Wave of support from top performers. All of those stories here in just a moment. Sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, heres lizzy. Hello from the bbc sport centre. Were starting with the the news today that the future of the Commonwealth Games and its viability is being questioned, after alberta announced theyre cancelling their bid to host the 2030 event. It follows victoria, in australia, who also pulled out of staging the next games in 2026. Our correspondent, alex capstick, tells us where this leaves the games. It would seem to be in crisis. Without a house for the next two editions. Although they insist there is ongoing dialogue with potential hosts. It has been suggested india or malaysia might lodge a bid. But one committed and prepared to meet all of the financial demands of staging such a Big Multisports event has increasingly difficult. Fifa is investigating an official complaint that the zambia head coach, bruce mwape, sexually assaulted a player at the
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.
the same sentiment is echoed in the times who report that the prime minister fights for survivial . the daily mail asks how much more can she and the rest of us take with the paper calling her 38 days in charge, so far, as some of the most shambolic in uk political history. a day of chaos is the simple headline in the guardian. and finally the sun go for a different lead the death of the actor and comedian robbie coltrane. so let s begin. kevin, front page of the guardian? yes, a day of chaos, summing up what the past 204i was has been like. i cannot remember a day quite as mad as this, even the downfall of boris johnson wasn t as bad as this. i don t think we quite full so when we got up this morning how chaotic it would actually be. we did thing a u turn on corporation tax was in the offing, but sacking kwasi kwarteng was out of the blue, really. it was only yesterday he gave an interview to the bbc in which he said he would be around, absolutely 100%, he was
and then crashed. the driver dead on the scene. that driver was darya dugina, a commentator and supporter of russia s invasion of ukraine who was sanctioned by the united states and by the uk. she was also the daughter of prominent right-wing ideolog alexander dugin. an explosive device detonated saturday night setting the vehicle on fire. russia has opened a criminal investigation the investigative committee says they believe dugina was murdered. taking into account the data obtained the investigation believes the crime was preplanned and of an ordered nature, a statement said. while forensic work continued the foreign ministry implied ukraine may be behind the attack. if the ukrainian trace is confirmed, foreign ministry spokeswoman wrote on telegram. the ukrainians deny any involvement. translator: i emphasize ukraine definitely has nothing to do with this because we are not a criminal state which the russian federation is and even more so we are not a terrorist state.
that democrats have closed the enthusiasm gap with voters less than three months before they cast their ballots. 66% of democrats expressing a high level of interest in midterm races compared to 68% of republicans with the surge of the democratic side attributed at least in part to anger over the supreme courts reversal of roe v. wade, also factoring in to the midterm picture. the web of investigation that appears to be tightening around former president donald trump. nearly three and five americans pulled by nbc news saying that those investigations into trump s alleged wrongdoing should continue after the fbi raid of the florida estate. and the revelation that it was related to possible espionage violations. of course, all of this new data is about to be field tested in a pair of state primaries tuesday. when in florida, when in new york, whose base comes out more energized ahead of november. we will be watching. alaska not one, but two state wide candidates in trump racist