bit too much of a narcissist. and amateur scientists gather at loch ness the loch contains more water than all the lakes in england and wales combined. this weekend there s a new hi tech hunt for the legendary sea creature which perhaps lurks below. good evening. he presented the biggest challenge to putin in 23 years. his short lived mutiny that saw his forces advance on moscow, demanding the sacking of russia s military leadership for botching the war in ukraine, was a humiliation for the russian president. and then at the last turn onjune 24th, exaclty two months ago, the mercenary leader suddenly halted his troops in the outskirts of the capital, denying he was mounting a coup, following a deal apparently brokered by the belarussian leader alexander lu kashenko. since then a target has been on prigozhin s back and progressively putin has been stripping him of his companies and powerbases. but putin seems to have been operating on the principle that
the security council. i suspect putin the security council. i suspect putin may the security council. i suspect putin may have given it an nod and a wink ltut putin may have given it an nod and a wink but the putin may have given it an nod and a wink but the operation will have been wink but the operation will have been organised by others. tell me what ou been organised by others. tell me what you make been organised by others. tell me what you make of been organised by others. tell me what you make of the been organised by others. tell me what you make of the debt - been organised by others. tell me what you make of the debt as - been organised by others. tell me what you make of the debt as well been organised by others. tell me i what you make of the debt as well of dimitri utkin? what does that due to the wagner leadership? it is obviously the wagner leadership? it is obviously a the wagner leadership? it is obviously a significant blow because he was obviousl
for lukashenko to step down. the bbc s eastern europe correspondent, sarah rainsford, has been speaking to maria s sister in warsaw, and to other opposition supporters living in exile in poland. the good will definitely win everything, because evil will defeat itself. writing to her sisterfrom prison, maria kolesnikova has never given up her political fight her hope for change in belarus. keep strong and everything will be all right. your sister, maria. but her family haven t heard a word for months now. maria s energy and her huge smile helped rally these giant protests three years ago against the authoritarian rule of alexander lu kashenko. but maria kolesnikova was jailed for 11 years. and now she s being held
landed in minsk shortly after the rebellion, but not much since. and today, at a press conference in minsk, mr lukashenko said the question of whether the wagner units would relocate to belarus was still in the balance, and would depend on the decisions taken by moscow and by wagner. as for prigozhin, he is in st petersburg. he may have gone to moscow this morning or somewhere else. he is not on the territory of belarus. our russia editor steve rosenberg was at that news conference. well, less than two weeks ago, we were told that alexander lukashenko, the leader of belarus, had brokered a deal under which the wagner mutiny would end and yevgeny progozhin would move from russia to belarus, and any wagner fighters who wanted tojoin him in belarus could. today, mr lukashenko told us that actually, yevgeny progozhin is not in belarus, he was in st petersburg and he may be in moscow today. and, the wagnerfighters
leader was in exile indefinitely, think again. what does that mean for the war in ukraine? difficult day for number ten. the standards committee says former government whip, chris pincher, should be suspended for eight weeks for groping two men in a london club. it will likely trigger another by election. alongside that, the cabinet office lost a legal challenge today to prevent the covid inquiry from seeing borisjohnson s unredacted whatsapp messages and diaries. we will get into a busy day in westminster. but let us begin with that news from belarus that the boss of the wagner paramilitary group, yevgeny prigozhin, has returned to russia according to the belarusian leader alexander lu kashenko. mr prigozhin, who led wagner s mutiny in russia last month, was supposed to have gone into exile in belarus and yet the belarusian leader says he may now be back in st petersburg. for the past week or so, his whereabouts has been something of a mystery. we know his private jet had