mark knopfler who wrote private dancer for tina turner fondly remembers the singer who died on wednesday. it s seven am in singapore and seven pm in washington where us officials say the russian wagner group mercenaries may be working through other countries to acquire military equipment for use in ukraine. the us treasury said in a statement it has imposed sanctions on wagner s chief in mali ivan aleksandrovich maslov. central to this is the battle for the eastern city of bakhmut, in ukraine. mercenaries have been fighting on behalf of russia there a battle that s taken on a symbolic significance. now, they say they re withdrawing and handing their positions over to the russian army. let s hear from the leader of the wagner group. it will make we are withdrawing units from bakhmut. today, it is sam on the 25th of may. the 1st ofjune, the main parts of ist ofjune, the main parts of the unit will be relocated at the unit will be relocated at the rear camp. there handin
in sport, the rose garden. ukrainian s largest with over 5000 bushes and here it is in april this year. 0n the eastern side of bakhmut is the winery. the world s deepest underground winery. we have verified footage showing it is now used by the russian mercenary group wagner. here is the military group s found at the winery group s founder at the winery on the 23rd of february. several months later, he is there again using visible terrain structures we managed to match the video with the winery s entrance. as russian forces have moved across the city, entire neighbourhoods have been destroyed. it is a site that has echoes of other cities that have faced
during the trial the court heard the group had stashed weapons in a nearby virginia hotel. he said while he had not personally entered the capitol building, a prosecutor said he had acted like a battlefield general. he s a former us army paratrooper, a yale educated lawyer, as well and he was defiant in court today. he said he was a political prisoner, not a characterisation the judge accepted. judge said you present an ongoing threat, he said you are smart, charismatic and compelling in a way that frankly makes you dangerous. and for decades, it is clear you ve wanted the democracy of this country to devolve into violence. this case being seen as very significant, a high profile case and as i ve mentioned as well, the longest sentence handed down so far linked to january six were trump supporters storm to the capitol building in order to try to block the certification ofjoe biden s presidential
in english or in russian but it really says that these are the people were harming the war effort. a federaljudge in the united states has sentenced the founder of the far right militant group 0ath keepers, stewart rhodes, to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other crimes related to the storming of the us capitol on january the 6th, 2021. more now from our correspondent jessica parker in washington. the leader of the oath the leader of the 0ath keepers and one other of the members of the oath keepers, the group that he founded, have been sentenced to die on the charge of seditious conspiracy, which is a civil war era crime, essentially the crime of attempting to overthrow or oppose the government by force.
see ukraine continues to receive great nato weapons which are operating in our sovereign territory. yuval weber is a russian military and political strategy expert, krulak center, at marine corps university he told me why sanctions are being waged against the head of wagner group in mali. it will make their two things thatis it will make their two things that is being sanctioned for. one is for participation in wagoner s activities and across sub saharan africa and wegner has been widely reported in sanctioned by the united states, eu, uk, etc. they re committing tremendous amounts of human rights abuses and engaging in murder and illegal mining, logging, things of that nature, per dissipating and cools, the lot of it. being a part of that group is sanctionable. the other thing is that he is sourcing by the