show he s one of them. stand by. there s much more to discuss. coming up next, he led the insurrection, but how did the leader of wagner group gain power in the first place? his past work and its bloody of yevgeny prigozhin. plus, as we learn new developments in the implosion of the titan sub tonight, what could be the legal liability for the company? this is cnn s special live coverage. sometimes you re so busy taking care of everyone else you don t do enough for yourself, or your mouth. but eventually, it will remind you. when it does, aspen dental is here for you. we offer the custom dental treatments you need, all under one roof, right nearby.
does that contribute to the possibility of criminal negligence here? i think it will weigh into whatever litigation comes about from this. there was a statement at one point where he said something along the lines of safety at some point becomes a pure loss. so you really have to wonder about the leader of a corporation who is going on an experimental trip like this, in an untested vessel, making statements like that and sort of circumventing regulations that are there to really help the vessel and the safety of the crew. according to someone else who rode on the titan, the waiver that customers signed, you know, includes a long list of all the many ways a customer could die in the submarine. i think folks watching at home, we ll all signed waivers for even simple things. does that relieve the company of liability? it s at some point, they re going to make that argument. mm-hmm. but i don t really think it s going to hold any weight. you know, there s this legal
when he got out, he started a hot dog stand, parlayed that into a series of successful restaurants that putin sometimes brought other world leaders to. prigozhin scored lucrative government catering contracts, earning him the nickname putin s chef. being the guy who runs the kremlin food service might to you and me sound like not a particularly important thing. but to people who are afraid of being poisoned, that s a position of trust for prigozhin. reporter: prigozhin used putin s trust and resources to make another bold and extraordinary move around 2014, founding wagner as a paramilitary group, then operating mostly in the shadows. to run coups and mercenary activities at the central african republic. he was involved in syria. when russia doesn t want to use its own troops, when russia wants to outsource to contractors, it relies on wagner, the most prominent of these kind of institutions.
rule. the very latest now from cnn s sam kiley live from london. sam, we re watching russia closely, ukraine, also events in belarus. any developments to indicate to us what s actually happening right now? reporter: well, jim, i think the most stunning development so far is an absence of any kind of news about the whereabouts of yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of the wagner mercenary group. as you rightly point out there, he was in command of, although not present in, necessarily, a column of military, his military that got within 200 kilometers, 125 miles of moscow, and then suddenly there was this intervention from lukashenko from belarus. and we saw pictures of the mercenary leader leaving rostov-on-don, ostensibly for exile and safety, critically, in neighboring belarus whilst his