left cyprus three days ago and is carrying 200 tonnes of food supplied by an american ngo. teams from the ngo in gaza have built a floating jetty to unload the cargo. food and basic supplies are desperately needed in gaza, and the israeli police force is deploying thousands of officers acrossjerusalem s old city for ramadan s first friday prayers at the al aqsa mosque, with tensions high amid the war. let s go live now to anna foster at damascus gate. welcome to eastjerusalem, this is damascus gate, you are talking about the first friday prayers of ramadan which have passed peacefully. there was really tight security, all the streets were closed by israeli soldiers and police. they were only allowing worshippers from certain demographics, there was nobody here between the ages of ten and 50. a huge number of people come here for the first friday prayers and we have seenin the first friday prayers and we have seen in previous years violent clashes in this area and because of t
have been several incidents like this. take a look at this one, this is a small fire in a different polling station here. this isjust the first day three days of voting. first let s look at the contenders also on ballot. they haven t criticsed putin and they haven t got a realistic chance of winning. nikolay kharitonov of the communist party a political veteran. vladislav davankov of the new people party former businessperson, relative newcomer. leonid slutsky of the right wing, nationalist liberal democratic party. remember putin s main opposition figure, alexei navalny, died last month in a russian prison. his team have asked supporters to come out and demonstrate at polling stations on sunday. here are the details of the day s vote with our russia editor steve rosenberg. russia s democracy is the best in the world, the kremlin says. and at polling station 38 in moscow, we found a choice of candidates and plenty of voters. democracy in action, right? not quite. realisti
Whenever a world leader dies, either by sinister or natural causes, you can be sure Moscow will warp the narrative to sow, if not panic, then at least cynicism and doubt.