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a good sunday evening to you. im jim sciutto, and this is cnns special live coverage of the extraordinary yet short-lived uprising in russia that has left much of the world asking exactly how this happened and what could happen next. is putins leadership under threat? is this an opportunity for ukraine to repel russias ongoing invasion? we do have new developments tonight, including reaction from the biden administration. but first video has emerged on social media which shows the cras...

this is where five explorers and would-be explorers first set off on friday, out into the open ocean, traveling some 460 miles from here toward the wreck of the rms titanic. then on sunday morning they were sealed inside the submersible tight sxn lowered into the ocean for their descent to the seabed some 13,000 feet below, about two miles. less than two hours later communication, as you know, was lost with the submersible and we just learned it was about that time a senior navy offici...

a good sunday evening to you. im jim sciutto, and this is cnns special live coverage of the extraordinary events this weekend out of russia. moscows red square blocked off again today after the brief but stunning insurrection thats gripped the world, could perhaps weaken vladimir putins grip on his country. we should note its far too soon to know. so much we dont know about what led wagner mercenary group leader yevgeny prigozhin to launch a march on moscow and what convinced him to ab...

Basic safety regulations. heres some of that interview. >> and in a multi-seat vehicle where i intended to be the pilot, wed go through all of the rigorous test protocols and review protocols that you have with, lets say, abs, which is the american bureau of shipping, or dnv or german lloyds, who are the major bureaus that class a sub. they call it classing, but its basically certification. and i think it was unconscionable that this group did not go through that rigorous process. there is a gre...

Taking passengers on board. >> exactly. >> would you ever have taken passengers on board a submersible that had not gone through the standard maritime safety protocols? >> no. not at all. i mean, my sub that i went to the challenger deep dove safely three times deeper than titanic. we made multiple dives in that sub. that sub was a single seater. and it was only contemplated that myself and the engineer with whom i co-designed the vehicle would be the only pilots of that sub. and we worked on it...