this is news live from berlin turkey's political future at stake as it gears up for elections this weekend did you meet the candidates challenging president america won and hoping to head off his plans for a change the constitution and souped up presidency also coming up on the americal downplays expectations for sunday's emergency e.u. summit on refugee policy but the german chancellor is under tremendous domestic pressure on the issue.

i'm sorry so much going to get to have you with us turkey heads to the polls on sunday with the future of the country's political system at stake if president recha tie up heir to one wins he's promised to deliver sweeping constitutional changes to further strengthen the presidency which was once only a ceremonial role despite his challengers everything is pointing to another win for the strongman. what it was. president. has been steering the course of turkish politics for more than fifteen years. he has a good shot of reelection which would allow him to further tighten his grip on power. after this presidential election the most common for vital constitutional changes in a generation will come into force they were only narrowly backed by the turkish people in last year's referendum without on wins the necessary majority he will be

an almost all powerful president but he is not there yet. these people stand in his way they are add ons biggest challenges. sixty one year old men are action as the only woman running for president she has already served as interior minister and last year she founded a new political party she's seen as right wing nationalists and religious some call action on the iran lady of turkey. what him into represents the center left c.h.p. turkey's biggest opposition party the fifty four year old is an outspoken defender of the text republic as envisioned by most of like a mulatto and. he's a charismatic speaker and a harsh critic of ad one. touches turkey's

first presidential candidate to run from behind bars despite international protest he's been in custody for a year on the health on terrorism related charges. represents the pro kurdish a party despised by the turkish government many of those backing the forty five year old attorney all young voters. only three challenges. one to limit the powers of the presidency and see a return to the parliamentary system they want to improve relations with your openly turkey out of its economic crisis is unlikely any of them will win a majority but if they manage to force out on into runoff elections it might end up a much tighter race for the seemingly opower for president. that report from data is yulia honchos covering the elections from turkey's capital for us are you here good to see you you've been talking to

a lot of voters in the run up to these elections have you sensed a desire for change oh yes there is definitely a desire for change and you can feel it when you talk to people on the streets at tea shops at the supermarket offer ole miss out on and his justice and development party the a.k.p. have been in power for more than fifteen years now and now there are many people who say it's enough there is nothing in it for us anymore they say for example the economy is not doing well on employment is high youth unemployment for example stands at over twenty percent and additionally to that many people say that their freedoms are being limits it they don't want to be told anymore what they can watch online they want a free media landscape i talked to people here in ankara today let's have a listen to what they have to say. well you know everyone should be treated if it's what we want but it's not happening in our country hopefully will change with. that

i believe he'll bring justice and he's one of us. to move to dimiss is our children have no jobs i'm retired and my pension isn't nearly enough then are they my hope this will change believe what i mean jerk child that my interest for my journey by new democracy secularism he said going on we have many common values and. so yulia we heard some voices there supporting modem ensure he's been described as the candidate who has the biggest chance of beating at a while what is his message to voters. well actually he is using this feeling this desire for change to mobilize voters first of all he is a very good speaker and he can challenge mr out on that and he has the guts to openly criticize him mr engine has a really really simple message he is telling people you have or you have the choice

between freedom and fear if you work for me you work for freedom if you work for mr adelman you won't for fear beyond that he is trying to give a deeply polarized society a vision for reunification a turkey is after all a deeply polarized society there are many conflicts here and he is trying to get people beyond the traditional base of his own party he is appealing to religious voters he is appealing to many kurdish voters as well so his message is if you will for me i'll be a president for all of you i'll be a president for all eighty million people in turkey with a country so polarized as you said yulia what is the most likely outcome of sunday's election one of the polls saying. well there are many polls but many of them are not reliable at all but there is one picture emerging here and this picture is that mr add one will most likely win the presidential race he is the favorite candidate off the roll maybe not in the first round but in the second

round although the opposition is hoping to force him into the second round runoff where he will maybe run against mr engine as he's the most popular challenger and then the opposition has already agreed they would back mr injure or the remaining candidate against miss out on so there's still that hope and there is still the mood they missed out on after all is not invincible that's for the presidential level on the podium entry level the poll suggests that missing out on might lose the majority in parliament his a.k. party and the alliance the electoral alliance he has might lose the majority and then he would face a party in the very diverse parliament but since turkey is making a transformation from the parliamentary to a presidential system on sunday the big question is how much will the parliament here in turkey still have to say after this election or a newly earlier this week you did a report about turkish people who are concerned about possible election

manipulation just briefly if you can how free and fair are these elections going to be. when many people say these elections have never been free or fair from the very beginning since eighty percent of the media according to reporters without borders and now owned by companies close to the government this vote is taking place under a state of emergency which basically limits the rights of assembly and gives police added powers so these are the circumstances which don't make this election a very free and fair one from the beginning. reporting for us from yulia thank you very much. now germany's chancellor has ended her brief visit to the middle east to discuss the migration crisis on sunday and america as scheduled to travel to brussels for informal talks on the same subject with sixteen other e.u. leaders which in agreement will not be easy. on the americal seen here in lebanon needs an international deal on migrants to quell

a rebellion within her own conservative camp in germany her domestic opponents want germany to reject some refugees of its national borders merkel favors a european solution but is dampening expectations. on talk of brussels is just a working meeting there won't be a final declaration. the second given that we know as well that there won't be any solution among all twenty eight member states on the level of the council next week to the entire package of questions on migration that's. a good illustration of malcolm's problem is italy which says it is overwhelmed the country is rejecting migrants rescued by n.g.o.s from the mediterranean and says it won't take back any from germany either. for eastern european member states are boycotting the brussels meeting their leaders also don't think

much of reimposed german border is within the e.u. . they were going to get around to. preventing illegal migrants from entering e.u. territory it has to be done at the coast of europe or at the coast of libya and not inside the schengen area which. otherwise the whole singing area would break up saying. that's a view shared by austria which is about to take over the use rotating presidency and with which germany could soon have a hard border again. but this is ridiculous i think it's important that we no longer primarily fight about the distribution of migrants within the european union . but instead focus on securing our outer borders together. but beyond beefing up the use external border security member states don't agree on

much concerning migrants and even france macas closest european allies is warning that the block could potentially break apart over this issue. let's talk to our political correspondent simon young is following the story for us hi simon we heard uncle americal there saying she's aiming for by try or multilevel or agreements rather than a europe wide deal that sounds complicated. well indeed i mean previously angela merkel was saying that she hoped that any uy deal would come out at the end of all this wrangling but now she's clearly saying she doesn't believe that can happen even after the e.u. summit so what's the alternative well it's smaller groups of nations getting together or even bilateral deals and they have one advantage which is that they can come into force and be organized more quickly obviously than the sort of pay and european deal on the other hand they can end up being rather costly if germany has

to promise lots of cash in exchange for countries getting control of migration at the same time simon at a press conference at the end of her trip to lebanon medical was asked about this idea of these so-called disembarkation centers in countries outside the e.u. were refugees could register an asylum claim let's listen to what she said. we think they're also good reasons to accommodate refugees close to their home country as the prime minister has said and we see iran as being a reliable partner comes to finance a nice project. do you think that this is a solution a solution rather that's likely to emerge from this weekend's meeting well really it's not a new idea it's been suggested before the problem is which countries would actually host those centers outside the e.u. could it be tunisia perhaps but they've actually rejected this idea in the past could it be libya perhaps but the human rights situation there is of course

catastrophic and it will take a wall as i said to put such ideas into place so angle americal has suggested you know this weekend's meeting is really an exchange of ideas and not about producing solutions even of that kind and this is all been prompted by uncle michel domestic political problems the pressure she's facing ishi finding sympathy for her position . not at all she's she's highly embattled of course she's got support from within her own party who are accusing the varian conservatives of trying to force the government to the right but on the on their side the varying conservatives led by horse a hope for the interior minister he says oh well you know i've i've wakened the european union out with a case like some sort of fairy tale prince as he sees it and he said this meeting of his party for just two days after the european summit essentially underlining the idea that angle america faces an ultimatum to get european results or he's

going to take action which could bring down the government and their forgets to hundred days today since the government came into office and they're looking very wobbly right our political correspondent family young with the latest thank you very much simon. to world cup action our fan favorites iceland last two no to nigeria it's the super eagles first goals and first win at this world cup nigeria's hero was the son who scored twice his first coming after a swift counterattack just after half time and with an emphatic volley. and the most a second came after a blistering run he kept just poise and finished with decision joy for nigeria and incredibly good news also for argentina. and earlier today brazil found a really tough to break down costa rica in their group the match it took the favorites ninety minutes to grab the ball this was sitting up there we continue to

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