hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in greece, where emergency services face another day of wildfires across the country. the largest greek island, crete, is now on high alert. on tuesday two air force pilots died after their plane crashed as it battled fires on the island of svr. the plane was trying to drop water on a forest fire. lasers continued on the island of rhodes. blazes continue too on rhodes. more evacuation flights have taken off and at least 10% of the land has been burnt. from there, our correspondent jenny hill reports. unrelenting, unforgiving the fires are raging on. firefighters battling to contain them. notjust here on rhodes, but on the islands of evia and corfu, too. it s desperate, dangerous work. this afternoon on evia, a terrible
charades. these are very complex issues. they re steeped in 1,000 years of history as it relates to ukraine. they re very steeped in the nature of the russian state that putin runs. it s a singularly unique state that is tailor made and molded to his autocratic style. he has i atable of advisers consisting of a few folks who run the security apparatus, the fsb, the svr, the military and the gru, and then you ve got some oligarchs thrown in. so you take putin out of that system and it becomes almost unimaginable what could befall the russian state because there s no one strong enough with the leverage, with the clout to be able to run the country going forward. so for an american leader to say i can fix this thing in a day is absolutely ridiculous and does not comport with reality whatsoever. and you were his ambassador, i should note, when trump was in helsinki with putin of course at that summit. the fact that he is the
i think, you know, putin s hold is strongest on the security services. you know, the fsb, svr. and prigozhin, once he has moved away from his wagner mercernaries, once he is an exile, he is much more at risk. so i think, you know, this deal, prigozhin may have gotten some of what he wanted, but i think he has made a colossal mistake for himself personally in challenging putin. i doubt that putin allow that to stand. how worried should prigozhin be that he is in belarus, which is a close ally to putin, as we all know? you know, it s interesting the role that belarus s lukashenko played in this in talking prigozhin down and brokering whatever deal caused him to turn back from moscow.