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will be watching russia intently over the coming weekend. intently over the coming weekend-— intently over the coming weekend. ., , weekend. and you of course esnecially- _ weekend. and you of course especially. great _ weekend. and you of course especially. great to - weekend. and you of course especially. great to have - weekend. and you of course i especially. great to have your reporting. thank you so much for being with us. live now to ian bremmer, president of the eurasia group. ian, looking at all of this, what do you think could be going on right now? ian, thank you so much for being with us and listening to all of that including one alcoholic there from bbc monitoring had to say. what do you think could be going on right now? a serious situation domestically in russia since the beginning of the war. prigozhin is facing in all likelihood the end of his life as a free man. most probably the end of his life. so he is going to be experiencing extreme desperation. that means expect disinformation from of his channels and also expect
and you of course especially. vitaly shevchenko there from bbc monitoring. great to have your reporting. thank you so much for being with us. also breaking news from ukraine — reuters reports kyiv�*s mayor vitali klitschko says drone fragments hit a parking lot in central kyiv early saturday. emergency services were dispatched and a reminder all of the city has remained subject to air alerts for more than an hour. as well as other towns. here in the united states, intelligence agencies have declassified their report on the potential links between the origin of covid—i9 and the wuhan institute of virology. the report says us intelligence found no direct evidence that the covid—i9 pandemic stemmed from an incident at the wuhan institute. for more let's cross now to our correspondent peter bowes. peter what more does this report tell us?
things appear to be mostly calm in russia. ., ~' , ., things appear to be mostly calm in russia. ., ,, i. g , things appear to be mostly calm in russia. ., ~' g , . russia. thank you. just a reminder, ou could russia. thank you. just a reminder, you could see _ russia. thank you. just a reminder, you could see on _ russia. thank you. just a reminder, you could see on the _ russia. thank you. just a reminder, you could see on the screen - russia. thank you. just a reminder, you could see on the screen behind| you could see on the screen behind there that we have the live page running on the bbc website and the 3pp running on the bbc website and the app on your smartphone or tablet. you can see it on the screen at the moment. it is bringing together all of our insight and analysis from the bbc and from our teams at bbc monitoring and bbc verify to. you can follow developments classify ourselves on the live page on our website. former mi6 officer and russia expert christopher steele joins us now from farnham, surrey, in southern england. thank you so much forjoining us. doctor is about your assessment of the impact on the russian state mechanism. 0n the authorities and the cohesion of them this mutiny now ijy the cohesion of them this mutiny now by these wagner forces. goad the cohesion of them this mutiny now by these wagner forces.— by these wagner forces. good to be with ou. by these wagner forces. good to be with you. clearly _ by these wagner forces. good to be with you. clearly this _ by these wagner forces. good to be with you. clearly this is _ by these wagner forces. good to be with you. clearly this is the - with you. clearly this is the biggest
into russia, that they had entered rostov and reports this morning that wagner is now in control of military sites in rostov, including the airfield, including, it seems, from another video, the major regional military headquarters in rostov. there was this extraordinary video that we saw this morning, again posted on social media, showing yevgeny prigozhin sitting between two very senior russian military commanders, including a deputy defence minister, arguing with them and basically delivering an ultimatum to them saying that look, i have come here to get the russian defence minister and the chief of the general staff and until i do get them, we are going to stay right here and we are going to continue to blockade rostov and we will head to moscow. with more on this now i'm joined by the bbc monitoring's
until a sub is classed, tested and proven it should not be used for commercial deep dive operations." he went on, "as much as i appreciate entrepreneurship and innovation, you are potentially putting an entire industry at risk." "so i implore you to take every care in your testing and sea trials and to be very, very conservative." stockton rush replied... "i have grown tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation and new entrants from entering their small existing market." the bbc�*s north america correspondent nomia iqbal is in newfoundland where canada's set to lauynch an investigation. is in newfoundland where canada's set to launch an investigation. the transportation safety board of canada is going to investigate what happened involving the polar prince and the submersible. both are privately owned vessels, but the polar prince, vessels, but the polar prince, the mothership which launched the submersible over the weekend, is canadian flagged. so the transportation safety board is compelled to to conduct a safety investigation. there will be teams travelling here to saint
so, the so—called special military operation on february 24 - was launched for a completely different reason. _ live now to vitaly shevchenko, russia editor at bbc monitoring. thank you, could you explain what seems to be going on? what thank you, could you explain what seems to be going on? what makes these remarks _ seems to be going on? what makes these remarks from _ seems to be going on? what makes these remarks from yevgeny - these remarks from yevgeny prigozhin, the ones that he made in the evening, is that he has moved on from criticising the russian military using very salty, rude language. he has moved on to making direct threats across the top military commanders of russia who he accuses of carrying out missile strikes against a number of camps used by his waggoner mercenary
block. so the so—called special military operation on february 24 military operation on february 2a was launched for a completely different reason. live now to vitaliy shevchenko from bbc monitoring. we are hearing reports of tightened security we are hearing reports of tightened security measures we are hearing reports of tightened security measures in moscow what are you hearing? what this means in practice is that troops seem to be deployed to moscow streets. i have seen footage, various video clips and still pictures of armoured personnel carriers, military trucks on the streets of moscow. there are also reports of russian troop movements which is in a russian region in the south right next to ukraine. apart from that the situation seems to be
increased. it's possible that yevgeny _ increased. it's possible that yevgeny prigozhin is out of control— yevgeny prigozhin is out of control for the kremlin, and dangerous so putin will try to take — dangerous so putin will try to take control as soon as possible but it could be the end — possible but it could be the end of— possible but it could be the end of his regime. you never know— end of his regime. you never know with _ end of his regime. you never know with the russians. it may happen— know with the russians. it may happen quickly and we have never— happen quickly and we have never been able to predict when there's— never been able to predict when there's a — never been able to predict when there's a big change in government.— thank you for your insights tonight. now to warnings over the safety of the titan sub that imploded near the wreck of the titanic this week. according to emails seen by the bbc, the boss of the company that operated the trip repeatedly dismissed concerns over the craft�*s safety. deep sea specialist rob mccallum told oceangate ceo stockton rush that clients could be at risk. and he urged him to stop using the sub until it had been classified by an independent body. in an email sent in 2018, maccallum warned rush that? "i have given everyone the same honest advice which is that
work in the early �*90s. and i increase the numbers every year, every year that i live, and without the unstinting support of the nhs, i certainly wouldn't be here today. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc website. you're live with bbc news. the us supreme court on friday handed the biden administration a major victory on a key immigration case — ruling that republican—led states do not have the legal right to challenge a policy concerning federal immigration enforcement. the justices in a rare 8 to one ruling cleared the way for the biden administraiton to re—instate rules prioritising the deportation of immigrants based on serious criminal records, national security threats, and migrants who recently entered the us. the policy generally shielded unauthorised immigrants who have been living in the us for years from being arrested by ice if they did not commit serious crimes. in their lawsuit, texas and louisiana claimed the biden administration policy caused direct harm because of increased costs for social services, including health care and education.
were burned and some were shot. several people have been hospitalised. for more on that, we arejoined now by bbc monitoring's blaire toedte. u nfortu nately unfortunately these are very common. we have seen the last two months several brawls. it is worth saying that not of these resulted in 41 deaths, 16 shot dead, this was quite violent, quite dangerous. we see a lot of these are brawls in the prison doubled prisons. we have seen more than that in 2019 so it is, not only in women's prisons but also prisons across the country. what can you tell us about the gang situation with we have discovered it is pretty horrendous, there are a lot of