and the consequences for the rest of the world. kremlin spokesperson says, the leader of the wagner mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin, will not face charges for actions russian president vladimir putin described as treason just hours ago. spokesperson also saying, prigozhin will head to neighboring belarus, with wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted. this comes after prigozhin ordered his forces to turn back, return to their bases, abandoning an armed rebellion that had them heading toward moscow. we are looking at new video into us taken from the city of rostov near the ukrainian border. as all these new developments come in and we get these new images, the question remains, how do we get here this fast? the wagner group was what russia calls a, quote, private military company. over the u.s. calls the group a proxy force that had been fighting on russia s behalf in ukraine. on friday, prigozhin accused russia s defense minister, ordering a rocket strike on wagner s camps
monday we have two massive pieces of nose, special counsel jack smith s investigation into the former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. one of this is just broken, and this is about this guy. who is not exactly a household name. this is mike roman. he is the director of election day operations for trump s 2020 campaign. you might know him as the guy who ungenerous, sixth try to physically deliver certificates of the fake a lectures from trump s fake electors scheme. to vice president mike pence. and that act, being the bag man trying to deliver the fake electors on january six, to stop the certification of the 2020 election. that is actually a pretty good encapsulation of his larger role in all of this. you see after the election, there was not all that much to do for trump s director of election day operations. so mike romance shifted to a new game, he acted as the go-between, the vote weber of sorts, doing the legwork to get state level officials on
it all started with yevgeny prigozhin accusing russian forces of firing on his mercenaries in ukraine. prigozhin says his forces have crossed from ukraine and taken the city of rostov and have seized military facilities in voroneszh which is on the way to moscow as well. there s increased security in moscow with so called anti terror measures introduced. the kremlin has called for prigozhin s arrest with top russian generals telling wagner forces to stand down and the russian president vladimir putin has given a tv address and said russia is facing a betrayal. these pictures have come into us at the bbc. a spokesperson been cited by the ria news agency. there have been some questions as to weather putin was still in the kremlin. a spokesperson says he is working there. we have verified that this is at a town called pavlovsk in the varonezh region north of rostov on the road towards moscow. you can see smoke billowing across the area. we don t know the cause of the smoke. we d
overturn the 2020 election. one of these has just broken, and it s about this guy. he s not exactly a household name, this is mike roman. he was a director of election day operations for trump s 2020 campaign, you might know him as the guy who, on january 6th tried to physically deliver certificates of the fake electors from trump s fake electors scheme to vice president mike. pence electors schem about act, bek man trying to lure the fake electors on january 6th to stop the certification of the 2020 election, that there is actually a pretty good encapsulation of his larger role in all of this. you see, after the election, there was not much to do for trump s director of election day operations. so mike roman shifted to a new gate. he acted as a go-between, the vote whimper of sorts, doing allegra to get state level officials on board with trump s fake electors plan. he was an illegal mastermind planning, he was in the brains of the operation, he was the legs of the operati
here has dominated the news agenda since early october. tragic and polarising, it s one of the biggest stories of 2023 and one that i have followed here and reported on throughout, speaking to people in israel and in gaza about how they re living through it. the year has seen many important and profound stories, from the war in ukraine to donald trump s legal affairs in the us and for india, a successful moon landing. i m going to bring you just some of those moments. we begin in turkey and syria and the devastating earthquake that struck early on the sixth of february. these images show the moment the first quake hit. with a magnitude of 7.8, it destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed thousands of people. a second powerful tremor hours later increased the death toll even further. i was one of the first journalists to reach the epicentre, travelling through the devastation towards the city of kahramanmaras and broadcasting from my phone. this was one of my first live repor