As the bbc s russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports, mr putin also mentioned his late critic, Alexei Navalny, by name. For Vladimir 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, ourwilland 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 Alexei Navalny. Translation you may be surprised, but a few days i before mr navalny died, some colleagues of mine told me there was an idea to exchange him for certain people in prison in the west. You can believe it or not. I said, i agree, even before he had finished talking. But what happened happened. Election results on russian tv, not a hold your breath moment. The winner, by a mile and a half, Vladimir Putin. What an incredible level of support and unity around the figure of putin, he says. And a powerful signal to the w
An exit poll has suggested that, as expected, President Putin is heading for a Landslide Win, taking nearly 88 of the vote. The final day of voting saw large queues form at some Polling Stations, in an apparent show of dissent. Allies of the late opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, had called on people to come out at midday in moscow and elsewhere to vote for any other candidate or spoil their ballots. There were no Protest Chants and the authorities had warned that activists could be arrested. A Rights Monitoring Group in russia says more than 70 people were detained. Mr navalny s widow, yulia, was amongst those who queued for several hours outside the Russian Embassy in berlin to vote. She was greeted by supporters with flowers and applause. After voting she told reporters that she had written the name of her late husband on her ballot paper. She also thanked her fellow russians for queuing so long. A Russian Election official says more than Eight Million russians cast their ballots o
Thanks very much for watching the news continues next on cnn outfront next, don lemon live on why elon musk is telling him that his ex contract is quote, canceled. The abrupt announcement after lemons wide ranging Interview Stay with moscow. We now have neverbeforeseen clips from that interview. Whats that musk off . Plus putins red line, the russian dictator directly threatening the United States and again, raising the possibility of using Nuclear Weapons as the us is issuing a new warning about putin and nukes and senator Katie Britt Tonight Defiant speaking out today about her misleading State Of The Union story and the new attention shes getting. Whether she wants it or not. Lets go outfront and good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. Elon musk tells don lemon, quote, contract is canceled and quote now in a moment, im going to speak exclusively with don lemon and he has clips of the nearly hour andahalf interview with musk. Clips like this one that we receive from dawns Pro
Friday that a large number of people had been found with bullet wounds. The un is calling for a full investigation into what happened. Our special correspondent fergal keane, working with bbc verify, spent the day piecing together more details of what happened. His report contains some distressing images. Although death is everywhere now in gaza, they had come thinking they would find aid to keep their families alive. Then shots ripped through the night. Shots crack through the night. People start to move. Then ran to escape. In this section of the crowd, panic. As casualties streamed into local hospitals, the testimony of witnesses. Translation the situation was unimaginably crazy. If aid is going to come to us in this way, we dont want it. The israelis say that at 4 40am, the convoy left from here under Israeli Tank Escort and began to move towards the crowds waiting for food. The army supplied Drone Footage but there is no way of telling the sequence of the images because theres no