a good sunday evening to you. i m jim sciutto, and this is cnn s special live coverage of the extraordinary yet short-lived uprising in russia that has left much of the world asking exactly how this happened and what could happen next. is putin s leadership under threat? is this an opportunity for ukraine to repel russia s ongoing invasion? we do have new developments tonight, including reaction from the biden administration. but first video has emerged on social media which shows the crash site of a russian military transport plane, reportedly shot down in southern russia saturday by the wagner mercenary group which carried out this rebellion. the russian defense ministry still has not commented on the loss of any aircraft. also, there is still no sign this evening of wagner s leader, yevgeny prigozhin, after he apparently cut a deal with moscow and called off the insurrection. and there is no sign as well of putin after the most serious challenge to his rule since he came t
closure and accountability as well. gloria, thanks so much. well, this week the titanic director james cameron, a deep sea explorer himself, offered some blistering criticism of oceangate for not following safety regulations and testing. here s some of the headline-making interview he did on cnn. a multi seat vehicle where i intended to be the pilot, we d go through all of the rigorous test protocols and review protocols that you have with, let s say, abs, which is the american bureau of shipping, or dnv, or german lloyd s, who are the major, you know, bureaus that class a sub. they call it classing, but it s basically certification. and i think it was unconscionable that this group did not go through that rigorous process. there is a great, almost surreal irony here, which is titanic sank because the captain took it full steam into an ice field at
t.s.a. officials say they have made changes in the bottom line is that a plane has not been hijacked in the last decade they have managed to screen 5 billion passengers, shep. shepard: catherine herrige at tonight. 18 kindergarten students are dead tonight after overloaded school mini bus hit a truck head on and it tops our news around the world in 80 seconds. china. officials say more than 60 kids were on that nine seat vehicle at the time of the crash. more than 40 other people hurt. police say both vehicles were speeding and that the mini bus was on the wrong side of the road. overcrowded school buses are reportedly common due to tight budgets. thailand, secretary of state hillary clinton announcing a 10-million-dollar package for the flood ravaged country. secretary clinton met with thailand s prime minister in the capital city of bangkok. we are providing direct medical services and improving