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mark knopfler who wrote private dancer for tina turner fondly remembers the singer who died on wednesday. it s seven am in singapore and seven pm in washington where us officials say the russian wagner group mercenaries may be working through other countries to acquire military equipment for use in ukraine. the us treasury said in a statement it has imposed sanctions on wagner s chief in mali ivan aleksandrovich maslov. central to this is the battle for the eastern city of bakhmut, in ukraine. mercenaries have been fighting on behalf of russia there a battle that s taken on a symbolic significance. now, they say they re withdrawing and handing their positions over to the russian army. let s hear from the leader of the wagner group. it will make we are withdrawing units from bakhmut. today, it is sam on the 25th of may. the 1st ofjune, the main parts of ist ofjune, the main parts of the unit will be relocated at the unit will be relocated at the rear camp. there handin
hello to you. and welcome to the programme. is the bloody battle for bakhmut over? the head of russia s wagner mercenary group says its forces will hand over the city to russian forces as it declares victory and withdraws. kyiv, though, says it still controls pockets of the city. also in the programme: migration is not out of control. the uk prime minister says the number of people coming to the uk is still too high after new figures show net migration hit a new record high. as business demands more workers, we ll assess proposals for a new skills based visa system. armed officers descend on central london after a car crashes into the gates of downing street. police say a man was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving, but the incident is not being treated as terror related. and after a storm of racist abuse against real madrid s vinicius junior, the president of la liga denies that the spanish football league is racist, but he calls for new powers to
normal this evening. now, tributes continue to be paid to the singer tina turner who died at the age of 83. dire straits front man mark knopfler wrote private dancer, the title track of her hugely successful comeback album in 1984. he s been speaking with our entertainment correspondent colin paterson. # i m your private dancer # a dancer for money # i ll do what you want me to do.# mark knopfler, what was it about tina turner that made her so special? absolute life force, a human dynamo. i d never met anybody like tina. # i want to make $1 million # i wanna live out by the sea.# how did your track private dancer end up on her album? i d written private dancer as a signal for respect being accorded to everybody in society, and tina made it the song it is. i wasjust mumbling along. you know, mine was a kind