started asking the question could russia have had a hand in bragg's it and today it was arran banks's turn in the hot seat banks's a millionaire businessman who turned into a political donor and he had funded the u.k. party here in the u.k. for a while and then he funded this big leave dot edu campaign so for a lot of people he's seen as sort of the the person that bankrolled brags and he's sort of styled him himself as the bad boy of brags that he even wrote a book with that name and over the weekend several newspapers splashed these big stories saying that he had quote repeated contact with russian officials in the run up to the referendum but arran banks once he was in that room with that committee today he really batted away those allegations and he was quite the sariel as well he pointed out that the committee was made up exclusively of politicians that had wanted to stay in the european union and he said things like parliament is actually the biggest source of fake news here in britain it is for the history of the pointlessness that you be the guardian reports as we see displaye

started asking the question could russia have had a hand in bragg's it and today it was arran banks's turn in the hot seat banks's a millionaire businessman who turned into a political jonah and he had funded the u.k. party here in the u.k. for a while and then he funded this big leave dot edu campaign so for a lot of people he's seen as sort of the the person that bankrolled brags and he's sort of styled him himself as the bad boy of brags that he even wrote a book with that name and over the weekend several newspapers splashed these big stories saying that he had quote repeated contact with russian officials in the run up to the referendum but arran banks once he was in that room with that committee today he really batted away those allegations and he was quite adversarial as well he pointed out that the committee was made up exclusively of politicians that had wanted to stay in the european union and he said things like parliament is actually the biggest source of state news in britain as for the industry the point is that you be the guardian boards. as we lead misleading headlong

started asking the question could russia have had a hand in bragg's it and today it was arran banks's turn in the hot seat banks's a millionaire businessman who turned into a political jonah and he had funded the u.k. party here in the u.k. for a while and then he funded this big leave dot edu campaign so for a lot of people he's seen as sort of the the person that bankrolled brags that and he's sort of styled him himself as the bad boy of brags that he even wrote a book with that name and over the weekend several newspapers splashed these big stories saying that he had quote repeated contact with russian officials in the run up to the referendum but arran banks once he was in that room with that committee today he really batted away those allegations and he was quite adversarial as well he pointed out that the committee was made up exclusively of politicians that had wanted to stay in the european union and he said things like parliament is actually the biggest source of fake news here in britain this is for history the point is that you be the guardian for this as we see this lead i

saying that he had quote repeated contact with russian officials in the run up to the referendum but arran banks once he was in that room with that committee today he really batted away those allegations and he was quite adversarial as well he pointed out that the committee was made up exclusively of politicians that had wanted to stay in the european union and he said things like parliament is actually the biggest source of state can use in britain this is for the industry the point is not that you be the guardian towards. the misleading headlong and that you know another you. say you're talking to believe well it's going to be true but then because what happens is that they're the greatest page fifty form just leave it at the bottom of the website and they don't publish those websites so you said you want to be especially. with you have see a month's notice for a great many cases goods but they do. you see bits of the herring where about the big scary russia story that as one of the parliamentary committee members referred to it as i do the two big scary of the mind may. think. i get the

hello welcome back i'm nikki arran reporting here from moscow h.q. let's bring up to speed with the world headlines now u.s. president donald trump a has said he does not rule out recognizing crimea as russian the province rejoined russia in two thousand and fourteen but is still considered internationally part of ukraine r.t.s. america has more on the development. on board air force one on friday trump spoke to reporters about his upcoming meeting with putin when a reporter asked him if he'd recognize crimea as part of russia he said quote we're going to have to see but then he blamed obama for the entire crimea debacle saying that it was a shame that obama gave up crimea now to remind the viewers of what happened in crimea back in twenty fourteen a referendum was held with international observers present and ninety seven percent of the population voted to secede from ukraine and join russia the west refuse to recognize this plebiscite and then impose sanctions on russia and then separate ones on crimea but just this week we also heard from another

saying that he had quote repeated contact with russian officials in the run up to the referendum but arran banks once he was in that room with that committee today he really batted away those allegations and he was quite the sariel as well he pointed out that the committee was made up exclusively of politicians that had wanted to stay in the european union and he said things like parliament is actually the biggest source of state news here in britain is for the. that's true the point is not that you'd be the guardian. for him as we will be easily mislead and have one of them and then to you another you read it and say you're talking to believe well it's probably true but then of course what happens is they bear the greatest page fifty form if they put it at the bottom of the website and they don't publicize the website so you said that you are asking me if the question which you have see i must have a faith in these great many cases birds but the juicy bits of the herring where about the big scary russia story that as one of the parliamentary committee members referred to it as i do the tw

saying that he had quote repeated contact with russian officials in the run up to the referendum but arran banks once he was in that room with that committee today he really batted away those allegations just one of the other and he was quite adversarial as well he pointed out that the committee was made up exclusively of politicians that had wanted to stay in the european union and he said things like parliament is actually the biggest source of fake news here in britain straight after this you'll be having lunch having lunch with the guardian journalist coughing shabbily he said and spinning this the way you want it so it gives you kind of an idea of the way he was talking but the juicy bits of the hearing were about the big scary russia story that as one of the parliamentary committee members referred to. do it and aaron banks reiterated that he had had lunch with the russian ambassador here in the u.k. twice and then the u.s. met once with a russian businessman to talk about a potential deal to do with gold mining that he was advised against and he never went ahead with it and that was

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q i'm nikki arran let's break down some of the world news stories that have shaped the week now with political officials deepening in the e.u. over how to deal with the influx of migrants some of the blokes leaders have gathered for an emergency meeting to discuss solutions and get the latest details now from our correspondent in europe donald ross i don't have the latest managed to find any kind of solution while angle of merkel was originally looking for a european wide solution to the migration crisis but she's since now gone back on that and now she's talking about bilateral and trilateral agreements between the e.u. member states to find the solution. we know that the european council unfortunately whom i guess get a comprehensive solution to the migration problem and that is why by or trilateral agreements are mutually beneficial how can we help one another without having to wait for all twenty countries. but before any such agreements materialize a lot of problems are apparent the the foremost being the fact that europe's europe's to deeply divided over the issue of the migrat

we are working to make sure the future customs arranment overrule the issue. no hard border between northern ireland and ireland. we want the backstop to be necessary. we are working to ensure that we can have our future customs arrangement in place on the first of january 2021. >> i'm not really sure whether it is a backstop or a backslide. [laughter] last week, i asked the prime minister -- i am sorry to bring this up, it is probably quite painful for her, but when is the brexit white paper going to be published? she did say it would be published before the june eu council summit. is that still the case? >> i didn't actually say that. i said the white paper would be published and we will be publishing it. [inaudible] we will be bringing ministers together and it will be published thereafter. [laughter] >> it gets evermore confusing because the cabin office secretary told the bbc that it would not be until july. and i offer a solution? instead of worrying about this white paper on which the cabinet would have to agree, how about making it a green paper in whi

the millionaire brexit campaigner arran banks has confirmed he will appear before mps this week to answerrussia. it's being reported in the sundy times newspaper that he had more meetings with russian officials than previously disclosed. the allegations have raised fresh questions about whether the kremlin sought to influence the outcome of the eu referendum in 2016. our political correspondent susana mendonca is in our london newsroom this morning. we are seeing this on the front pages this morning, how are these allegations coming about and what can be made of them? yes, so this is the sunday times investigation, reporting that arron banks had three meetings, we understand, with the russian ambassador to britain. it has been revealed in e—mails obtained by the former sunday times journalist isabel oakshott, alleging that banks may have potential business deals discussed at these meetings but in his own book on brexit, mr banks only admitted to having one meeting. this is important because mr banks was the biggest owner of leave.eu, the culture minister wants to question mr banks on pote