Prigozhin: Has Putin Struck Again?
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The boss of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is presumed dead after a plane crash north of Moscow killed all on board.
Ukrainecast’s Vitaly Shevchenko and security correspondent, Frank Gardner, join Adam to go through what we know.
Lou Osborn from the monitoring group All Eyes on Wagner also shares her expertise.
And, India has made history by landing a spacecraft near the south pole of the Moon for the first time.
Journalist and author of the book The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World Tim Marshall explains where it puts them in the 21st century space race.
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Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Miranda Slade and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Rohan Madison. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
01:18 - Prigozhin presumed dead in plane crash 16:36 - India’s historic moon mission
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm just on the bus home after a very busy day in the newscast studio. |
| 0:09.0 | First, we got the news that India had successfully landed an unmanned mission on the moon. |
| 0:15.0 | So that was big for geopolitics. |
| 0:17.0 | And then just after tea time, we got the news that a private plane had crashed between Moscow and St. Petersburg |
| 0:23.0 | and the Russian authorities said that on board and dead was Evgeny Pregozion, the head of the Wagner-Mersenry Group, |
| 0:30.0 | who until a few months ago had been fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine until he then launched that failed coup against Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:39.0 | And we thought he'd been exiled to Belarus as a result. |
| 0:42.0 | So lots of questions about that too. |
| 0:44.0 | And lots to discuss on this episode of newscast, which is a bit of a co-production with our sister podcast Ukrainecast. |
| 0:51.0 | Newscast. |
| 0:52.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:54.0 | He got trounced by the former Prime Minister, who herself got beaten by a letter. |
| 0:58.0 | At least I didn't slap anybody which is good. |
| 1:00.0 | Rean economy. |
| 1:01.0 | La, blah, blah. |
| 1:02.0 | It's the Guardian reading. |
| 1:04.0 | Tofu eating. |
| 1:05.0 | Woke her hearty. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm actually very right-wing. |
| 1:08.0 | You do come up with the most remarkable twaddle. |
| 1:10.0 | Today I feel gay. |
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