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Wednesday showed Biden, Putin and Xi all struggling to assert themselves in an unravelling, unpredictable and violent multipolar world

The rouble had lost about a quarter of its value against the dollar since Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022

A fitness app called strava. and we do know that he was using that app because we were able to find his social media profiles and match them to the application. and his profile was public, which means that anyone could see where he was running and where he was cycling. now, he was also very consistent and he often uses the same routes over and over again. this is the map from the 3rd ofjuly, where he was running, and this is the same route he used two days later on the 5th ofjuly. and interestin...

Minister was taken aback when who he thought was ukraines prime minister floated the idea of nuclear weapons. >> i think more than being neutral, russia would really hate that. >> for sure. we know this. >> reporter: the british government condemned the prank as straight from the kremlin playbook. >> why havent you prank called prominent people in russia, like vladimir putin, like the head of the chechen republic, like prigozhin, the head of wagner? why arent you crank calling those people to ex...

Distance russia from ukraine. >> im glad youre not prank calling me now. >> reporter: in getting to the truth, what would otherwise be left unspoken is what the pranksters told me they are all about. [ speaking non-english ] >> translator: first, its about what this person is really like, how a president of a country behaves in an informal conversation. were interested in getting more honest answers than we would in an ordinary public interview. >> one of the criticisms that is leveled against y...

Cnns matthew chance had a chance to speak with the pranksters and investigate the motive behind their tricks. take a look. >> theyre notorious pro-kremlin pranksters. the ukraine war has given them a new focus and new victims to deceive. >> look whos there, mr. president. >> like george w. bush, who thought he was speaking with the ukrainian president, who had supposedly called to discuss the western military alliance. >> you always wanted to take ukraine into nato, not russia, but ukraine, alwa...

>> that could hurt our society, of course. >> reporter: but the truth is, really powerful russians would never tolerate being pranked in this way. they would simply be unable to get away with duping a kremlin thats cracked down hard on dissent, whereas russias enemies in the west, especially in the u.s., are considered fair game. >> okay. yeah. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> good talking to you. >> thank you. [ speaking non-english ] >> reporter: matthew chance, cnn, london. just ahead,...

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What happened onjanuary 8, - that theres a lot of facts that we need to check, l and the government is doing all the efforts they can do i to remove the signatures who give support to that. ok, well, joao... we know exactly what happened on january 9, that was clear and open to everyone. well take ricardo saying "face the facts." we hope you will. i want to quickly go to a social media question, because you touched on it about the security forces, from sylvia, and ill read her question. "one of ...

Are still there. one of the questions which came up when we asked for questions was the fight against corruption. no matter whos in power, it continues to plague brazil. and, joao, even though you talk about looking to the future, you have a past — the workers party has a past for decades in corruption. what can you tell our audience, people listening, watching, what youre going to do to fight against corruption in this new term? well, corruption is a big issue in brazil and was, and all — b...