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our russia editor steve rosenberg is visiting london and i m pleased to say he is here with us in the studio. the statement seemed rather abstract and devoid of what had gone on in the last two months. what do you make of it? you make of it? vladimir putin s statement. you make of it? vladimir putin s statement, condolences - you make of it? vladimir putin s statement, condolences and - statement, condolences and complements to yevgeny prigozhin, talented man, talented businessman, someone who would try to achieve things for himself and for the common cause, so lots of compliments. that does not change the fact, i think, that many people if not most people in russia and certainly abroad will conclude or have concluded that the russian authorities were behind what happened to the plane. why is that? well, we know what vladimir putin has said for years now about treachery. he said treachery is the one thing he cannot forgive, and he made it clear two months ago that he viewed the perp
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on, well, we hear about the reported the buys of yevgeny prigozhin. and therefore this message i talked about that the criminal will be sending to opponents, i think that initially makes him stronger. steve, i could talk to initially makes him stronger. steve, i could talk to you initially makes him stronger. steve, i could talk to you on initially makes him stronger. steve, i could talk to you on that initially makes him stronger. steve, i could talk to you on that but - i could talk to you on that but you are on holiday and i have to let you resume your holiday but great to see un person, thank you for coming in. polina ivanova is the russia correspondent for the financial times. nice to see you. i know you ve been following the story to the course of the day but can you tell me a little bit about the investigation, the location of the bodies and what is being done in moscow to get to the bottom of this? being done in moscow to get to the bottom of this? well, we know that t
also tonight, prigozhin is presumed dead, the wagner mercenaries are marked men, but is the power base around putin secure? or has the blood letting onlyjust begun? and sealed with a kiss the president of the spanish fa is under investigation over a series of inappropriate celebrations at the women s world cup. good evening. we will have plenty through the night on donald trump s appearance in georgia, but while we wait for those pictures, we are going to get start tonight with events in russia, where the leadership of the wagner mercenary group has been decapitated . all ten bodies have now been recovered from the crash site which stretches over a mile, but they haven t been formally identified. one of them we are told is the body of yevgeny prigozhin. the speculation is it is highly likely the russia s fsb intelligence service orchestrated the plane crash, maybe on the direct orders of vladimir putin. but if it was at his direction, you would get no sense of that