e.w. . this is the view of the union as live from berlin a test for turkey's ruling party votes are being counted in regional elections the country's deep recession could hurt the score of president everyone's party we'll find out what's at stake from our correspondent also coming up. could ukrainians choose a comedian as their next president we'll see why below demeanor of the lenski is a lead is leading in the polls in a closely watched race. in the bundesliga the home fans were hoping for a win in dortmund's question to claim their first title since two thousand and twelve but a resurgent wolfsburg side was looking to put the brakes on overseas championship changed.

comics by sir welcome to the program vote counting is underway in turkey's local elections there the first since the reform package gave president red chip type entered a one sweeping new powers but polls suggest his ruling party is set for a major losses with his popularity hurt by the country's economic recession. this is turkey is sick vote in five years for local elections the atmosphere is not quite what you might expect one voter called it loud aggressive and unworthy of the democracy. people in this country have lost respect for each other and politics is driving that polarization with all on the. well though he's not standing for election himself the campaign's been dominated by president red chip time and one and one knows local elections serve as

a barometer of public support he was elected istanbul's mayor in one thousand and eighty four and right now a currency crisis and rising food prices according discontent. surveys suggest the ruling a.k.p. party could be defeated in the capital ankara months so you have ash of the secular c.h.p. as the favorite there in istanbul the a.k.p. and c.h.p. and neck and neck and he's with me and i think the a.k.p. has improved services i'm forty five now and i know how did used to be shook you so much that you know i have less and less trust in elections and i'm only twenty one but i still go and vote today in the hope that something might change what has been done this to the past people voted for the government faced accusations of a crackdown the pro kurdish h d p party says many of its politicians have been arrested in recent days. and joining us now live from istanbul is dorian jones during the polls are closed now do we know anything about initial results

no we don't and that's because there is an official media ban on the results until nine pm local time so we will have to wait and see on the are there any indications about the elections being free and fair. well i mean turkey has in turkey have been wrought with allegations of vote rigging in the last few years from the opposition and in fact the last local elections in there was major scenes of major allegations of vote rigging and vote fair there was reports of ballot card of men breaking in and stealing fowl of boxes and that was a very closely for campaign campaign and that really set the ground for opposition concerns over these future elections but this election for now at least there hasn't been any real reports of major irregularities although we are now in the critical phase of counting of the vote and that is where the opposition have voiced

for concerns in the past of irregularities the ruling a.k.p. government of the night is we are in for a tense few hours especially as predictions are that many of the votes the key cities in turkey are expected to be very close so local elections but national political consequences absolutely and in fact the turkish president urged one has made these polls a referendum about his rule in fact in a rally on saturday he said to the very gains that are the people of the chief doctor his role are at stake and the reason why he's made such a high stakes of these local polls is that he knows that the control the towns in the cities are the only center of power outside of his direct control and he is aware that he is ruling a.k.p. party is facing severe competition in the key cities of the capital and even istanbul another one knows there is stamboul is the key to any hopes the opposition have of ousting him the old adage in turkey is he who controls istanbul controls

turkey ok that was did abuse dorian jones reporting from istanbul. to ukraine now we're voting in the first round of a presidential election is underway the vote is being watched closely in the west and in russia ukrainians have dozens of candidates to pick from but polls indicate there are three frontrunners television comedian who selenski leads the pack despite never having held political office he's ahead of president petro poroshenko who's led the country since two thousand and fourteen as well as former prime minister yulia timoshenko the last times ukraine went to the polls that russia had just an excuse me a region and progress in separatist had seized control of part of the country's east five years on though what are the issues foremost in ukrainians minds correspondent nick connelly reports. more than ten

thousand people have lost their lives since war broke out in eastern ukraine back in twenty fourteen millions have been forced to leave their homes as the shooting continues political attempts to end the conflict remain stuck in no man's land but the fact the fighting didn't spread further and that ukraine's army was able to regroup essential to president petro poroshenko as campaign one is message to voters is clear only he can keep ukraine safe and stand up to russia. but five years of war have also left their mark on ukrainians pockets in europe second poorest nation real incomes are still lower than they were before the war as household bills have skyrocketed. over three million ukrainians have left the country in search of work it's these people pensioners and those on low incomes struggling to get by the ex prime minister yulia timoshenko is trying to reach she promises to cut household bills in health as soon as she's elected and do more to

ensure ukrainians can find work at home both president poroshenko and x. prime minister to have been around for decades and many ukrainians especially younger voters are hungry for change. one person who seems to fit the bill is actor and comedian polygamous selenski the forty one year old may have no previous political experience but he has played the president before and the hit series servant of the people this is calm tells the story of a school teacher whose rant about the state of the country is caught on video by one of his pupils the video goes viral and the teacher suddenly finds himself catapulted to the top job don't worry good morning mr president. mixing footage from the sitcom with his campaign ads zelinsky is now trying to convince ukrainians that he's the outside of the country needs to shake up its corrupt politics his motto become president but stay ordinary guy his critics argue that in reality he's

no outsider launching a campaign calling him a puppet of the oligarch. a sworn enemy of president petro poroshenko it's called a moist key who put zelinsky on television in the first place and on whose channel he announced his surprise run for the presidency selenski denies there's anything untoward about his relations with the businessman. for now the polls put zelinsky in first place far ahead of his rivals but questions remain come election day will ukrainians really take the jump and vote for someone whose only experience of politics so far has been with a t.v. script in his hands. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. lawyer and government critic susanna has one slovakia's presidential election the win makes her the country's first female head of state she is a political novice who ran on an anti corruption platform she beat the government backed candidate shifter which. police in bangladesh have arrested two of the

owners of a high rise office building that caught fire last week authorities say the twenty two storey structure in the capital dhaka locked out equipped fire safety features and was extended illegally the blaze killed twenty six people and injured seventy. was the saudi government involved in hiking the phone of the world's richest man jeff bezos that's the allegation that has been made by the amazon owner security advisor gavin de becker he's been investigating how the us tabloid the national enquirer got access to intimate texts and photos from bases phone with more on this i'm joined by the use alex forrest whiting alex this reads like an international thriller can you remind us the background yes well this story really hit the headlines back in january when text messages between jeff bezos and the t.v. lauren son shays ended up in the u.s. national enquirer now that's

a top lloyd now it was plain that the two of them were having an affair even though they were both married and just last month face also accused the newspaper's owner of trying to blackmail him by threatening to publish intimate photographs of the two of them together and less he said publicly that the story was not politically motivated no he refused to do that and what has security advisor said this week and it's changed things well gavin de becker who's what for the imus emboss for more than twenty years has published his own piece today in another year on another us a website called the daily beast and he claims his own investigation proves that the sound government. and how to game to access to bases his phone a pretty ass and he's unsure to what degree of any of the parent company of the national enquirer american media was aware of the details but what he does say is that the lawyers for the company had approached both him and abase else to say that they had to say this story had not relied upon electronic eavesdropping or king and

again both men refused to do that just to play devil's advocate here why would saudi arabia be interested in the content well this is well this is where it really does begin to sound like a spy thriller because as well as owning and jeff bezos also owns the washington post who what for the washington post of course you know it was the former saudi journalist jim out. now almost six months ago he was murdered in the saudi consulate in turkey and the washington post has covered that story extensively and has run many reports linking directly to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin bin sell selman now saudi arabia has always denied that he was involved but even u.s. officials have said that mr kashyap she's murder would have needed his approval so far he has refused to comment on this and also we haven't yet heard from the

national enquirer about these latest claims can't wait for the next chapter ok for supporting thanks for the. sports now and in the bundesliga dortmund went into matchday twenty seven level on points with byron at the top of the table and faced a tricky match against it was a must win game head of next week's huge clash but it wasn't going to be easy against the wolves. with marco roy's out to witness the birth of his first child man while a county filled in as dortmund's captain against a high flying vosburgh side finding someone to wear the armband is one thing but replacing royce is clinical finishing is another issue. putting a shot over the old spear goal in the nineteenth minute. battle defensively but rarely look dangerous. route back course twenty eighth minute

chance was likely their best of the entire match. after that spectacular save a pitch invader kept dortmund keeper roman birky busier than the wolfsburg attack did. the hosts still looked out of sorts on the other end of the field. sending a sixty fourth minute free kick into orbit. frustration mounted among the dortmund faithful as the clock wound down but a minute into stoppage time the spanish forward again stepped up to take a free kick and this time he drove it home by one nil dortmund without cancer sending fans into uproar with the kind of late heroics that dortmund relied on so heavily in the fall. and in the last play of the match jaden censure weave through a weary of all spirit defense to set up for an unorthodox finish his second of the game. dortmund may have left it late but there are two nil win could be vital at

season's end. of. now with dortmund winning title rivals byron had to follow suit but they were held to a one all draw in freiburg just two minutes were on the clock when an unmarked. headed freiburg in front to shock the reigning champions but they didn't hold the lead for long as robert livin da skied levelled the score on twenty two minutes i one hundred ninety nine goal for the pole but a frustrating draw for buyers. and you're watching news we'll leave you now with some images of earth cities around the world turn off the lights on famous landmarks and a call for global action on climate change i'm next to come.

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