that very major decision to allow ukraine to use american weapons mr. strike inside russian territory. natasha per trans in singapore. thank you in just a few hours, millions will vote and mexico s historic presidential election that will put a woman in the top job for the first time. it is also the largest general election with more than 70,000 candidates vying for congressional and governor states as well as local positions. one of the key issues is public safety political unrest, and cartel violence have marred this campaign season. cnn, gustavo valdez is joining us now from mexico city so gustavo, talk to us about the last 24 hours and more about what we expect to see at the poles as they opened well good, morning we re expecting hopefully a peaceful transition of power, if you will. this is almost 100 million mexicans going to the polls. and they have a clear choice. this is not just an election to
way that the tracy s women, that there was no way on earth that that was going to happen and seen it be something so that tassel tangible it s quite amazing important because it keeps power to an inspiration to all the woman s also like subject change in this country that it s been improved by manson the matchup go through life it s important polls close around 6:00 p.m. local. we should have the first results around 10:00 p.m. local time. i m gustavo. we also understand that now for the first time mexicans can vote abroad. but how does that work it seems to be working very well. there s about 1.4 million
stake, including the presidency and for the first time ever two women are the top presidential contenders. but there has also been shocking violence during this election cycle. monitoring groups say dozens of people connected to the campaigns and candidates have been murdered, sentence gustavo valdez is in mexico city. gustavo, how is the voting going so far? hello allison, we have seen a lot of enthusiasm from voters. we went to a couple of polling places where people lined up hours before the polls often, there s been so much these organizations, some delays in opening some places especially the special polling stations. these are the places where four for people who are outside the district, perhaps you re visiting from out-of-state these are this is where we re seeing the most delays because there seems to be see some problems are getting the polling stations proper. worker, working order. and now so because if people
peace summit either. in fact, according to the us and the uk, china is actively supporting russia s war in ukraine. vive supporting its defense sector. so what president zelenskyy did not get everything that he wanted here today, including that important meeting with the chinese. he did say that he accomplished some very key things, including meeting face-to-face with some of these very important leaders and hopefully rallying and even bigger coalition of international partners to support ukraine in its fight against the russians. allison natasha, thank you very much for that update. so voting is underway in this historic election in mexico right now. and that will likely end with a woman leading the country for the first time. cnn s gustavo valdez and camila bernal are on this story for us. so gustavo urine, mexico city how is the voting going there hello, all this one. it s improving the national institute of elections has, now that only 10% of the polling stations have seen a mo
nationals will be able to vote for broad about 70% of that comes from the vote within the united states. so they had 20 consonants all over the country where people were able to vote. but at least here in los angeles, there you re telling people do not come anymore because you likely will not be able to vote if you re not registered to vote, there is so much excitement from people here because of what you re hurting from gustavo. this is a historic election for a lot of the mexicans here in the us, take a listen to what von voter told us i think it s very important for us to elect a woman has raised no matter who wins. but i say isn t for me, that s very important because the woman s are are leading contenders to be the next president of mexico but also is the first time that we mexicans will live abroad going to cast a ballot. here. used to be by mail or electronically, but now we re going to have that opportunity here s another very interesting thing here at terms for the presi