24 Jun 2019

Istanbul election blow and pressure on Russia over MH17

From Nine To Noon, 9:51 am on 24 June 2019
Ekrem Imamoglu, candidate of the secular opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), arrives to make his victory speech.

Ekrem Imamoglu, candidate of the secular opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), arrives to make his victory speech. Photo: AFP

Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney reports on Istanbul's mayoral election and how it's a massive blow to President Erdogan.

He'll also look at the behind-the-scenes horse trading at the EU summit for some of the top jobs and how Russia has been urged by EU leaders to 'cooperate fully' with a Dutch-led investigation into the crash of a Malaysian Airlines plane in east Ukraine in 2014.