to me to the murdoch solve wrote an editorial in which he claims one of his journalists surrogate sokoloffwas taken to woods in moscow on the orders of alexander mistaken who's the chairman of the investigative committee and whilst in those woods the journalists life was threatened the editorial says that this stems from an opinion piece written by sokoloff in which he made a series of very serious allegations against us that he can accusing him of having links with organized crime in russia's south now this resulted in a a heated confrontation between us to beacon in the sokoloff which ended with circle of issuing a formal apology but all of that contained in this editorial which has been deemed quite inflammatory here in russia. the harsh accusation has been no matter how you look at it how did the top investigator reacted to them. well but still he can has denied all these allegations out of hand he says that. well if no vegas yes's editorial is to be believed then these events happened over a week ago why did the newspaper sit on this information and not publish sooner now he accuses t

says that one of his journalist surrogates sokoloff was abducted on the olders of alexander of a strike in the chairman of the investigative committee here in russia taken to woods in moscow and where his life was threatened now these events are supposed to have taken place a few weeks ago it all stems but to an opinion piece that was written by sokolov in which he made a series of very serious allegations against us that i can as well as other senior figures in russia for what she later apologized now sokoloff has since left the country. has yet to says it's the journalist safety as all that the newspaper care about and they aren't on any kind of witch hunt against the investigative committee all of us that i can. look at this we might have certain proof but you've got to understand we want our journalist safety to be assured not distracting to be fired that's why my letter isn't confrontational that's why it doesn't contain all the things the side call each other in this letter we say you have threatened the life of our employees it may well be because of emotions due to stress but we

this was followed up by a public confrontation between the two in russia's south following which sokoloff issued a formal apology now the journalist has left russia and his editors says that cycle of safety is the only concern of the newspaper and that maybe it is yet it is not on a witch hunt. or that we might have certain proof but you've got to understand we want our journalists safety to be assured not distracting to be fired that's why my letter isn't confrontational that's why it doesn't contain all the things the side call each other in this letter we say you have threatened the life of our employee well the editorial prompted protests by journalists outside the headquarters of the investigative committee those journalists saying that they will stand by the newspaper under its journalists whatever the outcome from these allegations now as it stands no formal charges being brought against the investigative committee or its chairman alexander striken we've also heard you know this statement from the investigative committee regarding these allegations the investigative committee was e

you have to understand once they get cycle of safety to be assured not just leaking to be fired is sokoloff is able to come home and work here will be happy with that i can say what kind of reaction this letter will provoke i wrote a letter that was friendly and non-confrontational it offers plenty of ways to defuse this conflict everyone's asking me how will the authorities react to this letter but i will tell you frankly it's the society's reaction that's a lot more important to me who did not expect such enormous overwhelming support from our colleagues. much more on line if you would r.t. dot com right now including this the risks of using your mobile phone exposes a dangerous dating application gets taken down. as it's an economy slides neo nazi rhetoric gains ground in greece with extreme or right issue an issue with the extreme right issuing threats against immigrants you can find all the details and money more at our team. we can leaks founder julian assange again is a again awaiting a decision from britain's supreme court over his request to reopen his extradition case he's wanted