As we learn more about that unfolding situation today. But first, we want to turn or attention to a major change underway in america. Today workers in our Energy Industry are wondering where the Biden White House is leaving them. They spent decades Building Energy independence in this country. Thats been great news for workers and not such great news for other big Energy Providers like venezuela or russia or the middle east. We were building our own enormous energy supply. That shifted. The global power dynamic in a way that has not been seen since the advent of the automobile. Now its changing. Executive orders are it sheing down new leases for fracking on federal land. As you know, the xl pipeline is a casualty here. Heres what some of those workers are saying as they react to this. You prepare for these large projects. When one gets the rug yanked out from under it, you have nothing the next year or two years. I cant believe that all this in one day, that a mans stroke of a pen can
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
Left cyprus three days ago and is carrying 200 tonnes of food supplied by an american ngo. Teams from the ngo in gaza have built a floating jetty to unload the cargo. Food and basic supplies are desperately needed in gaza, and the Israeli Police force is deploying thousands of officers acrossjerusalems old city for ramadan s first friday prayers at the al aqsa mosque, with tensions high amid the war. Lets go live now to anna foster at damascus gate. Welcome to eastjerusalem, this is damascus gate, you are talking about the first friday prayers of ramadan which have passed peacefully. There was really tight security, all the streets were closed by Israeli Soldiers and police. They were only allowing worshippers from certain demographics, there was nobody here between the ages of ten and 50. A huge number of people come here for the first friday prayers and we have seenin the first friday prayers and we have seen in previous years violent clashes in this area and because of that addition
Have been several incidents like this. Take a look at this one, this is a small fire in a different Polling Station here. This isjust the first day three days of voting. First lets look at the contenders also on ballot. They havent criticsed putin and they havent got a realistic chance of winning. Nikolay kharitonov of the Communist Party a political veteran. Vladislav davankov of the new people party former businessperson, relative newcomer. Leonid slutsky of the right wing, nationalist liberal democratic party. Remember putins main opposition figure, alexei navalny, died last month in a russian prison. His team have asked supporters to come out and demonstrate at Polling Stations on sunday. Here are the details of the days vote with our russia editor steve rosenberg. Russias democracy is the best in the world, the kremlin says. And at Polling Station 38 in moscow, we found a choice of candidates and plenty of voters. Democracy in action, right . Not quite. Realistically, only one man