or russian sources. there was one story that democracy advocates had shot the plane down because they thoughtt putin was traveling on commercial from amsterdam to malaysia. .. there was another story that americans shot the plane down because the u.s. had stationed troops in ukraine. finally my favorite, was the story of a lost tank from world war ii that had come out of the great forest of ukraine and shot the plane down. it was at that moment we realized the russian propaganda was not so much about one counter narrative but multiple, equally ridiculous stories and placing those stories in public. we did not expect russia would turn this campaign strategy on america, on the other great democracies in the west. i will say a little bit about what we have learned over the last few years about the propaganda campaigns and a sense of what i expect for 2018 and years ahead. we coined the term computational propaganda because this disinformation is unique. it makes use of automation, social media algorithms te

if you don't think that the russian equivalent of the state department and russian agencies don't know everything about rand paul including his social security number, they do. i don't know what happened to diplomatic pouches and i don't know what happened, frankly, to the traditional practice of working these things through the state department. the president just doesn't defy norms. he shatters norms. here we go again. >> there's also the new sanctions against russia over the nerve agent poisoning of a former russian spy in the uk. do you think trump would have done this if it wasn't required by law? >> absolutely not. he didn't do some things that were required by law as it turns out, don. look, after the skripal attack, it took the united kingdom approximately 12 days to evict a bunch of russian diplomats. it took some of the rest of the european union countries just about three weeks to levy sanctions and evict diplomats. here we are nearly six months later, and the president is finally getting around to acting on the basis of that incident? that attempted assassination. what new

take any action against russian social media is critical to identify russian -- accounts. require continued analytic advancements so computers can distinguish against authentic social media chatter and information. it is important to highlight propaganda. the approach by international organizations involved for comely websites are email alerts the only fellow activists are members of a policy committee. instead, they argue that is important to highlight russian propaganda much faster and target at risk audiences. one example is google ads could contentand target embedded in google search results. educating people who search for russian board fake news. expand and improve access to local and original content. is challenge in the baltics that moscow controlled media, especially tv, is a dominant source of information. counter butd not displays it was more entertaining accurate content area the team argues for training journalist, increasing access to television programming, and highly in the authentic -- of influencers. nato and e.u. must do better job of telling a story. it

the problem is you also saw a russian intelligence, specifically russian intelligence established russian research agency do what we calledmarion adding . marion adding is like a marionette. you put in these russians who would pretend to be real american citizens and would actually try to create rallies, protests and riots by saying i'm going to be at such and such a shopping mall at 6 am to protest hillary clinton or to protest fried chicken, whatever it's going to be. you should all join me out there and 20 or 30 people show up, there's no leadership so they self protest and i had a situation like that last year as well. another targeted one and this is where i realized the russians are dedicating resources to watching. i had a bot, this threat bot for 90 days was putting out, we didn't even realize it, putting out a wanted poster with a crosshair on it which i was very offended by because the crosshair was a wrong reticle. anybody who shoots knows you're not going to hit that radical and even more amazing it came from a rocky and bullwinkle poster. this watch section at this picture up

mafia russians but not the russian got to worry about the screwballs well yeah i mean that was the understanding and there's also been some reporting in europe of it that it's been pretty much wiped widespread there was a story but the same after the same thing that they were actually were doing work for the marriage for the british intelligence committee modoc to vs i mean there is a big russian mafia let's face it and but that is in the russian government all i would say is i think i mean tell me what i was told but i haven't done any reporting on it so i don't know firsthand i know secondhand i've been told by people in america because you ask about it is that is that most likely the most likely they they were known to have been talking to the six and five relevant six or five people that i am i five or six people about what they knew about russian corruption in and you're not in russia again you know the activities and so the only you from there you can draw your own conclusions of all who wanted to first of . all that's it for one of your favorite shows from this season will continue to sho

and russian -- according to russian management, russia has gained additional $36 billion for that $10 price increase. just to put it into context, overall exports were equal to 200. mineral exports were $200 billion. and another example according to russia position, russia has spent almost $3 million. so you can see how much it contributes -- the stabilization of the prices contributed to their budget. and, you know, send them to implement their strategy in the region. the other -- actually the most important objective they have achieved is signing by lateral deals as ted mentioned with the qatar investment authority, the uae world front and many other deals in russia which was -- which happened mainly as a result of first ever raining visit to saudia arabia came to russia, as well as the qatar came to russia. overall this corporation is very vulnerable. but so far russia has been successful in achieving those objectives that they put in front of them. and in terms of the opaque, in terms of the deal that we have now, however you want to call it, i see the prospects of the deal less a

we meet a russian woman who faces imprisonment for terrorism after following her husband to syria where each joint. i told my husband that i want to go back that i couldn't believe that but the moment i started talking about it we had fights he told me if you want to leave leave but i will not let you take the kids away. with the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r.t. international unwelcome our top story america's most notorious far right groups are gathering in washington d.c. along with country demonstrators it comes on the anniversary of the tragic unite the right to rally last year in charlottesville in the state of virginia there exactly one year ago a woman was killed when a car plowed into protesters a warning you may find the video disturbing. terrorism is is the use of violence to incite terror and fear and of course it was terrorist this egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence on many sides on many sects. well the tragedy spurred numerous rallies in the southern states and enormous racial divisi

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, if it was the russians. >> yeah. look, i think this is the same story with president trump. he cannot focus on the threat from russia without seeing it as a way to delegitimize his presidency. i just don't think he can get his insecurity and his egoout of the way to focus on it as a president of the united states should. and the reality is what that means is that the intelligence community can be doing its work, the fbi can be doing its work. if you look at the reporting "the new york times," companies like microsoft are working with the federal government to keep the radar up, to detect this, to report it out. the news media is reporting this out. so we have a heightened sense of awareness. imagine how much more effective it could be if you have the president of the united states in the rose garden, all the tech companies with him, the heads of all his intelligence services saying this will not stand. russia, we will fight back. you will not undermine our democracy in any way, shape or form. that's not happening. th

and russian presidents in helsinki. eyebrows were raised as president trump appeared to a few simply praised his russian counterpart just days after twelve russian intelligence agents were indicted on spying charges in the us and a spike u.s. intelligence agencies confirming russian involvement in the us electoral process there was no review from president trump of president putin's denial he just said it's not russia back in the united states president trump is now waging an all out twitter campaign against a special council appointed to investigate russian collusion in recent months he's used the words witch hunt on more than four hundred occasions but the tight lipped special counsel robert miller has not responded to the constant attack from the chief executive not yet imparting any knowledge he may have that accounts for the apparent to vision between the executive and legislative branches of government as to russian intentions in the united states mike hanna.

he was investigating the russian mafia there. when she was thrown off the mueller probe, i saw that in a very different way that, i mean, it raised a lot of questions. were they going to pursue trump's ties to the russian mafia or not. >> and when the special prosecutor is looking at paul manafort and presumably if he gets a guilty in one of these trials basically offering paul manafort some opportunity to testify to get a lower prison sentence, is there something you believe paul manafort would be able to reveal about donald trump's relationship to russians? >> absolutely. manafort is an absolutely key figure in all of this. if you look at what he was doing in ukraine, it was a dry run for the 2016 operation in our election. and he was hired by the -- he was representing president -- a putin puppet. he has been declared a traitor to ukraine and fled to moscow. and manafort put him in power, essentially to sustain relationships that allowed the russian mafia to skim lots of money from the ukraine energy trade. >> thank you very m

hail mary passes, russian oligarchs given consideration, russian lies paid for by hillary. lies to the american people, literally, misinformation pushed out by a lot of these people. then you have got ohr and steele and fusion gps. they are all coordinating together here. then we've got these other examples of people really helping a russian oligarch, real tapes of collusion and conspiracy with schiff, all of this, these written evidence here, that they want to stop trump, they want to destroy him, they want to throw their hail mary, and then they want an insurance policy. >> yes, and it's very clear, that is a beautiful outline of the criminal case that means to be investigated by the department of justice against ad doj officials. >> sean: where are they, joe? why are they on trial for tax charges? wears a mueller? >> mueller doesn't want -- >> sean: know, does he want to take on the president? now ohr, interestingly, and steele are talking about getting their information, there lies, to mueller. >> this was, in fact, a plot to destroy donald trump with collusive evidence

the russian state. and so, i wanted to go through that history lesson because i think it really flavors kind of what's going on today. and in europe, we used to have fun trying to figure out where president putin was and it really came down to two camps. he's either a strategic genius or it's like dealing with a pigeon playing chess. you know, knocks over all the pieces, craps all over the board, and then struts around like they're victorious. [laughte [laughter] >> so i share that kind of fun, you know, comment because the truth is somewhere in between and i've come to believe that there are many foreign leaders that know the west better than the west knows themselves. and i think that's kind of where we are and i think it's important to think about that. the second thing that i wanted to talk about is this concept of offset. who here has heard about the third offset? okay, i think that this is really important because every offset and offset is defined as a capability that gives the west a symmetric m

uy russian you talked about this russian role of mediating between opec partners. opec had this problem long before this cooperation has begun with russia. they must have other mechanisms. my question is, has the saudi russian cooperation on oil prices replaced opec? an analogy i would like to inc. of is in the 1950's when the u.s. or texas controlled the oil market. louisiana and oklahoma automatically set the same so the cartel was enforced. we have always seen something similar. saudi arabia and russia set the price and the rest takes it the same way that louisiana and oklahoma did back then. >> let me start with the second one. saudi arabia and russia are the leaders of the cartel. they state the conditions. --the first deal, iran was russia played as intermediary three saudi arabia and iran. in the last deal in june come saudi arabia energy minister said -- negotiated himself. arabia and russia are dominant in opec, which diminishes the importance of the cartel itself. it becomes redundant. they do the dictating. the question was, why would you run with the sa

hush money but no russian collusion they could use the right here in which we got our big. where is the closure you know there's no looking for collusion where is the delusion finds a delusion it's a day of embarrassment for trump and bad timing too with midterm elections approaching and democrats looking for any i mean if they can find the president though will view this as a vindication a year and a half later after several investigations the russian leak story still seems dead in the water although who knows what else the ongoing investigation will find the fact that they haven't come up with anything and that the all they've managed to claw back with paul metaphor is mis filings and some bank fraud charges in the same with cohen in violation of campaign. regulations finance regulations that proves there is no russian collusion or they've wasted two years to find fairly pedestrian violations sure if you went into any of the campaigns including hillary clinton's and spent two years with an investigation team in the grand juries i'm sure you'd find a lot more than this fil

sitting down with those russians. he's saying it's perfectly routine, but wolf, he does distance himself from it at the end saying that he had no knowledge of that meeting beforehand. >> kaitlan, thank you very much. kaitlan collins reporting from new jersey for us. this trump tower meeting story has evolved significantly over time. let's take a look back. july 8th, 2017, "the new york times" first reports on the meeting and donald junior responds with a statement saying it was, quote, about russian adoptions. "the new york times" reports the president's son was promised dirt on hillary clinton at that meeting. then donald junior issues a second statement saying clinton was mentioned, but the meeting was mainly focused on adoptions. two days later, donald junior releases his e-mail exchanges with the publicist discussing the possibility of dirt on hillary clinton before the meeting. also, president trump denies knowing about the meeting beforehand. turn to july 12th. multiple reports indicate that while on air force o

i don't know if they knew she was russian at the time. >> i think they knew she was russian but okay. >> they knew when they met with her. you asked me did they sow an intention to do anything with russians. they know a woman with a russian name wanted to meet with them. she didn't know she was a representative of the russian government. she's not a representative of the russian government. if this is their case for collusion, good luck mueller. >> figure that one out. >>> the white house dealing with the fall out over basic c cuizatio -- accusations of omarosa. take a listen to what she said this morning. >> there's really no real commitment to diversity in the white house and he's unapologetic about it. donald trump is disingenious. i believe he wants to start race war in this country. >> wow. >> big words there. let's go to kelly o' donell in new jersey. we had the president tweeting about this big time. what all is he saying? >> reporter: good to be with you. that shows this hit a nerve with president trump. waking up this morning and going to twitter to attack the new york times

and the overarching points i try to make is what the russians did was not in isolation, the russians yes they intervened had a preferred candidate but they were interfering in europe and elsewhere a long time. and it's part of a global attack on the very idea of liberal democracy. and comes with a time where we see a real rise of auto crats and american needs to be the champions. this is much bigger than the last election or the next election, there was a real risk to the very idea of liberal democracy right now in the world. . >> brennan: does it give you pause when you hear allegations that this is viewed as a witchhunt? when you are campaigning, and fund-raising, does it give you pause to speak about this probe risk of giving fodder to that argument >> i certainly think feel publicly responsibility as i had on television as well as when i do if private to try to inform the public about what russian is doing, the risk it poses to our democracy, but also, margaret, i frankly talk a lot more about the risk to our democracy from this administration in a lot of what you talked about wi

the russian prime minister dmitri medvedev has warned that if the u.s. adopts a new sanctions bill in september targeting russian banks it will be considered an act of economic war that's after a separate round of u.s. sanctions was passed this week over the poisoning of former russian double agents i guess report all and his daughter in britain back in march yes there was the but if it comes to banning banking activities or certain currency use we will be able to call it a declaration of economic war and this will require a reaction by implements in either economic political or if necessary any other measures. or the latest u.s. sanctions will limit investment and exports especially on a number of national security goods including the energy and tech sectors the second wave has yet to be approved by congress it could be much harsher hitting the banking sector and government bonds or. takes a look at how far the new penalties might go. when it comes to global disagreement sanctions that the u.s. weapon of choice as russia's number two at the u.n. put it

saudi russian relations? as steve was talking last time, iran which doesn't have much choice. russia, saudi arabia does and it strikes me that if, in fact, we do see an arms relationship develop between russia and qatar, that the saudis and the uae object to come and, in fact, this is going to push them more toward the united states. but i like to hear what you think about this. >> thank you, mark, very much for your question. later this afternoon w we're gog to have another panel. there's still room here, that will talk more specifically about the s-400 issue. however, you brought up some very interesting points within the question, which is really about the qatar crisis and whether it presents an opportunity or a problem for russia. i think steve said earlier today that the qatar crisis provides an opportunity for russia because of the way moscow conflict multiple sides on the issue. and i have seen this crisis, if you will, from that particular perspective. when you start looking at how qatar has behaved w

greenlight because it will need russian air cover let's talk. a little bit about the senior political analyst in london you heard saying that they're talking about the fact that stuff into mr says he's willing to go to it leave him self to sort out these humanitarian corridors i mean it's admirable on his part and it shows he's leading but also i guess it shows just how serious this is libya fence of could be. absolutely you know it has been an unfortunate part of syria since before the revolution started it's been always ill fated if you will since the massacres of the one nine hundred eighty s. against how and it led by the syrian regime by the father then. and it was marginalized throughout the eighty's in the ninety's and the last decade and since that evolution started of course we witnessed massacres within the province against them for the regime and clearly the division within the oppositions there and it also made things even worse for the population and now after all of that. that's going to witness probably one of the worst onslaughts

eight a war planes to fight russian submarine activity. how do how do you view these remarks then which get wide currency here in the british political establishment that well i'll tell you it's just. it's it's certain military strategy as i said fifty six billion dollars will be spent and we see the british airplanes you know in the black sea which is quite far from britain and from my point of view it's the wrong policy or wrong military doctrine instead of developing relations britain is going to spend more and more money on so-called deterrence of russia so this is the wrong way of doing things were you surprised by . the attempt and successful attempt by the british government to get a un resolution about the fact that the o.p.c. w. should now find who committed chemical warfare. convention contraventions well first of all i want to see the opposite posted because we believe that it doesn't reflect the substance of the convention and it's not only russia it's almost half of the countries of the. signatories of the convention is it not

secretary it and this is absolutely unacceptable says the russian foreign minister the russian foreign ministry has already been touch with the secretary general they sent a former complaint about the alleged behind the scenes than the secretary to take part in this syria restoration program picks so the question i think you a number of other russian colleagues about this reported quote unquote secret directive is always with this secret directive it takes me a while to try to find it's actually there is a secret directive but i expect to have an update we've asked some guidance and expect an update a bit later on this afternoon and i nothing new was on the letter then there was also a question by our correspondent who asked sergey lavrov what he makes of the u.s. involvement or rather lack of involvement when it comes to restoring syria says it's too early to talk about reconstruction efforts until a political settlement is agreed on what do you make of that. some countries are trying to hinder the return of refugees by refusing to help reconstruction efforts it's counterproductive to

meddling over and over are certain that the russians are carrying on with their attempts to undermine us democracy and they're saying now they have a new target the midterm elections in america in twenty eight and we're also hearing that moscow is not only using the traditional ways through facebook or twitter but also all kinds of other platforms the likes of reddit or pinterest where they post more and more russian made names. cyber attacks remain remain a core part of moscow's personal content it's created tested and posted on top form such as you tube reddit and rest its push to twitter and facebook with their standing audiences in the hundreds of millions and it's targeted at the most receptive this is a problem of the entire information to ecosystem this is awesome platform read it came from hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did it. a lot of pride related content less news more isn't just a couple of forms this is music taps this is video games this is me share it it's much broader than twitter and google more conclusions from the experts they are saying that russia is ins

>> the russians are very aggressive. the secret service is taking some heat for not taking it seriously. they said she didn't have access to anything outside of a very low classification intranet system. the problem is she had access to the embassy. if you remember back in the '80s, it was rife with listening devices. as a matter of fact, our state department was penetrated in the late '90s. russians had something placed in a table in a conference room that was a listening device that was beaming out very sensitive conversations. so it's not just the fact that she had access to the intranet. it's the fact she had access to the building. she could identify people coming and going for the fsb. she could bring devices in likely. and through that process, she could have caused a lot more harm than just being the person that was doing low-level administration work. that's what worried me about the secret service not doing a full-blown what did we lose and what risk did she pose and all the people did she touch inside the emba

these revelations eventually resulted in the indictments of 13 russian individuals and three russian companies by the special counsel's office in february of this year. social media oversight has not typically been a function of our committee or for that matter any committee. i have no problem acknowledging that the terminology this world, spam, click make, ati, trolls does not always come naturally to all of us. but thanks bipartisan determination to understand what happened in 2016 and a commitment to stop it from happening again, we have been able to accomplish a lot. we've helped reveal the russian playbook. we have raised public awareness regarding the threat. and we succeeded however incrementally in pressuring each of these companies to take steps to address the problems on their platforms. that's the good news. the bad news is we have a lot more work to do. 21 21 months after the 2016 election and only three months before the 2018 elections russian backed operatives continue to infiltrate and manipulate social media to hijack the national conversation and set americans agains

and russian presidents in helsinki. eyebrows were raised as president trump appeared to a few simply praised his russian counterpart just days after twelve russian intelligence agents were indicted on spying charges in the us and a spike u.s. intelligence agencies confirming russian involvement in the us electoral process there was no review from president trump of president putin's denial he just said it's not russian back in the united states president trump is now waging an all out twitter campaign against a special council appointed to investigate russian collusion in recent months he's used the words witch hunt on more than four hundred occasions but the type special counsel robert miller has not responded to the constant attack from the chief executive not yet imparting any knowledge he may have that a comes from the apparent division between the executive and legislative branches of government as to russian intentions in the united states mike hanna al-jazeera new york. now facebook says it's taken down more than

senate and conservative groups by hacking group affiliated with the russian government russian military operation the intelligence operation the russian military intelligence you know well basically what the companies they've seized control of from some group that they believe are russian hackers over a bunch of websites that were recently created and designed to copycat this is the websites of some republican groups conservative groups of the congress and so on and so forth this technique in the i.t. talk is called fishing and it's basically designed to lure people in to deceive them to make them believe that they're visiting the actual web site while they're not and then the perpetrator can pretty much do anything they want and microsoft is saying that it is resembling this situation and developed right before the presidential elections in twenty sixteen have a listen we saw this during the united states general election in twenty sixteen last major in the french presidential election and now in a broadening way as americans are preparing for the november midterm elections first and f

but no russians. one russian. there was one russian. i misspoke, three russians. five russians were at the meeting. there was eight russians at the meeting. it was just about -- we did not talk all the election. we talked about the election, but no collusion. there was collusion. but no criminal collusion. is it such a crime? >> that would be a lot more funny if it wasn't so close to the truth. if there was nothing illegal about the meeting why has the administration changed its story so many times? >> i think they talked about what precipitated the meeting. the story has been out there that the meeting involved gaining information relative to hillary clinton as it related to the campaign. the fact that what may have precipitated the meeting, who may have called the meeting, why they may have called the meeting certainly evolved into something more than that. >> white house aides told cnn that they are trying to plan more rallies so he doesn't dwell on the russia investigation. how concerned are those close to him about his moods right now? >> the president displa

senate and conservative groups for hacking group affiliated with the russian government the russian military operation the intelligence operation the russian military intelligence unit r.t. as it goes down of takes us through microsoft's claims microsoft is ringing the alarm russians are at it again apparently how has set up a bunch of websites doppelganger of those belonging to prominent political groups and the u.s. senate this technique is known as phishing designed to lure unsuspecting users to pages that look just like the real thing and then basically steal their data according to microsoft if they recognize this tactic from a few years back we saw this during the united states general election in twenty sixteen last major in the french presidential election and now in a broadening way as americans are preparing for the november midterm elections. midterms are a big deal in the states for those of you unfamiliar that's elections in congress with close to all seats up for grabs this november for russians to mess it up would be the second worst thing after rigging the presidential race e

as an arm of russian state policy. it has been going on for we're also seeing it for example in serbia. serbia, you know, they claim we this orthodox brotherhood and so forth. so when the russians and the serbs want to be friendly thord o other, you have all the orthodox brotherhood. when they're not so friendly, foot. e's on the other just wherm at this timeo and stalin. i mean, they were attempting to use people's religious convictions adds an arm of olitical wafer -- warfare. >> i was wondering -- i think it was mr. silverman who mentioned the anti-fracking movement. how and why are they doing it? >> there's a recent government eport that i would point you to more more details. threat. emergency is one of their main exports. -- energy is one of their main exports. they see there's an actual left movement for environmental go against it so they are pumping money into those campaigns, because at the end of the day it helps their own economic interests. go agait >> balancing free speech and state interests, with what c

senate and conservative groups for hacking group affiliated with the russian government the russian military operation the intelligence operation the russian military intelligence unit r t z goes down of commentary on microsoft's claims microsoft is ringing the alarm russians are at it again apparently how has set up a bunch of websites doppelganger of those belonging to prominent political groups and the us senate this technique is known as phishing designed to lure unsuspecting users to pages that look just like the real thing and then basically steal their data according to microsoft that they recognize this.

just said it's not russian back in the united states president trump is now waging an all out twitter campaign against a special council appointed to investigate russian collusion in recent months he's used the words witch hunt on more than four hundred occasions but the type special counsel robert miller has not responded to the constant attack from the chief executive not yet imparting any knowledge he may have that a comes from the apparent division between the executive and legislative branches of government as to russian intentions in the united states mike hanna al-jazeera new york plenty more ahead for you this news are it is not business as usual as u.s. sanctions hit their brands industry and its workforce a look at that also venezuelans racing to reach parity for new entry restrictions kick in as their government takes action against skyrocketing inflation and sport china sets a new world record in the poll the asian games details coming up at about ten to the. russia has dismissed claims from microsoft that it's been targeting u.s. political political groups through cyber a

in previous hearings than russian disinformation from alpine russian playbook of the 2016 elections. we discussed the russian operatives set up thousands of fake and automated account on facebook, instagram, twitter, youtube and others in order to build networks of hundreds of thousands of realds americans. these networks pushed an array of disinformation including stolen e-mails from the statelet propaganda, fake nose and divisive content onto the new seeds as many potentially receptive americans as they could. he wanted noo doubt hear today from our experts that they were extremely successful in that effort. these active measures have two things in common. first, their effect is. and second, they are cheap. for pennies on the dollar they can wreck havoc on our society and in our elections. i am concerned that even after he denounced the study we are still only scratching the surface when it comes to russia's information warfare. much of the initial focus is on paid advertisements but it quickly became clear that these ads represented a tiny percentage of the ira at committee compar

my name is evident then you are a russian spy. this guardian story had every ingredient for a thriller recipe the u.s. secret service has quite clearly stems from the very name it's one of the most enigmatic agencies of the u.s. government its main function is to protect the lives of u.s. presidents ministers the top political brass and that is where the russians according to the guardian planted a mall the russian spy had been working under texted in the heart of the american embassy in moscow for more than a decade she had plenty of time to gather intelligence without supervision bissell said the guardian's head of investigations claims she was operational for a whole decade in that time through the agency's internet in e-mail systems she had access to all kinds of highly classified stuff including the jewels of the president and vice president all of that according to the guardian the woman fed to the office be russia's key security agency before being let go last year over security concerns they had lined the narrative the det

after election day the russian government stepped on the gas the russians in this case and others see us as a cheap date the russian activity seeks to turn the normal differences of opinion among americans into headlines about unbridgeable political divisions the russian government came into the house of the american family and manipulated us as you might suspect the story goes on the same way we've heard it many times before essentially russia is accused of encouraging controversy in the united states around issues like immigration guns racism and all kinds of other things. as cyber attacks remain us but remain a core part of moscow's arsenal content is created tested and hosted on platforms such as you tube reddit and pinterest its push to twitter and facebook with their standing audience is in the hundreds of millions and it's targeted at the most receptive this is a problem of the entire information ecosystem this is cross-platform reddit confirmed hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did it now one thing that's lacking in this report just like in so many other similar reports

senate and conservative groups by hacking group affiliated with the russian government the russian military operation the intelligence operation the russian military intelligence unit. we're joined live by our correspondent don of with more now take us through what microsoft. well basically what the companies they've seized control from some group that they believe are russian hackers over a bunch of websites that were recently created and designed to copy cat this is the websites of republican groups conservative groups of the congress and so on and so forth this technique in the i.t. talk is called fishing and it's basically designed to lure people in to deceive them to make them believe that they're visiting the actual web site while they're not and then the perpetrator can pretty much do anything they want they can send them like e-mails phishing emails with like wrong information they can send them viruses and so on and so forth and microsoft is saying that it is resembling this situation and develop right before the presidential elections in twenty sixteen have a listen. we saw this d

has hit back angrily at suggestions that he's part of a russian online disinform ation campaign after appearing on a list of supposedly suspicious twitter accounts hey stupid spook i'm not a russian but it's just me who tweets against you. although not directly accused of being a russian has appeared and a list of accounts showing increased twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president micron's former bodyguard the inference being moscow's pulling the strings also on that list is our paris correspondent charlotte dubin ski who gave us more details. well a huge outcry here in france so many people on twitter thought that they had been labeled russian boats that's because they were named in a twitter list which looked at the number of people who had tweeted about the but now a skate scandal here in france some of them even decided to use it as a badge of honor and actually added they. bought their russian numbers twitter account now this came out after the banana scandal which was a former security aide to president michel and he was filmed actually assaulting

, we have russians everywhere! but not with trump! they are with hillary clinton, they are with fusion gps, they are with -- >> sean: bruce ohr. no, this is important. stay on that. they are everywhere! russian lies, assault to fisa judges, not once, mark, four times. lies spread purposely to the american people, that sounds like the former soviet union, mark levin. >> so theou question is, if mr. mueller is such a great prosecutor, why is he blind is about to all of this that is taking place in this country? you want to pursue this, mr. mueller, i can show you a first year law student who knows what to pursue, the fact of the matter is, ladies and gentlemen of the court, the president wasn't a witness to a crime, wasn't surrounded by russians, the president didn't commit a crime, the president cannot be indicted, so, as i keep saying on this program, mr. mueller, you can leave the room and don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out. and if they go to court, it's an opportunity for the president's lawyers

a russian ball. also ahead in the program this hour the reels from the shock suicide of an ultima gratian party politician who claimed she had been raped by a muslim last year. on the streaming video from yemen leaves humanitarian groups on the public's with this week's coalition or a strike on a school bus in yemen the raid claimed the lives of twenty nine children dozens more were injured. in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international my names you know neil welcome to the program their top story french opposition leader former presidential candidate luke mellon shown. at suggestions that he is part of a russian online. campaign hey stupid spook i'm not a russian it's just me who tweets against you although not directly accused of being a russian. appeared in a list of a cow and showing increased twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president former bodyguard the inference being moscow is pulling the strings also not least is our part

so how does the russian government, and you used to work in this area, how does the russian government use people like veselnitskaya, often referred to as cutouts? >> the use of cutouts is typical russian trade. veselnitskaya would have been an intermediary between agents and operatives involved in espionage, someone that gathered information, carried information between individuals involved in espionage. she would have been someone that would have taken orders between the two. one of the interesting things about someone like veselnitskaya is they're not typically read in on the full scope of whatever the espionage effort is, but i think the point about her being close to vladimir putin is really interesting because as we learn more about the relationship between veselnitskaya and vladimir putin and how close they were, we learn more about who she was taking orders from, and then look at the fact that she was able to get this meeting in trump tower. we get much closer to a direct link between vladimir putin and his orders and the president of the united states. and that's something tha

the russian foreign minister said that he wanted. should the syrians that they would. wish to leave go into government to be treated in a discriminatory route to. these people because they don't trust the syrian government regardless of what. exactly the question that the people of alaska is whether or not these humanitarian corridors will be monitored by an international party like nations because like you said they don't trust the syrian government they don't even trust the russian government many of these people are wanted by the state or are considered terrorists simply because they engaged in opposition activities being a medic according to the syrian government is terrorism so the people are afraid they are trapped in yes part of the province borders turkey but turkey has made clear that it has no intention of opening the border to allow hundreds of thousands of people to enter turkey so that's why we've been hearing so many statements from united nations officials the latest being they found the mystery of the u.n. special envoy really expressing concern about t

of an economic war washington says it's stepping up the restrictions over the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter in the u.k. back in march. also in the headlines this friday the us democratic party wants facebook to share data on members for info fake news so we can tell them what's right this is social media giants are accused of censorship after banning controversial show host alex jones. trail and hamas militants from egypt tentative cease fire agreement after israel retaliates against dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip. and the legacy of terror we hear from families in southern russia that a desperate to contact loved ones who've been persuaded to go and fight for islamic state in syria. we'll call it that it will be ok that some call it will all be ok i just feel so sorry for the children it's so difficult when you don't know where exactly children are. good morning welcome to the program i'm kevin owen it's just ten ten am here in moscow you're watching r.t. international first in the headlines this friday a further tightening of u.s. sanctions on rus

why have the russians the wall? why are all of them denied the right and guaranteeing them to pass freely from zone to zone with in berlin? the communist explanation is according to them west berlin was the base for intrigue and imperialist assault on east berlin and east germany where a man has a chance to enjoy the finer things in life. -- was going the other way east to west and so has every other casualty at the wall. no one can be sure of the reason. prior to the erection of the wall almost anyone could get into east germany and reach west berlin -- and many did. once and west berlin you are outside the iron curtain the free passage between east and west berlin was the only gap in the iron curtain. the russians sealed it. the wall is a solid >>and the wall remains. it stands in berlin today. it stands and will stands >>someday according to the builder it will surround not the world but the moon, the stars, outer space, the universe , their objective is clear and so is hours. they intend to put the world on thei

russian's hands. how do you assess that rhetorical equivocation. >> i don't know if he's sending a flare into the sky to show putin and the russians he's still trying to lean their way wherever he can to provide them a little bit of signaling but it's hard to tell. it's peculiar thing to say when all of the evidence is to the contrary including from his own attorney general, his own director of national intelligence and director of the fbi. there's no support for that other than the only thing that makes sense is signaling and letting putin and his crew know he's still trying to be helpful. >> you mentioned dni coats, you've seen sanctions coming up from this administration. how do you suggest the bifurcation from the president's rhetoric but the action taken by the administration? is dan coats doing what he needs to do? >> the administration at the cabinet level has been very clear that the russians are a continuing threat and a present threat in the 2018 elections and that there's no reason to think

it is something you get from the russians. this is the kind of language which is a matter of everyday discourse. over there and following ukraine, a first no surprise then i realize these people too. they talked about how ukraine and unisys are very similar, had divided politics they were both disintegrating states, it was demonic. it's artificial demonic creation and one day will cease to exist. a striking and while the first thing you realize this is a c responsibility hit this is part of the larger campaign. the russian soldiers in ukraine some of them actually interviewed, there are many things there more primary sources. we've actual interview transcripts with russian soldiers in ukraine carried out in russia. as well as with ukraine on the russian side. and over and over again, i fantasizing about russian stealth fighters fighting over the capital, i'm fantasizing about a flag over the white house. after while you think it seems kind of wacko. but then you are like, what we are taught to do is when something strikes you

but let's be clear that when you see russian interference like we saw today through facebook, russian interference against claire mccaskill and russian interference writ large in 2016, getting out the vote is going to be super important, yes. but there was a poll out today that showed that there are some republicans who think that interference by the russians to help the republicans is not such a bad thing. >> oh, come on, governor. >> come on. >> come on, governor. if you're going to blame the democrats for poor performance. you can't blame -- you have to accept some responsibility for not having a coherent message across your party. >> there's a whole array of things. we don't have to relitigate this. >> you can't blame the russians for the democrats failing. >> yes, i can blame the russians for interfering in this election. >> you can blame them for trying to interfere. >> they did interfere, and they sent thousands and thousands of ads to social media in places like detroit, where they held up pictures of aziz ansari with a text saying, hey, avoid the lines. text your support here

the russian foreign ministry has confirmed three russian journalists have died in the central african republic and my colleague you know nail discuss the news withouten is maria finisher. if an option is with me now on the shooter for more on this. talking in the previous hours confirmation. not confirm we are awaiting for some kind of conclusion on this we seem to have got it yet it is now confirmed that three russian journalists were killed in an attack while on assignment in central african republic their dead bodies were discovered by un peacekeeping personnel on the ground some twenty to thirty kilometers north of central c.t. siebold on the road and abandoned car also was discovered at the scene as stressed with multiple gunshots so it looks like the team was attacked by a large group of gunmen known reasons what exactly happened unclear there. i guess the investigation needs to go on the ground buddies of the three journalists were first taken to un facility. and then later transferred to one of the hospitals in the capital city. and this is where the bodies are currently and w