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weaker than the world that he was. ♪ louis: hello and welcome to the program. we will take a closer look at vladimir boot and his reaction throughout the day today. also in ukraine, the last couple hours a russian rocket attacked the kremlin. i will talk you through what we know and what we don't know about that attack. also in the program, donald trump is -- saying -- comments on having confidential documents. we will play that audio later. --louis cabal cancels the rest of his show. he says he is still learning to adjusted -- adjust to the impact of his threats. we will lea more about that. first, we want to focus on

ukraine and the kremlin. we have been getting reports and seeing pictures here. this is the aftermath effect of russian attack on an area of the city popular with restaurants. to warn you, we are getting some distressing details in about what people there are reporting. officially, two people have been killed, 22 injured. that is from ukrainian official -- as you can see by some of the pictures there, the extent of the damage. rescue efforts are still ongoing. it is a shopping and restaurant area a city center basically so as you can imagine pretty busy. there are of course people being trapped under the rubble and debris there. this detail coming through in the last couple of hours -- we will be keeping across any developments from ukraine.

meanwhile, we want to take you to russia and as cal president who has been -- president putin has been dealing with this over the weekend of course. today, he spoke to the military and thanked them for preventing civil war. it is not quite clear how they prevented the war and that simply is the wrong -- they turned it around themselves in that report in the attempt over the weekend. with more details now is our editor, steve rosenberg. steve: at the kremlin, it was pump with a -- pomp with a purpose. to remind russians he is still in charge around here. waiting for putin two and a half soldiers and and guards. having surviving -- soldiers and

garden -- many soldiers and guards. -- >> you have saved our motherland from a people. in fact, you have stopped the civil war. steve: in fact the reality was different. the bottom -- buck met soldiers -- bachman soldiers cheered after they said they will not press charges against him. but the kremlin is still presenting this as a trial -- triumph by the president. the mutiny of this was a major challenge threatening putin 's authority but the uprisin is over and now the kremlin is trying to frame what happened as a victory or the president and -- for the president and russia. but where is yevgeny prigozhin

? after his deal with the kremlin he agreed to leave belarus. one said yeah, he is here, but in exile. could mr. prigozhin still be a threat to the kremlin? not if vladimir putin can hp it. he is suggesting that investigators may probe the finances. [speaking native language] not to make trouble. the last few days they put him under huge pressure. now, president putin is determined to show he is in control. bbc news, moscow. lewis: the nato secretary-general and stoltenberg said the events over the weekend and that nato would increase its commitment to help ukraine. >> we also all the events in

russia over the last few days. these are internal russian matters, but what is clear is that president putin in h illegal war against ukraine has deepened the issues and created new tensions in russia. at the same time, we must not underestimate russia. it is even that weti c important that we continue to provide ukraine our support. i expect that at our summit in a couple weeks time we will send the clear message of our commitment. lewis: our correspondent sarah has been following this. sarah: what we are seeing happening in russia today is all about rewriting the narrative and reasserting this image of vladimir putin as a man in control. to suggest throughout the crisis he was decisive and on top of what was going on.

we saw the images of him flanked by his security forces in the kremlin compound and thanking them for what he said was a heroic action over the weekend. remembering the pilots who were shot down and killed during that march -- on moscow. and the circumstance of that is still unclear. so, about, as i say reasserting the idea that putin is strong. but at the same time we have heard about what has happened. it has been confirmed by that belarusian president that prigozhin landed in the area that morning. he will be given somewhere to stay. he has been told that he can bed down there for a bit if you want to -- if he wants to. and they will look after him and do the same for any other militant that want to follow him and join him in belarus. what they will do there is not clear.

th talked about the idea that they could join the belarusian army. and the defense. one thing is clear he will not want a dependent army and his own power beingstablished in belarus. we have heard colorful details from him about his own mediation efforts during that crisis. most of that -- is trying to shore up the idea that vladimir boot was always the man -- vladimir putin was always the man in control. lewis: thank you for coming on the program. >> thank you for having me. lewis: what is your response and thought in watching vladimir putin today in his response? >> ihink it is worth restating just how shocking event were too russians and to putin and moscow because the challenge came from loyalists. he was known as putin's -- and

it turned into his war dog. it will be hard for his propagandist to turn this episode into something that can easily be blamed on the west, liberals, gays, or the other narratives we have in over the last year area of the shop waves will really take time to play out, but putin must know how he acts next and -- it is about the lessons we draw from this episode. lewis: what about the treatment now and how he deals with them? the attempt to integrate it into the regular army are the fight in belarus and joined the army there. and -- still the leader of prigozhin how>> we know from history that

putin with people who are perceived to betray him. he used the strongest language in his video messages over the weekend. on monday, when referring to prigozhin there was no effort to -- despite his attempts to say his challenge was again putin . and he was calculating that putin would try to weigh in on his military elites. putin 's response made the battle lines clear. it is hard to believe he will be able to live out his time in peace in belarus. i think what we have seen so far is damage control a. i would not want to be in his shoes at the moment. lewis: what do you think his next move is? what options does he have? reporter: i'm not >> -- i'm not

sure he has any options. -- despite his most dramatic attempt to prevent that. as we know he is stil involved in africa. he tried to make elvin to a man who was essential to putin resolving all the problems that putin might have. but he seems to have overestimated how far he could go. this in itself shows one of the laws in the system -- flaws in the system that he would allow these fighting to continue betwee to keep his military on edge. perhaps it was useful to have prigozhin but i think he never expected us to see this. it also shows the risk of a forever war because instability within russia that a -- continued fight might bring. lewis: going back to vladimir putin, you said right at the

beginning this is a big question of what happens next and how allies deal with him and the west deals with him. how doou see this playing out? >> i am afraid ukrainians cheering -- i know this better route used then fighting among the ranks. and it is among some of the fiercest buyers -- fighters. they will hope that the disarray on the front lines will continue. even worse some ukrainian officials say the fact that putin prigozhin struck a deal with saying he might be willing to negotiate. but -- that putin struck a deal with prigozhin saying he might be willing to negotiate. -- we are going to face more repression in russia i believe and a doubling down in you rain.

it is -- ukraine. it is highly unlikely that he is tryingo show he is a man of strength and he states his political future on ukraine that he will back down. lewis: thank you very much thank you for coming on the program. >> thank you. lewis: around the world and across the u.k., this is bbc news. taking a look at the in the u.k. now area the coroner has concluded that -- went missing while walking her dog in lancashire, she died accidentally falling into cold water. she was a mother of two, and did not have any desire to take her own life. >> former house secretary matt hancock has said the u.k. was not ready for a pandemic. as they focus too much on the aftermath of the outbreak rather than stopping containing disease. he also put blame on

international organization such as the world health organization advising against lockdowns. strike action by the world college will not continue after this ballot -- as england failed to achieve a leg threshold. voters want to continue to take industrial action. and they failed to meet the mandate over 43% allowed the 50% threshold required. right, you are live with bbc news next. ms. fraley government is advancing plans for some 5700 new homes in the unoccupied west ba despite pressure for stopping expansion. this is important to those palestinians. russia was the troubled by the development. they were shot dead by palestinians last week. following days of violence.

that has flared since israel's prime minister was reelected last year. and the security council met to diuss the issue. next members of the security council encouraged additional steps to restore a calm and de-escalate tensions and call on all parties to refrain from unilateral action that further in name tension -- inflame attention. they want to reduce tension and prevent escalation. lewis: we will talk through this issue joining me ambassador gerald fritz he is an extinguished -- fellow. he has his own thing tank in the middle east. thank you for joining us on the program. >> it is a pleasure to be with you. lewis: what do you make of the latest actions? >> well, i think that it is very troubling as the -- as we heard in the security council. that although we got through the

ramadan dos and that adolf hitler -- ramadan period and the adolf hitler afterwards there has been increased violence on both sides. we like to be heading on a situation that is potentially explosive. it is correct for the biden administration to be very troubled by what they are seeing on the ground. lewis: very troubled by what they see on the ground, what kind of actions or in want them to exert? >> this is a problem for the administration because i think that joe biden, as he is entering into a campaign period, is going to want to try to keep the situation in the middle east in the israeli palestinian contacts as quiet as possible. there was no good option for him, really, i think the administration is unlikely and

unwilling to really exert a great deal of pressure on the israeli government. and yet really nothing short of a great deal of pressure is going to make much difference in trying to bring the two sides together. lewis: how do you evaluate the role of net yahoos here? >> i think he has made a dip -- deal with the devil and he is try to get back in the prime minister's seat. he has brought people into his government who are rock throwers. who are interested in is estimating tensions. interested in provocative actions. we see consistently that he has demonstrated no capacity whatsoever to control his administration. lewis: and while given that then, i want to ask you to look ahead, look forward. where do you see this? >> i think that, again, it's going to be extremely difficult for the biden administration and

the larger international community to keep situation -- the situation from spinning out of control. on the one hand, on the palestinian side, you have weak leadership. and not much ability to control the situation. on the israeli side, you have a government that has demonstrated the willingness to make the kinds of concessions and steps they would need in order to calm tensions. and i think what we are going to be seeing government year or year and a half is is very late -- israeli effort to mitigate whatever situation might arise. it is going to be a tight rope that the biden administration is going to have to walk. lewis: i'm scrabbling around here. there does not seem to be any cheek of light. there does not seem to be anything that you can search for

to seize on and work with here. >> well it is -- [laughter] i don't mean to ruin your evening -- lewis: [laughter] >> i think it is a very serious situation. it's going to rest the biden administration to take a harder line within the government -- that government.there are not really wanting to do that because of the domestic political implications that might arise. they do not want to open up themselves to criticism that they are being overly harsh on jerusalem. it is a hard situation. joe biden is going to have to try to tap dance through this. lewis: a very worrying and concerning -- we really appreciate your expertise in talking with us. thank you very much. >> pleasure. lewis: we go to china now where

the chinese crimea has criticized western government for their steps to reduce the dependency on china. here is speaking at the world economic forum meeting. let's take a listen. [speaking native language] >> as you know some in the west are hyping up the lines and de-risking. [speaking native language] >> these two concepts to a certain extent our a forced proposition. lewis: he is a fellow for international political economy of the council on or in relations. nese communist party finances its ambitions. thank you for joining me on the program. >> thank you for having me. lewis: what is he getting out and talking about? >> throughout his speech, he is

really trying to emphasize for weight, the four points can be suarized into two key messages, i interpret the first one as aiming at injecting confidence into the chinese economy and secondly he wants to present china as a pro-globalization road trade and anti-protection to some power. lewis: is his argument with other countries who do not want to engage so much that they are being protectnist in some way? >> yes, to a certain extent, from a little bit of the clip you showed. he emphasized the people of china against the narrative being put out of the united states and european union. the idea that certain countries, especially in the west, trying to hype up the idea of de-risking china from the world.

the second largest economy is a false proposition. from that perspective, he really wanted to emphasize that it was not china -- china is not trying to de-globalize. and that the globalizing is actually being organized or opposed by the west. lewis: are any of the countries in the west going to listen to him or that message? with the intent on the risking? >> a lot of this i would take a step back by saying that he criticize the west for western government for overreaching. but scholars such as susan sherk has talked about the chinese government overreaching. the point is not who is overreaching or not, the bigger background that he is delivering in his speech is actually china

slowing down economic growth. as we know, beijing recently has been grappling with economic headwinds as the covid recovery has lost steam in many areas from retail sales, manufacturing, and property market. from that perspective he wanted to emphasize a confidence. inject confidence into the chinese economy rather than trying to put china as a leader of the globalization. lewis: i see, how dependent is china on these exporting around the world? >> that's an excellent question. if you ask me this question december of last year, i would say it seems that the driver for china's economic growth would be consumer expenditure because that was basically the strategy the government or the communist party put out late last year,

however, it seems that all indications suggest that they are very much reliant on eort ribbon growth as well as reverting back -- export driven growth as well as reverting back to market driven rope -- growth. lewis: thank you for joining us. >> thank you. lewis: we have breaking news this hour out of ukraine. this is a russian attack on a busy city center effectively. this is some of the aftermath from this. this is the restaurant area they attacked around 7:30 in the dinner and in the city center area there. we are getting more reaction to it from the u.s. the white house saying, "we condemn russia's pluto -- russia's brutal strike against ukraine which causes death and

destruction and has taken the lives of so many ukrainian civilians. " a couple details specifically about this attack, we were initially told two people were killed, 20 or so injured, but we are also told that there were people continually stuck under the rubble and a rescue operation was underway. we certainly, by no means have any final figures or numbers on that. i should say these numbers are coming from a ukrainian official emergency services. from these pictures they are at the scene right now and they are taking right now away. since we came on air at the top of that hour, the interior and minister now saying three people died and 18 injured including a child. these are the updated numbers from the interior minister and the three people killed, 18

injured including a child. we reiterate that the people could potentially still be under the debris because it is such a densely populated area of the city center. we will keep you across those details in a moment. i am lewis, this is bbc news. ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪

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