Steve rosenberg, is in moscow with more. Russias democracy is the best in the world, the kremlin says. And at Polling Station 38 in moscow, we found a choice of candidates and plenty of voters. Democracy in action, right . Not quite. Realistically, only one man can win this. Vladimir putin the man whos been on russias political stage for the last quarter of a century. Vladimir putin faces no serious challenger. His fiercest rivals are in exile or in prison. Not that this woman, whose son is fighting in ukraine, wants any change at the top. Of course i voted for putin, she says. I trust him. But not everyone who came out today was actually voting. This, one of a string of attacks on Polling Stations across russia. They are unprecedented. After chaotic scenes here. An arsonist is detained. And green ink poured into a ballot box. The authorities called the attackers scum. Some voters were greeted with a show. Well, its one way to bang the drum for russian elections. There is voting, too,
It is historic it is unprecedented, and it is on this morning, there are two presumptive president ial nominees for the longest stretch we have ever seen. Weve got new reporting on how both campaigns are attacking this period. And extinction level threat to humans. The new warning now from the State Department about the possible impacts of Artificial Intelligence and banning one of the worlds most popular social media apps. The major vote against tiktok before the house today as the nations top intel chief warns, china could try to use that app to metal the 2024 elections. Im kate bolduan with John Berman Sara is out today. This is Cnn News Central this morning or jiu presumptuous, arent we all actually the right word is presumptive, and it is not really us. It is them. President biden and donald trump overnight they became the presumptive nominees for president. They may be presumptuous to, but thats not an issue here. This morning. They are both secured enough delegates to get their
but the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has again doubled down, saying israel will not be satisfied with anything other than total victory over hamas. we ll talk through where this leaves the possibilty of an agreement. also tonight, on the eve of general elections in pakistan, two bomb explosions near candidates offices in the pakistani province of balochistan kill at least 28 people. islamic state have claimed responsibility. and one of the world s biggest superstars, taylor swift, threatens to sue a student who tracks her private jet. the us s top diplomat, secretary of state antony blinken, says. this is at the end of mr blinken is wrapping up his fifth tour of the middle east on wednesday meeting with both the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, and president isaac herzog. he also met with palestinian leader mahmoud abbas. the talks coming after hamas, on tuesday, put forward a counter offer to a cease fire proposal backed by israel and the us and me
hello from the bbc sport centre. hello i m chetan pathak with your latest sports news we start at afcon the 34th edition of the africa cup of nations has reached the semi final stage with both matches on wednesday. the hosts ivory coast play the democratic republic of congo but before that it s the other heavyweights nigeria. who play south africa. and they ve been given a massive boost with striker victor osimhen declared fit to play who had been a doubt with an abdominal problem. it s a rematch of the 2000 afcon semi final which nigeria won and was the last time south africa reached the last four. this time their coach is hoping they can go one step further: i think for many people it was unexpected. but we did it, and that means that south africa became a good team. it s also more than 20 years ago that south africa played the semifinal, even more that we play the final. that means that we ve got a lot of motivation. meanwhile, ivory coast have never won the competit
for you today. with the president of the united states. joseph r. biden. i sat down with the president in the roosevelt room the white house on friday for an exclusive interview. president biden is headed to europe for a trip that will take him to villainous lithuania for the nato annual summit. holding nato together is really critical. it is been 500 days since russia invaded ukraine. is there any sign of an end to this war? and will nato offer ukraine membership? also, is there a foreign relations with china are or we going to see an even more intense rivalry? and, when could netanyahu expect an invitation to the white house. all of this in a special interview with america s 46th president. i think we have enormous opportunities and i just want to finish the job. i ll bring you my take later in the show. but first president biden is headed to europe today for a five-day, three-country tour. the main focus of which will be a stop in villainous lithuania for nato