Latest bbc news headlines. Russia heads to the polls with Vladimir Putin certain to secure his fifth term as president and another six years in power. As voting begins, so do the protests. Some voters expressing their anger by pouring dye into ballot boxes and some setting fire to photo booths micro polling booths. Photos of food and medical aid arriving to gaza have been released. Meanwhile israel has sent a delegation back to qatar for ceasefire talks. On the ground Benjamin Netanyahu has approved plans for a Military Operation to go ahead in rafah. Ajudge has rejected donald trump as meg attempted to have the lead prosecution lawyer disqualified from the Georgia Election interference case, the judge ruled that fani willis could continue but said the Special Prosecutor she had appointed and had a romantic relationship with would have to go. He has tonight resigned. The proposed Transitional Council in haiti that is meant to bring stability to the caribbean nation in crisis is yet to
The competition with the major authoritarian powers, the transnational threats from climate change, drugs, and cyber crime, and the regional conflicts in ukraine and gaza that could yet cascade into something much bigger and far more dangerous. All three challenges are affected by trends in new and emerging technologies, environmental changes, and economic strain that are stoking instability and making it that much more challenging for us to forecast developments and their implications. These dynamics are put in unprecedented burdens on the institutions and relationships that the United States relies on to manage such challenges, and perhaps more than ever, frankly, highlight the need for sustained us leadership to uphold the rules based order. Lets speak to Lieutenant General mark schwartz, former United States security coordinator of the israel palestinian authority. Thank you for being on the programme. What did you Hearfrom Avril Haynes to date that concerns you . Avril haynes to d
President and not facing a ramifications politically. As a medium effect, short term effect and a long term effect the immediate is hell raise a lot of money. In intensive of support from his core base. In the short term we will see that it benefits him most likely within the republican primary put up as he is being indicted more and more often which is a bizarre thing to say, what weve seen is it reinforces trumps Court Message that the government is rigged against him, theres a two tiered System Ofjustice and so forth. All of which i think is false but it reinforces that political argument from trauma. In the long term is of youre an independent voter, somebody who voted for donald trump and 2016 but then voted forjoe biden in 2020 for the especially important in states like arizona and georgia, we see more scepticism about donald trump coming back. Benefits him in the short term, long term still very real problems with this. Thats on the political fight, much less whats happening in
barrels per day injuly, which is around 1% of global supplies. opec plus countries which account for around 40% of the world s crude oil said they would cut production by some 1.4 million barrels per day from the start of next year. but not all members of the cartel were happy, with nigeria and angola both wanting to raise production rather than cut it. sameer hashmi is our middle east business correspondent. let see how prices are faring just now. brent is currently up 1.5% so far in the day but keep an eye on it because there is a lot of volatility as you might expect as investors and traders try to work out exactly what the production cut could mean. sameer hashmi is our middle east business correspondent. perhaps not unexpected, this is what we expected, it cuts production and keeps prices up and we know how reliant many are on the revenue it creates but it will not go down well around the world. two creates but it will not go down well around the world. creates but