hi there, everyone. i m nicole wallace, thanks for being here with us. we ve got a lot of places you get your news today, we re glad you re joining us. four pm in the east, it s 11 pm in moscow. we re following breaking news this hour, with the latest on the revolt unfolding in russia. and we see news is confirming, yevgeny prigozhin is the head of the wagner group, which is a private mercenary army in russia, that s done a lot of the fighting in the war in ukraine. he has called for his moscow bound convoy to stand down for now. that s only after advancing to within 120 miles of the city of moscow. in the biggest threat to russian president vladimir putin s grip on power that we ve ever seen. prigozhin sent a voice note, signaling that the forces would stand down, saying the group understands, quote, the responsibility for spilling russian blood on one of the sides. we are turning back our convoys, and going back to field camps, according to the plan. this comes just hours a
The Socialist Party in the lead. And the best Television Programmes of 2023 are honoured at the Bafta Tv Awards in london. Sarah lancashire from the bbc s police drama happy valley taking home best actress. Hello, im rajini vaidyanathan. Russias Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, is being removed from his post and will become the new secretary of russias security council. Hes a long standing ally of Vladimir Putin and has served as Defence Minister since 2012, Playing A Key role in russias invasion of ukraine. His replacement will be Andrei Belousov an economist and a deputy Prime Minister. What is the significance in this move i think the most significant thing is the fact that on the year of the full scale invasion, the third year, putin decided to change his minister of defence. The fact that the more senior position is losing a lot of influence when she used to have is now taking a new role. It says a lot about putins mind and his opinion of the state of the minister of russia. ~. ,.
victory through all the resources they need. i guess we don t have a war with this high degree of instability in the system. i think those are the things that first come to mind. colonel vindman, how credible is the kremlin s statement issued through russian state media, that amnesty would be offered to prigozhin? and that his troops who didn t take up arms would be folded into the russian military? eight hours ago he called them, describe it as treason. that seems highly unrealistic. we are not clearly seeing everything that is happening behind the curtain. i think prigozhin likely, you know, demanded he had a critical position of strength. he demanded that shoigu and gerasimov, be removed and replaced with competent generals. he likely demanded the freedom of operation for the wagner forces, and suffered in a part of the ministry of defense.
military defense forces. of shoigu and gerasimov. that s why they re being very careful. and not saying anything, even on the background. usually we don t see the military officials say, because they really don t know. they don t want to be seen as weighing in. a couple of things are very clear. wall street journalist first reported, i think this is true, they are not going to do anything to upset the balance, or the imbalance right now. so they were planning separate sanctions against the wagner group, this could ve come as early as next week. that s probably on hold right now. they don t want to see to be seen putting their thumb on the scale in any way. they re not surprised that erdogan, turkey called in to mediate earlier, because he s already traveling the west and russia. working both sides, not joining in the nato sanctions against russia. it s not clear that he had any more effect. lukashenko might be the real winner here, he s always been a