jihadists are on the retreat in the middle east. but the grip of the african sahel region is growing. most of the people in this camp used to live in towns and villages that were controlled by a group linked to al-qaeda. moussa, like many here, is supportive of al-qaeda, which is made up of local people from mali. he says he prefers their strict but ordered way of governing to the more violent one practiced by islamic state. translation: al-qaeda treats us according to islam. - is doesn t treat us as muslims. is says it s looking for al-qaeda, but in reality, it only kills innocent people. it burned their homes, their livestock and their shops. this is not how you treat muslims. al-qaeda helps us. it commands us to pray and follow
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last 24 48 hours. putin clearly solidly on the throne and what we need to do is everything we can, both in military and also in terms of sanctions and export controls, to enable ukraine to convince putin that he is not going to be able to out suffer the euro cranium is, the europeans and the americans. general david petraeus, europeans and the americans. general david petraeus, thank europeans and the americans. general david petraeus, thank you europeans and the americans. general david petraeus, thank you so - europeans and the americans. general david petraeus, thank you so much - david petraeus, thank you so much for coming on newsnight. sticking with that story. after the presumed death of yevgeny prigozhin, what s the future of his wagner group? its operations stretch much further than ukraine, with the mercenary group active across several countries in africa. only a few days ago, prigozhin was seen in a video trumpeting wagner s role in making africa more free . as he pu
sirens sound. as the day went on, air raid sirens reminded everyone of the unfinished nature of this war. the reminders are everywhere, but the road to peace as obscure as it s ever been. earlier i spoke to ukraine s deputy minister of defence, volodymyr havrylov. i began by asking him whether he thought the death of yevgeny prigozhin will make any difference to the war. this person is criminal number one to us. with all his bad thing done in ukraine. and his team, his groups, his force was very brutal in this war. it was very dangerous group of people.