96 hours mark, that was when i lost hope. and i even sent a message to my family onshore, i said, "i'm preparing." one day on from a rebellion by the wagner mercenary group in russia, the whereabouts of its leader, yevgeny prigozhin, and the russian president are both unknown. america's top diplomat says the attempted mutiny by wagner fighters shows cracks emerging in vladimir putin's authority. # hold me closer, tiny dancer... and a vast crowd at glastonbury, enjoying every note of sir eltonjohn�*s last live concert in the uk. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it's newsday.

welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we start with an exclusive interview with the wife and mother of two of the british passengers lost in the titan sub disaster in the north atlantic last week. the submersible was on its way to view the wreck of the titanic when contact was lost, and the vessel imploded. christine dawood — the wife of shahzada dawood and the mother of 19—year—old suleman dawood — was on the polar prince, which was supervising the mission. she told the bbc that her initial intention was to go on the trip herself, but she gave the spot to her son because he was so excited by the prospect. it comes as the us coast guard has announced the launch of an investigation, which would be able to recommend civil or criminal charges. christine dawood has been speaking to the bbc�*s nomia iqbal in stjohn�*s, newfoundland, from where the expedition had set off.

the sentence, "we lost comm." i think that would be a sentence i will never want to hear in my life again. like, lost comm, as in, we lost communication. were you aboard the vessel, were you here? yes, i was aboard the vessel, i was on the ship. i think i lost i hope when we passed the 96—hours mark. that's when i lost hope. and that's when i sent a message to my family onshore. isaid, "i'm preparing for the worst." that's when i lost hope. but my daughter, for example, she didn't lose hope until... until the call with the coastguard, when they basically informed us that they'd found debris. tell me just some memories that you have of your boy. so, he would not go anywhere

without his rubik's cube. so, he used to teach himself through youtube how to solve the rubik's cube and he was really fast at it. i think his best was 12 seconds or something like that. what were your last moments or words that you shared with your husband and son, do you remember that? well, wejust hugged and joked, actually. because shahzada was so excited to go down. he was like a little child. was it a lifelong dream of his? yes, absolutely. he had this ability of childlike excitement. they both were so excited. and how did mum feel about it, were you excited? i was really happy for them because both of them

really, really wanted to do that for a very long time. it was supposed to be shahzada and i going down. i stepped back and gave the space to suleman because he wanted to go. this seems like a difficult question to ask about how do you begin to get closure? if that's even possible. is there such a thing? i don't know. ithink... he started so many amazing projects, he was involved in so many... he helped so many people and i think we really want to continue that legacy. is there anything you want to add, christine? that i miss them.

that i really, really miss them. yeah. let's take a look at some of the stories in the headlines in the uk. the prime minister rishi sunak has urged britons to "hold their nerve" over the rising cost of borrowing, as the government and the bank of england try to reduce inflation. interest rates rose to a 15—year high of 5% last week, and there's growing concern about the impact on millions of homeowners. the prime minister told the bbc�*s sunday with laura kuenssberg programme that the uk would get through by sticking with his plan. i'v e i've never said that it's not challenging. i've never said that this won't be a difficult time to get there. but what i want to give people the reassurance and confidence is that we've got a plan, the plan will work, and we will get through this.

a 15—year—old girl has died after being pulled from the sea at a beach in cleethorpes, in northeast lincolnshire. she'd been airlifted to hospital along with a 15—year—old boy — he has now been discharged. the teenagers had been reported missing around lunchtime on saturday, prompting a search involving a helicopter and lifeboat. the duchess of york is recuperating with her family, following an operation for breast cancer. sarah ferguson, who was married to prince andrew, was diagnosed after a routine mammogram screening. a spokesman said she's been told by doctors that the prognosis is good. now to russia — where there are questions about the damage to vladimir putin's presidency from saturday's short—lived rebellion by a group of mercenary soldiers known as the wagner group. the us secretary of state antony blinken says the attempted mutiny shows "real cracks" in mr putin's authority. the president hasn't been

seen since saturday, nor has the wagner group leader yevgeny prigozhin, who's promised to leave russia and move to belarus. our russia editor steve rosenberg has the latest. leaving as heroes. the wagnerfighters, pulling out of rostov last night. you'd think they'd just won a war. the leader of the mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin, was off, too. he'd just done a deal with the kremlin to end their mutiny. the rebellion started here, then spread north. it was the biggest challenge to vladimir putin's authority since he came to power. vladimir vladimirovich putin. russia's commander—in—chief likes to project an image of strength — and mutiny on his watch is embarrassing. but is it damaging? for vladimir putin, will there be political fallout ahead of next year's election?

he definitely looks weaker. all elite groups will begin to think about the presidency, 2024. should they rely, as they did even one week before this military coup, on vladimir putin? _ or should they think about someone new? but there's no sign yet that someone new in the kremlin is mr putin's plan. vladimir putin is determined to show that he's in charge, in control, in the kremlin. and he has the russian state media to help him paint that picture. trouble is, the dramatic events of the last couple of days have raised questions about how in control the russian authorities are of the situation here. instability — russians can feel it. the rebel wagnerfighters may

not have made it to moscow, but people here were watching nervously and waiting. "i'm a mother with three children," anna tells me. "of course i'm terrified about what has happened." "we were scared these events would spread to moscow," nastya says. "there's nothing ordinary citizens could do to "influence the situation. "it's decided above our heads." many russians tell me that. they don't believe they have the power to change what is happening in their country. to make their voices heard. to turn things around. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. let's hear some of what america's top diplomat antony blinken had to say about the weekend's developments in russia, in a us media interview. this is clearly, we see cracks emerge in. where they go, if anywhere, when they get there,

very hard to say, i don't want to speculate on it, but i don't think we see the final act. earlier, i spoke to katarzyna zysk, professor of international relations at the norwegian institute for defence studies. she told me about what could happen in the coming days. there is a lot of speculation about what happens next. i think in any case that this rebellion will continue impact in russia in the short and long—term. —— continue impacting russia. it's true that this rebellion has exposed many weaknesses, both of putin and the system that he's built. so, you know, hejust showed everybody he was unable to control a mercenary group, that he himself contributed to create and strengthen. the event was humiliating on many levels. so for instance, his request from help from the central asian countries, his so—called allies like pakistan were rejected, and he had

to get help from lukashenko, who is considered to be his vessel. that's humiliating. —— so—called allies like kazakhstan. what's important to understand is one of the core features of the putin regime was his grip on the elite, and his acting as a mediator between competing factions, letting the dog fight around but maintaining stability and strength. in exchange for those people accepting his authoritarian rule. and this rebellion has undermined the very foundation of his regime. it's still too early to expect that this regime would crumble, but we definitely can see that this is very weakened, and we will have to observe what the russian society as such will make of this crisis, and what the elites, how they will relate to that. i think much will also depend on what happens next on the front in ukraine. i just want to ask about this deal with belarus.

what did you make of it? i think it's very strange. i think there are many questions here, especially how yevgeny prigozhin, who was 200 metres from moscow, would accept something like that. he left behind him what was a source of power, his troops. he accepted to go to a country that is basically controlled by putin, and the fact that he knows very well how putin is treating traitors. he's been very uncompromising about the need to mercilessly punish any traitor, whether in russia or abroad, and we've seen that happen now with using military—grade nerve agent novichok in places. and bullets and other means. so it's interesting why yevgeny prigozhin would accept. it's still an enigma because now he is at the mercy

of putin. our international editor jeremy bowen is in kyiv and gave me his analysis on the impact of the mutiny on the war in ukraine. president zelensky has been talking to president biden, and you don't need american intelligence resources to see the damage that's been done by what's happened to president putin's authority, to the authority of his regime. now the question is, what impact might that have on the war here in ukraine? and the thing about you authoritarian regimes as they don't immediately deteriorate and collapse when they've got cracks in, as the us secretary of state described the current situation in the kremlin. they might go on for quite some time. and also, the crosses in russia doesn't necessarily translate to immediate cracks in the battlefield. the boost in morale ukrainian soldiers will have gotten from what's

happening not magic away those very robust russian defences that they've spent months building up. but i think for nato and its western allies, there is one clear lesson out of this, which is that when finally, whenever it may be, we don't know of course, when putin goes, the russian that follows him won't be experiencing necessarily a smooth succession. it could be brittle and angry, and unstable, and dangerous to its neighbours perhaps for some years to come after president putin eventually goes. so need to —— nato needs to be thinking very strongly about what that entails and what that requires, and if that's the situation, what they might need to do. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

bbc news, bring you different stories from across the uk. nara is showing me a laminated photo of her then two—year—old son from a set she had when she was on an isolation ward in bristol during her treatment 30 years ago. i was consciously aware that, if i died, he wouldn't remember me and i didn't want that. despite chemotherapy, nara's cancer came back aggressively and she says she was the first patient with hodgkin's lymphoma to be offered a stem cell transplant in bristol. i knew that it was very serious at that point. i'd been told that my cancer was very aggressive and aggressive treatment was needed. it has led to other health problems for nara throughout her life, but she says she's grateful to have survived longer than expected as a result of the doctors' pioneering work in the early �*90s. and i increase the numbers every year, every year that i live, and without the unstinting support of the nhs, i certainly wouldn't be here today. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news

website. you're live with bbc news. the greek authorities are facing new allegations about failing to help people on board a migrant boat that sank on ilrjune. it's thought around 500 people lost their lives. the un can only confirm that there are 104 survivors. the bbc has now heard evidence from several of them, who accuse the greek coast guard of sailing away from the boat when it was clearly in serious difficulty. he heavily overcrowded vessel, which had set off from libya, went down around 80km south—west of the coastal town of pylos. our correspondent khalid karamat from the bbc�*s urdu service has the story. this boat left libya with around 700 people on board. more than half were pakistanis. this is haseeb rahman before he made this perilous trip. just one of the 12 pakistani men who survived. in athens, i spoke to him via video call

from a greek detention centre. he told me he was thrown into the water and clambered back onto the sinking vessel. translation: i was in the water for an hour. l i swam to the ship as it was far away. they had to put a speedboat and were rescuing, but had gone far away. i tracked down another survivor, mohamed hamza. his testimony contradicts the greek authorities' account that the migrants refused assistance. he said the boat's engine had failed. it hadn't moved for hours before it sank, and their cries for help were ignored. translation: the ship that came at night, we were telling them - we don't want food or water. "just rescue us." we were screaming, "help, help." this neighbourhood has a large, thriving migrant community, including a large pakistani diaspora. the street could easily be confused for one in pakistan. and it is here that pakistanis from all over europe are coming, looking for information, any clue,

anything that can help them find their loved ones. zubair butt is looking for a teenager sayeed ali nadeem. he told me of huge sums his family had paid to send nadeem to europe. translation: the agent has taken 2.5 million rupees - and isn't answering calls now. the mother is really worried, and so is the father. the boy is only 15 years. for families searching for their missing relatives, there is little hope left. meanwhile, the greek authorities have rejected claims they didn't act quickly enough to the unfolding tragedy, insisting those on board told coastguards they wanted to be left alone so they could travel to italy. but the survivors' testimonies continue to cast doubt on that version of events. khalid karamat, bbc news, athens.

greek conservative leader kyriakos mitsotakis thanked voters for giving his party what he called a "strong mandate" to move faster on the path of change. mitsotakis's win comes after his new democracy party secured a decisive victory in the second general election within five weeks. with almost all the ballots counted, it has more than 40% of the vote — well ahead of the left—wing party. here is some of what mr mitsotakis had to say. translation: today we will en'o a translation: today we will enjoy a victory. _ translation: today we will enjoy a victory, but - translation: today we will enjoy a victory, but from - enjoy a victory, but from tomorrow, we will roll up our sleeves and begin together to build a stronger greece, a nation with more prosperity and justice for everyone. thank you again for this honour. tomorrow will be an even better day for all. the annual hajj pilgrimage has begun in saudi arabia, and this year

it's ecpected to break records with the larget hajj in history, yasmin khatun dewan has more. it's almost a0 degrees in mecca, but the heat won't deter these crowds. the man in their seamless robes, and women in their religious garments. all in a sacred state. the hodge begins with the circling of the car van. begins with the circling of the carvan. —— caravan. a begins with the circling of the car van. —— caravan. a pillar of the islamic faith taking part in the pilgrimage at least onceis part in the pilgrimage at least once is understanding democrat understood to be an obligation for those who can afford to take a trip, and healthy enough to carry out its rights. translation: i to carry out its rights. tuna/mom- to carry out its rights. translation: �* ,. , translation: i can't describe my feeling. — translation: i can't describe my feeling. may _ translation: i can't describe my feeling, may god - translation: i can't describe my feeling, may god grant - translation: i can't describe my feeling, may god grant me the blessing of completing the hajj. i hope everyone is able to perform it. translation: ., ~ translation: thank god, i was wishin: to

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# i played the silver ball... spectacular from the very start. and opening with a song he hadn't performed live in ten years. # that deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball... it's what the weekend has been building towards. eltonjohn on the pyramid stage, for the final uk date of his farewell tour. the crowds are stretching way into the distance, and people further in have been here since this morning. it was all about claiming a spot near the front, and paying tribute to a performer with a love of flamboyant outfits. a rocket man who, before tonight, had never performed at glastonbury. the crowds grew through the day. wowed first... ..by sophie ellis—bextor. then later, blondie and lil nas x. # i'm gonna take my horse down the old town road... and guessing games went

on to fill the long hours. what song would eltonjohn kick off with, and what special guests would he bring on? # are you ready for love? yes, iam. one of them was jacob lusk from gabriels, a band championed by elton. backstage earlier, it was clear the feeling is mutual. he wears the most incredible outfits. his voice is bigger than life. the way that he tickles those keys with his fingers is like nothing i've ever seen live ever. but i think there's something about his music that speaks to the soul. elton's other guests included the killers' brandon flowers. but tonight was less about those surprises, and more about one man and his incredible back catalogue. how are you enjoying the music? i think he's wonderful. god love him, he is one of the old ones, and us old ones rock. i mean, i've always loved all of his songs. i love that you canjust blast them out, sing along. just iconic, isn't he? just so special to be here.

might be the last time we ever see him performing live. - you're going to make me cry. i can't... i can't even believe i'm here watching him. at glastonbury. mwah. elton delivered hit after hit, and a grand finale that took us from a farm in somerset right up into space. # i'm a rocket man... that's all we have free you now, stay with us on bbc news. hello. we ended the weekend with some very big contrasts in our weather. across many northern parts of the uk, the heavens opened — downpours in places with thunder and lightning, gusty winds, too. this is what it looked like earlier on the satellite image as that cold front swept across the country and you can see there will be lightning. this is now mostly out to sea

and the skies have cleared across many western areas. all the while, further south in lincolnshire, temperatures reached 32.2 celsius. and many will be pleased to hear that the week ahead is looking a lot fresher, but it will be a changeable one with some rain at times for our parks and gardens. let's have a look at the forecast, then, as we head through monday. that weather front is now well out to sea, and behind it, we've got these fresher atlantic conditions, so in the morning, belfast, 12 celsius, 13 in birmingham and around 15 expected in norwich and london. and it's going to be a beautiful sunny morning and a fine afternoon as well with scattered fair—weather clouds developing and, yes, a few showers will develop across northern ireland, parts of scotland and northern england, too. how about the temperatures? about average for the time of the year — 18 in glasgow, 23 expected in london. now, tuesday's weather map shows another low pressure heading our way, so cloud and rain, yes, but this one is also going to push in rather humid

and warm air from the southern climbs — subtropical air, in fact, so extensive layered cloud across the uk. a lot of rain across northern and northwestern areas. towards the southwest, quite murky around some coasts, and it will feel quite close, even though the temperatures won't be that high — 22 in london, 20 in belfast. if the sun pops out, it will turn a little warmer. and it will be a slow process for this low pressure to swing by because on wednesday, this cold front is still moving across the uk, and that will give one or two downpours, especially across the northern half of the uk. ahead of that cold front, it's still very warm on wednesday in london, and norwich about 25 celsius. that takes us towards the end of the week, and the jet stream will push in yet another low pressure, but that one will bring rain mostly to northwestern parts of the uk — not much rainfall expected in the south. so, let's have a look at the week ahead — at a glance, quite a changeable week. i think temperatures will be pleasant. bye— bye.

investors are keeping their eye on markets as they watch for any possible ripple effects following a short—lived rebellion in russia over the weekend. and we take a close look at the chinese economy as anticipation of its post—covid rebound looks to fizzle out.