There is some mist and fog and a few showers around this morning. They will give way to a dry and decent with sunny spells. Later, some rain in Northern Ireland. Details coming up. Good morning. Its monday, 18th march. Vladimir putin has claimed victory in russias president ial election. Without any serious opposition, a fifth term was seen as inevitable. At least 80 protestors have been arrested across the country for vandalising Polling Stations. Foreign secretary David Cameron hasjoined other western governments in shunning the result. He said, this is not what free and Fair Elections look like. Our russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports. Foeradimir putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might | want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, our will and our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader A
not backing down despite president biden launching more strikes against the terrorists at this hour though they remained defiant vowing to hit back hard or against us. central command said the u.s. destroyed a houthis antiship missile that was preparing to fire at a navy and commercial ships in the red sea. despite the u.s. and britain striking at least 36 houthis targets in yemen just hours earlier per the joint show up or supposed to disrupt the iranian proxy group attacks but despite our onslaught tehran, not yet giving up. hello everyone welcome to fox news live i married sean hi arthel beit. arthel: hello everyone i am arthel neville. on friday at u.s. forces in the middle east conducted a series of strikes against iran proxy groups and military targets in iraq and syria. now this in retaliation for the killing of three american soldiers in a drone attack in jordan last weekend. sergeants william rivers, kennedy sanders and breanna moffat. the u.s. as long accused iran
hello there. governments around the world should subsidise food and edgy for the poorest members of society to double the cost of living crisis. that s the call from the head of the international monetary fund. she is concerned that if central banks raise interest rates too aggressively to tackle elation, stoked by the war in ukraine, they could cause recessions. she says any financial help from governments must be carefully targeted to avoid making inflation worse. they ought to care for and review who and what to support, to prevent the tightening of financial conditions and the shock but inflation is now causing one confidence, to turn what is still a positive world projection into the recession, you rightly are concerned about. so we say to our members, be very careful how much you spend and what for you stand. there are two priorities. one, the very poor people, segments of society that are now struggling with high food and energy prices. for people for whom this is like