what's up sunshine it's time to shine
happy Friday fry yay let's finish this
week strong with a little luck from the
Irish on our side as we head into St
Patty's Day weekend let's begin in
Russia that's where presidential
elections are taking place this weekend
it's the first Russian presidential
election to take place over the course
of three days voting has also been
organized in four Ukrainian regions that
Russia occupied over the course of its
ongoing War President Vladimir Putin
who's essentially been in power for the
entirety of the 21st century there is
the clear front runner all the
candidates in this election running
opposite Putin are reliably Pro Kremlin
meaning they don't challenge the
policies of the current government and
don't have popular support none of them
opposed the war in Ukraine two
independent candidates who openly did
yarina danova and Boris nadon were
barred from running by the central
Election Commission which controls which
candidates can participate in elections
Putin's approval rating is now at over
80% according to lvat center a
non-governmental polling organization
their poll also found at three quarters
of Russians somewhat support the war in
Ukraine but more than half would prefer
peace negotiations about half of the
respondents follow the Ukrainian events
CNN's Matthew chance is in Moscow to
cover the elections and will break down
the context and the most likely outcome
of this vote well the outcome of
Russia's election is already pretty
clear opposition to Vladimir Putin has
been silenced his biggest critic Alexi
naly was buried earlier this month after
dying suddenly in an Arctic penal colony
amid widescale repressions even mourners
laying flowers at his memorial hundreds
of them were dragged Away by the police
earlier this week nal's Chief of Staff
in Exile was attacked with a hammer
outside his home well this Russian
election is also of course taking place
against the backdrop of a brutal war in
Ukraine with huge casualties on both
sides Russia has been gaining the upper
hand amid Ukrainian shortages of weapons
and ammunition but recent dates have
seen Ukraine Step Up drone attacks
inside Russia hitting Russian oil
facilities in a bid to cause economic
down damage ukraine-based paramilitary
groups opposed to the Kremlin have also
been staging dramatic crossborder raids
to try and make sure that as Russia's
elections get underway and ordinary
Russians feel the impact of the
kremlin's Ukraine war you think there's
anybody left in this country who is able
to challenge Vladimir Putin there's
always people who who not
support uh Vladimir Putin and even alexe
naali now is dead there's always hope
and I believe that if we don't have uh
it now but someday
maybe 10-second trivia the first
privately funded rocket to launch into
space was in which year 1969 1977 82 or
99 let's take it back to the 80s because
on September 9th 1982 the commercial
space age began with the launch of Koga
1 it was privately funded by a small
Houston based company called space
Services Inc of America on Thursday
morning SpaceX launched the most
powerful rocket in the world it's called
Starship he that rocket Roar as the
company's third attempted launch in
about a year was considered a success
for the company even though they lost
communication with the craft before it
crashed back to Earth that's because the
mission reached several Milestones
including making it further into this
test flight than ever before the first
attempted launch of Starship last April
ended in a midair explosion and a second
attempt in November started promisingly
but ended prematurely with an explosion
and a loss of signal as these tests
continue the goal of Starship is to
assist NASA's Artemis program where it
hopes to land us astronauts on the moon
as early as September of
2026 basx also believes Starship can be
an integral part in the company's
aspirations to eventually bring humans
to Mars during the month of March
women's history month we are
highlighting seminal women who've
transformed the world in profound ways
and today we want to recognize
environmental activist wangari Mai she
was the first woman from Africa to win
the Nobel Peace Prize she dedicated her
life to advocating for the protection of
the environment and empowering Africa's
most impoverished people mthod founded
the green belt movement in Kenya which
helped plant more than 30 million trees
there an effort that inspired the United
Nations to start its own campaign
planting about 11 billion trees
worldwide Mai's tree planting efforts
weren't just about protecting the
environment they also provided locals
especially women with the ability to
earn money by selling seeds and access
to resources for cooking and clean water
next we want to recognize Lisa miter her
knowledge in physics changed the world
mner and her colleagues learned that
splitting atoms releases large amounts
of energy and she was the first person
to describe and name the process of
nuclear fision in a scientific paper
though she first worked as a physics
professor in Germany she had to flee
from the Nazi regime there because of
her Jewish ancestry later she was asked
to work on the Manhattan Project which
was a program during World War 2 to help
develop the first nuclear weapons but
miter refused to take part on any
collaboration of this program and stated
I will have nothing to do with a bomb
today the scientific Community continues
to acknowledge her brilliance by naming
multiple prestigious physics Awards
after her and guess what there's even a
chemical element named after her M
Nerium for today's story getting a 10
out of 10 it's been almost a week since
we pushed our clocks ahead an hour lost
an hour of sleep so are you still
feeling a little tired with this time
change I am and there's also this groggy
doggy who's feeling our pain if we're
all feeling not caught up on our sleep
the internet sensation struggled to wake
up and start his shift at work he looks
over sheep at a farm in Virginia our
Genie MOS has more Donuts is his name
and is claim to fame oh another rough
night is that he's a groggy doggy I
making your trip back from outer space
right now with millions of fans who
relate to his inability to wake up that
night shift got you down boy he really
resonated with uh folks on the night
shift and and the folks who are not
mourning people this seven-year-old
Great Pyrenees mix works the night shift
in woly Shire Farm in Virginia where
he's the guardian to 15 sheep but
nothing let me get you a chest R this
morning not chest rubs not stretches oh
Big Stretch nothing keeps Donuts from
wanting to go back to sleep wakey
wakey time to make the donuts if Donuts
had an alarm clock he'd be pressing the
snooze function all the time absolutely
you need me to come back in five minutes
I brought you some casserole for your
breakfast not even Food Works even this
treat a donut for donuts sat in his
mouth forever before he finally chowed
down owner Natasha Sims C this video of
donuts slowly walking rare footage of
donuts awake his bright-eyed coworker
Brites he's ready to go makes donuts
look like a lump of dough you need some
more time hey buddy it's time to get up
for breakfast who needs breakfast when
you can hit the hay literally all right
let's wake up up up happy Friday keep in
touch over the weekend I'm at Koy wire
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before we go let's give a shout out to
the knights at Andrew Jackson Middle
School in Cross Lanes West Virginia rise
up and this shout out goes to Chester
area school in Chester South Dakota to
all the Flyers out there rise up making
an awesome weekend be the light that
someone needs remember you are more
powerful than you know I'm Ki wire this
is CNN 10 it's been a blessing to spend
this week with
you