. we try and live our lives . because we cannot have it tomorrow, so we should live todax _ with brave face. in london, russia's ambassador to britain told the bbc�*s laura kuenssberg his country could still step up its military action. it's a big idealistic mistake to think that ukraine may prevail. russia is 16 times bigger than ukraine. we have enormous resources and it hasn'tjust started yet, to act very seriously. could this go on, then, for five years, ten years? i hope it will not go... that depends on the efforts

in escalation of war that is being undertaken by nato countries. for now, though, it is russia that is doing much of the escalating. that's because it's preparing for ukraine's long—awaited counteroffensive. moscow wants to damage and deplete the air defences that protect this city before russian troops are themselves on the defensive. so on the russian drones come, in record numbers. almost every other night this month. this was a reconnaissance drone a few days ago. officials said last night's strike was the biggest on the city since the invasion. it's unlikely to be the last. james landale, bbc news, kyiv. to the uk now — where itv has confirmed that its show this morning will continue as normal, as more details have emerged following the controversy that its former presenter phillip schofield had a relationship with a younger colleague. our correspondent simonjones is at television centre

in west london, where the show is based. phillip schofield is one of the uk's most famous presenters, but on friday, he quit itv, he admitted he had lied to colleagues and also to members of his family and the public about the fact he had an affair with a much younger man. he described the relationship as unwise but said it wasn't illegal. today, though, we have learned some more details about the relationship. a lawyer for phillip schofield has told us in terms of the relationship, the pair first met when the man was actually a boy aged 15, when phillip schofield visited his theatre school. but the lawyer stressed there was never any sexual relationship of any type until the man began working at this morning and he didn't start working on this morning until he was 18. but i think there are some real questions now for the programme.

it is a flagship programme for itv. itv says this morning will be on air as normal tomorrow and it says there are no questions about the future of this morning — it is not facing the axe. itv bosses say in 2020, they actually carried out an investigation into rumours about phillip schofield, but they uncovered only hearsay and nothing concrete. but i think questions for the bosses here at itv about the very culture of its flagship programme. let's bring you a story from italy, where there's a bit of a mystery taking over the city of venice. it's after a stretch of the grand canal turned fluourescent green. these images were taken near the famous rialto bridge in the last few hours. authorities there have called an emergency meeting with police, who are looking into whether it could

be a climate protest. but unusually, no group has said they're behind it. the fire service sent out this video — they've been helping the environment agency take samples of the waters to be analysed. that's all for now — stay with bbc world news. hello there. some of you may have seen the fabulous halo effect around the sun on sunday evening. it was caused by thin high cloud made up of ice crystals. and just like a rainbow, you can get a double halo effect. there will be some of that high cloud around on bank holiday monday and much of the country will have a dry and sunny day.

but a chilly start and some cloud coming off the north sea through the midlands and eastern england, breaking up through the day with some sunshine coming through. away from the far north of scotland, there'll be a lot of sunshine. strong sunshine as well, high uv levels for many of us on monday and that sun could be quite deceptive when it breaks through in the south—east because there'll be a cooler and stronger wind blowing, and it will be windy through the english channel. cooler in the south—east but further north and west, warming up with temperatures to 20—21 celsius in north—west england and scotland. bank holiday monday will be dry because we still have high pressure in charge and to the south of it, still some strong winds in southern england, and by tuesday there is cloud in the north sea. with the wind off the north sea, we could see cloud lingering into the afternoon in eastern england. more sunny further west and warmer further west as well, temperatures widely into the low 20s, perhaps 24 degrees in glasgow. a quick look at wednesday because there are some changes, more low cloud for england and wales which could linger in some places all day, keeping it somewhat cooler. more towards the north—west where we have the sunshine and higher temperatures, and at long last, we could reach 25 degrees in scotland. very unusual not to hit 25

in may, the last time it happened was in 2013 when we reached 25 celsius on june 6th. there were some chilly springs in the �*80s, 1987 in particular when we didn't reach 25 degrees until late injune. we could hit the mid 20s again through thursday and friday, more in the south—west of the uk, and if you're wondering where the rain is, it's in southern europe, not great for your holidays in the mediterranean, far better to be holidaying here in the uk. that high pressure is not going anywhere all week, it looks to be fine and dry with some warm sunshine and cooler winds in the far south. that high pressure is not going anywhere all week, it looks to be fine and dry with some warm sunshine and

cooler winds in the far south.

we have a deal in principle. after weeks of negotiations, us lawmakers agree to raise the debt ceiling — now they need party approval. with soaring inflation, the turkish lira hits a fresh record low as president erdogan

declares victory in the country's run—off election.