hello and welcome to the programme. the man who led a mutiny against president putin and played a key role with his wagner mercenaries in the war in ukraine yevgeny prigozhin appears to be dead, in a plane crash in russia. this image has been confirmed by bbc verify as being from the crash scene near moscow. it s been confirmed that yevgeny prigozhin was on board the private jet. there s much we still don t know about this story. the uk government says it is monitoring the situation. in the us, president biden has said, there s not much that happens in russia that putin s not behind . our russia editor steve rosenberg has this report. caught on camera, the final seconds of a private jet. on board, reportedly, the head of a private mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin. look over there by the farm, it is burning, the eyewitness can be heard saying. in the distance, a giant cloud of smoke. the plane had crashed north of moscow. yevgeny prigozhin s right hand man, the wagn
it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s 8am in singapore, and 5am in islamabad. there is relief across pakistan. six children and two adults who got stuck in a cable car above a ravine in the north west of the country are rescued. the group was left dangling hundreds of feet in the air for more than 1a hours after a cable snapped. the military tried to reach them, first with helicopters, then with zip wires. huge crowds gathered to watch the rescue attempts. our pakistan correspondent caroline davies has the story. shouting. through the darkness and forest, the sight the crowds had been hoping, waiting and praying for strapped to the cable, the final rescue, waiting arms and shouts of god is great. 15 hours earlier, the children were taking the cable car to school when a cable snapped. makeshift cable cars are common in the rural mountains of pakistan, taking minutes over ravines while roads take hours. at first, army helicopters couldn t rescue them, buffeted by win
let s get the latest sport with ollie foster. attendance has reached almost 2 million, up 600,000 on the previous record. the champions, spain, will parade the trophy in madrid on sunday. england are heading home after their 1 0 defeat. sarina wiegman, who was also a runner up with the netherlands four years ago, has been linked with the vacant usa job. she has committed her immediate future to the lioness is, but her contract is up in 2025. she says that four years is a long time when asked about taking england to the next world cup. spain s 0lga carmona was told her father had died after that match. family and friends made the decision not to tell her so she could focus on the match. overnight she posted this on social media. everton have condemned all forms of racism after their midfielder was abused on social media. it came following everton s 4 0 defeat to aston villa, which left them bottom of the leak. everton say they are conducting an investigation and supporting the
who will take part, it is an opportunity, of sorts. ron desantis, chris christie, nikki haley, asa hutchinson, mike pence, doug burgum, vivek ramaswamy and tim scott need to make some headway. the question is, how to do it. lets get the a to z on what we can expaect. anthony zurcher is in milwaukee already. you are primed and ready already. let me bring people to breaking news, we vejust let me bring people to breaking news, we ve just heard from the fulton county jail that the first of the codefendants who will appear with donald trump in georgia have surrendered. john eastman, former campaigner for trump surrendered. john eastman, former campaignerfortrump and surrendered. john eastman, former campaigner for trump and scott hall a bail bondsman both booked at the fulton countyjail according to jail fulton county jail according to jail records fulton countyjail according to jail records today. what does that mean and when will we see donald trump? is an indication that we ar
government back. i was just i wasjust reading, sir robert buckland suggested that use of live tv link for serious cases. what do you think would be the reception to a suggestion like that, as now, a law change is being discussed? it is certainl a law change is being discussed? it 3 certainly a possibility. the judge certainly a possibility. thejudge said today that the sentencing remarks, the parents of the victims will be made available to lucy letby, but she can t be compelled to read them. equally, if you had a recording or a link shown in herself, she can t be compelled to watch or listen to it. that is the reality of it. we don t live in a country where we hold people down on a bed or chair and force them to listen to something or to watch something. that is just not what our country is about. at the end of the day there are certain steps you can take, absolutely there are steps you can take, where conditions and punishments would be applied to someone who refuses to com