i don't think. that. the west lashes out against the alleged activities of the russian intelligence service the united states and the netherlands accuse the g.r.u. of cyber. as america holds its breath awaiting the outcome in the cabin or case the supreme court nominee accused of sexual misconduct we look at an unexpected effect the scandal could have on the looming midterm elections. baseless claims hypocritical bodies abuse to show i'm just prosecution damages the cause of human rights. the latest in a series of u.s. withdrawals from international justice commitments seized washington take measures

to protect itself from being sued at the un's top court. for joining us this evening this is our international. the united states and the united kingdom have accused russia's g.r.u. military intelligence service of a string of cyber attacks on everyone from the international chemical weapons watchdog through to russia's own news agency and it didn't take long for the e.u. and nato to join the chorus of collapse. there were hundreds of victims targeted by these russian criminals the russian government needs to know russia's indiscriminate campaign exposed by wants to fully condemn this of this reckless. behavior irresponsible behavior from moscow. ok let's go

stateside now of course mckillop more pin has been following this story for as easy new york just take us through that a bit more about the claims in detail and tell us about the evidence if there's any so we've got the department of justice of the united states charging seven russians now the crimes listed are hacking money laundering wire fraud and identity theft and it's being alleged in the indictment that not only did they commit these crimes but they did it on behalf of russia's g.r.u. let's take a listen real quick to the indictment the seven defendants are charged with the pervasive campaign of hacking stealing private and sensitive information and publicizing that information to retaliate against russia's detractors and sway public opinion in russia's favor. now the allegations go on to say that essentially they began to hacking individuals in response to them

calling for russia's athletes to be banned from the olympics after the doping scandal it's alleged that they took information and publicized on the internet that u.s. tennis stars serina and venus williams had been using prohibited medicine and the same thing about olympic champion simone biles now it's also been alleged that they targeted a nuclear power nuclear energy company in pennsylvania now three of the people lifted listed in the indictment seven total but three out of those seven had actually been named in previous indictments from the u.s. department of justice as a result of the bob muller investigation so these are individuals three of them who've been named previously but yes we haven't seen any evidence yet this is simply an indictment being handed down by the u.s. department of justice no evidence yet presented but this is what the text alleges many thanks for example to speak in new york. just mentioned the united states has

indicted seven people four of them were expelled from the netherlands according to this morning's hearing on these police boyd has more on the findings of the dutch and u.k. investigations these are four russians that were recently expelled from the netherlands for attempting to hijack the o.p.c. w. in april while it was dealing with the investigation into the poisoning of sag a and. they released images of these four suspects in the netherlands that diplomatic possible and at the very same briefing in briefing in the hague the british ambassador to the netherlands a key used to g.r.u. of attempting to hijack porton down which is the u.k. the military. here in the u.k. and the u.k. foreign office in the wake of the screen power case descript. boy's name and they accused g.r.u. agents of attempting to hijack the investigation into the downing of flight m.h.

seventeen as well that's a lot of allegations for one day but it doesn't stop there take a listen to what the british defense secretary gavin williamson had to say about moscow this is no reaction to the great. actions of the pariah state and we'll continue working with our allies to isolate them and make them understand they cannot continue to themselves in such a way why is he calling russia or a pariah state well because the british government released a statement overnight accusing the g.r.u. of being responsible for the hijacking of wider that the world anti-doping agency in the wake of the russian doping scandal they've accused g.r.u. agents of being behind the hype on the d n c that is those clinton e-mails that we did in the run up to the election of donald trump over in the u.s. and they also accused russian spies of hacking ukrainian and russian institutions

and businesses russia's foreign ministry cell phones a person there is a harvest spoke a little bit earlier on today and she asked she was asked about these british accusations the dutch and the american ones haven't come to light yet and she said that all the accusations against russia in recent months have been conflated take a listen to what she had to say because going to a board everything is being mixed indiscriminately as if in a bottle of mineral rich a perfume russian military intelligence cyber spies kremlin hackers it's all just one big witches brew the imagination of our british colleagues knows no limits who could come up with all this i'd like to take a look at this hans christian andersen and one more thing is that the dutch government has also called in the top diplomat in the netherlands that shaft is jeff fair into the dutch foreign ministry in order to discuss the cyber attacks.

we spoke to russia's envoy in the u.k. he says from the british side the evidence is the lacking we believe that this kind of statement reckless and explain why first of all this statements are not supported by any evidence this is first second we hear this kind of of the gay sions for quite a now quite a time and in this to sell than seventeen for a former foreign secretary boris johnson was in moscow. of russian foreign minister offered him to have a consultations on the server security and he said that if you have any questions in connection with the alleged russian activity we can put this specialist from two countries sit down on the table and to discuss professionally what are the concerns of the british so the british refused to do this and instead of that they launched

reckless attacks on us without any evidence this is quite a big story you know this is the name of the russian intelligence organisation you know if you names there are expelled in all these things but the beef i mean this is this substance is not. basically given so we're going to ask the british side to give more information on that and we're going to repeat our call if you have some information please share this information and we are ready to sit down and talk. former british intelligence officer and he mush on joins me on the line now very good evening to. we bring you on often to try and analyze situations like this where there are accusations against russia particularly terms of in intelligence we've had accusations here from three different countries what's your initial response to the information provided in the claims the been made. my

nature response would be i'd be very surprised if russian intelligence weren't trying to get their hands on this sort of information bearing in mind that under the terms of the chemical weapons convention which russia signed up to and which. basically says at the end of twenty seventeen russia had got rid of all its weapons of mass destruction nuclear where we have a situation where actually if such an attack it happened they should be given access to the investigation within two weeks they should be included in the o.p.c. w. investigation and they weren't they were specifically excluded as we saw the same thing as well with the mh seventeen is hacked so you know being absolutely excluded from an investigation where they could have provided professional and specialized information and expertise of course they're going to want to find out what is going on so in terms of. the british particularly pointing fingers at russian intelligence and saying this is terrible how dare you try and get information

secretly i just find that absolutely breathtakingly hypocritical because that's exactly what british spies do is exactly what all our spies do that's what they're paid to do and yet there seems to be this sort of double standard at the moment that we in the west are allowed to do this we in the west can set up new cyber attack centers which was only announced a couple weeks ago newquay but the russians are not allowed to do this now why not do you think we'll actually see i may have missed it but do you think we will see hard evidence to prove guilt or is it going to be one of those situations where government organizations say well we got show you that evidence because it would reveal how we gathered it and so it will hurt others. i think that will be the inevitable response yes the fact that these alleged four g.r.u. experts who were intercepted in the netherlands and were shipped back immediately no charges presented no big fanfare back in april at the time when you know you

think they want to try to make a big deal about it speaks volumes but it's interesting that all this is coming out today about the russians and yet you know go back five years we had edward snowden and his disclosures about all the aggressive attacks the west was perpetrating across europe all the aggressive attacks the britain was perpetrating against e.u. allies and wider as well i mean only last month as well we had the people involved in the brits in negotiations here in brussels accusing the britons of hacking the negotiations the spies hacking the negotiations for advantage and in fact i said at the time that's precisely what british this should be doing in the economic interests of britain so this is what all our spies do this is what they're paid to do and sometimes they get caught and sometimes political hay can be made of it but this is also as well just one final push on not only today in the guardian newspaper in the u.k. we have a report about the industry powers tribe you know which actually holds the british spies to account wiccans are more relaxed now because of the democratic party's

continuous efforts to destroy supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh who was accused of sexual assault then democrats immediately took his wife's side and trump hammered at democrats for this at his a rally in west virginia let's take a look. you see what's going on you see this horrible horrible radical group of democrats you see it happening right now they don't. have to run over in order to get power. and some have even noted that all conservatives not just republicans are taking kavanagh's side saying that this liberal scandal has united the right against a democrat so was have to wait and see for now but in november if these predictions do come true may thanks american with the latest from washington. president putin has touched down in india where broadening nuclear ties between the countries are

likely to be a key focus that story coming up. i've been saying the numbers. they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten times champion. eighty five percent of global wealth to the rich the weak six percent markets thirty percent. some with four hundred to five hundred per circuit. and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars ai

industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember one show for the mid one and only. welcome back president for putin has arrived in india for a two day visit it's expected putin and the indian prime minister narendra modi will discuss a broadening nuclear ties with russia bidding to build another nuclear power plant in the country in addition to the one already under construction moreover the two leaders are to sign a multi-billion dollar contract for the delivery of the russian s four hundred

defense system though the prospect of india purchasing it has ruffled feathers in washington just as it did with some other countries. explains why. for russia selling its weapons is not exactly business as usual in the strict sense of the word has inadvertently. bounded into the realm of geopolitics because the united states gets visibly upset when anyone shows interest in buying brushes oms even made it official that preventing russia from exporting its weapons is part of their game we will continue to vigorously implement sanctions and all countries to curtail relationships with russia's defense and intelligence sectors both of which are linked to malign activities worldwide retribution for disobedience was swift with china it recently bought some of russia's most advanced fighter jets and anti-missile defense systems and washington through beijing in the same basket with moscow slapping it would stop iran's economy. we'll reaction to the latest u.s.

news from several political experts this is the another example of the united states talking about the rules based democratic order and expecting everyone else to follow it but when it comes time for the united states to follow what you know they just simply change the rules and i'm certainly not a fan of the united states being governed by world bodies unaccountable world bodies but the issue with them with the palestine issue and also with the iran issue is that and iran specifically you know we signed this agreement in nine hundred fifty five agreed to be adjudicated by the international court of justice and then when they rule against united states we say ok we're going to take our toys and go home it doesn't look good it sets a bad precedent in it also makes the united states to look like look like someone you can't do business with overseas the u.s. warrant to lay sanctions idea i.c.c. as well as a prosecution of its judges would be under way by the u.s. actually because the u.s. believes that it's an exceptional state president trump is

a real manifestation of this wrong idea that the u.s. is exceptional all other nations should abide by the rules and regulations except for the united states so therefore the u.s. is adamant to the rule of the law it has proved to be an irresponsible actor. now brings you right up to date with today's news i'll be back with the latest in just over half an hour. the stock market trading at all time highs the debt load everywhere as we head to two hundred fifty three hundred fifty five hundred percent debt to g.d.p. this is the planet on the verge of a major way to mommy just. don't accept the slow drop as the oldest was ready to do a little bit of. its. movies

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welcome to the alex salmond show latest programme on how it is overshadowing the poppy conference season last week labor seem to shift towards a people's vote while this week the tories split between tilly's amazed checkers minus and bought us johnson's kind of the plus consider then the s.n.p. who have not one but two referenda to grapple with whether to support another one in europe while promoting another one of scottish independence all of this while support for the independence of maine's a very high level and crucially the activist base as measured by the time night at rallies seems much more mobilized even than twenty fourteen. today we asked some of

the key players how the s.n.p. should approach breaks it either as an opportunity to promote independence or as an economic disaster to be avoided at all costs the far still with that this mena view tweet should e-mails and your messages. now we've had a great if not in some cases surprised response to alex's interview with it being a copy last week all the granny says i've just caught up with this episode and have to say that i'm amazed i've agreed with edwina currie on many points although i loath such are courteous head and shoulders above the current stories checa says most politicians give me high blood pressure will i know how you feel but today in your shoes simple honest facts were offered with civility during the eggs epidemic i was busy at work but today got the answers for me to be no cattle says i tip your shoe weekly and enjoy this one so much i'll watch again tonight and i can post a study her over the top but fascinating peacock deck or more closely magically has

measures back herself to explain our decorating says this isn't our jungle room mads batty place paid for by the proceeds of twenty fourteen i'm a celebrity which of course it we know was said which we keep she says for entertaining and special occasions hence it on the grill or no i don't mean alec summons it we nods janet to sticks about alex's interview style says alex is counting on us the audience to use our own minds to decide what to think of these people and what they have to see he respects our intelligence that's the i love phish show i thank you for watching janet jamie says that was such a good show can't wait for the next one so i hope you're watching this episode and finally paul says an open and honest interview from authority for the change well now back to backs it and we're delighted to be joined by alex neo member of the scottish parliament for eritrean shorts he voted for brixton the twenty sixteen referendum on the u.k.'s membership of the i mean you still think the spray bullets are brave leave your appeal issue in this broader sense is

a big opportunity to push forward the independence cause absolutely so no one stray from in the independence of the european union particularly the prison bruce who actually used the power in the influence of the european union for them to do. in the who exactly are the who case for a scottish independence if you have breaks it you do it how flood of semen catalonia as well just put the real attitude is of the e.u. leadership towards any country with a steed wanting independence i mean the we in which they backed up the spanish government for its illegally devotee i think is not a good omen for the e.u. been put to only pru independence or even stay neutral so your policy with.