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
anti jewish in american history. let s take a look now at the human cost of russia s invasion of ukraine. moscow, like kyiv, has been very secretive when it comes to casualties from the fighting, but a bbc investigation suggests at least 25,000 russian soldiers have died. that s four times higher than the figure acknowledged by the kremlin. the research also suggests many of the casualties are now older fighters, with little or no training, with significant numbers recruited from prisons. 0ur correspondent 0lga ivshina has this special report. these are the war graves russia doesn t want to talk about. since december, the bbc has located seven new cemeteries dotted across russia and occupied ukraine. they are filled with the graves of poorly trained fighters. many were prisoners, recruited by the notorious wagner mercenary group. and the cemeteries are growing rapidly. this one is about 20 times bigger than it was six months ago. since the start of the war, we have been verif
thanks forjoining us, welcome to the programme. russia strikes kyiv again, just as a delegation of african leaders visit the ukrainian capital to discuss peace solutions. joining me to discuss that, and a range of stories over the next hour, is former labour cabinet minister caroline flint, and ron christie, former adviser to george w bush. also on the programme 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 capsized 50 miles off the south coast because a rope was attached to it by coastguards. and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence technology has lead to a lot of fear and concern, but also a lot of new and exciting solutions. we ll look at how ai is being used to predict pol
a day after his crash at the giro d italia, britain s mark cavendish was hoping to be back in the hunt for victory on stage three. welcome along, thank you forjoining us. the final day of the championship season did not disappoint, with comebacks, and setbacks, and spectacular second half goals that made it an afternoon to remember. not all fans will be happy at the moment, but supporters of the two sides that snatched a playoff place will be delighted, as imran sidat reports. it was crunched as the battle for the last two it was crunched as the battle for the last two championship it was crunched as the battle for the last two championship play places was to be decided. bleat blackburn robbers and they would be there. and they got off to the perfect start. duncan putting them ahead inside ten minutes. west brom needed to win and hope for favours out where they were doing their bit as they went ahead at swansea. blocked by a raucous crowd at the den, only burke put them throu
pence has been subpoenaed. this is been a major move by the special counsel investigating donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. pence was key to trump s plans to stay in power. this is what the former president said on january 6th. i hope mike is going to do the right thing, i hope so. i hope so. because, if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election. all vice president pence has to do is send it back to this dates to recertify and we become president and you are the happiest people. okay, i want to bring in cnn chief law enforcement intelligence analyst john miller. also legal analyst jennifer rodgers, and andrew mccabe, the former fbi deputy director. great have all of you tonight. jennifer want to start with you, we had nick akerman on last hour, former watergate prosecutor who said that without pans there is no indictment. that the special prosecutor does not bring in indictment without pence s testimony. do you agree with that? i do not kn