Also tiktok and free speech. Sarah jacobs on why she voted against banning the popular app. And putin will certainly get another term but what does it mean for the world . Lets do it. We start this hour with that Breaking News out of new jersey we have been following throughout the day on msnbc. Police confirming a Murder Suspect is in custody in the city of trenton, new jersey after killing three people in pennsylvania and then fleeing to jersey in a vehicle he car jacked. George is in new jersey for us. Bring us up to speed on what we have learned in the last couple of hours. I know this is a fast moving story. We understand that after hours of police surrounding a home a suspect had managed to slip away but then was found elsewhere. Reporter yeah, seemingly walking among the people after this hourlong barricade. This 26yearold suspect who allegedly holed up in this home behind me here and then giving police a run for their money in a sense. S. W. A. T was here, the atf, local and st
In a russian occupied part of Ukraines Zaporizhzhia region, and said ukraine targeted an oil refinery and several Fuel Stations inside russia. The head of russias Electoral Commission said there have been 20 incidents so far of people targeting ballot boxes. Protests could continue on sunday when supporters of the late opposition figure Alexei Navalny are calling on people throughout russia to protest against president putin. Meanwhile in the estonian town of narva where many residents are russian people crossed the border to vote in russias president ial election. Narva is one of only a handful of places where the border between the eu and russia is still open. Bbc russian s Oleg Boldyrev sent this report. Here in the Estonian Border town of narva lies the frontier between the western world and russia. Across the river with its formidable fortress lies ivangorod, a town 170 kilometres away from St Petersburg and this is one but a handful of places where the border between the eu and r
Did again today the h sullivan. President has rejected and did again today the strongman sullivan. President has rejected and did again today the strongman that| did again today the strongman that raising questions about roth is the same as raising questions about defeating hamas. Thatsjust defeating hamas. Thats just nonsense. Defeating hamas. Thatsjust nonsense. Our position is, should not be allowed a Safe Haven In Rafah or anywhere else, but a major Ground Operation there would be a mistake. It will lead to more innocent civilian deaths, orson the already higher humanitarian crisis, deepen the anarchy in gaza and further isolate israel internationally. More importantly, the key goals israel wants to achieve in rafah can be done by other means. On the call today, President Biden as the Prime Minister to send a senior Interagency Team composed of military, intelligence and unitarian officials, to washington in the coming days to hear us concerns about israels Current Rafah planning a
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
Macro advisory in moscow. He said the situation for the russian currency is unique. You should not be looking at it in the same way as if there was a slide in a normally functioning economy or a european economy. The rouble is entirely managed now by the central bank in conjunction with the Finance Ministry, and has been since we last saw the rouble collapse down to about 130 in march of last year. So the Central Banks priority last year was to keep the Rouble Exchange rate high at around 60, because it was tackling inflation, but this year, because of the sanctions impact and because that has led to a big hit on the value of russias oil exports in particular, they have devalued the rouble in order to compensate for that fall in dollar terms. In other words, weaker rouble translating dollars into a higher rouble amount to balance the budget. Thats been the priority this year. It doesnt reflect an imminent crisis. Sort of a broad collapse in the economy. Its the result of the central Ba