welcome to the programme. exactly six months ago, vladimir putin ordered his army to invade ukraine. it was a decision that not only unleashed the biggest war in europe since world war ii, but it also turned the world on its head. thousands of ukrainians and russian soldiers have been killed in the fighting. today, in ukraine, it is independence day. normally, there would be parades and celebrations marking 31 years of freedom from soviet rule. but not today, it s not safe. and in the past 6 months, russia has clawed away at ukraine s freedom. this was the map of ukraine on february 24th. russian backed separatists already held significant territory in the eastern regions of donetsk and luhansk and moscow controlled the annexed crimean peninsula. this is how things stand now. russian forces control large parts of the south of the country, all of the luhansk region and continue to make advances in donetsk. but there is still the threat of danger, everywhere in the country and
we have a special report from 0rla guerin about the extraordinary resilience of some of its youngest citizens. hello, i m anjana gadgil. we start in the uk, where a manhunt is continuing for a suspected terrorist who escaped from a london prison. daniel khalife escaped from wandsworth prison on wednesday morning, by clinging to the underside of a food delivery van. thejustice secretary has ordered an urgent investigation into what happened, and why the former soldier wasn t held in a higher security prison. 0ur reporter simonjones has more. currently britain s most wanted man. the hunt for daniel khalife, facing serious charges of threats to the state, is being described as urgent and extensive. despite all the security that should have been in place here at wandsworth prison, the former soldier managed to escape from the jail s kitchen by strapping himself to the bottom of a food delivery van. he was wearing his distinctive chef s uniform. he could be anywhere in the country
situations in which there were lines extending from 30 minutes to an hour long as those county and elections workers were trying to figure out the situation. now, i want to be clear here. because there are folks like arizona republican secretary of state candidate mark finchem who were suggesting there was nefarious action taking place on part of county officials. usually the republicans outnumber the number of democrats who vote in person. even kari lake, i specifically asked her, yes, it is never excusable to have long lines. never ideal. at the same time, there should be no suggestion that this will not be an accurate election here in the state of arizona at this time. kari lake agreed with me on that point here. so as we look to see how this lawsuit develops to try to keep the polling locations open and ultimately the tabulation of these ballots and it s important to remember kari lake herself acknowledged this does not mean there will be an inaccurate
richmond county, this is where augusta is, a democratic area. state-wide, that is all the vote we have right now, but as we said, in georgia, and i think this is a difference from what we saw in 2020. you can expect a lot of the earliest vote to come out to be more on the democratic friendly side. that is not the same day vote coming out first in a lot of counties. you see in richmond county, 41% of all the vote in one batch. that s early, that s mail, that s what they re able to tabulate today and get out. this county in the 2020 presidential election was a 68% biden county. it s that much more favorable to the democrats with this big early batch of votes that they re able to report out. so again, the name of the game here in richmond, and we ll see this replicated in county after county, this gives you a preview of perhaps how to watch georgia and the results coming in. when the same day is added to this, does this number tick down? how much does this tick down? i think we ll see tha
we re getting them in different orders. it s like if someone reported steve kornacki a basketball game with the bucket out of order. in republican circles, there s something going on in philly, something going on here. it s all the votes all the people that voted. they vote in the different methods. in the end, that will sum to an outcome. but there s no actual movement happening behind. that we re just learning it in realtime and processing it in realtime and i really do think we saw this in 2020, leaping on that process as a means of sort of trying to create suspicion, right? there s something suspicious about this county reporting later or that county reporting later. it s going take as long as it takes to count the votes and when you add them up, you know who won the election. to that point i think one thing we haven t talked enough about is the disingenuous nature of the critique, the critique of the slow voting and of when votes come in and of what types