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Shes urged the west not to recognise what will be putins fifth term as president. Our russia editor, steve rosenberg, is in moscow with more. Russias 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. Realistically, only one man can win this. Vladimir putin the man whos been on russias political stage for the last quarter of a century. Vladimir putin faces no serious challenger. His fiercest rivals are in exile or in prison. Not that this woman, whose son is fighting in ukraine, wants any change at the top. Of course i voted for putin, she says. I trust him. But not everyone who came out today was actually voting. This, one of a string of attacks on Polling Stations across russia. They are unprecedented. After chaotic scenes here. An arsonist ....
At noon on sunday to protest the election. Shes urged the west not to recognise what will be putins fifth term as president. Our russia editor, steve rosenberg, is in moscow with more. Russias 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. Realistically, only one man can win this. Vladimir putin the man whos been on russias political stage for the last quarter of a century. Vladimir putin faces no serious challenger. His fiercest rivals are in exile or in prison. Not that this woman, whose son is fighting in ukraine, wants any change at the top. Of course i voted for putin, she says. I trust him. But not everyone who came out today was actually voting. This, one of a string of attacks on Polling Stations across russia. They are unpreceden ....
Deputy first minister, Martin Mcguinness has announced hes to retire from frontline politics, and wont seek re election to the Stormont Assembly in march. He says hes planning to stand down in may, on the tenth anniversary of devolved government and power sharing. Hes been speaking to our Northern IrelandPolitical Editor mark devenport. In the aftermath of the Assembly Election last year i agreed to stay on. I was very honoured to be asked to stay on by the party as deputy first minister, but i said i would do it for a further year, which would bring me to 8th of may. This year would have been the tenth anniversary, and say ian paisley said it was an historic moment. I thought it was an appropriat ....
Now on bbc news, westminster in review. Hello and welcome to westminster in review, a look at parliaments role in the corona crisis. Boris johnson finally got the job he had always wanted, but the Job Description had changed. I must level with you, level with the british public. More families many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time. The Prime Minister was almost one of them as the Global Pandemic landed too close to home. It left him with questions to answer. 65,000 people have lost their lives because of covid 19. The Prime Minister should welcome challenge that can save lives, rather than complaining about it. It was a crisis that overturned centuries of tradition to change the way westminster works, with unexpected results. And the bbc ....