President ial election, which is certain to hand ballots have been cast over Vladimir Putin another six years in power. Ballots have been cast over three days. There has been some vandalism and a number of arrests at Polling Stations, but the final result is not in doubt as mr putin has no credible opponent. It comes as supporters of the late Opposition Leader, Alexei Navalny, have urged people to turn out en masse at midday in each time zone and vote for any candidate other than mr putin or spoil their ballot papers. The Rolling Protest has been dubbed noon against putin. One of the main issues that voters are thinking about, is the war in ukraine. On that, here are two voters from an area just north of moscow. Translator | wish This I Special Operation would end as soon as possible. It is a pity people are dying, what a pity. Can you imagine how many people died, and now ourfront line regions are suffering . I am an elderly person but im really worried about this. I came to vote for
in. so countries around the world are acting accordingly and they re pursuing their own interests and their own objectives. so for the turks, this will be an opportunity if they want to to crack down further on their opposition, on civil society, that s what they ve been doing over the last year. they re pointing to goulin, who is part of a movement in the turkish government. there is no word he was involved. we ll have to wait and see. for russians it s a very simple calculation. they see all terrorists as the same. this is the perfect justification for that. the irony of this situation is this attacker, this assassin, apparently wanted to drive a wedge between turkey and russia who are meeting tomorrow in moscow with the iranians to decide what to do with syria, and in effect t might bring them closer together, not farther apart. and sarah, let me ask you about something having more to do with politics. john podesta, the clinton campaign chair, was on meet the