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ahead on cnn newsroom. evgeni prigozhin is presumed dead outside of moscow. and questions are swirling whether the crash was an accident. in the coming hours, donald trump is expected to be booked and released from fulton county jail. we'll break down this unprecedented arrest. and treated waste water from the fukushima nuclear plant is being released into the pacific ocean. we'll have the latest on this controversial move. it's 10:00 a.m. in moscow, where russian authorities say they've opened a criminal investigation into the plane crash that may have killed evgeni prigozhin. the controversial leader of the wagner group is said to be onboard a private jet that went down wednesday evening. no one survived the fiery crash.

officials said eight bodies have been recovered so far. prigozhin's body hasn't been a video posted on "telegram" appears to show the jet plunging from the sky with one of its wings missing. flight data shows it stopped transmitting around 6:00 p.m. local time. prigozhin was a long-time ally of vladimir putin. he led his mercenary forces in several key battles in the war of ukraine but turned against russian military leadership, staging a brief mutiny in june. president joe biden suggest ed the plane crash may not have been an accident. >> i don't know for a fact what happened. but i'm not surprised. >> do you believe putin is behind this, sir? >> there's not much that happens with putin is not behind. i don't know the answer. >> let's go to clare sebastian. clare, a lot we don't know. but what more can you tell us at this hour? >> reporter: good morning, kim.

in the light of day, the focus is on the crash site itself, trying to piece together the evidence that we can glean from images that are coming out of that, as to what happened here. state media are reporting that debris may have been spread around a two-kilometer radius. we're hearing from russian state news agency saying a piece of the tail section has been found 3 1/2 kilometers away. there appears to be some spread when it comes to the debris. there's images of body bags being removed from the site. it's cordon's off. it is a pretty rural area. there's some comments that we're getting in from eyewitnesses. take a listen. >> translator: i heard an explosion or bang. usually, if an explosion happens on the ground you get an echo. but it was just a bang. and i looked up and saw white smoke. one wing flew off in one direction and the fuselage went like that. and then, it glided down on one

wing. it did a nose dive. it was gliding. i was afraid it would fall into the village. >> reporter: so, all of that will be have to be pieced together by the experts to try to understand what happens. we cannot fully trust the russian aviation authorities to conduct an impartial investigation here. in terms of piecing together clues, we're going to look at the clues we get from awe the kremlin responds to this. they've not come out and commented on it yet. i think really important was on the same day as this crash, we got news from state media that a general who commanded the operation in ukraine, then disappeared after the wagner mutiny, known to have relatively close ties to evgeni prigozhin. he was removed from his position as the head of the aerospace forces. he hasn't been seen in public. evgeni prigozhin launched this mutiny in june, claiming he wanted the head of the armed

forces removed. they remain in place. the general that he admired has been sacked. it looks like evgeni prigozhin may have died in this plane crash. on the surface, it looks like bhutan may have got what he wants out of this. there's a sense that he's being weakened and being made vulnerable. you see from his behavior, he came out at commemorations for a world war ii battle and greeted people, shook hands, hugged people. it looks like an effort, right after the mutiny in june, to reassert his authority, his popularity, and to try to appear in control of the situation, kim. >> interesting juxtaposition as you say there. clare sebastian, in london, thank you so much. for more on this, i'm joined by edward lucas, a senior adviser at the center for european policy analysis. and he joins me live from london. thanks for being here with us. want to start with your reaction to this. it always seems from the minute

that pregroschen's short-lived mutiny failed as if he was on borrowed time, given putin's grim track record. >> yes, kim. either putin was on borrowed time or prigozhin was on borrowed time. didn't think that the planet was big enough place for both of them. putin hates traitors and he publicly called prigozhin a traitor. prigozhin had launched this mutiny. and before that, had insulted putin personally, using language that one couldn't use on cnn. and so, after the failure of the mutiny, this temporary fix, where prigozhin was allowed to go and live in the russian client state of belarus and seemed to resume his role in russian public life. that always had to be temporary. i thought it would be falling out of a window that would be his end, as it is a plane

falling out of the sky. >> you wrote in the aftermath of the mutiny, that he rests on his reputation for competence and decisiveness. if pregroceigozhin were killed huten's order, as a vengeful strongman, what does this send to his rivals? and does this hint at a wider purge, do you think? >> there is probably a wider purge under way. we saw the american successful at the russian generals in the ukraine war, being relieved of his role as an air force general. it's thought he may have been sympathetic. and we've also seen some other signs of purges inside the russian elite. i think the system is fundamentally untable. it relays, as i wrote a few

months ago, on putin's reputation for omnipotent doing things right. it's not just the war in ukraine. but prigozhin should never have been able to launch that mutiny in the first place. that's what you have military intelligence for. and having launched it and having failed, he should have been behind bars or dead at the end of the day, not running around grandstanding. i think it shows the fundamental weakness of the putin regime that it's gotten to this stage. i think we also are going to see several more shoes falling here, as the rows go on about the division of the spoils, who gets prigozhin's lucrative empire of dirty tricks, on mercenary operations in other countries and so on. there will be paranoia in the putin circle, about who may be

go down next. >> you mentioned prigozhin's empire. there's a certain irony here. you wrote that prigozhin exemplified some of the most telling aspects of putin's 24-year rule. explain whatoueant. >> well, the overlap between intelligence and dirty tricks, between politics, state administration and business, is the hall mark of the bhu putin regime. it started in st. petersburg in the 1990s, when putin was a municipal bureaucrat, with close ties to organized crime and business, with his background in the intelligence service. and that hybrid regime took over the whole country when putin moved to moscow and into the kremlin. and prigozhin seexecutive exempy i who is he working for? who is he accountable for? and we saw this clearly with the

russian operations in africa, which was selling dictator ship in a box to african dictators. theoretically, not superficially, as a commercial deal from the wagner corporation, but actually furthering the kremlin's geopolitical interests. we saw it with the infamous factor, the disinformation operations, run out of s st. petersburg from an anonymous office block. and the people hired from the so-called internet research agency. and that was actually also part of prigozhin's empire, doing the kremlin's bidding. these blurred categories when you don't know where anybody is and what they're doing, exemplifies the prigozhin resume. and having played his card unwisely or rashly, this is actually the way the russian system works. >> finally, we have pictures from russian media showing people bringing flowers and

candles to the wagner center. do you my prigozhin might be seen as a martyr here? maybe an unlikely inspiration to dissenters? maybe not popular dissenters but among the elite, perhaps? >> i'm not sure among the elite because they are scared of change. they would need a lot of convincing that some postwagner figure would be the right person to replace putin. i think among the public, putin's popularity is broad and very shallow. it was striking during the coup, the failed coup, how very quickly wagner was able to take over the important southern russian city. he was greeted in the streets as a hero. and i think russians will cheer for putin. as soon as anyone else comes along, they will cheer for them, instead. they are basically fed up with the stagnant economy, with the war and the other problems of the putin regime and with putin

himself. >> really appreciate your analysis on this important story. edward lucas, thank you so much. >> thanks, kim. up next, eight republican rivals take the stage for the first presidential primary debate of the 2024 race. donald trump wasn't one of them. we'll have the highlights just ahead. plus, this is the jail in fulton county where donald trump is expected to sur vrender late today. the latest on the georgia election subversion case next. stay with us. who's winning? we are, my friend. we are.

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like any other criminal defendant. trump has agreed to a $200,000 cash bond. he plans to return to new jersey in the evening. >> giuliani is one of three attorneys in the trump team that sur rrendered to fult county authorities on wednesday. nine co-defendants in the subversion case have turned themselves ahead of friday's deadline. the former president's expected surrender comes after eight gop hopefuls took the first debate in milwaukee. each of the candidates looking for their breakout moment to show why they are a better choice than current front-runner, donald trump. topics including the economy, abortion and ukraine. t nikki haley had this fiery response when addressing the need for continued support for ukraine. >> ukraine is the first line of

defense for us. and the problem that vivek doesn't understand, is he wants to let china eat taiwan. he wants to stop funding israel. you don't do that for friends. you have the backs of your friends. ukraine is the front line of defense. putin has said if -- once russia takes ukraine, poland and the baltics are next. that's a world war. we're trying to prevent war. look at what putin did today. he killed prigozhin. when i was at the u.n., the russian ambassador suddenly died. this guy is a murderer. and you're choosing a murderer over a pro-american country. >> the last hour, i spoke with cnn's senior political analyst, ron brownstein. and i asked how he thought the candidates performed during last night's debate. >> tim scott kind of faded into the wallpaper. ramaswamy was erratic and

behaving in a way for the ceiling. nikki haley was compelling. ron desantis held serve. it all pales next to the big question. did any of them do anything to change the dynamic in which donald trump has established a 40-point lead in national polls over all of them. apart from chris chris can i and asia hutchinson, none of them expressed the energy that supporters on why they might want to reconsider that decision. we're organizing about who finishes a distant second or third, to someone who is in a commanding position. >> tough to find a winner or loser in that context. let's turn to the issues. anything surprising in terms of the issues discussed? the positions taken? abortion was a big topic. so was january 6th. we heard in that sound byte, whether they would support trump if indicted.

that was where, six of the eight. was clearly in the camp that he would not support trump. six of the eight said they would not support trump if he was convicted of a crime before the election. you have to let that sink in to grasp the magnitude of what we are looking at. from a policy point of view, i think the disagreements over ukraine were the most significant. i think that was, from a policy perspective, the most memorable moment of the night, when nikki haley said to ramaswamy, you are siding with a murderer over a pro-american country. you have no foreign policy experience and it shows. that was memorable. ramaswamy was interesting. there's a tradition in republican primaries of candidates who really channel in an unreserved way the id of the base and have a moment in the sun.

herman cane, michele bachmann in 2012, and carson in 2016. they flame out before the vote ing begins. when ramaswamy making attention for himself, and sweeping of his rivals being bought and paid for, he left a smaller figure than he came on to the stage and probably reaffirmed the limits of how far he is able to go. >> interesting. i would have thought maybe he might have distinguished himself with all of that political bomb-throwing. we'll see whether -- >> he did. he did. but i think in a way, that also reinforces -- you can only go so far, i think, with that kind of messaging. >> right. trump loomed large, even in his absence. for the most part, the candidates avoided talking about the 40-point elephant not in the room, as the moderator said. was he really the big winner here? >> yeah. yeah. in the context of the republican

field, i think he clearly was. trump made the calculation, which i think many political consultants would consider as a whole, hard, cold, political assessment, he was so far ahead, he didn't need to elevate or give oxygen to the other candidates by appearing on a stage with them. it was incumbent on him to make them regret and reconsider that decision by using his absence to make a case against him. and again, apart from the one question where the moderator reluctantly seemed to get into the issue of his legal vulnerability, and you saw christie and hutchinson raise the arguments about his behavior, no one else over the course of the two hours, apart will nikki haley, once coming at him from the right, made him a target. there was nothing that happened there that would cause trump to reconsider his choice not to engage with these candidates.

as long as they use his absence to go after each other, why would he ever put himself in a position where they can, you know, challenge him directly? people i talked to after today, it looked an awful lot like the strategy of the republican candidates in 2016, where they avoided direct confrontation with trump in the hope that eventually something, somehow, would cause his support to peel away and they would be in position to pick it up, if they weren't viewed by his voters as too antagonistic. didn't work then. and by every indication, it is not working now. you have to think after this debate, if the candidates are running to beat him, as opposed to being his cabinet or vice president, it would be a reassessment of their approach tonight. three people have been killed in a mass shooting in southern california on wednesday night. it happened at a popular biker bar. six people were trmted edtransp the hospital. they killed the shooter two

minutes after arriving at the scene. a law enforcement source tells cnn, the shooter was a former law enforcement officer and authorities are investigating the incident as a possible domestic dispute. evgeni prigozhin sent years inside the russian's president's inner circle. now, presumed dead. a look at the wagner leader's legacy at home in russia and abroad. stay with us.

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this is cnn newsroom. recap of our top story. evgeni prigozhin, the founder of the wagner group, was presumed dead in a plane crash. the war lord was traveling from moscow to st. petersburg on a private jet. russian aviation officials say the aircraft plunged from the sky, killing all aboard. people left flowers and candles at tribute. nick paton walsh walks through the rise from personal chef to rebel, and his rapid fall from grace. >> reporter: he always lived in the shadows until the war in ukraine made him the most public russian critic of how the kremlin's war was fought. the possibility of evgeni prigozhin is dead is a shock wave to an already shaken system. putin's critics rarely survive as long as he did. and the talk in russia and ukraine, that putin might still have wanted to kill him, a sign

that chaos in moscow he caused was not over. he led the most brazen affront to putin's rule in his 23 years at the helm. taking an armed rebellion, marching on moscow and turning around. the apparent reason, a deal brokered by belarus president plushenko. putin saved with a neighboring ruling he usually treated with contempt. the deal was opaque, with wagner moving to belarus. and then, prigozhin appeared, surviving a long time for a putin challenger, popping up in africa this week, saying he would expand russia's influence there. it would be another turn in his remarkable and sordid career. initially putin's chef, he became a military contractor supplying food. expanded into influence

operations in the united states, trying to meddle in key elections. all damaging to putin's enemies. his wagner group expanded from 2014. cnn has tracked the mercenaries operating in the central african republic, sudan, libya, mozambique and more. with an army of tens of thousands and in ukraine, always savage, fighting hard. recruiting convicts from russian prisons to be used as cannon fodder on the front lines. executing alleged traitors apparently with a sledgehammer. it may not be known who died in this wreckage. transparent investigators would struggle to find the right dna. we'll have russia's investigators and media's word, the people whose boss prigozhin enraged. for more on prigozhin's legacy in africa, i want to turn

to david mckenzie in johannesburg. take us through wagner's role in some african countries. >> long before wagner became a worldwide name because of its involved in the ukraine war, the military group was working across the african continent and the middle east. if you look at the map, these are the areas in the past where wagner has been operating. now, the opterations have been direct military involvement, such as mozambique and in central african republic and in the west african country of mali. but they also have been involved critically in so-called psy-ops. in trying to persuade citizens and leaders to shift their allegiance away from the west, towards russia. this is something that cnn has reported over the years.

it's notable that the most recent video of prigozhin alive appeared to be from the african continent, where he was ready to expand operations there. wagner has been making a play to get involved in niger, the country that had a coup. the group is roundly condemned for human rights abuses in the operations on the continent, including, as nik was reporting there, excuses and wholesale attacks on groups. that included civilians. the u.k. parliamentary investigation group said it was a significant failure of the u.k. and one can expand that to other countries, of not paying enough attention to wagner's operations on the continent and the impact it's had. kim? >> if it has had the big impact and its role looked to be expapded as you say, what now might this mean for wagner in africa? >> i think it's an open

question, with prigozhin presumed dead in that fiery crash. how much influence did he have on the day-to-day oermgs operat wagner? you can believe it was substantial. and there may have been other key wagner officials on that plane that crashed. if the operations headquarters and in terms of manpower, has been taken out, as it were, or died, could have a significant impact. the places to watch are central african republic and in mali in particular. the governments there and the junta have been dependent on wagner providing security. and wagner has been department on the countries for getting monetary assistance and directly mining precious minerals to help

support the operations across the world. if the leadership structure collapses now, that could have a significant impact in the short term on wagner's operation. and in the long term, on those countries' security status. kim? >> thank you so much. dave mckenzie in johannesburg. this just in to cnn. a maoscow court has extended th pretrial of evan gershkovich's detainment. he is facing up to 20 years in prison on espionage charges which he and his employer deknow. u.s. considers him wrongfully de detained. he was the first detained since the cold war. as donald trump plans his surrender to fulton county authorities later today, three of his top election lawyers have surrendered in an atlanta jail. have a look. this was the elite strike force,

as they called themselves back in november 2020. sidney powell, rudy giuliani, and janet ellis. this was them on thursday. three mug shots for three criminal defendants, each accused of scheming to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. perhaps the most jarring to see is giuliani, the former top prosecutor himself, former mayor, 9/11 hero and in the time of the 2008 election, republican front-runner for president. despite reaching $150,000 bond agreement, adding to his mountingmental woes and a sobering trip to a second chance bail bonds in atlanta, giuliani appears defiant. here he is. >> i am very, very honored to be involved in this case. pa because this case is a fight for our way of life. this indictment is a travesty.

if this could happen to me, who is probably the most prolific prosecutor maybe in american history, and the most effective mayor, for sure, it can happen to you. >> i spoke with riva martin, attorney and civil rights defender. she says co-defendants are treated like any other criminal defendant. >> they don't deserve any special treatment. they should not be given any privilege that any other defendant is not afforded. that's what we saw today. that's what we'll see, presumably tomorrow, and as others turn themselves in to meet the friday deadline by fani willis. >> donald trump is supposed to surrender. what are you expecting there? >> we know he's negotiated with the prosecutors in terms of what his bail amount will be. that's $200,000. we know there's conditions attached to his bail regarding

the judge admonishing him not to intimidate witnesses. not to make threats against individuals, against the community, against property, in that state or in that county. i expect there's going to be, in some ways, anti-climatic. but it's historic. we're going to see a twice-impeached and four-times indicted ex-president have to turn himself in at a local jail, a county jail, in a state. and this has never happened in this country. never had a former president face the legal jeopardy that donald trump faces. it's going to be unprecedented and i think a sad day for the country to see him turn himself in, while he is leading the republican party as the nominee for the 2024 election. still ahead, treated radioactive waste water from japan's fukushima nuclear site

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evacuation order from japan's okinawa region. north korea says it will try to launch a spy satellite in october. thursday's launch comes as the u.s. and south korea have been holding joint military drills. china says its firmly opposes and strongly condemns japan's release of treated waste water from the fukushima nuclear site into the ocean. japan began the release as part of a government plan in the works for years but has nonetheless sparked anxiety and health concerns in the region. take us through what's happening right now. how long it might take and the reaction we're seeing to this. >> reporter: sure, kim. so much anticipation. and now, we are seeing the actual execution of this plan to basically dispose of this treated radioactive waste water, from the fukushima nuclear power plant. this is certainly a herculean task when we look at the volume

of water. it's enough to fill about 500 olympic-sized swimming pools. it is now under way. the process is now under way. it's been taking place for the last three hours or so. a small effort under way for the next two weeks or so. considering the volume of water. once that is complete, it is a task that will take years, perhaps a decade, to complete. despite reassurances from the japanese government the international atomic energy agency, the radioactive levels in this water are safe for release in such a manner. there is skepticism. hong kong announced it will no longer accept imports of japanese fish and seafood. we are also hearing from china, which is raising a lot of eyebrows about some of the scientific analysis in recent weeks. that came up at a ministry of

foreign affairs briefing. let's take a listen. >> translator: it is unjustified, unreasonable, and unnecessary for japan to push through the ocean discharge plan. we urge japan not to shift the risk of nuclear pollution on the rest of humanity and pursuit of its selfish interest. >> reporter: so, japan is moving forward with this release. it is interesting that the way it is taking place is underground. it's not something that you can see with your own eyes. a tunnel has been built under the water to release the treated waste water. we should point out that there's going to be constant monitoring taking place. we learned from the tokyo electric power company, there will be a boat in the water to make sure this is going according to plan. there will be regular tests to make sure that the water, kim,

is being released at acceptable levels that scientists have deemed to be acceptable, as part of the bigger project, to deal with this water that has really accumulated for close to a decade. >> plenty of opposition there. mark stewart in tokyo, thanks so much. winds are fanning the flames of deadly wildfires in greece, leaving residents to look on as their homes go up in smoke.

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canceled. high temperatures caused 17 schools in denver, colorado, to close on wednesday. dozens of schools there have no air conditioning. 75 million people are under excessive heat warnings across the midsection of the u.s. now, to greece, where firefighters are racing to contain more than 200 wildfires that have broken out since monday, including nearly 100 in the last 24 hours. we're going to go live to athens. i see the winds. i see the smoke behind you there. how are things looking right now? >> reporter: last night was really difficult. firefighters tell me it was like a nightmare. the wind started picking up. as you can see, the wind is fanning the flames, literally, as you can see. they just put this out. it's now started to burn again. and the risk is, it just burns more and more of the fires you see behind me. firefighters worked relentlessly

overnight. that's the point where there's no helicopters and any assistance from the air. helicopters have been flying above us every few minutes. right now, there's 265 firefighters on the ground. 13 pedestrian divisions, 77 vehicles, 6 airplanes, 9 helicopters. and one of the helicopters, kim, contain 11 tons of water. when i drove past this area yesterday, in the lungs of athens, it was green. this burnt overnight. we witnessed houses being burnt. we witnessed enormous pain and emotion from the people that we met in the streets, the locals trying to do what they can to take matters into their own hands. the fire department tells us this side of the mountain seems to be under control. there's other front lines on the other side of the mountain.

hundreds of fires have erupted in greece. we've seen tragic incidents like the one we saw in northeastern greece, where they found 18 charred bodice. and the fight continues. this is a fight that will continue for a few days to come, according to authorities. >> we'll stay on top of it. you stay safe. and try to stay out of the smoke, if you can. more than 100 municipalities in portugal are under the country's maximum fire risk alert, according to officials. the announcement came on tuesday, amid sweltering temperatures, as more than half of the country suppressed 40 degrees celsius. hundreds of firefighters have been deployed to bring local fires under control. officials say the alerts will last until sunday. in hawaii, crews have searched 92% of areas burned by wildfires in maui. still, authorities say more than 1,000 people are still unaccounted for after the

disastrous outbreak. 115 people were killed in the flames that engulfed the city of lahaina two weeks ago. josh green is working on providing transitional housing for people that need it. thousands are staying in hotels or airbnb locations. hours after an indian spacecraft successfully landed on the moon, it deployed rover, which is exploring the surface. the historic landing of the spacecraft on the moon wednesday makes india the fourth country to land on the lunar surface behind the u.s., china and the former soviet union. india is the first to land on the south pole, which has been largely unexplored. thanks so much for watching. i'm kim brunhuber. cnn newsroom continues in london.

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