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we hear from researchers trying to do just that. ♪ welcome to the world today. we are going to start arco russia and the election -- in russia and the election of vladimir teabag. he has -- vladimir putin. this is died being poured into a ballot box. some small signs of protest. there had been several incidents like this. take a look at this one, a small fire in a different polling station here. this is just the first day of voting. there are three days of voting in total. let's look at the contenders also in the ballot. alongside vladimir putin. they haven't got a realistic chance of winning if they criticize putin.

first, a communist party political veteran. a new people party former businessperson and newcomer. and the right wing nationalist liberal democratic party candidate. and remember, alexei navalny diedn prison last month. his supporters demonstrated in polling stations and sunday. russia's editor steve rosenberg. >> russia's democracy is the best in the world, the kremlin says. at a polling station 38 in moscow, we found the choice of candidates and plenty of voters, democracy in action, right? not quite. realistically, only one man can win this. >> vladimir putin! >> the man who has been no russia's political state for the last quarter century.

vladimir putin faces no serious challenger. his fiercest rivals are in exiles or prison. not that this woman whose son is fighting in ukraine wants any change at the top. >> of course, i voted for putin, 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 is detained. and green ink poured into a ballot box. the authorities called the attackers scum. it is one way to bang the drum. there is voting too in parts of

ukraine which are under russian occupation. the ukrainian government called the election illegal. polls close sunday night, expect a putin landslide. unpredictability is now a feature of life in russia, but that does not apply to elections. mr. pruden reelection is not in doubt. neither is the message the kremlin will be sending after this, that vladimir putin has the full support of his people. >> and we have these pictures of vladimir putin himself voting. he didn't vote at a polling station. he was voting online, as you can

see. a quick -- click of the mouse and then a wave. i asked the executive director at the anticorruption foundation of what he made of scenes of day one of voting. >> let's start of the funniest one of mr. putin voting with an electronic system. anybody knows that you need to login to your personal cabinet, you need to get a text through sms and put the eight digits into your computer. and then look at the candidates and do voting. it takes minutes. it is all staged. this can be said about not just the footage of putin voting, but

the elections overall. >> what about we have seen these incidents at polling stations of people pouring dye in and fires taking place? loss of -- russia is a vast country and lots of voting has taken place without incident at all. what do these small number of incidents represent to you? >> it is dangerous to raise your voice against putin and his dictatorship in today's russia. people get arrested for posts on social media or for going with a blank piece of paper. the courageous people that want to show to the russian authorities and the whole world that not all is well in putin's kingdom only give us encouragement and my heart goes

out to them for their bravery. >> uno that similar vein, alexei navalny's team calling for people to go to polling stations and demonstrate and show their presence. what are you expecting on sunday? i don't know whether you've just lost sound. you look like you are frantically regaining us. we have alexei navalny's team asking people to come out sunday to go down to polling stations to make their presence felt. what are you expecting to happen sunday? >> indeed, this is a low risk activity for people to come to the polling stations uno a particular day at a particular time and some of them will vote, some of them don't want to participate in this farce and they will just gather there.

it's a rfectly legitimate way for anti-putin people to gather and look at each other and show that there is a significant number of people who are against putin and the war. it is a common theme across all russian opposition. >> thank you and now we had to ukraine. emergency officials in the odessa area say in number of people were killed and 75 were injured. here is our correspondent in kyiv. >> the numbers are really high. 20 people have been killed in this attack and dozens of people injured. some of them we understand to be seriously injured. some 40 or so still in hospital

after this attack. what happened was to missiles hit odessa today. the first one hit a residential area that has been described as civilian housing and some kind of recreational infrastructure is how the authorities are describing it. when rescue workers went to the scene to look for casualties to put out the fire, than there was another russian ballistic missile strike on the same spot. we know that at least one rescue worker was killed. in fact the emergency services have named him and said he is a 29-year-old man who was killed. there is also a ukrainian medic killed who was trying to help people at the scene of the missile strike. >> thanks to sarah for that. now the latest uno -- on russia's war with ukraine from a diplomatic point of view. europe's leaders have not been unit in their messaging in recent weeks. emmanuel macron said he would

not rule out deploying western troops. that idea was strongly rejected by the german chancellor olaf scholz. now european allies have agreed to supply kyiv with long-range artillery. a shortage of weapons and ammunition in particular has been blamed for russian advances in the war. >> we stand closely by ukraine's side. we have made this clear from the beginning and this is as true for as long as it takes. it is clear we support ukraine and that we are not ourselves at war with russia. a common aim is and remains to ensure that ukraine can effectively defend itself against russia's aggression. a crystal-clear signal goes to moscow. the russian president know that our sport for ukraine will not add. we stand united by ukraine's side. thank you. >> it is our future, our security which is at stake. we are doing this out of solidarity for the people of

ukraine wse territorial integrity is being threatened. we are doing this to defend international law. we are doing it because the security of europeans and of us is at stake in ukraine. it is with this determination that we want to oppose the war of aggression launched by russia. >> here is our correspondent in berlin. >> look, i mean there were three or four points that the german chancellor announced along with the others in terms of i think what they are trying to say and concrete steps. buy more weapons on the global market, looking at this coalition for long-range weapons as well, boosting military gear production in europe as well. but it was all pretty vague to be honest with the sounds good on paper. not a lot of detail behind that. i think as well in terms of what

this meeting was supposed to achieve, yes it got those three men in a room to talk about ukraine in a really crucial moment. the u.s. package of support is still held up, but i think it was also a bit of a pr exercise. i don't know if you saw the triple handshake, but it was very vigorous and prolonged and i think they are really trying to send this message of unity after a few weeks where there have been some real mixed messages, particularly coming out of paris and berlin and even some barbed exchanges as well. i think they were looking to repair some of that damage. >> looking slightly further ahead, what kind of difference does this show of unity make? how big is the shortfall? how big is ukraine's need right now? >> it is really difficult to say in terms of what was decided today will make in terms of a difference because the meeting

happened behind closed doors. the questions that the journalists were allowed to ask, it was all quite vague. we know ukraine is facing a crucial ammunition shortage which europe has been trying to scramble to help to provide. a lot of the conversation is how does europe boost its industrial base? a german industrial chief said he thought it would be 10 years before they could supply it. the u.s. aid package for ukraine is held up. people are looking ahead to the elections later this year and given some of the things that the republican hopeful donald trump has said, there are fears in europe that the nato transatlantic military alliances going to be undermined and therefore the role of countries like france and germany, to bang big economies in europe, germany

europe's biggest economy and poland as well, their relationship and their ability to come together is seen as very crucial. it is not very good that they don't appear to be getting along. >> coming, president biden praises senate majority leader chuck schumer for his speech. arctic sea ice is shrinking. a possible new way to op it. around the world and across the u.k., this is bbc news. let's take a look at some other stories now. labor accused rishi sunak of chickening out of allowing the date of the next general election. the prime minister said there are local elections in england. his working assumption is that the election will be in the second half of the year. mp's will get a 5.5% pay raise from april meeting their annual

salary will increase to just over 91,000 pounds. the independent parliamentary standards says the decision was aligned with the award agreed for civil servants. it seeks to be fair for mp's and the public. hello fresh denies taking subscriptions from customers who say they had canceled their accounts. some customers say those accounts reactivated with money taken for orders they had not made. many believe that just logging onto the upper reactivated their accounts but hello fresh says money was taken only when customers made a proactive decision to do so. next, there are signs of growing disquiet in the biden administration at the lack of progress in halting the conflict between israel and hamas. secretary of state antony blinken has said the united states needs to see a clearlan for israel's proposed solve on rafah including how civilians

will be moved out of harm's way. president biden has praised a speech in which chuck schumer said the israeli prime minister was a threat to peace and called for new elections. amid the u.s. pressure, prime minister netanyahu's office said israel will send a delegation to qatar for peace talks. all of this as a ship carrying food supplies for gaza is waiting off the coast in a test run of what is hoped to become a new route for aid into the territory. here are pictures of that aid. it has just arrived. the ship contained 130 pallets of humanitarian equipment. 150 in terms of food and water, which will be distributed in northern gaza. the vessel underwent a security inspection according to the israeli military. cyprus, the nearest european union member country to gaza has

set a second figure vessel is being prepared. let's get more on the diplomacy, those comments by antony blinken about wanting to see a plan for israel's proposed move into rafah. >> president biden has been very clear that given the large number of civilians in rafah, 1.4 million, many of whom have been displaced from other parts of gaza that we have to see a clear and implementable plan not only to get civilians out of harm's way, but also to make sure that once out of harm's way, they are appropriately cared for with shelter, food, medicine, and clothing. we have not seen such a plan. >> president biden said criticisms of israel's prime minister by the u.s. senate leader chuck schumer are shared by many americans. >> do you have any comments around senator schumer's speech on israel yesterday? >> senator schumer concted my staff, my senior staff before

making that speech. i'm nogoing to elaborate on the speech, he made a good speech and i think he expressed a serious concern sharenot only by him, but by many americans. >> the president of the middle east policy council and the former u.s. ambassador. >> i think we all can see that the negotiations are continuing. many casng doubt on the ability to move forward. we understand that they have set hamas's position is untenable. this is a testament to the importance of diplomacy. i would not be surprised, i don't think any of us should if indeed we find a way forward through those diplomatic efforts.

there is support for it from the united states, from the partners in the region and concurrent pressure on both sides to get the deal done. >> if there was pressure on both sides to get the deal done by the start of ramadan, president biden suggested an earlier deadline, both of those have come and gone, yet you remain optimistic. >> i do. diplomacy is never easy, that is why it does take time and recognizing that the world is in a position of watching these two sides fight for maximalist positions. they are likely to undermine their positions of remaining in power certainly with the israeli prime minister. it is widely understood that this is more continuous from his perspective because there is so much pressure on him with

israelis having lost confidence in him because of the october 7 fight, attack. from the hamas side, this has had a devastating impact on palestinians in the gaza strip and the wider arena of conflict with israel, so they have to have something to point to. it is not easy, it is deeply complex, and therefore it is taking time. >> right now, the white house spokesperson is addressing these issues, let's take a listen. >> in more tangible terms and on the topic, the administration urges the speedy return and -- confirmation of dennis hankins and what are the next steps and one to see arrive in haiti and what does that look like in the days coming forward? >> i have to refer to my colleagues at the state department to speak to the now investors travel plans. i have no doubt he will want to get down there as soon as possible and get started. he has been eager to get

confirmed and we are really grateful that he got confirmed and put in place. that would maka big difference down there, but the state department can speak to that. as for shared commitments and i do believe we vered quite a bit of this in the opening statement, we have a shared commitment with the haitian people and certainly with the haitian national police to make sure that they have what they need. >> clearly, they are taking questions on a number of different issues, moving off the issue of israel and gaza. just a couple of moments ago, ey were saying that we haven't seen a rafah plan, we would like it -- who knows some questions on -- from reporters there. we will keep across that and if and when any more news lines come out of that press conference, we will return to it. now, we had to the arctic. an attempt to stop the sea ice from melting by spraying it was saltwater. here is our science

correspondent. >> it is such a simple idea, but it is surprising no one has tried it before. the team is pumping seawater on the ice so it freezes and thickens. the aim is to stop and maybe even reverse the loss of arctic sea ice caused by climate change. >> we are pumping around 1000 liters of seawater. today we logged an extra layer. >> this was the extent of the arctic sea ice. the sharp decline since then is alarming. could thickening the ice stop this trend? if not, polar bears and other arctic sea creatures will lose their homes and the rest of the world will be worse off because the cic is the air-conditioning system for the entire planet. >> this is the center for climate repair.

>> researchers are assessing whether the ice thickening will work and can be implemented across the arctic in a way that is affordable and practical. >> if we just allow the cis to go, the arctic ocean becomes one of our greatest heat absorbers rather than one of our greatest heat reflectors. we let it go, things are going to get worse, we got to try to fix it. >>'s team is also working with australian researchers to try to reduce temperatures by spraying salt particles into the clouds to make them brighter and so reflecting the suns heat back into space. the idea of repairing the climate is a controversial one. if you can fix the damage, so the argument goes, than it is a green light for countries not to reduce their emissions quickly enough, but researchers here believe that the situation is so dire that there is no alternative but to do both. >> if we stop doing efforts and

we leave it as it is, then we will for sure result in a really bad scenario. >> are you personally optimistic? >> yes, yes, that's why i'm working here. that's why i'm doing this research of course. i want to be optimistic. >> the researchers expect to know by next year whether the ice thickening has the potential to fix the arctic and by little more time to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. bbc news. >> alright, i just want to take you to the u.s., some breaking news coming out of georgia. you may have been covering or seen us covering one of the court cases to do with donald trump. we now know that one of the lawyers involved, nathan wade, has resigned from that team. the reason, the background here is that a judge said that if he

resigned or if fani willis resigned -- they had a relationship -- then everything could continue, but one or other had to resign in order basically to restore the credibility of the case. and we are now being told from our colleagues at cbs news that he has resigned, nathan wade. as a reminder, the prosecutor in donald trump's election fraud case down in georgia was told you can stay on the trial if the lawyer you had relationship with quits. that was the decision of the judge and it seems now that that lawyer, nathan wade, has resigned from the case. as a reminder, donald trump and his codefendants had tried to get fani willis disqualified, saying that her relationship with nation -- nathan wade, whom

she hired, had compromised the integrity of the case. the judge disagreed, but did say that it created an appearance of impropriety and said one of them had to go and in the last few minutes we are hearing that nathan wade has resigned from the case. announcer: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... financial services firm, raymond james. bdo. accountants and advisors. cunard is a proud supporter of public television. announcer: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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