epstein: i went to moscow twice. i met with his lawyer in moscow, who was very helpful but said his aclu lawyer in america has the keys to seeing snowden. lawyer, wrote to that snowdenaid declined to see me. so that is as far as i went. >> when all of this became public in "the guardian," the " the washington post," there was an interview with snowden. let's watch a little bit of that from 2013. >> my name is ed snowden. i am 29 years old. i work for booth allen hamilton as an infrastructure analyst for an essay in hawaii -- for the nsa in hawaii. water -- >> what are some positions you have held previously you go -- previously? >> senior adviser for the avtral intelligence solutions control center, and telecommunication system officer. >> who is this fellow? in the clips we have just seen, he tells a lie. he said he was a senior advisor to the cia. what he was was a communications a hack, what is called working at the cia for two years and was actually forced out. he was not a senior adviser, but that is not my comp

epstein: i went to moscow twice. i met with his lawyer in moscow who was very helpful, but said his aclu lawyer in america has he keys to seeing snowden. i went to that lawyer, wrote to him, and he said that snowden eclined to see me. so, that is as far as i went. >> when all of this became public in "the guardian," " the washington post," there was an interview video made with snowden. let's watch a little bit of hat from 2013. >> my name is ed snowden. i am 29 years old. i work for booth allen hamilton as an infrastructure analyst for the nsa in hawaii. >> what are some positions you have held previously in the ntelligence community? >> a systems engineer, systems administrator, senior advisor for the central intelligence agency. solutions consultant and a telecommunications informations systems officer. >> who is this fellow? dr. epstein: even in the clips we just saw, he tells a lie. he said he was a senior advisor to the cia. what he was was a communications officer, what is called a hack, working at the cia for

we'll be getting reaction in washington, and in moscow. also this lunchtime: the rising cost of fuel helps to push inflation to its highest rate for two—and—a—half years, to1.8%. a bribery settlement and the fall in the pound push engineering giant rolls—royce to a record loss. an investigation is underway at a topshop store where a ten—year—old boy was fatally injured by store furniture. full—steam ahead — for the first timetabled train service featuring a traditional locomotive. and coming up in the sport on bbc news: leicester sign england fly—half george ford for next season, after agreeing a deal to buy him out the final year of his contract at bath. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. it's got to be some kind of record, with donald trump facing his first scandal and a top—level resignation just 2a days after his inauguration. his national security adviser, michael flynn, has resigned over his contacts with russia. he's alleged to have discussed us sanctions with the russian ambassador before mr trum

from moscow it's not so much a territorial rabbit ukraine. and what it was during soviet union times of 1920s or even right now in the early 2000s, what it is, it's an information war. it's attraction as to what you can get out there for the people to believe, and at the same time do as much of the unfortunate to various societies as possible. so it's a matter of principle. it's a matter of democratic principles versus it's a matter of authoritarianism, dictatorship, and how you wield power. now, it's quite interesting that the soviets deny the holodomor for the locus of times. frankly speaking they denied it and tell about the mid-1980s when we in the greater ukrainian diaspora whether united states or throughout the world started speaking more and more about it. there was some traction associate with it. memories of congress, president of the united states issued that particular statements about the holodomor. frankie speaking that culminate in 2008 with a statement by president george w. bush that said that the holodomor was a quote crime

jane: steve rosenberg in moscow, thank you for joining us. let's look at other news. the chairman of japanese electronics giant toshiba has resigned following the news the company suffered a big net loss this year. shigenori shiga is the most senior toshiba executive to go since it emerged that the company suffered massive losses in the united states. a man has been found guilty of murdering a six-year-old boy who disappeared in new york in 1979 in what became one of the most haunting missing child cases in the u.s. the former convenience store worker was convicted in a retrial of kidnapping and killing etan patz. the jury deliberated for 90 days. the boy disappeared on his way to his school bus stop. authorities in malaysia are investigating the death of kim jong nam. at the kuala lumpur airport waiting for a flight 20 may have been poisoned. he left north korea after being passed over for the leadership role. our correspondent sent this report. nam,t: this is kim jong whose body is thought to be lying in a malaysian mall. officials say he died after being sprayed in

so there was a suggestion that they would somehow ease up on moscow wa nts would somehow ease up on moscow wants the trump administration came in. the idea is that there would have been a recording of these conversations as will other russian side and they were concerned, the intelligence agencies, that if he was lying and trying to cover his tracks, then he would be or could be blackmailed by the russians at a later date. he had been compromised. that's right. and not only that is, but the ambassador sent a cable or a ripple back to moscow summarising the contents of the call. so they did know what was discussed and other topic of sanctions came up. it was a other topic of sanctions came up. it wasa main other topic of sanctions came up. it was a main topic of the call, not just something that came up in passing. do we think it talks to the ambassador with the authority of the best of the transition team if it was the bulk of the conversation?” believe sean spicer said today that president trump did not direct him to make the call, but he would certainly know generally the outlines of t

>> you are too into radio moscow -- tuned committee oh roscoe -- two radio moscow. an associated press dispatch tells us that an american saber debt accidentally job -- dropped jet dropped some rockets over florida. the population has been alerted and the city has been warned of danger. this made me doubt that the rocket fall was the result of an accident. everyeport gives us report for questioning accidents in general. it seems that approximately 70% of the officers are socko neurotic -- psycho erotic -- psychoneurotic. the air minerals to doing study, nuclear patrols. and what about the united states navy and marine corps? >> i have a copy here of the soviet newspaper that was published. may 18 this year. it speaks about what is going on in the mediterranean. lebanon hangsgh militarythreat of intervention by the imperialist states led by the united states, the american command has doubled the lead it enforces -- landing forces attack -- attached to the sixth fleet street the imperialists are openly brandishing weapons. but no matter how the colonists try, they can

is moscow willing to partner? or does it prefer good relations with teheran at the expense of stability in the persian gulf. this is by no means a complete list. space exploration and counter narcotics are among other areas we could possibly cooperation. but all these issues point to the important business we can do when u.s. and russian interests overlap. we must not, however, be naive. there are a number of critical areas where moscow is challenging u.s. interests and including our vital interest. as a supreme ally commander in europe i had ringside seat for three years of watching moscow do just that. president putin has made clear that he wants to up-end the post cold war order established in europe. he and senior russians have the aggression in ukraine by claiming a right to protect ethnic russians and russian speakers there. and they have said that this principle applies elsewhere. their goal is to weaken nato, the european union, and the trans-atlantic relationship. the peace we established in europe in 194

we haven't messaged that to moscow as of late. it is something i dedicated the last two decades of my life to. , we haveon to defense to look at these new challenges and getting nato ready for the 21st century challenges we face. >> if we had a secretary of state that we felt was truly russtted to walking back ia's involvement, as we look at what are the things we need to take into account? you can freeze action in place. that is something we will all be looking at. what else do we need to take into account, assuming we had a secretary say that had the relationship, but also a strong desire to walk back russia's destabilizing efforts? gen. breedlove: a little tough for a military person to address, but i talked about it before. we in the military use a simple way of describing a nation's power. diplomatic, informational, military, and economic. russia in approached the recent past, we've put most of our pressure in the economic sphere, russia and we have not y used some of the tools we might have in the diplomatic informational. i

for chili for him, his rival, , comes to lead the democratic resistance in moscow, mainly in moscow. because throughout the country, if you looked at that, people were not sure on which side they were. but moscow and major cities were of course appalled by this attempt to take power away from the more and restore this coupian system undermines any last hope that gorbachev had to create this new union treaty. of course, if you look at the fall of 1991, there are still take place, that like the humanitarian conference in moscow, which the soviets were trying to put together beginning in 1986. awaited the much conference in the middle east bush gorbachev meets with for the last time. and then they look at what they accomplish together and the missed opportunities. again, this incredible meeting of the minds. but at this point, the nationalist movement in every republicled in every except for care to stand and the stan ---- in character rgystan and the baltics. .hey gain momentum in the power in the beginning of december 1991, yeltsin and three litters -- three leaders of the slavic repu

>> you are tuned into radio moscow. on 16, 19 and 25 meter bands on the shortwave, and the medium on 200 .16 meters. an associated press dispatch tells us that an american saber jet accidentally dropped some rockets over florida. the population has been alerted and warned of the serious danger. this brought to mind a serious report of dr. frank barry, medical assistant to the secretary of defense. this made me doubt that the rocket fall was the result of an accident. this report gives us every ground for questioning the probability of accidents in general. it claims that approximately 70% of the officers are psychoneurotic. check so shown the state of affairs is especially critical among the airman doing studied nuclear patrols. nuclear patrols. >> and what about the united states navy and marine corps? >> i have a copy here of the soviet newspaper that was published for their navy called the sovietsky float. may 18 this year. it speaks about what is going on in the mediterranean. and says, referring to the united state

moscow said that was an accident. cia as the new head of the arrives in ankara to sell to the relationship -- salvage the underonship created president obama. ♪ we begin this hour in the united states, where one of donald trump's most loyal supporters has been sworn in as the u.s. attorney general. alabama senator jeff sessions useaccused of holding races during his nomination process, something he strongly -- racist views during his nomination process, something he strongly denied. that -- thaty to cracking down on a little immigration is one of his priorities. 50 2-47, and jeff sessions -- 52-40 seven, and jeff sessions is confirmed as the new u.s. attorney general of the trump administration. >> i want to make donald trump. he believes in the rule of law and protecting the american people from crime and violence. he believes in a lawful system immigration that serves the common interests. >> the two men share similar conservative views, wanting immigration,on trucks, and gun trafficking. -- drugs, and gun traffic

what is moscow saying now? >> well, the issue whether there were any contacts with the russia campaign is nothing knew here. we heard from the deputy foreigner prior to the days to the election that there was anything unusual about that and we don't know anything about the content other frequency. but we are expecting to get the first high-level face-to-face meeting between russia and the u.s. that should happen tomorrow between russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and secretary of state rex tillerson. and this comes at a heim of heightened tension, news coming out of the u.s., three separate military incidents from russia, plus a military source telling cnn that russia has deployed a ground launch missile in violation of a 1987 treaty. we also hear from military sources in the u.s. that a russian spy ship is floating in international offer of delaware. that has happened before. but not that often. and the final incident happened last week, three russian planes, according to the u.s., bumping a u.s. navy vess

the most urgent matter concerns moscow's correct, for me, the most urgent matter concerns moscow's current practice in flying warplanes dangerously close and without their transponders on, and to the incursions between our aircraft and their ships. such incidents risk fatal accidents and even a clash between th the u.s. and russia. we need to reestablish substantive communication between our two militaries in order to avoid such incidents, and when they occur, to move towards deconfliction. in our initial communication and/or cooperation, if it is successful, then more senior dialogue might be warranted. maybe a son would permit us to see if there is a basis for cooperation on a number of global issues of possible interest to both of us. that should start with a subject that is bent at the heart of relations between washington and moscow for over half a century. that is nuclear disarmament. this area has been dormant since the first obama administration. equally important especially for president trump, his potential joint action against -- or islamic state of iraq in the lot, isil. the pr

. >>> now, to moscow and matthew chance standing by. russian involved, with this fallout from michael flynn's resignation. how concerned will the kremlin be with his resignation, the manner he's gone and whatever is likely to replace him in this role? >> it's embarrassing for the kremlin, in the sense they have repeatedly, in the past few minutes, when i've spoken to them, denied there were conversations about the possibility of alleviating sanctions between michael flynn and their ambassador to the united states, survey kislyak. they are not going to comment on that. it's an internal u.s. matter, they say. not prepared to discuss it. it's astonishing, really, they've gone out on a limb, to really follow the white house denials. that any conversations about sanctions took place. those denails appear to be unfounded. and the situations seems very different, which leaves the kremlin with some egg on its face. and i think it underlines to the kremlin the concerns they had all along, about the reliability of the trump administration. concer

from moscow it's not so much a territorial rabbit ukraine. and what it was during soviet union times of 1920s or even right now in the early 2000s,

michael flynn was one of those who favoured a soft approach towards moscow. they potentially have a significant friend? this story is one in quite a bit. 2a hours ago, michael flynn was unknown to most people outside of washington and moscow. he was appointed the national security adviser and now he has had to go. the story that has come out is about how he has missed briefed the vice president. when you unpick that, he was failing to reveal the full extent of his conversations about sanctions. when you put that to one side, it looks like we have somebody who was potentially naive undertaking conversations without the relevant experience —— mis—briefed. it said that he was speaking to the russian ambassador, but when you speak to an embassy such as that, most of these calls are being overheard by security services anyway. that is a known fact. why would you have these conversations? there is a sense of na ivete conversations? there is a sense of naivete and something that now we are looking at more reasoning into to build up a conversation about how thi

from moscow, it is not such a territorial grab of ukraine. whether it was during the soviet were time of the 1920's now in the early 2000's, it is and informational war. it is traction as to what you can get out there for the people to believe and at the same time toas much of the unfortunate various societies as possible. ,o it is a matter of principle a matter of democratic principles versus it is a matter of authoritarianism, dictatorship, and how you wield power. now, it is quite interesting that the soviets denied the holodomor for the longest of times. they denied it until the mid-1980's when we in the greater ukrainian the aspera porated speaking -- dias started speaking more about it. there was traction associated with it. members of congress, president of the united states issued there's take meds about the holodomor. a culminated in 2008 with a statement by george w. bush that set the holodomor was a crime against humanity. denied it forhave so long and only after a lot of the information started trickling out after the dissolution

let's go live to moscow and bring in correspondent matthew chance. matthew, just yesterday you were on with us and russia did not admit sanctions were discussed in the phone call. that phone call is the reason michael flynn resigned. >> reporter: it is embarrassing for the kremlin. a few minutes ago, they again said do you admit these conversations took place about sanctions. they were like, we will remember you back to the multiple statements we made in the past. all of which were categorical deniali denials. after the resignation of michael flynn that sanctions were not discussed and the russian ambassador to the united states sergei kislyak. the problems with having a u.s. president who is so apparently sympathetic toward the russian view of the world. the political enemies of donald trump in the democratic party and republicans made it clear they will use the apparent sympathies of donald trump toward the kremlin and those around him to undermine his presidency. michael flynn is a victim of that. here is the real concern in russia. what is the re

i mean, take the view from moscow. if you know a guy who needs a presidential campaign manager, how about our friend paul. from the russian's point of view, who would be the better choice to run donald trump's campaign? paul manafort made no sense. who's he? from the russian perspective, he'd be the obvious choice. or take carter page. donald trump seemed to pull it out of the hat when he was getting pressure last spring for not having any declared foreign advisers on his team. carter page, i can give you some of the names, that's my foreign policy adviser. from an american perspective, that made no sense. his resume is nonexistent. he was a mid-level oil industry consultant who had spent some time in moscow. one american executive with experience in russia told politico, quote, you'd have to dip really far and wide to find a guy like carter page. i mean, wow. but from a russian perspective, i mean, here's how carter page is described by a spokesman for the russian state oil company. "he's an extremely well-informed au

how moscow is targeting other elections, this time in europe, trying to boost far right candidates there. >> painful legacy. the name on a building evokes slavery and caused protests and now yale university finally agrees to a name change joining others that have done the same. >>> and dinner with friends. it all began with a chance meeting, a shared concern and a photograph. how two families, one jewish, one muslim, quickly found common ground. "nightly news" begins now. test. test. test. test. test. test. >> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with kate snow. good evening, in 18 cities across mexico today thousands joined demonstrations against president trump's policies, the largest gathering in mexico city. those who joined the anti-trump rally cited the president's continued calls for a border wall and promises to dismantle nafta as cat lifts for their action. it all comes as the white house is considering how to move forward on its immigration policy after losing in court last week. we begin tonight with kelly o'donnell in florida. >> reporter:

rumer, do you still have family in moscow? guest: i do not. the russian think people consider themselves to be a super power? think the russian on that, i ivided think they certainly remember based on what we've seen and support for putin's policies, they remember the legacy and they do think russia is a great think they certainly remember based on what power. they appreciate mr. putin's legacy of hat it.atness as he interprets so the answer is yes. essay we've been last 20 to the minutes, to read the full article along with his colleagues available on the last 20 endowment website at minutes, to read the full article along with his colleagues carnegieendowment.org. george, clarksville, tennessee, good morning, republican line. caller: good morning. in i was wondering, i know the past may have had something to do with something, but what religion play in these day?iety carnegieendowment.org. george, you.k guest: very interesting question. urge you to read a ecent essay by professor gregory frees great expert on russian church, available free o

and when he had that dinner seated next to putin in moscow? he went on a paid speaking engagement, if you will. >> wolf, these are all things we've got to get to the bottom of, and that's one of the reasons why we already have asked the fbi, the cia, director of national intelligence, the nsa, to give us all the relevant information. we've got a team looking through that information right now, but virtually every day we hear new information, we hear new facts that come to light. we've got to get to the bottom of this as quickly as we can, and let me guarantee the american public, we're going to make as much of this public as possible because the american public deserves to have these answers. >> flynn, himself, insists he crossed no lines. today the white house press secretary sean spicer said general flynn did not do anything wrong and that he was well within his duties to have these kinds of conversations. does that concern you that the white house seems to be more focused right now on leaks to the news media than the actions of flynn? >> le

how is that being received there in moscow? >> yeah. we can add to that the comments made by sean spicer. a few days ago about crimea and president trump himself tweeting a few days ago that crimea was taken by russia and whether it was too soft on moscow. i mean, this kind of rhetoric coming from the trump white house is not what the russians expected from the man they thought was going to thaw the relationship between the united states and russia. he spoke, as elise was just saying, spoke about criticizing nato and working with russia in terms of fighting international terrorism and cooperating militarily in syria. he's spoken about the sanctions as well and the russian impression was that, or the russian belief and hope is that this would be the start of a new era in relations between washington and moscow, but obviously, there are political issues back in the united states. the issue of russia is and the connections with the trump administration with the kremlin. he's looming over american politics. and it's become apparent to the r

you are tuned in to radio moscow, 25 meter bands on the shortwave and the medium, 216.16 meters. associated press dispatch tells us that an american saber debt accidentally dropped some rockets over florida. the population has been alerted and the city has been warned of danger. this brought to mind a secret report from the medical assistant to the secretary of defense. this made me doubt that the rocket fall was the result of an accident. this report gives us every report for questioning accidents in general. the claims that approximately 70% of the officers are socko -- psycho neurotic. critical of affairs is among the people doing nuclear patrols. >> and what about the united states navy and marine corps? >> i have a copy here of the soviet newspaper that was published. may 18 this year. it speaks about what is going on in the mediterranean. it says, referring to the united states, over lebanon hangs the real threat of military intervention by the imperialist states led by the united states, the american command has doubled the landing forces attached to the sixth fleet street

it was a totally d ea d with moscow or anyone else. it was a totally dead station. this is not something you see in movies where it gets solved instantly by some brainy chap. it took about six hours. we used the spacecraft and fired the jet to stop the space station tumbling and rolling. and then, wonderfully, we came into sunlight after this. and all of a sudden the fa ns started after this. and all of a sudden the fans started to come on, and the lights came on, and i said, we have done it. however? however, for the next month the station was inoperable in the normal sense, it could sustain our lives and nothing else. when finally the shuttle came in october i was really quite happy to see them. and as we backed away from the mir station i looked at it and thought, i don't really mind if i don't ever see that again! nasa astronaut ' "’ ’ i don't ever see that again! nasa astronaut’ ' "’ ’ in december shocked 1999 boris yeltsin shocked russia and the worlds by announcing his resignation on new year's eve. he played a key role in bringing down the soviet u

finally, reagan commits to come to moscow. initially, the idea was that reagan would come to moscow to sign the start treaty. that did not work because the inf ratification in washington took much longer and was much more difficult for the ray dan administration to achieve. but they decided to have the summit anyway. reagan comes to moscow and according to reagan, it was his favorite summit. even though he felt not much of the substance was achieved, in terms of human factor, the summit was a success. again, they discussed regional issues, they discussed human rights. they negotiated on stark but both of them already underthat it would not be signed. reagan achieved issues, he achieved things that were very important for him. those things were in the sphere of humanitarian issues. the summit that accomplished more than any other of human rights. during the summit, reagan met with regulation leligious leade to visit a monastery in moscow, where he had conversations with monks. he also met with dissidents. he and measures of his

the situation was monitored from moscow. and, right after you read some of those, there is a good page and a half that is redacted. possibly even more. is funny and maybe we will get it in questions, but i want to wrap up. this is an example of declassification, not usually provided by the national archive. aring my research, i did freedom of information act request about able archer. they said we have 83 document and we will give you one of them. the one they gave me was this one, a printout of the wikipedia article that was processed and declassified. ihe punch in the gut was the spent a lot of time actually editing the article. this so upset and angry by that i was more determined to file the foia's, and work my way up to ice cap which ultimately got this document released. it was a blessing in disguise. up andht, so, wrapping then we can talk about other things in discussion. the danger of able archer 83, according to all the information we have now, and it went -- ended when a young air force officer in charge of able a

how that's being received in moscow. we have that story ahead. plus a few more of trump's top diplomats head to europe to discuss global security. we'll tell you what that means next. knowing where you stand. it's never been easier. except when it comes to your retirement plan. but at fidelity, we're making retirement planning clearer. and it all starts with getting your fidelity retirement score. in 60 seconds, you'll know where you stand. and together, we'll help you make decisions for your plan... to keep you on track. ♪ time to think of your future it's your retirement. know where you stand. >>> welcome back, everyone. donald trump lashing out at the media on thursday during a marathon news conference. >> that's right. the u.s. president denied he was ranting but spoke for 24 minutes before taking any questions. he used most of his time to air his grievances, especially about, well, you guessed it, the media. take a listen. >> now, they'll take this news conference -- i'm actually having a very good time. okay? they'll take this news confer

they call together and have big meetings in moscow. going back here just for a minute for exchanges the soviet union put on one stunt last summer in which they spent more money than the entire united states government does on all of the information and cultural relations work for one year. for one month the soviet union had 50,000 students from all over the world for the great youth festival we hear about. the 50,000 delegates are gathered in the moscow stadium to hear about the soviet version. the word mere is russian. >> here is the delegation reported to be from the united states. in keeping with the festival's theme they release hundreds of white doves, an age old symbol of peace. delegates during some of the daylight hours. this is the kissing ceremonies. the boys select a girl by throwing a scarf around her. ♪ but it's back to the stadium for the grand propaganda finale. what percentage of the people who attend these festivals are ko communists? >> the best we can calculate of the 50,000 that went to the soviet youth festival l

he said that moscow must prove itself by abiding by international law. the comment comes after president vladimir putin suggested russia is ready to work with the u.s. to eradicate terrorist groups like the islamic state. >> u.s. president donald trump has been overturning the foreign policies of his predecessor, one after another. among the affected countries is ally, australia. and its refugee resettlement deal. and as nhk world's kieran watson reports, that means life is in limbo for hundreds of detained asylum seeeekers. >> a done d deal is h h trump described the 2016 agreement object twitter. an earlier phone call with his australian counterpart had called it into question. the agreemement was signed by t obobama administraration. and it stipulated the u.s. would accept more than 1200 people seeking asylum in australia. the country has strict laws governing who enters and is particularly tough on those who attempt to enter the country illegally. >> since 2013, operation sovereign borders an initiative that began under the prime minister and that i'

-russian relations is inflated expectations in moscow about where the u.s. might be going and its policies and my sense is that the russians believe the united states is coming to its senses having spent a couple decades believing it can remake it in its own image and we have stopped doing things that russia has found objectionable and russia doesn't need to do anything but sit back and watch us change. i think that's a misperception number one, and won't work overtime and the united states shouldn't encourage that by starting out this new administration by taking some unilateral steps that have not been reciprocated on moscow's part, i think we find ourselves in a very bad dynamic if we do that. >> thank you. my question is for george bebeand bebe and takes us back to the excellent question which is still on the floor and questions about the dossier and all of that. i wanted to ask you to give us your judgment as an intelligence professional how this statement by the intelligence communities with all of the caveats you put in but also all of the warnings, c

victor. >> ivan watson there in moscow. ivan, thank you. >>> meanwhile, democrats are finally getting ready to pick a new leader. next week, more than 400 members of the dnc are going to gather in atlanta to select their new claire. democrats are ditching the old playbook and outlining a new strategy to build their party. the base, though, apparently taking matters in their own hands, voicing their concerns in chaotic town halls that we've we've been watching. joining me today, simone anderson. i want to start with you, so far democratic congressman keith ellison from minnesota and former labor secretary tom perez seem to be the front-runners. do you have any indication who they're leaning towards? >> i do not. these dnc voters are a lot like voters in new hampshire they dent like to make their choice until right down to the wire. we really don't know hoot claire will be until voting starts. tom perez came out this week and said he had 180 members i spoke to keith wells' team, they say they have 200. you need 284. there wil

joining me now, former cnn moscow chief jill doherty. as we heard there from that pamela brown report, trump advisers were in frequent communication with russian operatives during the trump campaign. having covered russia for so long, would this be considered normal and routine during a campaign? >> because the reports talk about constant or very frequent, the level of communication and the frequency of it, it does appear not to be your average communication. that's, i think, a red flag. now, what it means is unclear. and this is where it gets really murky. you can have a benign interpretation perhaps, or more benign, which perhaps it was business. some of the people who were in communication, you know, have business interests or in the case of paul manafort, who was the chairman of his campaign for a while, you know, political consultant, who had some type of maybe reason for doing that. but then because we don't know exactly what they were talking about, then you can interpret that in different ways. it can be more, let's say, a darker

they saw him as someone who championed closer ties with moscow and washington. he was known to moscow, he had attended a gala dinner here a couple of years ago and sat at the same table as vladimir putin. i detect not only disappointment in moscow but also a little embarrassment because as late as yesterday the kremlin was continuing to insist that before donald trump stepped into the white house there had been no discussions, no conversations between moscow and washington about sanctions. and today the kremlin‘s comment on all of this was no comment. there will be more on all these developments out of washington and moscow tonight. and we'll have more on all of the latest developments from the trump white house tonight at 7.00pm in our programme 100 days with katty kay in washington and christian fraser in london. inflation has risen to its highest level since june 2014. the rate — as measured by the consumer price index — rose from 1.6 in december to 1.8. the office for national statistics says the increase was driven by higher global oil prices and the

cnn's clare sebastian is live with the latest from moscow. how is moscow reacting, clare? >> reporter: i think with great shock and sadness this morning. this certainly came as a shock to many here. we heard condolences coming from all kinds of quarters. the russian president saying he greatly valued churkin's professionalism and talent. said to be upset. we have seen flowers laid. a book of condolences which the foreign minister sergei lavrov signed. he is expressing his condolence. he was a very good friend vitaly churkin. he was his predecessor to the u.n. i think it is telling as well. the reaction coming in not just from moscow, but churkin's colleagues at the u.n. many he clashed with on certainly foreign policy issues, but garnered their respect. i want to read a tweet from samantha power. devastated by the passing of vitaly churkin. diplomatic maestro and caring man who did all he could to bridge u.s. and russia differences. you will remember it was in december they had a harsh exchange of words over syria. power asking vitaly churkin if he could experience no sham

sir andrew wood, former ambassador to moscow. some views andrew wood, former ambassador to moscow. some views on andrew wood, former ambassador to moscow. some views on the dynamics of the 620 summit today. we still expect president ron to appear at the news conference in the white house. —— president trump. the malaysian authorities have confirmed that the man who died after being poisoned at kuala lumpur airport — is the half—brother of the north korean leader, kim jong—un. three people, two women and a man, are now in custody in connection with his death on monday. from kuala lumpur — our correspondent karishma vaswani reports. it has been three days since the mysterious death of a man is north korean leader kimjong un's half—brother kim jong—nam, travelling on another passport. i think he carries two different identities. probably this is an undercover document. this is an authentic passport. two women, one shown here in police custody, have been arrested so far. officials say one is an indonesian, while the other was carrying a vietnamese passport. a third susp

>> hi, brooke, we are seeing several moves off moscow, one of which is a spy ship is sailing off the coast of delaware, that's design toded to gather intelligence. in addition we're also hearing moscow has deployed a ground based cruise missile that america says it is in violation of the inf treaty from 1987 and learning that russian war planes came within 1,000 yards this the black sea, so we are seeing these moves occurring almost within a matter of days and so something definitely that the pentagon is taking note of. >> we just heard crickets, but what is the official line? >> you know, it's approaching midnight here, so we're going to be looking out and trying to get reaction from the russian government on these reports that are clearly coming from the pentagon trying to confirm them o or get any further details, i can presume in international waters, they'll say it's international waters so allowed to be there, i can't imagine what the response will be about the allegations of a new kind of cruise missile that may be banned. of course we'll be asking about that. we go to past ru

witness went to moscow to meet his widow. in the heady days of 1990 and early 1991, he was the adored leader of a protest movement unknown since the bolshevik revolution. but if russians like that, they didn't like what came next. first the breakup of the soviet union, engineered partly by yeltsin, then a crash course in capitalism that broke the chains of the centrally planned economy. scenes like this at one of moscow's charity canteens today are simply humiliating for most russians, who remember the days when the soviet union itself gave aid to the third world. yeltsin faced a rebellion from his own former powerbase, the russian parliament. his reply, to bombard it into submission. remarkably boris yeltsin clung on to defeat the communists and win a second term in office, but there was a price to be paid. his health collapsed. i want to ask for your forgiveness. because many of our dreams did not come to pass. because what had seemed simple turned out to be terribly hard. i ask forgiveness for not fulfilling some of the ho