wagner group sees that early on as a key objective, they pretty much walked in. they have held it since. they left a reasonable force, we think, in that area. although, at the moment, there is some local opposition from the chechens who are approaching rostov. they are very loyal to the regime. that is sort of developing in the city at the moment. so they have seized the city, they didn t have huge strength there, but they do have their headquarters. most importantly, that headquarters. most importantly, that headquarters and the south controls on the communication. so it s really strategically important. prigozhin isn t a critic of the war, he is a critic of the way it is being fought. he thinks it should be fought. he thinks it should be fought more strenuously than it is. they have no interest in stopping the war in ukraine there, it is continuing but under wagner supervision at this point. there is this flying column that is making its way towards masco and we know that i
passing the city of voronezh and were spotted as far north as the lipetsk region, which is around 300 miles south of moscow. then in the early evening prigozhin announced that he had agreed to stop the advance. tensions had been building between mr prigozhin and russia s military leadership for some time, over their approach to the war in ukraine. sarah rainsford reports. mutineers cheered as heroes. cheering. this crowd are shouting wagner , the name of the mercenary group that vladimir putin had accused of treason only hours earlier. the fighters were clearly among friends here. just one bizarre scene in a day of high drama. the wagner group had rolled into rostov on saturday morning, placing tanks on city streets and taking over a military command post for the ukraine war. there, wagner s boss was filmed haranguing senior military figures. in extraordinary scenes, yevgeny prigozhin demanded the downfall of russia s defence minister and its chief of staff, accusing the
but first, what s led up to this? tanks and armoured vehicles have taken up positions in the southern russian city of rostov on don, as a dispute between the army and the wagner mercenary group threatens to degenerate into fighting. wagner troops also appear to be taking action in the voronezh region, which lies half way between rostov and moscow. a wagner military force has been seen passing the city heading to moscow. and an arms dump there, has been set on fire. bbc verified has been able to locate this as being in voronezh. you see the helicopter flying over the urban area and the blast, which we believe to be an oil depot. our security correspondent gordon corera has this round up of the latest. mercenaries belonging to wagner, now appear to have seized control of the city of rostov on don. residents have been told to stay indoors. one took these pictures which have been confirmed by bbc verified. the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, posted a video set to be
happen to 20 nine-year-old to 29 year old tyree nichols after he was pulled over by police on january 7th. three days later, he was dead. an independent autopsy blamed his death an extensive bleeding caused by severe beating. and tonight, his mother pleads for peace. when that tape comes out tomorrow, it s going to be horrific. my lord. i didn t see it, but from what i hear it s going to be horrific. but i want each and every one of you to protest in peace. i don t want us burning up our cities, tearing up the streets. amen. because that s not what my son stood for. people who have seen this police body cam video call it shocking, sickening, and appalling. i ve seen the video. as she stated, you will to. in a word, it s absolutely appalling. let me be clear. what happened here does not at all reflect proper policing. this was wrong, this was criminal. so tomorrow night the public will see this video and then what? that s one of the questions that we ll be aski
drove them to the scene. also today, the police department revealed that a sixth and then a seventh officer had been, quote, relieved of duty. as you know, five have already been fired and charged with second-degree murder. their specialized scorpion unit is now disbanded, and there could be more charges to come. we re going to talk about that tonight with a local district attorney. also our legal team on the potential difficulty of getting convictions under tennessee s hurt statute, and our law enforcement experts weigh in on effect or lack of one body cameras had on their behavior, including one suspended officer who came on to the scene shortly after mr. nichols had been pulled over. this is part of his camera s recording, and a warning, it is graphic, both on what you see and what you hear. get on the floor. get out of the car. i didn t do anything! i didn t turn your ass around. all right, all right, all right, all right. on the ground, on the ground. all r