For Vladimir Putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, ourwilland our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny. Translation you may be surprised, but a few days i before mr navalny died, some colleagues of mine told me there was an idea to exchange him for certain people in prison in the west. You can believe it or not. I said, i agree, even before he had finished talking. But what happened, happened. Election results on russian tv, not a hold your breath moment. The winner, by a mile and a half, Vladimir Putin. What an incredible level of support and unity around the figure of putin, he says. And a powerful signal to the west. But in this race, Vladimir Putin was, from the start, unbeatable. There were other candidates. But no serious ch
Would create space for more humanitarian assistance to relieve the suffering of many people and to build something more enduring and we have been working with egypt, with israel to put a strong proposal on the table and hamas responded to that and negotiators continue to work in the gaps are narrowing and we are continuing to push for an agreement in doha. There is still difficult work to get there but i continue to believe it is possible. Heres the take of our correspondent in jerusalem mark lowen diplomacy very much in motioned talking about how they believe an agreement is possible to end this war and even if it will be difficult in his words and talk about progress in his words and talk about progress in talking with regional actors about and what could run gaza and reconstructing gaza after the guns fall silent and sending a delegation back to delhi on friday led by the head of the Israeli Intelligence agency will be holding talks the cia and mediators from qatar in egypt suggesti
Pictures there because that is the back of barack obama, he goes in to see rishi sunak. The former us president here in the uk and Downing Street and going in to meet with rishi sunak. That is the picture liven Downing Street. We will return and talk more to our Political Correspondent about this visit and of course one of those Headline Stories again, news stories surrounding the future of rishi sunak, the british Prime Minister, in dismissing those rumours as simply coming out of the westminster bubble. But the former us president going inside number 10 Downing Street and well be back there very shortly on the programme. But lets start this hour in the middle east. The Israeli Army Says it has killed the head of operations in hamas internal Security Force during a raid on gazas biggest hospital. The military also made dozens of arrests in Al Shifa Hospital in gaza city. Palestinian Health Officials said a number of people were injured in the raid, but they could not be helped because
Intimidate or suppress them. As our russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports, in a rare move mr putin also mentioned the opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, by name. For Vladimir Putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, our will and our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny. Translation you may be surprised, but a few days before mr navalny died, some colleagues of mine told me there was an idea to exchange him for certain people in prison in the west. You can believe it or not. I said, i agree, even before he had finished talking. But what happened happened. Election results on russian tv, not a hold your breath moment. The winner, by a mile and a half, Vladimir Putin. What an incredible level of support and unity around the figure of pu
Has been pretty predictable. There was this joint statement in which they say the russian people were denied any real choice in the vote that took place over the past three days. We heard from the veteran spanish diplomat saying that the Russian Election was characterised by repression and intimidation. One thing the eu has not done which the widow of Alexei Navalny wanted to happen, she wanted european leaders to come out and say President Putin does not have any legitimacy and he wanted brussels not to recognise this victory. That hasnt happened today but as you have been saying they are looking at more sanctions and we understand that the sanctions being talked about today and potentially agreed would affect people within the Prison System in russia, specifically those who work at the penal colony in the arctic where Alexei Navalny was being held and where he died last month. There have been talks and where he died last month. There have been talks about and where he died last month