minister. this has multiple implications and curious to see how this plays out as wagner appears to be moving slowly toward moscow. neil: welcome back, everybody. moving slowly toward moscow in a surreal situation where the country would be under siege right now and its capital could be the next target. this of course, courtesy of the wagner group, a group of mercenary soldiers, paid by russia to do russia s bidding in countries all over the world and sometimes russia itself to put down protests and that sort of thing. and i say paid by russia, no longer as this group turns on russia. this happened about 18 hours ago when a fed-op, and prigozhin, the leader this have group often fought and criticized with generals and leaders back home at the defense ministry said enough is enough and making his fight in eastern ukraine in particular around the area that the russians on and off have control of, that might be in doubt given this craziness, but in part of the real nature of thi
hello again, thanks for being with us. it s 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york with this special second hour on this federal holiday, and we are following breaking news this morning. america s secretary of state holding a high pressure meeting with china s president xi. did that one-on-one do anything to settle the simmering tensions between our two countries. extreme weather, millions remain under threat, even as communities reel from the aftermath of devastating tornados also ahead, a terrifying close call at one of the busiest airports in the country, a passenger capturing the video of this plane s wing almost hitting another plane on the runway. and later, celebrating juneteenth, we ll take you to galveston, texas, known as the birthplace of this federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery here in america. but first the breaking news out of china where u.s. secretary of state antony blinken met just a couple of hours ago with pres
Next to prigozhin and his ranks of mercenary soldiers, who have been key in russia s war on ukraine, as the bbc s steve rosenberg reports from moscow. leaving as heroes. the wagnerfighters, pulling out of rostov last night. you d think they d just won a war. the leader of the mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin, was off, too. he d just done a deal with the kremlin to end their mutiny. the rebellion started here, then spread north. it was the biggest challenge to vladimir putin s authority since he came to power. vladimir vladimirovich putin. russia s commander in chief likes to project an image of strength and mutiny on his watch is embarrassing. but is it damaging? foeradimir putin, will there be political fallout ahead of next year s election? he definitely looks weaker. all elite groups will begin to think
It shows real cracks. we can t speculate or know exactly where that s going to go. we do know that putin has a lot more to answer for in the weeks and months ahead. while president putin faces uncertainty, so too does the wagner group. it is unclear what will happen next to prigozhin and his ranks of mercenary soldiers, who ve been key in russia s waron ukraine. here s the bbc s steve rosenberg in moscow. leaving as heroes. the wagnerfighters pulling out of rostov last night. you d think they d just won a war. the leader of the mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin, was off, too. he d just done a deal with the kremlin to end their mutiny. the rebellion started here, then spread north. it was the biggest challenge to vladimir putin s authority since he came to power. vladimir vladimirovich putin. russia s commander in chief likes to project an image