or, after all, there are billions to be made. our 2 parts document tree, deep sea greed starts to date on d, w. the . this is the w news. why from berlin? polls close in turkey's run off presidential election. voters are now waiting to see if president 31 can extend his rule into a 3rd decade or if you will be on cedar by challenger camille, to lift a ruler. also coming up, rush or launch. is it the biggest ever drone or solved on keith? but ukrainian defenses shoot down almost all the autonomous aircraft that comes as

ukraine says, it's ready to launch a counter attack to liberate its territory the . and welcome to our viewers around the world. unlike loco vote counting is underway in turkey's presidential runoff election. it's the 1st run off ballad in turkish history and comes 2 weeks after no candidate one a majority of votes in the 1st round. it could extend incumbent president, ridge at to you are the ones rule into a 3rd decade is rival canals killers. to roll lag behind or the one in the 1st round surveys predicted a stronger showing for the opposition in the 2nd round as tricky copes with an economic crisis. and the presidents of going to return is let's

go to our turkey correspondent, julia han who is in on cra, clearly other polling stations have closed in what's been described as a potentially historic turning point for turkey. when can we expect 1st results? hello from anchor. the 1st results keep coming in, but so far, only a very small fraction of the val as has been opened and the account it's we do expect preliminary results within the next few hours because this time the whole counting process is expected to be much quicker than in the 1st round, as you mentioned, president ad would be incumbent into this rentals as the clear favorite. and in fact, he seems to be very sure of winning today, or at least very keen on projecting that impression to his support is because throughout the day here at the presidential context in on career preparations has been made for ad one's balconies speech for a victory speech later today,

of course, it remains to be seen whether this is what the outcome will be. it's too early to call this vote. but if ad on winds again, he can extend his move in to dig case in power and he can remain in office until 2028. bueller. as you know, the candidates represent 2 completely opposing world views given they're clearly both viable candidates. i imagine that speaks volumes about the divisions within trickier society well, yes, i see a very divided nation, a divided country at least half of the population here say they want change. they wants to see it differently, the president to add one vege of tie of arrow and has a free stance as prime minister and then to as president. he's already the longest serving turkish leader and just look around as this message. i can take the presidential palace that he had built for himself at an enormous cost for his support as this is the symbol of a new and strong taxi,

which will add one's critics. this is a monument to a man who has left the country into for terry and ism with crackdown and civil society, freedom of speech and the media, and the airlines rival came on cultural lou says, this has to change. she has promised to roles like the powells of the presidency, bring back a democracy to turkey, repair the broken economy. and he's often coal. this election a referendum on turkey through chair. but of course, it remains to be seen whether the opposition really managed to mobilize enough voters, the voter turnout in the 1st round of this election was 187 percent very high. it might be a little bit lower today. but generally, turkish people really show how important the electoral process is for them. usually how important is this boat for turkeys allies abroad? well, turkey is an important regional and global

a player. it has the 2nd largest army in nato, and during ad one's 1st 10 years and how he had a friend the loom relations with his weston allies. but those relations have become increasingly strange. he has launch multiple incursions into syria. he has bought a russian maid missile defense system. he has a very close personal relationship with russia as of letting me have 14. that is something of concern for western capitals and feel position has promised to to ton talk to you for a policy towards the west embrace west of millions. it's a both a both promise of course to make. but i believe law so far as many eyes are in turkey today, because this vote does not only have them to cations for the country future, but also implications for taxis relations with international allies. indeed, that is, a dw, is usually a hahn in algorithm. many things is always to ukraine says it down more than 40 around in may drones during overnight rates on keep at

least one person was killed by falling debris. ukraine is preparing the long awaited counter offensive to liberate its territories from russian occupation. officials say it could come any day now. i mean, i'm a senior medic advertisement from ukraine's military calling for people to sign up to flights. fostering efforts to retake territory captured by russia. does ukraine propose for a long anticipated counter offensive? in an interview with the bbc, the secretary of ukraine's national security and defense council said the push could begin any day now on the 7th day. and we are always ready the same as we are ready to defend our country at any time. and it is not a question of time my mind, you have to understand this is a historic opportunity that is given to us by god, a method to, to our country with them. i cannot lose one of the file. so we can truly become

independent big european country. really good deal to piece. good. great. so many k residents that counter strike is jude officials say the cities air defense system took down thousands of russian drawings that targeted the capital over night. falling debris cause damage in some parts of the city, but when the air raid sirens sounded at midnight, many residents stood on the balconies and called out pro ukraine slogans. the attack has come as the capital plans to celebrate keep de, the anniversary of its founding residents have spent the morning cleaning up the damaged homes instead. amid another year of muted celebration in the shudder of wool. earlier, i talked to marina moran. she is an analyst at the defense studies department of kings college london. i asked her about ukraine's capacity to defend their capital

from drawing a tax. well, we have to understand that since the, during the tax started around october, last year, ukraine has adapted then ukraine has asked for more error defenses and it was important for western countries to support ukraine was the likes. so patrick hits systems in order to be able to defend critical infrastructure, specifically when we're talking about the capital because you brain cannot defend the entire territory in that it controls. however, the capital is being well defended. now the problem is that the russians keep on pushing, knowing, and especially after the leak documents that you print unions are lacking in their defenses and not just air defense systems, but also in, in munition. and therefore, i think, you know, it was very symbolic that the russians a launch their pickets try celebration was supposed to take part to be and key of

in word that to also terrorize the citizens. and in a way, as well as deplete through creating an air defenses so that they can then use their muscles to get to the targets. let's say, let's take a look at russia where moscow blamed key for growing your tax in the southern be able to go to the region keep denies any involvement. what's your take on that or? well, that's correct. and is there has been several attacks throughout the past year as well there, withdrawing the tax and the course creek and in belgium with region. and every single time key of denied enroll them. and, and the reason for that is um, now that we have some matter of the f sixteens on the table, um there has to be in the for and from key if the kid will not be using its a, a power or those western supplied spider chance to attack a russia on its territory, and that has been a concern for western policy makers,

therefore, to at meant to those attacks in belgrade region would undermine, keeps position, not the visa vi russia per se, but to be the be the western allies might be then reluctant to supply ukraine was long range munitions, as well as fighter chats. ok, i want to talk about this, this counter offensive. you creating an official se, there's a long expect, expect a defensive could begin any day. now, how would we even recognize the offensive, where, when or how could it start to? that's a very good question because i think we're not going to see a major battle. and the reason for that is because also the russian side, and it has the potential of absorbing the enemy, was their enemy, from their perspective, using drones, using satellite imagery and creating a massive group somewhere might give away ukraine's plans. so there might be this

um, very gradual flow, where ukrainian forces are probing different dirt directions, doing battle recognizance and see where a russian defenses are at their weakest before using the western trained brigades in order to break through russian actual defense. so i don't think that there might be kind of this clear big battle as everybody might be and visit him. and once that happens, um it could be in operation. it could be um, so direction, mail the top of basically the idea would be to cut off cry me. uh, and that will deliver a very heavy blow to the russians if the ukrainian armed forces can muster such a complex operation. analysts arena moran some other stories were following for you at this hour to iranian border. guards and one tell a band fighter had been killed in classes on a runs border with afghanistan. the shootings come to mid height intentions over

water rags. iran is accusing afghanistan's taliban rulers are restricting water from the helman river to a runs arched eastern regions. the taliban denies the accusations. the 2nd india's opposition has boycotted. the opening of the country's new parliament filled the prime minister and to render emoji let the inoculation in delhi, but 20 opposition party stayed away, accusing body of holding out in his democracy and st. india's president, not motor, should have been in charge of the ceremony. not far from that new building, several of indians, top wrestlers, were detained by police. they had brought their ongoing protest against their federation chief, who's accused of sexually harassing female athletes to the center of the country's governor. since last month, the wrestlers have held a city to call for the rest of federation. president ridge, boucher, and trevor on st. the rest squares were stopped by

a large number of police as they tried to march to india as new parliament. complex olympic bronze metal is sunk sheep molar and but you're wrong when you were among those arrests to the french open when in singles, where a rena sub, a link of billers, east pass motor costs, joke of ukraine to reach the next round, sub olenka, the number 2 seed of the tournament, one in straight sets, 6362. afterwards you printing costs just refuse to shake rebellion wishing opponents hand at the end of the match, which sparked fluid from the crown. following the match rebuilt lucian, el reno sub olenka spoke on motor across your decision to skip the post match hendrick. so like i said, she expected this not due to the bill of wishing redeem support in russia and it's war on you. okay. yeah, i couldn't understand what's going on because i mean, we all know that the ukrainians girls will not shake hands with us. so it's kind of

not suppressed for us, but probably for, for the public today was the price of the, the, the, the so it us disrespect x to me as a player. so that's why it was bleeding to her about the worst situation. i said in many, many times, nobody in this world, russian surplus or bella rushed on us. this support the war. nobody. how can we support the war? nobody know, normal people who never supported in the n. b, a eastern conference finals on saturday night, the boston celtics defeated the miami. he'd a $141.00 a 3 to force, a decisive game. 7 in the series. boston's jason tatum lit all scores with 31 points of the game, but it was derrick white who scored with 0 point. one seconds left to hold off the miami heat, the series returns to boston for the final game. on monday, the window will face the denver nuggets in the n b, a finals. a reminder of our top story here in dw news polls if closed entered these

presidential run off election. the vote could extend incumbent president ridge at to tell you, for the ones rule into a 3rd decade. his wife will come out to us to roll the lat. lag behind or the one in the 1st round, but is hoping for a better showing in the run off. i'm like, look and see you next hour, stay tune for our technology show shifted. takes a look at health gadgets, help people with disabilities lead more independent lives. see at the top of the, of the image and how many portions of lots of turn out in the world climate change. the story faces much less the way from just one week. how much was going to really get we still have time to act. i'm going.