interest rates up again. tonight with the context long time capitol hill correspondent, and now washington post live anchor leigh ann caldwell, and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. welcome to the programme. initial results for its self styled referendums, in four areas it occupies in ukraine, show people have voted overwhelmingly in favour ofjoining the russian federation. the process has been denounced as a sham by ukraine and its allies, who view the referendums as a stage managed forerunner to russian annexation which the ministry of defence here in the uk says president putin is likely to do within days. nearly four million people from the eastern regions of donetsk and luhansk, and the southern regions of kherson and zaporizhzhia, were asked to attend polling stations there s been allegations of intimidation, as election officials went house to house accompanied by armed guards. the votes serve a deadly serious purpose as they will be used by the
To block passage, what is happening now with this aid and can two senators or however many or more republican senators, can they make this decision drag and drag and drag. I really hope that doesnt happen, even im confident that this resolution will be passed in the senate as soon as possible because, well , first of all, we have there. More solid, more stable, bipartisan support, including for this important bill, but the United States is a democracy, and the senate, as well as the congress as a whole, is a democratic body where such procedural issues can arise, most likely, so its quite normal and its right in a democracy, but were interested now in the time to. To receive this timely aid, because it is about the lives of our military and civilian population, so i hope that in the near future this decision will be made and the president will sign this law and we will receive this aid, it is already, as far as i understand, ready to go to be sent and to be in ukraine as soon as possib