revolt retreat, an astonishing 24 hours in global history. russian president vladimir putin staves off the biggest threat ever to his quarter century leadership as his one-time ally yevgeny prigozhin abruptly calls off a rebellion as his marches closer to moscow. prigozhin has agreed to leave russia for belarus. the wagner insurrection revealed major cracks and put his armor at home, now the world watches to see how it will impact a 16-month war on ukraine. good morning, and welcome to a special edition of the sunday, show i m jonathan katie phang who you normally see at this hour as the weekend off. we start with a sobering realization, we may truly never know how close the nuclear armed nation of russia came to a full blown civil war. the toughest test ever, putin s presidency is over, for now after brokering a truce with belarus, wagner leader if ghani prigozhin, called off a just hours after his mercenaries took control of the military headquarters in south of russia.
very little pushback, anita. he s taken over the main military headquarters demanding to see the russian defense chief and the head of the military. of but the other front that we re watching closely is it seems that he has sent about 5,000 of his mercenary members up the highway towards moscow, could be within about 200 miles. not much resistance either from the russian military inside russia, but we knew that the kremlin is on high alert, sort of a counterterrorism regime. vladimir putin, of course, has been lashing out how. many a video earlier today, he said that prigozhin s actions were internal betrayal, treason, and he s promising a harsh response which, frankly, we haven t seen yet. yes, here in kyiv still russia is waging its war against ukraine. we saw 20 the cruise missiles come in overnight here. just about all of them were shot down, but there was some damage. later on in an online message ukrainian president zelenskyy had this to say about what was happening in
signs it seems for now perhaps cooling off. thousands of mercenaries who have fought for russia and ukraine have been marching rapidly towards moscow as they turned on vladimir putin. just in the last half hour halting their dance we are told on the capitol the head of the wagner groups and he gave the order to avoid shedding russian blood. this, after letter potent valid decisive action against what he calls treason. it is ongoing and fluid situation here at fox news we are on top of it all. hello everyone what would fox s life i am eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hi eric hello everyone i m arthel neville. today stunning developments represent the first major challenge to putin s decades long grip on power. the head of the wagner group is a long time kremlin. he has been increasingly critical of russia s military in recent weeks. he says his forces have seized key russian military facilities knew that near the ukraine border. again they are being ordered to return to their fi
the mutiny. that would suggest that it wasn t the narrative that we all have been talking about a few for the last couple of days now, that prigozhin rose up against putin, that putin waited two months in order to assess the situation, get his ducks in in out this alleged assassination plot. a lot of, i think, narrative building is going on right now. while the russians say they are continuing to investigate the site, and they say they recovered ten bodies. but i think u.s. officials are not convinced about the impartiality of that investigation. especially if they suspect putin was involved. richard engel, thank you very much. appreciate it. up next, the stunning moment in history. trump s mug shot seen around the world. we talked to a presidential historian who says the nation is at a turning point. you are watching jose
this is bbc news, the headlines: yevgeny prigozhin the wagner boss who led a failed mutiny in russsia is presumed dead after a plane crash near moscow. vladimir putin addresses a summit by video link but fails to mention the crash or mr prigozhin. happiness for some but gcse exam pass rates fall for a second year running in england, wales and northern ireland. senior doctors in england go on strike again over a dispute on pay. you are watching bbc news. more now from russia where as we ve been hearing the leader of the wagner mercenary group yevgeny prigozhin is presumed dead after a plane crash near moscow. mr prigozhin rose from obscurity to a position