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hes a leader of the wagner group, which are soldiers for hire, violent mercenaries with reputation for ruthless violence. they have fought for russia in ukraine and in conflicts across central africa in the middle east. saturday, prigozhin stage in our midst mutiny leading his mercenaries on a march that threatened to reach moscow coming within about 120 miles of the capitol. the crisis ended when prigozhin agreed to pull back his forces in a deal it allowed him to leave russia and avo...

Today the home secretary asked the Migration Advisory Committee to start work on what comes next. We want a newcomer in forms, evidence based eu migration policy. Weve commissioned the mac to look into it, an independent group. The Home Secretary Set out a vague timetable, sort of, that there will be three phases. The first will end on the specified date, the day we leave the eu, probably march, 2019. Eu citizens who are already here, who have five years residency, will be able to apply for a se...

Over the last year has become a friend of our. show igor, i always say good to see you, but its always under such duress and stressed environments. we have been speaking since the beginning of this truly awful war. what was your reaction when you heard the news of this rebellion? >> well, my reaction -- my reactions a bit different from everyone else is, because my job is to know pretty much everything to do with the context. so i was not as excited as pretty much everyone else, because there ar...

On today’s episode of The Backstory, host Lee Stranahan discussed current events including Briytney Griner being sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison... 05.08.2022, Sputnik International

They have not pardoned the northern border and small interventions that the ukrainians can do now. they will line that long, long border with drones and with mines. theres a lot of low-cost things that they could be doing now and theyre not doing it. and theyre also not preparing the people. the job of a leader is to prepare people. i know that zelensky doesnt want war. no one wants war. >> in fact, the government here in ukraine has been saying that they have been preparing people and a lot of ...

>> give me a more big picture sense from you on what this says about the state of the two parties? a disconnect between party leadership and their constituents? >> thats a great question. i think if you really drill down into, i want to see more polling over the next year especially. drilling down into what it is that has people dissatisfied with biden and what it is that makes people not want to put trump back into office or for either side, you know what im saying. i think for democrats on the...

Officer running things in moscow, what would you be doing right now? >> well, thats a really tough thing because we have relationship, intelligence relationship with the russians where we share things that are compatible and also the russians are all over us and watching us and pushing us and i was there during an intelligence crisis when some spies were caught and they were quite aggressive and all over us and sort of pushing us around and so i think its, you know, i my heart goes out to some o...

President macron of france and vladimir putin to share. putin told macron the russian forces in belarus will be repatriated to russia and putin had no towards ukraine. tracking the latest josh letterman at the white house and matt bradley in kyiv. matt, were starting with you. where do things stand with the phone call of the ukrainian president. >> the russians insisting it is troops in belarus will go back to russia after these exercises are over. we heard this morning from the pentagon. trying...

Found it to be faulty. in this case, the administration is not trying to convince the american people. not trying to convince journalists here whether this is true or not. it will be time for them to look into these things. this is to put out what vladimir putin knows is true and what other things did others know about him. influence vladimir putin and not influence the american public. i think the administration is doing a pretty good job of doing everything they can to deter putin, obviously n...

People feeling reinvigorareinvi. theres not a lot of protesters out here. but when the police moved back, it gave people rise for more hope and theyre not going anywhere. this is about a mile from the bridge, the busiest crossing in north america and that road at that stoplight runs straight to the bridge. unless police can secure these intersections thats a three kilometer road that runs across one of the major interstates that connects to the united states. unless they can secure, this will co...