There is some mist and fog and a few showers around this morning. They will give way to a dry and decent with sunny spells. Later, some rain in Northern Ireland. Details coming up. Good morning. Its monday, 18th march. Vladimir putin has claimed victory in russias president ial election. Without any serious opposition, a fifth term was seen as inevitable. At least 80 protestors have been arrested across the country for vandalising Polling Stations. Foreign secretary David Cameron hasjoined other western governments in shunning the result. He said, this is not what free and Fair Elections look like. Our russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports. Foeradimir putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might | want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, our will and our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader A
captions by vitac www.vitac.com it s been four weeks since students were found dead. late today, arrested a suspect in the killings. i m pamela brown in for anderson and i m getting new information from a source familiar with the investigation. we re learning about. the suspect actually drove cross country from idaho to his parents home in pennsylvania, and arrived there around christmas. the source telling me, it was a combination of dna found at the crime scene, as well as the car that helped authorities figure out who their suspect was last week. and that is when law enforcement got together to sort all this out and then they made the arrest, culminating and everything happening today. they announced the arrest of bryan kohberger. this is his booking photo. he is a graduate student from washington state university, less than 10 miles from where the four victims attended school. he was arrested in pennsylvania on four counts of murder in the first degree. plus, a sep
has urged china to provide detailed information about the level of covid infections in the country. 60,000 covid related deaths have been reported injust over a month, but the chinese government has been accused of not releasing the full details of the pandemic. now on bbc news: the media show hello. this week i m talking with michelle donelan, the secretary of state for digital culture, media and sport. she is the 11th conservative in the role since the party took power, and she has a huge remit everything from the tech companies to museums and art galleries to broadcasters like channel 4, whose privatisation she halted last week, and even eurovision. but before we get onto that, i wanted to get a sense of her news habits. how does she keep up to date through the working day? and there s a mention here right at the start to checking playbook first thing in the mornings. that s a daily newsletter produced by the political magazine politico, in case you decide you want to mi
covid vaccine status. he s competing in the adelaide international, a warmup to the australian open. coming up at six o clock breakfast with jon kay and sally nugent. but first on bbc news: return of the tigers. tigers are making a remarkable comeback here in nepal. their numbers more than doubling in the last ten years. tigers are the majestic creatures. being assigned in the protection duties, it s an honour, you know, it s a privilege. it s a small victory in a battle to bring them back from the brink of extinction. it is definitely something to be celebrated. it does not come without the cost. the common area that the tiger and prey species and humanity shares is so tight, the community lives in terror. there has been an increase in tiger attacks on humans. more number of tigers and more number of people, definitely there is going to be conflict. so, it is going to be a challenging job for us to, you know, maintain peace between two species. roars military chanting privat