shuffle. d.w.b. learning course. german maybe you see. this is d w news a lot from bergland turkish voters living in germany head to the polls they are having their say on the future of the country's controversial president turkey itself votes in a fortnight but the one point four million acts fast could have a significant impact on the election. also coming up what's a mollusc spend search and rescue efforts following sunday's volcanic eruption

officials say that brain as well as hot action mud are making it impossible to dig for survivors. kelly welcome to the program one point four million turkish citizens living in germany have begun early voting in the country's presidential and parliamentary elections turkey itself goes to the polls on june the twenty fourth and with six presidential candidates wretch of type editor was future is far from certain. after one supporters and opponents stand side by side in front of the turkish general consulate in berlin up to sixty thousand turkish citizens are expected to vote at this polling station alone votes from turks living abroad could swing the election it's likely to be a close one. as you can see members of the turkish community are eager to cast

their votes here in berlin they want to decide in which direction the country is heading where too many different opinions. six candidates have entered the presidential election and eight parties hope to win votes in the parliamentary election but most people here will be voting for or against heir to one. and you can with the same government should stay everything should remain as is which party of the k.p. . everything bothers me what he did to us for sixteen years was not right he worked for himself. or any child you had it one is the best because he's built roads and hospitals for that one even proper roads in turkey. the union. the first day of the election has run smoothly each party has sent

election monitors there it decisively countering accusations of vote rigging the turkish authorities carefully displaying openness. every evening these ballot boxes a sealed without having been opened my physique every evening kept under three looks and can only be open to all three parties a present. they will then be transported and open to turkey on june twentieth. that if you took i for part of even the opposition pro kurdish h d p is not afraid of vote rigging in germany but they complain that no one from the h.t.t.p. is permitted to accompany the ballot boxes to turkey and once they've arrived it will be days before they're counted. the slimmest that's what's bad is that the vote banks will be locked up for three or four days in storage rooms and we don't know what will happen there is among these a lack of trust between the various political camps also in berlin thanks for

more let's go now to turkey on our correspondent dorian jones who is standing by with the latest from istanbul and dorian as we saw there early voting in the snap election now currently underway give us a sense of how crucial these overseas votes will be particularly those from germany . well it's about three million overseas voters of which germany accounts for about a hof of those votes now that's about seven percent of the fifty five million electorate and now those votes could be key to the outcome of the june polls because the presidential and parliamentary elections are becoming increasingly too close to call the president will be looking for a very high turnout among overseas voters because in the past they have strongly backed him and his ruling party. but turkish politicians for their part as that you know they have been campaigning they were actually banned from doing so in germany and in other parts of europe have tensions with the e.u.

played a role in the campaigning there where you are in the country where if you call in last year's referendum to extend the country's presidential powers similar restrictions were put on campaigning now president urged one use that in his campaign provoking a crisis with several european countries including germany and playing the nationalists card and now that was widely seen as a factor in him securing a narrow victory in the referendum now appears to be using the same tactics in this election but this time it doesn't seem to be gaining much traction and the reason is the economy is dominating this election last month the fall in the euro provoked fears of financial crisis repercussions of that are still being felt with fears that turkey could still face a financial and economic crisis going forward and that is dominating the election and that is a big barrier to the turkish president who is trying to consolidate his power we know that the u.n. for example and others that they have cast doubt on turkey's ability to hold

a free and fair election given the state of emergency that is part of that power consolidation it's currently in place and these elections there are also likely to mean big structural changes to turkey's democracy as well right. well that's right the powers that were passed in last year's referendum come into effect with this election that grants power to the new president making the current executive presidency giving him powers to rule by two also gives greater powers over the three and it reduces the role of parliament even abolishing the role of prime minister now president of the ones who is necessary to deal with the challenges facing turkey the most got problems ongoing war against kurdish and surgeons but opposition parties say this is tantamount to an elected dictatorship they have to reverse these reforms and that's why this election is seen as much in many ways as a vote on the future of democracy in turkey dorian jones in istanbul thank you.

and the turkish government need while has announced it is suspending its migron deal with greece that means that athens will no longer be able to send failed asylum seekers back to turkey the country's foreign minister made the announcement after greece refused to extradite eight turkish officers accused of taking part in turkey's failed military coup back in twenty sixteen the minister said that turkey's migrant deal with the european union would not be affected both of them. u.s. president donald trump says that he hopes that washington will be able to normalize ties with north korea in the future trump made the comments following talks with japan's prime minister shinzo ave their meeting was focused on preparations for the june twelfth summit between the u.s. and north korea he said that he hopes that the summit would lead to a new era of prosperity for all koreans he also said that he would walk away from the whole thing if the talks don't go well. guatemalan authorities have

today suspended search and rescue efforts in the wake of sunday's all caddick eruption they say that rainy weather and the hot volcanic material blanketing the area are making it impossible to keep up the search for survivors at least one hundred people are dead with close to two hundred missing despite the efforts of emergency workers up until now. clearing the rubble after disaster struck for days crews worked tirelessly to find and remove bodies buried under volcanic ash it's been a grim task and dangerous too dangerous the official search has now been suspended . unsafe for parts of a squint emergency shelters have been set up for the evacuees those who made it here are the lucky ones. the more we know that the larger came and took everything with it. to many people who were killed. but. we have nothing

left nothing at all that will. lead us it was we had to leave we couldn't take anything with us the ashes were coming after us but the people who stayed behind were buried underneath my own hands in mine also the battles we had on body of music of that on their shelves but the community has come together in a show of solidarity with people donating food and other items to help fellow guatemalans who've lost their homes. and makeshift memorial has also been set up to remember loved ones who were unable to flee the volcano's deadly rage. t.w. correspondent ophelia harm so who is in guatemala for us she joins us now from an area where survivors are being sheltered tell us a feel you know where are you exactly right now and how are these evacuees holding up at this hour. i'm in

a church that has been ability for people to stay here it's about four hundred people who are saying here and they some of them are very desperate they don't know if they will ever be able to return to their homes some don't know how long they will have to stay in these conditions and they they are also worried about their places some of the areas are so devastated that they will probably not be inhabitable after this sastre but the good news is that there is a lot of aid coming in we have seen it coming from all over the country people driving up to twelve hours to get here and bring food and medical supplies and of international help is also arriving there was a problem before yesterday some buses were stopped in the different frontiers but now they are coming in and so people will probably not have to worry at least for a while and speaking about that help of chile because of course we heard there a bit earlier about the rescuers that they suspended the search for the victims

today how was that news affecting what to mullin's many of whom may not know where their loved ones are at this hour and will the search resume. many people here are sad that that news came in this morning and obviously some were shocked because they still remain with the hope that their loved ones will be fine and found the rescue workers who are stuck as you mentioned because of the climate conditions and the hot material that is still in the area as we saw rescuers who smelled whose roots were melting. they might resume further on what they were already say is that there is. a monitoring system that will be watching. activity and if it's safe to go back they will you must remember that are very religious and burying their bodies of their loved ones is very important to them so they want the bodies to be rescued from the areas just briefly before we go

accusations that authorities failed to warn people early enough is that a fair assessment. well people do blame the they say that one say knew about the disaster it's because they had ashes above their heads already and blame each other the ones that are in charge of monitoring . to these said they had been giving during the whole weekend and evacuation was only ordered forty five minutes after the explosion now the opposition leaders in problem and have said that they will investigate the government for probable probable what they say could be negligence. or harms a routine but the latest from guatemala this hour thank you. let's turn now to some other news from around the world because afghanistan's government has announced an unconditional weeklong ceasefire with the taliban to coincide with the

festival of aid which marks the end of ramadan the president made the surprise announcement after a meeting of islamic character clerics this week declaring a fatwa or a ruling against suicide bombings this is the first time that president gandhi has offered the taliban an unconditional cessation of hostilities the taliban has not responded. well meantime elsewhere in the world jordan's incoming prime minister omar says that he will drop proposals to raise income in taxes this needs a key demand of protesters whose weeklong mass demonstrations against government austerity measures led the king. to replace the old prime minister. and use but man man who drove a truck into a crowd in stockholm last year has been jailed for life. abhi love said that he wanted to punish sweden for joining a coalition of countries fighting against the so-called islamic state five people

were killed in the attack and fourteen wounded russian president vladimir putin has been holding his annual nationwide q. and a session taking questions from the public live on television past events have been criticized as stage managed theatre this year the studio audience has been replaced by text messages and video clashed. with retired jamaican sprinter usain bolt is trying to kickstart a new career in professional football after practicing with dortmund this year he is now playing a friendly in norway for the club strong god set. wearing shirts number nine points fifty eight their his world record time for the one hundred meters the thirty one year old to have the best chance of a game against norway it's twenty thousand despite his best efforts and some decent touches the ball his team ended up losing one now. quick reminder now the top story

that we've been following for you here at g.w. more than a million turkish citizens in germany have begun early voting in turkey's election called for june twenty fourth overseas voters could swing this year's results and president added wants favor in the last election three years ago both ex-pats backed his party the a.k.p. . and with that now you're up to date on news i'm sarah kelly in berlin think you so much for watching have a great day. make your smart t.v. even smarter which could be totally. what you wanted for what you wanted. to date. extraordinary. you decide what's on the fun don't look at the w john more.