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Erdogan Wins Turkey Presidential Election

President is taking on extensive new executive powers following his election victory

Turkey's main opposition presidential candidate, Muharrem Ince, has acknowledged defeat, but has warned that the country is beginning a dangerous period of one-man rule under President Erdogan. We have a special coverage, Newshour's Razia Iqbal reports from Istanbul.

Also in the programme: As the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London starts to study the sky again - after a break of 60 years -- we speak to one of their astronomers; and the underwater rescue mission in Thailand after a children's football team is trapped in a flooded cave.

(Photo: President Erdogan and his wife. Credit: Getty Images)

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Mon 25 Jun 201813:06GMT

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