international and your hourly news update with me colleen bray where it's been an embarrassing end to the dutch foreign minister he's been forced to resign after admitting that he lied for more than a decade about meeting president putin but in a fall over. i don't know a lot of media from both a lot of. people over for if it is. an emotional resignation mr departure comes just a day before he was supposed to meet his russian counterpart in moscow let's look at whether those false claims were worth it after all. because. in early two thousand and six i was advised to move putin's countryside house i stopped at the back of a room or a meeting was being held but i could hear very well vladimir putin talking about a greater russia he said this included russia roofs ukraine and the baltic states and that kazakstan would also be nice to have. has now acknowledged that it was a lie and that he wasn't even in russia in two thousand and six he said he did it to protect his source a person that presumably had attended a meeting you know describes it as the biggest mistake of his political care

findings to quote shine a light on the persistent threat to democracy jacqueline my colleague colleen bray to investigate how malicious and for studious the russian scoop really was. for a while now social media has been wrapped up along with the allegations of russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election in the u.s. scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook and also networks in order to influence potential voters and sway the election that's what the idea is here and suffice to say u.s. politicians are more than a little bit concerned about this the film portals into our society russia has harnessed the tremendous and quite frankly to me frightening power of social media sowing discord in the us by inflame passions on a range of divisive issues truly troubling evidence. of the scope and reach of russia's interference in our last election i would have clearly got the. dish the dirt what's in these tweets while of course there are a number of tweets on the list that either support or specifically against hillary clinton the opposite of that is

alone thanks for tuning in this hour for your world news with me colleen bray this tuesday the thirteenth of february it's one of the afternoon here in moscow and it's seven in the evening. in south korea where it's day four of the winter olympics and athletes from russia are on the medal board with two bronze and one so first things stand right now that's of course despite a reduced number of competitors from russia following decisions by the international olympic committee and the court of arbitration for sport over doping allegations twenty eight cases the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that an anti-doping rule violation was committed at leats concerned house a decision is a extremely disappointing these decision of the virtue and the need for reform. in no the interludes structure of couse today the division of the court of arbitration for sport this missed the application filed by thirty two russian athletes against the international olympic committee applicants did not demonstrate that the manner in which two special commission system established by the

findings to quote shine a light on the persistent threat to democracy jacqueline join my colleague colleen bray to investigate how malicious and how for studious the russian scoop really was . for a while now social media has been wrapped up along with the allegations of russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election in the u.s. scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook and all social networks in order to influence potential voters and sway the election that's what the idea is here and suffice to say u.s. politicians are more than a little bit concerned about this new film portals into our society russia has harnessed the tremendous and quite frankly to me frightening power of social media sowing discord in the us by inflame passions on a range of divisive issues truly troubling evidence of the scope and reach of russia's interference in our last election i would have clearly got the. dish the what's in these tweets while of course there are a number of tweets on the list that either support trump or specifically against hillary clinton the opposite