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
Held a Press Conference. He announced at the Press Conference that the City Of Warsaw will be Setting Aside Tens Of Millions of dollars in its new budget to build Bomb Shelters for people in that city. Now poland is not currently at war. The capital city of poland is not getting bombed. For them and for us, thats a good thing and an important thing, because poland is a member of nato. So if somebody was bombing poland, if polish citizens, polish civilians needed to use Bomb Shelters in the capital city of that country, that would be very bad news, not just for poland, but for us as well. Because poland is our nato ally. And if somebody was attacking them, that would mean that we would soon be at war as well. If you attack one nato country,c you attack them all. It is a treaty of mutual defense. So our nato ally in poland scrambling right now to build o Bomb Shelters for civilians in their capital city, that is not great news. The reason theyre doing it is because poland borders ukraine
Hello. Tonight were in monmouthshire in wales to talk to the people of this proud area about what their lives are like and what they want to hearfrom politicians in this election year. Does it feel like the economy has turned a corner as the Prime Minister claimed today . Good evening and welcome to abergavenny. Applause. According to the sunday times yesterday, this is the best place to live in the whole of wales. Were here for one of our outside broadcasts where we gauge the mood of people who live and work here in the run up to an election later this year. Were broadcasting live tonight from a brand new constituency of monmouthshire in South East Wales. Its the successor to the seat of monmouth which has voted conservative since 2005. And we are in the stunning st marys priory which has served the people of abergavenny and the surrounding area for a thousand years. Weve invited people from all walks of life, all political colours, broadly representative of how people voted at the la
Plenty of questions, and here to offer some answers for the next half an hour or so are mike prendergast, leader of the conservative opposition on Sefton Council 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. Icame to i came to vote for a man to make sure that our country prosperous and there is no fascism in any country, not in ukraine or any other part of the world. , not in ukraine or any other part of the world the world. Steve rosenberg is in moscow and the world. Steve rosenberg is in moscow and gave the world. Steve rosenberg is in moscow and gave his assessment this was pr
Spending but thats not how Many Americans see it. As the cost of living crisis continues to bite. Joe biden has an Approval Rating ofjust 38 , that and if is a record low and in a survey by nbc 55 of people thought donald trump would do a betterjob of handling the economy with just 33 choosing joe biden. Well have more than that in just a moment but first lets hear from joe biden. Moment but first lets hear from joe biden. ,. ,. ~ moment but first lets hear from joe biden. ,. ~. , , biden. Turning set back in to come back, biden. Turning set back in to come back. Thats biden. Turning set back in to come back, thats what biden. Turning set back in to come back, thats what america biden. Turning set back in to come back, thats what america does. I folks, i hear the economy is on the brink folks, i hear the economy is on the brink our folks, i hear the economy is on the brink. Our economy is the envy of the world brink. Our economy is the envy of the world. 15 million newjobs in ust the w