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
This past hour that washington will air drop humanitarian aid into the gaza strip. And thats where we are going to start. Theres growing International Pressure for a full investigation into what went wrong yesterday. As the aid convoy arrived in Northern Gaza. The israeli army has acknowledged that its soldiers opened fire at one point but says most of the deaths were caused by a crush, or lorries running people over. Our special correspondent fergal keane, working with bbc verify, has spent the day piecing together more details of what happened. His report contains some distressing images. Shots cracked through the night. People start to move. Then run to get away. In this section of the crowd there is panic. And 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. We dont want to live on the blood of our children. The israelis say that at 4 40am, the convo
Hello. We start with breaking news imran khan, pakistan s former Prime Minister, has been arrested, after being sentenced to three years in prison. His team say they will file an appeal against the ruling. Thejudge found him guilty of failing to declare money he had earned from selling state gifts. As the decision was announced in islamabad a crowd, including some prosecuting lawyers, began chanting, Imran Khan Is A Thief outside court. Multiple cases have been filed against mr khan in the last 16 months. In may, he was detained for not appearing at court as requested but was subsequently released after the arrest was declared illegal. Since then his party has been under intense pressure from the authorities with many senior officials leaving and thousands of supporters arrested, accused of being involved in the protests that followed imran khans arrest. The Pakistan Parliament will dissolve on 9th august and a Caretaker Government will take over in the run up to the elections. No elec
been, a period of respect, after the police killing of a teenage boy on tuesday. he said additional resources would be made available to deal with unrest. the third night, and worst night of rioting so far, left buildings, including libraries and schools burnt shops looted. nearly 900 people were arrested; 250 police were injured. france s three biggest cities paris, marseille and lyon are suspending or restricting public transport from friday evening. marseille has also banned public demonstrations. the teenager, named as nahel m, was shot during a traffic stop. the policeman has been charged with voluntary homicide. he s also apologised to the teenager s family. overnight, 40,000 extra police officers were deployed across france, in an attempt to restore calm. the prime minister said the government was considering all options, but some ministers oppose declaring a state of emergency. lets get the latest from our correspondent. for the third night in a row, riots sprea
welcome to the programme. russia strikes kyiv again, just as a delegation of african leaders visit the ukrainian capital to discuss peace solutions. also tonight: a two year investigation into the minneapolis police department in the wake of the killing of george floyd has found that officers routinely used excessive force and discriminated against black people for years. we ll have an update from kalamata, in greece, where officials have denied a series of reports that suggest the migrant boat which capsized 50 miles off the south coast did so because a rope was attached to it by coastguards. and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence technology has led to a lot of fear and concern, but also a lot of new and exciting solutions. we ll look at one example from devon, where ai is being used to predict pollution in waterways before it happens. but first let s focus in on ukraine, where the capital, kyiv, has come under missile attack at the same time that a delegation of af