had no choice but to try to do something, because he was clearly losing. his group, wagner group, plead almost no part right now. now it is the russian army which is fighting the ukrainian forces trying to stop the ukrainian counteroffensive, not wagner. and the memory of this big victory in bakhmut is getting more and more distant, and given the fact that the minister of defense decided to change the rule for companies like wagner s, prigozhin needed to do something. so he completely miscalculated, but he was, in a way, he needed to do something. i m curious, he looked at all the phone data, incredible reporting and he s found that in the two days before the rebellion, the insurrection, there was this flurry of calls in the night and through the night, including the gru to the
now for the news. a bbc investigation has led to the identification of a new suspect in the stephen lawrence murder case. he s been publicly named for the first time as matthew white who died two years ago. the investigation found the met police seriously mishandled key evidence relating to him. scotland yard has apologised for how it handled the case. russia s defence minister has appeared in public for the first time since the uprising by wagner mercenaries. sergei shoigu has been pictured in state media visiting troops on the frontline in ukraine. wagner s leader, yevgeny prigozhin, had demanded his removal when he ordered troops to advance on moscow. a woman whose husband and son died in a submersible which imploded in the atlantic says she was supposed
for wagner, who has been thrown into the meat grinder in ukraine. but is also a global enterprise. and to me, this is stuff that i ve been writing about for the last year or year and a half. actually, speculated is all the kind of these diatribes that prigozhin s been releasing. what is the angle here? is there some sign of objective and is it to get wagner moved out of ukraine, which i don t think is their advantage fighting this very unconventional war against a really motivated ukrainian military. and to go back to what wagner s what their specialty is, which is expeditionary operations in fragile states, protecting military war loads, and making money through these resources, whether it s gold, diamonds, protecting oil and gas installations in syria and libya. which also benefit the kremlin. this helps them evade sanctions,
wagner is more popular than people realize. it s been used as a force multiplier in ukraine, even though it s been a source of cannon father and kind of thrown into the meat grinder. i think what this tells you is russia doesn t really have a strategy. they ve gone to this ham-handed, they ve taken their usual draconian approach, and it s backfires. and i think what this tells me is the united states and its allies need to keep doing what we ve been doing, which is providing material and moral support, because it s working. we re starting to see fissures in russian command and control in the last 24 and 24 hours is clear evidence of that. ambassador, what do you make of this announcement from huge we did earlier, i suspect this is far from over. putin cannot accept an insurrectionist. prigozhin cannot accept the possibility of being eliminated if he lets his guard down post moving to belarus. wagner contingents smell blood
does it change? those that came out and supported putin, fine. those that let prigozhin on the bases, what happens to them? we re cold that russian parliament is working on a new law to regulate the wagner group. does that provide clues as to the future of prigozhin and his fighters? reporter: part of this trust this incident yesterday, has grown out of the past months, where prigozhin has criticized the defense ministry. in particular, the defense minister and his deputy. what seems to have happened in this power struggle that putin had to weigh in on, is that the defense minister said wagner fighters will have to sign up with us. prigozhin said no. that s the way the deal shakes out here. it looks like the legislation going through the duma will