wagner s leader, prigozhin, has become a hero, too. he is moving to belarus next door, but it s unclear if this is the last we will see of him. what is definite, though, is a sense of relief, at least here in the russian capital. it s calm now but in the mayhem of the weekend moscow was on high alert, military checkpoints on the outskirts of the city, and residents bracing for wagner fighters to enter, and for the confrontation that never came. it was really uneasy yesterday, says andre. even here the sympathy for prigozhin s unprecedented
his grip, pledging to station nuclear weapons in belarus. like putin, lukashenko is a product of his soviet upbringing, his belarus often seems stuck in that past, unlike russia the kgb was never disbanded or renamed. before entering politics, lukashenko ran a collective farm later often had himself filmed as president digging up carrots or potatoes to show he never forgot his roots, and then often turning to strong arm tactics. belarus air traffic control called in a bomb threat causing the a plane to land and the man was arrested, and like so many
factions. what could possibly go wrong? that s the classic question. with all the factions emerging and the break up of wagner, and as you said, you potentially have the risks of factional conflict like gang warfare that could extend all the way up to and including ailments of the regime in moscow. yeah, i think this is a recipe for ultimately a weakening russia as a federal state and potentially internal conflict. we dodged the bullet of civil war over the weekend, but who is to say what happens next weekend? i think it has got to that point whereby you could see conflict breaking out in amongst multiple factions inside russia. wagner is a brutal
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good to hear a different point of view as always. thanks for coming in. my pleasure. extreme weather was on full display sunday just outside of indianapolis. the national weather service says it s almost certainly a tornado. they ll make it official after a survey team reports back monday. here is what it looked like for a fire company responding to a collapsed building. at least 75 homes have been damaged and a apartment building under construction have been destroyed. there are no reports of serious injuries. heat has turned deadly in texas. temperatures of 119 or 48 degrees celsius being blamed for the death of a 31-year-old man and his 14-year-old step-son while hiking in big bend national park. the soaring temperatures are raising concerns about the stability of the power grid in texas. there is no relief in the forecast this week and cities have started opening cooling centers. we ll take a break here on cnn. when we come back, vladimir putin has ruled russia unchecked