This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Monday the 1st of April, these are our main stories.

President Erdogan's AK party has suffered its biggest ever defeat in municipal elections in Turkey.

As major protests take place in Jerusalem, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he'll do everything in his power to get hostages in Gaza home.

Also in this podcast we hear from people in the Ukrainian city of Harkiv who live in fear of a new Russian advance and I came back full of

confidence so inspired to give back to the community that I became a charity worker

and it's all thanks to the Homeless World Cup.

How Football's Homeless World Cup is changing lives.

Let's begin the podcast in Turkey.

Now as we record this edition, supporters of the main opposition party are out on the streets,

waving flags and banners in Istanbul, celebrating a strong showing. on the in both the country's biggest cities, Istanbul and Ankara.

There's particular focus on Istanbul whose mayor is seen as the best placed opposition

candidate for the next presidential poll in four years time.

President Reggaehir of Erdogan has acknowledged the election

didn't achieve the desired results.

Honor Eram from BBC Turkish gave me the latest.

Right now more than 80% of the votes have been counted and the main opposition party CHP is leading.

They have control of the major cities in Turkey and for the first time in the century they control more cities and municipalities

than the government party. And this is a pretty significant defeat for

President Erdogan. We've been hearing from him in the last few

minute. Yes, he just spoke and he said this wasn't the result we wanted, but he

also said this is not an end for our party but a turning point and he said Turkish voters have warned us

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