against the regime continue. ireland s prime minister attends a church vigil for the victims of the donegal filling station explosion. max verstappen has secured his second formula one world championship after winning the japanese grand prix. hello and welcome, if you re watching in the uk or around the world. russian divers are beginning a fuller examination of the damage caused by saturday s explosion to the bridge linking russia with crimea. the kremlin had previously hailed the bridge as one of its best, ultra modern and well defended structures. though limited traffic has resumed along one carriageway, a section of the other was brought down by the blast. these satellite images give an idea of what happened. this is the 19 kilometre long crossing, that s 12 miles, which you can see here linking russia, on the right of the screen, to crimea. you can make out smoke coming from one span of the bridge. this closer image shows how two parts of the road bridge have collapsed.
and now prigozhin says his intention was never to overthrow putin. he said this in an audio released yesterday, but it did give russians along with the rest of the world, what happened on saturday, a glimpse at what the end of putin could look like. joining me now, the author of why coups fail, brian kloss. thanks for being here. again for a moment, it looked like prigozhin was leading a coup yesterday. what got him to turn around? why didn t that work? well we don t know for sure but we can speculate because dictators tend to use whatever leverage they have during coups and that can be family members, death threats. simply a menacing amount of force to show they re going to lose. that s because coups are not really about who has the superior force. they re basically pr battles where you re trying to create an
be only 5% rather than 10%. that is a big battle be only 5% rather than 10%. that is a big battle to come. the noises are that it a big battle to come. the noises are that it will a big battle to come. the noises are that it will be difficult for liz truss. that it will be difficult for liz truss. if that it will be difficult for liz truss, if that is what she wants, to id truss, if that is what she wants, to go for truss, if that is what she wants, to go for the truss, if that is what she wants, to go for the lower increase. other battles go for the lower increase. other battles as go for the lower increase. other battles as well, for example over the opr battles as well, for example over the opr report, the official report over at the opr report, the official report over at the the opr report, the official report over at the finances of this and how they stack over at the finances of this and how they stack up. it is difficult to see right they stack up. it is
i would say most people found her credible. the more we see, the hard he it is for the president to win back the female support that he is starting to lose. and it looks like the president is losing the pr battles with these affairs. is that legally significant? well, the court of public opinion, it may be significant whether he can pull the potential jury pool of future voters. in the court of law, it doesn t move the needle at all. the only questions are if the quem speak about the issues. remember, this is a president who was elected when there were more than a dozen women who made accusations against him. and frankly, even the access hollywood didn t move the needle. so the numbers in the polling
promise $1,000 bonuses. that is worth highlighting as a win for them. yeah certainly. and these are companies facing pr battles, wells fargo among them, this is a way to get good press for themselves. and republicans are running with them p as they should, this is real money for people. republicans are facing pr battle. we talked about how unpopular this bill is. democrats are already planning to run on this in 2018. republicans are kind of banking on the fact that people will view this more this will become more popular once people see these changes, see some kind of changes in their withholdings. they estimate in april or so. but, again, it remains to be seen whether this will be a motivating factor for the republican base. i mean, the republicans have a lot of accomplishments to tout at the and of this year, the tax bill, but also judges and other