leader to retreat. yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner mercenary group, has been pictured apparently leaving the russian city of rostov on don along with his troops. only yesterday a heavily armed column of wagner troops was heading from rostov on don towards moscow, where defences were being prepared. those troops got to around 300 miles south of the russian capital. then, at around 6.30pm uk time, prigozhin announced that he had agreed to stop the advance, in a deal brokered by the belarusian leader. with all the details, here s our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford. mutineers cheered as heroes. this crowd are shouting wagner, the name of the mercenary group that led me to putin had said treason a couple of hours earlier. in a day of high drama. the wagner group had rolled into rostov on saturday morning, leasing attacks on city streets and taking over a military command post for the ukraine war. there, wagner s boss was filmed haranguing senior milita
in new yorkjoining us from moscow. thank you. so many things to bigger part, people who know the country looking at what happened. sir tony brenton is a former british ambassador to russia. he joins us now from carcassonne in france. sir tony, you ve been watching the situation closely how much support did prigozhin have among both the ruling elite, and the people? with your knowledge of the country, how do you think this will affect? how much will they be being told about what is going on? i how much will they be being told about what is going on?- about what is going on? i think there has been about what is going on? i think there has been rather- about what is going on? i think there has been rather limiting | there has been rather limiting coverage in the russian so far. i just heard with respect nina kruscheva, that putin has been weakened, yes there has been lots of noise about what has happened with prigozhin but what i have not heard anywhere is any clear suggestion of anyw
conversation stopped my mind boggles, i have to say. thank you for staying up so i said thank you for getting up early but you probably stayed up. jack from new york joining but you probably stayed up. jack from new yorkjoining us alive. thank you as well for your company. have a lovely day and we will see you soon. hello there. high pressure has kept most parts of the uk dry through the weekend, if rather cloudy. and high pressure has meant a dry start to january 2022, only seeing around about 50% half the rainfall we d normally see by this stage, and there s not a great deal of rain in the offing this week certainly not for england and wales. we might see a little bit more midweek across scotland in particular with a low pressure approaching but for the meantime, the high pressure is still hanging on towards the south. there s a weather front to the north and that has given a few millimetres of rain