just two weeks ago he was leading an armed insurrection against vladimir putin. meantime russian state media reporting that police have allegedly found passports, wigs, cash, gold and guns during a raid on prigozhin s homes stepping up an apparent propaganda campaign against prigozhin. let s bring in nada bashir from london. obviously a lot to unpack here. the reason this is so noteworthy of course is because we thought prigozhin was in exile in belarus. he has not been seen from or heard from since the armed rebellion on june 23rd. what are you hearing? you re right. there have been questions since he hasn t been seen the failed insurrection. they believe there was a deal struck with the belarusian president lukasalexander lukash but of course as we ve just learned, according to lukashenko who was speaking at a press conference, yevgeny prigozhin is said to be in st. petersburg in russia. this is as russian state media has released video footage purportedly from yevgeny pr
they now know why swimming can significantly improve your mood. the russian president, vladimir putin, has made his first known visit to mariupol the ukrainian city which was captured by invading russian forces last year. russian state media says he travelled there by helicopter, and visited local residents. it s mr putin s first trip to the ukrainian territory which has been occupied by russia since the invasion was launched just over a year ago. we ve received these pictures, which we understand to be mr putin in mariupol on saturday evening. he s shown driving around in a car, and also visiting what appears to be a child ren s playground. and other footage shows him visiting a theatre, and talking to a group of people on a street. you can see behind him a toy which looks to be in the face of being installed. process. the visit came at the end of a week when the russian president was charged by the international criminal court with forcible abductions of ukrainian chil
the entire memphis police department after the brutal beating of tyre nichols. plus, the man behind the decision to shoot suspicious balloons out of the sky testifying on capitol hill. congress is demanding some answers today to a long list of questions about how all of that went down. also, what we re learning from the wife of one of the four americans kidnapped in mexico, as her husband is being treated in a texas hospital. and trip delayed, the massive protests in israel, so big, so disruptive, the u.s. defense secretary just pushed back his planned trip. our nbc news reporters are all around the country and the world with the very latest. first, we begin in the middle east where the defense secretary will now be going, we believe, tomorrow, but as that latest round of violence leaves at least six palestinians dead, raf sanchez in te aviv, tell us about this delay, what we know about it, and what will he be walking into? reporter: well, chris, secretary austin s plan
please, call now, or you can go to lovesshriners.org. thank you so much for lets us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. you know what time it is. we re inside one week to the mid terms. the record-breaking turnout is happens. the latest numbers show more than 29 million americans have already voted, competing those trump mid terms of 2018. we re in full gear, and it s a tense backdrop for the races. there are active federal warnings about threats and attacks on poll workers and the voting process itself. we have seen records of these self-appointed poll watchers showing up in tactical gear, like that shot out of arizona. and election deniers are running for office, it s not normal. threats to lawmakers have increased tenfold over the several years over the trump era. more campaigns will turn on the question of whether candidates will honor democracy itself. these are truly unusual stak
adviser says he resigned last night because the prime minister put him in an impossible and odious position over an issue he believed would amount to a deliberate breach of the ministerial code. interest rates up again to one and a quarter per cent, the highest in more than a decade. a man confesses to killing a britishjournalist and his local guide in brazil, and leads police to where he buried the bodies. hot and getting even hotter britain s heatwave is expected to peak tomorrow with temperatures of 3a degrees celsius. an independent investigation into allegations of mistreatment in british gymnastics has found that physical and emotional abuse was systemic . the whyte review, which extends beyond 300 pages and was co commissioned by uk sport and sport england, found that gymnast well being and welfare had not been at the centre of british gymnastics culture during a 12 year period up to 2020 and that there was a coach led culture of fear. let s talk to our spor