the us secretary of state says the events in russia shows "cracks" emerging in putin's authority. prigozhin himself saying britain did not pose a threat to ukraine. these show cracks in the facade. one person has died and several others injured following a roller—coaster accident at an amusement park in sweden. and greeks are at the polls for the second time injust over a month. the conservative frontrunners are looking to secure a big majority. hello, i'm lukwesa burak. welcome to bbc news. 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 hours, 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. gunfire. and with wagnerforces 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 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 it's left behind are just beginning. gordon corera, bbc news. the deal to end the rebellion followed negotiations between prigozhin and the 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 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.

let's look back at what's actually happened over the past couple of days. yevgeny prigozhin, leader of the mercenary wagner group, called on friday for an armed rebellion, accusing the army of hitting his troops with a missile strike. on saturday he then declared that 25,000 of his troops had crossed the borderfrom ukraine in the morning. he seized rostov—on—don, asking to see the minister of defence, shoigu, and the army chief of staff, gerasimov. the russian president vladimir putin denounced this action as a "criminal adventure" and warned of punishments in a tv address. over the course of the day, wagner forces made progress towards moscow, seizing military facilities in voronezh. hours later, prigozhin said that he had agreed to "stop" the movement of his troops,

turning them around from their route to moscow. belarus revealed its leader, alexander lukashenko, had been holding talks with mr prigozhin and mr putin. russian state media reported that prigozhin is leaving for belarus, and criminal charges against him and his troops would be dropped. 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 can 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 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 at a 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. this is an internal

matter for russia. what we've seen is this, though. we've seen this aggression against ukraine become a strategic failure across the board. russia is weaker economically, militarily. its standing around the world has plummeted. it's managed to get europeans off of russian energy. it's managed to unite and strengthen nato with new members and a stronger alliance. it's managed to alienate from russia and unite together ukraine in ways that it's never been before. this is just an added chapter to a very, very bad book that putin has written for russia. but what's so striking about it is it's internal. the fact that you have from within someone directly questioning putin's authority, directly questioning the premises that upon which he launched this aggression against ukraine, that in and of itself is something very, 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. live now to our north america correspondent, david willis, in washington. hello, david. what else did secretary of state blink and have to say? secretary of state blink and have to sa ? �* ., , �* ~' secretary of state blink and have to sa?

distracted by the revolt created an additional advantage for ukraine, and he said, as you heard there, that he believed it had exposed real cracks in vladimir putin's leadership. he also made the point that 16 months ago russian forces were threatening to take over the whole of ukraine, yet here they were now having to defend moscow against mercenaries of its own making. i think the point to take away from all this is that the united states is also very keen not to be seen to inflame the situation, to guard against accusations from the kremlin and its supporters that it is meddling in this crisis, hence we heard the secretary of state choosing his words very carefully on the stock shows this morning. i was lookin: the stock shows this morning. i was looking through _ the stock shows this morning. i was looking through some _ the stock shows this morning. i was looking through some of— the stock shows this morning. i was looking through some of the us media, and there have been reports

that the us had suspected that mr prigozhin was preparing to take military action against russia. you do think, with that level of i assume deep intelligence, they also would have been on alert to bolster, to support ukraine, to take advantage of the ensuing chaos? i think what we can take away from all of this is that the united states and its allies have been monitoring this extremely carefully. there was a meeting of the national security council yesterday before president biden left for presidential retreat camp david, with the national security team involving the us defence secretary, the head of the cia, the chairman of the joint chief of staff. antony blinken, for his part, also briefed g7 allies and the eu on what was going on in russia.

it may well be that they know a lot more than they are actually making claim, but they are no question about this monitoring the events in russia very carefully indeed. it is i was a pleasure _ russia very carefully indeed. it is i was a pleasure to _ russia very carefully indeed. it is i was a pleasure to speak to you, thank you very much indeed. it is time for the sport, and the pleasure is all mine to hand over to sera. hello. with just over a week to go until the start of wimbledon, carlos alcaraz has won the queen's championship to become world number one again. the spaniard overcame the challenge of australian alex de minaur to win in straight sets in the final in london. it's his first ever grass course title and fifth overall this season. the 6—4, 6—4 victory ensures alcaraz of the men's number one seeding

the 6—4, 6—4 victory ensures alcaraz has the men's number one seeding when wimbledon starts in eight days' time. it helps a lot to going to wimbledon being as the number one, is the top seed, in such a great tournament as wimbledon. for me, it is amazing. 0nce wimbledon. for me, it is amazing. once again, it wasn't to be possible with the support of the people during the whole week. we started the tournament really well, we had to adapt my movement, a little bit on grass to experience, but it has been an amazing week. andrey rublev�*s wimbledon preparations, meanwhile, have suffered a setback. the world number seven lost in three sets against alexander bublik at the halle 0pen. it's bublik�*s first 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. kvitova won the first set 6—2, but is now in a tie break for the second set. currently 6—6 in the tie break. to trent bridge, where england took 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 more wickets. 4 fell after lunch, including beth mooney who was going well, out for 85. there have been a flurry of wickets after they resumed after tea. australia 257—9. looks like potentially they are all out, so thatis potentially they are all out, so that is england needing 268 to win that is england needing 268 to win that ashes test.

keegan bradley made three birdies in his final five holes to take a lead byt one heading into the final round of the travelers championship. the 2011 pga championship winner leads fellow american chez reavie, after a six—under—par round of 64. rickie fowler is among the chasing pack, backing up his good form from the us open last week with a round of 60 on saturday. 66 from rory mcilroy has him nine shots back. and leona maguire has started her bid to become the first irish woman to win a major — she's teed off on 7 under at the pga championship in newjersey. she is still at that mark, with northern ireland's stephanie meadow two behind. 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. 0ur reporter alison freeman is at the scene in cleethorpes and gave us the latest. details are fairly limited at the moment. what we know is that the two teenagers were reported missing to homicide police at around 1pm yesterday afternoon. at around apm, we know that two lifeboats from cleethorpes and humber were sent out into the sea to search for them, but the teenagers went fine until about 7:30pm yesterday evening. they were airlifted to hospital, but in a statement released by humberside police, 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 have thanked

members of the public for all the help they gave them in the search mission yesterday. one person has died and several have been injured in a roller—coaster accident at an amusement park in the swedish capital, stockholm. eyewitnesses say the park's jetline roller—coaster, which reaches a height of 30 metres and speed of 90 kilometres per hour, partly derailed during a ride. the grona lund park has been evacuated. emergency services and police are on the scene. people across england, scotland and wales were unable to use the 999 emergency number this morning, because of a technicalfault. bt says they're working on getting the primary 999 service back up and running. meanwhile a back—up service is now in operation, although handling times may be longer than normal. 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 gettting 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 10 am, 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. you are watching bbc news, stay with us. parts of the country it is rusting, and it could be the hottest day of the year so far. we are getting cooler, fresher air in parts of the atlantic. in between, a weather front. that's going to bring this

rain. not much in the south at all, but some heavier rain moving across northern areas, some thunderstorms as well, and maybe some gusty winds as well, 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 as well. the wetter weather we have got over this northern areas does push away into the north sea. showers become fewer and lighter. many places become lighter overnight with some clear skies. last night was really uncomfortable for sleeping. temperatures in achnagart in scotland fell to no lower than 20 degrees. crosby in merseyside i9 celsius. tonight will be somewhat easier to sleep, because temperatures are going to be lower, perhaps single figure is actually in scotland and northern ireland. heading into tomorrow, there will be some sunny spells, some cloud will develop, and that will lead to some showers. scotland, northern england,

any shower clouds will be suppressed further south. any shower clouds will be suppressed furthersouth. it any shower clouds will be suppressed further south. it will feel cooler and fresher everywhere, temperatures dropping some seven or 8 degrees and large parts of the uk, so top temperature of 23, maybe 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 we will be arriving on tuesday, so we will see more cloud coming our way. 0nce will see more cloud coming our way. once again looking dry towards more south—eastern areas, there will be some outbreaks of rain and drizzle as you head for the north and more of a breeze as well. these are the temperatures we are looking at, typically around 20 to 22 degrees. could be warm of her of the uk. heading into wednesday we are in a warm sector between those two weather fronts. warm sector between those two weatherfronts. cooler warm sector between those two weather fronts. cooler air is going to be waiting to coming back from the atlantic from the north—west stopped following this band of rain that will be affecting scotland and northern ireland, pushing into england and wales once again. those temperatures dropping away in the north—west we get some sunshine and some showers, still dry and quite warm in the south—east, the mid—20s.

in putin's authority. this is bbc news, the headlines... the whereabouts of wagner mercenary boss, ngeney priogzhin, are unknown following the deal belarus reportedly struck for him to leave russia. as part of the deal prigozhin called off a rebellion against the russian military, the top us diplomat says the events show that �*cracks' are emerging