with king charles will focus on climates. biden is a bigger lift of both in london and again at the nato summit in lithuania it will be justifying his decision to provide cluster bombs to ukraine which are banned by more than 120 countries. we are not signatories of that agreement. but it took me a while to be convinced to do it. the main thing is they have weapons to stop the russians now to keep them from stopping the ukrainian offensive to these areas. or they don t. and i think they needed them progress a key factor in the decision russia has been using cluster bombs on ukrainian soil since the beginning of the invasion. the land will need to be de- mind anyway ukraine also committed to postwar cleanup and u.s. officials point out they have huge incentive to mitigate risk to their own people. the move drew opposition from nato allies canada, spain, germany, the uk as well as some congressional democrats because i have some qualms about it. there is an international prohib
monster rival, the threads app now live and millions are signing up. we re going to begin this hour with that surprising announcement regarding the potential location of the man who led an uprising in russia last month. in a rare news conference this morning, belarusian leader alexander lukashenko said the head of the wagner group yevgeny prigozhin is in russia, not in belarus, despite saying last week he was in his country. nbc news cannot verify that claim. it is raising new questions, though, about the supposed deal that ended the attempted rebellion. joining us now from the presidential palace in minsk is nbc chief international correspondent keir simmons. you attended the news conference. you spoke with lukashenko, what did he say? reporter: yeah. yeah, as you can see, we re not at the presidential palace anymore. we were there. nbc news one of the few international news organizations invited to that conversation. and after an incredibly unpredictable almost two week
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