the launch now on youtube, the let me just do the we news line from berlin. evidence is mounting. the barker chief, gave me pre goshen is dead. russian authorities said the mercenary leader who challenged the friend lynn was on a plane that crashed near moscow. have no survivors, is that could have wide reaching consequences, but there are doubts about the trustworthiness of the report. the

gonna come fairly, it's good to have here with us. if given for goes in was once one of the underwear buttons, most important allies. now the leader of the large and mercenary group is believed to be dead. russian authorities say for goes in was listed as a passenger on a flight that crashed on route in from moscow to saint petersburg. all 10 people on board the private jets were reported. they killed the telegram channel affiliated with longer is also saying provision died in the crash. none of these reports, however, have been independently verified. this all comes exactly 2 months after wagner expires, launched in a board of mutiny against russia as military leadership. it was seen as the most serious challenge to president vladimir, for instance. he took power 2 decades of view. says that short lived rebellion from ocean's whereabouts have been unknown and his faith has been subject of intense speculation. it was in shalise on,

he's gone to bella roost as part of an amnesty deal, but just 2 days ago, he resurfaced and the recruitment video circulated online that appeared to show him in africa. wagner maintains a strong military presence on the continent. and in the video for goshen seemed to indicate it was business as usual for him and his mercenary grade. if you go to the room with lunch is still unknown about him. can you for goes his face, but in his home city of saint petersburg, we're the wagner group has its headquarters. supporters have the gun erecting a makes us memorial for the mercenary leader for goes and story. as a remarkable one, he rose from selling street food to become food is personal share in the from is growing power. as a mercenary leader became clear during russia's invasion of ukraine until his ultimate fall from favor for a few hours. it looked like you had any pretty close in post, a real threat to russian president vladimir pretends hold on power the world

watched and suspenses precautions vulcan imagined recruit seized control in real stuff on don't one of southern rushes biggest cities and then it fonts, news towards the capital must go then several hours later, for collusion, suddenly cooled off the operation. he said he wanted to prevent bloodshed and that his intent was never to overthrow the government. the very top until the mutiny precaution was seen as the loyal eye of the kremlin. nita, of to subbing a prison sentence for robbery, precaution worked his way up to become a successful restaurant in saint petersburg, and in him the nickname pretend chef, eventually that to catering contracts to the russian government. his next business venture was quite different though. founding a private munition known as the wagner group in 2014. the same year of russia and legally antics premiere from ukraine. precaution also established

a media group including the troll factory, the united states and other countries accuse of trying to interfere in elections. soft rushes invasion. if he crane salted precaution, began hiring thousands of soldiers, including convicts to fight and bug the units. aging the kremlin swore efforts. the perhaps biggest trial was taking the eastern ukrainian city of back. moot of the months of fighting in which bushes regular army had been unable to prevail over ukraine. but as a precaution found himself more and more in the spotlight, he used to rail against russia's military leadership and its conduct of the war. including the accusation that was not provide in his mass and raised without munitions on our that used to gordon's feud with disability and leadership escalated when he refused to let his find to be put on the defense ministry come on . and so precaution notes to he called

a much for justice. i mean, we came here to put an end to the disgrace of our country. this year is a 1st step. what we're doing is right. it's to save russia unless i see in moscow shopped blogging. may i please include it trees in a stop in the back in the middle of a little can you just give me 3? is any internal tom while you is a deadly threat to us statehood for me to be to us as a nation domestic, this will get the most. this is a blow. so russia, so all people, but not from one of our actions to protect the fatherland from such a threat, if you did, you will be tough to the what the, just with this needs to be able to precaution left last of on don't to cheering crowds. but the weekend of kale should left to precarious future for himself and his balkan, the empire. the in the

days that followed the president putin embrace to support his trying to protect the strength of to precautions, exploring the challenge to his room. after challenging to it and his grip on power, many observers predicted promotions dom lies as a foregone conclusion. that's included here. as president joe 5 and who responded to the days, events and rush i don't know for 5. for how much do you think i don't know enough. so job. i'm not surprised by the events and russia. neither was brian whitmore or russia analyst with the atlantic council. no, i'm not surprised at all. i mean i, i expected from the moment that pre collision of boarded his, his march on moscow back in june, and he was effectively a dead man walking. i mean, the way you have to look at the way politics works in russia is to throw your,

your political science textbooks and read the godfather or watch good fellas are watching f 3 a watch, a couple of seasons of the sopranos. this is a reasoning that operates like a crime syndicates, improvements the godfather, inter goshen was a capital who obviously didn't understand his play. what of what is place for us? and to quote, you know, the immortal character, omar a little from the, the us television series, the wire, you come at the, can you best not missed well, well for goes and came with the kid. and he miss, we're, i think it was just a matter of time and i think good. so, you know, with i thought the risk of stating the obvious, this was i dealt with this was an accident, this plane crash, the cat. okay. um, so yeah i, i am not surprised by this one bit booms famously vindictive. he biting his timing and this is what a menu was expecting to see sooner or later. and you say for goes and came with the king any mess, but it wasn't really a threat to filter even after he had left russia as well. busy i mean, he, he,

he was a threat to putting in the sense that if he got away with this, then this can give other people ideas is the regime that, that is largely based on fear. and if you take fear out of the equation, and if progression can come with the king and get away with it and continue if you need to continue about his business that set a dangerous precedent. so i think, and again, we have to think of the logic of an organized crime syndicate. what happens in organized crime syndicate when a capital comes up, a godfather is unsuccessful. that capital is not going to be one for this earth. and i think that is that's effectively what, what we saw here. so no, he was not an immediate threat to prove his rule in the sense that he was gonna overthrow to me tomorrow or even wanted to do that. but the fact that if something went wrong, and he couldn't get away with that, if you got away with this, that would have damaged the machines legitimacy. and you wrote very shortly after this fail meant me that if from goes and didn't pay a heavy price,

hooton's regime would be in serious danger now. and very much looks like he paid the ultimate price. would you then say that this danger has been averted? not necessarily because i think the what's going on right now has to be looked at in a much, much broader context on the machine is getting since the invasion of be frame um over 18 months ago. the regime is kind of put yourself in a very difficult spot right now, because the elite is effectively divided between those that became very hawkish. elements that want nothing short of the complete conquest of ukrainian or russian military parade on the current shot, taking central keys that's not happening. and then those that want to go back to the world as it was before february of 2022. and that's also not happening. and so what put in is giving the elite is pleasing exactly nobody. and that puts the regime in, in a bit of a precarious position. and this doesn't. and i think the promotions rebellion was a function of that split that we see in the elite right now. and i think that under

learning problem, the regime has, is not going away. putting has dealt with approximate threats, but he has not and cannot deal with the underway, right. moving away from the elite some but for goes and supporters have about revenge today. how serious a threat is this? this is something i'm going to be watching very carefully because again, when precaution did not, it was not immediately punished for his rebellion back in june. a lot of us were asking the question, why was put simply biding his time. that was what i kind of thought, but there were a couple of other hypotheses out there. i talked about a little bit about this on your program yesterday. and one of the theories is that provision had a lot of support within the elite, within the military. and when it's within the security services and within society, now we'll see how this plays out, who is clearly just sent a message. we'll see how this plays out going forward. but this is something i'm going to be watching very,

very carefully. couple other things in terms of optics is displayed out on general survey support is sort of weekend who is prep for guardians, closest ally in the leads, keywords relieved of his command of the russian air force today the same day as, as, as, as precautions, death. i think that was not an accident. and as the new use of the plane crash was breaking. who, who was on television, awarding the hero of russia award to veterans of ukraine. war it's, it's, it's not nobody missed the coincidence that have back in june of last year, who gave that same award to precaution. so i think the optics of this were very clearly choreographed to send a message. and now wagner has been effectively beheaded, was likely to happen to the roughly $25000.00 fighters in various countries of the world left without command. this is another one of these. no, no, no ones that we're all going to be watching right now. my understanding is in this

pre planing plane crash, it wasn't just the goals and it was killed, but his right hand man who can always go who, who's cold, named and the g r u was wagner, which gave wagner its name. g was also uh, according to at least the initial reports i read, it was among the dead. so for so wagner has effectively been decapitated. and we will see this could be put in the hands of another poor and friendly oligarchy. would that would they be as effective as precaution was in, in this it could be disbanded and a lot of sense and kind of created a frankenstein monster here, but there are any, maybe, maybe he thinks it's his best not to have this going forward. there are other aspects of the ocean has like the troll farm internet research agency in st. petersburg precaution was part of this. what i call russia's venture capital, foreign policy. and this, this, this practice of using these nominal lead private sector entities. lake wagner, like the internet research agency, to carry out the, the test state doesn't want to do a straight truck. and we'll see how that goes going forward. i'm all,

that's another thing i'm going to be keeping my eye on and that's and that's an excellent question. and another one of the no, no, no ones we're looking at right now. lots of moving parts at this point that was brian whitmore of the atlantic council. thank you so much for your analysis and your time. thanks for having us catch you up to speak now on some other stories making headlines around the world today. here's republicans have held the 1st televised debate of the 2024 ways for president age. the candidates took to the stage in milwaukee wisconscin or the notable exception of front runner, donald trump, who skipped the events. despite his absence, there was a heated discussion over trump and his current link on top. second, when you have a, a former trunk lawyer, rudy giuliani has surrendered to authorities out of jail. and georgia is facing charges related to efforts to overturn trump selection loss, and 2020 giuliani is bond with that's at a $150000.00 us dollars for new york mayor has denied any wrong doing

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