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leader was in exile indefinitely, think again. what does that mean for the war in ukraine? difficult day for number ten. the standards committee says former government whip, chris pincher, should be suspended for eight weeks for groping two men in a london club. it will likely trigger another by election. alongside that, the cabinet office lost a legal challenge today to prevent the covid inquiry from seeing borisjohnson s unredacted whatsapp messages and diaries. we will get into a busy day in westminster. but let us begin with that news from belarus that the boss of the wagner paramilitary group, yevgeny prigozhin, has returned to russia according to the belarusian leader alexander lu kashenko. mr prigozhin, who led wagner s mutiny in russia last month, was supposed to have gone into exile in belarus and yet the belarusian leader says he may now be back in st petersburg. for the past week or so, his whereabouts has been something of a mystery. we know his private ....
and said that his career was now over, and he had lost everything. in his first broadcast interview since he quit itv, he said the relationship only began several years after his first meeting with the young man, who was then 15. mr schofield strongly denies grooming him, but says he regrets the relationship and lying about it when itv tried to investigate. he also said he believed that homophobia had fuelled the media coverage of events. he s been talking to amol rajan. phillip, come on in. good to see you. thank you. thanks for coming in. you ve had quite the week, how are you? um, ithink. i understand how caroline flack felt. last week, if my daughters hadn t been there. ..then i wouldn t be here. and they ve. .. ..guarded me. it s like a weird. ..numbness. you feel strong enough to do this interview? yeah, i have to. why? why do you want to do this interview? because there is an innocent person here who didn t do anything wrong. ijust have to say, stop with him. ok ....
by stating he d already given the cabinet office all relevant material. here s our political correspondent ben wright our political correspondent leila nathoo is in westminster. whether all the documentation as for has been handed over yet. do we know yet? an hour after that deadline we still haven t heard from the government or the inquiry itself as to whether any of the documents ask for have been handed over. so, we are still in a bit of a waiting game to understand whether the deadline was met or not. just to recap, for viewers about this. the covert inquiry is the big inquiry been doing and lots of work behind the scenes. it hasn t held public hearings yet but is has been after official records from the government as part of its work and it does ask for borisjohnson what s up messages and diaries during the course of the pandemic during the course of 2020 and 2022. in order to be able to assess the governments handling of the endemic. the cabinet office has resiste ....
position. r number. one of the things we discovered was children could pass the disease on to children and whilst both asymptomatic, they could then pass it on to older relatives. so, yes, that was one of the many things we had to contend with, yes. you that was one of the many things we had to contend with, yes. had to contend with, yes. you are sa in: had to contend with, yes. you are saying you had to contend with, yes. you are saying you received had to contend with, yes. you are saying you received medical- had to contend with, yes. you are | saying you received medical advice to that saying you received medical advice to that effect? saying you received medical advice to that effect? yes. was it expert advice, to that effect? yes. was it expert advice. you to that effect? yes. was it expert advice. you are to that effect? jazz was it expert advice, you are saying? to that effect? yes. was it expert advice, you are saying? without i to that effect? y ....