and i really seen that as well as a life plot system were season 3 of our award winning documentary series, her women in asia or the this is dw, you slide from berlin. a presidential election runoff is set in turkey. sundays both produced no care winters. setting the stage for a 2 week battle between the incumbent rush at times. 31 and opposition candidates come out of college directly before voters returned to the polls on may 28th. also

coming up. the u. k. promises ukraine more military hardware to guard the skies, but stopped short of including fighter jets and a political shake up in thailand. pro democracy opposition parties have won by a landslide in parliamentary elections. the vote should end a decade of the military by 12 the unpopular finally as welcome to the program. turkey is presidential, race will be decided in a run off in less than 2 weeks. stage media and a turkish news agency say president ratio tie up early. one has received 49.5 percent of the vote is rival c'mon college the road is trading with just under 45

percent. officials have now confirmed a run off on may 28th, as no candidate has taken more than 50 percent of the vote. and the result is the strongest electoral challenge to urge around early buttons rule in 2 decades as they came expecting of victory speech. but unlike his previous presidential elections, project tie up arrow on couldn't claim the 1st round when for his waiting supporters . before all the ballots were even counted, turkeys incumbent president accepted. he may face of ronald does do that if the nation has made its choice in favor of the 2nd round of the election. and that is also welcome was interested in edward. his main rival can can it's donna also said he was ready for another vote. the let to me it's all a nation says 2nd round,

we gladly accepted. we will absolutely witness selection. in the 2nd round, everyone will see that with a run of now confirmed voters must wait another 2 weeks to know who will take power . yeah, change it. so on the old countries been struggling lately. you know, it's up to a change in government would shake it for them. that's why both candidates are problematic for me to. that's why i can't say i voted with conviction like what the sort of codes are. it was obvious from the start with that this was going to go to the 2nd round. and now that that's happening. now, i'm surprised. we just have to wait till i'm upset. this shouldn't have been the result. even with a slight lead, the 1st round has been one of the top is test for air to on, but the run of is likely to be an uphill battle for college dotala.

dw special correspondent to abraham is covering the turkish elections from his tumble. and we asked her earlier about the obstacles faced by the opposition party trying to unseat or to one when you talk to supporters of the opposition. and also, you know, with the testament of a election observers, the general campaign, the general election is seen to be unfair. i mean, the incumbent at the incumbent president or dawn has been in power for 20 years. and in that time, media has been limited. a state institutions are widely seen to have a, you know, created favorable circumstances for president or the one. and so in light of all of the circumstances for that circumstance, for the opposition to, you know, to grab over 44 percent of that is seen as, you know, perhaps as a, as an accomplishment. but also as a sign that there are a lot of people here in turkey, do want to see some kind of change. abraham reporting they're moving on. the

british prime minister richie soon hack has promised to send ukraine long range attack drones and extra missiles soon. ok, made the pledge after ukraine's president for a lot of years the landscape visited the u. k. as part of a short tour to meet with european leaders. despite the promise of more air defense . how hard, where the british prime minister stopped short of agreeing to send fighter jets. it was a flying visit by the ukranian president. after a weekend of meetings with you or p and lead as load of me is a landscape touch down in britain to meet prime minister wishes to knock you welcome to landscape to his country residents. man, great to welcome you back to the you. k. whether ukrainian leda was thankful to

breton you are actually the but also acknowledge the difficulties that lie ahead for ukraine. about a thank you, especially especially you and the, your government for supporting us really at this moment. like you said at the moment, soft challenge is the moment for us, for our society and our people, especially for our soldiers moment this tough, difficult. but anyway, but we need success. and now i'm happy that's in this way. we are in way of preparing were important comprehensive steps. so landscape is king to build up what he calls objects coalition to help ukraine defendants, aspects the u. k. has said that it will not be providing fight to just to ukraine, but re, she's to not cut a direct message for russia's president putin. but i think it's

important instead of criminal tools that we're not going away. we all have, for the long time, we remain steadfast in wanting to defend ukraine, not just now to reclaim its rightful territory, but also to ensure that ukraine has the means to defend itself into the future as well as the lensky less with the promise, some re she's to not to train ukrainian pilots, but without the commitment to deliver planes to get hopeful it was another important trick for the ukrainian president whose team to keep ups a part of the profile of the ongoing wall in ukraine by some british supplied weapons, are already making their mark, we asked our correspondents, nick connelly and keith about russia's claim that ukraine used british long range missiles to attack targets in occupied to hans, i think we can be confident that this is true. in this case, there's

a convincing temporary found on the scene of the strike that's in scripts in english and other bits of a good that kind of a framework that expert said look, a lot like face cruise missile. and it certainly is a part of ukrainian turkey or by, by russian that the government, that the only has won't be able to hit so far. the target one of the targets that has been hit with the largest loss of life expected was talking about basically have been used by those progresses are present on since 2014. so basically ukrainians to be looked at it for the best part of 10 years. and we're unable to strike that target. and i think there's a real, you know, selling that. the russians just really didn't have this on their radar. didn't think that ukraine, we get this kind of weapons because there were even members of respond to that kind of propaganda tools during the sites and they also ended up being injured in the strikes. there's a real sense that they're very now, quickly learning quite habitable they all and that keep writing now just has the ability to basically any target in worship, fight to ukraine. there is no way that is safe. there's no way where the russian

troops can organize the logistics in such a way that the credit is coming up in may connelly reporting from keep there. let's take a look now. it's a more stories making use around the world. at least 6 people have died in a fire at a hospital in the capital of new zealand. wellington dozens more are still missing . the hospital was reportedly housing temporary and long term residents, including elderly people. the cause of the fire is being investigated better as the leader alexander lucas shanker has appeared in public for the 1st time in nearly a week. it follows the days of speculation over his health state television shows the 68 year old and expecting an air force base. lucas angle has been in power for nearly 3 decades to the arab world continues to normalize ties with syrian president basher outside. after receiving an invitation

to attend this week's arab league meeting, he's now being invited to the cop 28th climate summit in due by later this year. it's a sides 1st invitation to a global summit. since the start of the syrian war in 2011. to really the german foreign minister and it may not be a bulk has warrant against normalizing relations with side. she made the comments while on a trip to saudi arabia where she met her time for part 5 is all been for hun, barebones said asides. it should not be rewarded for his serious human rights violations. thailand's 2 biggest opposition parties have begun discussions on have to replace the country's military dominated parliament. the pro democracy party moved forward one a stunning victory and elections over the weekend. it's now hoping to work with the po, type party to replace the military back to government, which 1st came to power into in 2014 greeted by cheese of

prime minister the pizza named dining room, boston his election when with the latest supporters. the victory of the progressive of position need a, has sent shock waves through thailand, political establishment and could bring the 10 years of minute feedback to me to an end. the head of the move forward party is confident in his mandate. the sentiment of the hour has change and it's right. it was the right timing that people have as being through enough of the last decade in the past decade and today is a new day and hopefully it's full of bright sunshine of hope going forward. new fluids closer to the young, liberal and welcome the promise of change. i also feel that it carries

a new meal and will bring about even more changes. and i hope that there will be good things happening in thailand. have been look okay, you need them either to to move forward policy for the marriage at the corner, the team building because it has to pass the on other policies. i think the very straightforward, clear and firm and you'll find that being able to execute the money thrown money. not ma'am, because i have the thing, i need more money but forming a coalition. government might not be easy me for it has very ambitious ghost over the whole, the political system and the economy. they want to challenge the conservative roles of the mona key in the military entire society. in general roch's looking to partner up with 5 of the cardinal position parties including gone, is up to tie headed by the daughter of the former prime minister text. and she knew

what truck they campaigned with more traditional populace messages. even if a coalition is formed, it might not be easy to replace the incumbent government. the prime minister will officially be selected in july and evoked by the low house of parliament and the 250 states senate. the senators were put in place by the current leadership and so will likely vote to protect their interests. this could scott, to move fluids, chose to form a progressive government to sports news now. and besides east asian games and cambodia and the women soccer final, vietnam have defeated me m r 2. now this was the 4th straight soccer gold medal victory for the vietnamese women. at the event held every 2 years, vietnam came in to this final match with the most women soccer titles of any nation

at the southeast asian games with 7. and it didn't take them long to make a statement against me on my way to new, opened the scoring after just 12 minutes. the escape route, taking advantage after a major blunder from the me on my caper and on 76 minutes. substitute and you're going to turn not added another goal to round out for 2 and ill final score. her rocket left to me on my keeper with no chance vietnam's. women have once again asserted their superior already in soccer, extending their south east asian games record to 8 gold medals. and therefore it's in a row a to tennis now and at the autonomy in open. the new and innovative has advanced of the last 16 after repeating best. now, based upon the time you digest brushes,

made very, they've lost the 1st set, 63 to his spanish opponent. but then he settled down and dominated the rest of the way, winning the next 2 set, 6163 at fedex has reached 5 straight finals in d, a t p tour winning forth. and with that, you are up to date is coming up next, a better than expected as of for europe's economy. increase. cobra has the details on dw business on this plan. the more news uh, analysis on our website you to view talk for me. thanks for watching. take care the .