international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital with me becky erin our top story this hour the u.s. is trying to sow divisions in russia ahead of march's presidential election well that's according to vladimir putin he says the moves in response to moscow is perceived to meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election. ok well let's cross live now to. who joins me in the studio to tell us more now what exactly is fundamental putin's allegation i found well he's making a connection to the upcoming olympics and the upcoming russian presidential election he says that in response to america perceiving russia having meddled in the election that they're trying to do the same here and what he's pointing out is that right now we're seeing another wave of accusations against russian plates of having used alleged doping in the two thousand and fourteen sochi olympics and so what he's saying is that this second wave is sort of coming out of nowhere just before the russian presidential election he pointed out the fact that the i.o.c. the international olympic committee are really rel