three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. we start with the major story in russia, where the founder of the wagner mercenary group, yevgeni prigozhin, is presumed dead, after his plane crashed in the north west of the country. look at this. this is footage which has been cleared by the bbc verify team and appears to show the burning remains of the plane in a field in russia s tver region. mr prigozhin gained notable notoriety injune as you may remember after leading a failed mutiny. that insurrection was ultimately called off, of course, but mr prigozhin had directly challenged president putin s authority. two months later and he is now supposedly dead. russian aviation officials say mr prigozhin was on board with his man, dmitry utkin, and it is believed all passengers, all ten passengers and crew died immediately. us president joe biden said, there s not much that happens in russia that putin is not behind. but what about mr putin s he spoke by
in the tver region. in st petersburg, a public memorial has been set up outside the wagner headquarters to pay tribute to mr prigozhin as well as his right hand man dimitry utkin. mr prigozhin rose from obscurity to a position of significant power in russia commanding thousands of troops financed and supported by some of the country s most powerful politicians. our analysis editor ros atkins has been taking a look at his rise and fall. 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 ukra
this footage which has been cleared by the bbc verify team appears to show the burning remains of the plane, in a field in russia s tver region. mr prigozhin gained global notoriety injune after leading a failed mutiny. it was widely seen as a challenge to authority. he is now presumed dead. russian aviation officials say mr prigozhin was on board with his right hand man, dmitry utkin. and it s believed all ten passengers and crew died immediately. us presidentjoe biden said that there s not much that happens in russia that putin s not behind . but mr putin, who spoke by video link today at a summit in south africa, made no mention of the crash or mr prigozhin. will vernon has this report. ukraine has denied any involvement. will vernon has this report. the crash site today in russia s tver region. investigators say they ve recovered the bodies of all ten people that were on board. the key question now what caused the crash? officials say they re examining a number o
welcome to cnn prime time. by this time the 45th president of the united states will likely have surrendered and he is expected to turn himself tomorrow evening after traveling from his new jersey golf course in the afternoon. three key lawyers sidney powell, jenna ellis and rudy giuliani all surrendered today and are released on bond. giuliani completing yet another leg in his journey from america s mayor to criminal defendant. now, all of this comes as a federal judge has rejected a last-minute legal maneuver by mark meadows and jeffrey clark who were trying to avoid arrest if they failed to turn themselves in by friday s deadline. plus, a plane flying over russia just suddenly plum heets to earth. crashing and burning and killing everybody onboard, including, according to russian authorities, the wagner group chief and coup architect yevgeny prigozhin. now, many have been wondering how he managed to survive this long but notably that crash comes two months to the day a
and coming up in spotsday later in the hour on bbc news a blow for england ahead of the rugby world cup, billy vunipola is another of their players to be suspended after a dangerous tackle. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. india has successfully landed its first spacecraft on the moon. the chandrayaan 3 which is uncrewed is the first craft in history to land here at the lunar south pole. it has a rover on board which will be used to carry out experiments on this unexplored part of the lunar surface where huge craters hold frozen water. the successful mission makes india only the fourth country in the world to have landed on the moon. our south asia correspondent samira hussain reports. soft landing on the moon. india is on the moon. it was a moment several decades in the making. and on its third attempt, india stuck the landing. as mission control celebrated, so too did an entire nation. as did these space enthusiasts. this is an incredible moment for