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>> i am called as men in washington and this is bbc world news america. he masterminded a rebellion and disappeared. new details emerge on the whereabouts of the wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin. threads joins the fabric of social media lives. tens of millions reportedly signed up. we will see how it compares to twitter. plus, same-sex message -- marriage inches closer to reality in india amid fierce opposition. welcome to world news america. it was the uprising that captured of the world's attention and left more questions than answers when it comes to russia's war in ukraine. the latest twist involved the whereabouts of yevgeny prigozhin

the head of the wagner group that led the rebellion. today, the leader of belarus said he is in russia, not in belarus, as bidding understood. alexander luca pop made the comment to a small gathering of journalists. one was our own steve rosenberg. he has this port. >> there are still some me questions about the russian rebellion. what he have the answers? the leader of belarus alekzdandr lukashenko brokered the agreement that ended the mutant team -- mutiny, so we are told. under a deal with the kremlin the wagner mercenary chief yevgeny prigozhin was the most -- supposed to move here to belarus with some of his fighters, but no sign of him yet. >> as of this morning the wagner fighters, very serious ones, after fighting in a bad mood. as for yevgeny prigozhin, he is

in st. petersburg. or maybe he flew to moscow this morning or somewhere else. but he is not in belarus. >> yevgeny prigozhin has not been seen in public for days. though, we have seen inside what is reported to be his st. petersburg mansion. these images leaked online were reportedly taken during a rai by russian security services. they show weapons, gold bars, and lots of wigs. >> i asked mr. lukashenko if the wagner group leader and his group move here would he let them use belarus's territory to attack ukraine or to stabilize other countries in the region. -- or destabilize other countries in the region. >> steve, we have never attacked anyone and we are not intending to. no one will use our territory to attack anyone.

but, if there is an act of aggression against us, we will respond. if wagner are here, then they, like the belarusian army, will defend our interests. >> ever sends the wagner mutiny, the main question we have been asking is what on earth is going on? at nearly two weeks on we still do not know. the deal announced was clear. yevgeny prigozhin goes to belarus. wagner fighters join him and also go to batteries. but we see no sign of them. for mutant -- from mutiny to missiles, the russian nuclear warheads the crib none says it is moving to belarus. -- the kremlin says it is moving to belarus. would mr. lukashenko have a say as to whether to launch them? >> joe biden could say the same. or prime minister sunak.

>> but these are not your weapons. it is russian ones. it is not your decision to take. >> in ukraine a whole army is fighting with foreign weapons, nato weapons, because they have run out of their own. why can't i fight with someone else's? >> but these are nuclear. we are not talking pistols. >> yes, nuclear. they are weapons too. i want to make sure you mention we are talking about tactical nuclear weapons here. >> the logic of a leader that, with an iron fist, and the kremlin's backing has held power for nearly 30 years. steve rosenberg bbc news minsk. >> the social media platform twitter has any rival. this i i t. is cawhen you open the app it s not look a lot different. it was launcheovernight by meta that owns facebook and

instagram. twitter has been having problems since it was bought by elon musk. how worried should he be? our technology correspondent mark tippetts lot has been finding out. >> meta's twitter style app allows users to share posts and photos and videos and arrived on app stores at midnight last night. in that time it has racd up a significant number of users. 10 million in seven hours. we have had a chance to get logged in and it feels a bit like twitter with some differences. threads allow posts of up to 500 characters compared to twitter's 218. threads allows five minutes of video uploads compared to twitter's two minutes 20 seconds. threads is part of instagram, meaning it was potentially connected to instagram's hundreds of millions of existing accounts and their data. this is causing concerns about

meta harvesting user information. >> you have this big network, friends, influencers, celebrities, as well as regular people. the data is intermingled. that is ok in the u.k. and the u.s.. the data protection commission in europe is stricter about this intermingling of data. as yet, the app is not allowed in the eu. threads will have to work hard to make the data more compatible with markets around the world where rules differ. >> a challenger to elon musk's twitter. threads launch will capitalize on its rivals problems including massive job cuts and issues with advertisers. could threads be simply exchanging one tech billionaire elon musk for another, mark zuckerberg? mark chee's lack bbc news. >> not to get more on threads i am joined by ryan heath the global technology correspondent at axios.

before we get into the app itself, i want to get into reports that twitter is threatening to sue meta saying that meta hired former employees to copy the out. -- the app. what do you make of that? could this in-depth in court at some point? >> i am not a lawyer but i don't takehe threats very seriously. meta came out with a clear response that they do not hire and have not hired former twitter engineers. i do not think there is much that is secret about how twitter operates. its branding was literally as the worlds of global town square. at the elementary nature of it was pretty clear. like, there were several elements that plenty of people have tried to copy before. there is a lot of copying that goes back and fth between different social platforms. this is not to say it might not end up before a judge or jury. but i think at this point it is a pretty fruitless exercise from twitter.

>> as we heard in the peace and clearly has elon musk himself things, the two outs are very similar. there are key differences. we are calling this the tale of the tape. a few differences. longer posts and videos are allowed on threads. there will be verification via instagram. interestingly, no hashtags. that is kind of the copyright i guess of twitter, what they are known for. i want to ask about another key difference. you cannot delete your threads account once you have signed up, is that right? >> yes. if you are creating this account whether because you downloaded it directly or because you join from instagram, if you create the link with instagram they are bound together. it is kind of a poison pill. if you want to get rid of one, you will have to get rid of both. the message there is really that any user that signs up needs to be aware of the bargain they are going into and they need to look at some of the fine print. that is that if you are n

paying for a service, you are paying your data. that is how meta the owner of threads and instagram makes money. it follows you around. it shares information with advertisers that it tries to make money from the advertisers. you need to be aware of that. you might be signing up for more competition then you have first suspected when you heard about the out. -- more complications then you first suspected when you heard about the app. >> are there concerns about data protection's with this app? >> yes. and that is the reason why threads is not operating in the europe now. in the u.s. there is no federal privacy law. people using services online here in the u.s. do not have the same protections and that are available to some users in europe. at the same time, because the owner of threads, meta, has been find and rapped on the knuckles many times in europe over data

protection policies, they are proceeding more cautiously before they enter the eu market. another message that needs to be taken on board, getting onto this 30 million users in the first 20 hours, meta was able to do that without having anybody in the eu on board. clearly, there is a lot of potential on the runway for more and more users to sign up. it may never get to the scale of twitter. it may not reach instagram and facebook levels of billions of users. but, there is clearly a lot of interest in the service. >> i want to ask you about the number. 30 million users in one day, clearly a lot cing from instagram. mastodon has tried to take some users from twitter. there is an out called blue sky -- app called blue sky. what are the odds threads could be the twitter killer? >> there are significant chances. even if it is not a twitter killer, the track record of meta

is being able to run businesses very popularly in this space. i think they will succeed out of business level. they have a huge advantage by having the scale and experience in running businesses globally. that is not true of rivalst .tu have relationships with very deep-pocketed advertisers to continue to have the ball rolling. meta started with a lot of advantages in the situation. they might not be the coolest. they might not ever get back to the sense twitter had a decade ago, being the place you had to be. but they look like they are on the way to success. >> ryan heath the global technology correspondent with axios, thank you for taking the time to speak with us. >> thank you. >> u.s. treasury secretary janet yellen's in china to try to rebuild ties and trust between the two economic powerhouses. her visit is the second by a

senior biden official in as many months amid signs the chinese economy is flagging. youth unemployment is at a record high. exports are down. our china correspondent steven mcdonald has more. >> the chinese economy appears to show the economy rebounding strongly from the coronavirus. experts say it's not the case. rather, the consumers in this small city are choosing the low-cost tasty option at a time of pressure on household this place is great for ordinary people. recently it has been hard to make money. but it still easy to spend it. after three years of covid, the economy is slowly recovering. >> university graduates are being especially hit by china's economic rules with youth

unemployment hovering at or above 20%. >> yes, i am worried. there is a lot of competition. it's hard to find a job. all my classmates feel the same pressure. >> those who have jobs can be reluctant to spend. they are nervous about their financial security. you can see why if you travel just a bit further east. to the outirts of a larger city, qingdao, where a property explosion has not matched real demand from buyers or renters. >> this woman brought -- or bought a flat here a few years ago. but, the estate remains largely empty. it's value collapsed. >> of course, i am worried, but what can i do? >> everywhere there are shells of townhouses that appear abandoned. the problem with real estate supply and demand is not limited to this area. it is not even limited to this city. you can drive out of here for

hours and find clusters of towers with unoccupied or unfinished apartments. many where workers stopped altogether. consider, the same thing is happening in province after province across the country. in qingdao, strictions on the number of flats a person can buy have been eased in attempts to stimulate the market. >> i local b estate agent -- a local real estate agent says sales volumes were cut by 50% in recent years. >> prices are down because the market is saturated. too many homes are built and it is hard to sell them. >> this intimate cubes spread into the sprawling local court and therefore the world. reduced manufacturing and weak international demand means less stoves being exported. a slower consumption here means less imports of products from other countries.

tourism has started to recover on the beaches of qingdao. the government wants chinese people to spend more for the price of swimming here. however, the fear is pessimism is sitting in. and it could be hard to turn around. stephen mcdonald bbc news qingdao province. >> a look at other stories making headlines. former president donald trump's aide walt nauta pled guilty to charges brought by federal investigators in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. the navy veteran indicted at the same time as mr. trump faces six charges including conspiracy and making false statements. federal prosecutors allege he moved and hid boxes that contained classified records after the justice department ordered mr. trump to return government documents he kept at his florida estate. the company that operated the titan sub that imploded in the north atlantic last month has stopped all activities indefinitely. five people died when the vessel

was destroyed diving to the back of the titanic. the company has sin come under intense scrutiny amid questions about the safety of the sub. india's top court is set to deliver its verdict on whether same-sex marriage can be allowed. it is a proposal that has sharply divided the country. while government and religious groups opposed the idea, the lgbtq+ community is hopeful the court will again show the way, five years after it you criminalized -- decriminalized homosexuality. >> we just want to get married. >> you are not a normal human being. >> how are their lives affected by people like us? >> the fight for rights is louder than ever. forging ahead of demanding change. excited and hopeful that the supreme court will thou

recognize same-sex marriage. it is what they have been wanting. a college romance, they has been together for 15 years. they want to get married and have whatever every indian married couple has come equal rights. >> we want to be parents and start a family. we cannot adopt children. we cannot have surrogacy. >> even things like a medical emergency. what right does he have to make decisions on my behalf? >> emotional and also practical reasons. the judgment means a lot for day-to-day life. >> the supreme court elaborations are already underway. even that was unthinkable when they were growing up. >> there was a phobia in

society. even though we were best friends. if there was like an intimate moment between two guys there were a lot of jokes. i was always terrified and scared. that this would end my social life, my professional life. >> marriage is not only a question of dignity, as if that were not enough. it is also an issue of rights that lgbtq people are being denied. >> india's constitution is key to the issue. it promises equality to all. opposing sides have fought it out in the country's highest court. >> trying to get a particular social relationship recognized as marriage is not a fundamental right. >> a former judge of the delhi high court agrees. fighting it is against india's culture. he and 20 other judges wrote to the supreme court against the proposal.

>> what is same-sex marriage? an abnormality. marriage should be between a man and woman. how can same-sex couples adopt? >> why should society interfere? >> are they not part of the same society? >> if they are, shouldn't they have the same rights? >> that is only if they comply with existing societal norms. >> it took 70 years for the supreme court to legalize gay sex in 2018. people thought the right to marry might not be far behind. it is rare to see members of the lgbtq+ immunity claim public spaces like this in a country like india where public stigma and have you are still very much associated to sexual identity. gatherings like these show streth. >> global estimates say the community is now 10% of india's population.

the decision is not just about same-sex marriage. also, about path the country takes for equal rights. bbc news, delhi. >> this is basque rock off the east coast of scotland home to the world's largest colony of northern gannets. when avian flu struck last year thousands of birds died. one year on the gannett population is showing signs of recovery as our clima editor reports. >> basque rock in scotland is the largest gannett, the end of the world. david attenborough's team visited three years ago. at the height of summer, the whole of the rock is jampacked. >> this time last year, right in the middle of the breeding season, bird f struck.

gannets including chicks died in the thousands. this was the population in 2020. an estimated 150,000 birds. this is 2022. one year on, and we are headed back to bass rock with a team of scientists from edinburgh university doing the first population survey of the gannett this year. there have been huge changes. >> this area was completely covered with birds everywhere. no breeding, but it was filled with life. >> maggie has been telling her virtually every week for more than 20 years. >> in the space of three weeks, it is very different to watching this magnificent bird that is so strong. >> it will start from the far

corner. >> scientists set up a drum to take pictures. they will use artificial intelligence to count the birds. >> obviously, humans are more prone to error. counts of the birds get less accurate as time goes on. a computer doesn't get tired. >> even without ai you can see that a lot of birds have come back. some survived the flu. look how it can change their eyes. and there are chicks, lots of them. maggie is delighted. >> this is magnificent. we are seeing established breeders that have survived more than we have hope for. >> a lot of birds have not build nests. gannets pair for life. these birds are waiting for their partners to come back, but it is like in the season. maggie fears that most are probably dead.

it will be a couple months before scientists publish their findings. the economy has taken a big hit. the good news is the gannets will survive. justin rowlatt's bbc news. >> day four of wimbledon delivered both expected winds and surprising upsets. at the court, the latest. >> trying to win back-to-back titles, champion elena rybakina looked nervous. causing her problems despite injury. rebecca in the hand safely through to the third round in straight sets. no such joy for casper ruud a man who reached three of the last four grand slam finals, still figuring it out on the grass. british wildcard liam brody took advantage of five set thriller. elina svitolina is in the highest ranked ukrainian player at the championships.

she found a way past lee's a martin's three sets. understandably emotional afterwards, reaching the quarterfinals of the french open recently having come back from maternity leave. friday novak djokovic, iga swiatek and last year's big finalist ons jabeur. >> before we let you go, behind me is what would be the first fully electric flying vehicle called the model a. its creators say it can drive on public roads, park like a normal car, and fly. imagine scenes like this flying over traffic on your way to work. it seats two people and would cost $300,000. it has been certified for testing by the federal aviation in minutes ration. that means sci-fi fantasy could someday be in everyday reality. thank you for watching world news america. narrator: funding for this presentation of this program

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one giant leap for mankind. amna: good evening. i'm amna nawaz. geoff bennett is away. on the “newshour” tonight, the world records the hottest average temperature ever, while raging canadian wildfires highlight the devastating effects of climate change. facebook's parent company meta launches a competitor to twitter as the two companies' leaders intensify their rivalry. and a group of ukrainian mothers go to extreme lengths to rescue their kidnapped children from territory occupied by russian forces. >> i haven't seen my daughter for more than five months, since the children were sent to the camp. my only dream is to spend time with her, cherish her, love her, protect her. ♪