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
Significantly after the worst wildfires to hit an american state in more than a century. Our North America correspondent John Sudworth reports from the island. Vital supplies being loaded onto a boat that would normally be taking tourists whale watching. Theyre now making multiple daily trips into the Disaster Zone with a growing sense of frustration. We are all wondering, why was there no help sent from oahu . Pearl harbor is a 20 minute flight away, right . Why are the limited resources of police on this island left alone . Where is the support for them . Why are we taking supplies on a boat instead of helicopter . We do this because we have to. An hour into the journey and the devastation along the shoreline comes into view. We can quite clearly see the town of lahaina now and you can make out is the blackened landscape above the town where the grass was burning and what happened with the Hurricane Blowing away off to the south, the pressure brought the wind over the top of the isla
In about 90 minutes time well get the latest health check on the economy and everyone is asking the question will the numbers reveal we are officially out of recession . Well, most experts predict yes, and say we will see a smidgen of Growth Injanuary of 0. 2 . This would confirm the Bank Of Englands suggestion that the downturn is behind us. During the final three months of last year, the data showed the uk slipped into recession and inflation injanuary was at 4 so its still twice the Bank Of Englands target. Lets discuss all of this with azad zangana, Senior European Economist at schroders. Good morning to you. Are you with the majority believing today will give us a Growth Number . Today will give us a Growth Number . ~. ~ ~ number . We are. We think it could be number . We are. We think it could be even number . We are. We think it could be even a number . We are. We think it could be even a little number . We are. We think it could be even a little higherl could be even a little h
Wyre davies reports from jerusalem. In the cypriot port of larnaca, they have been working around the clock. The spanish ship open arms preparing to tow a barge with 200 tonnes of food and medical aid all the way to gaza. Its a precarious, untested plan with obvious risks. Translation yes, we will tow this platform to gaza, where The Last Mile will be the most complicated operation. The disembarkation will be done on a pier that is being built right now by the world central kitchen. How the aid will be unloaded into gaza, where there is no port orfunctioning harbour, is not clear. Air drops and some Land Deliveries are often swamped by thousands of desperate, hungry people. Some aid agencies say that the plan is misguided and ineffective. The humanitarian crisis is worsening by the day. The un says there is a danger of famine, and children are already reported to be dying from malnutrition. All of this is happening because israel and hamas have been unable to agree a ceasefire that wou
Seeing too many showers, there will be some, possibly heavy and thundery but i think there will be a few paces towards the south east which stay pretty much dry. It is going to be windy, particularly around some western coasts, temperatures a mere 100 hours later, after Legionella Bacteria was found on the barge. Is this an ignomious end to rishi sunak s big migrant week . Can the government put this disastrous week behind them and reboot their Migrant Policies . Joe pikes been taking soundings from inside government. And well be joined by the former austalian Foreign Minister who wrote a review of britains border policy and labours shadow immigration minister. Also tonight. In the latest episode of our good newsnight strand, mark examines how germany weaned itself off russian gas in double quick time, contributed to the falling price of energy and avoided this. Well, catastrophe. I mean, european crisis, the shutdown of much of Central European industrial and manufacturing production,