good to be with you on this big news day, i m anita vogel. the leader of the armed militia is asking for an armed rebellion. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is track the latest from kyiv. what more can you tell us? it s a story building minute by minute and hour by hour, and you ve got to believe that they re watching closely a disruption of instability inside of russia, a country that s waging now 16-month war against ukraine, is big, big news. let s recap. yesterday we heard from yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner military group. and he went really ballistic yesterday and complaining about the contact of the war, russian military leadership and even claimed that the russians had fired on his forces that s when he took his fighters from ukraine, don t have an exact number, total of 25,000, maybe at 15,000 here, over the border, went over to a place called rostov-on-don. that is a city of one million people, about 60 miles from the border with ukra
prigozhin mercenary forces have pretty much taken over that every strategic town of rostov-on-don. i that s a very strategic part of this war. the russian mercenary groups have been launching offensive strikes in ukraine from there, so they ve been key to this battle. prigozhin says they have now taken that town completely. they are now firing eight shots, and what we re hearing now is that he s mercenary forces are moving north. possibly towards moscow, which is an incredibly significant development in what s happening in the last 24 hours, and the most curious challenge to the russian state in recent memory, now, prigozhin was saying that this wasn t a crew he was trying to get rid of the defense minister, shoigu, and the head of the armed forces, but this is a direct challenge to putin s authority when you re trying to remove his top military brass during a conflict with ukraine. what key right now, jonathan, is what happens over the coming hours. the loyalty of the rus
business reporter this morning is katie silver has been looking into the story for is and joins us on the programme. always going to get you on the show. what is your sense of the key things to look out for today? key things to look out for toda ? ,, ~ ., ., ., today? sure. we have heard from the a-rou today? sure. we have heard from the grow) and today? sure. we have heard from the group and the today? sure. we have heard from the group and the key today? sure. we have heard from the group and the key things - the group and the key things are the war in ukraine and then china, particularly when it comes to china is its relationship and how is it how it plays our going forward when it comes to taiwan. the meeting began at the end of last night, a working dinner between the foreign ministers. we also saw the eu s top foreign policy chief, josep borrell, addressed the group by video link. is said basically when it comes to china they have the decision was the relations
looking into the story and joins me. great to get you on the show. what is on the agenda could it s a three day meeting, as you mentioned in a resort town about two hours from tokyo. it s a meeting about the foreign ministers of the g7 nations. last night, at a dinner, we saw the video link committee eu s top foreign policy official, high representative address the g7 foreign ministries and he said that when it comes to china and its relationship going forward, china needs to decide how it wants to be seen and china needs to decide how it wants to be seen wants to be seen and how it wants to be seen and how it wants to wants to be seen and how it wants to continue wants to be seen and how it wants to continue to - wants to be seen and how it| wants to continue to interact with the international community. he said that china is a partner, a competitor, a strategic rival, and as it navigates going forward, particularly surrounding taiwan, that impact its relationship with