a new read on the health of the economy is just in. we're looking at a cooling off, but the labor market still running hot. it may have been one of the most chaotic meetings the oval office has ever seen and now it is the focus of the special counsel's criminal probe. a cnn exclusive. a controversial weapon banned by 123 countries will soon be in the hands of the ukrainians. why the u.s. is including cluster munitions in their latest passage to ukraine. i'm sara sidner alongside kate bolduan and john berman, this is "cnn news central." ♪ the first summer jobs report is in and here is what we know, 209,000 jobs added in june. that is below what economists expected and the lowest monthly

gain since december 2020. hiring is slowing, but it is still the 30th consecutive month of gains. cnn's rahel solomon here with a read into the numbers. take us into this report. what are you seeing here? >> this was the first time as you pointed out that this was actually cooler than what economists were expecting, the expectation is closer to 225, 229 and the number came in at 209. the prior two months were also revised slightly lower. taking a look at where we added jobs, u.s. economy added jobs in june, government added 60,000, health care added 41,000, health care is especially interesting because this is an industry that continues to struggle to rehire after the pandemic. part of that is happening here and construction, which is really interesting because of what's been happening with north rates. >> right. >> you would think that maybe construction would take a hit, but not in this report at least. we've been seeing a trend of that 23,000. june jobs report, that coming in for unemployment at 3.6%, that ticked down slightly from 3.7.

kate, we've been in in range of under 4% for quite some time now, more than a year and a half. so this is the type of report that shows a normalizing. i wouldn't necessarily say a real cooling, but a normalizing because it is still strong, as you pointed out, the 30th month of job grains. one thing that the fed probably will be discouraged to see in this report is wages. wages ticked up slightly more than folks were expecting on a monthly basis, that is something that the fed is hoping continues to cool of course because of its inflationary impacts, the concern that wages for workers could then feed into higher prices and on and on and on. so that's something certainly they will be watching really closely. >> and this is one of the reports that the fed watches very closely. i mean, it's kind of -- now the question does continue to linger out there amongst the smart minds of are we looking at a recession is still more likely than not or are we looking at is the soft landing in the view now? >> i spoke to the chief

economist of ziprecruiter on the 5:00 a.m. program and i asked her and she said, look, it is looking more likely that team soft camp might -- soft landing might get their wish, but we're still early days here. the fed indicated even as early as this week that more rate hikes are coming. more to come here, but still a strong jobs report normalizing. >> here we go. let's see what comes. jonathan? >> you were talking about questions of smart minds, i was upset that you were excluding me. >> you were never excluded. i was intentionally not looking your direction. >> thank you very much for that. this morning we have a cnn exclusive on special counsel jack smith's criminal probe into donald trump and the 2020 election. sources tell cnn that his team seems to be zeroing in on that chaotic december 18th oval office meeting that took place just four days after the electoral college declared joe biden the winner of the 2020 election. during that meeting which was depicted in a house committee exhibit outside advisers pushed trump to consider some of the

most desperate proposals to keep him in power. several witnesses testified to the committee about that meeting. >> i was not happy to see the people in the oval office. i don't think -- i don't think any of these people were providing the president with good advice. i mean, at times there were people shouting at each other, throwing insults at each other. >> cipollone and kirschman and whoever the other guy was showed nothing but contempt and disdain of the president. >> i think that it got to the point where the screaming was completely, completely out there. >> i'm going to categorically describe it as you guys are not tough enough, or maybe i will put it another way you are a bunch of [ bleep ]. >> prosecutors are focusing on three outside trump advisers who participated in the meeting.

former trump lawyer sidney powell you just heard her right there, one time national security adviser michael flynn and the former overstock ceo patrick burn. cnn's katelyn polantz was part of the team that broke this story. katelyn, what's going on here? >> reporter: john, that meeting screaming, insults, people running into the oval office. there was meatballs that were delivered at some point for people to enjoy late into the night. all of that is such chaos and we know that because of the house testimony, but the reason this matters to prosecutors is that this is the moment where the voices around donald trump on what to do after the election are all collected there. there are the outsiders, sidney powell, patrick burn, michael flynn who get to the oval office and are talking with trump one-on-one about what he could do floating to him these ideas that he could appoint sidney powell as a special counsel, he could seize voting machines, he could harness the power of the

presidency that he had to question the result of the election, and then there are others like rudy giuliani who still wanted something a little bit different, the fake electors. he wanted to use that to pressure and he wanted to use the court system, even though by that time they had lost many of their court challenges after the election. and then there's others, top officials in the trump administration who come into this meeting, and this is where they really had this eruption of the different sides, where people like pat cipollone, the former white house counsel who we just saw there commenting, is informing not just these people, but trump himself. there is no fraud and it's time to let this go. and so now we know from our reporting team that there are multiple witnesses that have been asked about this, in the grand jury, in interviews for quite some time but now is when the special counsels office prosecutors are still making sure, zeroing in on what happened at this meeting, they're even talking to giuliani himself about it since he sat for a voluntary interview over

two days. so this meeting, this date, december 18th, is quite pivotal because it is a moment, according to the house and congress, where donald trump made the choice that he could continue to push these ideas of election fraud or he could listen to his top advisers and give it up and acknowledge that he had lost the election. >> what else are prosecutors looking at right now as far as we know? >> reporter: well, we do know that they are looking at that fake electors scheme, that's something that has kicked up a lot of grand jury activity in recent weeks. they have looked at a lot of things that trump had done and said in the white house, but another thing they're looking at is the time period, john, that begins just a couple days before this meeting on december 18th. on december 14th, that's essentially elector day, not just biden electors and the people across the country certifying that biden had won their states, but also the fake electors submitting to the

federal government that trump won states that he had not won. and we do know now that the prosecutors are looking at the time period beginning with that date on december 14th when those electoral college section certifications come in and they are looking at it the whole way up into january 6th. john? >> katelyn polantz, it seems like the pace of revelations is rapidly increasing. keep us posted. sara? arizona's secretary of state says his office has now complied with a subpoena tied to the special counsel's investigation into the 2020 election interference. investigators have recently been focusing on efforts by donald trump and his allies to use fake electors in seven states where trump lost. arizona of course was one of those states. the arizona subpoena comes days after former arizona house speaker rusty bowers revealed he had spoken with the fbi for a couple of hours as part of the investigation. zach cohen joins us with more. what kind of information is the

special counsel looking for in this latest subpoena? >> reporter: sara, we're learning that this subpoena, which was received by the arizona secretary of state's office back in may, was seeking information primarily about two lawsuits that were filed in arizona after the 2020 election, one was filed by the trump campaign and the other was filed by the republican party chair in that state, kelly ward. they effectively claim that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud, yet we know there was no evidence to prove that and almost all of the lawsuits immediately failed that were filed by the trump campaign in the aftermath of the 2020 election. take a look to what the arizona secretary of state told erin burnett last night about what he thinks this means about jack smith's investigation and what the special counsel is focused on. >> it was just another one of the random various and lawsuits filed over the united states of

america in the feeble and misguided attempt to overturn an election. the crux of what is being sought her is the same as what we are seeing across the united states of america, was there interference or attempted interference, does it amount to a conspiracy to overturn an election. what we are seeing in arizona is not inconsistent with what happened across the rest of the country. >> reporter: so it's clear there that the arizona secretary of state's read on what the subpoena was asking for is that the special counsel is looking at a multistate coordinated potentially criminal effort to overturn the 2020 election. we know that the special counsel's office has recently spoken to state officials in other states like georgia, secretary of state in georgia brad raffensperger sat down with prosecutors recently and, you know, he obviously was the recipient of that infamous phone call from president donald trump where he asked for votes to overturn the election results there. really a lot of moving pieces here, but we do seem to be moving towards a charging

decision, at least one part of the special counsel probe. >> all right. zach cohen, thank you for that reporting. kate? thank you so much. joining us now cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elliot williams for more on this. what we heard from the secretary of state of arizona, the special counsel going after information now related to two lawsuits that were filed in the state over the election. why? what does that tell you? >> lawsuits can be a trove of information, kate, when pursuing an investigation because, number one, every time an individual files a lawsuit they're creating a very long paper trail of documents they're signing, affidavits, attestations, those kinds of things that are going to provide evidence, number one. and number two, whenever someone signs their name to a document in court, that document itself can be criminal evidence if that person lied on the document. so there's a lot that they can gather here, at least with respect to what happened in arizona, and also helping to

establish whether the same conduct happened in georgia and yefd da and other states. so it's quite valuable what they are pe pursuing there. >> and then you have the cnn exclusive reporting that the special counsel is interested in -- well, and has been asking several licenses about this oval office meeting before january 6th. if they're zeroing in on that as well in conjunction with the other details that we've seen coming out, who do you think could be most in trouble here? >> well, it seems likely and just based on the names that the reporting indicated, sidney powell and michael flynn, among others, were people around the former president who seemed to be at the center of or pushing some of these claims. what's most notable about the oval office meetings was the antagonists in the meeting were white house lawyers who were pushing back on some of the claims that the trump campaign had been making. would i would be curious to find out is were they actually

providing legal advice to the trump campaign saying, you can't do that, or that will violate state law or federal law. if, in fact, the folks on the trump team received information like that that could actually act toward the benefit of criminal charges because they were advised what they were doing was unlawful or improper, you know, possibly violating state or federal law, or their law witness lch licenses -- all of these people in the room were lawyers and if they were knowingly making pleadings on courts that could also subject them not just to criminal penalties but just loses their law licenses. >> which, remember, everyone, that still is a big deal. i mean, you know, obviously because the criminal charge maybe it feels different but losing your law license is still a big deal. >> right. >> more broadly i'm curious it is becoming clear that the special counsel with regard to this one of its investigations, it's investigating efforts now in multiple states. obviously georgia and now we learn of nevada and now we learn of arizona. who they're talking to and what

they're talking about, does that to you suggest a broader scheme is what they are investigating or something more narrow? >> that's an interesting question. as we learned with the documents probe recently, we don't know what we know until we know it, and they could be sitting on more evidence. frankly, it could be either. let's unpack either scenario. >> yeah. >> number one, if they are just investigating one state, say it's just arizona, the evidence of misconduct in georgia or nevada can help support charges in arizona because you could establish -- prosecutors could establish a pattern of conduct that was identical across a few different states and for whatever reason they just aren't able to charge them in those other states, right? or conversely, they could just be amassing evidence of a massive nationwide scheme and charging it all in one jurisdiction. really what it comes down to is what are prosecutors confident not just that they know or are comfortable with, but what could

they get into court. sometimes things that you hear or see or even believe in your heart as an investigator or prosecutor for whatever reason just can't make it into court, either it's hearsay or it's not substantiated or not corroborated, whatever it might be. so it all depends on what they're able to gather. >> it's interesting seeing the range of options we could be looking at here. hard to tell, but more information obviously much more to come. great to see you, elliot, thank you. john? a big and controversial decision from the white house, the u.s. sending weapons banned by many countries to the war effort in ukraine. marjorie taylor greene gets the boot. the georgia congresswoman is the first person to get kicked out of the house freedom caucus. and a bizarre twist in the search for placing texas teenager who disappeared eight years ago. turns out he was not missing at all. what his mother knew and allegedly did for years. ♪ at morgan stanley, old school hard work

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more than 100 countries banned them including close u.s. allies, but the u.s. could soon be sending cluster munitions to help ukraine in its fight against russian forces. nato last year condemned russia for using the cluster bombs on civilians in ukraine. cluster munitions are reviled because of the risks they can pose to civilians for years, even decades after they're deployed. still u.s. defense officials say they will be included in a new military package for ukraine. cnn's natasha bertrand is following this from the pentagon for us this morning. what is it that sparked the decision for the united states to say, look, we're going to deploy these couldn't verse weapons to ukraine? >> reporter: share ration it's really the result of the changing battlefield conditions on the ground in ukraine and the realities there of how the war is going. u.s. officials were not actively considering giving cluster munitions to ukraine over the

last several months that ukraine had been begging for them but once that counteroffensive began and it was not going as quickly as u.s. and western officials believed that it might, u.s. officials began to realize that ukraine might not have enough artillery ammunition to last throughout the entirety of the counteroffensive if the u.s. did not begin to tap into its stockpiles of cluster munitions. the u.s. began phasing out the use of cluster munitions on the battlefield in 2016 so it has a very large stockpile of these weapons and importantly the u.s. says that it is going to try to provide ukraine with the form of munitions that it has in its stockpiles that have a lower than 2.35% dud rate. now, the dud rate is important because, of course, that is what could cause this long-term risk to civilians if those cluster munitions land on the ground and don't actually explode. civilians could encounter them years later. here is how pentagon press secretary brigadier general

patrick ryder described it during a briefing yesterday. >> i will say that we have multiple variants of dcipms in our stocks and the ones we are considering providing would not include older variants with dud rates that are higher than 2.35%. we are aware of reports out there from several decades ago that indicate that certain 155 millimeter dpicms have higher dud rates so we would be carefully selecting rounds with lower dud rates for which we have recent testing data. >> reporter: so this is partly how the u.s. is justifying its decision to send these munitions saying that the ukrainians and the russians have already been using on the -- been using them on the battlefield and the russians have actually been using variations of the munitions that have a dud rate of as high as 40%. we are told that the u.s. has been trying to have conversations with allies who might be skeptical of the u.s. decision to provide these weapons because they are banned by over 100 countries worldwide

and we are told the u.s. believes it has managed to alleviate some of those concerns and that it will not face significant push back by allies. >> natasha bertrand, thank you for your reporting. >> let's take a closer look at what you're talking about, the dangers and why cluster munitions are so controversial. so when cluster munitions are dropped from the air or fired from the ground, quite honestly, the canisters open to then release dozens, even hundreds of smaller bombs called bomblets or submunitions. smaller bombs spread out and essentially rain down on an area that can be as wide as several football fields which is valued militarily as one munition can destroy multiple targets. they're fused together to explode close to the ground or on impact. you see a depiction of it here as it's playing out and see all the bomblets spread out and what it looks like when they hit the browned but the indiscriminate nature is also very dangerous.

we heard from the pentagon about the dud rate, the numbers are that up to 40% of those bombs failed to detonate and have proven to cause horrible injuries and deaths among civilians, especially concerns children who find and pick up these duds that can then explode and this can happen long after the fighting ends. back in 2008 most countries signed a pledge to stop using, making and even stockpiling cluster munitions, but the united states along with these nations and quite a group to be amongst including china, iran, russia, syria, turkey, ukraine, they did not sign on to the treaty. cluster munitions have long been used in russia's war in ukraine, officials say over 108,000 miles of ukrainian land has now been contaminated with explosive duds. that's larger than the size of florida. 226 ukrainian civilians have been killed by cluster munitions and that's in the month of march

alone. showing the real danger, but an interesting moment, battlefield conditions telling the administration they need to be sending these over, john. >> look, we have seen how dangerous also sometimes how effective they can be. >> that's the -- >> which is the conundrum for the ukrainians and the united states here. thanks so much for that. a really good explanation. new this morning the u.s. nuclear watchdog says it is making progress inspecting areas of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in ukraine but they have not been given access to the rooftops, that is where president zelenskyy, the ukrainian leader, has claimed that russia has planted explosive devices. cnn's ben wedeman is in eastern ukraine this morning. ben, the inspectors have been there, but they haven't looked at the parts really in question. what's going on? >> reporter: these are these inspectors who are there on a permanent basis and, yes, what we know is that they were able to go see the cooling pools to the reactors, which two weeks ago ahead of ukrainian

intelligence said had be mined by the discussions and the statement from rafael grossi said that they hadn't seen any indications of explosives or mines in those places. now, most recently other ukrainian officials, including president zelenskyy, have said that the russians had planted explosives on the roofs of several of the reactors, the intention, they believe, is that the russians are going to simulate that the ukrainians -- or claim that ukraine had bombed or shelled the plant. now, they have not been given access to those areas as well, nonetheless, he did say there was some progress, but certainly if president zelenskyy is correct when he said in the interview with erin burnett that we aired this week that there are only four inspectors at this site, the site is huge, i mean, when you look at it, it's not

just a factory. i mean, it is a massive plant. and four inspectors might not be enough to uncover everything that the russians might have placed there. john? >> it is a giant complex. this is just a fraction of the space that we are talking about here, they have to cover so much ground. ben wedeman, thanks for being with us. all right. still to come, a smackdown between two billionaires, elon musk threatening to hit mark zuckerberg with a lawsuit a day after the release of his twitter rival thread. and a bit later a colossal what was he thinking moment, a british tourist carves his name into one of the seven wonders of the world and now he's facing a lot of heat, potentially legal action for what he did. that's ahead. tourists that turn into scientists. tourist taking photos that are analyzed by ai. so researcrchers can help life underwater flourish. ♪

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all right. new this morning, oceangate has suspended all of its exploration and commercial operations in the wake of the titan submersible tragedy dethat killed five people including the company's ceo. the update appeared as a line on the oceangate website but a spokesperson says they have no additional information to share about the future of the company. a stunning twist in the story of a texas man who was reported missing eight years ago. last week rudy farias who is now 25 was supposedly found after going nisi ingmissing on a dog 2015. houston police say he has actually been with his mother the whole time and that she deceived police for years giving

fake names and ids and insisting he was gone all along. no charges have been filed but the investigation is ongoing. the tourist caught on video carving his name into the coliseum, the coliseum, the one in rome, has sent a letter of apology to the local pros prosecutor's office. ivan dimitrov's lawyer says the letter reads in part, i admit with the deepest embarrassment that only after what regrettably happened i learned of the antiquity of the monument. so, in other words, he did not realize that one of the seven wonders of the world was 2,000 years old when he carved ivan and haley 23 into it. i want to know where he thought he was -- did he think he was at the astro dome? did he think he was going to see a soccer match or gladiator fight there? he faces a fine of $5,000 and 50 days in jail, kate. right? i mean, he carved his name, it's right there. >> wait. also i take issue with only one part of this. caught on camera, he's like,

hey, look at me, smiling at the amara while i carve in this random brick wall i came across. >> random brick wall i came across obviously as i'm taking a tour of this site that he doesn't realize is a site allegedly. >> i'm trying to leave space for redemption. i'm leaving space for it. >> you're always about redemption. >> sometimes i actually am made speechless by you which is very hard. let's move on. i don't know if i can today. all right. here we go. voted out, after weeks of speculation and some very not so behind the scenes drama the far right house freedom caucus has taken official steps to remove congresswoman marjorie taylor greene from the group. according to andy harris a vote was taken before members left town for the july 4th recess. harris says that the recent beef between greene and fellow republican lauren boebert that was caught on house cameras wand, quote, unquote, the straw

that broke the camel's back. nell knee zanona joining me now. what is going on here? >> reporter: it's surprising at first glance because the house freedom caucus is a far right group that has become very devoted to former president donald trump and marjorie taylor greene is perhaps one of the biggest trump supporters on capitol hill, but, kate, in talking to sources over the last two weeks i can tell you there has been a lot of frustration bubbling up inside the freedom caucus over greene and really what it boils down to is the fact that she has actually become a staunch ally of speaker kevin mccarthy and members of the group feel like this runs counter to the found gs mission of the freedom caucus which is to be a thorn in the side of leadership and antagonize leadership to get what they want. they've also taken issue with the fact that greene has been publicly critical of a number of her freedom caucus colleagues, she criticized them for not supporting kevin mccarthy for speaker, criticized them for not falling in line over the bipartisan debt ceiling deal and

the real straw that broke the camel's back was congressman andy harris said was this heated confrontation that took place on the house floor between marjorie taylor greene and lauren boebert, another freedom caucus member. at the time of the incident greene confirmed to cnn she called lauren boebert a little b word on the house floor, i'm not going to say the word but you can fill in the blanks. we did reach out to marjorie taylor greene for comment, she did not specifically address her membership status but she did offer a pretty defiant statement saying she only serves her constituents, doesn't serve any groups in congress and she's never going to change. she said, i fight every single day in the halls of congress against the hate america democrats. i will work with anyone who wants to secure our border, protect our children and end the forever foreign wars and do the work to save this country. we also reached out to the house freedom caucus they said they do not comment on membership status or internal meetings, but this is a really big deal. they have never voted to eject a

member before, some have voluntarily quit including justin amash who quit during the donald trump years but it comes amid this broader identity crisis that the freedom caucus has been having. they're trying to decide whether they want to just throw up road blocks to kevin mccarthy at every turn or if they want to play the inside game to get what they want which is the strategy that marjorie taylor greene is deploying. >> there's the atmospherics and the real tactical questions of what the group should do with the strength it has in this moment. thank you. thank you, kate. after the blockbuster lunch of meta's twitter rival threads elon musk is threatening to sue. he is accusing mark zuckerberg's company of stealing trade secrets and intellectual property because they fired former meta employees. meta is saying no one on the thread's engineering team is a former twitter employee. that's just not a thing. with me is sara fischer senior media reporter for axios.

all right. first of all, this says a lot and the question is does it say that elon musk is feeling really threatened by the popularity of threads which got, what, 10 million down loads in the first few hours? >> yes, and now we're up to over 40 million signups, sara. it's a huge success. i do think that this is an indication that elon musk feels threatened. why? because over the past year we've seen so many companies try to take on twitter, whether it's blue sky or spill or getter or truth social, and he's never sent a cease and desist letter like this, never seemed worked up or too threatened. a little bit with mastodon but not this level. i think the reason is that he is facing so much critical backlash from users who feel as though the service has gotten too spammy, advertisers feel there is not enough content moderation

and now to have a service overnight pick up 40 million people is a huge threat to the potential success and future of twitter. >> elon musk fired 80% of its employees, he said it himself, when he bought twitter for $44 billion. it would be no surprise that people from twitter would be looking for a job over at meta. does musk have any case here that, in fact, intellectual property was stolen? >> not that i'm aware of but obviously we will leave it to some legal folks to figure that out. to meta's point they said there was no one working on the thread's engineering team that came from twitter. of course silicon valley is very transient, i'm sure there are ex-twitter employees who have gone over to meta, but if they are not working on the particular product i think it will be difficult for him to allege they were taking trade secrets, et cetera. the other thing i would note is that this isn't some heavily guarded engineering genius here,

there have been a bajillion apps that have tried to recreate the exact format of twitter. it's essentially a news feed, you can figure out a following list and followers list. i think he is going to have a hard time trying to allege they completely ripped off this idea if he is not going to go after every other twitter competitor out there. >> is it any surprise that these two tech billionaire dudes are battling it out this way? is anything they've done surprised you so far? >> i thought all of the jokes about the cage match was ridiculous, it didn't shock me that elon musk was going there but did shock me mark zuckerberg was. at the end of the day the name of the game is how do you capture people's attention and sell adds ads around it. whatever idea is hot you are going to see the two biggest internet titans battling this out, that part does describe me. >> sara fischer, thank you so much. searching for the thousands of mercenaries behind the revolt in russia. cnn on the ground in one place

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working through the night to free dozens of people trapped in gondolas on one of the world's highest cable car systems that's more than 12,000 feet above sea level. the cable car system suffered some kind of technical failure with at least 70 people on board various cars. so far 17 people have been rescued. the head of the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog tells cnn he is convinced it is safe for japan to release treated radioactive wastewater from the fukushima

site into the pacific ocean. rafael grossi says the international atomic energy agency has been examining the plant and believes there is no better option to deal with the buildup of wastewater. there is anxiety in nearby countries. customs officials in china announced they would ban food imports from ten japanese areas over concern of radioactive substances. officials in canada warning that the risk of wildfires throughout the country will remain high for the rest of the summer. there are currently more than 300 wildfires burning out of control there. authorities say drought conditions and above normal temperatures will continue to drive up the potential for more fires over the next two months. i suppose that means we could have more of those awful air quality days throughout the united states. >> they have been really, really dangerous for people's health. all right. now to belarus where cnn has visited a site where the country's president says wagner fighters could take up residence if they were to move to the country. this comes as the president of

belarus has told cnn that the wagner leader is in russia now, directly contradicting himself on the terms of the ceasefire that he brokered to end wagner's rebellion in russia. cnn's matthew chance gives us a look at what the camps there look like. >> reporter: you join me here in this military base in belarus, about an hour's drive outside of the capital minsk. you can see it's a vast tent city with all of these enormous canvasses which we are told can house about 5,000 people that have been erected in the past few weeks. there were satellite photographs of this place before and after and we all believed this is the location where wagner forces, the mercenaries from russia, would be located if they came to belarus. that was part of a deal, remember, with the belarusian leader alexander lukashenko inviting wagner and its leader to come into exile in belarus as a way of diffusing their military uprising in russia last

month. well, i mean, at the moment, though, these tents are completely empty. i mean, have a look inside at one of these here. completely empty, there's nobody in -- in there, it's too dark for us to show you inside but it's just wooden platforms, nobody in there at the moment, but ultimately it can house as many as 5,000 people. the problem is, of course, the events of yesterday here with the revelations from alexander lukashenko the belarusian leader that that plan is no longer sort of in operation, it's on hold at the moment and at the moment yevgeny prigozhin, the wagner leader, is not here in belarus, he's said to be in russia and not a single wagner soldier has so far come here. so we don't know whether there is going to be a transfer of wagner to belarus or not. at the moment all we can tell you is that it hasn't happened yet. back to you. >> that is our matthew chance getting us a rare look inside

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so, major food delivery apps are suing over the new york laws which are paying for food delivery businesses like doordash, uber deliveries and what is really going on here? >> grub hubs and uber's and doordash is suing new york city over a minimum wage law. they are saying that if you raise the minimum wage, they are going to incur more fees, and

they won't be able to employ as many workers, but i wanted to bring to at things this actual law. it is the new york city law that goes into effect next week which is that they are going to be paid $17.25 before tips and it will jump to $20. also, there is an alternative, they can pay the workers 50 cents per minute in addition for every minute they work. new york city did a study and found out that there are 60,000 food delivery workers in the city, and they are paid on average $7 per hour, and most of them do not get benefits. food delivery service workers have been around for the decades, but in the pandemic, we saw a dramatic increases as you and i did not want to go to restaurants, but we wanted to order in food, and the food delivery services account for 9% of all of the restaurant sales, and that number has gone up over

the pandemic, and it is staying there. the food delivery services are disappointed for this, but the businesses feel like they have enough standing for it to go into effect, but gig workers say they are exempt and they will be paid $7 an hour and not the $17 in new york state. >> so first and foremost, they have to see if the law goes into effect the next week, and the fallout. >> yes, there is going to be a legal tie-up. >> good to see you, vanessa. and we have a cooldown in the jobs report released minutes ago, and why the folks at the fed may be smiling a little bit. and efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the chaos focused inside of the oval offifice just before. more on that.

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