ninety will feel this kind of gap here right plus ninety launched on you tube today our reporter jared reed in istanbul thank you. to india now and the halfway point in the country's namath's thirty nine day general election the biggest the world has ever seen polling stations have opened in constituencies across nine states it's the fourth of seven voting days in the staggered parliamentary election that ends on may nineteenth and although women make up half of india's nine hundred million voters there are still massively under represented in politics in this election less than eight percent of candidates are women our correspondent sonia found the car went to meet one of them on the campaign trail and. it's early morning in whistling district politics here is the fist of a few. it's dominated by the ruling t.m.c. alternate congress party. and the start of the show here is the party's. she quit to prestigious job as president of j.p. morgan in london in two thousand and eight. return to india and plunged into politics fulfilling a dream. when i was a kid and you asked me what i wanted to b

let's bring in our reporter jared reed he is in istanbul plus ninety has been launched by jared tell us more about this channel and what's it what it's going to be like. well it's going to be telling the stories about various aspects of turkish society speak is that they might not get from their traditional media here and these are stories for example of how refugees various minority groups are fairing how we're gay and lesbians what's their life like here in turkey but posing also important economic questions like why is the building industry in such a crisis and what can be done about it but i guess the idea too is that plus ninety becomes a platform where people can debate the issues that are important to them and talk about what really matters to them and their friends and this is all on an independent platform and i guess this is where the expertise of the cost is comes in publicly funded broadcasters who have journalistic experience and who are pooling their resources together in a way that hasn't been done before and that's that's pretty exciting why it's important to build a

interviews jared reed standing by in istanbul where this launch is taking place good morning jack what's this tell going to look like. well this channel is going to be telling the stories about various aspects of turkish society that people leaving here turkey speakers might not necessarily get from them media these are stories like this situation for muslims who fled persecution in china what's life like for them here what's life like for people living across turkey also economic questions to the state of the building industry it's in crisis at the moment and what can be done about that they're just some of the videos that are going to be covered in this channel it's also hope that the channel will become a place where people can debate the issues that are important to them on a channel that's independent and i guess this is where the expertise of these broadcasters who you mentioned comes into play these internationally renowned broadcasters who have journalistic know how and pulling their resources together in a really extraordinary way a really cool way that hasn't really been done b

reed: i do and i certainly hope so. i have been privileged to work with jared and his team in the white house. on criminal justice reform. i have also worked with them on immigration issues when he and vice president pence went up to the held her in the government shutdown to try to find a bipartisan solution. i think there is an opportunity ,ere, unique to president trump for a sort of nixon goes to china type moment. i don't want to speak for the white house. but i think there is an opportunity here. , because hent trump has been so firm on illegal immigration, and so tough on , that if heity could put together a deal on the resolution on the status of the dreamers, that we have supported , we have not necessarily advocated a path to citizenship, but we have called for them to be granted legal residents. we think that them they brought into the country was not their fault. you don't punish them for something their parents did. if you could have a solution to the dreamers,'s combined with border security and funding for the wall and some of the legal and some of the job skill base needs that