2,500 soldiers and guards. and the defence minister, the wagner mutineers wanted sacked. having survived it a time to say thank you. translation: you have saved our motherland from upheaval. the lives, security, and the freedom of our citizens. in fact, you have stopped a civil war. in fact, the reality was rather different. the wagner soldiers, who had been cheered on the streets of rostov, had only stopped the rebellion out of the kremlin did a deal promising not to press charges against them and their leader yevgeny prigozhin. still, kremlin spin is present in this is a triumph for their leader. the mutiny by mercenaries was a major challenge to vladimir putin s authority, but, the uprising is over. and now, the kremlin is trying to change the optics to reframe what happened as a victory for the president, and for russia. translation: but where is yevgeny prigozhin? under his deal with the kremlin, he agreed to leave russia for belarus. today, the leader of belarus, alex
two weeks later, simon thinks he s being followed again. around the same time, simon receives an anonymous e mail. its title chinese agents will find you and bring you back. simon cheng is one of the leading figures in the hong kong democracy movement. four years ago, he was working at the british consulate and was asked to monitor escalating protests. weeks later, he vanished during a consulate trip to mainland china. simon says the police used his visit to a massage centre to accuse him of soliciting prostitution. they framed me up to say i solicited prostitutes. simon says he was accused of being a british spy, then tortured. he says he was restrained in a device known as a tiger chair. ..seen here in videos from chinese social media. when simon was released, he fled to the uk and has now been granted asylum. in london, he set up an organisation to help others who ve left hong kong. today, his house is on a special police protection register and he s constantly looking
ballistic missiles that were prepared to launch from houthi controlled territory in yemen. that is just coming into us. controlled territory in yemen. that isjust coming into us. we controlled territory in yemen. that is just coming into us. we will bring you more detail as we get it. the united states says it s seized advanced iranian weapons that were being transported to houthi rebels in yemen. the operation took place five days ago. the materialfound onboard a dhow sailboat included components for ballistic and cruise missiles, among them, warheads and guidance systems. parts for air defence equipment were also seized. the us military said initial analysis indicated the houthis had been using the same kinds of weapons in attacks against commercial shipping in the red sea. it added the seizure showed how iran continued to violate un resolutions, and sow instability throughout the region. maritime agencies say there s been another missile attack on a cargo ship off the coas
to have suffered minor damage. let s start by hearing from the us national security adviserjake sullivan, who called on all countries to join together to stop the houthis from what he said was hijacking the world. he was in speaking in the last few minutes. we speaking in the last few minutes. - anticipated the houthis would try to hold this at risk, and we continue to reserve the right to take further action. but this needs to be an all hands on deck effort. this comes down notjust do the decisions of the countries that took strikes last week, but the broad set of countries, including those with influence in tehran and other capitals in the middle east, making this a priority to indicate the rejection of wholesale that a group like the houthis can hijack the world as they are doing. the us has struck and destroyed four missiles that were a prepared to launch from houthi controlled territory in yemen. barbara slavin is a distinguished fellow at the stimson center in washingt
welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. let s start in ukraine as we try to verify exactly what happended with the destruction of a major dam in southern ukraine. scientists have found evidence that there was a large explosion in the area of the kakhovka dam, close to the time when the dam was breached. a seismology team from norway found evidence of a blast by looking at seismic signals detected in romania. in a separate development, ukraine s security services have released a recording of what they say are two russian military figures discussing how the dam was sabotaged although the recordings can t be verified. ukraine has reported heavy fighting in the eastern region of donetsk on friday. officials said ukrainian forces had gained more ground near the city of bakhmut. there are also reports of heavy fighting in zaporizhzhia. military experts say the area will be the focus of ukraine s long awaited counter offe