revolt retreat, an astonishing 24 hours in global history. russian president vladimir putin staves off the biggest threat ever to his quarter century leadership as his one-time ally yevgeny prigozhin abruptly calls off a rebellion as his marches closer to moscow. prigozhin has agreed to leave russia for belarus. the wagner insurrection revealed major cracks and put his armor at home, now the world watches to see how it will impact a 16-month war on ukraine. good morning, and welcome to a special edition of the sunday, show i m jonathan katie phang who you normally see at this hour as the weekend off. we start with a sobering realization, we may truly never know how close the nuclear armed nation of russia came to a full blown civil war. the toughest test ever, putin s presidency is over, for now after brokering a truce with belarus, wagner leader if ghani prigozhin, called off a just hours after his mercenaries took control of the military headquarters in south of russia.
because now there is a real opposition candidate who is not in jail, a real leader who is a populist nationalist leader, and i just can t imagine that prigozhin is just going to sit on the sidelines while he has this moment of glory. and, do you think vladimir putin can let this go? especially given as you pointed, out what he said in that televised speech yesterday? i honestly do not know. i was very surprised that he capitulated so fast, by the, way i think that there s a lot about our theories about how he is going to fight in ukraine, and whether he has an off ramp and all these arguments about the rat in the, corner he will never negotiate, well, yesterday he was a rat in the corner, and he didn t double, down he didn t escalate, he negotiated, and, he puts a very weak in terms of whether he is in charge of his own country, i
US President Joe Biden, winding down an emotive visit to Ireland, broke down in tears Friday during a chance encounter with the priest who read the last rites to his late son. The Irish-American president was on a visit to the celebrated Roman Catholic pilgrimage shrine at Knock, northwestern Ireland, on the final day of a three-day tour of his ancestral homeland. The president's son Beau Biden died of brain cancer aged 46 in 2015.