down. also, from hot dog vendor to hired gun, who is this man willing to challenge one of the world s largest military forces? plus, america divided this decision must not stand! one year after the supreme court took away the constitutional right to an abortion, the debate rages on with confusion over care in many states still grappling with the high court s decision. to the rescue, why dolphins and sea lions are washing up on california shores and the effort today to save them. i m carter evans in southern california, there are so many sick sea lions at this facility they can t take any more in. and later, futuristic friend, the robot powering up learning for kids. i m glad to play with you today. this is the cbs weekend news from new york with adriana diaz. good evening, we begin tonight with whiplash on the global stage. the world watched minute by minute as the wagner group, soldiers for hire fighting for putin in ukraine turned on russia s militar
about on monday morning it s different. last week i was seeing a senior administration official and we were musing about the fact, this was probably early in the week, that we had not really seen any of the cracks in the putin regime that many had expected. okay? by this morning, boy have we seen them. it s a really open question. how did prigozhin not only plan this out, which u.s. intelligence, we think, had some sense of. this was new york times reporting and cnn reporting as of wednesday there was a sense this was going to happen. that something was going to happen. they were tapped in, in some way to prigozhin s plan. didn t do anything with that piece of do it but they were tapped into it. he got down to 150, 200 miles to moscow, apparently largely unopposed, which may explain why the deal came together. if you re putin and you re naturally paranoid, the old saying, just because you re paranoid doesn t mean
current whereabouts are unknown after he suddenly halted this march toward moscow and supposedly struck a deal with the creme lib to go into exile in belarus. there are last images of prigozhin leaving military headquarters his troops had seized in southern russia. at this moment this is what moscow looks like, live pictures. the city was bracing for the worst over the weekend but now the major says all security restrictions have been lifted. this morning, nato secretary general said the rebellion is proof that putin s invasion of the ukraine is a, quote, big strategic mistake. we have team coverage covering all angles, the best of cnn correspondents on the ground in russia, in ukraine, matthew chance is in moscow, payton walsh is in kyiv, arlette saenz on the north lawn of the white house. our experts are in studio. matthew chance is live in russia, it was an incredible weekend. where do things stand? what s the sense on the ground
russia, an armed insurrection threatening the russian state, ending as suddenly as it began. it kicked off on friday with allegations of a deadly strike on a wagner military camp in ukraine, the leader of the russian mercenary group yevgeny prigozhin accusing his rivals in the defense ministry of ordering the attack. russian officials denied any role. but a furious prigozhin, wh repeatedly accused the military of mishandling the war in ukraine, vowed revenge. translator: those who destroyed our guys today along with tens of thousands of lives of russian soldiers will be punished. i ask no one to put up any resistance. justice for the troops will be restored, and then justice for all of russia. reporter: the threat of violence was a shocking unprecedented challenge, putting wagner on a collision course with the kremlin, a criminal case was launched accusing prigozhin of insurrection. that didn t stop him.
advance and leave for exile in belarus, an audio message confirmed his forces would stand down. translator: therefore, realizing all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our columns around and leave in the opposite direction to the field camps according to the plan. reporter: the kremlin later confirmed grievous criminal charges would be dropped as part of the deal. but as wagner forces dispersed on saturday crowds in rostov cheered them, a worrying sign for the kremlin, that prigozhin s short-lived rebellion had struck a popular cord. the big question now in russia is what will this unprecedented challenge to putin s rule unleash? well, indeed, and there s also questions this morning in russia about the whereabouts and the fate of yevgeny prigozhin.