finland s conservative leader petteri orpo wins a nail biting three way election race, defeating prime minister sanna marin. hello and welcome. i m ben thompson. russia s investigators have detained a 26 year old woman, darya trepova, in connection with the murder of the pro war blogger vladen tatarsky, who was killed by a bomb in st petersburg on sunday. media reports said the explosion occurred shortly after he had been given a statuette by a woman at an event in a cafe. russia s security service has accused ukraine of being behind the blast, but ukrainian officials have denied this. a short time ago russia s anti terrorism committee said it believes the attack was planned by ukrainian secret services, jointly with people cooperating with jailed opposition leader alexei navalny s anti corru ption foundation. our correspondent will vernon in moscow has more. i m just seeing a short statement that has come in from the russian investigative committee, which is russia s versi
australia s prime minister leads tributes to one of the country s most influential aboriginal leaders, yunu pingu, who has died at the age of 7a. hello and welcome. the killing of the russian military blogger is being investigated as a high profile murder , authorities have said. the blogger vladlen tatarsky was a vocal supporter of russia s war in ukraine. he was killed in an explosion at a cafe in saint petersburg. it was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack. in the last hour, russia has detained a woman named darya trepova in connection to the killing. our correspondent will vernon in moscow has more. i m just seeing a short statement that has coming from the russian investigative committee, which is russia s version of the fbi who have been investigating the blasts last night in st petersburg. a short statement saying that in connection with the explosion in the cafe in st petersburg, employees of the. i m just translating this, sorry. employees of t
the opposition leader alexei navalny, who has been injail since returning to russia in 2021. that attack on sunday wounding more than 30 other people, but killing that high profile blogger that authorities say they are now cheating as a high profile murder. those the first images we have of the suspect who has been detained at treating as. one of the most prominent and influential indigenous leaders of the past century in australia has died. yunu pingu, an elder of the yoln gu people, was 7a. he spent his life fighting for the rights of first nations people. the gu match clan leader championed traditional land rights against the incursions of uranium miners in kakadu national park, and later chaired the gumatj corporation, which received mining royalties from rio tinto for its use of yolngu land. yunupingu was also celebrated as a singer, artist and promoter of indigenous culture.
connection with that killing. they named her earlier today and say she is now in detention. we will have the latest from our correspondent in kyiv and moscow in the next hour. one of the most prominent and influential indigenous leaders of the past century in australia has died. yunupingu, an elder of the yolngu people, was 74. he spent his life fighting for the rights of first nations people. the clan leader championed traditional land rights against the incursions of uranium miners in kakadu national park, and later chaired the gumatj corporation, which received mining royalties from rio tinto for its use of yolngu land. yunupingu was also celebrated as a singer, artist and promoter of indigenous culture. let s talk to our correspondent in sydney phil mercer. we know the australian prime minister has been leading those tributes. forthose minister has been leading those tributes. for those who don t know you need you, just tell us who this
we had this claim from the head of the wagner group which has been leading the fighting in that part of the country, and he has claimed that the country, and he has claimed that the russian flag has been raised in the russian flag has been raised in the city. we haven t heard any reaction from the ukrainians this morning. we had an update from the army. it said, fighting continued in bakhmut but there wasn t any kind of confirmation that this claim was true. obviously bakhmut has been the main focus of russian forces in the east of the country, and for a very long time the ukrainians have been defending this city, the authorities here say it is important to defend bakhmut because of the russians were to capture the city, they would be in a position from which they would be able to attack major cities in the east of the country.