This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Andrew Patron in the early hours of the 20th of July.

These are our main stories.

The Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Pregozhin has purportedly appeared in a new video,

welcoming his fighters to Belarus.

President Putin's pulled out of a summit in South Africa, where the authorities were under

pressure to arrest him.

Police in the Indian State of Manipur investigating a video, which appears to show a group of men

parading and assaulting two naked women during ethnic violence earlier this year.

Also in this podcast, back then, the defence and the state made us doubt our honour, our

dignity, our integrity.

Hearing that apology today means that the defence and the state are finally allowing us to

recognise that honour, dignity and integrity that we all have.

An apology from the British government for decades of discrimination against gay people

in the military.

The Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Pregozhin has purportedly appeared in a new video, welcoming

his fighters to Belarus.

This footage originally posted on Telegram.

In the video, he describes the situation on the front-lining Ukraine as a disgrace, but

he doesn't get personal, there's no direct criticism of the Russian defence minister

or the chief of the general staff, no mention of any further marches of justice or mutinies.

We still have very little idea what Mr Pregozhin's Wagner paramilitaries think themselves

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