thank you all. we will try to answer as many as we can. hello, i m derek from london in the uk. is there really a stalemate in ukraine at the moment? this is angela from - auckland in new zealand. could you talk please - about the changes, zelensky s strategy with the departure of zaluzhnyi, the general. in charge of the army? well, lyse, first of all, is there a stalemate on the battlefield or has the tide turned in favour of russia? i will answer the question about the stalemate, and i will partially be answering the second question. it was general zaluzhnyi the last commander in chief who used the words stalemate in an interview and it is said to have angered president zelensky. he felt it was too negative a description of the situation along the front line. president zelensky himself recently went to visit his troops in the east. he described the situation as extremely difficult. he is saying the russian forces are pressing ahead in at least five directions. and he believ
and the global news podcast. it is two years since russia began its full scale invasion of ukraine, triggering the bloodiest conflict in europe since the second world war. but after 730 days of fighting, who has the upper hand? what is life like in ukraine and russia today, and when will the killing end? the global news podcast and ukrainecast have come together to answer your questions. hello, i m oliver conway from the global news podcast. i m vitaly shevchenko, the co presenter from ukrainecast in the ukrainecast studio. i m olga robinson from bbc verify, also in the ukrainecast studio. i m lyse doucet, the bbc s chief international- correspondent and i m back. in the ukrainian capital, kyiv. and i m steven rosenberg, the bbc s russia editor and i m in moscow. thank you all forjoining us. we have had lots of questions from listeners to the global podcast, and ukrainecast. thank you all. we will try to answer as many as we can. hello, i m derek from london in the uk. is the
in georgia and now there is a manhunt for the suspect. we will have the latest on the investigation. and just days after the u.s. unveils an aid package for ukraine, vladimir putin has a stark new warning. cnn has the latest. let s start with that dangerous heat and flooding. all corners of the u.s. bracing for extreme weather this morning. triple digit heat is bearing down on nearly 80 million americans. heat alerts are spread from the pacific northwest down to florida. in phoenix, daily high temperature records continue to be broken. yesterday they reached 118 degrees, the 16th day in a row of temperatures above 110. another concern is the excessive rain and flash flooding. last night three people were killed after being swept away by floodwaters in pennsylvania. today, 55 million people in the northeast are under flood alerts. we start with that sweltering heat. rafael romo takes us to the southwest. reporter: people here in las vegas are going to have to wait a fe
the last day or so has seen an extraordinary turn of events in russia. the russian president vladimir putin has survived an immediate threat to his power after the leader of the wagner mercenary group agreed to end his mutiny against the russian army. yevgeny prigozhin called off his wagner troops march to moscow late saturday night after negotiations with putin s ally and belarus leader alexander lukashenko. he also agreed to leave russia for belarus, and the kremlin has said it will not pursue punishment against him or wagnerfighters. but there are many questions unanswered about what s happened. to help unpack some of these i m joined now by a panel of experts. joining me live are vitaly shevchenko, who is from bbc monitoring, jade mcglynn is a researcher at the war studies department at king 5 college london. she s also the author of memory makers: the politics of the past in russia and russia 5 war. she joins us from oxfordshire. justin crump is a military veteran and
good morning, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in london. we re following breaking news right now, out of russia. major historic breaking news. president vladimir putin facing the greatest threat to his authority since he first rose to power some 23 years ago. putin is accusing his one-time ally, yevgeny prigozhin of an armed rebellion, his words, armed rebellion, prigozhin says his forces have taken control of key military facilities in voronezh and rostov-on-don region. he threatens to move on to moscow if russia s top general and defense minister don t meet with him. listen to this. translator: again, we came here, we want to receive the chief of general staff shoigu, and so they are here, and so they are here, we will be located here, blockading the city of rostov-on-don, and we will go to moscow. president putin calls the actions by prigozhin a betrayal, his words, and a stab in the back to the russian people. he