i must leave it there, julian jessop thank you for your must leave it there, julianjessop thankogramme. jessie and her story this hour that we are keeping our eyes and ears on are the events in turkey. hugely consequential presidential election. the first two where runoff election. on the left of your screen there is a incompetent president erdogan who has been in powerfor decades and hasn't yet been taken to a runoff election like this. he has his previous two in this form. straightaway by getting more than 50% of the vote in the first round of voting. a few weeks ago we had a first round of voting with lots of candidates, president erdogan did finish first in that election but just shy of the 50% threshold. he had 49 point 0%. quite nice enough, so that's why we are in this situation. you can see that ballard's papers there and just two choices on the ballot paper facing millions of turks and they have been voting throughout the day but voting has now stopped and we are in the crucial counting phase. so, across the country, millions and millions of ballots are being counted an

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