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
ukraine. we believe that many of the points on the peace plan put forward by china are consistent with russian approaches and can be taken as the basis of a peaceful settlement when the west and kyiv are ready for it, this readiness is not observed on their side. since the war began, russia has become far more dependent on china. china has been propping up russia s economy amid western sanctions by purchasing its energy replacing western supp suppliers in electronics and aircraft and providing an alternative to the u.s. dollar. she is inviting putin to china this year and told putin they share similar goals. putin says russia has closely studied beijing s peace proposal for ukraine, a plan that washington says would solidify russia s grip on occupied land. china would not want to see putin fail. it would set a terrible example for the chinese system. reporter: china and russia have a complicated history, but their shared adversarial relationship with washington is drivi
with ukraine s president zelensky and turkey s recep tayyip erdogan. leeds university has expressed dismay after one of its phd students was jailed for 3h years after tweets criticising the regime. hundreds of thousands of students across england, wales and northern ireland have been receiving their exam results today. a level, t level and btec students have all been marked based on exams for the first time since two years of covid disruption. compared with 2019, when exams were last sat in person, there s been a i9% increase in students gaining a place at their firm or insurance choice university. the proportion of students in england, wales and northern ireland getting top a level grades has fallen since the record high of last year, but is higher than 2019. around 36.4% of pupils have achieved a star and a grades. and for the new t level exams where students split time between classroom learning and industry placements the overall pass rate is 92%. our education corres
joe on a friday morning, this first day of july. it is 6:00 a.m. in san diego, 9:00 a.m. here on the east coast. it is a holiday weekend but busy friday morning as we talk to governors across the country to talk about abortion. two states had their ban blocked. that important nato summit for the president ended yesterday but less than 24 hours after the alliance meeting wrapped up, russia ramping up attacks on civilians in ukraine striking a residential building in odesa and killing at least 19 people amid a new report from amnesty international that declares russia committed clear war crimes in the attack on the theater in mariupol and while the january 6th committee is taking a break for the july 4th holiday, new questions who exactly is paying for the lawyers representing some of the witnesses and whether that is impacting their testimony. meanwhile, vice chair liz cheney is defending the committee s actions during a debate for her political life. we need to recognize t
Missiles. we do not have independent confirmation of that. the russians say, hey, our air defenses shot down some kind of an attack. somebody was injured. they haven t said anything more about whether or not these missiles were hit. in the meantime, tonight within the last couple of hours, we ve heard about missile strikes on the southern ukrainian port city of odesa, the ukrainians say that they shot down two of these kh-59 missiles that were launched by russian war planes, but two more got through the air defenses and have injured people. we re still waiting to find out more about the extent of that damage. all right, ivan watson in kharkiv, ukraine, for us, thank you so much. in the united states, u.s. defense officials say patriot missile defense systems and abraham tanks will be in ukraine sooner than originally planned. cnn s natasha bertrand is at the fort sill army base in oklahoma. that s the only place in the u.s. currently training ukrainian soldiers. what s behind this