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nic, what can people read from that? >> yes, it is typical of the kremlin, and putin wants to be distanced from the trouble over the weekend, but he wants to project the image that he is still there, and still in control, and he has delegated it appears the prime minister today to speak about a internal stability of the country and moving forward about the unity of being united and casting up the question of was any of this at the behest of the western enemy's of russia, and putin is, if you will, speaking behind the scenes, but he is not sort of putting his face directly out there with a speech, because it was a negative image of what happened over the weekend, and he does not want to be associated with it, and this is why he has pushed prigozhin toward belarus, and the attention of lukashenko and the president there. >> and nic, the surrounding of the abrupt turnaround of prigozhin and the troops and the kind of the mystery that continues at this hour of where prigozhin is, it is really fascinating, and what do you rea

lo look, as we heard from nic and fred, it's fast moving. the white house is monitoring this very closely, taking this very seriously. i have to say as of last night, the white house and national security council have been very particular on what type of information, statements they're putting out, knowing just how fast-moving this situation is and how things could change in an instant. they've been careful. but last night we know president biden was briefed on the situation unfoldingening and russia -- we've been asked if they'll be briefed again. we know the national security council put out a statement. they said we are monitoring the situation and will be consulting with allies and partners on these developments. you can see there on the screen there. obviously this holds a lot of implications for president biden but also where he's worked for the last few months and years to hold russia's feet to the fire in support of ukraine. in as early as january, we know they were talking about this from the podium that the u.s. officials had ident

for more let me bring in nic robertson in london.kashenko, the ruler of belarus' role here is quite extraordinary. a junior partner negotiating for russia to save putin from a possible assault on moscow. what do you know about whether prigozhin, has he actually gotten to belarus? >> we don't know, and apparently, the belarusians don't know either. lukashenko has a 20-year history of knowing prigozhin and it's part based on that knowledge of each other that he stepped in here, and the best analysis has to be lukashenko who is a weaker partner to putin. putin stepped in and helped him out in those elections in 2020 that were widely regarded as fraudulent and he asked putin for help and putin stepped in. lukashenko and belarus have become a base for putin's war in ukraine to the south. he is very much the junior partner and he is unlikely to have gone out on a limb and helped prigozhin here. equally, when you look at prigozhin leaving rostov undone last night to the cheers of crowds and with all that heavy, modern military equipment get

what can you tell us, nic? >> reporter: yeah, sergei shoigu, the defense minister, valerri gerasimov, the army chief of staff, these were the two men who prigozhin had been ranting against publicly for months in advance of this situation. so there's context and history to the allegation or the supposition of the intelligence services that he was going to try to capture them. when prigozhin went to rostov-on-don, that big russian military headquarters, with all his troops, he said that that evening, 9:00 p.m. that evening, sergei shoigu, the defense minister, had fled rostov-on-don. we're learning other details from other russian security chiefs. zolotov, the head of the national guard, said that they had got wind of shoigu's -- of prigozhin's plans to challenge the authority, challenge the state. they got wind of those plans that they were supposed to happen on the 22nd to the 25th of june. and they had this from leaks. western intelligence say that they had picked up that prigozhin was about to do something by

nic, let me start with you.rybody around the world off guard. and then it turned out that it wasn't what we all thought it was going to be in the end. a march into moscow, into the capital city of russia. it didn't happen. they turned around very quickly. what do you make of all this? >> when prigozhin holed up in rostov-on-don, it was clear he found a hole that he knew putin would find it hard to attack bifrlt sending a small continkent, who would they attack? that always felt like a piece of theater. prigozhin has always been good at kind of like appearing out of nowhere. he has video of him with his dead soldiers complaining the military hadn't been giving them enough ammunition. show up and then just disappear. this feels like the same on a much bigger scale and he made putin come out, take a side, accuse him of insurrection, of treason. so this was massive on any scale. but there is always an element, it felt like, of not staging but theater. and it is not clear at the moment what prigozhin got out of this.

let's begin with nic robertson. this is a hell of a day after in rus russia. before wagner turned aren't, he was called -- what happens next? what happens the day after? >> reporter: yeah, prigozhin's made a mockery out of putin's threats. prigozhin comes out looking like the real rough time. prigozhin is not looking like way the day after. and anyone who wants to have the day after, and thinking we're going to see all the dust settle and flig become clearer, i'm not reading that situation at the moment. there is no doubt that the deal that prigozhin has done, the deal with the belarusian leader, the idea that it can be the weak man propped up by putin, he supposedly has a great relationship a 20-year relationship with prigozhin just doesn't pass muster. he wouldn't have done that if putin had ngt signed off in advance. so it's face-saving for putin. everyone seems to be getting thems themselves out of a jam. and what after the day after? they have themselves out of a jam and there is still a ways to go on the jam. >> nic, i have to think the day after and the

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let's talk about it with salma abdelaziz and nic robertson. nic, we just had the big nato summit. is there going to be development of that? >> reporter: there is the ukraine recovery conference taking place today and tomorrow, and i think that will be the big focus for secretary of state antony blinken and james cleverly the british foreign minister that he is meeting with today. they will have a press conference. and after that, the day takes a little bit more of a ukraine turn. secretary blinken will meet with the ukrainian foreign minister and a royal reception with king charles. but tomorrow is about trying to energizes business community. we know governments have been giving billions and billions of military and humanitarian support and essentially paying the ukrainian government's bills. but looking ahead, there will be a need to rebuild, recover ukraine. and the estimate is that cannot be left to governments alone. that needs business and civil society input. so that is what tomorrow will be about. and a headline number of how much money is going to be required to do this,

. >>> and cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson joins us from london. starting with what we just saw, the international reaction. the world, of course, is watching keenly. what's been the reaction from other nations so far? >> yeah, there's a concern being spoken about by british officials front office that the instability that's being witnessed in russia and rustov and other places could grow, could expand. you know, i think certainly people will be looking at how the military is going to respond down to a grassroots level. because when you listen to putin's speech, he doesn't address any of what prigozhin has said that the russian military has been essentially sending young russian conscripts into slaughter, that it hasn't been giving them enough ammunition, enough training, that there's been a wanton loss of soldiers and fighters, and nowhere in putin's speech does he address that, which leaves open the question that how are other ranks in the military going to respond when they have to go toe to toe with wagner's mercenary fighters who look like the

let let let's go to diplomatic editor nic robertson. what do you make of this? that he can go to belarus without retaliation from putin? >> reporter: not putinesque at all. putin was saying exactly the opposite. these treasonous people will be held accountable. so what happens in belarus? what conditions is prigozhin being released there? is he free to roam? is he under house arrest? would he have to stay in minsk? will he be allowed to speak freely about russia, about putin, about ukraine? what are the limits, what are the terms? we just don't know. what does lukashenko get out of this deal? and also the key point that putin never answered in his statement earlier in the day. he's been silent since. this was prigozhin's claim that valery gerasimov, chief of staff, blamed them for the war. the way they fought it. the loss of life, the lack of training, the lack of ammunition. what has happened to them? we haven't heard a whisper from them either. are they off the scene? will they be removed? there's so much we don't know about this. i think until we get some of

we're going to start our coverage in london with cnn's nic robertson.ic, pretty remarkable response that we are hearing for the first time from the mercenary leader. >> reporter: but it does also seem to comport with the big ongoing argument that prigozhin had been having with the defense minister sergei shoigu. what we learned from prigozhin, not just that he's saying i wasn't trying to overthrow putin and we didn't mean or intend to go out and kill any russian troops, they fired on us first, talking about the helicopters he now says he shot down. but he says this was a march for justice, it was a march he said to try to keep his wagner pmc, his wagner mercenary group alive. he says in the audio recording that it was going to be forced to shut down on the 1st of july. that he had talked among the commanding officers and with the men and barely any of them had agreed to down -- for wagner and sign up for russia's military as was being demanded of them and he wanted to keep wagner alive. this is what he's saying. and he goes on to say when he was speakin

for this we want to go to cnn's nic robertson from london. appreciate it, nic. especially given your extent of experience having covered this. do you get the sense that beyond repairing relations, that blinken has more explicit goals here? obviously we have to note that oil prices are top of mind. >> they are. and saudi arabia just decided in the past couple of days at the opec+ meeting to cut production by about 10%, about a million barrels of oil a day. so that's significant. it's significant for secretary blinken because this has the possibility of driving up gas prices at the gas pumps in the united states. it's an election year next year. that's not good. but also, any increase in the price of oil helps russia fund its war in ukraine. that will be a big issue, as you say. but other issues that will definitely be on the table will be mobilization of relations between israel and saudi arabia. that's important to the united states. as well as sort of a more enduring peace in yemen. we've heard the secretary of state thanking the saudis for their support and he

senior diplomatic editor nic robertson also with us, nic, given those words, given that prigozhin's locationtill not certainer the opposition leader told us on this broadcast about an hour agatha there is no information she has seen that he's in belarus. one thing is clear, this is not over at least, wagner still exists, its fighters still exist, and prigozhin seems to be, at least alive, we don't know where he is. where does this go from here, now, in terms of this dispute? has putin effectively shown he's in control? >> there's a way in which putin hasn't shown he is in control which i find absolutely bizarre here where he essence had prigozhin cornered in rostov-on-don, albeit, cornered with a lot of civilians seem to support him and a very important military base vital to fighting the war in ukraine. however, cornered in a known location. putin's narrative has not changed at all. the russian government position has not changed at all. okay. there was nothing explosive in what putin said. so in that case, and given that prigozhin has been able to speak out again today, publicly again, cri

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to nic robertson with more on today's court hearing. nic?re the court session began and the cnn team said he looked>> interpreter: vow nervous and agitated. a little bit of video. he was there in a t-shirt and jeans behind or inside that glass box. his parents were there for the hearing, brief as it was. they both emigrated to the united states decades and decades ago. the other person of significance who was allowed in the courtroom was a u.s. ambassador. she said she wasn't able to speak directly with evan in the courtroom. in fact, when she came out of the court she again castigated the russian authorities, said that three times she requested rights and had been turned down. the russians are saying they had been giving it consideration again. very clear that evan is being wrongly detained. >> today in the courtroom evan continued to show remarkable strength and resiliency in these very difficult circumstances. despite russian officials' public assertions about evan's activities, let me reiterate the u.s. government's firm position. the ch

let's begin with nic robertson. nic, help us make sense of this extraordinary day in russia. that may be understating things. and what it might mean in the days ahead. the cheers we just played, those were for wagner. not vladimir putin. what a wild day. >> what a wild day. from beginning to end. when i heard the cheers, i asked myself, are they cheering prigozhin for prigozhin because they think he's great or because he left their town and avoided a potential massive bloodshed if the military has gone in to get him. it does seem on the face of what we're seeing that it is support for prigozhin. perhaps this is what putin was worried about. he does seem to be out of touch. the conventional wisdom has been that putin is the guy that can pull all the strings, that has good strategic oversight. but this was a situation he let get out of control. it is not clear how much control he still has. is his defense minister shoigu still in place? because prigozhin demanded that he be forced out. that prigozhin's troops didn't have to sign up and become part of russia's main forces under

cnn's nic robertson is live outside paris.at are we hearing at this point from the teen's mother? >> reporter: she is saying as she led what was initially a peaceful protest until it turned violent, look, i don't hold all the police responsible. i don't blame all of the police. i just blame the one who shot my son, the person i love. she's been very clear on that, which kind of matches in a little way what the government is saying that the response so far has been unjustified in its scale, that what the protesters are doing is damaging the infrastructure that regular people in france use. take a look behind me. the bus station here. 12 buses here, 26 in this neighborhood torched, a tram as well. the total cost of that $11.5 million ballpark. that's only one place in france. you have cities like lille, bordeaux in the south, you have in the mediterranean there cities there affected in the center of france. lyon has been affected by the protests as well. it's happening all over the country. i asked the transport minister here th

nic robertson is joining us first right now. what do we know about the situation inside russia right now? >> the situation that was on the ground yesterday confused, chaotic. prigozhin has forces on the way to moscow. those are confirmed to be turned around and heading back in the direction they came. prigozhin seen disappearing into the night, allegedly to belarus where he will have sanctuary as part of the deal with the belarus president. and it seems highly unlikely that wouldn't have been without being in conjunction with the support of president putin. but that's not how it's been played out. on the ground physically, the roads are being repaired. the special forces, remembering one of the biggest and most powerful military backers behind president putin, if you will, other than the russian military who pledged support to president putin very early yesterday, his special forces have pulled back from rostov, perhaps those clashing with the wagner battle hardened fighters were the biggest potential for an overflow of fighting

so, nic, i want to start with you. earlier today vladimir putin was referring to prigozhin as a treasonous person that would be held accountable. little seem to stop prigozhin's forces from getting close to moscow. now there's allegedly this deal brokered by belarus. let's start with where things stand right now. >> prigozhin in the wind somewhere. the kremlin doesn't know where, in theory on his way to belarus. but we don't know the term or conditions of what happens when he gets there or how he's going to get there. does he have a free pass to drive through russia? is he under house arrest when he arrives. does he have to go to the capital minsk. what are the terms of his release there? does he have to stop criticizing the russian defense minister? to that point what happens to the russian defense minister in the whole of this deal that prigozhin appears to have figured out with alexander lukashenko, the belorussian president. there are so many details in this we just don't know. what we do know i think at this stage

cnn is your national diplomatic editor nic robertson first.hat do we know about the situation in russia right now? how tense is? >> reporter: it's less tense than it was. we know that prigozhin's forces that were driving to moscow reportedly are on their way back to base. the highway there still the main highway linking rostov-on-don in the south to moscow is still not fully open to traffic. we know in rostov-on-don itself road repair crews have gone out to repair the area where prigozhin's heavy military equipment ripped up the tarmac. beyond some of these sort of physical details, there is a lot that we don't know. we don't know where prigozhin is. we know that he asked essentially for the removal of the defense minister, . we don't know precisably where president putin is. alexander lukashenko, the president of belarus, negotiated this standdown, if you will, this exit, this off-ramp from what was going to be a russian on russian potential bloodbath. so they have got themselves, the leadership got themselves out of a very tight and hugely d

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i start with nic robertson. so prigozhin has been seething at russian leadership. he's been saying for months, attacking the defense minister shoigu and others. he claimed that russian forces had attacked his men, intentionally tried to kill wagner forces. we don't know if that's true or not and that's what ostensibly led him to invade the russian cities, rostov-on-don started advancing on moscow. do we know anything about why he would make this deal? he said he wouldn't want to shed russian blood. he seemed pretty blood thirsty before. >> i think there is a calculation here, or an evaluation that says he overreached. there wasn't the readiness in russia to support him to overthrow shoigu and gerasimov, his deputy to overthrow putin. perhaps overreacted. he's seen as someone who can get emotional. if his troops were attacked and he did overreact and he extended himself, he would realize his best way to back out is overreaction. although the goal was to find a deal that would allow him to have moo out of russia, at least lick his wounds and make his next move. so mu

here now with us is cnn's nic robertson. so, nic, what's your take on the totality of all of this?as nick absolutely rightly says this is a field day for intelligence agencies to try to sow dissent and put out little lines that can have elements of truth or basis in previous developments. i think when it comes to this general that prigozhin was supposed to have these very close ties with, it was a well-known fact just at the beginning of may prigozhin had publicly said he was the only russian general worth a staff. with he also know that he had been put last year temporarily in charge of russia's military efforts in ukraine and that was the time when putin was convinced that his desire to continue to hold kherson was wrong and that the russians should retreat from there. here was a general apparently ready to stand up to putin. here was a general that prigozhin liked. prigozhin had had a lot of praise landed on him from senior powerful military figures like the chechen leader, had said that, you know, the wagner fighters were very important, courageous, very necessary in the front

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cnn's nic robertson joins us live from london this morning.lion questions about this, but the primary one is how did lukashenko help reach this deal? what do we know about what it is? >> reporter: okay, so the kremlin says that luke zen co has a 20-year history of knowing prigozhin, this two have a connection. this doesn't pass the sniff test on face value. there is no way that president putin would allow a weak neighbor who is a supply cant to him, like lukashenko, to negotiate a deal without him having some say-so in it. prigozhin has lefrmg verage bec he's been the go-to guy for setting up business deals and support in the central african republic in mali, sudan and libya, these are lucrative. this is more than just about money and power, more than just about power in the circle around putin. this is also about money. so, shoigu, prigozhin has had something to negotiate with, his value to the kremlin on those overseas operations. that's a currency that will erode with time. but i think lukashenko's role in this has been very much at the beh

nic, cnn also reached out to the russian defense ministry, is that right?orter: we did and they said that can't speak about it. no comments were the words the spokesman gave. today we're expecting president putin to speak to a business development forum in russia. i think we can look at this as another kremlin-esque victory lap where putin does a victory lap where he claims security services came together, everyone did marvelously well, people supported him, people supported the kremlin. the reality is there are big questions out there, not only the whereabouts of sergey suro surovikin, who knew prigozhin when they both served in syria for the russian military, prigozhin back then was providing services for the russian military, surovikin was a russian military commander. they knew each other back then. in fact, prigozhin thought surovikin was one of the p best, if not the best general, the only one worthy of a star in the russian military. but this is where the mystery deepens over the weekend. the last we've seen, and you're seeing him here now, surovikin

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and nic, what is going to happen to prigozhin if he is in belarus?o, they won't kill anyone. if that happens, then all bets are off. prigozhin is trying to save his own commander and own troop, and they had come out of the front line, and they were sort of emotional, angry, a half mad is the language that lukashenko used, and that is why he didn't paint himself in a big position of talking prigozhin down from the ledge so to speak. >> nic robertson, thank you so much. >> i wanted to follow up on that conversation with army major and now, she is with the long-time moscow bureau, and i should mention that. and now, talking to luke shen koeshgs and he has indi-- lukaso that he had spent hours talking to them, and is he sort of bragging in here, and does that bravado look weight, because he did manage to do. >> there was so much and then he comes out to give them three choices. you can go home, or you can go to belarus, and your bell ha ruse is to important geopolitically, and he has to resurrect or do something with them. 75,000 troops is not just flipp

here with us right now is cnn's international diplomatic editor nic robertson.in ukraine? >> it is kind of a negative impact because putin has not answered prigozhin's principal challenge here which is the war is unnecessary and it is because of his defense chiefs wanting to go to war, he didn't blame putin per se for it, but it has come at the expense of russian soldiers, potentially more than 100,000, potentially 200,000, have there have been shortages of ammunition and training, and everything about this war has been wrong, in essence. this is the thrust of what prigozhin is saying. putin has treated prigozhin as a security threat, that he is going to shut down, treasonist is the language that he used, but that doesn't answer prigozhin's point, and there are russian citizens, particularly those who have lost loved ones, brothers, families, fathers, sons, who want answers, is this war worthwhile, and that's a question that i know from having conversations with people in moscow today that is still out there waiting to be answered. so i think that is an issue fo

so the immediate threats are dissipating. >> nic robertson, thank you. i want to go to cnn's fred pleitgen right now. he is joining us from berlin. with prigozhin heading into exile, at least temporarily, what's happening inside the wagner group right now? what are you learning, fred? >> well, thi think a lot of this are unclear for the wagner group. what happens to the fighters and the five of the wagner group as well. also, quite frankly, wolf, to yevgeny prigozhin's entire gigantic business operations in many fields that he has around the world. first of all, we know what we heard from the kremlin, from the kremlin spokesman dmitry peskov yesterday where he said that the wagner fighters because of their achievements on the battlefield and because for many russians they are quite well respected. he with saw that on the ground yesterday with a lot of people cheering on the wagner fighters as they were leaving, a lot of people congratulating the wagner fighters. they do have a special status among many russians. if they can then sign up to join the russi

nic robertson, thank you so much. the russian officials say they are saying whether western countries had a role, today president biden insisted, though, that the u.s. had nothing to do with it. our own jeremy diamond is at the white house with us. over the past couple days as we've been following these quick movements, that's the message that u.s. officials have been frantically trying to quay, that they had nothing to do with it. jaw kirby said there was good and direct communications with the russians to emphasize that poichblt, but there was another way that they were conveying that idea. that was through the white house's strategic silence on this matter. we heard very little from the white house over the weekend other than to quay the fact they were actively monitoring the situation. that was strategic. they didn't want to lean any evidence toward western interference. and today that silence, that caution continue as john kirby, he declined to even define exactly what happened in russia, or to weigh in on prigoz

nic robertson in london. thank you so much. >>> for more now on how those developments could affect ukraine, we're joined by ben wedeman in zaporizhzhia. >> reporter: it may be too early, kim, to celebrate. certainly they're transfixed by what they're seeing going on in russia. we've heard from an adviser to the ukrainian presidency saying that the ukrainian counteroffensive has destabilized the russian elites, exacerbating internal divisions caused by russian defeats on the battlefield and certainly what we've seen is that since russia lauched its invasion of ukraine, full-scale invasion back in february of last year, the military performance by the russians has been largely a failure, and, therefore, what we're seeing, for instance, with prigozhin's mercenaries now in control of rostov, the entire military is up in the air. keep it mind it is ooh the headquarters of the southern military district. it's a strategic command center for russian forces in southern ukraine. with prigozhin in control, it's not at

not a single drop irina troy, and lives in nic upholden, southern ukraine. and since the dad was destroyed, the city's water supply has been cut. you're fairly spoken with bolts and bait with it. then we put the volts in the spacing and use it to flush the toilet. and what else can we do? there's no alternative mika poles, roughly 50000 remaining inhabitants. now don't have to go collect water containers or the cooking and cleaning, or when we come home tired from work. then we only go once a day to collect walter, just enough walter to wash our faces to go to the toilet. i'm making tea. to wash our bodies. we have to go collect waltz on the weekend receipts from which so sometimes you choose here for 2 hours and then the end there's no water left. this time the reno was fortunate. she's here the right time. she's not just collecting for us, so she's a social worker and is providing for the team, elderly women who called wolf to get the will to themselves the car into rights to stay in for the rights of 5 dual. since the time was destroyed, the water level,

nic robertson is live for us. kyiv is hesitant to give a lot of details. what are they saying and why? >> reporter: even president zelenskyy said that it is not going perhaps as fast as expected. but they say this is not a hollywood movie. so i think what you have is this expectation in the west to a degree from all those who supported ukraine. stoltenberg talking about the armored vehicles and tanks sent to support ukraine in the fight. yet at the same time when i was on the ground there, commanders in the battlefield, soldiers, official, diplomats were all telling me the same thing, do they realize, do our friends and allies realize how hard of a fight this is. and i think that is the perception point that we're at. there has been a perception that it could go more quickly, that there was a possibility of a quick breakthrough and quick gains, you know, ukraine did that in kherson, in kharkiv. and so there was this perception on the one side. but the reality on the ground is completely different. and just yesterday talking to one of the delegates at the c

nic robertson, cnn, germany. >>> to serbia, have a look at this.people gathered in front of the parliament buildings on friday to protest against violence. this is the 6th weekly protest since the beginning of may when the country was rocked by two mass the shootings that left 18 people dead. they blame it on a culture of violence, demanding that the interior minister and intelligence agency director be dismissed and want the broadcasting licenses of television stations to be revoked. >>> still ahead, beefing up security in florida. how law enforcement is preparing to handle donald trump's expected court appearance. >>> this is only firing him up more. the people who don't know president trump, the more they go after him, the harder he fights. he's not fighting for himself. he's fighting for the people. >> trump's loyal base rallies around him as the justice department drops the hammer. >>> welcome back to our viewers in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. we want to get back to our top story. fo

. >> and nic robertson is joining us now. you've been watching the speech from mr.elenskyy. >> and he says despite russia's aggression, ukraine is modernizing and reforming its government and government structures to avoid the perceptions and reality of corruption. he said there are digital platforms for businesses now to register so there is no opportunity for the government to get involved between business to business transactions and the courts will look more favorably. $400 billion is the figure i just heard him mention the possible cost of reconstruction and rebuilding. he said we're a good place to invest in the future because we have energy, green energy, obviously solar power is pretty bithere already, but other supplies, source of lithium he said, agricultural, 600 pe people -- 600 million people depend on their agricultural. and of course right now ukraine might look like a bottomless pit because the war is going on. when do you get your return. and if the war continues for a long time, you may never get that money back because we are perceptions and reali

. >>> cnn diplomatic editor nic robertson has been following these developments closely. putin hasn't been seen piublicl since his fiery speech saturday morning. does the russian president face a new reality today? >> reporter: he does. he gets to make the reality for russian people to a degree because he controls what's on tv, what they read in the newspapers, everything they know about what's going on. that's pretty much filter ed through his control mechanisms. he's going to want to put this in the rear-view mirror quickly. paint it over as something that's happened. nothing to see here. moving on. let's focus on the war in c ukraine. our enemies are in the west. ones that divide us. that will likely be his -- continue to be his narrative. the caveat is we don't know the contours of the deal that prigozhin negotiated. he had leverage. how else would he walk away? and that leaves the structure of the defense ministry. that's what prigozhin was criticizing putin about, prosecution of the war. will there be changes there? if there are, that makes it harder for putin to ke

nic robertson, thank you. >>> documents shared with cnn suggest that russsian general ws secret member of the wagner group. they say sur surovikin knew about the insurrection before it happened. salma abdelaziz is joining us. >> reporter: and now both whereabouts are unknown. let me stooc zoom in on surovik. some believe that he was potentially detained for either his involvement or advanced knowledge of the armed insurrection led by yevgeny prigozhin over the weekend. and cnn has seen exclusively documents that indicate that he was a vip member of wagner, he had worked closely with prigozhin in ukraine. but this reveals their ties may have been even deeper. again, whereabouts unknown, not seen since saturday the last footage seen of him was on friday where he was pleading with his friend and ally yevgeny prigozhin to stand down from the armed insurrection. also the "new york times" citing u.s. officials say that he did know again that yevgeny prigozhin was planning this march on moscow. why is that so important? why is everyone trying to find out where surovikin is? because it indicat

nic robertson, thank you for your reporting today and throughout the weekend. kate >> thank you sara. as we are looking at this partnership, how does this impact this weekend do you think, david? >> well, it is awkward when you tell the entire neighborhood that the person living next to you is the person that you trust and your best and most intimate friend which is how president xi is calling putin, and what played out over the weekend is telling. we saw one of the foreign deputies go to russia to meet with the foreign ministers there and try to stabilize everything, but this is no doubt incredibly concerning for chinese leadership given that they share 2,600 miles of border, and publicly and really adamantly backed russia throughout the invasion of ukraine providing diplomatic support, and much needed economic support, and to see this playing out north of china is no doubt concerning, but publicly, they are saying this is an internal affair for russia, and as china likes to say, no one else's business, and they say that when it comes to their own allegations

nic robertson is joining me now. it is spreading and police don't look like they are particularly controlled. >> reporter: yes, 667 people arrested across the country. you only have to look at the sort of map of fire around paris to see that the center of paris is encircled by the sort of gulf of fire. but if you go to the north, trouble there violence overnight. and if you go west and southwest, or even marseilles in the south, the violence is spreading out. and the 40,000 police were on alert overnight, but it didn't stop the violence at this bus station here. i think i can get you a better live picture here looking in. overall in this area, they lost 26 buses last night and one tram. figure each bus is about $300,000. a tram about $3 million. so the damage for just this district here on the outskirts of paris in buses, trams alone was over $11 million, about $11.7 million. the transport minister turned up earlier on here a short time ago and i asked him what is it going to take to stop the violence. and this is wh

nic robertson is joining us.re is a thaw in the icy relationship after this meeting? >> reporter: certainty spuppose to be what we read into it. and the global diplomatic community see the freezing, if you will, the tensions in the relations that has been getting deeper the past few years, they see not so much an off-ramp but they see a level of communication which gives them some relief from their concerns. the discussions that secretary blinken had for example about the united states one china policy, sticking to that, its concerns over the taiwan straight. but also the talk that was had between the two about global health, about climate change, about the far-reaching global issues that the united states and the rest of the world need united states and chai china to getting on with each other if there is let's say to head off a potential economic downturn which has globalismly indications. so around the world there is a great deal of concern on those issues that if the relationship got worse, then there would b

. >> nic robertson has been monitoring those developments for us and is joining us with more. as far as evan gershovich is concerned, we heard a development from the russian state news agency. >> reporter: yeah, they are saying that there is a possibility that u.s./russian representatives could have access to them. he was less than caught about a month ago and that was when the court decided that his detention would be extended until the end of august. it was appealed. the u.s. has been trying to get access to him and it hasn't happened. the state department says that they will have an embassy representative in the courtroom. we still didn't know if evan will be in the courtroom or appearing there virtually. but according to the deputy foreign minister, or one of them, he said that they are considering the u.s. request to see evan. >> and in terms of navalny, seems very unlikely that they will allow him to speak to the outside world because it is clear that he won't be positive about the regime. >> and this sort of what he is saying as well. we're getting new details about thi

nic robertson, cnn, london. >>> late sunday night, china gave public support to russia's government,ited a day after the armed insurrection was over. china's foreign ministry posting on its website this. this is russia's internal affair. as russia's friendly neighbor and comprehensive strategic partner of coordination for the new era, china supports russia in maintaining national stability and achieving development and prosperity. >>> meantime, relations between the u.s. and china took a bit of a hit after beijing issued a diplomatic reprimand of u.s. president joe biden comparing chinese president xi jinping to a dictator at a political fundraiser last week. on sunday, cnn's dana bash spoke to the v8 about the controversy. blinken has recently returned from a trip to beijing. >> it's very clear that when it comes to china, we are going to do and say things that they don't like. they are going to do and say things that we don't like. if you look at what comes out of the chinese foreign ministry every day about the united states, you'd hear plenty of that. but the purpose of the trip

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nic robertson is joining us live from london.e war not yet over, it is tough to determine what reconstruction will look like. what are you hearing? >> tough to know what it will look like, but people are trying to put a figure on it and that is coming to about $400 billion is the estimate right now for restructuring ukraine, that is beyonds scope of governments do. there are more than 50 different countries represented today. but the idea of this conference is to get private investors, businesses, countries like sanofi, like virgin, to all stump up and help support ukraine invest in ukraine. and there are a number of different ways that that is being tackled by anti-corruption measures that are going this to place. we heard from secretary of state antony blinken saying that the united states is committing an additional $1.3 billion in aid, but $600 million of that will go to help reconstruct and reconfigure the power grid, a power grid that he says will be connected to europe. the united states is also spending money to improve t

cnn's international diplomatic editor nic robertson is with us. a sense of what we expect and where we expect those forces to go. >> reporter: look, i think prigozhin is in the position right now of trying to figure out has the kremlin duped him by saying they were giving him an essential amnesty and the indications are at the moment that the kremlin are saying they haven't dropped the charges against him. we know putin likes loyalty and dislikes and will distance himself from people who aren't loyal to him. prigozhin was in his inter cirque m, was having a big spat with snow gu. so when prigozhin decided to do this about face and u-turn and pull his troops back from their road to confrontation in moscow and cut this deal, it was lukashenko, the president of belarus next door who got to cut the deal but i don't think anyone is fooled that he was the front on it. that putin wasn't really behind it. belarus is a weak client of russia right now. lukashenko only just scraped through in his last elections, widely seen as fraudulent, brought out massive