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

I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Thursday,

the 24th of August, these are our main stories.

The world reacts to the suspected assassination of the warlord many Russians called a Deadman walking,

as Vagna Bosjevgeny Pregoshen is said to have been among those killed in a plane crash.

We follow responses from Moscow and Kiev, as Joe Biden gives his opinion from the US.

It's not much that happens in Russia in 2009, but I don't know enough to know the answer.

And Donald Trump's former lawyer is booked on charges of a conspiracy

to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.

Also in this podcast, Romanian prosecutors share graphic evidence with the BBC

related to their case against controversial online influencer Andrew Tate.

And both will be sentenced at a later date for acting the court heard as digital bandits.

The British teenagers who took on big tech swindling money using TVs and fire sticks.

He went from being one of Vladimir Putin's closest allies to his arch enemy,

and now Evgeny Pregoshen could be dead.

In an incident that unfolded exactly two months after he launched his failed attempt at a mutiny

by marching on Moscow. There's a lot we still don't know.

But what we do know is that a private jet owned by a company associated with this to Pregoshen,

the head of the Vagna mercenary group crashed near Moscow, 10 people were on board,

and 10 bodies have been found.

Video shows the plane falling abruptly out of the sky and a fiery wreckage.

The Russian Civil Aviation Authority has said that according to the plane's operator Pregoshen was on board,

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