happened in the wagner group said they were strong supporters of mr putin. with more details, here s bbc editor. 3 putin. with more details, here s bbc editor. , putin. with more details, here s bbc editor. , , putin. with more details, here s bbc editor. i, , , ., editor. a very surprising turn of events, editor. a very surprising turn of events. the editor. a very surprising turn of events, the statement - editor. a very surprising turn of events, the statement from - editor. a very surprising turn of| events, the statement from the kremlin spokesman. let me recall at the very start of this apparent mood mutiny. he was somewhat rattled and vowed to punish the people he called traitors and as far as we know, that has not yet happened. and days after the mutiny by wagner group fighters, he sat down with dozens of their commanders as well as the chief yevgeny prigozhin himself. that meeting, according to the kremlin spokesman, they discussed the war on ukraine which they
do need to reflect, president erdogan can t make a decision on his own. he now refers it on to parliament, who has to then pass it. but he has agreed to work with parliament to make sure that does happen. it s interesting when you look at some of these issues that erdogan previously raised things like pkk, a group that he and many of you as a terrorist organisation, saying sweden wasn t doing enough many view. there s issues around things like fighterjets to resume herfinished resume purchase from the us. with the issue ofjoining the us. with the issue ofjoining the eu, it took a separate organisation, was thrown into the mix as well. all those issues feeding into the potential delay in accession, but we don t know the details of how exactly, but it seems sweden will go the way of finland. during those, both countries spoke at the same time. life spoke to the finnish foreign minister, and she told me she always viewed this very much as a joint process. it was sweden a
pace, that is the message from the federal reserve. america s central bank. the policymakers says they intend to raise interest rates practice in its july after taking a break last month to assess the impact of ten brevis increases. it comes as americans are having to pay more for basic goods, but while officials seem to be an agreement are for what to do next, after the meeting on wednesday, there was disagreement over the decision to hold off untiljune. some say they could ve supported a rate rise last month because inflation remains well above its 2% target. the minutes show how policymakers are grappling with how to tame inflation after it hit a high last year, even as they left the benchmark rate unchanged in a five to five and a quarter percent, almost all officials believe more rate hikes are needed. i had of thejuly meeting, there are two marquee pieces of economic data that is due out to the statement a chapter practice friday and consumer inflation next week. us tre
us, you are in time for the top business stories. we start in the us where, as you ve been hearing in the last few hours, meta, the owner of facebook, instagram and whatsapp, has launched its widely anticipated new conversation app, threads. it allows users to create posts of up to 500 characters and is being seen as a clear rival to twitter. threads is available to download in more than 100 countries around the world, including here in the uk, but not as yet in the european union because of concerns over privacy regulations. meta boss mark zuckerberg says 5 million users have already signed up to threads in the first four hours. and many tech industry watchers say it poses a very real threat to twitter. i think threads will pose a huge threat to twitter because it is coming from the matter and instagram family of apps. instagram has 2 million users compared to around 250 million of twitter so about ten times bigger already. of twitter so about ten times biggeralready. if of
relationship rock solid . police say further inquiries are taking place into whether a bbc presenter alleged to have paid a teenager for explicit photos committed a criminal offence. the kremlin says the wagner boss, yevgeny prigozhin, met vladimir putin five days after he led a failed mutiny. the un s weather agency says it is extremely worried about record high temperatures recorded around the world. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s gavin. hello from the bbc sport centre. let s bring you up to speed with wimbledon, as the tournament enters the second week. novak djokovic and daniil medvedev are through to the quarter finals, medvedev progressing by virtue of his opponent retiring. he was two sets up at the time. the women s champion elena rybkahina also through without needed to complete her match. chetan pathak is there for us. djokovic dropped one set, but looking in good shape to retain his title here. and potentially level that famou