the idea of the french republic, his long proclaimed, but just what is more than friends in a full pot series, the big picture takes an in depth, not from the same size. episode 3 analogies here. the not going to boston getting for version old is his fight has to stop there long. so last go to avoid bloodshed off the season. a southern city and unprecedented challenge to president solutions will secures. he had been wrapped up in the capital with people. do you not to use that cause and monday to cut and on what day did the price of the present pollution tell the nation russians very existence was

on the threat and vowed to crush the mutiny. the hello am, i am isaiah watching alger 0 at life from london, also coming up on the program. look at what events in russia mean for his involvement in many african countries. also, the greek supreme court looks into what caused the tragic, sinking of a boat filled with migrants this month with hundreds of lives along the media rushes most in re, wagner group has ordered his troops to return to that basis, to avoid bloodshed and not apparent ends to his new to me, it follows an intervention by the presence of battle roost. a column of wagner

forces had been heading for the russian capital. moscow wire state of emergency was announced and troops were deployed. here's what you have any provisions said on his telegram channel. i lift lolia of what we usually get on march for justice on june 23rd of the last 24 hours. we came to 100 columbus a show of months ago. during this time, we did not shed a single drop of off lots of lots we. we have reached the moment when blood can be spilt. we realizing the full responsibility for the risk a lot could be spilt on either side. so we are turning our colors around and heading back to our field comes most recruiting supply and we got it back through the troops across the border from you quite. and in the early hours of the morning and took control of herself and done the headquarters of russia's southern military command by mid afternoon and on calling the wagner troops. besides that, as fondles as a city of yellows more than half way along the 1000 cologne mesa highway to most go sign a group be they have got any progression pulled it to march for justice inside his

troops have been able to enter a stuff on done completely on a pose, but the russian presently i did my purse and cold, the actions treason, and not addressed of the nation allowing to crush what he called an armed insurrection. lot is the sequence of events of the past 24 hours or so. daniel hawkins has been following developments. he joins us life from the russian capital mosca. tell us more about what prompted. wagner fights has to turnarounds, are these reports that the president of a better results under the concern was involved in facilitating communication between is getting provisioned and president putin, as well as like these events with you're going for goes and agreeing to a ton. his forces to bice came as much of a surprise as these uh, this escalation to start with 24 hours ago was that a heated, rejects it offers from russian top ross from general was the laid down,

arms of surrender and exchange for safety for our community something very clearly changed his mind with these negotiation is through a president like a 2nd car. now there's been no comment from the company and sofa. aside from the fact that look a single imposing half held more telephone talks at 9 p. m. most of the time in which foods and thanks his account support for being immediate to in the style of which has gone beyond even lives beyond anyone's imagination. we have yet to see what exactly the times the degree will be. aside from the fact that while going forward as of a ton is the base in the new gods group, public we've seen seems of it pretty much true, but ation and role stuff where people have been clapping and cheering, shaking hands with the fighters as they are about as they've begun to reverse the vehicles, they were amazed to be seen the where this will leave the relationship between kremlin and you're going to precaution, who was of course, still officially a wanted man rushes, perhaps most wanted for charges of on rebellion. yes,

because at one point we're hearing that to the present person was cooling on members of the wagner group to apprehend if got any progression himself. so it's not clear whether it's needs the relationship, not just between the president and his as long time ali, i like promotion, but also the vitamin group, which is a very powerful private army. his influence extends well beyond russia and that role in the ukraine will, are absolutely clear that the kremlin needs devolved. no groups. they proved themselves to be one of russia's, if not for us, is the best fighting force on the eastern fund in ukraine, bringing a quite wreck from the victories over recent weeks and months. they haven't loads of goals in africa. region where russia has strategic interest, tennessee going to grow it's uh it's interest as well. so of course. 2 this leaves them in quite a, in, in quite a lot. so as i say, you're getting

a promotion remains a wanted man. the volume afford as many of whom, of course all form a convex. you'll receive pardons for the present sentences for subbing in. don't ask another places where will that leave them? there was a multiple at croft shut down more so according to somebody listen faxed at least 24 hours. and then over the last weeks of the crate in town for offensive, who is going to be held accountable for that? what does this leave president post and having seen, wagner forces especially caught through russian defenses of russian soldiers standing aside, surrendering their weapons, surrendering to vulgar as they might have the way within 24 hours from a 1000 kilometers south of moscow. so within 200 kilometers, all of the halls of russia, this leaves a lot of questions and all upset about the power dynamics that will now remain between foods and, and precaution. and between the kremlin and rushes most potent and most powerful, private force and fighting on me. okay,

daniel hawkins and most guy assigned to you well, of course in ukraine, they've been following the situation very closely. the president wrote him, is a landscape inside of these events and russia show that president pollution is losing control. it just came yeah. the man from the kremlin is obviously very afraid and probably hiding somewhere, not showing himself with us, but i am sure that he is no longer in moscow. so to to, to pico somewhere. and also some think he knows what he's afraid of because he himself created this threat, causing me to be in washington. something will massage being launched, a new crane over the night. 3 people died in the capital cave, off to fragments from a russian missile that was shot down. started a fire, a small way injured when the debris struck a high rise building keeps defense system is reported to of interest that didn't move in 20 russian missiles overall. explosions was reported in the pro and hard

keys with a gas installation was hit, and also set on fire. to meet fame had been, den code takes a closer look at the log in a group. in the mind behind a tool. drug on the bottom, you have any pre goshen rose to power and russia from humble beginnings in st. petersburg. after being jailed for 9 years for robbery and fraud, he became a hot dog salesman and then the man known as putins shift his catering company hosted events for foreign leaders as well as president vladimir putin's private birthday parties. it wasn't until 2022, the precaution admitted that he had found it the wagon a private military company, 8 years earlier in eastern ukraine. he previously denied all connections to the most scenary group and sued. any one linking him to work that as most marys illegal in russia, but precautions close links to putin and russia's elite allowed him to bypass legislation and gave plausible deniability of any involvement in operations

overseas, as well as ukraine. the wagner group has been links to military operations in syria since 2015 and aiden governments combat reval groups, and the central african republic, libya molly and so don precaution is also linked with existing military and political influence, and chad, mozambique and zimbabwe has been so successful as a private military company that has become essentially a franchise. and so you have different, really, very distinct organizations that carry the same brand. it was an important force in russia's invasion of ukraine, including the assaults on some of the and by commute precaution, commanded up to 50000 troops in ukraine, mostly recruited from russian prisons and exchange for upon key on the line. his most scenarios victories while playing down the role of the russian army. obviously,

putting has created precaution, regardless of a self made man. he spoke most projects to create a sort of a competitive alternative military for assuming russia to boost the effectiveness of the regular russian army. this later to end and to open criticism by pre golden didn't means his words in attacking defense minister said h i go and chief of staff violated get us him of for under supplying his troops. well, not so you can watch go by pretty positive. we have a 70 percent shortage of admission. shelly, good garage you month to month where? where's munition look at them you? this moves that it went back load was seized in may 2023. often more than 6 months of fighting big ocean and his men took a passive roll and the kremlin began to reign in wide, demanding the group register and report directly to the army. the golden refused,

and his confrontation with russia's military leadership reached the boiling point on june 23rd. when he was accused of the mutiny entry sent 32 men who didn't go out to 0. let's get one the international reaction then from correspondence of u. n. an incentive goal will start without diplomatic added to james bays. and so we know that the need is of the u. k. u. s. fronts and germany have been discussing this also form in a sense form and it says of the, the g 7 group. it does appear that what's happened to the last 24 hours is cool. everyone off guard. so i think everyone who's been following this and i've been texting and what's happening and cooling, various diplomats is amazed by what's happened in the last 24 hours and then the last couple of hours. and we don't really have any official reaction from any of those governments yet to what's happened to the last couple of hours. and i think

from speaking to diplomats, that's because they believe it's not necessarily over. in fact, my conversations with diplomats somewhat summed up by tweets and the last hour from the full, the swedish prime minister, and full. the swedish foreign minister, very shrewd observer of international nations called built. he says, end of 1st round. next round in drama is coming. and i think there's a feeling that the deal that's being done now cannot really be the final deal. how can put 10, allow per goshen who's lead a new to this much on most go to stay in place. certainly as things stand, everyone on the russian side is damaged. putin is certainly damaged his or of the control that he's had for over 2 decades. he's ordered invincibility that or has as completely disappeared now. and i think he's more vulnerable because of what happens unless he takes tough of direction down. the line for goshen effectively

buckled out. that's i think affects how he will be seen by others and possibly by his own talking to man. because some of them seemed extremely unhappy with the fact that he didn't much and continued to much on moscow. so it affects the unity of positive going forward. and if we believe the reports that come on and off of the russian military going to be changed. and that's, i think, also shows how the russian military has been damaged. and certainly the perceptions of the fact that not only if we had 15 months, 16 months of war in ukraine. but the russian military was supposed to have a special ministry operation lasting days. and they said, you know, making pre dressed in, in that operation. in fact, that losing ground with the ukrainian offensive, taking small bits of territory in recent days. and you see that the russian military couldn't stop logging to going and taking the city of real stuff on don't . which is the operational headquarters of the ukranian war and marching on that

mode to a guessing pretty close to moscow. i think all of those institutions and people are seriously damaged by what's happened and it keeps telling the good news, i think, for the ukrainian side in the war it is but tell them as far as the difficulty from many different knots and ministers and officials is trying to predict what happens next, you know, depending on the best sources inside rusher itself, is that had been an anticipation that it could cause more long lasting damage to present pushing. that's still a possibility, but for now he does seem to have suppressed this challenge to his to decade ro. yeah, he has but i think most of service probably would say he's now still the we just the most vulnerable he's being ever since he's been in power. and remember, this is a man has been in power, as long as we've had the is the century. in fact, he came into power. and the very last hours of 1999 is when boris yeltsin handed

power to putin. i think preaching does look weak right now. the russian public would have seen him looking week. they would have seen him making that address, saying that there was a mutant us attack on him, and he was being stabbed in the back. and yes, he's just done a deal with about responsible for staffing him in the back. that certainly will the week. and i think the other thing that the russian public will see potentially is the comments progression is made about the war. and why was this? will need it in the 1st place. so question marks, i think of being put in the minds of the russian people about the power strength of the russian army. protecting, by the way of putting the power and strength of vladimir putin on question marks about why russia was in ukraine anyway. okay, i prologic edits of james bay's there at the united nations are also taking a closer look at the implications of the countries outside of the region, particularly in africa. because this is what the wagner group has been active. it's

not just paid a role in the war, and ukraine have also had a presence elsewhere. nick hack has just been in molly, this is one of those countries. and he joins us now from the con. how is wagner's activity in africa? in line with the kremlin of the well designed group, it does what russia or the russian government cannot do. for instance, just last week when there was this referendum we saw a russian fighters and the region of motif protecting the polling stations in molly is it provides help and support to amalia and forces that are fighting our lives. so i'll call you to an ice. so it's present in over a dozen country, the country that we know of all of us, he was on be the central african republic threw down and others, but the value group is much more then providing fighters. it's also a for profit operation where it,

it extracts minerals in countries like the central african republic or molly, which is one of the largest exporter of gold, to finance its soldiers over its war, away from the continent and europe on the front line there. but this has help, the kremlin exert more influence on the continent. and we've seen several visits of sergei love rough just this year. and going from country to country ahead of the russia africa summit planned in june 26. so they have written june, july 26th, sorry. so they have really worked hand in hand. so far. until now, marianne, what role does wagner's activity in africa then have on the russia ukraine crisis, potentially a slow it's. it's 8, almost finances. it's a very important role, at least for wagner and you know, there's one mind in the central african republic called in the seam of mine,

and it has uh, extracted $2700000000.00 worth of mineral. and that that money is used to finance wagner's operation. to expand its reach, and i remember when i met the head of wagner's group in the central african republic in 2018, he said that russia was back in africa and know that the wagner's group was starting its operation on the african continent. and he was alluding to the influence of the soviet union had on the continent topping both on this, the ssl that some have in the kremlin, but also among the senior military leaders on the african continent. and we've seen a push more countries coming closer to, to, to, to russia like sent the south africa who has operated military drills with russia. and just recently, just a week ago, we've seen african heads of states going to print to try to appeal for a peace deal for the african perspective. they see the russians as an alternative

super power to china or to the united states. and that's thanks to the wagner's group. so this private army is essential for russia, at least here on the african concept. merritt, thank you from the con nicholas. hi, i want to get with you from the front lines, a new cry. now a child stratford who is on the road to backlit in easton ukraine. so there's been a lot of heavy selling in around the russian occupied town of buffalo to over the last few hours. we've seen a lot of infantry moving up this road towards the town. we've seen a lot of ministry vehicles. also, it's impossible to verify whether in fact, this movement is as a direct result of the rebellion by wagner in the side of russia. but certainly a lot of ministry activity today, according to ukraine's deputy defense ministry. she is saying that you create in

full series of the lowest operations in multiple directions along the front line in the last few hours, including towards bus moot. we'd be speaking to ukrainian soldiers in this area. they saying that they are and their woods going to exploit the k else inside of russia. and is that woods in order to hate places like buck loads really hard? there is a sense that the morale of ukrainian soldiers is only being boosted by this news. and of course, we do know that the fall, the crate in forces are basically struggling to make major games since this counter offensive started around 2 weeks ago. it's going to be very interesting to see whether the developments happening inside of russia are going to mean that this counter offensive begins to move quickly and the days and months ahead child stuff . but i'll just say era on the road to bus mote, eastern new grade. so i'm joining this job. i and i might v as

a senior research fellow at the rush institute, king's college london. so you will have been watching everything that's happening very closely since last night. the analysis seems to be that even if you've got any precaution cools off the march to most good news news ended that actually he has done some damage to not only a pollutant. so far as you, but particularly perception among the public, but also the elite perception of the president. what do you make of that? yes, absolutely. what we are looking at is the beginning of political, internal political crisis in the shop, which will all come up. we will see a transition to uh, somebody else taking over from uh, president fulton, that smell something which we are going to seal with nice. it's probably not going to happen. store cool like this. but the file shows both the

process. if a political change, how stopped it, it will, and you gave me precautions. seth and it was not acting alone. if he was just the solar water. yeah, we would have seemed appropriate course, a different outcome. it's only a sub. he has a connections. he has people with the indeed who are back a him in some way who are also using him right as up kind of breaks through re cope with them. other people kind of eventually move in. so that's very interesting. he would have had allies inside the kremlin, so he would have been in communication with them because we know he has a very close relationship with president present, but he's really been attacking that the, the military leadership in particular, the defense minister. but from what you are saying, they're a powerful figures inside the kremlin that would use if got any precaution to create the space,

to find some sort of consensus candidate now. but to start the process of finding a successor, yes, pull to it has suddenly been weakened by this events. even if he comes on the top of it, i'm the crisis as a result of fairly soon, which i believe as something which we are looking at. certainly it does look look good um greatly those don't have that kind of traveling. so they all sort of precaution, it comes up as a kind of coast method. feca has been opening a political space a who probably has lies outside of kremlin reach people within that actually leads me. some of them have been incredibly unhappy about the war. uh, also the people within power and secure with the structures who also have no pain

at very happy the way the what has been full truth about most importantly the people's and sees himself as a king. make his too much when the porters fed goes and gave him his spouse with the giving his medicines and some kind of image. but as a king make up, he will probably to do. and given how it's spoken, he's been about the crime is handling of the warranty cray. how is that paid with the russian public? setting it off from public is fairly pass. if it's not what they mobilize the site, they don't want the national long me to news. but for them kind of big study is a very elusive costs. so we are looking at society. we've just wanted to end somehow and the return to peaceful life. and probably we're starting to reasonable terms with the west, best kind of wind short of tape, and that's why we see that a different publicly action as compared to queen took

a 2016 with members of the public filled up. it's up to them to come and do something about it either. i'm sure, totally different picture. maybe we can unpack some of that i a bit later on. thank you very much for now. i'm good. i appreciate it. i of the want to bring you some of the stories this hour as well as writing these atlas and you'll get find westbank of assess at least to probably send in houses on fire. and the village of on saw sonya ramallah, no immediate reports of casualties, but conscious of erupt is between palestinians holding stones and is ready soldiers and settlers. a power sending gunman opened fight. and is there any check point in the west bank? it was short that dead by is riley forces by this and i'm good alex, i lost his brigade, said he was one of them. members, i go to the

a well that's what the deal middle. some use going. what happened today has been going on since thursday. the settlers tried to set up a supplemental in the village land, and palestinian families have been stopping them for 2 days. the families together with villages from nearby tore down this outpost yesterday. it looks like the settlers didn't like it, so they attacked us this morning for many sides of the village. is there any, is it held another out of protests against the government's pants to of a whole bunch additional system? tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating and tell a visa, every saturdays is january apartments, and benjamin netanyahu oppose the changes in launch off to intense public pressure . changes include giving the governing coalition the power to choose the free and court judges. meanwhile, in greece, the supreme court there is looking into how of boats filled with refugees and libraries capsized of the country's west coast a week ago. hundreds of people, i believe, to have drowned some live a testimony suggest several things may have gone wrong. john surplus reports from

la costa in greece. well, how much of the whole story is a builder? he says he paid libyan smugglers, $4000.00 to take him to italy. but he hopes to find work to feed his family. he was one of an estimated 750 people on the fishing. trula, he says, was fit to carry huff that number. he describes how the smugglers loaded people onto the boat as a remote morning. one of the 2 fishing boats varied people to the boat and snatches of 20. i was among the last 10 and the boat was swing site. the side i asked a friend is this boat safe? she didn't answer. everyone was afraid. everyone understood this was going to be a difficult journey even that when the boat was spotted 47 miles off, greece in the i own the and see, this is what it looked like. all the house already believes it's think because it's engine failed for me while the ship was moving, it had some balance, but when it stopped,

it started to lurch. some survivors believe that the greek coast guard vessel that was trying to help them inadvertently, homes, them. we spoke to one of these witnesses by mood. shabby is not his real name. back to the bible, it covers the cost of god tied to up to the parts they talked about. most of the population size you decide is they towed it in when they cut the legs disability. chalabi said the coast guard tried to cover up the incident of to the toilet capsized. oh no. with the one that they started putting on. i'll talk to you over to in the see to us, you've been slow to read and us. i'm going to talk over because they said, you will know talk about these events. both witnesses said they were perhaps a 100 women and children below decks. none survived. these 2, this is along with dozens of other survivors, have been deposed by the greek coast code when they arrived on sure. and the testimonies are going to be included in a judicial inquiry now underway at the supreme court level. to find out exactly

what happened. greece has arrested 9 egyptian survivors as suspected human traffic goes, but shall not be told me. the real operators were well armed libyan militiaman, who stacked him under a 150 other egyptians into a truck and drove them through little low mountain passes to the departure point, a concealed cove west of the brook. and on the way he saw something of the scale of their operation be settled, there are 5 boards being prepared to keep them within then, and preparing them for the forthcoming voyage. europe has declined the inhumanity of the smugglers, but it hasn't found an effective way to defeat the thriving business jumpstart opal us. i'll just share my luck a ser also following what's happening and so don in the capital har, tim is been hit by more heavy artillery in miss solves and the latest line is between the army and the rapids. support forces more than 2000 people have been killed and nearly one and a half 1000000 of floods the capital. since the 2 sides started fighting for

control of the nation in april resident say they are running out of essential supplies as a to efforts of stoles. counting is on the way of, of the polls closed in sierra leone, starting the contested presidential of parliamentary elections. present g, a small to bio is seeking a 2nd 5 your time and a poll held him in cost of living crisis. this funk deadly riots last year. he's been challenged by long term rival similar camara. the when it needs 55 percent of the most to avoid a run off the main story. this our, the leader all rushes madison rate. wagner group says he has ordered his troops to return to that basis, to avoid bloodshed in an apparent end to his new city. it follows an intervention by the president and by the ruse column of wagner forces had been heading for moscow, or

a state of emergency was announced and troops were deployed. they around 200 kilometers shows of the capital. one is not gonna agree to you have any precaution, pull them back.