[000:00:00;00] the, you're watching due to the names why, but from berlin? no word from the kremlin. yeah, it's about the fate of young danny provision. the wagner chief and his deputy, our presumed dead aviation authorities in russia, said they were on board a plane that came down with no survivors after departing from moscow. also coming up on the show, the bricks group of countries invites 6 new members to joint including saudi arabia and iran. and well, all members publicly expressed support for expanding the block. there had been divisions about how much and how quickly

the clare richardson welcome to the show. the leader of russia's wagner, mercenary group is presumed dead. you have, gaining per goshen was one of them are approved and the most important allies until he let a june rebellion against moscow's military leadership. russian authorities safer. goshen was listed as a passenger on a flight that crashed on route from moscow to saint petersburg. the probably all 10 people on board, the private chat before the kills a telegram channel affiliated with wagner is also saying for corrosion died in the crash along with his deputy. now none of these reports haven't been independently verified. for cogent story is a remarkable one. he rose from being a food vendor to become vladimir putin personal chef in the kremlin. and his

growing power as a mercenary boss, became increasingly clear during brushes, invasion of ukraine until his very public armed clash with a rush as military establishment. or for a few hours, it looked like you have any pre corrosion post. a real threat to russian president vladimir pretends hold on power the world watched in suspense. is precautions vogue and imagine recruit, seize control in real stuff on. don't one of southern rushes biggest cities, and then it fonts news towards the capital most, cuz 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 right up until the mutiny precaution was seen as a loyal ally of the criminal need 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 for 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 russia illegally onyx premier from ukraine. precaution also established a media group including a troll factory. the united states and other countries accuse of trying to interfere in elections. of de rushes, invasion of ukraine salted precaution, began hiring thousands of soldiers, including convicts to fight and bug the units aging the criminals war effort. the perhaps biggest trial was taking the eastern ukrainian city of buck moved, often months of fighting in which rushes regular army had been unable to prevail over ukraine. but has precaution found himself more and more in the spotlight. he used to rail against russia's minute truly to ship and its conduct of the war,

including the accusation. it was not providing his mass and raised without munitions. now what it used to gordon's feud with disability and leadership escalated when he refused to let his fight to be put on the defense ministry combined. and so precaution noticed what he called a march for justice. 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 a shopped lodging. the piece included treason, a stop in the back. in the middle of who can you hear me through any internal tom while you is a deadly threat to us statehood community, to us as a nation, unless it gets we'll 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 comfortable with the just which is nice me a booted precaution left of the stuff on don't to cheering crowds, but the weekend of kyle said less to precarious future for himself and his boss and the empire. the in the days that followed president putin embrace to support his trying to protect the strengths of to precautions, exploring the challenge to his room. let's get straight across the deed of use for moscow bureau chief uri were chateau. joining us now from riga as dw is banned from reporting in russia. you're a good to see you at this point. what more can we say about that plane crash and the fate of you have any provision as well as most of the yachts, the other states, ad trunk, both engines that claim to the goals and himself was unblocked. he's death however, hasn't been officially confirmed. although he was on the passenger list,

and by the way, it's not the 1st time that precaution is said to have died in a plane crash or something similar. what's reported back in 2019 off the airplane, christ income go. we still don't know why the plane pressed some media claim. it was shut down by russian. the defenses. all those as use of was an explosion inside to the plane. and want to look, i'm trying all the parts of it that russian security forces have allegedly suspect, which is set to be precautions starts. now pilots who have may have left russia, so i'm sure we'll see a menu such speculation. some seo is trying to spread as many fields as possible to cover the right products. by the way, it was reported to yesterday that sooner off the precautions plane crashed, a 2nd private jed links to precaution, which also appeared to be heading to send peters. look at the same time turned back to moscow implants. okay, so a lot of unknowns there as this comes together, of course, many saw promotion as living on borrowed time after his a bought it and get me. do you think bruton would have still considered him a threat to even after granting amnesty in that deal that allowed him to go to

bella roost? i won't because it was a classic example of a cost less out of the gym block live would say she was going see that putting fabric pupils and she has defend the draft of geopolitical interest in this service . all the travelling actually secured the russian influence in africa in syria. and finally, ukraine with his army with a weapons that is in exchange for money. and obviously she was so successful was that she was allowed to do what, what's for been to all of those, even to give freedom to prisoners who had fault for his army in new credit. so he had recruited 5 us in the last the prisoners, especially for this purpose. and whoever has so much freedom clear also has a lot of power and loss, but typically used. she was very popular among the people, at least in circles. chocolate as a bad right. bell. who danced to stand up against the kremlin. he mentioned those fighters that he recruited. do we know what's likely to happen to them?

um 25500 fighters. i understand who's been serving under promotion? well, i think if both of the, the us of the wagner, group of business men, precaution and military lead the origin on plane. indeed, that as in the days of the wagner as a brand, as a good night, unified group, i over despite all he's cruel deeds, regardless quite covers of magic for the pay to nurse. nobody's fighting with the frontal up front lines. also it's a matter of money, but it goes one page, right. but i bought a blue. well, i believe that many of the soldiers would like to continue fighting as nurseries, but the question is, who should pay them? now, the minister of defense that could be an option and offered contracts to the farm about in the soul, just off to the mutiny, bought the dos of the regular russian army pay as much as a precaution with a no, you're, you mentioned the theories that are going to be coming up here. we have to say this crash did happen shortly after russia had removed served a us or

a weekend as had of aerospace forces. do you see any connection there? well, i see at least a remarkable temporal correspondence. i would say, even though we don't know where the visa was really intended, as a rug making, was no less than a form, a commander of russian troops and ukraine. ah, she was hidden from public view of the mutiny as it was speculation that she was arrested. but that is that as it may, he was said to be close to because uh, why don't occasion of this was when sort of beacon during the newton you tons to the soldiers, all of the wagner troops and ask them to stop. is it cool? well, thank you so much as always for your reporting that is on corresponding your english i to so let's go to ukraine next. where do you to view correspondent much as whether or not is standing by for us mathias, any reactions to that crash from the ukrainian government? that has been

a reaction from one of the advisors of the landscape. who has said that basically this is the fate that awaits or a war criminal. those either send ease in the hague. this is what your credit is, pushing for or a bullet by the f as b, a not literal bullet. this was a plane crash, but basically of course, this is interpreted as the rest and elite turning against each other. there is no sympathy for free goals. and yeah, you seen as one of the worst work and those that put in the region has a brought to light. and um, this blank, blank, blank has has been closely followed, of course, here in ukraine. but you will be, you will have a hard time to find anybody who is sad about it. i'm sure now let's turn to the possible implications for the war in ukraine. i'm in. do we know what this is going to mean for the wagner mercenary groups involvement? in ukraine,

we are not sure where the old wagner as soldiers have been driven out. if they all have been re, retreated from all the territories that russia occupies in ukraine. but they haven't been to that haven't been seen at the front line since this mutiny. so wagner was not playing an important role at this stage off the war. of course, they were very brutal and they were very much feared also in ukraine for that brutality. and it's certainly not bad news to ukraine if this group is dismantled. now what you have today, of course, is ukraine's independence day. can you tell us a little bit about what the mood is like very into yeah, i think you can see it. uh, these are the times that have been broad from the frontline trophies that the ukranian army has taken that on display here for the people. and people are taking a wall key of people. it's a, it's a, it's a day off. it's a holiday and national holiday, and people have come, you know, me and embroidered shoes,

the traditional ukrainian embroidered shirts many carrying flags. so the mode here i would say is defiant. there's a whole range of emotions here and you create many people have lost somebody. many people are tired of the nightly attacks and so on. but there is still the conviction all or people are united in, in the, the idea that you create must win this war and people still stand behind the army. although there is criticism about several things about how the war is going. i have talked to presidential the head of the presidential office, the landscape chief of staff yesterday about the general mood and ukraine. as little as simple as opting us. all of which is victory must have been trying to put more head. not saying to you of our nation is unprecedented and that you will know best. but it said that the mine used to be see it the, but i can tell you that this is an employee of mine or myself because at the sure,

because it seems to me that we are close to victory to more sure when use the it's a windows or boy, nobody knows how long this period of time we lost for them, but we have already come in on the way to me. it must put on you the bar and the chairs after during that interview, what do you think makes the landscape chief of staff so optimistic to say something like that, but the crane is quote, close to victory. you have enough at any details and we do see that the counter offensive is making progress, but it's very slow. and he is admitting that if you listen carefully, he says we are close to victory. but we do not know how long this period is. so this is not an announcement that we can expect victory in the next. i don't know a few months or, or whenever, but what he says, what do you emphasize is that the people are still united, that is what i also observed, at least in principle. and but also international support is not vanishing. ukraine has just received the commitment for f 16 fighter jets. it was something

that was very important to them. and the international community, the west mainly is continuing to support ukraine, which is of course the precondition for you can to prevail. and this will, well, thank you so much as always for your reporting that as much as buying a for us in cave to, let's turn to some other news now and the bricks and group of nations has announced they will expand its membership. as it's 5 members hope to boost their global influence, brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa will now formally invited 6 additional members to join the economic alliance. at the start of 2024, south africa's president's original post. i said, argentina, egypt, ethiopia, iran, saudi arabia and united arab emirates have been invited to join in the 1st phase of the expansion announcement came on the final day of the block summit in china

spring. so for more on that announcement from the breaks countries let's speak, did you have these hands? brandon? joining me here in the studio high hands, they've got 6 countries invited to join. were you surprised to see these names come up? it's none of the names are really a surprise this it was known and that's about just over 20 countries, had applied for money to become members of bricks and around fort you had expressed an interest and all of these names were bandy to bowers and the days before this decision was made, what surprised me a little was the fact that a decision was reached to not to accept new members because it was not consensus amongst the bricks. members to kind of mix brakes members on that at the time. and also that it was done so quickly so that we have an announcement of 6 new countries of mold and doubling the membership. and that this is going to happen by the 1st of january, next year. in other words, in a handful of months. uh that was a bit of a surprise, you know, going into the summit. um,

it seemed there was some disagreement among the original members about who should be admitted and on what terms is it fair to say now that they must have agreed on some kind of criteria. they must have agreed on some kind of criteria, but we don't know what the south african presidents us around my pleasure, spoke about criteria, but didn't say what they were. some of the other statements from the other leaders imply that the they were still discussing the exact criteria that there might be changes to that maybe in the next phase of expansion. but in the end, what happened to you is that china and russia especially got there will. they were very, very interested in expanding the membership because they want to give this group more international wage. and that feel that by adding you members, that will be because why india was more or less sitting on the fence, have to be persuaded. that's the case for brazil as well. those countries feel that with the an additional membership that influence to some extent good start new to the which i'm sure it will. yeah. um. now one of the other things that was really present at this time in johannesburg, i want to ask you about, were calls for

a common bricks, currency. we now know they have approved a resolution to study how this might be done. what advantages do the leaders has been advocating for this like, like results, lula? what advantages do they see of possibly doing that in the future? well, there's 2 aspects to this whole group thing. the one is a political grouping. it's a political group and trying to counter the western influence to have, for instance, the g 7, a group of countries as the industrialized nations bear influence. so that's a political attempts to build a strong account to way to an international group things and doesn't to cannot make aspect. and this, the common currency is an attempt to gain independence from a dollar based assistance from dollar based loans that are given for these countries. to develop their economies, their interest infrastructure and so on. it's a very complicated method. it will take a long time to discuss. and we don't know exactly watch the form it will tag. but

is that as part of the interest of many countries that are joining this grouping to get access to funding that is not controlled by the world bank of the i m f full by western countries. and some of the countries that are joining, such as saudi arabia and the united, our vend. but it's have a lot of money that they could potentially bring into a such a grouping. so the economic interests are very, very strong. that's a great point. thank you. so much for joining us in the studio to break that down. that is the w's hands. brent, and we can turn our attention now to some of the other world. news headlines at this. our firefighters in greece or bottling wall fires for a 6 the day. blazes on the edge of athens, destroyed several homes, forced evacuations, and threatened the national park. and a historic monastery. at least 350 fires have broken out across greece and recent days, leaving at least 20 people dead. i almost got court has extended the

detention of us and journalist evan brokovich by another 3 months. the wall street journal reporter was arrested in march on espionage charges which carry a 20 year sentence. his newspaper has rejected the accusations while japan has started releasing treated radioactive water from the damage focus, human nuclear power plant in the pacific ocean, the plants was damaged in an earthquake and saddam in 2011. more than 1300000 liters of water used to cool the nuclear rods will now be released over the next 30 years. the international atomic energy agency says the diluted water will have minimal impact on the environment and human health. but protests have been held in japan and in other countries. china has condemned japan as irresponsible and has banned some food in ports. well, they are shy and how is our is a professor of applied radio chemistry at the technical university of vienna,

dw asked him what alternatives might have been available for handling for christian will wastewater? there's part of his response, as i would say that the release of the retail water to the facility is the best solution that is at hand. uh, since i told you already, that tells you methods cannot distinguish between uh the redirected water molecule and the non radiate bottom line too. but the same is also true for any organism or the human organism or any marine. i cannot distinguish between one or the other. that means this treat him containing water is not accumulated in any organism. it doesn't enrich anywhere. so it's taken up and it's introduced, excrete it again. so in terms of alternatives, there have been some discussions about continuing storage that in my opinion, for example, wouldn't be even even more harmful because the only factor that really plays into

this distribution in the pacific ocean is the top that you think of volume that we can think of is the water was stored on land and in case of an ice pace folk, for example, some things with leak. they want this water. what uh, what does that lead into the ground water and has much lower volume to tell you that was gay, are shine, houses are a professor of applied radio chemistry at the technical university of vienna. speaking to these of your earlier, let's turn out to some other news. voting is continuing, and zimbabwe is general election for another day. authorities extended the pole in some areas because of delays, which left people waiting for up to 10 hours to cast their ballots. some polling stations locked valid papers and failed to open on time. others had not received the papers by 7 pm when voting was scheduled to end. the main office issue party accused the government of rigging and voter suppression. many of the delays were in the capital her, all right, where opposition? support is usually the strongest. as, as in bob lands are electing their president,

parliament and local counselors is only the 2nd general election since the death of robert mcgarvey, who dominated politics in zimbabwe for decades. the domain to change the future seemed buffy and flocked to the following stations. after 2 decades, if we cannot make deals and with the inflation, gotta be joining it around 100 percent. people are desperate for change. the most up with us in, even though our business because i move in. so we need something good to help the fluids added to the d monkey most one thing that's involved with the entire building, a building and stuff did to keep candidates facing off industry, a new election incumbent president and debt from the vanity of party and nelson to

me from the opposition party citizens coalition for change and get back to board in 2017, after a manager and one in elections the following year. but that when was widely disputed, he sees his government has created stability and economic opportunities in buffy. the the, the, the, the, the, the, the yet kind of a courted often pop the inside of the regular look to mesa in done is pledging economic port mess corruption and more inclusive country to these promises and resonate with the countries

you thoughts because the industry is old and then to yeah, i just finished my guessing i just one needs to governments, teaching the situation so that she can be employed for the next generation on most one millions in pumpkins, quoted for the 1st time a significant number with the ball going to impact and buffet future to and to the united states. now where donald trump has been no stranger to the inside of a court room since he left the office. the former us president has been indicted in 4 separate court cases. the charge of stem from his handling of classified documents to his role in the field, january 6th assault on the west capital. now he set to turn himself into

authorities and what could be the most legally dangerous case against him? he's charged with conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election for donald trump. it was just another one of his perfect presidential moments. what's going on in this country? is it by the way, once would that be for a perfect phone call? this was even better than my perfect call with you for a number that call. that was a perfect call. this one's better. this one is more perfect. i challenge the election in georgia, which i have every right to do. what for georgia, prosecutors and the men and women of a grand jury. it was the start of a criminal conspiracy. they've slipped the former us president at 18 others with 41 charges over their attempt to overturn job items when the 2020 presidential election. while the results were still being certified, trump was recorded, putting pressure on georgia officials to find a new votes. well,

i want to do is this. i just want to find a 11780 loads, which is one more that we have. many of his co defendants are accused of legitimately claiming to be official electors and signing fig election certificates in favor of donald trump. they're all being charged under the states rico laws of the same laws used to prosecute organized crime. trump is set to turn themselves into georgia authorities at this jail and will be released on $200000.00. bound entails official arrangement, which is expected sometime in september. it will be the 4th arrangement for trump since leaving the white house, submitting his spot in the history books as the only former president charged with breaking the law. you're watching dw news from berlin. a quick reminder of our top story. russian authorities say the head of the wagner, nursery group was on a plane crash,

chewing everyone on board. a telegram channel link to wagner pronounced. you've got any precautions, dad. it comes 2 months after he let a mutiny against russia's military leadership team at this hour. i'm clare richardson in berlin for me in the whole team working behind the scenes. thank you so much for watching.

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