and an inquest concludes that nicola bulley — drowned after accidentally falling into cold water, ruling out suicide. racism, sexism and elitism, a devastating new report into england and wales cricket. hello, i'm ben thompson, welcome to the daily global, where we'll bring you the top stories from around the world. we begin with further details of last weekend's aborted mutiny in russia by wagner group mercenaries. president putin has tried to rally russia's military and security services by thanking them for preventing civil war breaking out. in a speech today he insisted his rule was not weakened during saturday's rebellion by the wagner mercenaries and suggested russia's regular military showed restraint by not being drawn into any fighting. meanwhile the leader of neighbouring belarus has said the head of the wagner group is now in his country.

our russia editor steve rosenberg reports vladimir vladimirovich putin. at the kremlin, it was pomp with a purpose... ..to remind russians who is still in charge around here. waiting for vladimir putin, 2,500 soldiers and guards and the defence minister the wagner mutineers wanted sacked. having survived the rebellion, it was time to say thank you. translation: you defended - the constitutional order, the lives, security and the freedom of our citizens. you have saved our motherland from upheaval. in fact, you have stopped a civil war. in fact, the reality was rather different. the wagner soldiers, who had been cheered on the streets of rostov, had only stopped their rebellion

after the kremlin did a deal with them, promising not to press charges against them and their leader, yevgeny prigozhin. still, kremlin spin is presenting this as a triumph for the president. the mutiny by mercenaries was a major challenge to vladimir putin's authority. but, the uprising is over, and now the kremlin is trying to change the optics, to reframe what happened as a victory for the president and for russia. but where is yevgeny prigozhin? under his deal with the kremlin, he agreed to leave russia for belarus. today, the leader of belarus, alexander lukashenko, said, "yep, he's here." but in exile, could mr prigozhin still be a threat to the kremlin? not if vladimir putin can help it. he's now suggesting that russian investigators might probe the wagner group's finances.

a less than subtle hint to the wagner chief not to make trouble. the last few days have put him under huge pressure. now president putin's determined to show he is in control. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. are eastern europe correspondent gave us her assessment of vladimir putin's appearances today. he didn't say that he met with yevgeny prigozhin since he arrived. he talked about how he had mediated at that height of the crisis and he confirmed that prigozhin, the wagner box has now landed in belarus. he saw information that his plane had touched down this morning and it was quite a long time later that alexander lukashenko did confirm that he was there. as you say, he's been underlining his role in all of this as a kind of save that a figure

who stepped in when the troops were marching on moscow. he talked about seven phone because he said that he had to, six of them coming from prigozhin himself begging mr lukashenko apparently to intercede for him and to help him resolve the crisis. it was all very dramatic and ultimately at one point, mr lukashenko said he actually had to persuade vladimir putin not to come as he put it, "wait prigozhin out." mr lukashenko is a showman, and also part of the big narrative that is now being spun from moscow, which is all about restoring vladimir putin's reputation. it's all about presenting him once again as a strong man who stood up to this mutiny, this assault by the wagner troops and who ultimately triumphed. so when lukashenko says that vladimir putin wanted to wait and outcome of that could just well be part of the story that says student is is as strong as everyone has

always thought and his reputation should not take the hit from this. sarah, perhaps the purpose of that announcement, that speech by president putin in moscow thinking troops for preventing a civil war, but as we touched on, there was very little evidence that they did much to do that. . ., �* , to do that. yeah, that's right. prigozhin _ to do that. yeah, that's right. prigozhin and _ to do that. yeah, that's right. prigozhin and his _ to do that. yeah, that's right. prigozhin and his statement l to do that. yeah, that's right. i prigozhin and his statement that to do that. yeah, that's right. - prigozhin and his statement that we heard yesterday was talking about an open road all the way to moscow. the russian version now copy... coming up russian version now copy... coming up from this rewriting of history, is that some 200 km outside moscow, they where mounting a defence and mr lukashenko today that he told the wagner group that there was no way that they would get through. we've heard multiple figures in russia today claiming that moscow was defended, the kremlin is a fortress, nothing was going to happen. it is hazy to listen to that, perhaps, and certainly the audience in russia thatis certainly the audience in russia that is intended for primarily will be listening to that. and perhaps the leading that actually that is

how things went. they are now hearing the full story, all the details we didn't care for so long. i think we have to remember what we actually saw with our own eyes on saturday, and that was absolutely utterly extraordinary, just the very fact of what happened in rostov, the wagner voices taking over the defence ministry headquarters there. the, and centre for the war in ukraine. all sorts of utterly unimaginable things happened, and they were very, very damaging and exposed vulnerabilities in vladimir putin's so far until then strong rule. rememberthat putin's so far until then strong rule. remember that when we are listening to the sort of stories that we are being told now. that was sarah rainsford speaking to me little earlier. demetri joins me now —— we're joined by dmitri alperovitch — a security analyst and co—founder of the silverado policy accelerator think tank. thank you for being with us. looking at commentary from the state department that have just come in. the us state department saying that everywhere that wagner goes, death

and destruction will follow. so the decision by the pachinko to welcome prigozhin to belarus is another example of him choosing the interests of putin over the interests of putin over the interests of putin over the interests of the belarusian people. what is your assessment of what is going on right now?— going on right now? well, certainly president putin _ going on right now? well, certainly president putin has _ going on right now? well, certainly president putin has suffered - president putin has suffered multiple body blows. this mutiny is just the latest in a range of body blows he suffered as he is decimated the russian military, taken hits to the russian military, taken hits to the russian economy due to its isolation and sanctions, and are you have this mutiny taking place. the question really is how many lives does putin have because my company more defeats kenny suffer, for example, in this counteroffensive, is that going to be even more problematic for him politically because everyone in russia has now seen his weakness, the inability to stop this mutiny, the fact that prigozhin decided on his own to stop him he was not stopped by the russian military, is very telling. we have had quite a few updates today from both president put me in

from the belarusian leader. and they are quite telling. they give a little insight as to what happened in the weekend, but we are starting to get details. president putin admitting that he has funded the wagner mercenary group for at least a year, spending billions of dollars on it. he now wants to dismantle it, he wants to bring those forces within the russian army will stop thatis within the russian army will stop that is easier said than done, isn't that? ~ , _, , that is easier said than done, isn't that? absolutely. there is still -- the are that? absolutely. there is still -- they are still _ that? absolutely. there is still -- they are still very _ that? absolutely. there is still -- they are still very well— that? absolutely. there is still -- they are still very well armed. - that? absolutely. there is still -- i they are still very well armed. they were not defeated on the battlefield. they left fully intact with all their equipment, all their troops, very, very heavily armed. they were not able to be defeated by the russian military or at least the russian military was unwilling to defeat them, so how will they be disarmed, but what forces yes, they can cut off supplies and payments to them. that i think is the hope of vladimir putin, to slowly start on the funds and munitions and food so that they would choose to either join the ministry of defence, sign up join the ministry of defence, sign up as contractors or go home or maybe exile to belarus. we

up as contractors or go home or maybe exile to belarus.- maybe exile to belarus. we are lookin: maybe exile to belarus. we are looking at _ maybe exile to belarus. we are looking at pictures _ maybe exile to belarus. we are looking at pictures now- maybe exile to belarus. we are looking at pictures now that - maybe exile to belarus. we are - looking at pictures now that speech that president putin made earlier today, thinking those russian forces. at this stage, there is very little evidence that they did anything to try to quell this rebellion, and yet he is there, keen to point out that they saved the country from civil war. this is not about thanking them, this is about him positioning himself in the eyes of the russian people as the strong man in all of this, isn't it? this is absolutely _ man in all of this, isn't it? this is absolutely his _ man in all of this, isn't it? this is absolutely his spin. - man in all of this, isn't it? this is absolutely his spin. he - man in all of this, isn't it? ti 3 is absolutely his spin. he wants to present himself as having one. in reality, prigozhin blinked, that's what happened, and putin got scared. he came out on television early sunday morning saying he is going to crash this rebellion, and what happened because making it a deal with them. so now he has to rewrite history and present himself as someone who is a strong man who actually was able to put this down. can he cope with that wagner voices —— without wagner voices? you might say that he doesn't believe in who is operating it. he wants the military equipment he may be trying to force them into the russian army.

the big question is what his military operation looks like without the support and help of those wagner forces.— without the support and help of those wagner forces. there he has aood those wagner forces. there he has good news — those wagner forces. there he has good news because _ those wagner forces. there he has good news because wagner- those wagner forces. there he has good news because wagner has . those wagner forces. there he has| good news because wagner has not been relevant this month to the ukrainian counteroffensive. wagner is not a defence of strife technique for us. he doesn't need them right now to defend the line against ukrainian counteroffensive, but if he wants to go on the offence have he wants to go on the offence have he is out of troops. he's of offensive capacity. so he either needs wagner or to do another major mobilisation and train new to go on the offensive. not great options for him. it the offensive. not great options for him. , . , ., ~' the offensive. not great options for him. , ., , ., ~ ., ., him. it is hazy to think that in all of this, that _ him. it is hazy to think that in all of this, that prigozhin _ him. it is hazy to think that in all of this, that prigozhin now - him. it is hazy to think that in all of this, that prigozhin now and i of this, that prigozhin now and belarus that this is the end of the story. —— it is easy to think. the fact that prigozhin is still alive suggests that he has a very crucial role to play in this war. what does your assessment of what exactly

happens next, particularly vis—a—vis prigozhin? the happens next, particularly vis-a-vis priaozhin? ., ., ., prigozhin? the longer that prigozhin sta s alive, prigozhin? the longer that prigozhin stays alive. the _ prigozhin? the longer that prigozhin stays alive, the longer _ prigozhin? the longer that prigozhin stays alive, the longer he _ prigozhin? the longer that prigozhin stays alive, the longer he stays - prigozhin? the longer that prigozhin stays alive, the longer he stays outl stays alive, the longer he stays out ofjail. the weaker putin looks. i've run across the russian elite, this huge country, spending 11 time zones, asks itself if prigozhin can get away with desk and outright mutiny against putin in the kremlin, what can i get away with because making a grab more power in a region? cani making a grab more power in a region? can i steal even more without asking for permission? pollutant i think it's slowly losing control. he is not in danger of any immediate clues, but he is in danger of people stopping to listen to more and more irrelevant. it is of people stopping to listen to more and more irrelevant.— and more irrelevant. it is good to have your — and more irrelevant. it is good to have your thoughts. _ and more irrelevant. it is good to have your thoughts. thank - and more irrelevant. it is good to have your thoughts. thank you. | have your thoughts. thank you. interesting insight there. her disappearance prompted a huge search and a wave of totally unfounded speculation on social media. but today, an inquest into the death of nicola bulley concluded that she died accidentally when she fell into cold water and drowned. the 45 year—old went missing

while walking her dog in lancashire in north west england injanuary — and her body was found by dogwalkers three weeks later. the solictor for ms bulley�*s family said they still receive "upsetting" messages and have called on social media users to ignore continued speculation about her death. speaking outside preston crown court, he said the family hoped the verdict would allow them to get on with their lives in peace. here's our correspondent danny savage. nicola bulley, with her dog, willow. a coroner was told she had treated the spaniel like a third child and would never have willingly abandoned it on a riverbank. willow's harness and nicola's phone were found one friday morning in january at this spot. the place where nikki bulley accidentally fell into the river wyre. her body wasn't found for three weeks. a period when herfriends desperately appealed for information and social media was filled with unfounded and often cruel speculation. what really happened

was a tragic accident. but its left her family damaged by unfiltered online comment. it is upsetting that we have continued to receive negative, targeted messages and still wildly inaccurate speculation being shared on numerous platforms. we encourage people to look at the facts, the evidence which is being heard during the inquest, and the conclusion reached by the coroner. the coroner was told there was nothing in nicola bulley�*s medical records to say she was suicidal. yes, her family acknowledged, she did have a blip last christmas because of the side effects of hrt, and was drinking too much. but she wasn't talking about taking her life. her partner, paul ansell, seen here in february, tearfully told the inquest that when she went missing, she was back on her medication and wasn't drinking. everything was in a good place, he said. all of the evidence pointed to a dreadfully unfortunate event.

i hope that his majesty's coroner's clear and definitive findings will put an end to ill informed speculation and conspiracy theories which have been so damaging to nikki's family and the community of saint michaels. this inquest should finally put to bed the speculation surrounding the death of nicola bulley. a successful businesswoman with so many plans, described as an amazing mum to two young daughters. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. bbc news bringing you different stories from across the uk. it's time for head ranger matt's daily rounds, checking on the fallow and red deer, so adored by visitors to bradgate park. but despite pleas for people to keep their distance from the wild animals, matt says that's being ignored.

we've had a couple of groups of people that have got too close. they've let dogs lick it. they've been touching it. subsequently, they've put their own scent on it and the mothers rejected it. we've got signage on every gate, multiple signs. but now people just chose to get too involved with it. and that's that's the result. this mother and three young were roaming in the deer sanctuary, around 150 acres of parkland, which is closed to the public. but many of the animals do stay within visitor areas. if you sit there and it appears to be abandoned on its own, it's a young deer. it isn't. justjust leave it alone. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. a long—awaited report into cricket in england and wales has found that racism, sexism and class — based discrimination is widespread and deep rooted within the game. the report says most ethnically diverse players experience racism,

women are treated like second—class citizens — and cricket is dominated by players from private schools. the chairman of the sport's governing body in england and wales — the ecb — has apologised unreservedly from perceptions of exclusion to troubling stories of sexism and racism and fears of an elitist culture. just some examples of the chastening testimony revealed in a damning report into discrimination in cricket. our findings are unequivocal — racism, sexism, class based discrimination and elitism are widespread and deep rooted throughout the game. the stories were absolutely horrific, and it goes to show that the culture in cricket is rotten. the report, called holding up a mirror to cricket, heard from more than 4000 people, with 50% saying they'd experienced discrimination in the game. 75% of those who suffered

it did not report it to the cricket authorities. this morning, england captain ben stokes, who contributed to the report, addressed the issue. we must go further and be more inclusive and diverse because the game i love and the millions worldwide love should be enjoyed without fear of discrimination orjudgement, whether that be due to your upbringing, race or gender. meanwhile, the most powerfulfigure in the sport told me he'd used this moment to reset english cricket. to those individuals that have been discriminated against, that have been excluded. all of those individuals, the game, the ecb, the game as a whole owes them a real, genuine apology, a heartfelt apology. among many failings, the report found that women were treated as second class citizens. there was little to no focus on addressing class barriers — that many people felt excluded because of a heavy drinking culture in the game, and that the ecb had failed to support black cricket. morris chambers came to essex

from jamaica as a teenager and said he experienced racism at the club. an investigation is ongoing. how many people of my background do you see playing professional cricket now? like these days. they're not. there's not many of them, are they? is this the kind of stuff i'm going to be facing, you know, whatever, whatever, whatever club that, you know, i'll be playing for? like, nobody nobody wants that. with both england's men's and women's teams hosting ashes series, this was meant to be a summer to savor. but as lords prepares for a full house here ahead of the start of the second test against australia tomorrow, as well as excitement, there'll be grave concern about one of the most chastening reports to rock english sport in recent years. the report's ltlt recommendations include equal pay for the professional women's game, the removal of the annual match between eton and harrow schools from lord's and a new regulatory body entirely separate from the ecb. while the report said private schools dominated the talent pathway, it did praise efforts like this

at warwickshire, part of the chance to shine initiative designed to expand cricket's reach. i really love the teamwork and just the positive energy it brings, especially in school. i like when i'm fielding and i catch . it's like self esteem because everyone's just applauding for you and it's just like the support they get from teammates. it's just amazing. english cricket was already reeling from the yorkshire racism scandal exposed by the county's former spinner, azeem rafiq. now the ecb has just three months to come up with a plan to salvage trust across the whole sport. dan roan, bbc news. we will speak to ten now. ten, thanks for being with us. this report is damning, isn't it? they are widespread. any of those issues is a huge challenge to overcome. where do you even start to tackle something like this? what where do you even start to tackle something like this?— something like this? what i like about the report _

something like this? what i like about the report is _ something like this? what i like about the report is that - something like this? what i like about the report is that it - something like this? what i like about the report is that it sets l something like this? what i like l about the report is that it sets out clearly exactly where the ecb should start. it's going to target resources. in the start of things that report suggests, including equal pay for women and growing the non—whites, the black in the south asian parts of the game, across the country, which, and i think it's fair to say that the ecb are making strides here, they are making progress here, and if this report had been written five years ago, it be even more damning, but what the report really accentuates is that there is so far still to go. and hopefully the ecb will implement these recognitions quickly, and they've got clear posts where they are going to have to do things quickly and report back on, that's going to be the biggest challenge because the idea is great but the delivery is much, much harder. you touch on why _ delivery is much, much harder. you touch on why this _ delivery is much, much harder. you touch on why this report wasn't done sooner. a lot of people in this report said they simply hadn't been able to report any of these issues

because they didn't feel that they would be trusted. they said that they couldn't go to the authorities. we know that trust is very easily destroyed, but it is very hard to be billed. how does the ecb builds trust once again?— billed. how does the ecb builds trust once again? well, i think it's not to trust once again? well, i think it's got to listen _ trust once again? well, i think it's got to listen to _ trust once again? well, i think it's got to listen to the _ trust once again? well, i think it's got to listen to the communities. | got to listen to the communities. it's got to listen to those involved in the women's game, that involved in the women's game, that involved in the women's game, that involved in the chance to shine initiative, listen to people who have worked with kids from less privileged backgrounds. go and talk to interval in thai food at that great documentary series about working with kids in preston. those are the people they should be talking to, because there are people out there trying to make a difference, trying to make cricket less of an elite public school background male sport. and those are the people who can barely show them what can be done if the whale and the money, it's always resources, are there. find the whale and the money, it's always resources, are there.— resources, are there. and perhaps what is so — resources, are there. and perhaps what is so sad _ resources, are there. and perhaps what is so sad about _ resources, are there. and perhaps what is so sad about this - resources, are there. and perhaps what is so sad about this report, l

what is so sad about this report, quite aside from some of those damning allegations is that it talks about lost generations, lost generation it says of black cricketers. that wasted potential that could have been, should've been, and that is what will live on long beyond this report. generations that missed out on opportunities just based on their gender or their six or there and ethnicity. imilieu just based on their gender or their six or there and ethnicity.- six or there and ethnicity. when i was growing _ six or there and ethnicity. when i was growing no. _ six or there and ethnicity. when i was growing up, there _ six or there and ethnicity. when i was growing up, there were - six or there and ethnicity. when i | was growing up, there were black cricketers playing test cricket for england, thinking of philip defreitas, devon malcolm, but now, there aren't those cricketers. the generation has really been lost not evenin generation has really been lost not even in the last ten years but probably the last 30 years. there is a lot of reasons for that. some of it is targeted at the decline of cricket in state schools and there are reasons for that. the lack of playing pitch is, the lack of equipment, the economic barriers to

playing cricket. those are all reasons why black cricketers have almost disappeared from the game. and that is one of the really big challenges. aside from the fact that some of those kids both black and south asian, they don't feel welcome in the cricket structures that exist now. the yorkshire scandal has really opened our eyes they are because there are so many kids from the south asian background playing cricket in places like that, but they don't feel as if they can progress into the county side or the challenge side or the county team in the way that kids from elite public schools feel that they can. it is aood to schools feel that they can. it is good to have — schools feel that they can. it is good to have your— schools feel that they can. it is good to have your thoughts on this. new evidence has emerged of donald trump allegedly handling papers and saying that they were highly classified during a post—presidential interview. during an interview with an author working on a memoir of his former

chief of staff mark meadows, mr trump is heard rifling through papers and saying "this is highly confidential". earlier this month he appeared at a federal court in miami charged with 37 counts of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the government's efforts to get them back. he has denied the charges. let's take a listen to the audio recording — obtained by cnn... isn't that incredible? i was just thinking as we were talking about it, and he said he wanted to attack iran. these are the papers. this was done by the military, given to me. i think we can probably, right? declassify it. since i am at the president, i can declassify it, but now i can't. isn't that interesting? this is classified, he says. let's speak to our north america correspondent david willis where does this leave his defence? last week, after and during an interview with the fox news channel,

donald trump said that he hadn't taken any classified documents with him when he left the white house, on the old newspaper and magazine clippings. now, this audio tape would seem to contradict that assertion. this recording was made apparently injuly of 2021, about six months after donald trump had left the white house at his bedminster newjersey golfing bedminster new jersey golfing resort. bedminster newjersey golfing resort. he was talking to the author and publisher a forthcoming book about his former chief of staff, mark meadows but donald trump is clearly preoccupied by reports that he'd been doing the rounds at the time involving the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who had made it clear that he had intervened a couple of times during the final days of the trump administration to pick bands administration officials

from bumping around. the commons where debunked by donald trump, and on the tape, he appears to produce a document which he says bears out his claim that this was the military�*s intention and not his as far as bombing iran was concerned. it's very clear from this that mr trump believes that this exonerates him rather than the other way around. get to happy with us. thank you. you are watching bbc news. hello again. according to provisional data from the met office, thisjune is going to be the hottest june we've ever seen here in the uk, beating the previous record holding year, which was back in 1940. now, one thing you might notice over the next few days is that we could have some quite red sunrises and sunsets, and that's partly down to what's going on right across the other side of the atlantic, where in eastern canada we continue to see these wildfires rage out of control.

and the smoke from these is building up through the atmosphere and is heading the jet stream getting carried across the atlantic, and moving across our skies. it's really high in the atmosphere, so no concerns about air quality. but this smoke high up in the earth's atmosphere could make those sunrises and sunsets a little bit redder. something to watch out for. that is, of course, if you can see them at all, because we are going to see quite a bit of cloud over the next 2a hours behind this warm front. the warm front, well, humid air will be following that with some brisk south—westerly winds working in. and we're seeing that change to more humid conditions right now. a lot of low cloud for england and wales, northern ireland, too, some patches of drizzle, particularly for wales, western, england and southern areas of england. the drizzle probably quite extensive by the end of the night. and it'll be quite a muggy night for many of us, with temperatures 15—17 degrees quite widely, a bit fresher in northern scotland. for wednesday's forecast, then, we start off with that drizzle. western and southern england, wales too. a band of heavier rain crosses

northern ireland and moves into scotland through the day. behind that, we should see something a bit brighter, with some sunshine and some fresher air edging in. but it will feel humid across eastern england. if we do get a bit of sunshine in the east, temperatures could hit 25 degrees. i think it will stay dry, i think, for most in the east, but a different story for thursday. that weather front moves in. it's going to be a slow moving feature with rain maybe lasting for most of the day, and it could be very heavy as well. the rain probably welcomed for some, though, because in parts of essex we've only seen seven millimetres of rain all month. for most of us, though, thursday is going to be a brighter day, more in the way of sunshine, more comfortable weather, really, with temperatures, high teens to low 20s with those lower levels of humidity working in. certainly, though, for a day because the humidity picks up again through friday and the weekend stays unsettled with low pressure to the north west of the uk. so rain could be affecting scotland and northern ireland quite a bit with showers in the forecast elsewhere.