where in collaboration with conspiracy could capitalize on access provided by kaspersky products to compromise federal information and information systems directly implicates u.s. national security now kaspersky laboratory responded to these allegations saying the company has never helped nor will help any government in the world with its cyber espionage or offensive cyber efforts kaspersky laboratory considers itself to be a cyber company a software corporation it's not involved in government activities espionage anything to that effect now at this point it is quite interesting to see that these allegations have been leveled against kaspersky laboratory where the cia specifically had a program designed to leave false digital fingerprints and make it look like software and malware activities were being done by kaspersky laboratories so a lot of questions are being raised people that browse the internet using software and malware may wonder now when they use such programs are they using programs that

have been released and designed by the cia or is it actually kaspersky laboratories it's unclear as we see this program has been utilized by the cia to give false digital fingerprints was mentioned there is a new series of wiki leaks publications on a huge tranche of leaked cia files that details some of the revelations in the previous seven which revealed the agency had its own explosive vulnerabilities in phones and t.v.'s and the ability to bypass encrypt sion or messaging apps but seven also featured a cia division called bridge which created a library of hacking techniques that have been stolen from other countries in schools and how to to to the skies and make it seem like could have been created by somebody who spoke a language other than english those languages including arabic chinese russian korean and farsi that would make it more difficult to attribute a cyber attack to the cia. can i bring in former cia officer ray

mcgovern joins me on the line if this is a claim i should add at this point of the wiki leaks up group pretty reliable in the past if the claim is true why would the cia be using to space lab in particular risk of i wonder why. you know the claim is true these are cia documents julian a scientist made that specifically clear and the cia has not disavowed the fact that they are original pristine pure documents as usual with wiki leaks. and this comes after. a program called marble which was. released by the cia and announced by julie innocence on the thirty first of march i was sitting in this chair and i was asked what what did that too and i said well that enables the cia to hack into

a computer or network and up flew skate is the word in the cia document obfuscate fancy word for conceal who hacked in and then leave little traces laken who in cyrillic or the name of the first head of the soviet secret police just to show that there might be the russians so what i'm seeing here here is that hive is part of that part part of that same exposure and the supreme irony of course is that kaspersky lives has been disclaiming any involvement in any of this russian hacking and the evidence such as it is suggests to me as an intelligence analyst connecting dots the conspiracy may not even know it was the cia that has put in the damaging information which indicated supposedly that kaspersky was doing something on toad it's it's an amazing story for an

intelligence analyst you know we're taught to connect dots but even when this marble framework tool was announced by julian assigned even though the soviet so the russians now have been accused of hacking into various systems noah no one has ever put that revelation together with the so-called russian hacker the d.n.c. emails and said oh wow it might be the russians now because spare ski labs is in the same situation it seems if you. if you look at all of the wiki leaks put them together this quote it is sort of damning case now against the cia in terms of just how far they are extending themselves mimicking companies mimicking countries with the digital fingerprints would you anticipate any kind of international reaction to this well let me just say that the reaction so far has been very minimal why because mobile framework for example

has not appeared the new york times now we're talking about a bevy of documents that yulian a science advertised in early march as being more comprehensive and more damning than all the material that snowden brought out that's something ok we only have about four or five releases if that's so for one indicated that one of the cyber tools that the cia developed enables people to take over the control of your car and make it go hundred miles an hour another allows you to use a t.v. to listen to the conversations or you know bedroom the third one marble was the one that said you could hack into a network or a computer system and disguise who did it and leave telltale signs like like cyrillic to indicate who might have done it so if it's kept out of the new york times and if people like me who try to add allies things and maybe put some dots

together are kept out of the media the american people have blissfully unaware now there are people which archie to their credit they'll know about this they can evaluate my remarks for what they are but they come from fifty five years of watching soviet and then russian leaders very very closely. and i'm just checking the western news outlets and nobody seems to be saying anything about the story so we have a cyclone that you've come on to wanting to shed some light on it because i think it is an important and a really interesting story ray mcgovern former cia officer my guess. now the u.s. is trying to sow divisions in russia ahead of march's presidential election that's according to vladimir putin he added that it comes as retaliation for moscow's alleged hacking and right now it's sport that's in the crosshairs. question for them. there are serious concerns that in response to a perceived meddling in the u.s. election they want to cause problems during the presidential election in russia

during the olympic games due to be held in february when is the presidential election in march here are concerns that someone says so discontent among sports fans and the athletes that the government is somehow responsible for the violations . so the statement actually came when putin was asked about fresh waves of doping allegations against russian athletes on thursday for example we had the results from four russian skiers an old who participated in the sochi olympics and they were banned for life from the games and that's a repeat of exactly what we saw last week when two other russian skiers were also accused of violating doping rules now the accusations continue to flow and are all centered around the idea that this was a state sponsored scheme now something that something that moscow has of course repeatedly denied including putin himself the key allegations behind the idea that this doping was state sponsored revolve around the idea that the samples from the russian athletes were in fact tampered with however putin highlighted the fact that

when those samples were sent off just after the sochi olympics when they were sent to a lab in switzerland they were received and no complaints were leveled at the time was that i did go to the switch just a few months following the sochi olympics acting on the instructions of the i.o.c. we handed over all those samples to elysium laboratory which is essentially under what is controlled so there were no complaints whatsoever on receiving those samples so the samples had been stored there for two or three years and only then did questions arise that the vials might have been opened or simply been doing with the samples has been scratching no biting them there so the fact that these accusations are emerging again right now isn't a coincidence in the present is given that the presidential election is just over one hundred days away and that starts just one month after the big. i think of the winter games so that's essentially sort of encouraging a really tense climate in the run up to the election ok so where does the united

states come into this well putin sees this as an answer by the u.s. for the allegations that russia interfered in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election sort of an eye for an eye reaction and that's made possible by the fact that the i.o.c. the international olympic committee is highly dependent on sponsors and those buying ads and of course the bulk of that cash is in fact coming from the u.s. according to putin who also under that with calling for improvement to the anti-doping system in the sports world world clearly he sees a number of inconsistency is there. sports not the only field where russia is under pressure the u.s. justice department has ordered r.t. america to register as a foreign agent by monday and if the broadcaster fails to do so as bank accounts could be frozen the controversial legislation was adopted more than seventy years ago before world war two to counter a nazi propaganda in america the russian embassy in the u.s. said in a facebook post the measures against russian media could be in breach of international

press freedom principles post pressure put on russian media shows that the us keeps moving along the path of deliberate worsening of relations between russia and america and we see the latest demands as an effort to quote of alternative information and then acceptable breach of international principles of the freedom of the press we coolin organizations which monitor the situation in the us with regard to media to react accordingly it will be interesting to see how the reacts we expect an appropriate to six months of the situation from the unesco goodwill ambassador for freedom of expression and journalist safety christiane amanpour. and pressure on the russian media doesn't end there u.s. lawmakers are now considering a bill proposing cable and satellite providers not be required to carry video content that somehow link to the kremlin that would mean providers could decide for themselves whether or not to show such content and what's important to note here is that that belief yet to be approved or russia has promised

a similar response from some top politicians proposing a tit for tat move if the bill is adopted journalist and writer neil clark believes the pressure on the russian media is because of his recent success. well this is absolutely outrageous i think we could quit mcafee's and it really is mccarthyism on steroids now and it's a significant escalation in this cold war launched by the us against russian media r.t. as a growing audience share in america around the world in r.t. puts a different narrative out to the war party narrative on issues like the syrian conflict for example so i think the war mongers in the us are very angry that artie's been so successful and i think it would be wholly wrong for the head of r.t. america to actually comply with this and to and to say that he's a foreign agent or to a foreign agent to be wholly wrong or i think the response to this should be to carry on i also think it might be a good idea for the russians to say that if this goes ahead from monday all american journalists who work for c.n.n. have to register as foreign agents in russia or they'll be arrested you can play

this game. french president emanuel micron has effectively called the iran nuclear deal into question saying that it needs revising the sure the dubiously reports well emanuel might go on has been speaking in dubai on thursday where he's been talking about the future of the rayney a nuclear deal that was agreed back in twenty fifteen describing that deal as being insufficient for the future this is what he had to say in a situation the situation we're facing now this agreement of twenty fifteen is no longer sufficient he should not be reconsidered or eliminated but it should be completed with necessary point. well mr mccollum went on to say that he wanted to remain with the arrangements in regards to its business stick a missile program and its influence in the middle east talking about the fact that there was no other option other than the two thousand and fifteen deal even if it

may not be the best deal of bailable not seen to relation to what we've been hearing from the u.s. from donald trump over the last few months.