help the former president as an attorney. were you expecting the incoming that you got tonight? it was an honor. it was a badge of honor. without trump on that stage, really needed to show that they could put up a fight and give as good as they can take. probably the last moments of wagner boss prigozhin, this jet, a legacy 600, seen falling from the sky, a wing appearing to be missing. putin never forgives and never forgets. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, august 24, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in atlanta where donald trump is expected to surrender to authorities later today. this wl the former u.s. pridt s fourth time being arrested in the criminal investigation. so far 9 his 18 co-defendants in the subversion case have already surrdered. rudy giuliani, sydney powell and jenna ellis have been the latest. giuliani went after fani willis. fani willis will go down in american history as having con
Time. malcolm davis is a senior analyst of defense strategy and capability for the australian strategic policy institute. thanks for joining us. we re being so scaifcareful bec we don t know so many of the facts. but everyone is seeing a similar narrative here and we heard president biden intimating it as well that putin was somehow involved in this downing. look, i think that s right. we don t know all the facts. clearly the plane crashed. there is a good deal of suggestion that prigozhin was on the plane. so therefore if that is the case, then his life is over, he is dead. and the question is was the plane crash deliberate, an act of state by the russian government, or was it an accident. i think the majority of the evidence is suggesting that somehow the russian government was involved.
All see. there is talk, isn t there, speculation that wagner will go for revenge and organize another mutiny, things like that, but are they organized enough without the leadership you just described going down in the plane? i think that is key. if they can reconstitute and new leaders, a lot would depend on just how much assume they have wi support they have within the rank and file. if they were to try revenge against the putin government, similar to what they did 60 days ago with the march for justice, then it is highly likely that putin would essentially direct the russian military to attack them and the question then is to what extent do the rang and fail f file of the russian military follow putin s orders or do some defect over to wagner. that uncertainty and the uncertainty as to who wagner can trust means that they may not do
Trading amongst their nations in local currency. and this is something that russia and president putin in particular have been pushing. you won t see any dedollarization anytime soon, but i think this expanded group could be a powerful voice on the world stage. max, bianca. thank you, david. you just get the feeling as david was saying that the tectonic plates of geopolitics are firmly shifting. like there is quite a clear demarcation now that is emerging. ideologically, politically. this is a counter balance to the eu, the g7. it is a very significant time. very determined. feels determined. absolutely. still to come, thick smoke darkens the skies around athens as firefighters attempt to douse hundreds of fires in the region. we re live in athens. plus heat is on and no end in sight for millions of people in the midsection of the united
Help the former president as an attorney. were you expecting the incoming that you got tonight? it was an honor. it was a badge of honor. without trump on that stage, really needed to show that they could put up a fight and give as good as they can take. probably the last moments of wagner boss prigozhin, this jet, a legacy 600, seen falling from the sky, a wing appearing to be missing. putin never forgives and never forgets. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, august 24, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in atlanta where donald trump is expected to surrender to authorities later today. this wl the former u.s. pridt s fourth time being arrested in the criminal investigation. so far 9 his 18