Explored for the first time. On bbc london. The football on newsnight at 10 30pm. Does a fatal plane crash north of moscow mean that to Vladimir Putin has killed the wagner leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, once his closest acolyte, in revenge for his insurrection Government Department sent him letters he could not read. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. First tonight the news that has been developing from russia all evening, the plane crash that appears to have killed a man whose mercenary fighters have attacked ukraine and who just two months ago led a mutiny against Vladimir Putin. In the last hour, its been confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin head of the wagner group was on board a private jet that crashed near moscow. This is still very much an evolving situation, one that the uk government says it is monitoring. In the us President Biden has said theres not much that happens in russia that putins not behind. Our first report is from our russia editor Steve Rosenberg. Caught
Sunshine and occasional showers. Beautiful weather in south western scotland, the Lake District and lancashire into the coast of wales, 18 degrees. But turning a little bit cooler. You can see from the wind direction, from the north and the Norwegian Sea spreading across the country and bringing showers. 16, i7 country and bringing showers. 16, 17 in scotland and in the south east, around 21 degrees. It will probably hover about 20 degrees in the south for the next few days so this is the bank holiday weekend. Elsewhere in the north it is the high teens and you can see a lot of rain icons on the weather map and on the outlook, so changeable weather. But i think bearable temperatures, not too cold just yet. It is too early for that. Thanks, tomasz. And thats bbc news at ten. Theres more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. The news continues here on bbc one as now its time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the
the leader of the popular party says he will try and form a government that would probably include the far right party vox. but it s far from clear whether he ll be able to do it. our reporter sergi fulcada has sent this update from madrid. this is a bittersweet victory but those were celebrating at the headquarters of the party. evenif the headquarters of the party. even if they adopt the votes of the far right party vox, it will not add up. the conservative leader has celebrated victory. their leader, alberto nunes feijoo has claimed victory and sang as largest party he should be the new prime minister but is unlikely that he will be able to form a government. on the other hand, prime minister pedro sanchez has also claimed victory for the whole of the left, not necessarily for his socialist party that came second in these elections. mathematically, mr sanchez would still be elected as prime minister if you got all of the votes from the left and also from the catalan and ba
could start using the planes in combat by the beginning of next year. germany, norway and nato itself also offered a variety of monetary and hardware pledges. our europe editor katya adler has been covering the nato summit for us and has more from vilnius. i think if you stand back, what we saw is a west united behind ukraine, against russian aggression. but what we did see is real tension between the realities of war on the one hand, decimating ukraine, upending stability in all of europe, and then on the other, the very real domestic political pressures facing all the leaders there. take zelenskyy. because of what his people are going through, they expect him to be able to rock up to a summit like this with a whole wish list for weapons and a demand for a timetable for nato membership, and they do not really understand why they cannot get it. then look atjoe biden. he s facing election in the us next year, and on a very delicate tight rope he has pledged billions of dollars
hello, i m lucy hockings. russia has blamed the united states for wednesday s alleged drone attack on the kremlin. moscow initially blamed kyiv directly, but the kremlin spokesman, dmitry peskov, has now told reporters that the decision to attack was made in washington, with kyiv executing it on us orders. he gave no evidence. kyiv has denied any involvement, saying it s focused on defending its own territory. the foreign ministry in moscow has separately accused ukraine of launching an unprecedented wave of sabotage attacks against russia. in the hague, president volodymyr zelensky has called for a fully fledged tribunal to hold russia accountable for its war of aggression against ukraine. he made the comments in a speech after visiting the international criminal court. it has symbolic importance, coming less than two months after the icc issued arrest warrants for vladimir putin on war crimes charges. let s listen to what he said at the hague. lasting peace after victory is