force it's something borda with thousands of troops. it is the biggest political defeat the turkish president and his achy party have ever had to face losing power in istanbul voters yesterday they said a strong message no more politics from the past change is now in charge will that apply to the president to tonight the city where president ever once political career began is looking more like the end of the why i'm bored. this is the day. we will bring morals to politics. we have found right attempts to intimidate all teams sometimes my people who appear to be pawns the representatives in individual cases are not ready to work with the president or the one and i

aspire to do that i'm announcing nice in front of all residents of east envoy. to see my personal view is that it wasn't right to repeat this election but the fact that it was won by such a margin as best the 1st time cool. well you. did it i cast my vote in freiburg the ruling cost but unfortunately i didn't win the other parts of the game as one of the. turkey needs pressure plus you rhetoric and a new face i think this result is a reflection of that. also coming up tonight donald trump's back and forth on iran just days after he pulled back from a military strike the u.s. president is pushing ahead with what he calls the next economic attack i think a lot of restraint has been shown by us a lot of restraint and that doesn't mean we're going to show it in the future thank you very much of a direct. to

our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day it is stamboul a city tonight that has chosen political change and a future that will most likely mean the powers that be will soon become the powers that were yesterday voters in turkey's largest and most politically and economically important city went to the polls and built an unprecedented blow to president a k party a k party and its is one missed party predecessors have governed it stamboul for a quarter of a century it is where president heir to one 1st rose to power as mere heir to one but after yesterday's municipal election in stamboul may now be where the people defy and deny it through democracy the almost unchecked power of the political party of wretch of. the end disputed viktor istanbul's marilyn

lection is this man. he extended his majority in sunday's controversial rerun of a ballot he already narrowly won in march the new math cool to devote the change. this is not a victory this is a new beginning. i would like to say from here that as of tomorrow i will treat 16000000 people equally as i'm a. done deal. president wretched out of one's a k party and cool the 1st result irregular and the electoral board agreed this time around. conceded defeat or are all. according to the results as of now my compared to sa. is leading the race i congratulate him and wish him good luck. there are. tens of

thousands turned out to celebrate. today's only i'm so excited that the right person has won justices one love and unity one the people in istanbul have won everything it's great now we will work for a bright future together shoulder to shoulder but really i am so happy. that i bet you'll be sure to get the when we get your dinner and in order to get it's enough the people have spoken and their will has become clear justice has been served about it in the world. but the a.k. party faithful was shocked and disappointed. has a minute because i think people do not see the good things tie of ed or what has done we are all sad i relatives came here from other cities just for today and now we have so sad disappointed you know it will be the end of the i k pay for the services ma'am. the result is a further blow to president out of one who's been accused of authoritarianism and

is struggling to revive a flagging economy he also lost municipal elections in ankara and is mia in march but istanbul is the jewel in his crown out of one's hometown and where his career has started as man now the city and its new leader going their own way. for gordon i'm joined by john he is the spokesperson for turkish president who was a party of her own it's good to have you back on the program you know when you and i last spoke your bones early it was early may when the decision had been made to rerun the election in istanbul and you told me then that running the elections would make democracy in turkey stronger did it. 1st of all let me congratulate things to the mole on winning we need folk compay made of the campaign and also let me just take action to thank millions of our

party voters and tens of thousands of thousands of volunteers who've been working so hard in last few weeks and coming to your question yes because we had a really robust process and there were many more appointed people on ballot boxes and process was clear and open to everyone and that was that was what we. would we wanted of course that the results what is coming out from all the positive we will respect because this is democracy and in nature of politics you sometimes lose and sometimes they do but we have all these our full respect on what people to say. the election it was rerun because your party dak party claim that there were signs of vote rigging and this is what prison irda once said about that west must think a lot says you know to just numbers it became clear that certain people with dirty

hands had become involved starting before the elections they brought the situation to this point step by step. we sincerely believe that there was organized corruption full illegality and irregularity in the estimable may or election. news. does the president does the still believe that there was organized corruption in the 1st istanbul election. 1st of all we believe that in the 1st election there were irregularities and this is why we made our application for a recall and especially when the difference between 2 candidates or 0.15 percent but unfortunately an opposite position party and electoral vote rejected a record score to go over for a rerun and because of the regularity of the election board made a decision to go to a rerun we want to the recount but the election board made

a decision to go to rerun this was not something we were reaching for but the decision was made by election we just wanted to have this process clear and robust because elections are very important for turkey is democracy and there were many accusations on our elections about different this and about their palace and i think this has been a good answer as was this was what we had been saying for a long time but i think now it has been a good answer for those who are accusing our democracy. you mentioned when we last spoke that there was an investigation into these irregularities or these corruption claims what became of that investigation i mean were you able to uncover few had the dirty hands the president everyone was talking about the electoral board it's still counting on the investigation then we are also waiting the result of the

latest occasion. and what does the vote say about for the people think about president or one was this a vote against president or the one. no absolutely not this was a local election and it was an election especially this one was an election in istanbul people in local elections generally wards for the candidate and more toward the services offered and also for the party therefore try to interpret these results like an like a referendum on president would be completely wrong indeed president last year one presidency by a margin of $11000000.00 votes. there have been some commentators today have said that the president at a war and should resign because his party has lost stamboul should the president

resign or what's he going to do next i think people really have. have no basic information about turkish politics can draw some conclusion these are bizarre conclusions in this local elections in turkey our party has won more money simple it is then all the rest of the parties gone by and the popular vote on our party was 53 percent across. all right unfortunately we're out of time or we appreciate you taking the time tonight to give us the perspective from the a k 40 in stamboul room the spokesperson for the a k party is simple it's good to see you here and thank you it is you. well still to come on the day the anti russia sentiment gripping georgia could last weeks angry clashes force a break with the country's former soviet masters we'll talk about reform and

russian influence later in the show. when a u.s. president trump announced new sanctions against iran at this time the hard hitting sanctions as he calls them are aimed at the country's most senior military political and diplomatic leaders trump told reporters that the new sanctions are meant in part to retaliate after the downing of a u.s. drone last week however the president also said that the sanctions had been planned and were going to happen anyway. in a few moments i'll be signing an executive order imposing hard hitting sanctions on the supreme leader of iran and the office of the supreme leader of iran and many others today's action follows a series of aggressive behaviors by the iranian regime in recent weeks including shooting down of us. drone it's busy i guess everyone saw that one so america is a peace loving nation we do not seek conflict with

a red or any other country i look forward to the day when sanctions can be finally lifted and iran can become a peaceful prosperous and productive nation that can go very quickly it can be tomorrow it could also be in years from now so i look forward to. discuss whatever i have to swear anybody that wants to speak in the meantime who knows what's going to happen i can only tell you we can not ever let iran have a nuclear weapon in a war happen president terms announcement prompted a response from iran and the foreign ministers of a reef who is also targeted by these new sanctions tweeted this he'd tweeted trump is 100 percent right that the us military has no business in the persian gulf removal of its forces is fully in line with interests of view of the us and the world but it's now clear that the b. team is not concerned with u.s.

interests they despise diplomacy and thirst for war strong words there are let's take this story now to washington to our correspondent all over sell a good evening to you talk to me a little bit about what concrete measures are we talking about when we talk about these new sanctions. right so someone who might feel these new sanctions sanctions and who's really targeted and in the spotlight is the supreme leader of iran ayatollah khamenei and he has been singled out for the conduct of iran in addition to him some aid senor individuals all of the revolutionary guards that are considered a terrorist group by the united states and that can also be held accountable for the downed drone last 3 week that was shot down over the strait of hormuz that said the u.s. president says that these sanctions do not come as an act of retaliation that they

were have been in the making for a quite some time the ultimate goal here obviously is to cut down funding of these individuals and to hit economy as a whole and also to stop iran from acting the village or and leave this is these were the words of the u.s. president today iran in turn has already responded there is a there was a security council meeting at the united nations today in the iranian ambassador said that as long as the sanctions are in place they refuse to negotiate to gether with the united states do we knew. did the u.s. consult with any of it particularly here in europe about these new sanctions. well as speaker of the house nancy pelosi called on trump and on the u.s. administration to not act unilaterally at a briefing at the white house situation room together with other congressional

leaders last week. secretary of the treasury minutiae said he did not. talk to any elf is allies with regards to these sanctions in particular and that's what we've been getting from the trump administration typically in recent times that they are rather acting unilaterally and it would have also been difficult to find common ground especially with the european partners on this matter as we know the u.s. secretary of state. he was in the persian gulf today used trying to drum up what he's calling a global coalition against the islamic republic of iran his 1st stop was sold to arabia where he was welcomed by. the crown prince you later on to talk in the united arab emirates with going to europe and asia. you know washington said today that it wants to put together that coalition to protect the shipping lanes in the persian gulf the goal of oman who is going to

join this coalition. that's watts 5 mike from peo the secretary of state is trying to find out right now and he's been traveling today to saudi arabia which is a natural end in the 3 iran they're fighting a proxy war together against each other in yemen he then moved on to the united arab emirates so he'll certainly find support there but it will be certainly difficult to include and that's what he wants asian countries and european countries in particular today at the united nations security council the besser of germany france and great britain held a joint statement together and they are trying to reiterate here their support for the nuclear deal they want to save the nuclear deal because they essentially believe that this is the only way to control iran activities with regards to

nuclear energy and potentially a nuclear bomb so it will be difficult and a big challenge for the secretary of state here to form a coalition including all of these mentioned countries and in the different regions coalitions multi-lateralism these are all things that we know double troll does not really think much of and we've got the g. 20 summit beginning later this week i wonder with these new sanctions and with this policy on iran has again succeeded in isolating america from its traditional. well it depends who are looking at 1 with regards to the european partners definitely they're on very different positions there have contradicting views with regards to iran with regards to the nuclear deal which of course is the the core at

the heart of these conflicts but then again he will also make new friends with with countries like saudi arabia which is also a g 20 member which of course is then more open for sanctions against iran but that should be very interesting to watch trump has tweeted today also calling on his partners to pay money for the protection of the strait of hormuz which is one of the most important the waterways for oil tankers but then critics would obviously also say that trump has initially caused this problem here by pulling out of the nuclear deal and that now 3 it is coming in stark contrast to call for money for a problem that he might have cost him self all right a correspondent over zealous in the story of fortune washington tonight all over thank you.

well these are the images that when alex on television in georgia and to the entire world last week after a russian lawmaker addressed the georgian parliament from the speaker's chair speaking in russian his presence and his actions striking a national nerve in georgia and the reaction when you see it they are angry protesters trying to storm parliament riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them hundreds of people were injured in the clashes including police officers have been suspended we understand on suspicion of using excessive force. or the violence has reflate to the resent men felt by many georgians over the former soviet republics close ties to moscow even the russia invaded georgia back in 2008 and still supports 2 breakaway regions today after days of mass protests the leader of georgia's ruling party announced sweeping political reforms including

changes to the electoral system one of the key demands of anti russian demonstrators despite that concession protesters say that they'll stay on the streets until all demands are met they're calling for snap elections and the resignation of georgia's interior minister who they blame for last week's violence dispersal. what a week that was all the talk about that i'm joined now here at the big table by chorley talk that she hoped to get your name right he is the director of the georgia institute of politics in tbilisi and in your he's one of georgia's most respected foreign policy commentators it's good to have you on the show. were you surprised when these crowds of people tried to storm parliament last week. it was kind of unexpected at the beginning but if you look i mean generally i think that there was some expectation that this kind of discontent which was growing in

georgians the society internally related to internal politics as well is to know politics that would come up it one day but nobody really expected that it would happen exactly this time you don't think anyone in parliament i mean the ruling party the leaders in parliament they didn't know that allowing this russian lawmaker to come and speak in russian parliament they didn't know that that would trigger some type of i respond i think it was not really a prudent decision from the government i think they kind of miscalculated that what kind of consequence it's may have and of course they didn't expect that you know this could trigger such as you know kind of outburst in the georgian society but i think this was a major miscalculation from ruling party he was a miscalculation on the kremlin is saying that georgia is in the grip of ross of phobic hysteria. is that what we saw last week i think i would not

completely agree with this because there's a 2 reason that surely one of the internet basically the ruling party become less popular and as you know there's a general election and expected 1020 so there was one of the reason that society actually won some changes but really in terms of the you know lecture law and then there was the of course externalities and so people in jordan society actually we're not really completely happy with this and policies of the ruling party towards russia basically accommodating the russian kind of interests and i think that some part of the georgian society they they said ok we want to have a good relations with russia trade humanitarian contacts but we don't want that russian political influence or allegiance if less in this country and this is what kind of a trade line when people decide that now this time to show. to tell this to the government and is that happening in georgia is moscow constantly trying to you know push the envelope and to see how far it can go with its influence in

georgia i think that's a major issue because they not only georgia but they if you look at the russian policy in the neighborhood and using soft power as well as hopped over against small their neighbors and basically one of the idea with georgia was that russia was trying to weaken this somewhat empty of their neighbors including georgia and also don't forget that we had a war with russia so people didn't forget this and also the recognition by moscow of the sit here that the steel huge trauma for georgian people i mean you know you say that you had a war a recent war with russia and so on the outside looking at georgia didn't it it's amazing that you would allow a russian lawmaker to come into your parliament and speak and to speak russian i mean looking at from the outside it seems it seems outrageous that that would even be considered i mean tell me why. does that speak to the fact that the ruling party

may be in the pocket of the kremlin i think there's a thumb you know that is a different opinion about that because their own party actually heard was a social faux social conservative you know kind of constituents of georgia who are very pro-life i would say the books and so this is a they also have a water actually who would put these kind of put in so they had to and they actually i'm not saying maybe really poor russian but they are russian neutral at least and that's was one of the reason actually they thought that you know to bring this kind of you know like assembly of the sort to those countries that would somehow you know like improve maybe relations with russia but they miscalculated that i think that was too much when georgian people actually see saw their russian in pete basically speaking in russian and sitting in their chair of the georgian because parliament actually he's not supposed to be there should it and that was

the major cheek of them right i mean it was it was a gets protocol as well that i mean a fancy moving story and we appreciate you coming in there and explaining it too was conquered she a director of the georgian institute of politics in tbilisi thank you very much thank you for the day is almost done but as always the conversation continues online to find us on twitter either at w news or you can follow me at brant golf t.v. don't forget to use the hash tag the day we're going to leave you with our top story turkey's opposition celebrating after winning the istanbul election rerun every member whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that everybody.

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