leader was in exile indefinitely, think again. what does that mean for the war in ukraine? difficult day for number ten. the standards committee says former government whip, chris pincher, should be suspended for eight weeks for groping two men in a london club. it will likely trigger another by election. alongside that, the cabinet office lost a legal challenge today to prevent the covid inquiry from seeing borisjohnson s unredacted whatsapp messages and diaries. we will get into a busy day in westminster. but let us begin with that news from belarus that the boss of the wagner paramilitary group, yevgeny prigozhin, has returned to russia according to the belarusian leader alexander lu kashenko. mr prigozhin, who led wagner s mutiny in russia last month, was supposed to have gone into exile in belarus and yet the belarusian leader says he may now be back in st petersburg. for the past week or so, his whereabouts has been something of a mystery. we know his private jet ha
christian dog ran, nbc news. teamwork making the dream work. and on that note, i wish you a good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. it s really good to have you here. before he became the editor of the most important english language magazine and the world, david remnick was a moscow correspondent for the washington post. he in fact won the pulitzer prize for his landmark 1993 book about the last time russia fell apart at the end of the soviet union. david remnick is gonna be here joining us live in just a few minutes, as we all try to make sense of this latest news that burst out this weekend. everybody in the world trying to figure out whether russia may be falling apart again, whether vladimir putin may be teetering, after 23 years consolidated, increasingly dictatorial power in russia. again, david remnick will be joining us live on that story in just a moment. we a
revenge dish served cold two months after that mutiny that president putin has got his revenge. he looked weak for not punishing yevgeny prigozhin. weak for not punishing yevgeny priaozhin. ., ., , i. weak for not punishing yevgeny priaozhin. ., ., , ,, ., prigozhin. now, what is your view on what miaht prigozhin. now, what is your view on what might have prigozhin. now, what is your view on what might have happened? - prigozhin. now, what is your view on what might have happened? it - prigozhin. now, what is your view on what might have happened? it is - what might have happened? it is being assumed that yevgeny prigozhin is now dead, where does that leave putin, for a start? justin crump? certainly, in terms of what we are seeing at the moment, speculation and misinformation is growing. and while i think fingers are pointing towards the russian state in this, they will attempt to muddy the waters. and certainly, investigations are currently ongoing and whether a device was smuggled
are not in belarus. he indicated that they went back to their camps in russian occupied eastern ukraine. mr lukashenko also said that he is going to be discussing the situation with wagner with vladimir putin in the nearest future. although the kremlin hasn t given any date for that discussion, so what is happening, what is actually going on. who knows? vitaly the rush editor from bbc monitoring is not entirely convinced that prigozhin was ever in belarus. well, all we have in terms of pointers to him being there are the statements made by alexander lukashenko about ten days ago when he said that, yes, it prigozhin is
have? the difficult thing with the russians is have? the difficult thing with the russians is whether have? the difficult thing with the russians is whether to have? the difficult thing with the russians is whether to suspect . have? the difficult thing with the i russians is whether to suspect that they are incompetent or whether to suspect that they are deliberately targeting civilian buildings. it can t be both at the same time, or rather it is either incompetence or deliberate malice. but it is now a regular pattern that civilian buildings, whether it be apartment buildings, whether it be apartment buildings or cafe is, get hit. you would think that the fighting force thatis would think that the fighting force that is supposed to be the second best in the world would be able to send its missiles in the direction of the intended target, or otherwise it really is the case that they did intend to kill civilians. intend to kill civilians. we ve talked about intend to kill civi