competitive match. she competitive match. could have stopped me a long, she could have stopped me a long, long time ago, but she didn t. she kept going and allowed me to play. it s amazing. thank you. cheering and applause. hello, welcome to the programme. officials in four russian occupied regions of ukraine have been holding self declared referendums on whether to become part of the russian federation. the kremlin supports the votes, just as it did after the annexation of crimea the ukrainian territory which was invaded in 2014 but the government in kyiv and western countries have condemned the referendums, saying they are just a sham and that they will never be recognised. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east and zaporizhzhia and kherson in the south and cover around 15% of ukraine s territory. votes are are expected to run until tuesday, and the result seems almost certain to go in moscow
a global recession is all but inevitable. and, the first woman to win the booker prize twice, have condemned the referendums being held in parts of ukraine to decide whether they want to join russia. it added the votes, which are being organised by moscow backed officials, are a breach of the united nations charter. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south, and cover around fifteen% of ukraine s territory. voting is expected to run until tuesday, and the result seems almost certain to go in moscow s favour. these pictures, filmed in russian occupied donetsk, show representatives taking polling cards to people in their own homes. here, at least, it is not a secret ballot. meanwhile russia is continuing to mobilise its reserve troops, which isn t going entirely smoothly. with the latest, here s our russia editor, steve rosenberg. it was the moment the kremlin t
is presenting as a historical account? account? this is why these tudor novels account? this is why these tudor novels are account? this is why these tudor novels are more i account? this is why these | tudor novels are more than account? this is why these i tudor novels are more than as it was mere historicalfiction. they are novels that stand as novels because she brings to the historical record, which of course she researched exhaustively and with admirable regard, she brings with this anomalous s imagination and thatis anomalous s imagination and that is why these novels take off in a way that many historical fiction never quite does. it is the perfect storm, so to speak, of something that has historical accuracy and yet has historical accuracy and yet has the quality of imaginative nurse. she gets into cromwell s head, you are there with them the whole time, hearing his thoughts matt canadian, and i think that is what gives it an extraordinary and deeply literary quality. i m
of course, there again, the cromwell story is the perfect vehicle for that because she is so interested in cromwell as a person who acquires such a tremendous amount of power and uses it to act on people. so, of course, the first two novels of the tudor trilogy show him wielding the power, using it first on catherine of aragon and then, ironically, on anne boleyn as well, so she is interested in both the power equation. and she evokes it in a very brilliant way. the imagination side of it, does that inbue the fact or does it not matter in terms of what she is presenting as a historical account? well, this is why these tudor novels are more than, as it were, mere historicalfiction. they are novels that stand