A member of his trusted inner circle dared to revolt and marched his army of mercenaries into russia. [speaking nonenglish] Yevgeny Prigozhin had reason to be angry. He had raised a private army called the wagner group and sent them to fight putins war in ukraine. His men were being slaughtered and prigozhin blamed russians Armchair Generals running the war of sabotage. [speaking nonenglish] there was a mutiny against Vladimir Putins armed forces. It is more like a fight between gangs, which is like a mafia state. Vladimir putin was rattled and seemed to be caught off guard. He had raised prigozhin and empowered him. Prigozhin is entirely a creature of vladimir putin. He does not exist without putin. This is a frankensteinlike scenario. Ive been following prigozhins extraordinary rise for years and seen firsthand how the onetime, petty thief built a criminal empire in syria, africa, russia, and ukraine. Making him powerful enough to challenge the boss. It is like, we know there is more
i usually like to say to you happy friday. happy friday eve. getting us started. russian missiles are blowing the top off an apartment city liviv. officials call it a heaviest attack yet. that city is near poland. more than 300 miles from the front lines in eastern and southern ukraine. dana: both sounds vowing to respond to this escalating violence as ukraine admits russia has been successful in slowing down its counter offensive. bill: a big story overseas. administration has gone back to china again. janet yellen arrived there a short time ago facing a high-stake test to calm tensions between the world s two largest economies as the u.s. and china have a tech war. mike pompeo on deck on this. first to jeff paul with the latest on ukraine. we re following two big stories involving russia. the first being that attack in ukraine but let s get to the possible new whereabouts of russian mercenary leader. he is in russia. originally set to go to belarus as part of a deal
granddaughter? i don t have anything to share from here. cold. that damning new york times piece reveals how biden aides are told to flatly ignore hunter s daughter. quote, in strategy meetings in lean years, aides have been told that the bidens have six and not seven grandchildren according to two people familiar with the discussions. i wonder which lying dog-faced pony soldier they got that from. the best part of it all, i have six grandchildren, and i m crazy about them. i speak to them every single day. not a joke. matter of fact, i just got finished going through the calls, and guess what? they re crazy about me. [laughter] because i pay so much attention to them. that is heartbreaking, when you hear that contrast. you know, katie, i ve noticed a pattern among the bidens, you know, that s not my laptop, that s not my gun, that s not my cocaine, that s not my child. is it any wonder half the country says that s not my president? [laughter] i guess not. [laughte
some pretty wild posts recently on social media. recentlysocial mone of them wast the cocaine found the white house was at belonged to eithern the president or his son. are you willing to sayt or that that s not the case, that they don t belong to them? i don t have a response to that because we have to be carefuolec about the hatch act and the hatch act. they still don he hatcht know what that is. the level of security and surveillance presente leve n the white house begs the question of why they haven t locateduestion. su. is biden stonewall stonewalling yet another investigation? m to the bidens never seem to get to the bottom of anythin g. . and with a growing number of serious corruption, corruption d growinallegations, maybe it se they don t want to get to the dettom of it the bot. despite a sweetheart plea deal from biden s department of justiced e, the congressional probes into hunter bidenngressis and his family s shady dealings are ramping up evidence, evidence of
scotland and northern ireland chilly with sunshine from the word go. all the details later on in the programme. it s tuesday, 30th of january. our main story. the democratic unionist party says it s agreed a deal to restore the devolved government in northern ireland. the dup leader, sir jeffrey donaldson, said the proposals are subject to the westminster government passing laws to address concerns about post brexit trading arrangements. a warning this report from our ireland correspondent chris page includes some flashing images. as the democratic unionist party reached a pivot point, protesters tried to increase the pressure. more hard line unionists have been urging the dup not to agree a new deal to restore the devolved government. 130 party members took part in a meeting, which lasted more than five hours. but, early this morning, the leader, sirjeffrey donaldson, announced he had won support for a plan to bring back power sharing. i believe that with the faithful delive