He is of course trying to present this as a overwhelming display of national unity, and a sign of, show of defiance to russias enemies round the world. He said that russias power is derived from its people, which is part of this message of presenting this election as a genuine democratic exercise where the russian people have shown him their support, rather than something carefully choreographed by the kremlin. He spoke of russians being one team and one family, and of course, appealing to this traditional values agenda, which we have seen him push over the year, by saying he had spoken to the head of the Russian Orthodox church. Another key point he mentioned what russia calls the new region, the occupied pars of ukraine. We calls the new region, the occupied pars of ukraine. Calls the new region, the occupied pars of ukraine. We are going to gok back to the press pars of ukraine. We are going to gok back to the Press Conference, pars of ukraine. We are going to gok back to the Press
not all good news for australia though. spinner nathan lyon is a doubt for the rest of the series after suffering what s been described as a significant calf strain on day two at lord s. he arrived at the ground earlier on crutches and cricket australia say a decision regarding his availability for the remainder of the series will be made at the conclusion of the game . defending wimbledon champion novak djokovic says he salutes and applauds the decision to allow russian and belorussian players to return to the tournament this year. the all england club were fined for banning them in 2022, but djokovic says sport should be above politics. meanwhile the club s chief executive has been explaining the increase in security in response to the protests that have disrupted a number of uk based sporting events this year. we have uplifted security around the grounds this year, we work with the met police and other agencies to look at the threat and risk each year and then put mea
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hello and welcome. many russian citizens are trying to flee the country to escape the military mobilisation announced vladimir putin. tickets for direct flights between russia and serbia have sold out and there are long queues on other border crossings. they are holding referendums in one of four contested areas on whether they want to join the russian federation. the west describes these as a sham. this isjohn kirby. we believe that these will be sham referenda, they will not be legitimate and they will not be free orfairand they are preordained to allow mr putin to say, look, this is russian territory and now, ukrainian attacks are on the motherland, not on ukrainian territory, which is, of course, not true. and as you heard jake sullivan, our national security adviser, say yesterday, we are not going to recognise that and so many other nations around the world aren t going to recognise that. this is nothing more than a ploy by vladimir putin to try to gain, through some