a member of his trusted inner circle dared to revolt and marched his army of mercenaries into russia. [speaking non-english] yevgeny prigozhin had reason to be angry. he had raised a private army called the wagner group and sent them to fight putin s war in ukraine. his men were being slaughtered and prigozhin blamed russians armchair generals running the war of sabotage. [speaking non-english] there was a mutiny against vladimir putin s armed forces. it is more like a fight between gangs, which is like a mafia state. vladimir putin was rattled and seemed to be caught off guard. he had raised prigozhin and empowered him. prigozhin is entirely a creature of vladimir putin. he does not exist without putin. this is a frankenstein-like scenario. i ve been following prigozhin s extraordinary rise for years and seen firsthand how the one-time, petty thief built a criminal empire in syria, africa, russia, and ukraine. making him powerful enough to challenge the boss. it
the driver, a woman in her 40s has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. police officers, firefighters and paramedics, including london s in rumbling s responded to the incident at the study preparatory schooljust before 10am this morning. the metropolitan police say the incident is not being treated as a terror related. in the past, the emergency services give this update. very sadly, one of the children, an eight year old girl, died at the scene. our thoughts are with her family at this incredibly difficult time. the driver of a car, a woman aged in herforties, stopped at the scene and has since been arrested for causing death by dangerous driving and remains in police custody. this is a very difficult time for everyone here at the school and across the wider community. we would ask people not to speculate while we work to understand the full circumstances of what has happened during this tragic incident. but i will say we are not treating this
ability to overcome them than be anywhere else in the world. we begin tonight with growing presidential primary field. will hurd, former texas congressman and former cia officer, has thrown his hat in the ring. re-election was a tough fight, and he served on the house intelligence committee. why is he running for president? will he sign the pledge and support the nominee no matter who he or she may be? what will he do if he were president? let s find out. congressman will hurd, thank you for joining us. thank you, and amen, i agree, we are lucky to live where we live. trey: what did you see when you surveyed the existing candidates that led you to say, i m jumping in and going to run to be leader of the free world? sure, there is a path for a dark-horse candidate like me. i recognize the challenges i have ahead, the reality is, we are faced with generational-defining challenges, everything from china trying to surpass united states as global superpower to inflation that i
to take over the city of rostov on don, where the russian troops and the inhabitants welcomed them, and then, secondly, to head on for moscow. and then, president lukashenko of belarus rang prigozhin and offered him a deal, and that was it prigozhin ordered his men to turn back and he and they have gone to quarters in belarus, not far from the ukrainian border. so, what on earth does it all mean for the man who captured rostov? i asked famil ismailov, news editor of bbc russian. nobody expected that it s going to come to the point when he s going to take over one of the biggest cities in the south of russia with more than one million population and seize the headquarters of a southern army command which is in charge of operations in ukraine. so to that point, yes, unexpected. but other than that, prigozhin is such a character and his private army has come to such a level of influence on the front line and also in public opinion because he s able to deliver his views on th
be after putin s war? the mood in ukraine is that if ukrainian officials agree to something less than the borders of 1991, the question would be, why did all those people die? and populism is its day over? the way i like to look at this issue is not, are we going to see a resurgence of populism, but are we going to see a resurgence of democracy? it s been one of the most confusing episodes of recent times, and we still don t know exactly what happened or what the outcome might be. yevgeny prigozhin, head of the wagner group of mercenaries, ordered a detachment of his men first to take over the city of rostov on don, where the russian troops and the inhabitants welcomed them, and then, secondly, to head on for moscow. and then president lukashenko of belarus rang prigozhin and offered him a deal, and that was it prigozhin ordered his men to turn back, and he and they have gone to quarters in belarus, not farfrom the ukrainian border. so what on earth does it all mean for t