hello and welcome. there s a tense standoff in a suburb of the us city of minneapolis, where police in riot gear are confronting protesters angered by the fatal shooting of a black man. the police chief of brooklyn center said 20 year old daunte wright was killed in what he described as an accidental discharge . an officer intended to use a taser on the suspect but pulled her gun instead. the officer has been named as 26 year old kim potter. a state of emergency and an overnight curfew have been imposed. our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. another tense night, unrest on the streets of minneapolis in response to the police killing of another black man. this was already a city on edge. the renewed anger and frustration follows the death of daunte wright, a 20 year old motorist shot by a female officer after he was stopped for a minor offence. he d attempted to escape when the police tried to arrest him on a previous warrant. this body can footage shows what th
the rollout of the jab. the us will withdraw all american troops from afghistan by the 11th september this year. white house officials say presidentjoe biden will make an official announcement on wednesday. this means america will miss a may deadline for a pull out agreed with the taliban by the trump administration. in response, the taliban has said they will not attend a summit on the country s future in turkey later this month, until all foreign forces have left the country. secunder kermani is in kabul and sent us this report on how the announcement has been recieved in afghanistan. many here will see this as a boost for the tele band despite the technically being a breach of the deadline that they have been adhered to. some in the afghan government were hoping they would adopt a more conditions based approach to the peace process but instead that is been specifically ruled over the september deadline. it seems unlikely that taliban want to jeopardise this withdrawal pl
to have killed the leader of the wagner group, prigozhin. president putin said mr prigozhin was a time of the businessman who he had known since the 1990s. mr prigozhin made some serious mistakes but also achieve results. there is widespread suspicion that mr prigozhin was deliberately killed in revenge for leading a mutiny seen as a challenge to mr putin s authority. the two of the bbc they believe russia was s spy the bbc they believe russia was s spy agency is most likely to have been responsible. ukraine president zielinski said p2 a journalist living is aware of who was involved. there d been coming to the wreckage and there is still no official confirmation of what was on board. the apparent death of mr prigozhin with global implications as well as fighting in ukraine, the mercenary group is been active in parts of africa. this from our editor. in a field 60 miles from moscow, the wreckage of a plane, the private jet on which the russian authorities say yevgeny prigoz
hello and welcome to the programme. the man who led a mutiny against president putin and played a key role with his wagner mercenaries in the war in ukraine yevgeny prigozhin appears to be dead, in a plane crash in russia. this image has been confirmed by bbc verify as being from the crash scene near moscow. it s been confirmed that yevgeny prigozhin was on board the private jet. there s much we still don t know about this story. the uk government says it is monitoring the situation. in the us, president biden has said, there s not much that happens in russia that putin s not behind . our russia editor steve rosenberg has this report. caught on camera, the final seconds of a private jet. on board, reportedly, the head of a private mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin. look over there by the farm, it is burning, the eyewitness can be heard saying. in the distance, a giant cloud of smoke. the plane had crashed north of moscow. yevgeny prigozhin s right hand man, the wagn
significant power in russia commanding thousands of troops who were financed and supported for a time by many at the top of the russian government. so how did that happen? our analysis editor ros atkins has been taking a look. well, we know that prigozhin took an unorthodox route to a powerful position in russia. in 1981, he was sent to prison for robbery and theft, and when released in 1990, he became a hotdog salesman in st petersburg. but by 1997, he was running a top restaurant and winning lucrative catering contracts. those brought connections to the top. prigozhin even served food to world leaders and to putin himself. and prigozhin s role was becoming about much more than food. in 2014, russia annexed crimea and launched an insurgency in eastern ukraine. prigozhin was involved. at that time he said. and soon the wagner group reached far beyond ukraine. the fbi accused prigozhin of interfering in the 2016 us election. in syria, wagner fighters supported pro govern