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President Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia as either President or Prime Minister for the past 16 years, addressed a Moscow conference hall packed with some 1,400 Russian & foreign journalists for his annual news conference. And when the leader voted for three consecutive years by Forbes Magazine the "World's Most Powerful Man" speaks, the whole world listens. After 16 years at the head of the country, how to explain Vladimir Putin’s popularity?
Putin said Russia’s Olympic doping ban was unjustified and warned that global warming could be “a disaster” for northern territories.
Russia: President Putin holds annual press conference. Watch it full on our YouTube channel.
At least 10 people were reportedly killed when a bomb exploded inside the Technology Institute metro station in the center of Saint Petersburg, Russia on Monday. Emergency services gathering on the platform 20 minutes after the blast struck the train as it had pulled into the station. The Saint Petersburg Metro have closed all subway stations in the wake of the incident.
In Syria, as rebels prepare a counter-attack for Aleppo, the British government says it's upping its assistance to the opposition. Annette Young and our panel of journalists also discuss how being the member of a feminist, punk band in Moscow can land you in jail, if there is a possibility of life on Mars and with the Olympics about to end, what will be the defining element of these London games.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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