wiki leaks says that the cia wrote code to impersonate russia's kaspersky lab antivirus program. you know putin says the united states is attempting to create problems around next year's presidential election in russia in response to the

siege meddling last year. the u.s. justice department demands that r.t. america register as a foreign agent by monday the channel's bank accounts could be frozen if it doesn't comply. and saudi arabia and kuwait of ordered their citizens out of lebanon immediately after the resignation of the sound of banks the lebanese prime minister. neil harvey this is r.t. internet. wiki leaks claims that the cia has created a computer program that impersonates the software of russian antivirus companies kaspersky lab with details his kelly morgan. we now have a new batch of documents from wiki leaks that give insight into how the cia

operates on a daily basis collecting information now one of the revelations in the new batch of documents shows that the cia has a program for imitating kaspersky laboratory a well known russian software company conspiracy laboratory has been at the center of some scandal recently we had u.s. authorities essentially barring any government agency from using their products saying that they present a risk to homeland security a recent report from the wall street journal accused kaspersky laboratory of essentially stealing government information and secrets with its malware software from the us an essay national security agency we actually had a statement from the u.s. homeland security secretary regarding kaspersky laboratory the risk that the russian government by their action on its own 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 because the 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. because kelly mentioned eighty's a new series of wiki leaks publications on a huge tranche of lead to cia files and details some of the revelations in the previous batch called vault seven which revealed that the agency had its own malware exploited vulnerabilities in phones and t.v.'s and had the ability to bypass encrypt ssion on 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 the agency also had a tool to disguise its mar wear and make it seem like it had been created by somebody speaking a language other than english those languages included arabic chinese russian korean and farsi and that would make it more difficult to attribute a cyber attack to the cia we've spoken to a former cia officer who finds it amazing nobody has spotted a connection between the russian hacking allegations and the agency's acting tool.

it's an amazing story for an intelligence analyst you know we're talk to connect dots but even when this more bull framework tool was announced by julian no signs even though the soviet so the russians now have been accused of hacking into various systems no no one has ever put that revelation together with the so-called russian hacker the d n c emails and so all while it might be the russians now because labs is in the same situation. united states is trying to sow divisions in russia ahead of munchies presidential election that is according to putin who added that it comes as retaliation for moscow's alleged hacking and right now it's sport this in the process but. 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 are due to be held in february and when it is the presidential election in march there are concerns that someone wants to 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's 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 these three impuls

from the russian athletes. 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 ready to go 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 control so there were no complaints whatsoever on receiving those samples so the samples have been stored there for two or three years and only then did questions arise the voyles 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 beginning 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. sport is 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 its bank accounts could be frozen controversial legislation being used was adopted more than seventy years ago prior to world war two it was to counter nancy propaganda in america the

russian embassy in the us said in a facebook post that the measures against russian media could be in breach of international press freedom principles. pressure put on russian media shows that the us keeps moving along the path of deliberate worsening of relations between russia and america with evil it is demands as an effort to quo a source of alternative information and then an acceptable breach of international principles of the freedom of the press we call in organizations which monitor the situation in the us with regard to media to react accordingly it will be interesting to see how the c.e. reacts we expect an appropriate assistance of the situation from the unesco goodwill ambassador for freedom of expression and journalist safety christiane amanpour. pressure on the russian media doesn't and their u.s. lawmakers are now considering a bill proposing cable and satellite providers not be required to carry video content somehow linked to the kremlin means providers could decide for themselves

whether to show such content or not what's important to note here though is that the belief yet to be approved. and russia has promised a similar response with some top politicians proposing a tit for tat move if the bill gets adopted journalist the writer neil clogg believes the pressure on the russian media is down to its recent success. sure this is absolutely outrageous i think we could quit mcafee's and it really is mccarthyism on steroids now it's a signal from the 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 that from monday all american journalists who work for c.n.n. have to register as foreign agents in russia or they'll be arrested to complain this. president emanuel micron has effectively called the iran nuclear deal into question saying that it needs revising the dubin scheme has more well emanuel might go on has been speaking in dubai on thursday where he's been talking about the future of the reining in 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 on the situation the situation we face now disagreement 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 firm with the iranians in regards to it's been this 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 the threat posed by around them. it is indeed a threat there's no question about that a red is not living up to the spirit of the deal while donald trump is not the only person who has raised concerns about that agreement back in two thousand and fifteen the saudi foreign minister has also previously stated his concerns iran has not lived up to the terms of that agreement with regards to the behavior that is expected of you in terms of promoting stability in the region and instability and threats and destruction while mr mccollum also warned about not exacerbating

mutual tensions in the area coming off the back of a missile strike on saudi arabia just a few days ago by rebels in yemen mr mccollum saying that that ballistic missile came from a new providence charlotte devinsky r.t. paris. there for c.r.b. political scientist and a former advisor to iran's nuclear negotiation team says that my cornish contradicting his earlier position on the nuclear deal. and mark ron seems to be sliding closer and closer to president and his disastrous a one sided middle east course of action and his public statements are pretty disquieting right now because they're on their not only contradict his the statements category called support for the any a nuclear deal you know at the u.n. just a couple of months ago and so forth you know he seems to be at peace being iran's

right i was in the region maybe trying to be a shrewd serious man of arms to the region as the naval base in the u.a.e. as you know and trying to insert it in their regional security calculus more organically whatever it is i think that their president mccrone is trading in iran. is not really faith was that mediation all that's required to defuse this very potentially dangerous crisis is in the region. friends and relatives are in mourning after a child was discovered among the victims of a collapsed building in central russia a citywide state of emergency has been declared after the tragedy also claimed the lives of four of the two fifteen year olds are among the injured a gas explosion is thought to have been behind the deadly accident relatives warn that residents are still trapped under the rubble witnesses out the chance of survivors can still be heard from below the debris rescue teams are at the scene

and are working around the clock to save those trapped. so the arabia and kuwait of both told their citizens to leave lebanon immediately it comes as lebanon is being rocked by the sudden resignation of its prime minister over the weekend saad hariri who is seen as a politician who is backed by saudi arabia was in riyadh when he made this announcement and as the reason for his resignation he cited reigning in influence in his country. were of iranian prison to plant discord and destruction of interference in our countries in lebanon syria iraq every human what i would like to see which iran and its followers that they would be losers in their. wake up because when we do in the past and they have time from the region. or following is it alice when there's been speculation that saudi arabia might be holding

a really against this well we are denying allegations but the u.s. state department spokesperson cause further confusion at her latest briefing when she seemed to let slip that she might know where. in terms of the conditions of him being held or the conversations between saudi arabia and the prime minister hariri i would have to refer you to the government of saudi arabia and also to mr hariri sophos for some of your visions of him being old is he in detention well. i'm not going to put that word but high up i'm not going to associate that word with that but where he is right now where is he does he have a nice room i was right i don't know personally where he is or if you have heard different reports and i can't confirm where he is but we're hearing right now where did the show me he met him. i don't i don't think i'm submitted to say that but i will double check on that. journalist martin jay thinks that the current crisis in lebanon has been created artificially by saudi arabia there is an agenda to

try and destabilize iran and to and to create some sort of tension in the region and these are the first steps or the saudis of these are some of the fruits or just a given that are hardly any saudis in eleven of the movements but there are a few kuwaitis or quite a few tourists what's the link you might be asking yourself to lebanon well started hariri a lot of people don't know is also a saudi citizen spent most of his life in saudi arabia and is considered to be a sort of. to put it bluntly and so they've pulled mystery over back to saudi arabia in a sort of panic last week a couple times and forced him to resign. as part of a bigger longer term plan to try and destabilize lebanon to shake tire lebanon so as to make a point to hezbollah and to the region that there's a new there's a new guy in town a new leader in saudi arabia who's got

a new agenda to play out there's more to mention saudi arabia is unhappy with the strengthening of hezbollah in lebanon the group sponsored by iran tensions between riyadh and to around a been rising for a while with nineteen concerns that a direct confrontation could break out soon. as the have explained recently barely a day seems to go by without saudi arabia making headlines and it almost always boils down to its arch enemy iran it is a game of chess that spans an entire region on every front in every country the saudis see iran's evil influence. the who's the rebels in yemen who saudi arabia has been bombing for many years fire

a rocket riyadh that the saudis could only describe as a rainy and aggression. iran's role and its direct command of his hooty proxy in this matter constitutes a clear act of aggression the coalition's command considers this a blatant acts of military aggression by the iranian regime and could rise to be considered as an act of war against the kingdom of saudi arabia the saudis also ready to throw that allies under the bus to create an excuse to denigrate iran. q the lebanese prime minister holding a successful meeting with the iranians and then going to saudi arabia and out of the blue without warning declaring his resignation while launching into a tirade about evil raney an influence plunging the region into chaos and

destruction you lose a poor and gain an opening then there's the blockade of cattle. a trade embargo severed ties ultimatums and warnings punishment some say for cata daring to deal with the rain ians and then there's syria the saudi sponsored rebellion is dying the hardest allies losing an aside is winning this isn't what riyadh planned we hope that and expect that during the interim period of the of the transition period that will exit because he has absolutely no role to play in the future here and while syria may have unexpectedly checkmated riyadh here the saudis are ramping up attacks on iran on other fronts truly this is an international game of chess with nations and populations at stake ironic

given that last year saudi arabia has highest islamic cleric battened chess saying that the game causes and mateen and hatred between people and even when played on a giant geopolitical scale well it looks like he was right. russia and syria have come under fire at a closed door meeting of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the meeting followed the findings of an investigation into a deadly sarin gas attack in syria in april it b c w issued a report two weeks ago which concluded a sense government was behind the attack which left more than eighty people dead but also stated the sarin gas used can be traced to government stockpiles earlier i spoke to alexander the russian representative at the o p c w he was at the latest meeting. at least. the dream

report of the seventh report has been established in flagrant disregard to. basic higher standards of the chemical convention united nations security council resolutions and previous decisions by the e.c. executive council it is a bold to respect the chain of custody. at least. headed by mr mueller came to more school. in september i guess if i am not mistaken and we expressed our point of view. givens and defendant definitely we were not quiet and the gym was perfectly informed it was dom's. russia is

not against the extension known or the mandate rob why didn't. he require me. to provided that the june. works in the state compliance with high standards of chemical and. resolutions of the united nations and previous decisions by the executive council. football legends including french superstars in a deans it out and linell mercy have gathered in moscow for the official unveiling of the ball for next year's world cup in russia.

the ball a telstar eighteen will be used in every single game during the upcoming championship is named after the first added ass ball used in the world cup back in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and for the first time in years a brand new panel shape is being used on the ball following months of testing the first one to check the ball for the cameras was one of the world's greatest players a little messy the tournament itself kicks off next june and this was the first time for russia to host the world's biggest football the r.t.c. sports news had this done the armstrong was one of the lucky few to get his hands on the coveted new ball. but here we are in moscow at the official launch of the official russia two thousand and eight so your world cup ball by you this you see

there it says russia two thousand and two for world cup so we know it's official who best present the ball and we you know messi the world's best now what did we and i'm going to say about the ball he said he liked the colors he said you like the way it felt wrong because back to that retro feel that it is trying to get the tickets for the world cup what else to say about it well it's good enough for the world's best it's going up for us see you next year. you marty host stan collymore discussed state of the football symbol with the curator of the fee for world football museum this is in the latest episode of his show the stan collymore show here's a sneak preview the history of this drug free is quite incredible in england it was pickles the dog famous. we found it again going to ninety three. so we saw that quite traumatic history when it was stolen in one thousand nine hundred sixty six it was they tried to get a ransom for what they did was they stole they took off the top that little bit at

the top comes off and that's what they sent to the football association as a runs and like with the with the ransom note luckily it was found a week off the woods so you know but then it was ironic because the brazilian said well that would never happen in our country we value the traitor or not you're here and then the vote was invited i spoke too soon and it was stolen from. me while you are right up to date my colleagues from thomas will be here to be the latest headlines at the top of them.