or any signs that turkey will ever recognize the armenian genocide. i think that that is a long way off turkey insists that this has nothing to do with reality in history and in fact the fact now the president won is relying on a coalition partner of the national action party an extreme right wing party that has been the the most for surface surface to first opposite opponent to any talk of recognizing the armenian genocide means that there's any hope of any dialogue on this issue i think has now been closed the fact that this commemoration earlier in the day was stopped by police is further indication last a similar commemorations world out allowed to happen without any problems is a sign out of the possibly the window of any dialogue that did exist in the previous years it could be possibly closing with this growing nationalist coalition that one is hard chain with this important. reporting from istanbul thank you. you're watching video when you're still to come. with its president toppled by mass protests and a military coup sudan is now add a turn

what turkey. to in the long run would turkey stay in the military structure or would leave the military structure and stay only in the political part of nato like france and the agrees in the past they've done to my understanding it is more important issue now that the seventy year of nato turkey seems to be a troublemaker within a lie and i think the turkish government at the moment is really under pressure and has to make i would say balancing policy between russia and the united states of america particularly and nato also as an ally where turkey is a member since six or seven years whatever it is. prime minister statement that is also of the. deal shows that turkey is very much determined to get the four hundred thousand probably deployed them the question is where they will be deployed how they will be deployed and turkey has a very hard work to convince the member countries that it is not directed. and it is not a process that turkey is going to have much more stronger military relations wit

because turkey has three times as mehdi. professional says russia has to this matter as it was the security of the regional security and of course that also could seriously syrian satellite but at this hour to our secrets. so i was forced to reach agreement on that they are working on that very actively evidence of i can assure you this is probably also a little bit russia will be meeting a lottery you know because these are two streets in which we have repeated use of pot so that everybody we hear use cuss into their battle buddy you said that you discussed it today i question is does that mean you've got it that this. has not be deeply about it if that's true it's a problem if that's true why. would that be right for you to address maybe there are problems which would be the political settlement side when you go and you address you there for example the u.s. has recognized we're going to fight as a part of israel. what can you say about that well as you saw last week. you know russia's position was that. we issued a statem

it's a fact survival depends on it because if turkey's economic story is not transformed and turkey does not enter a growth spurt that does not bode well for our dongs a longer term political future and whatever he wants to achieve in the country beyond the four year outlook. last question to met my challenge in istanbul given all these problems movement is turkey now heading into a better place over the next what two years or not because after that two year period we're then heading towards the presidential election a couple of years after that look i mean something that traditionally has happened in turkey is what changes after or will there be a new turkey after the elections that question always raises the question i mean what as long as soon as the elections are all. live goes back to normal however whether or not it will go back to good or worse will depend of course only on the short to mid-term. reforms the government will implement and i just want to touch on something that we were discussing the previous question with regards to i.m.f. or other bodies that will maybe use some o

is a turkey specialist for i.h.s. country at risk he joins us from london and finally old school or well nice is the anchor office director of the german marshall fund of the united states he joins us from the turkish capital gentlemen welcome to you all in istanbul if i can come to you first was this a protest vote or something else. well i think i think you know it is a message definitely given to the our party as a party but i think if we look at the results i don't think we should come to a conclusion that this is you know like your question is i think posing a protest vote vote against president add on himself because if we look at the june twenty fourth elections when we held the votes for presidential and parliamentary elections we saw that the party itself still receive less votes than they are that the president are they want to sell so in the local elections we know we see that that fifty fifty one and a half to fifty two percent nearly void is still there for the for the president are gone and the party alt

so you dt on't wato sell it to turkey, or you cannot sell them to turkey, and then you insisto turkey noty from anybody else either. so this is actually unacceptable for us. ec woodruff: the u.s. sees this as a dirthreat to u.s. national serity. >> well, it is not aec dir threat neither to turkey nor to any other ally nation. >> woodruff: how can you be certain. >> this will be fully under control of turkey, this system. >> woodruff: so the u. should trust >> yes. >> woodruff: so much to ask you about. you mentioned sir. i can't not longuago yor president erdogan said keeping mr. assad iner pow in syria is unacceptable. now it looks as if mr. assad is staying in power. is turkey prepared to accept this? >> well, we sti believe that he cannot unit the country, is the problem. >> woodruff: meanwhile the u.s., president trump is saying, ahe u.s. is pulling troops out except for a very group. do you understand what the u.s.' overall strategy is now in syria? well, it seems there is no y stratet. there are some decisions of trump to withdraw and different statements are coming from differe

said turkey had to choose. between being a nato member and making reckless decisions that undermine our alliance it sounds pretty straightforward doesn't it do you think the u.s. is ready to force turkey out of nato just over this. i think you know exchange. towards turkey. last six months if they should be started the american. lives in from the united states. actually. to log all the embassy staff and culture of the nation and the dogs and. actually give up all game of all the claims about american past and lose inform the police and i think americans. then change the future which. you know they let me in turkish officials they get the results i think the american officials clinton's remarks in recent days can you see you know that they are determined and the new worked out and they are. so it is i just want to touch upon something you said there because obviously these weapon systems are the only dispute between the u.s. and turkey the turkish vice president in fact the united states has to choose between wa

working with turkey the insulate base in turkey is has been useful for the u.s. but it's no longer a primary concern for interesting stuff that underpins thing to see how president either one does have that balancing act as you say allying with russia while maintaining that nato membership i'm closest to washington gregory copely from the international strategic studies association great to have you on thanks for your time today. thank you. the canadian prime minister is facing renewed pressure to resign over a corruption scandal that softer a secretly recorded phone conversation between senior officials was leaked suggesting that justin trudeau tried to protect an allegedly corrupt company from prosecution and allegations surrounding the engineering giant s. and c. level and go back to twenty fifteen when it was charged with bribery and fraud to secure contracts in libya. several senior government officials in a towel have resigned in the leaked top civil servant saying truth is firmly against the company facing prosecution on several occasions. michael i have t

is turkey's president under threat. and his party suffer unprecedented defeats in local elections after years of consolidating power how because shock. and how can he recover this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program today with me peter dopy wretch up to has dominated politics in turkey for the past sixteen years but after winning every election since then his a.k. party suffered a setback in sunday's local elections voters apparently particularly fed up with what critics say is his increasingly autocratic rule as well as the falling value of the turkish lira rising inflation and high unemployment the justice and development party lost control in major cities including isthmian and the capital ankara mr challenging the opposition's result there and in turkey's biggest city istanbul from their. small. i after almost two decades of constant losses turkey's opposition finally has reason to celebrate. the people's republican party or c.h.p. one of the mayoral position in the capital ankara and it would seem is

between turkey and egypt turkey and u.a.e. and turkey and saudi arabia have been strained mainly following the military coup in egypt in two thousand and thirteen those three countries have lost their intelligence gathering. and now they are trying to. build up an intelligence network and this is what the turkish. believe in ankara right now and that's why they say they think that the united arab emirates is using other our nationals. inside truth to you what we have learned so far is that these people who were here to follow up with what nationals what they are doing how they are living mainly muslim brotherhood members who have in most have moved to turkey following the military coup in egypt in two thousand and thirteen and a press statement. today suggested that. who has killed himself on sunday in his solitary confinement. by the warden. early morning hours. he hanged himself on the door using his clothes right now an investigation is under way and an autopsy on his body has been done. in english language newspaper. polit

coup you know voices of dissent have disappeared journalism is operating in a difficult environment in turkey still so they're starting point was not as easy as perhaps you would like to say it is. peter than let me let me say it in this way our president added on has been using polarization for a very long time to galvanize his own water base but he didn't realize that in doing so you was also are galvanizing oncor sort of dating opposition in a way that they themselves would not be able to do if it wasn't for president and ours have. in istanbul what does this tell us about how politically savvy mr erdogan is now or not i mean putting a government sponsored vegetable stalls obviously didn't get traction with any one people were it would appear able to see right through that. i mean i mean if we're talking about president are there once leadership i think there is no questions their president or the on has been the leader of our party since it was founded but he has also been the leader also very traditional voter base in turkey and that is the center right vote in turkey and the fact that h

is turkey prepared to accept this? >> well, we stiiell bel that he cannot unit the country, is the problem. >> woodruff: meanwhile thu.e , president trump is saying, the u.s. is pulling troops out except f a very small group. .' you understand what the u.s overall strategy is now in syria? >> well, it seems there is no strategy yet. there are some decisions of trump to withdraw and differente statementsoming from different institutions. >> woodruff: where are the different statements coming from? >> from the president himself, from different departments, from military, from centcom, military on the t grouns is what we see from turkey, actually, you see better here in the united states. >> woodruff: so how do you know what's going on? >> that's why we have now a task force. we brought military and intense and minister of foreign affairs on both sides toat coordit. >> woodruff: it's well known what turkey's government believes abut the y.p.g. operating in northern syria. y r government, at this point, planning to attack?

as a threat to turkey itself i mean they commemorations. living in turkey today yes there have been in fact they're going on for. a small numbers of turkey's small armenian community along with many turks as well have joined these commemorations to mark the events that have started today they've been meeting at places where the first armenians were rounded up and held and this all started around ten years ago and it did start underwent a prime minister it was a time when there pete there was a hope that turkey could finally look back on its history as a time of looking at what happened removing the politics removing the diplomacy and but those hopes are slowly now closing given the fact that now urged once minority coalition member is the national action party which was among the strongest opponents to any claims to recognize the armenian genocide so these commemorations now they are continuing but part of a process that it seems to be possibly coming to an end in the present political climate. thank you very much for the. i do apologize fo

this is d w news live from berlin turkey's president suffers a blow in local elections the opposition is celebrating as it gains control of the capital ankara the commercial capital istanbul looks set to fall what does this all mean for president carter wanted and for the future of the country look at the latest also coming up. it's no laughing matter comedian volodymyr is a lens he wins the first round of voting in ukraine's presidential elections he's come in well ahead of incumbent president petro poroshenko. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us it is being called a severe setback for turkey's president rich of tire paired one is a key party has lost control of the capital ankara in local elections and is also facing defeat in istanbul these elections are seen as a referendum on his leadership and many voters say they are completely unhappy with the way he's handling the country's economic downturn. it's an unfamiliar position for red chip tayyip erdogan in local elections seen as a test if you support voters delivered the turkish president his worst night ever at the bal

weapons that spot have been from the us in the west turkey is a very has some cards to play to turkey is regarded as a strategic. country simply because the you know the dardanelles of the bosphorus they're going from the black sea on out there and so it's always been a strategic bridge between asia and europe and so it's location of nothing more and also as a very big army so you know turkey has some cards it can play it can play both of these huge powers off each other and that's what is feeling i think. however the key focus of the ninety's like this gathering in washington has not been relations with turkey but with russia will go again. as they made global threats the nato secretary general got in. mind countermeasures and don't go on t.v. as well. he might not even have had it in mind when he was doing it but the great business men of all presidents made sure everyone in the club opening their wallets for nato's seventieth anniversary the clear message from prison term. help is having a real impact we see that many more than a dollar meet the two percent god on the spending two

turkey lost 30% last year, another 6% turkey lost 30% last year, another 696 in turkey lost 30% last year, another 6% in the first quarter of this year, and the unemployment rate had double figures and reached 11%. and all of these economic problems, especially hit the bigger cities, and their population, and i think this explains the government alliance losses. so we will continue to watch those results as they come in. thank you very much. a new government has been formed in algeria, after six weeks of mass protests, but the head of the military and the prime minister remain in office. demonstrators have been demanding that president bouteflika and his inner circle be removed. protestors have been calling for an end to the long rule of president abdelaziz bouteflika, and the sweeping away of his inner circle. the trial of vietnamese woman doan thi huong, one of two charged with murdering the estranged half—brother of north korea's leader, is due to resume shortly. malaysia's attorney—general rejected vietnam's request to free her after her indonesian co—defendent was unexpect

turkey risk expulsion from the joint f. thirty five program turkey must choose. does it want to remain a critical partner the most successful military alliance in the history of the world. or does it want to risk the security of their partnership i cling like pence's words turkey's vice president hit back on twitter saying it was the us that had to choose between friendship with turkey and continued support of the kurds in north and syria and preferred guards as terrorists but turkey wasn't the only alliance member run it on at the nato birthday party the us vice president also lashed out at germany thing berlin didn't cough up enough for nato especially given the size of its economy shortly after in germany and months it would contribute one point two per five percent of g.d.p. by two thousand and twenty three still short of the two percent minimum set by nato international relations expert hussein bag she says the alliance isn't as unified as it once was. the moment is not in the harmony concerning the american demand that until two thousand two hundred twenty.

as a result, it is saying to turkey, reconsider this now. it's pointing out that there are other anti—missile systems that are available but it's not just persuasion, it is also a great deal of pressure, they are really having this old—fashioned tactic of trying to put the arm behind their back on this and saying, if you go ahead with this, we will not give you access to the f35 fighter jet itself, either. it has already stopped some equipment from going to turkey this week to try and show that it means business on this. where does this put turkey—us relations? it's been a tricky year hasn't it? i don't think that is going to change in the short—term. it's worth mentioning, of course, that it is the 70th anniversary celebration of nato that is taking place at the moment in washington. away from the main stage and away from the main agenda where these countries are together, and they are very much talking about what a success the alliance has been. we have these two nato partners who are really talking very tough with each other, you

everyone in turkey wants him back. thegan is a part of legitimate political world in turkey. secular people are not afraid of erdogan but they would be afraid of golan. stayed away, try to affect it with other sources like thee military bureaucracy. amy: when we last interviewed you, tens of thousands of turkish people have been arrested by erdogan -- dissidents, teachers, professors from all source of people. this issue of global geopolitics week, viceust this president pence, warning turkey against going ahead with its plan purchase of the russian-made s 400 missile system hours after the turkish foreign minister said the acquisition was a done deal, pence saying this would be a threat to nato. as we wrap up, were turkey stands now, saying like many countries they don't know how to deal with an extremely unpredictable u.s. president, but where it stands now in alliances in the world? amy: the united states leadership is doing worse. says everyone has to listen or we going to teach a lesson, no one is .2 -- diplomacy is different than policy. of americanen part politics rada

is turkey's president under threat. to suffer unprecedented defeats in local elections after years of consolidating power how because shock. and how can he recover this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program today with me wretch up type has dominated politics in turkey for the past sixteen years but after winning every election since then has a k. party suffered a setback in sunday's local elections voters apparently particularly fed up with what critics say is his increasingly autocratic rule as well as the falling value of the turkish lira rising inflation and high unemployment the justice and development party lost control in major cities including isthmian and the capital ankara mr challenging the opposition's result there and in turkey's biggest city istanbul from their. small. after almost two decades of constant losses turkey's opposition finally has reason to celebrate. the people's republican party or c.h.p. one of the mayoral position in the capital ankara and it would seem is on course to capture i

if turkey completes its purchase of the russian as four hundred missile system turkey must choose those who want to remain a critical part of the most successful military alliance in the history of the world were doesn't want to risk the security of their partnership. it's a done deal it's a done deal earlier the pentagon halted deliveries of equipment thirty five stealth fighter jets which turkey's in the process of buying the u.s. says those supplies cannot resume unless and cools off its purchase of the russian s four hundred missile system turkey is one of washington's key allies within nato and u.s. defense officials have said if turkey were to use the f. thirty five and the s. four hundred within the same integrated system it would gain back door access to crucial intelligence. live now to defense analyst and author ivan eland thanks for joining us good to have you on today the u.s. seems determined doesn't it to stop getting hold of the s four hundred why is this of such a concern to washington and is this just a security issue or is there more at stake here. well i'm certainly n

more on turkey now. earlier, emre temel of the bbc‘s turkish service told me more about the developments over the last few hours. the ruling alliance candidates claimed victory in the early hours of the night. this was disputed immediately by the opposition candidate. and the opposition candidate, ekrem imamoglu, later claimed victory. and, to be honest with you, it's still neck and neck. and turkey's official news agency has been criticised by the opposition, because yildirim was leading by 4,000 votes while the news agency stopped announcing the results for so many hours, which was the main criticism from the opposition point of view. so that will be one to watch, but what about how the other cities have gone, and the countryside? obviously the result in the capital, ankara, was the biggest so far, because the opposition has won the capital for the first time in 25 years. and the opposition alliance, the national alliance, won at least three of the five biggest cities in turkey, and this is crucial.

and turkey is going to affect nato as a as an organization as an alliance. oh definitely because if turkey proceeds as it already has occurred to seniors four hundred of them for a road for this will indicate to other country then they need to protect them so the club has already argued that the european countries need to do more for their own defense turkey is acting on their advice and it is doing what it deems to be necessary purchasing military weapons to defend itself at a cheaper price than they can get from the united states and in the meantime as. alliances with russia and other countries so this is only the normal behavior of was given in turkey or in strategic location. associate professor of political science colin cavell sir thanks for coming on good to have you on as always. you can house of commons has just voted to force the prime minister to seek another bricks at the lake if she fails to get any deal through parliament however the bill needs to pass through the house of lords of course to become law or to reason may met with the leader of th

and a new voice for turkey international broadcast broadcasters including v.w. respond to the government's crackdown on independent media with the launch of a new channel on you tube. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us we begin this program in spain where the governing socialists are claiming victory in sunday's general elections now they won ninety twenty nine percent rather of the vote but fell far short of a parliamentary majority and that means they'll have to enter potentially difficult coalition talks to remain in power the vote also saw far right party entering parliament for the first time in four decades with just over ten percent of votes cast. socialist politics triumphs in spain incumbent prime minister pedro sanchez says progressive politics one. spaniards have sent a very clear and categorical message to europe and to the world that it is possible to win against reactionary authoritarian and repressive politics with progressive proposals. but forming a ruling coalition won't be easy on likely allies the anti austerity far left party put

mean or turkey's president is backing libya's u.n. recognize government in its fight against the wall orderly to have to. describe it have to ask advance on tripoli as a plot against the libyan people he says turkey will support the tripoli based government as an attempt to drive have to ask fighters out the use of it is an international security and political analyst he's playing down the impact turkey support will have on the fighting. i believe that is in case the united nations government government government of national accord wants their help from the turkey militarily there is not up that turkey will support military goals at the same time. from my perspective for. analyzing the situation in libya. being backed by the rich countries such as the gulf countries does not mean that they hundred will bring you the guarantee of success and victory because the moral striation on the ground is very open the government is united nations supervise government so we thought taking into consideration who's backing the rebellion heidi for h

with turkey and continued support of the kurds in northern syria regards as terrorists but turkey wasn't the only alliance member ronna don at the nato birthday party. the us vice president also lashed out at germany saying berlin didn't cough up enough for nato especially given the size of its economy shortly after germany and it would contribute one point two five percent of g.d.p. by two thousand and twenty three still short of the two percent minimum set by nato . we go live now to argument bag a former turkish minister for affairs welcome to the program now mike pence i think heard me said turkey has to choose between being a nato member and making reckless decisions as he put it could turkey be sidelined within nato or even potentially forced out if it refuses to back down on this. i don't believe so you have been stylish member of the nato alliance since the korean war in the fifty's we have both together with our allies in every international conflict since the korean war in korea in bosnia in kosovo in somalia in iraq in syria everywhere and we are now the second largest militar

and gives them leverage in terms of interfering in the turn of affairs of turkey so i dare say that turkey is not necessarily disappointed with this council lesson because it removes a possible point of leverage for washington and uncle and of course the pentagon is really thrown out of gold as the time for saying it is has the council those deliveries of the s four hundred russian missile system. sat in on a president renowned for compromise renowned for giving in to threats i mean how do you think he's going to respond to that. i think you're correct i think it would lead to a further deterioration of relations between opera and washington recall also that washington hasn't vision turkey as a point of the spear in terms of helping to encircle russia they intend on playing on those nineteenth century tensions between so call christian russia and so-called muslim turkey that were so important in bulgaria for example in the western balkans for example but uncle it does not seem like it wants to play that role instead of squab parading russia in syria is cooperating with russia with regard t

threaten turkey not to provide this. sort of five turkey on the other hand had to choose the russian missile system because out of necessity turkey is turkish borders do not have any defense systems. however the key focus of neda's latest gathering in washington was not relations between turkey but with russia with moscow again painted as a major global threat the nato secretary general got an enthusiastic response in the u.s. congress as he outlined countermeasures against moscow has more. he might not even have had it in mind when he was doing it but the great business men of all presidents made sure everyone in the club open their wallets for nato's seventieth anniversary the clear message from prison term. help is having a real impact we see that many more than a dollar meet the two percent god on the spending two percent of the g.d.p. on defense can there be a better gift than money oh yeah but let's keep in mind if you will that vladimir putin is the greatest gift to nato since the end of the cold war and it has pr

would look for any weakness in turkey's position however i think turkey will stay strong on this issue and will continue to buy the s. four hundred missile defense system for a couple of reasons in the first place it's a very reliable system in fact some people say it's the best in the world and it's at a reasonable price and the second reason is i think that turkey like many other us allies are really getting turned off by the high handed methods of the u.s. government and its luck of reliability for example in turkey the u.s. government according to the mr ed of want engineered or tried to engineer a coup. on behalf of a cleric who lives in the united states and has not been brought to trial. and in the case of europe the europeans are a myth because the u.s. abrogated the treaty with iran and it is trying to curb all their deals that they made in the interim using u.s. economic sanctions so turkey is probably going to show its independence and continue to buy the russian missile system we thought was the way forward have for us thank you russians because as you mentioned that there'

he said the death of the complicates the political tensions between turkey and the u.a.e. i think it's significant for the for the fact that to eating out you know will not be able to gather further information. on on their motivations or or what sort of. aimed a had in turkey in terms of political implications i think it's also important because the you we will you know will try to use this against turkey based on its already existing rivalry and strategies but you know this is not something that will serve this is this is not an incident that will really serve to turkey's interests least of all we did find out in right after they were arrested that. these two individuals were at work to build some sort of an anti to ease structure this is some of the information that we have received. from our sources an attack on a protestant church in bikini faso has left six people dead gunman shot five worshipers in a pastor as they were leaving a service in the small more than ton of syl god she recently there has been a surge in attacks attributed to all groups based in the north.

with turkey but at the moment, there no mediator in turkey and erdogan's statement saying that the removal of children and women was justified. it's only proving that unfortunately we have to wait some tururkish progressive placers are also in search of that new leader and are hopeful that the time will come when their country will address these very painful issues. >> that journalist was killed in 2007 in january. of course his murlt very much flagging up the contest station about t the statutus of the armenian genocide in turkey and the problems of speaking out in such a society. thank you very much for joining us, our guest from london. live from paris. more is emerging about the suicide attackers who carried out the easter sunday atrocities in s sri lanka. ninine are b believed totoer ca out the attacks. nine men and one woman. the islamic state released images of a group o of that number dramed d inheir blackck flag and thehe name of the bombers is becoming more and more apparent. one of them educated in the u.k. and australia and it seems from well to doo familieies. killers now of 3

weapons that spot have been from the us in the west turkey is a very has some cards to play to turkey is regarded as a strategic. country simply because the you know the dardanelles of the bosphorus they're going from the black sea on out there and so it's always been a strategic bridge between asia and europe and so it's location of nothing more and also has a very big army so you know turkey has some cards a complaint you can play both of these huge powers off each other and that's what is stealing i think i think we see a change it's a neutral into transformations what would you expect next move from united states to the financial measurements to. political pressure i'm sure because previously it also looks. like it can you tell us which also had a negative impact on turkey and you know i situation but more significantly took us all role economic performance changing. harsh language to diplomacy what do you want me extensions look to do on sanctions on turkish defense in the us need will be disasters and now he's talked to diplomacy. however the key focus of late his latest gatheri

between turkey and egypt turkey and u.a.e. and turkey and saudi arabia have been strained mainly following the military coup in egypt in two thousand and thirteen those three countries have lost their intelligence gathering capacity and tricky and that's why and now they are trying to. build up and maybe intelligence work and this is what the turkish security believe in ankara right now and that's why they say they think that the united arab emirates is using other out nationals to spy inside truth to you what we have learned so far is that these people were here to follow up with what nationals what they are doing how they are living mainly muslim brotherhood members who have. most of whom have moved to turkey following the military coup in egypt in two thousand and thirteen and a press statement. today suggested that. the who has killed himself on sunday in his solitary confinement was found by the warden. early morning hours. he hanged himself in the door using his clothes right now an investigation is under way and. and au

thirty five program turkey must choose. those who want to remain a critical partner of the most successful military alliance in the history of the world were doesn't want to risk the security of their partnership with his vice president hit back over twitter saying that it was the us that had to choose between friendship with turkey and continued support of the kurds in northern syria who anchor regard to be terrorists. turkey wasn't the only alliance member rounded though at the nato birthday party the us from its president lashed out at germany saying berland didn't cough up enough for nato especially given the size of its economy shortly after germany announced that it would contribute one point two five percent of g.d.p. by two thousand and twenty three still short of the two percent minimum set by nato the former turkish minister for e.u. affairs edge m n bugis believes that turkey has chosen russian hardware because moscow was a better negotiator and that washington just has to accept it. turkey has to prioritize her

this anti—missile system is very important to turkey. it says it needsit important to turkey. it says it needs it because of the groups that are involved in conflict. in countries around it, for example iraq and syria. it needs a kind of system that can destroy missiles. however, america is concerned because they believe it can also target f 35 fighter jets. that's because they believe it can also target f 35 fighterjets. that's a stealth fighter jet and did something america has become increasingly concerned about. as a result, it is saying to turkey, reconsider this. there are other anti—missile systems that are available but it's notjust persuasion, it is a great deal of pressure, they are really having this old—fashioned pressure, they are really having this old —fashioned tactic pressure, they are really having this old—fashioned tactic of trying to put the arm behind the back of this and saying if you go ahead with this, we will not give you access to the fighter jet. it this, we will not give you access to the fighterjet. it is already stopping some equipment fr

oil as you mentioned turkey has had. quite a bit of up people in the last couple of years and that's why there is a lot of international attention focused on turkey but there's also because of that because of restrictions on the media there is a demand here for independent verified information that people can trust and that is on a digital platform and this is something that d.w. the director general told me about earlier. i think it's important because the situation in turkey around freedom of press is swear difficult to journalists in jail and it's also important because in the recent years there's been a lot of tensions between our countries on the political side and it's always good if you can try to bring in an offer which has a lot of plurality in it and come from public service media and so we hope to help a bit to get over this polarization in the in the country but at the end we're just . surplus offer to bring in more information and more opinions into turkey. so jared we heard there this is an important source

and there's the thought that given the strained relations between turkey and saudi arabia turkey and the u.a.e. and turkey and egypt that perhaps the u.a.e. was attempting to open up a new avenue of intelligence gathering in turkey. iran's government says the repair bill for widespread flood damage is expected to be around two and a half billion dollars millions of iranians are rebuilding their lives after devastating floods that started a month ago but as amos travie reports now from. province a crisis has come at a bad time for iran's shrinking economy. iran's government is measuring the cost of flood damage in the billions of dollars for iran's people measuring the cost is also very personal damage shops. broken furniture. even packets of spaghetti. homes have been destroyed shops and businesses damaged everything it's gone. now the cleanup the floods left this school filled with mud the goal is to clear up as fast as possible to get the children back into class now this is the kind of thing that will cost time and money to fix if you look over here that metal structure that's con

and a new voice for turkey international broadcasters including to respond to the government's crackdown on independent media with opponents of a new you tube channel. time filled gal welcome to the program. spain's governing socialist safwan the country's national election but fall in well short of a parliamentary majority with just twenty nine percent of the vote prime minister petro sanchez must now attempt to form a coalition government a process that could take weeks or even months sunday's vote also saw a far right party and to parliament for the first time since the end of military rule in one thousand nine hundred eighty five vox took ten percent of the vote. the reality sinks in an election that leaves no party in power many in spain were relieved however that the far right had not done even better than it did at the polls. but i mean helpful for me i think it's a good result insincerely i didn't expect it i thought the right wing was going to win so it's cool for me. but i mean. me but then we think that the socialist victory is good and now there is hope that the bad guys don'

s murder sources say with turkey's relationship with saudi. arabia and egypt strange perhaps the u.a.e. was attempting to open up a new avenue of collecting intelligence here in turkey the two men are expected to face political military and international charges. several cuban doctors working in kenya have been moved to safety after two of their colleagues were kidnapped a week ago. and based in neighboring somalia are suspected of the attack in which a police guard was killed the kenyan government there was ruled out paying a ransom soil in the kenyan city of mendota. the incident happened in broad daylight of around six jim right on this street and that time of the morning the people here it was very busy people. and those we talked to. a normal police something that is. then they realised something was wrong when they saw this man coming out of the shooting they then bundled the cuban doctors into their vehicle and drove. about two kilometers away now they the police and the military all the involved in trying to rescue these cuban doctors.

thank you lawrence up next a turkey terror where a flock of birds are attacking neighbors >>turkeys are giving neighbors a pretty hard time in massachusetts checking out he's using a snow shovel. i don't know if that's the most effective way, but it seems to be working. a reporter sean shy about spoke to a pregnant woman who says she's been packed twice by these wild turkeys within a week. next thing i know i'm in socal. they're packing at the back of my legs for a couple more up here and i cannot get away by covering over my belly and kicking them behind me. >>i'm screaming blooded murder and the carlson has turkey trauma after this flock attacked her twice in a week, the bruises on my legs on most of them are of on the back of my talk behind the fear was. >>more overwhelming than the pain it wasn't until i got home that night and was like oh my god she's now on guard on her daily walks and she's not alone. schauble workers had to fend off the feathered mob 2 weeks ago. >>mass fish and wildlife are taken several complaints for this flock in particular experts say it's common for turkey

here in turkey. and then we have a contentious situation that is possibly brewing here in istanbul where the votes were too close to call between the president erdogan's akp candidate and the chp candidate, both claiming victory, but that has yet to be revolved. there are ballot boxes that are still being counted and we're waiting to hear from the supreme election board on the results for istanbul, at least the preliminarily results for this city, the second largest city in turkey. that is also the heart of the -- it is the capital of turkey. it's the financial capital of turkey, of course, but it's also, rosemary, a very significant city for president erdogan himself. this is his city. this is where he entered turkish politics. he was the mayor of istanbul. we can see how close this city is to president erdogan's heart, campaigning here on the final days, casting his ballot here. so we'll have to wait and see what the results are, but it looks like it is very close to call. a city with 10 million el

just six weeks there's severe flooding with more original pours in the forecast and a new voice for turkey international broadcasters including v.w. respond to the government's crackdown on independent media with the launch of a new view to. bring gulf it's good to have you with us they thought that he was dead but it seems the leader of so-called islamic state. might still be alive and still in command in propaganda footage released today by a man believed to be baghdadi phrases the easter sunday suicide bombings in sri lanka which killed hundreds of christians he says that the attacks were to avenge the loss of islamic states last stronghold in syria he was the. in this two thousand and fourteen video at the mosque in mosul he's been reported killed or wounded many times. shocking video when with me here in the studio to talk about it is analyst from the german it's a treat for international security affairs here in berlin good to see you again what do you make of this video i mean first of all can we be sure that this is who we think it is well i think so he looks like. he has grown old

it stumbled that has always been such a strong sense of peace of the party's political dominance in turkey how it was even allowed to reach a point whereby it was so closely contested that's what's the act party their leadership will be thinking about taking long in deep thoughts about the coming few days because it was from here that the party was born through the essentially rise of president. as mayor of this city and then later on a national figure they have always been winning this city quite comfortably with a much bigger gap so the fact that it was brought down to the wire is will be considered some sort of a defeat in and of itself adrian just one of the issues that have driven the turnout was pretty high it was and it was over eighty percent what are the issues that have driven versus towards the opposition. well there's two ways to look at this i mean there's the economic issues that have essentially plagued the political spectrum for the past couple of years that there's been a stagnation a huge devaluation of the. there has been an increase to some extent in unemployment increa