voting is underway in russia's presidential election voters and vladivostok in the country's far east lined up to cast their ballots eight candidates are in the running but president vladimir putin is expected to win a fourth term in office by a clear margin. thousands of people have been streaming out of the rebel held district of eastern near the syrian capital damascus artillery fire from syrian government forces and russian airstrikes have intensified. around eleven thousand people in germany have protested the ongoing turkish offensive in northern syria many members of the country's large kurdish community took to the streets of the central city of hanaford during the kurdish new year celebrations. russia has summoned the british ambassador telling him twenty three british diplomats had a week to leave the country this came in response to britain expelling russian diplomats earlier in the week over the poisoning of a russian double agent and his daughter in the u.k. british prime minister theresa may had strong words for moscow. the attempted assassination. for which there. was c

voting is underway in russia's presidential election voters and vladivostok in the country's far east lined up to cast their ballots eight candidates are in the running but president vladimir putin is expected to win a fourth term in office by a clear margin. thousands of people have been streaming out.

one in st petersburg, one in the middle of the country, and one in vladivostok, on the pacific coast san francisco consulate last year, we can expect an american consulate to be closed. and the third thing is what will russia do in addition to and above the two things that i just mentioned? and that is essentially what russia was to keep its powder dry and let the rest continue to worry. it will be violence, cybersecurity stuff, or whatever is. yuval weber, think you for your time. we have delivered there. so much and discuss, but we need to move on. —— we have to leave it there. now it's time to get all the latest from the bbc sport centre. hello. i am tulsen tollett. three selling quicker players wait for news after ball tampering. so stevens continues her run of good form in miami as she moves through to the quarter—finals. —— three australian cricket players. dressed ratten cricketers, including the now former captain and vice captain will learn of their fate in the coming hours with significant gains from the game expected follow the ball tampering scenes which marred the third

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experience of improving urban environment if we have such experience in a cousin in vladivostok in sochi. many from initial capitals are also being transformed so we've got some experience for that what so i suggest we alone new large scale program that will affect many other major cities as well and we should at least double our spending on these programs over the next six years. that is merely an issue going into developing cities but i believe it was said on unsuitable this health care education transport infrastructure all these things will require additional funding as well i will talk about this a little later you know in different sections of my address we need to improve urban development least on using new materials in construction more than architectural solutions so we should use only digital technology for transport. system and so on this will make the whole system of the services transparent people should get the quality services without overpaying for them and. this will create new prospects were to be able to provide them with modern environment for well it would be and sa

voting is underway in russia's presidential election voters and vladivostok and the country's far east lined up to cast their ballots eight candidates are in the running but president vladimir putin is expected to win a fourth term in office by a clear margin. thousands of people have been streaming out of the rebel held district of eastern near the syrian capital damascus artillery fire from syrian government forces and russian airstrikes have intensive.

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vladivostok, ekaterinburg, or st. petersburg." and like all russian votes, the winner was vladimir putin. congratulations. damn it! damn it! ( applause ) there's more news on the stormy daniels front. and the rest of her. ( laughter ) the president has a brilliant, new defense. he's telling people that stormy daniels isn't his type. ( laughter ) what? she's a buxom blonde. she couldn't be more his type if she was a filet o' fish wrapped in a hundred ruble bill. ( applause ) and what kind of defense is that? "i would never cheat on my wife... with her! but i like that one over there." "oh, that's ivanka, do not date. okay, guys. do not, ever. i would absolutely never ." trump's been largely silent about the affair, but, yesterday, we got a statement from white house deputy press secretary and toddler who wants to play with your keys, raj shah, who told reporters "the president doesn't believe any of the claims ms. daniels made in the interview last night were accurate." wait, what do you mean he "doesn't believe"? that's a weird wa

that he seems to get his support and if you consider how big russia is you know the distance from vladivostok to most co is about the same as paris to los angeles you know that's that's if you live in lust of a lot of all stalk it's that that's how far away you are from the seats of power and so it's very difficult thing for a national leader in moscow to present themselves as being on the side of people that this far away but he has managed to do that he has a wall of whatever you think of him in western countries people don't like him but he has a common touch and that's very very very powerful it is and of we've been saying throughout our coverage that really the crucial thing for president putin and for the kremlin was turned out of course the result of this election was very much a foregone conclusion but did he tonight get the public stamp of approval to just say my is his his presence in another time. i think at the kremlin they'll be very pleased with how things are they it was very clear and they said so themselves in terms that they were worried that he's been in power for so long n

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