the, the, you're watching the, the news live from berlin. no word from the kremlin yet about the faith of you have danny per goshen thought. the wagner chief and his deputy are presumed dead aviation authorities and russia say the 2 were on board a plane that came down with no survivors after departing from moscow. also coming up on the show, the bricks and group of countries invited 6 new members to join, including saudi arabia and iran. for all members publicly expressed support for admitting new countries. there had been divisions about how much and how quickly to

expand the hello. i'm clear, richardson, thank you so much for joining us. the leader of russia's wagner, mercenary group, is presumed dead. you have danny for goes and was one of them are approved is most important allies until he let a june rebellion against moscow's military leadership. russian authorities, a promotion, was listed as a passenger on a flight that crashed on route from moscow to saint petersburg. all 10 people on board the private chat were reportedly kills. a telegram channel affiliated with wagner is also saying that provision died in the crash alongside his deputy. now we should say none of these reports that have been independently verified for go to the story is a remarkable one. he rose from being a food vendor to become flooding or pollutants,

personal chef in the kremlin. and his growing power as a mercenary boss, came into full view during russia's invasion of ukraine until his very public clash with rushes military establishment. for a few hours, it looked like you had any pretty corrosion post. a real threat to russian president vladimir pretends hold on power the well watched in suspense is precautions vulcan in the us and re group seized control in real stuff on. don't one of southern rushes biggest cities, and then it fonts, news towards the capital moscow. 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 rubbery 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 antics premier 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 as he crane salted precaution began hiring thousands of soldiers, including convicts to fight and bug the units aging the kremlin so effort. the perhaps biggest trial was taking the eastern ukrainian city of buck moved, often months of fighting in which bushes 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 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 a shopped lodging. the police included treason, a stop in the back, in the middle of a little. can you just let me do it? could be 3, is any internal turmoil 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 to 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 adjusting which is nice me

a booted precaution, left the rest of on going 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. let's take a closer look at this and dive in with steven hall, a lecturer in russian and post soviet politics at the university of bath. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. um, if for goshen and wagner, co founder demetrius can were in fact in russia, do you have an idea of what they were doing there as well? the certainly lots of room is, i mean by your accounts it seems that they were having rusher and they seem to be on the plane that crashed. we, you know, there may be a helps of life. we should be, don't know. but what we were doing, as i said,

there's lots of room is there is the idea that they were there trying to make sure that the vault and the grief was not going to be subsumed or destroyed. and there was talk of the russian military intelligence, one seems to get to them only auction in africa and strengthen the vault. this could have been way to get prevention out of africa, answered russia. we know that his views is quite short. as you guys are, can be very quickly and it could be a way to make sure that they can get you into the washer and then deal with the situation that and will, has apparent death and the death of the co founder then have an impact on foreigners operations in africa, i think certainly will provision dot production and the means you can the 2nd the come on died and there were all the come on this hiking on this old vault and the whole not play if it's cool stage or it is 10 minutes on my plane. so it certainly has been a way to count the head of the hydra as it was here. how about we have for the i

think that potentially we will see vault and emerge into another organization. there was a transport plane that went to bed the roost to the vault and the base and batteries, as many, if they've all in the troops left on that plane bought some must go. so again, i think we're going to see that this could potentially be the end of all the world, but they will be the name of we changed the symbol we changed for ball her name will no longer exist. is there currently anybody else who could challenge vladimir putin in the way that progression has done? or i think, you know, we, we, we never find out that there is someone in the wings is what i think is a normal talk or see if we can, if we know publicly who is potentially got the chinese person. but that person wouldn't be me very quickly. so this would, if someone is waiting in the wings,

we will find out about this as we did with for occasion when they march on most guys. i think this is a say, a signal to those who in the lead to maybe disaffected, but don't do both of those dates because it will end up back before you. yeah, it is a very strong signal. i mean, many influential people in russia have died since the war started last february, but, but not like this. what do you make of the way that this seems to have happened? well, as you, as you say, it certainly is on presidents, is that a plane was shelter out of the sky. you oh, that was a bone. we still don't know quite how it happens. that it's fancy color, which is 50 miles north of moscow. so again, very close to the capital city. i don't think it is. if we take it the who, his teacher know someone in the problem and it is a signal that you do not battle against me. i have to, you know, it's a piece of all i have the power of i can and will destroy those who for you without

. yeah. and how do you think this will be perceived then in put it as close as the circles and among power brokers in moscow and that does it strengthen hooton's image or i think if anything it highlights the thoughts produce, the uprising was particularly worrying for page. and i think also that it highlights weakness to an extent, you know, the fact that these had to do something so big as it was in, you know, a plane folding off of the sky. it, we know that production was popular amongst some groups and the civilian population was clicking the page arctic groups. he was probably appropriate on some lates in terms of being a patriot mostly. so i don't think that she liked him, but she was the pages. so it is certainly signifying, i think from patients, weakness is, it was that he had to actually take the stand against vacation and such a way it could easily just a push to, you know, progression could easily adjust

a for apple window. so they get a sense of hitting to molly where he seems to have been, i'm done away with him that. so this is really symbolism as it was. absolutely. well, thank you so much for joining us on data of the a news with $1000.00 us. that's steven hall from the university of bass. earlier i spoke to our correspondent mathias and whatnot in a key. and i asked him for reactions to that crash that we've heard from the ukranian government. this 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 a sentence in the hague, this is what your brain is pushing for or a bullet by the f as be a not literal bullet. this was a plane crash, but basically of course, this is interpreted as the rest of the elite turning against each other. there is

no sympathy for free goals on the scene as one of the worst work and those that within the region has a broad to light. and um, this blank, blank, blank has has been closely followed, of course, here in ukraine. but, but you will be, you will have a hard time to find anybody who is sad about it. i'm sure now what's turned to be 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 is. uh, so we just have been driven out of the, or have been re retreated from all the territories that russia occupies and 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 wall. of course, they were very brutal and they were very much feared also in ukraine for their

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 intuitive this. yeah, i think you can see it. uh, these are the times that have been brought from the funds on trophies that the ukrainian army has taken that on display here for the people. and uh, people are taking a walk here 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 last case chief of staffed yesterday about the general mood and ukraine. little wish of level as up in the our which is victory must have been trying to put in more here. not saying to of own nation is unprecedented and you will know best, but it said that you'd mind your sweet, sweet, the but i can tell you this as an employee and almost always because that they're sure because it seems to me that we are close to victory, the more sure when use the it's a windows or boy, nobody knows how long this period of time we last for them. but we have already come in on the way from, you know, starting at the bottom. and it says after, during that interview, what do you think makes the landscapes chief of staff so optimistic to say something like that, but the crane is quote, close to victory. he hasn't offered 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 if you months or all or whenever, but what he says, what you emphasize is that the people are still united. that is what i also observed, at least in principle. and that also international support is not vanishing. ukraine has just received the commitment for f 165 project. that 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 your grant 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. well, the breaks group of nations has announced it will expand its membership assets, 5 members hope to boost their global influence. brazil, russia, india, china,

and south africa will now formally invite 6 additional members to join the economic alliance. at the start of 2024, south africa's president's throne and i'll post the said argentina, egypt, ethiopia, iran saudi arabia. and the related m error of amaris have been invited to join. and the 1st phase of the expansion denouncement came on the final day of the block summit in johannesburg. 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. hi, hans. i'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 formerly to become members of bricks and around fort you had expressed an interest and all of these names were banded about 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 bricks, 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 they are. 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 here 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 weights. 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 brazil is lula. what advantages do they see of possibly doing that in the future? well, there's 2 aspects to this whole grouping. the one is a political grouping. it's a political group and trying to counter the western influence. i 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 groupings enters into 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 bunch of 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. let's take a look at some other world news. now. firefighters in greece are battling wildfire,

spray 6. today, places on the edges of athens, destroyed several homes, forced evacuations, and threatened a national park, and a historic monastery. these $350.00 fires have broken out across greece and recent days, leaving at least 20 people that to rudy giuliani, who used to be former us president donald trump's lawyer, a surrender to authorities at a jail in georgia. he's facing charges related to efforts to overturn from selection looks in 2020. truly on these bond was set at $150000.00 us dollars. the former new york mayor has denied wrong doing and trump is set to turn himself into authorities in georgia as well in what could be the most legally dangerous case against him. he's been no stranger to the inside of a court room since he left the oval office having been indicted in 4 separate cases in georgia, though the former president is 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 me 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 slept, the former us president at 18 others with 41 charges over there, 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 look, well i want to do is 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 signed 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, so mending his spot in the history books. as the only former president charged with breaking the law for voting is continued bring in zimbabwe, the general election for another day. authorities extended the pole in some areas because of delays, which left people waiting up for 10 hours to cast their ballots, some pulling stations last pile of 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 session party

a keeps the government of rigging and voters suppression. many of the delays were in the capital her. all right, where opposition support is usually strongest. sim bob winds are electing their president, parliament and local counselors. it's only the 2nd to election since the death of roberts will go back, who dominated politics ends in public for decades. the domain to change the future? same buffy and flocked to the polling stations after 2 decades of economic deals and with inflation, gotta be joining it around 100 percent people at their spec for change the most up with us in our business because i move in. so we need something good to help them end of the roads added to the d monkey most you want some such and such and bob with you tired of abusing and stuff. 6 did are to keep candidates facing of industry in election

incoming president and doug from designed to be as party and nelson to me from the opposition party citizens coalition for change and then got back to the board in 2017, after a military and one in elections the following year, but that when was widely disputed, he says his government has created stability and economic opportunities in some property the the, the, the, the, the, the yet got on p, a courted, often pop the inside of the regular work to mesa in done is pledging you cannot make to mess corruption and more inclusive country

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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 condemned japan as irresponsible. it has banned to sea food in ports, bare shine, hauser as a professor of applied radio chemistry at the technical university of vienna. he w asked him what alternatives might have been available for handling for kachimba wastewater? here's part of his response, or i would say that the release of the retail water to the facility is the best solution that is at hand. since i've 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 trivial 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 earthquake spot, 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. so got you. of those down shine houses are a professor of applied radio chemistry at the technical university of vienna speaking to dw earlier. that's your news update. before we go, was going to recap of our top, the story russian authority say the head of the wagner mercenary group was on a plane that crashed, showing everyone on board

a telegram channel linked to wagner has announced gift any provisions. death becomes 2 months after he let them mutiny against precious military leadership. they turn to focus on europe is coming up after a short break. if you want more news analysis, you can find that on our website to at t w dot com. i'm clear. richardson, thanks so much for watching the

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