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groups rebellion. im ayman mohyeldin, lets get started. >> and just a matter of hours, yevgeny prigozhin and his band of mercenary rebels were able to overrun a key russian city, shut down several military aircrafts and leave the kremlin scrambling to defend the nations capital. now, a day after that revolt abrupt resolution, we seem to be left with more questions than answers. especially concerning russia unpleasant veterans increasingly unsteady grip on power. here as u.s. secretary ...

welcome to world business report. im ben thompson. in the last few minutes, the international monetary fund have released their outlook for the global economy. they have revealed it has reached a highly uncertain moment so let me run you through the numbers in the latest economic outlook. the imf expect it to grow a paltry 3% over the next five years. 2.8% this year. the uk is on track to be the worst performing advanced economy this year. expected to shrink by 0.3% in 2023, much worse...

With impunity. in fact, so much impunity that, in the, and they are allowed to leave and to go back to where they came from, at least for the moment, to belarus. it has seriously led people to ask who is in charge and control. i think that putin is sitting there and wondering who is with him at this moment? who can you trust, who is out to have him and take him out? . that is a very worrying and dangerous situation. >> let me put up on the screen for our viewers something you tweeted out yesterd...

Now. the last 24 hours, theres a serious question about the hold on power. to elaborate, what you are saying in the first question, what do you see as putins essential weakness on the international stage at this moment? how does he go about if at all rectifying that? is he going to crack down an eventful where you were no inside russia? >> clearly, inside russia, his weakness has been exposed. i am a great fan of julie aafia, i think her analysis is right on usually. she might as well be right t...

Way on the interest rates. problem, the fed was totally wrong and the banks got hit. so we have an implicit belief that central banks know everything and i believe they are a significant cause of the world market turbulence and that is seldom reflected in the world economic 0utlook reports of the international monetary fund which does not criticise developed countries. the one exception was their criticism of the uk last september. but generally, they reserve their criticism for emerging markets...

Negotiating with the taliban to get these flights to take off. it was just yesterday that the secretary of state that the reason the flights werent taking off in an airport in afghanistan, mizar, they werent allowing them to take off. this is a positive movement here, but it remains to be seen as to if there will be future flights. i think its significant, however, that the kabul airport now appears to be in a place where some commercial flights can come in because that demonstrates that other f...