the frank assessments, quite frankly let's, let's dress the elephant in the room. the reason the south koreans want their own nuclear deterrence is because they don't trust the us informed opinions. fighting has basically lock this thing up so far that it is impossible virtually for somebody else. 7 to the race at this point in depth analysis of the case headlines . so then, case by the end of the states, that there is no strong government to control and which means that this might affect other countries inside story on al jazeera, the, for the 1st time, russia's president vladimir putin says the wagner mercenary group was entirely supported by moscow, the 50, then yay! this is alison 0. live from the also coming up. wagner,

bossy of guinea for goshen lands and bell roofs. why moscow says these fighters have begun handing over heavy weapons. former us president donald trump is heard on tape discussing highly confidential secret documents that he had not be classified and millions of muslims gather in mecca for the most significant day of the hodge, the sense of mount our the beginning of russia, where president vladimir putin has said for the 1st time, the wagner mercenary group is fully backed by the state. he said it cost is nation of $1000000000.00. last year, rushes president congratulated his forces and hailed their efforts to stop what he called a civil war. the head of wagner, you've getting provision has landed in the bel origin capital mintz, pro challenge reports, lazy video each. what do you, this was chris lynn say it's

a, as a formal time on its hands, reliable nature, gods in dress, uniform, red carpets and minute tree bands. the intention reassurance, the picture being painted, the russian states strong as ever, and to be assembled russian military, who would be no to velocity for their apparent impotence as you've got any precautions bogged unless somebody's advanced on must go with the weekends posts and had nothing but praise whether you defended the constitutional load lives of security and freedom of us citizens saved the mother lot from all peebles and effectively stopped a civil war. you want to, to clearly and harmoniously in a difficult situation. prominent in the audience was defense minister, showing no sign of preaching firing him, which was one of the demands made by precaution during his support mutiny. despite mass and the re, groups being illegal under the russian constitution. russia's president's ones,

everyone typically who controls who, if i choose to, but the most, you and i am, but i want everyone to know this. wagner group was fully financed by the state. i hope that in the process, none of it was embezzled, or at least nobody's still too much. but we will investigate, told of this get these k all take past few days. have shaken russia and led many inside the country and outside to question how much will start so you've got to even pretend still wheels the white house that it informed moscow in real time. the need of the us know nato had any role in the field uprising, but putin and better russian president, alexander lucas shanker, who apparently broke a deal of deescalate, to the crisis. still see the hands of the collective west. it book to see what the turkey, the mobile, what motive should, and not the best puts it today. we can clearly see a new wave of nato enlargement, an unprecedented amassing of bombs, but the alliances member states in the region. sure. including in places close to

our board is going to almost daily. i bought a guns report, various types of publications by neighboring countries from dumping dead bodies to intentionally sending trends across the border into batteries. so what's of the man who rocked russia on it? so thorough, terry and foundations? the bell of russian government says, gift gayety, pre goshen. he's now in that a roost despite pretend courting him a trait to the f. s. b has dropped the charges against him. precautions madison res, meanwhile, have been told they can fights on and ukraine as long as they signed themselves over to the russian military. retirements. how does their daniel hawkins joins us now live from moscow? daniel, what stands out to you from putting in speech today of what is happening in the kremlin is that projects the image of unity of business as usual and of strength in that speech from the governments cathedral square. it's

around to an all 1000 soldiers, police officers national guard of letting me a person was came to praise, the security officials, what he said was preventing a civil war, preventing the breakdown of rushes constitutional order. that followed, of course, is only meeting with security officials. russia's top security officials from the security agencies in which you also praise those officials for cooling this rebellion also revealing, as we heard earlier that uh, the precautions of wagner group was state funded around a $1000000000.00 allocated from may 2022 to may 2023, another 1000000000 reportedly given to per gordon's cold, cold company to provide a minute treat with food. adding courtney, he said, a hope nothing was stolen. we're going to look into this thing. the hops. um this uh, relationship with wagner with promotion is something we haven't heard. the law stopped . now. dmitri, pest gulf the covenants folks and also dismissed the idea that this crisis and

shook the criminal is foundations and all 30 saying that role that it a consolidated society political forces around the president mr. pods and also held a meeting with russia's top medium boxes behind closed doors. obviously what went on that we don't know. but from the speeches from these me things, it's very much been a consolidation of unity, a demonstration that things all back to normal. and this was maybe a blip in rushes more than political, political history, and things will vary on very much carry on as usual. what about the deal that vladimir puts in offered the lack of a better word offered wagner. he said, join the military or leave to bella. ruth, what's time you're doing as well, that deals certainly appears to be holding for now the f as b according to the numerous russian state agencies hasn't dropped, that investigation is promotion. remember the persian promised, those charges on music,

it would be dropped. it was then revealed. he was still under investigation. now it appears to be confirmed. officially, those charges have been dropped, so rushed as defense. ministry also announced that the wagner would be having to go . but it's heavy weaponry to the russian, m. o. d. while let general results all for you to come. all and of the russian national guard said his forces would be receiving heavy weaponry. meaning, uh the, the crumbling is weakening, wagner and strength thing. those allies who, who basically go around the president during this time of crisis, strengthening his allies. now the but a russian president to other going to look a shot and go and his announcements that i confirmed the wagner for it does have and a bunch of routes. he been denied reports that the, but a russian authorities are building a minute to by saying is that they've been provided on the bottom and a true base to live in for now. stressing this was at the volume is expense. the also interesting comment from victor couldn't nicole the butter russian defense minister, who, according to news agencies, said you wouldn't mind adding

a unit to all logged in to the by the russian on forces to which the cushion co, according to news agencies said uh uh, 2 laws that goes asians with precaution on best possible integration. of course, that's not officially confirmed as of yet. so as i say this deal does appear to be holding. it's worth remembering. the vol gonna is not precaution and propulsion, of course is not wagner. so even if this relationship with goals and see it has to exist, wagner as things stand will still remain, it sends a piece for the criminal in terms of its, the operations beyond russia's board. as this projection open it to go in economic power beyond russia's board, as how about $400.00 projected on the world's thoughts, who they will be aside from those far it is, of course it will san contracts with the m o. d. that remains to be seen. now you're right, and you've explained all your while. it does raise a lot of questions. but wagner remaining a center piece for russia. that's very interesting,

daniel hawkins. thank you very much. lie from us, go there. and as this wagner drama continues to unfold, ukraine's president has been rallying his troops on the front lines. but let him use a lensky praised his military for what he called sweeping advances. so let's give the office says he spent the day visiting troops station near bird ganske, toward newport. she's not in all directions. our soldiers had it in advance, and it's a happy day. i wish the boys more days like this. i was with the units of hortensia, and they distinguished themselves on the battle for buckboard. here, oakley, distinguished themselves well done, warriors, acid bag has more on this from keith. we've been hearing from the ukrainians about these advances nearby move and also the staff. is that the reach of what's in regard to seek this be no real change in the front lines? yes. we've heard presence intensity, say that it's been a happy day, and he's been congratulating his troops on the front lines as the most significant gains. we have been hearing from the southern command that they have made some days and they've released the news,

but yet to hear any southern confirmation and every time we do hear about these advances, we don't hear about anything significant. yes we had the ukrainians, have taken the village. the question is, how significant is that village, how much of it is left who still lives there? how many people are still there? and when we hear about this, of course, both sides during this will have paid up the gains i'm done. take any of those days that that happens today is no different to you. things are really talking up about the advance and the so called contra offensive and from the russians, we have heard that things is that the reach of res region. it has been some real intense fighting taking pace. but because of what's happening in russia with the regular group, the impact hasn't really been seen here on the front lines in ukraine. i cited baker, i just did a chief, you create an audio recording and which former us president donald trump discuss is a highly confidential document appears to contradict his later claim that he didn't have any such files. the recording made during

a 2021 interview seems to suggest that he is holding a confidential pentagon document detailing plans to attack iran from post and said that you only have magazine and newspaper clippings. while the special counsels indictment alleges that those present at the recording were shown classified materials, it does show you an example of pieces that i wanted to attack. or imagine i have a big problem. they presented me. this is off the record, but they presented me. there's a white house correspondent, kimberly how could, joins us now. kimberly donald trump is on trial. of course we'll be on trial for allegedly mishandling classified documents. so is this, the bombshell that it appears to be this is very much, is a bomb shell because it directly cocks her decks. the president's claims that he

was not holding any classified documents in that interview. and just to give you some context, this is an interview from back in july of 2021 that was given to a writer working on a memoir. it was held at the present as golf club in bed. mr. new jersey and the president allegedly is holding documents that are classified in nature. he says that much, he says they're highly classified, secret and confidential. and the president goes on to say that i could have classified this, but now i can't because he's out of office. what these documents are, supposedly pentagon plans to attack iran now, and this is evidence, supposedly that it shouldn't be in the hands of the special counsel. as part of that case against the president form is handling allegedly documents. 37 cows the

president has pled not guilty to this is a case that is going to trial later in the summer. although we should point out that there is a request to delay that until december. and we should again point out that the president has said that he never at any time have classified documents, but this audio is particularly damaged because it seems to contradict the president's claims as the former president's claims. and kimberly. so that's why obviously trump, critics and trump adversaries are gonna look at this and say, this is the smoking gun. how significant do you think this potentially really is the trump this upcoming trial? and it's incredibly significant because obviously this is the key piece of evidence. what comes into question though is how it was made public, and that is what the president is focusing on. or rather, the former president is focusing on in the united states. they tend to keep that honorific,

what we should tell you is that the us president donald trump. uh no longer and office has taken to his social media company through social to say. but the special prosecutor against him is the range that the f, b i and the department of justice have linked to this illegally. he's really deflecting blame and he also says that this exonerates have not incriminate him out . there is no proof that the f b i lead to this, but it does bring up the question of how such proprietary and potentially incriminating evidence in this case could have been made public. but once again, the president says that as he's claimed all along with this is a witch hunt against him. and this underscore, as he says his case, we are watching carefully the president, a former president, donald trump, is expected to have a public advantage of becoming ours, where we expect he will be making some of these comments that were on social media public. kimberly, thank you very much. that's kimberly how get to allison's here is white house

correspondent from washington dc. thanks. 31. people have been killed in a methane gas explosion in this use. gold mine in south africa. the incident happened more than a month ago in the city of elk, them, but details and just coming out now the miners were said to be working illegally there from neighboring lives. due to a search of the mine has been delayed because methane gas levels are still too high for me to mail. it has more from virginia in south africa, worried family members as well as the media being kept away from the microsoft with this incident to place more than a month ago. and its only come to life now of the some family members reported the incident and that they had missing family members. but the report that's to authorities in neighboring was due to the mining the mining that these people are doing. is illegal, they not employed by any of the mines, and they're accessing mine shots that to have essentially been closed or sealed up . and this is to try and retrieve whatever goals they might be in those shots. so

once an incident was reported to authorities in the su to, it was then reported to south african authorities and the government to you along with the owners of the mine harmony, gold on all working on a plan to try and retrieve at least the $21.00 bodies, but so that it gives administer of mental resources. has said that based on what they suspect to be some sort of movement of both people and me think guess on the ground could indicate they may be more bodies. they but they don't have a solid plan. in place, given the presence of that me thing guess as well as the safety and logistical concerns. i'm going to move out of shock to give you a better idea of what it looks like. there is a shelf the ventilation shaft just behind that amount of rocks in the distance. and again, we've been kept away because of the presence of methane gas. and you can see that along with heat now. and then rising from that shelf to there's a small security team, the trying to keep people away. but it really is

a very difficult situation for both the owners of the mine, as well as the government because of the safety concerns. there's no infrastructure in place. there's no way to get people down into that soft uncertainty, no way to get those bodies up. how many go to so for said that they are tunnels on the ground that may connect some of the shops and they are considering perhaps sending people down through an alternative soft. no other illegal miners have offered to go down and try and retrieve those bodies. the government has refused at office saying it is not safe, and it's also mean that they can consider. so it's being moved in a bond that those bodies have been on the ground and they seems to be no clear idea of what happens next. as family members and other mine is a way to load from the government, so many dumler ultra 0 in virginia and the free states of africa. the still ahead on alpha 0. terrified julian's trained to protect

themselves after rise and violent crime in what was once one of latin america's safest countries, the the, brought to you by visit capital. hello, the pots of china. we'll see some respite from the heats that we have seen recently that a stream heat way seems to west to whether a, pulsing is way out. these are the plum races pulsing across these deposit china into the korean peninsula will continue to drive the way further basis with some bravo live the down pools tab, just in paging at long last about what i should base a 10 degrees down on recent values as i said it is a brief rest buy from the hate because there's a go on. it's assessed. i believe us guys come back in. we're getting up to around

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hi deals, the friends who public his loan 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 case. the concluding episode on allergies era, the of the watching else or 0 reminder of our headlines this, our president vladimir putin said for the 1st time, the wagner mercenary group is fully funded by the russian states instead of cost russia 1000000000 dollars last year. fellow roost president alexander lucas shanker . has confirmed the wagner chief. you have any promotion is known. bela bruce was

given the safe passage as part of a deal to end his music. an audio recording a for more of a former us president donald trump, saying that he had secret documents as a merch recording made in 2021 suggests trump was holding classified information about dependent bronze plans to attack iraq to indonesia. now where the president has launched a compensation scheme for victims of mass killings and force, disappearance is an odd shape. province joke over dodo visited the science of abuses committed by security forces and remote dong in the 19 ninety's. jessica washington reports from pity and actually promised every week for the past 16 years . really, you cut that, you know, some odyssey has come here to protest. she stands outside to causes presidential palace to demand justice. her son was killed by security forces in the late 19 ninety's. overtime,

i feel that my sorrow over while one's death has been transformed into determination to oppose law and human rights. the killing of more than a dozen university students into college. this is one is the death chapters in intonation history. once again in the spotlight as president joe cove with dodo launch is a compensation program for victims of 12 post human rights violations and the families. my daddy, me get that. but will we gather to heal the nation's womens as a result of past gross human rights which left a heavy burden on victims and families. incidents also include violence by security forces in the province of l. 2 in specific locations between the 19 eighties and the early 2 thousands were honey julio says her entire family was tortured by security forces, including her 2 children who were killed by personnel. the steam will provide

scholarships priority, health insurance, money for home renovations, and opportunities for vocational training. some victims have criticized the process . thing it doesn't hold for the trait is accountable and it doesn't help answer questions about what happens to them. or they loved ones. the government says the program does notion to few which legal avenues, but sofa, no suspected perpetrator of human rights abuses has ever been held accountable. some human rights groups have also criticized the program is failing to understand the needs of devises. each failure of you know, resulting human rights violation to introduce you an unconditional will. only rate in force is uh uh, uh, the confidence of the trait. there's that they are indeed above the little back in

jakarta, maria says she will continue to protest, you know, one of her son. she says the happiness of her family was forcibly taken away and she doesn't for the same stage for anyone else. jessica washington elder 0 j indonesia. columbia has awarded one of his highest declarations to the rescuers of 4 children who were lost in the amazon for weeks. and a ceremony held in bogota. president gustavo petro praised to be collaboration between the military and indigenous communities. search for the for indigenous children which captured a world wide attention was launched after their plane crashed in may killing all the adults on board. the children survived more than a month of living by themselves in the drunk the human rights activists. and she, they say they are disturbed by a new law which allows police to use least so force, under the presumption of innocence, critic saving you trigger happy loss is being called, is not the answer to rising crime in what used to be considered the safest country

in latin america, or latin america edits, or let's say a newman reports from santiago. have you had a castillo, is learning how to use a gun and says that after just a few lessons, she's mastering how to hold aim and fire with him. she even dreamed of acquiring such a skill until she and her boyfriend became victims of rising crime in chilly. yeah, the, it was terrifying. they fell off a cord. gunpoint was left and shot. i was afraid to die. not statistically to leave remains one of the safest countries in a very unsafe region. but in the country where armed robberies and murderers for once rare, bite and crime has short in the last few years. you can tell the people are looking over their shoulders a lot more than they used to, according to official figures. murder has gone up 33 percent violent robberies,

63 percent and kidnappings, which was something absolutely unheard of in chile, up until very recently by 77 percent. according to the government. and much of this mileage has been imported, for example, drive by robberies on murders on motorcycles. this and even more gruesome forms of crime has turned out this type of violence into the number one concern for the vast majority of tenants. in april 3, policemen were shot dead in the line of duty. chileans took to the streets to demand radical measures to combat crime and protect police and diffuse pressure. the left wing government signed a controversial law on april 6th. that gives police the right to use the full force if necessary, under the presumption of innocence. on like for the own, is, is now on the victim or family members to prove the police abuse their power. it's

been nicknamed the truth, are happy law by critics including amnesty international and other human rights organizations. don't go guess it. the only thing the lord does is increase the possibility of human rights violations being committed, as well as increasing impunity by state agents when they commit abuses against citizens. already a number of police when the court under investigation for abuse of power and violence have had their cases dropped since the law is retroactive. but for now, that's not the main concern for most ordinary citizens. hopes that unlike in many neighboring countries, crime will not become just another normal part of life. to see and human al jazeera, some of the former ceo of cor, make or audi has been given a suspended sentence after being convicted of fraud for his role in a diesel emission scandal. under the pre deal, reuben sh, toddler admitted that he allowed volkswagen and audi. and portia car's equipped

within the legal software to remain on sale or record breaking. number of muslims from across the world have gathered at mount arafat tameka for this year's house pilgrimage. tuesday, march the day of our thoughts, the most important part of the pilgrimage. more than 2 and a half 1000000 people are expected to take part after pandemic restrictions were fully relaxed. houses your correspondents, wild, don't do as more from mount arafat in mich a decade. see, minutes are left with her, so there is no the, there are the plans in place by that's how do so today is to hand the number of these massive gravity. these plans have been a has many times more than what the t 7 government apologises are taking the responsibilities of any enforcing these plans in order to ensure that photograms,

which was on the form without any problems. they're also doing their best in order to find out any obstacles before the pentagram is. as you see, massive numbers in your name, the number of exceeds 2300000 man and woman with creative games from every corner of the past. and they come from different backgrounds from the different nationalities background, so different it may cities, different mother tongues and also see different ages. however, they are old and painted as one. they are all dressed in from a uniform and today they are making presence at the mountain to out of date is the most important part of the entire interview has yet that will do that to us. it

is a huge is you have a, a square that in the middle that exists the matter c amount or the amount of messy. it does say to be the mountain. yeah. well, where the father and mother of humanity, mates at this particular spot, these massive and a number of people, they come at this holy sides. and as i said, they make, but as is as this of the amount of fat upsides. and this is the major pause of the bedrooms available to spend the whole day until the sun said that the, this is elsa 0. here, the headlines, russian president vladimir putin has said for the 1st time. the wagner mercenary group is fully funded by the state. he said his government spent $1000000000.00 last.