injust over a month. the conservative frontrunners are seeking a majority after falling short in may. and fans stake their claim ahead of eltonjohn's headline set at the glastonbury festival. this will be a special evening, as sir eltonjohn takes to the main stage. it will mark his debut at the festival, but it is also the final date of his uk farewell tour, making it one of the last times to see him live. fans started arriving at four o'clock this morning.

hello, i'm lukwesa burak. emergency security measures remain in place in moscow, a day after a short—lived rebellion posed the greatest challenge yet to president putin's authority.in the last hour us secretary of state antony blinken said "real cracks" in mr putin's authority had been exposed. yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner mercenary group — pictured here leaving the russian city of rostov—on—don — is reportedly going into exile in belarus after abandoning his advance on moscow. and with wagner forces firing their guns into the sky, and cheers from the watching public, his troops also departed the city — just hours after they controlled a military building — with further wagner troops moving towards moscow, travelling north on the m4 motorway, passing the city of voronezh

and were spotted as far north as lipetsk, which is around 300 miles south of moscow. then, in the early evening, prigozhin announced that he had agreed to stop the advance. tensions had been building between mr prigozhin and russia's military leadership for some time, over their approach to the war in ukraine. our security correspondent gordon corera reports. cheering and applause. the strange end of a mutiny — forces from the wagner mercenary group left rostov last night watched by crowds after a chaotic and extraordinary day. some cheered wagner's leader, yevgeny prigozhin, as he was driven away, reaching out to shake his hand. yesterday morning, the military headquarters in the city had been seized by forces loyal to prigozhin without firing a shot. once a close ally of putin, prigozhin had fallen out with russia's military leadership, claiming they had used his mercenaries as cannon fodder in ukraine, and so he began

to head towards moscow. as the wagner convoy began the long drive to the capital, there were explosions and reports of helicopters shot down, but a deal brokered by the president of neighbouring belarus, an ally of putin, halted prigozhin�*s advance late in the day, before significant bloodshed. but the question is, what now? prigozhin�*s exact whereabouts are unknown, but he is due to go into exile in belarus. his forces, said to be 25,000 strong, are supposed to be absorbed into the regular russian military, but it is not yet clear how or with what effect on the war in ukraine. in moscow, the events could weaken vladimir putin's grip on power. yesterday, he told the russian people those behind the mutiny would pay, before then doing a deal, raising difficult questions, as the widow of one of putin's critics told the bbc. prigozhin is not a hero, he is a criminal, he committed a lot of bad things in ukraine,

and you cannot trust this person. this was all a game, a mess in russia, but with this was all again a mess in russia, but with a very special message. putin is not a person who controlled anything in russia. putin has long played off different factions against each other — his top general and defence minister, seen here, were both a target of prigozhin�*s anger. but this is now getting harderfor him. for the russian people, the events will have come as a shock, undermining the kremlin�*s attempts to control the flow of information. the reception given to the departing wagner forces last night in rostov shows some still regard them as heroes. their mutiny may be over, but the shock waves its left behind are just beginning. gordon corera, bbc news. the deal to end the rebellion followed negotiations

between prigozhin and belarus' leader alexander lukashenko. hanna liubakova is a belarusian journalist and nonresident fellow at the atlantic council. she told me that the kremlin had little choice but to involve lu kashenko. i think that lukashenka might have been only used by the kremlin i think that lukashenko might have been only used by the kremlin in this sort of supportive role, because what were the alternatives for putin, to kill prigozhin? i think it would have beenjust too harsh. so he suddenly remembered that he has a very close ally, lukashenko, and he has belarus as his back yard, as russia's back yard. this is how they treat the country. and i think that was the sort of saving face mode for both prigozhin and putin in this situation to send prigozhin to belarus. we don't know the exact details. we don't know the timeline of these negotiations, let's put it this way.

so we don't know what's going to, what effects and what the outcome is going to be out of these conversations, negotiations. however, i think it shows that lukashenko is a puppet of putin. i don't think it was a separate, independent game from his side. and secondly, again, that he uses belarus. putin uses belarus as a back yard. as events developed inside russia the bbc�*s verify team worked to sift through videos on social media to track the convoy of wagner vehicles. they are now assessing the aftermath. 0ur europe correspondent, nick beake, has been working with the team and is in the bbc verify hub with more. thank you. yes, what exactly happened yesterday and just how much fighting was there between the wagner mercenaries who said they were going all the way to moscow and the regular russian army? well, here at bbc verify, we've spent the past 2a hours looking at some of the video that's emerged, and have been trying to make sense of all of it. let me show you one video in particular. now, this shows what is believed to be a russian helicopter by a main road here.

and you can see that it opens fire on what is believed to be a wagner target. we don't know that for sure, but you can see just here the explosion and the aftermath of it. the video itself, we have managed to verify and you can see the helicopterjust wheeling away there. there is another video too which we've managed to verify and that we believe is from the same spot, the m4 motorway. you can see someone filming out the window. there's the sign, the road sign. and just here, the burnt out wreckage of the strike. hard to work out what exactly that was. but certainly these two things taken together, give us more information about what happened. let me just show you what we did using google street view. you can see, quite distinctive, isn't it, that residential block there with the yellows and the blues? that matches the first video we saw there, so that helped us. also, there were the pylons from this particular location, which we matched as well. where was all of this happening? well, i can show you.

it was in voronezh, which is basically halfway between rostov, where the wagner mercenaries set off and moscow, where they said they wanted to get to. if we just go in a bit more detail, there were other things happening in that city. this is the aftermath of a big fire, a big explosion at a fuel depot. and in terms of verifying this material, it was made a lot easier, look at that, you've got the name of the company here, so that obviously gave us something to go on straightaway. so you've got the two different incidents happening in this city, home to about a million people. and we can see that the oil depot was further north in the city. this is from another angle, the aftermath of the blast. you could see this was footage that was taken from a dash cam, so someone, again, who was driving. going back to our map, just further north of voronezh, there was reports of military vehicles being on the motorway. and look at this video here. this, again, we have verified and it shows you can see just at this moment a tank and people on board. and this is something

we were able to geo—locate, and it gives you an idea of the movement. but there are still questions about the size of the convoy and its speed as well. so if we look at where we are now, i think these are elements that we've managed to verify. we can say with certainty they are accurate, but they are fragments within a much wider, confused picture. alicia kearns is a conservative mp and chair of the the british foreign affairs committee — she said that events over the past 2a hours are evidence of wider fractures in putin's administration. my view is that this isn't over as yet. whilst the public threat between prigozhin and putin has essentially hesitated, i think we're now to subthreshold. the conflict will not end between them. i think there's a lot we have learnt, but as i say, there's more to go. so we've learned that russian domestic internal security provisions are not as effective as we thought they might be, and i guess as putin thought they were.

we have learned that the fractures within that security infrastructure within russia is incredibly splintered. but we've also learned that putin has now been dealt what is a mortal blow, which is the fact that he has had a social contract with the people of russia for the whole of his time as president, prime minister, where he promised that in the return for him being the strong man and for providing security and stability to russia, people had to give up their individual freedoms and rights and essentially be willing to live in autocracy. that has now been shattered because it's been proven that putin cannot provide that level of support to the russian people. he cannot provide that stability. as we've been hearing, america's most senior diplomat antony blinken has been speaking following yesterday events in russia — saying the revolt

exposed "real cracks" in president putin's authority. we have seen this aggression in ukraine become a strategic failure across the board. russia is weaker militarily, it standing around the world has plummeted, it has managed to get europeans off of russian energy, it has managed to unite and strengthen nato with a stronger alliance and new members, it has managed to unite... this isjust an added chapter to a very, very bad book that putin has written for russia. what is so striking about it is that it is internal. the fact that you have from within someone directly questioning putin's authority, directly questioning the premises upon which he launched this aggression against ukraine, that in and of its is something very powerful. it adds cracks. where those go when they get there, too soon to say, but it clearly raises new questions that putin has to deal with.

now it's time for a look at today's sport with sarah. let's start at trent bridge, where england have taken a flurry of wickets after lunch on day four of the women's ashes test against australia. australia resumed on 82 without loss, and a lead of 92, but lost three wickets for 75 runs in the morning session. kate cross bowled phoebe litchfield for 46 before debutant lauren filer took two. four have fallen after lunch, including beth mooney, who was going well. 224-7 224—7 for australia at the moment. leona maguire will try and become the first women from ireland to win one of golf�*s majors shortly. she takes a one—shot into the final round of the women's pga championship in newjersey after a two—under par 69 in the third round. south korea'sjenny shin is maguire�*s closest challenger, while stephanie meadow of northern ireland is two off the lead.

maguire tees off in about an hour—and—a—half's time. i think the game plan is the same as it has been over the last few days. try and execute really good golf shots, and if it is golf shots, and if it is enough tomorrow it is enough. i try not get too ahead of myself or thinking things like that, so it is just another day on the golf course. we will enjoy the walk, and whatever will whatever will be will be. keegan bradley shot three birdies in his final five holes to take a one—shot lead after the third round of the travelers championship. the 2011 pga championship winner leads fellow american chez reavie by a shot after a six—under—par 64. rickie fowler is among the chasing pack following a superb round that saw him just missjoining the exclusive sub—60 club. northern ireland's rory mcilroy is nine shots back. carlos alcaraz has the chance to win his first grass court title at queen's this afternoon and go back to number one in the world rankings.

he's under way against australia's alex de minaur in london. it's a close encounter, a late break in the first set saw alcaraz win that 6—4. at the moment it is 5—4 to alcatraz on his serve in the second, so on the verge of potentially winning that. he will be confirmed, if he does so, at the top seed at wimbledon, which gets under way in eight days�* time. andrey rublev�*s wimbledon preperations have suffered a setback. the world number seven lost in three sets against alexander bublik at the halle 0pen. it's bublik�*s first ever tour level grass court title. and the two—time wimbledon champion petra kvitova is facing unseeded donna vekic in the final of the german open. after friday's play was a wash—out, they had to play both the quarter—finals and semi—finals on saturday to progress.

kvitova has won the first set 6—2. and with just 25 days to go until that start of the women's world cup, football fans marched across sydney's iconic harbour bridge. thousands of people joined the unity celebration, walking, jogging or dancing across the landmark. the tournament takes place across australia and new zealand, with new zealand facing norway in the opening fixture at eden park in auckland. and that's all the sport for now. here in the uk, a 15—year—old girl has died after being pulled from the sea at a beach in cleethorpes in north east lincolnshire. she had been airlifted to hospital along with a 15—year—old boy. he has now been discharged. the teens had been reported missing at about lunchtime on saturday, prompting a search that involved a helicopter and lifeboat. live now to our reporter alison freeman who is at the scene in cleethorpes.

allison, tell us what you know. details are fairly limited at the moment. what we know is that the two teenagers were reported missing to homicide police at around one o'clock yesterday afternoon. at around lipm, we know that two lifeboats from the cleethorpes and humber were set out into the sea to search for them, that the teenagers went fine until about 7:30pm yesterday evening. they were airlifted to hospital, but in a statement released by humberside police in the past half hour, they confirmed that the girl sadly did not recover and she died. the boy, however, has since been discharged from hospital. events that happened yesterday have been described as extremely difficult for all those involved, and local search teams of thanked members of the public for all the help they gave them in the search mission yesterday.- all the help they gave them in the search mission yesterday. thank you ve much

search mission yesterday. thank you very much indeed. _ let's get more now on the us secretary of state's comments on the situation in russia. antony blinken says it is too soon to tell what's going to happen next, describing it as a "moving picture and we haven't see the last act yet". meanwhile, china's foreign ministry has said it supports russia in "protecting national stability. " let's get more from vitaliy shevchenko — he's bbc russia's monitoring editor. lets start off with what antony blinken had to say. what else is he saying, and the context to it? he said saying, and the context to it? he: said that russia's ability to pursue its war against ukraine has been compromised, as the russian military has been distracted by the infighting and the conflict with yevgeny prigozhin�*s wagner mercenary

group. the secretary of state said that we haven't seen the last act of this play, and that all this dramatic story is highlighting the cracks that are appearing in vladimir putin's grip on power stop the statement that has just been issued by the chinese foreign ministry which says that it supports russian efforts in maintaining bastion of stability, that is going to be a very welcome sign of support for vladimir to be a very welcome sign of support foeradimir putin, to be a very welcome sign of support for vladimir putin, who has undoubtedly been weakened by the conflict with wagner. 0ne undoubtedly been weakened by the conflict with wagner. one thing that he will not be able to offer both

elites and the public at large in russia is an assertion of stability and a promise to make russia secure, which is something that he pledged last year when launching this so—called special military operation against ukraine. i so-called special military operation against ukraine.— so-called special military operation against ukraine. i suppose president putin will be — against ukraine. i suppose president putin will be hoping _ against ukraine. i suppose president putin will be hoping that _ against ukraine. i suppose president putin will be hoping that the - against ukraine. i suppose president putin will be hoping that the line - putin will be hoping that the line has been drawn under prigozhin and the wagner mercenaries, but it is not going to happen, because they are a business. how much is this cost president putin, and have resorted following the money? whatever happens next, and i have to say that there are many questions and few answers in this whole story, so whatever happens next, both vladimir putin and yevgeny prigozhin, they have been wounded and weakened. a lot of russia—

watchers are trying to find out, the people around vladimir putin, whether they have possibly sensed blood, whether they will start to see vladimir putin as a liability rather than an asset. as for yevgeny prigozhin, there has been a lot of talk about him being sent into exile prigozhin, there has been a lot of talk about him being sent into exile following a deal brokered by the leader of belarus, alexander lukashenko, but all that is based on just one statement made by the kremlin spokesman dmitry peskov yesterday, who said that yevgeny prigozhin is moving to belarus and criminal charges against them are being dropped. yevgeny prigozhin himself has been very conspicuously and unusually silent on social media. the past two days, he

published statement after statement until yesterday evening, and since that time, his channels of communication via social media, they have been silent. it remains a key question that needs to be answered. what happens to yevgeny prigozhin next, where is he now, and what will he do next?— and now to the final day of glastonbury. sophie ellis bextor has performed on the main pyramid stage following a sucession of big name stars like lizzo, lana del rey and american rock legends guns n roses. but all eyes will be on what is billed as eltonjohn�*s final uk live performance this evening. i am right in front of the pyramid stage where eltonjohn will take the stage at 9:00 tonight. these are the front row fans getting ready for elton john. if you look over here, look, those are the confetti cannons elton

has brought in this morning. up there, there's sound checking going on. that's actually for the chicks, the us country band who are on. earlier on, i saw huge amounts of fireworks being brought in and placed behind the speakers, so expect some kind of really big finale to eltonjohn. what do we know about the show? he is going to open up with a song he has not played for ten years. we've done the research, two that fall into that category. we've got are you ready for love and pinball wizard that could be in there. this is thomas, a fan who is in the front row. what time did you get here to reserve your spot? oh, i got here at 10am, and now i have to stay till the end. now viewers will be thinking — there's something he's going to have to not do. how are you going to manage that? oh, i'm going to stay hydrated just enough to not pass out, but not too much where i have to keep going to a toilet because i won't make it through this crowd. what is it about eltonjohn that makes you want to go through something like that? what's so special about him?

i love the man. i think he's incredible. my family basically grew up on elton, so my parents love him, i love him, and ijust can't wait for it. four guest stars, we're hearing, what theories have been shared in the front row? 0oh, so far we've been talking about britney spears, possibly gaga. but wait and see. those are big names. big names. but elton can pull them. one thing he likes doing as well is introducing new acts to the world. so i wonder if a couple of those could be someone that will be a bit leaving the audience a bit like, "oh, who are they?" well, if they are, i trust elton�*s opinion because he knows talent. and finally, what is the song you are most looking forward to hearing? or the one you are desperate to be on the set list? definitely tiny dancer, love that song. it's going to be a huge singalong, that one. before we go, look at these costumes! ladies, what are your names? claire. katie. and you have got the second row, not the front row, but you're pretty happy with your slot? very happy. yes, very happy. really excited. we're talking about the theories there. who are the four guest stars that

eltonjohn�*s going to bring on? gaga, hopefully. godmother to his children, so i can see why. britney would be amazing. there was a ridiculous story yesterday that she had been seen at bristol airport and it swept the whole of glastonbury. no photos, no evidence, just a made—up rumour. just hearsay, good old chinese whispers. and what is it about eltonjohn that has made you want to get down here so early? you're going to be standing in that spot for the next 8 hours. allegedly, i don't know whether my husband will cope! he's just the greatest showman with like amazing classic songs that we've grown up with forever. so it's just — we couldn't be here and it's the last show, so who wouldn't be on the front row? right, let's try and gauge the excitement. ladies and gentlemen, let bbc know how excited are you for eltonjohn? cheering. this is with 8 hours to go. i cannot imagine what it'll be like when he comes on stage here at 9:00 to play what is the final uk show of his farewell tour.

i reckon colin will be screaming the loudest when he appears. plenty more coming in putin's authority. of up when he appears. plenty more coming up here on bbc news, including the latest from greece. the country is heading to the polls for the second time within the month, and of course any other developments that come to us here regarding yesterday's events in russia. stay with us on bbc news. in some parts of the country, it is roasting, it could be the hottest day of the year so far. it is changing in other areas, we are getting cooler, fresher air coming from the atlantic into western parts of the uk. humid air towards the east, and in between, a weather front. it is going to bring this

rain not much in the south at all, but some heavier rain moving across northern areas, some thunderstorms as well, large hail, and maybe some gusty winds as well. all squeezing the heat and humidity into eastern england. 30 degrees around lincolnshire, 32 or more around essex and london. really humid as well. 0ut towards the west, things are beginning to cool down a bit, and it will be less humid. the wetter weather we have got across those northern areas pushes away into the north sea. showers become fewer and lighter. many places become dry overnight with some clear skies. last night was really uncomfortable for sleeping. temperatures in scotland fell no lower than 20 degrees, crosby and merseyside 19 celsius. the night will be somewhat easier to sleep, because temperatures will be lower, perhaps single figures in scotland and northern ireland. heading into tomorrow, there will be sunny spells, some clouds will develop, and that will lead some showers. scotland, northern ireland, and

northern parts of england, any shares will be suppressed further south. it will feel cooler and fresher everywhere, temperatures dropping seven or 8 degrees in some parts of the uk, a top temperature of 23 or 2a in the south—east. everything is coming in from the atlantic. a fresh westerly breeze around. these weather fronts will be arriving on tuesday, so will be seeing more cloud coming our way. there will be outbreaks of rain and drizzle as you head north, and more of a breeze as well. these are the temperatures we are looking at. typically around 20 22 degrees. the warm overnight south—eastern parts of the uk. we are in the warm sector between those two weather fronts. pool area is going to be waiting to coming back from the atlantic from the north—west. following this band of rain, that will be affecting scotland and northern ireland, pushing into england and wales once again. thus temperatures dropping away in the north—west, we get some sunshine and showers. still dry and quite warm in the south—east, the

mid—20s.

this is bbc news, the headlines... wagner mercenary boss ngeney priogzhin is to leave russia for belarus — after calling off a rebellion against the russian military. the us secretary of state says the rebellion in russia shows �*cracks' emerging