of the you are watching dw names coming to live from berlin. no word from the kremlin. yes . about the fates of you have danny, for goes past the wagner chief and his deputy are presumed dead in a plane crash ukraine's presence, as keith had nothing to do with that, while germany's foreign minister says it's no coincidence that the focus has turned to the kremlin for answer also coming up on the show, the bricks group of countries invited 6 new members to join, including saudi arabia and iran. while all members publicly expressed support for admitting new countries, there had been divisions over the extent and speed of the expansion.

the hello, i'm clear, richardson, thank you very much for joining us. the leader of russia's wagner mercenary group is believed that you have gandy per goshen was one of latimer pollutants, most important allies until he let a june rebellion against moscow was military leadership. the russian authorities. a provision was listed as a passenger on a flight. the crash on route from all scouts to st. petersburg. then people aboard this aircraft when it crashed and the people region northwest of moscow. all of them 7 passengers and 3 group members were reportedly killed. the russian aviation authorities say wagner groups chiefs game. he played ocean was on the passenger list, but the kremlin has not confirmed his death. it really depends whether this is

actually the boss or somebody traveling under the name of you. can you precaution? because we know that 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 st. petersburg, revolts of precautions that 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 then regroup, which took its gruesome tactics the countries around the world. and is accused of committing bull crimes in mali, the central african republic and syria theater. the wagner group also played a major role in russia on ukraine up in capturing buffalo in june to goshen

stage to move to me again, specials military leadership. it was shock live, and many observers assumed the officer to move his life was in danger. including us president joe by the new president, the other reactive 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 pedagogy and step on lives, remain on the kremlin to. and germany's foreign minister analynn a very bach has suggested it's no accident that the focus is now on russia's leadership to provide answers. here's what she had to say when asked about the crash law is on class,

it is still not clear what exactly happened because of course, we can not trust the official russian pronouncements. if i see above is what we do know is that for at least one and a half years, we've been repeatedly lied to by the kremlin here. and so far it is no coincidence that the world is now looking at the kremlin fold 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 heaped bare bach, went on to say that russia would quote, to continue with its cynical game with or without wagner, not only in ukraine, but above all in africa for more on foreigners role in africa. i spoke to for us the i told rich a lawmaker from bare box spring party in germany, and a member of the parliament's defense committee. as of all, it's not totally fox, not such died in the plane crash we have seen or we must take into account that the

leader group regarding and others have been and been killed or died in the accident . whatever. what will come out, wagner will still exist in africa, and it's still engaged and a half drive and the other 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 their of that's part of speculation. but as far as we know in the recent past, we have seen that the criminal has oppressions as appointed 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 abril expense, business, and aspect. now i want to ask you,

is the german government taking or discussing taking any action in response to these developments where we are constantly without boxes engaged and discussing what is going on. but uh, 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 to rely, reliability on both sides of factors and so on. to solve that we can continue working together uh, box, always upright operations, rocking operations always, surprisingly, changing directions. so there is no reliability that so we can only say it's all part is an app for god 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. so it's difficult to say what is going on and 14, so um the states, it's an old story terry, in states. so it's part of 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 interest that russia has in the african states and in other states and is trying to change democratic, 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 bye. and we take a look now with some other world news headlines. a moscow court has extended the detention of us journalist, evan gosh, coverage by another 3 months. the wall street journal report was arrested in march

on espionage charges which carry a 20 year sentence, crushed richard and his employer deny the allegations and the u. s. government has declared him to be wrongfully detained president. what would even result, lensky mark, ukraine's independence day at a ceremony and tease. it also comes exactly 18 months after the start of russia's full scale invasion to lensky use the occasion to praise the military members fighting against russian forces. ukraine declared its independence from the soviet union on this day in 1991 and rudy giuliani, who used to be a former us present donald trump lawyer of surrender to authorities at a jail in georgia. he's facing charges related to efforts to overturn trump selection loss in 2020 giuliani's bond was set at $150000.00 us dollars. the former new york mayor has denied wrong doing while the brakes group of nations has announced a will expand its membership as its 5 members hope to boost their global influence

. brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa will formally invite 6 additional members to join the economic alliance at the start of 2024 and south africa's presidents their over. i'm opposed to, i said that origin, tina 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 box summit in johannesburg. looked at more or less from dw hands, brandon joining the now in the studio, a $106.00 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 banded to balance a bug before hand on the 6th was certainly amongst the top names that were being mentioned. and what surprised me a little was that there was agreements so quickly. and in fact, that these admissions of 6 new papers by members of virtually have more than

doubling the membership of breaks that that was taken so quickly that these countries were, in fact, become part of the organization by january in other ways in just a few months. time that's all happened pretty quickly and i think that was the result of the fact that filled with the major countries in this, in this group, in russia and china, very much interested in expanding it because i see the trying to build a counter way to west and influence bus 14 of the russian president and she's been paying a 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 . my 2nd book and 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 chung and in general, new insights is into our cooperation mechanism are so put in and she, they're painting a picture of much closer cooperation to come. going into this summit in johannesburg though there was some disagreement among the brakes 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 looked like. it must, it does appear like that and to the leaders have been talking about the, you know,

criteria has been agreed upon. but they haven't really been very clear about what those criteria are. they were $22.00 formal applications within the ship and more than 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 uh, on the one hand, but 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 golf and 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 comment of 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 count 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 a national 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 the approving or getting credit through their own bank, then you develop and 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 dw is hands punt, and in sports, news or football is world governing body fee for has announced it is opening disciplinary proceedings against the president of the spanish football association . luis for this to be always had come under widespread criticism for forcibly kissing spain forward. and jennifer adam, also on the lips following the nation's world cup. final victory over england on saturday, on sunday, excuse me, where we always initially play down the backlash, but has since apologized, and it calls that he should step down of the, you're watching the news, recapping our top story for you. now. authorities in russia say the head of the foreigner, mercenary group, it, yes. can you provision was on a plane that crashed and killing everyone on board. there's still no official comments from the kremlin and coming up next in deed of units. asia why jakarta is government can't provide clean air for its residents,

debris and india is space milestone once landing a space perhaps on the moon means for the country. energy will have that and much more. coming up for a short break. i'm clear, richardson, that's all for now. thank you so much for joining us. the shipping outdoor and we don't take money under your mommy's not coming back if it's over february 2022 russian troops and fated the ukrainian city of coupons. it was recaptured. 6 months later, the occupation this hard drive under russian occupations.