story for the last 18 hours or so. just across the border from where we are right now. huge ramifications for the war and world affairs. it s called the biggest challenge to russian president vladamir putin 23 weir t weir td the man responsible, wa wagner group chief prigozhin and he claimed his forces were fired on by russia and he took his fighters, as many as 25,000 along with tanks, armor, guns out of ukraine where they were deployed to nearby key southeastern city of rostov-on-don and population is 1 million. with almost no fight put up, they took over the main military headquarters there, which runs this war here and plus other official buildings. the demand for the top russian military brass comes to him to discuss the complaints. lets to move onto threats to move onto moscow if the demands are not made and another town 30 o 0 miles close toter capitol and vladamir putin lashed out at prigozhin and a once friend and key ally and threatening decisive action. take a li
presidential inauguration. at this crucial mile marker it s important to stare into the mirror of who we really are as a country. two years after lies and conspiracies about trump s big loss led to, quote, medieval combat on the steps of the u.s. capitol between law enforcement and trump supporters. those very same lies that inspired that attack two years ago are now deeply embedded in the politics of the gop. they are the single animating principle behind everything that happens in one of the country s two major political parties. it is in large part due to the fact that the man who, quote, summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame in the attack as january 6th select committee member liz cheney put it that would be twice impeached president trump himself as well as his top lieutenants remain the dominant force in the gop. and they insist on continuing to gaslight americans on what actually happened on january 6th to this day, to this hour on this day. just yeste
in libya, rebels claim to control most of the capital but gun battles continue in some parts of tripoli. an evacuation boat arrived there today for stranded migrants. the vessel was sent by the international organization for migration and can carry 300 people. to the west of tripoli, renewed fighting is reported near za ware and nato says three surfaces to surface missiles were fired on monday night near moammar gadhafi s hometown. nato is not aware of casualties or damage. the foreign minister is to fly to benghazi today to meet officials of the national transitional council. the chair of the alliance of nations is there to deal diplomatically with the libyan conflict. andrew? charles, meanwhile, moammar gadhafi is nowhere to be found. one of his sons, his chosen success, saif gadhafi has reappeared. he unexpectedly presented himself in front of cameras outside of tripoli hotel. libyan rebels had claimed to have him in custody. but clearly, free and able to move about, sai