And this is the scene live at a Polling Station in moscow. There is the potential for a run off vote if no candidate wins more than 50 in the first round. But with many of mr putins opponents unable to run, it seems inevitable that Vladimir Putin will be re elected without a need for that second ballot. The election is encompassing the territories which russia has annexed in ukraine. In all, more than 112 Million People have the right to vote at the last election, in 2018, he took more than three quarters of the vote. Our russia editor, Steve Rosenberg has more on the issues surrounding this election. These days, when Vladimir Ovchinnikov paints russia, the result is very dark. From a mountain of skulls and a dictators ambition to this russias war in ukraine likened to stalins terror. The 86 year old artist had taken his anti war message onto the streets, graffitiing stop the war. All these paintings were scrubbed out, and vladimir fined twice for discrediting the russian army. But he
meta, which owns facebook, says threads will be part of its instagram platform so it ll be connected to hundreds of millions of accounts to begin with. but the app has already been criticised for the amount of data it may collect. ray wang is a principal analyst constellation research and explained why threads could be a serious threat to twitter. it s a massive threat if you think about twitter, it only has one of 150 million active users. if you see what s going on with facebook and instagram, we are talking 2.96 billion users, so let s look at this in simple terms. 50 million is the number we used to say mass adoption of technology has occurred, chatgpt did it in 30 days, facebook live in 2a hours. mark zuckerberg can get the 50 million users in probably less than hours and probably get 150 million users in less than two months. that means it s a direct threat to twitter. at the same time some users aren t happy with recent restrictions like the number of tweets you can lo
of millions of accounts. ray wang is a principal analyst of constellation research, explains why threads could be a serious challenge to twitter. this is a massive threat. if you think about twitter, it only has about 150 million active users. if you see what is going on with facebook and instagram, we are talking the 2.96 billion users. let s put this in simple terms. 50 million is the number we use to say mass adoption of technology has occurred. facebook live dated 2a hours. mark zuckerberg can get to 50 million users and probably less than 2a hours. i can pick it to 150 million euros in less than two months. it s a direct threat to delay or stop light at the same time, some of the users are not happy with the recent restrictions like the number of tweets that you can look at. why is elon musk doing this is yet? you don t normally musk doing this is yet? you don t normally have - musk doing this is yet? 7m. don t normally have that musk doing this is yet? 7m, don t nor
this is bbc news. the headlines. the veteran british tv presenter phillip schofield says he has agreed to step down from itv s this morning with immediate effect after more than 20 years ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky meets uk prime minister rishi sunak at the g7 summit injapan after landing zelensky tweeted that peace will be closer as a result of his meetings. russia hits back at a deal to supply ukraine with f 16fighterjets saying it s fraught with massive risks for the west amid claims from the notorious wagner mercenary group that bakhmut is now under russian control. in northern ireland, the republican political party sinn fein is on track to become the largest party in local government with calls for the return of local rule in stormont. breaking news, manchester city at the champions of the premier league after a second placed arsenal have just lost to nottingham forest at the city ground, meaning they have no chance of catching them before the s
neither forrest nor spurs have been able to so far break the deadlock. erling haaland could miss manchester city s first ever appearance at the club world cup because of a foot injury that manager pep guardiola says is being assessed day by day . the striker hasn t played in city s last two games and won t be back for the premier league match tomorrow against crystal palace, after which the team flies out to saudi arabia for a semi final at the club world cup againstjapanese side urawa reds on tuesday. i think it s going. whether he is able to play the first game or second, it s not a fracture, it s just stress and sometimes with players they recover quicker or slower. the doctor says to take it day by day, week by week, how he feels. the moment he doesn t have symptoms or pain, he ll be ok to play again. as something that has never happened before. spain are top of the fifa women s world rankings for the first time. at the end of a year in which they won the world cup. spai