Cnn newsroom. Im Paula Reid In Washington tonight in russia, president Vladimir Putin is proclaiming Russian Unity after polls closed in a three today president ial election, with no genuine Opponent Running against him. Putin is expected to win, keeping him in office until 2030 and continuing as russias longestserving leader since soviet dictator Joseph Stalin cnns Matthew Chance is in moscow matthew, what else did putin have to say tonight well, it was a, an extraordinary post election sort of makeshift Press Conference, Ad Hoc Press Conference that he gave two members of the press, the local press the Foreign Press as well. There were members, theyre asking various questions. He just finished giving his thank you speech to volunteers and to supporters in the auditorium, saying that the election victory, that the final results hasnt come in yet, but the election victory a represented essentially, and im paraphrasing him here. A mandate for his continued work in the country, which we
nearby, insisting there is nothing to see. one even pointing his gun threateningly towards us. shrinking glacier streams in the himalayas are creating a water crisis we have a special report on getting tap water to villages. hey, josh, it s gillian, how are you doing? very well, thank you. how are you? and the glasses allowing deaf people to see real time conversations, right in front of their eyes. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. nancy pelosi, america s third highest ranking politician, is right now in taiwan, on a visit that s infuriated beijing. ms pelosi is due to visit taiwan s parliament and meet the taiwanese president on wednesday morning. tensions are high. china considers self ruled, democratic taiwan as its own territory, and it s been flying warplanes close to the island. four us warships have also been deployed to the region. our correspondent, rupert wingfield hayes, reports from taiwan. t
foreign militants on afghan soil. now to a developing story in the uk. you might have been following the fairly lengthy process to find a successor to borisjohnson as uk conservative leader and british prime minister. they ve whittled it down to two candidates, with a vote among party members in a few weeks. but now they ve had to change the method of balloting after a warning that hackers could breach security. our reporter, mark lobel has been following that story, hejoins me now from the london newsroom. great to get you on the programme. mark, what more do we know? an unexpected twist because the arrival of voting papers for the next prime minister has been delayed, it also means that 160,000 tory members voting for the next
cannot go ahead. counting is under way in the gambia for the first election since the former president, yahyahjammeh, left office in 2017. the west african country has a unique method to allow people to cast their ballots. high levels of illiteracy mean they are given marbles to put into barrels supporting their preferred candidates, rather than voting papers. they are then added up. our correspondent thomas naadi sent this report. polls closed at 5pm local time, but those who were still in the queue were allowed to cast their marbles. the vote counting and tallying is currently under way across the country. the first past the post system is used to determine the winner of the elections, which means that the candidate with the highest number of votes is declared the winner. both president adama barrow, and the opposition candidate ousainu