breaking lockdown rules. supermarkets across the uk are limiting how much cooking oil customers are able to buy as supplies are hit by the war in ukraine. and tyson fury will take on dillian whyte later in what s expected to be one of the biggest all british heavyweight fights in boxing history. ukraine is urging the united nations and other international organisations to do more to rescue civilians and provide critical aid to areas under attack from russia. in particular officials say more help is needed to get to people in the besieged southern city of mariupol. there are hopes for another attempt at a humanitarian corridor today but no confirmation yet whether that is under way. russian forces have been trying to take full control of mariupol for several weeks. un secretary general antonio guterres is due to meet the russian president vladimir putin in moscow in the coming days, before travelling on to kyiv. earlier, president zelensky warned that russia could attack o
course, this is adding to all of that. the big question is, how can he or if he can actually turn people out. particularly, because he has had to cancel three of thundershower f four events she was meant to hold. seeing how this was playing out, it seems to be a unique situation we re experiencing this weekend in iowa. unique indeed. thank you so much, kristen. let s go to you, jessica dean. you re following governor ron desantis campaign. he s already held his first event of the day. what d he say? reporter: well, fredricka, perhaps nobody has more on the line here in iowa than governor desantis. he s staked so much on this stake, and their whole game plan is to allow iowa to launch him into this primary. they are looking to monday for a very strong second place. obviously, they want to win, but if they don t win, they want to come in very close to donald trump to really make the case that december nesantis is the ae
not the most qualified person for the job. you get the person that they want to look like they should have the job, which is also, by the way how kamala harris got the vice presidential role for joe biden. it wasn t about her own talents but her race and gender. martha: he said he would narrow the category before he made his pick. he said only a woman could get the job. martha: just doing that, you re cutting out half of the population. it is so interesting the point about meritocracy that exist in sports. professional sports are essentially running a business. and if they don t win, they will not succeed, and they will not continue to have huge ticket sales because people want to see teams that can win peer that is why the composition of that basketball team you describe the u.s. olympic team is as it is. because they picked them because they are the best. and if we go back to that way of choosing people, whether it is in companies or elsewhere i
guess what, crimea is an important place that retools and supplies the russian military. of course it s a valid attack. and unfortunately, i think this is a sign that the biden administration in a potential negotiation would be willing to allow the russians to have crimea. again, if we do not if the ukrainians do not win this war and by win i mean push the entire all the russians out of ukraine, to include crimea and the donbas. if they don t win, eastern europe is going to stop paying attention with us, work with the russians. western europe is going to realize, you can t trust america, start dealing even more so with the chinese government. again, i hope these are some of the things that come out. t in the topics i would be talking about on the debate stage, if the rnc had not cherry picked some of the polls. important issues you re raising indeed. the other breaking story we re following involves rudy giuliani, who surrendered at the
our political editor, chris mason, is here to explain more. clive, by elections are a quirky thing people being asked to elect a member of parliament but not contribute to choosing a government, as happens at a general election. but by elections are a big deal in making the political weather. do parties think they are on the up or sinking? and that s because they re not opinion polls they are actual votes, albeit in particular pockets of the country. let s head first to north west london, to uxbridge and south ruislip. we can drop into the queensmead sports centre no badminton or basketball tonight, but nocturnal arithmetic. this seat was held by one boris johnson, the former prime minister, until he packed it in after mps concluded he d lied to them. it s a long time conservative seat but labour have had their eyes on it for a while and will face awkward questions if they don t win.