revolt retreat, an astonishing 24 hours in global history. russian president vladimir putin staves off the biggest threat ever to his quarter century leadership as his one-time ally yevgeny prigozhin abruptly calls off a rebellion as his marches closer to moscow. prigozhin has agreed to leave russia for belarus. the wagner insurrection revealed major cracks and put his armor at home, now the world watches to see how it will impact a 16-month war on ukraine. good morning, and welcome to a special edition of the sunday, show i m jonathan katie phang who you normally see at this hour as the weekend off. we start with a sobering realization, we may truly never know how close the nuclear armed nation of russia came to a full blown civil war. the toughest test ever, putin s presidency is over, for now after brokering a truce with belarus, wagner leader if ghani prigozhin, called off a just hours after his mercenaries took control of the military headquarters in south of russia.
watching us here in the united states and around the world. ahead on cnn newsroom i turned around and i told the crowd come this way. people are dying. tragedy strikes a halloween celebration in south korea. more than 150 people have been killed. cnn is live in seoul on the search for answers into what happened. plus the u.s. is now nine days away from the midterm elections and voters have been turning out in record numbers. we ll have a report from one key state. and the white house is accusing the kremlin of weaponizing food as russia withdraws from a key grain deal with ukraine. we ll have reaction. south korea s president is offering support and condolences to families who have lost loved ones in chaotic crowd surge. images of the tragedy have been pouring in and we have to warn you, they can be very hard to watch. you will zeros of bodies see rows of bodies and now at least 153 have died including 24 nationals, some 82 have also been injured, among them at leas
She has been described as the uks most influential black person and is chair of the countrys biggest media agency. But how tough was it for Karen Blackett to get to the top . Shelljoin us shortly. Check this out and as Barack Obamas been spotted kite surfing in the caribbean, we want to know what would you do to unwind after eight years in a toughjob . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Is hanging out with Richard Branson on your bucket list . Thank you for your thoughts. Some of which we cant mention on the programme we start with President Trumps travel ban which has faced its toughest test yet. Lawyers for the Us Justice Department have been slogging it out with those for states of washington and minnesota who want the ban repealed. The appeals Courtjudges Court in San Francisco are expected to give their decision later in this week. Lets recap. President trump has been trying to temporarily ban people entering the us from seven countries. He says this is about terror and keeping our
a couple of weeks about prigozhin s plan for this rebellion, for this insurrection. what does this say about putin s military inside russia, that we wagner group could not only crossover from ukraine into russia, but then also take over the military headquarters, and then roll north to moscow? yes, well a couple of things here. i think most people at least from those who served in the military, could see this coming. prigozhin, he has been extremely arrogant. he loves a lot of tension. the win in bakhmut really put him on the local stage, but put him on the world stage. he was the first unit to be successful in russia. and his head got big, he turned
and in the house, 218 seats are needed to be the majority party and right now it looks like republicans have a slight lead with 212 likely wins. but it is not just congressional seats that are up for grabs. the number of statewide elected officials including governors are in tight races in new york, kathy hochul is trying to hold off her republican challenger lee zeldin in what has become a surprisingly competitive contest. zeldin got big name help from florida when governor ron desantis joined him for a rally in long island saturday night. reporter: and here in new york early voting is just getting started. we re standing outside of a polling station in suffolk county and we have been watching voters come in and we wanted to talk to them about what they are worried about. as you mentioned, the race for governor here in new york suddenly closer than a lot of