wrote, wrote, once you love he's, he's the, you're watching the, the names wife from berlin. no word from the kremlin. yes. about the fates of you have any for goes and bought the wagner chief and his deputy are presumed dead aviation authorities in russian. i say the 2 were on board a plane that came down with no survivors. germany's foreign minister says it's no coincidence, but the focus has turn to the kremlin france. there's also coming up on the show, the bricks. a group of countries invites 6 new members to joined, including saudi arabia and of ron. while all members publicly expressed support for

admitting new countries, there had been divisions over the extent and speed of the expansion the . i'm quite richardson. welcome to the show. the leader of russia's wagner, mercenary group is believed. dad, you have, danny, for. goshen was one of lot them are approved and the most important allies until he let a june rebellion against moscow's military leadership. russian authorities say for goshen was listed as a passenger on a flight that crashed on route from moscow to saint petersburg. then people aboard this aircraft when it crashed and the people region north west of moscow. all of them, 7 passengers and 3 group members were reportedly killed the russian aviation

authorities. se wagner groups chiefs game he play. goshen was on the passenger list, but the kremlin has not come from his desk. it really depends whether this is actually the boss or somebody traveling under the name of you get a new precaution because we know the precaution used and yes is a rather people who assumed his name in order to travel as part of his security measures in order to obfuscate his probable plans and to conceal where he actually was. in saint petersburg, revolts of precautions deb have spread and supporters have been gathering to pay tribute to the fall and he ro, goshen was born in saint petersburg where he later met vladimir putin and became a close ally. in 2014, he found that the wagner must, and every group which took its gruesome tactics, the countries around the world and is accused of committing bull crimes. in monday,

the central african republic and syria, a peer to the group, also played a major role in russia out on ukraine up in capturing buckling in june the golden staged a mutiny again, specials, military leadership. it was shock live, and many observers assumed the off to the move. his life was in danger. including us president joe, by the new president. if you ever, reactive cross in russia. i don't know. do you think i don't know enough. meanwhile, russia has started a criminal investigation into the plane crash. as for the confirmation of the golden step, all eyes remain on the kremlin. while germany's foreign minister and alana bare balk, has suggested that it's no accident that the focus is now on russia's leadership to

provide answers. here is what she have to say. when asked about the crash a little earlier. ok, my own class, it is still not clear what exactly happened because of course we cannot trust the official russian pronouncements is actually all about is what we do now is that for at least one and a half years, we've been repeatedly lied to by the kremlin organ on die and so far it is no coincidence that the world is now looking at the kremlin out after an ex ally of putin who fell out of favor. he suddenly falls from the sky. 2 months after he attempted an uprising email and often peeped to. so let's go more on this. i'm joined now by german lawmaker for us may have to vege from the green party, a member of the parliament defense committee, a very warm welcome to dw news. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. um we just heard for administer and elaina bare bach there. uh, she also said

a quote. russia will continue with it. cynical game with or without wagner, not only in ukraine, but above all in africa. what is your view? is wagner as unimportant as the german foreign minister seems to be suggesting here? well, it's not that it's 1st of all. hello is richard and sorry for that. but 1st of all, it's not totally fox, not such said di, didn't the plane crush we have seen, or we must take into account that the leader group regarding and others have been at been killed or died in the accident. whatever. what would come out? wagner will still exist in africa, and it's still engaged in advertising, in the irregular army as a long arm of the gremlins politics. and will they continue to engage in africa to the same extent that we have seen so far, or will these apparent dots in some way we can their impacts there

of that's part of speculation. but as far as we know, in the recent past, we've seen that the criminal has oper russians supported with logging in africa. and we need to take into account that this continues to happen. we're seeing in south africa that break states are extending and enlarging the operations and putting said there and the speech that it will extend business and ask them. now i want to ask you, is the german government taking or discussing taking any action in response to these developments as well. we are constantly without pauses engaged and discussing what is going on. but the we don't support irregular trips. we do it with contracts. i'm deal with governments that have been democracy, democracy typically elected so it's for us, it's important that rely reliability on both sides of factors and so on. to solve

that, we can continue working to get a box and always upright operations locking operations, always surprisingly, changing directions. so there is no reliability that so we can only say it's all part is an app or job that it's important that you look out on the outcome, not for the short term. mm hm. and i want to ask you about at reports that survey a survey, can the commander of russia's air force being dismissed from his post this week? do you think that fruit in here might be staging a purge against those? he proceeds as this loyal to him. it's difficult to say what is going on and putting the states. it's an old story, jerry, in states. so it's part of the speculation. what happens one to the other because we don't look into the black box. that's such an overall, it is important that we look into the interests that russia has in the african states and in other states and is trying to change them across elected governments

by force. and this is something we have to look very formally too. well, thank you. so much for taking the time to speak with us. i'm afraid that's all we have time for, for now. that is determined, parliamentary parliamentary and for us we have to fetch me. thanks. thank you. is richard bye. buy to the bricks group of nations as announced, it will expand its membership as its 5 members hope to boost their global influence . for sale of russia, india, china, and south africa will formally invite 6 additional members to join the economic alliance. at the start of 2024, south africa's presidents throw rental posts outside argentina, egypt, ethiopia, iran saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have been invited to join in the 1st phase of the expansion. the announcements came on the final day of the block summit in johannesburg. let's get more on this from d w's. let's get more of this from dw hands brunt and joining the now in the studio

. a 106 admissions announced today, were you surprised to see who's going to be joining the club? no. the names, in fact, we're not really surprised that we're a lot of names that were bounded to balance a bug before hand. and the 6th was certainly amongst the top names that were being mentioned. and what surprised me a little was that there was agreement so quickly. and in fact, that these admissions of 6 new papers, members that eventually have more than doubling the membership of breaks. but that was taken so quickly that these countries will, in fact, become part of the organization by january and otherwise in just a few months time. that's all happened pretty quickly. and i think that was the result of the fact that 2 of the major countries in this, in this group, in russia and china, very much interested in expanding it because i see a trying to build a counter way to western influence bus 14 of the russian president and she's in ping spoke about this and let's just listen to what they have to say stores most

visits. so i must note that as it turned out, this work was not easy. and president rum opposed that it showed amazing diplomatic skills and agreeing on all positions, including those related to the expansion of breaks breaks i do, but i would like to congratulate new members who will work at full scale next year . i would like to assure all, colleagues that we will continue the work that we have started today and you look at what i to expand the influence of breaks actually in the well i will shoot you over to the breaks countries. are all countries with important influence and shoulder, important responsibility for world peace and development just for you and these new members provide a new starting point for bricks, cooperation, john, and in general, new institutes into our corporation mechanism. so put in and she, there painting

a picture of much closer cooperation to come. going into the summit in johannesburg though there was some disagreement among the breaks kind of countries about, you know, who else to let in, how quickly to expand. it wasn't clear what the criteria are. it seems like now come to some sort of decision about what those criteria look like. it must, it does appear like that and to the leaders have been talking about to, you know, criteria has been agreed upon. but they haven't really been very clear about what those criteria are. they were 22 formal applications for membership and moving 40 countries to express their interest. and in fact, that some of the continues at the moment with the discussions with a, somewhere on 60 countries a. so there is an increase interest or d. those are talking about some form of partnership with bricks. we're not quite sure what that means, whether there is a kind of membership on the one hand. but the partnership on the other. what does

that still seems to be fairly open? but the idea that the breaks will be a good thing. she's didn't think talks about the small groups of countries getting together and trying to determine what happens in the world. he's talking about the g 7 industrialized countries, i think. and he's saying that the other countries of a man, many the many are getting together in order to build the console with she's in thing and russia certainly a very interested in that and have put, have, have gotten that will kind of go from the way in this in this expansion. yeah. and the countries lining up to join. i'm just quickly, before we go one of the other things on the agenda at this summit. of course a potential common bricks, currency. we know they've approved a resolution to look into how this might be done. what more can you tell us about that? that's an extremely complicated method, but the background to that is that bricks is not in the political association as a political come to wage to western influence. it is also, and you cannot make association and maybe that is more important even for some of the new members. argentina, for instance,

is desperately needing additional funding. so does iran, so does russia in a sense that isolated from a lot of western funding? so they're trying to get away from dependence on the data in terms of approving or getting credit through their own bank, the new development bank. but you're trying to find a common currency to do that. and to the couple as it was from the international thought on marcus, the west and markets the that's going to be a big ask difficult proposition. indeed it is. thank you so much for joining us in the studio. that is d w as 100 percent. and let's take a look now at some other world news headlines at this hour in moscow court has extended the detention of us or journalists, evan gosh, coverage by another 3 months. the wall street journal reporter was arrested in march on espionage charges, which carried a 20 year sentence, good coverage, and his employer denied the allegations and the u. s. government has declared him to be wrongfully detains. firefighters in greece are battling wildfires for

a 6 to day. place is 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 that a land slide in central to a has left. a luxury apartment block teetering dangerously close to collapse. the slip occurred after heavy overnight reigns, all residents were safely evacuated. she lives been drenched by tranquil down for some recent days, leading the president to declare a state of emergency in for regions and rudy giuliani, who used to be a former us president donald trump's lawyer, has surrendered to authorities at a jail in georgia. he's facing charges related to efforts to overturn from selection loss in 2020 giuliani's bond was set at $150000.00 us dollars. the

former new york mer has denied wrong doing to. and just before we go, let's get a recap of our top story. russian authorities and say the head of the wagner mercenary group was on a plane crashed, killing everyone on board. a telegram channel linked to wagner pronounced way of getting precautions dead, comes 2 months after he let a mutiny against the restaurants and electric. thanks so much for watching the, the news, the one to know what's going on in roads. now. a group of friends is getting ready for an unforgettable mind. someone is in wiring. this beauty. all this is rhodes. now. now is the time for you to book your trip to rhodes rhodes once you love he's, he's the

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