end ofjune, but some are hesitant about getting inoculated, as our international correspondent 0rla guerinof the oldest state hospitals in istanbul, and here alone, they have given our 23,000 doses of the vaccine. across the country, around 8 million have had both jabs, out of a population of around 83 million, so about 10% of the population here is fully vaccinated. the door is open here at eight in the morning and we have seen a stream of people arriving, and you can now get a vaccination until midnight, the hours have been extended because the numbers coming forward fell after ramadan began, so you can come here in the evening after breaking the fast and get your vaccination. i'm with 72—year—old sevim. you have just had your vaccination, how are you feeling? how has covid changed your life in the last year? what has the last year been like for you? i am with an associate professor at the hospital. there are two vaccines available, the chinese sinovac and pfizer biontech. trials in brazil said it was only about 50% effective. are people expressing a lot of concern about that to you? the

foreign minister has already said that the move opens a "deep wound" between the two countries. 0rla guerinmages you may find upsetting. a solemn ceremony of remembrance in the armenian capital, yerevan. people here see the past as a burning injustice. more than a century on, it has now been recognised by america as a genocide. president biden, seen here today leaving the white house, has taken a historic step, a reckoning with history, and has given his verdict. the statement issued by the white house is damning. the president refers to the ottoman era armenian genocide and says... these painful images from 1915 show some of the horrors. skulls on public display. armenians hanging in full view. for decades, turkey has denied this was a genocide and said innocent turks died too in the turmoil of war. it has reacted angrily to president biden�*s move. i reached the senior adviser to the turkish leader, who said president erdogan had tried to talk him out of it and there would be consequences. we could not dissuade him. it's very sad because once the cat is out of the bag, you can't put it ba

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0rla guerin, bbc news, istanbul.ed over a5. but as the vaccination programme continues to make progress there is a warning from the prime minister — vaccinations alone won't stop further infections or even deaths and he's urging caution in how we enjoy our new—found lockdown freedoms. and today public health england have ordered surge testing in two london boroughs after discovering a new outbreak of the south african variant of covid—i9. here's our health editor, hugh pym. are you feeling well today? yeah, i'm feeling fine... a firstjab with a new vaccine — this one, supplied by the us company moderna, made available in england for the first time today, following wales and scotland last week. it's a timely arrival, as supplies of astrazeneca doses have slowed for a few weeks. thank you, i didn't feel anything! and all this as some under 50 were able to sign up for vaccinations. caroline and mark, aged a8, came in this morning, having only booked online last night. i'm very pleased to have had it at last. it's been a

orla guerin, bbc news, istanbul.plans to release more than a million tonnes of contaminated water from the stricken fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean. courtney bembridge reports. it's been more than a decade since disaster struck at fukushima. during the nuclear meltdown, more than one million tonnes of water was used to cool the reactors. it has been stored in tanks ever since butjapan hasjust approved a plan to release it into the ocean slowly. it says the water will be treated and diluted so radiation levels are below those set for drinking water, but it has led to protests like this in fukushima. such a decision is completely irresponsible. i don't think people with common sense would do such a thing. the country's fishing and tourism industries have also argued against it. suzuki runs a guesthouse in iwaki, the only one still standing in the area, and he is worried it will drive tourists away for good. translation: i will have to live with it for - the rest of my life. tourists will not say explicitly they

orla guerin, bbc news, istanbul.rmenian national committee of america western region. he was at the armenian genocide memorial and i asked him to tell us what was happening there. i am in montebello, california, which is home to the first and largest armenian genocide memorial monument in all of the united states, and it's the first such memorial on a public ground in the world. so this is hallowed ground for the armenians and our allies. since 1968 when it was erected, every year we come here to commemorate the innocent lives lost — over 1.5 million during the genocide at the hands of the ottomans. thank you forjust painting a picture of what it is that you have been doing commemorating there today. on to president biden�*s comments, why are they so significant? president biden first and foremostjoins 49 constituent states as well as the united states congress that passed in a bipartisan fashion a resolution in 2019 confirming the genocide. so it is important that president biden recognises the shameful chapter in a

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end ofjune, but some are hesitant about getting inoculated, as our international correspondent 0rla guerinstate hospitals in istanbul, and here alone, they have given our 23,000 doses of the vaccine. across the country, around 8 million have had both jabs out of a population of around 83 million, so about 10% of the population here is fully vaccinated. the door is open here at a dinner morning and we have seen a stream of people arriving, and you can now get a vaccination until midnight, the hours have been extended because the numbers coming forward fell after ramadan began, so you can come here in the evening after breaking the fast and get your vaccination. i am with 72—year—old sevim. you havejust i am with 72—year—old sevim. you have just had your vaccination, how are you feeling? how has covid changed your life in the last year? what is the last year been like for you? iam i am with an associate professor at the hospital, there are two vaccines available, the chinese and pfizer. trials in brazil said it was only about 50% effective. are people expressing a lot of concern about that t

orla guerin, bbc news, istanbul.e russian president vladimir putin, calling on him to stop the build up of troops on the border of ukraine. russia seized crimea from ukraine in 2014, and in recent weeks fighting has increased in the east of ukraine between government forces and russian—backed separatists. our north america correspondent gary o'donoghue says president biden is now turning his attention to international matters. after months of concentrating on the domestic arena of covid and the economy, joe biden flexing his international muscles, calling russia provocative for amassing those troops on the ukrainian border and occupying crimea. russia throwing that back to washington for sending two warships to the sea. joe biden is also suggesting the two men should meet for a summit in the coming months in a third country. that should be an interesting encounter given thejoe biden has described vladimir putin in the past as soulless and last month, he agreed with the generals who described him as a killer. but that

orla guerin, bbc news, istanbul.p really started focusing on the withdrawal of its last few thousand us troops, afghans and foreigners alike, we have to avoid the mistakes of history. in other words, there was an echo of the soviet troop withdrawal in 1989 which sadly paved the way to the collapse of the government in kabul, and a civil war which paved the way to the taliban. for a while, so many were saying we cannot repeat the mistakes of the past. this is really a legacy afghanistan wants to ensure doesn't happen again, but beyond all expectation, here afghanistan is again, a withdrawal of the last 10,000 us led nato forces, leaving the taliban poised to return to power. the afghans i have been speaking to after the announcement was revealed are saying they fear again a civil war. they hoped against hope that there would be some conditions attached to the troop withdrawal. but the senior us administration official who briefed journalists was adamant that the conditions of the last 20 years have not worked and it i

orla guerin, bbc news, istanbul. londoners will head to the polls on 6th may to elect a mayor. million people are registered to vote in the capital — and the mayor is responsible for transport for london, the metropolitan police, as well as having a role in housing, planning and the environment. our political correspondent damian grammaticas reports. waking slowly from the pandemic. london, with its 9 million inhabitants, may be one of europe's biggest, richest cities, but it's grinding back into gear scarred — facing uncertain times. transport networks starved of passengers and income. more workers still on furlough here than anywhere. it's why the current mayor says his priority for a new term would bejobs, jobs and jobs. it's been an awful year. in our capital city, we've lost more than 18,000 londoners because of this awful pandemic. more than 300,000 londoners have lost theirjobs, most of them young, and there's more than a million londoners who are currently furloughed. i'm determined to have a brighter future after the pandemic, with a city that's greener, safer and more

vaccination rates the lowest vaccination rate in the european even at the moment is 3.6 percent of all guerin's vaccinated nevertheless boy cobar saw the poll say you may still end up being the largest part c this is a country where he's increased basic salaries by about 30 percent the average basic salaries but it remains this country warm of the most corrupt in the european union . well gary's prime minister hasn't given any interviews in this election campaign just photo opportunities where the only camera loud is from his own team or go bars or governs an e.u. country where according to the u.s. state department there's little judicial independence there are arbitrary arrests and journalists are threatened with violence in sunday's election he could well retain his grip on this former satellite of the soviet union. takes long for democratic feuds to mature but on the other hand there are concrete. experiences in the vogue areas over the past 3 decades the fact that they have not being been able to reap the benefits and that a democratic system in theory should provide so they have become th

orla guerin, bbc news, istanbul.he center for strategic and international studies in washington dc. that in washington dc. is a research organisation. that is a research organisation. thank you for coming on the programme. what is your reaction to this decision by president biden? very important. here, as the new us president, has done what three, fourformer new us president, has done what three, four former presence actually, failed to do, which is to classify it as genocide. by is to classify it as genocide. by doing so, he has raised the ire of the turkish government and it remains to be seen how far the current turkish reaction, which has been limited, is going to go. let's talk a bit _ limited, is going to go. let's talk a bit more _ limited, is going to go. let's talk a bit more on _ limited, is going to go. let's talk a bit more on that. - limited, is going to go. let's talk a bit more on that. howj talk a bit more on that. how damaging do you think it could be to relations between the us and turkey? for be to

just 3.6 percent of all guerin's vaccinated but for cobras off the prime minister is hoping for a 4therm he's been in power pretty much entirely since 2009 early polls suggest before voting started that he may manage to scrabble some sort of coalition together he's increased the minimum basic average salary here by about 36 percent since he came to power to around $900.00 a month but he. he's the prime minister of a country that remains the use poorest and according to transparency international it's most corrupt like everywhere the economy was really hit hard by covert related lockdowns at the beginning of march the prime minister was under intense pressure to reopen so he reopened everything but 10 days later after an explosion in infection rates bulgaria went into lockdown again hospitals still overflowing nevertheless economically boris office manager has a reputation despite the widespread corruption of managing of increasing salaries increasing wages here and it's what's in people's pockets that is often the most important factor when they considering here who to vote for 22 ind

0rla guerin, bbc news, istanbul. a million tons of contaminated water from the stricken fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. courtney bembridge reports. it has been more than a decade since disaster struck at fukushima. during the nuclear meltdown more than 1 fukushima. during the nuclear meltdown more than1 million tons was used to call the reactors, stored in tanks ever since butjapan isjust since but japan is just approved since butjapan isjust approved a plan to slowly release it into the ocean. it says the water will be treated and deleted the radiation levels are below those that for drinking water but it has not stopped protest like this in fukushima. translation: ,, . ., . , ., , translation: such a decision is completely _ translation: such a decision is completely irresponsible! - translation: such a decision is completely irresponsible! i - translation: such a decision is completely irresponsible! i do i completely irresponsible! i do not think people with common sense would do such a thing. the country's

0rla guerin, bbc news, istanbul.—year— old black man near minneapolis on sunday has resigned from the force, as has the police chief of brooklyn center, the town where it happened. the town's mayor has said he hoped the resignations of kim potter and tim gannon would bring some calm to the community where daunte wright was killed during a struggle with police after a traffic stop. the killing has sparked two nights of unrest. from minneapolis — nick byrant sent this report and a warning that it contains some distressing images. it's a uniquely american story we've told many times before. yet another police station besieged by yet another protest after yet another shooting of an unarmed african—american. there was fury on the streets of brooklyn center last night. america's latest racial flashpointjust ten miles away from where the trial is taking place of the white police officer accused of murdering george floyd. chanting: hands up, don't shoot! it began as a boisterous but non—violent demonstration. a response to t

elbel guerin's adding to the polls for a general election on sunday incumbent prime minister boyko bora self is hoping to win a 4th time in office with a center right. party but no major parties likely to win an outright majority spanish smith reports from the capital sofia ourself still looks set to cling on to power. well gary's prime minister hasn't given any interviews in this election campaign just photo opportunities where the only camera allowed is from his own team or go bars or governs an e.u. country where according to the u.s. state department there's little judicial independence there are arbitrary arrests and journalists are threatened with violence in sunday's election he could well retain his grip on this former satellite of the soviet union. takes long for democratic i.q. to mature but on the other hand there are concrete my experiences of the bogey areas over the past 3 decades in the fact that they have none being been able to reap the benefits that a democratic system in theory should provide so they have become disenchanted the more of the polled there is that state

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end ofjune but some are hesitant about getting inoculated — as our international correspondent orla guerincan now get a vaccination until midnight, the hours have been extended because the numbers coming forward fell after ramadan began, so you can come here in the evening after breaking the fast and get your vaccination. i am with 72—year—old sevim. you have just had your vaccination, how are you feeling? how has covid changed your life in the last year? what has the last year been like for you? i am with an associate professor at the hospital. there are two vaccines available, the chinese sinovac and pfizer biontech. at the start there were concerns, and in brazil. trials in brazil said it was only about 50% effective. are people expressing a lot of concern about that to you? there are concerns about vaccine hesitancy and the take—up of the vaccine. one in four of the over—65s have not come forward to have their shot. turkey is now battling a third wave of covid—19 with skyrocketing cases, the numbers of daily infections have gone up to over 60,000 in recent days, so doctors are urging p