i mean 1st of all i would i would welcome the opportunity to respond to what dmitri said but i mean i just don't see that it's it's really worth our time i would reject the moral equivalence that he's attempting to draw between what the you can the u.s. do more when what russia does and i'll leave it at that i think you're right however in that in that much of the focus of much of the the the notices that we don't have the reports that he was released yesterday his focus on russia where it actually to my mind the greatest story actually is about the united kingdom and how successive u.k. governments failed in their basic. right all role to protect u.k. citizens by intentionally or unintentionally wittingly or unwittingly by omission all on purpose failed to take seriously the threat posed by a hostile state whether that's russia or anybody else to democratic processes and that's the that's the key thing that comes out of this to my mind. the report you know beyond the blunt language use the report does to train 8 clear narrative that russia has attempted to undertake. operations it's

this time lugovoi brought along a buddy, a man named dmitri dd kovtun.s the one in the black turtleneck. it was a quick meeting. litvinenko drank just half a cup of tea, then left. around 5:00 p.m. he caught a ride home. that night he fell ill. and three weeks later, he was dead. so who slipped litvinenko poison that day, putting his murder into motion? litvinenko told scotland yard detectives before he died he didn't know when or who had poisoned him. but he had no doubt that one or more of the men he had met that day, the two russians or the italian, was his killer. naturally, we wanted to talk to all three. >> coming up -- we track down the first suspect litvinenko named. >> are you frightened for your life? >> when "dateline" continues. hike! simon pagenaud takes the lead at the indy 500! coming to the green flag, racing at daytona. they're off... in the kentucky derby. rory mcllroy is a two time champion at east lake. touchdown! only mahomes. the big events are back and xfinity is your home for the return of live sports. ♪ >>> alexander litvinenko,

dmitri, to you first. about this twitter hack, can yos just givea sense, what is it that we know happened? >> well, we actually have someki br news to reveal just in the last few minutes before we went on the air, and that isy that we have possible attribution to who may have been behind thttk. this is the worst breech of social media platform on record, and it was quite devastating to twitter itself because what the attackers did is they managed to get access to an internal tool within twitter known that allows internal twitter employees to mage accounts of anyone on the platform. what it allowed the attackers to do is take over an account, being able to log in as that user and send out tweets, also to potentially look at direct messages the person may be engaged in. we sent their passwords, changed email addresses and the like. looks like someone had gained access to the internal tool potentially by social engineering internal twiemer oyees and getting access to the internal twitter network and start res

i mean 1st of all i would i would welcome the opportunity to respond to what dmitri said but i mean i just don't see that it's it's really worth our time i would reject the moral equivalence that he's attempting to draw between what the u.k. and the u.s. do more when what russia does and i'll leave it at that i think you're right however in that in that much of the focus of much of the the the analysis of that region of the reporters who was released yesterday has focused on russia where it actually to my mind the greatest story actually is about the united kingdom and how successive u.k. governments failed in their basic. right all role to protect u.k. citizens by intentionally or unintentionally wittingly or unwittingly by omission all on purpose failed to take seriously the threat posed by a hostile state whether that's russia or anybody else to democratic processes and that's the that's the key thing that comes out of this to my mind. the report you know beyond the blunt language use the report does to train 8 clear narrative that russia has attempted to undertake. operations it's

it's a big but the devil's in the detail because the person in question they're talking about one mr dmitri because of the of actually heads up a separate russian news agency not ours is our senior correspondent we're going to of explaining the confusion. what you see here may look like news to you but others perhaps those that don't like the color green were made of soft stuff those working in latvian intelligence agencies all government this is horrible the evidence we have obtained is very strong and we call on the regulators of all other e.u. member states to follow our example and ban r.t. in the territory such programs have no place in latvia or elsewhere in the e.u. personally i've looked all over fairbairns watched r.t. arabic with subtitles tried r.t. spanish i even checked behind the teles and know nothing just cables the very evidence that latvia has the literally made up and didn't try very hard perhaps it was just before the end of the working day that everyone iching to go home see there's a number of news agencies and russia hauled but i see a civil order which translates to

to us to the media but to the russian government as well the spokesman for the russian president dmitry peskov one asked as to what the kremlin thinks about the situation what they are doing he said that they don't have the full picture as well we still have incomplete information about what happened there was no information of the new legal action by these russians which could have been the reason for the detention we don't know anything about it also completely ruled out the possibility that it was some organization that sent those men to belarus on some secret mission he said that was completely impossible and out of the question but in belarus they are taking the situation as seriously as they possibly can alexander lukashenko for instance the president of bellows he met with the sea with the security council over the situation and here is what he had to say. we need to address the russian mass media and also the not to say no. jonson's if you are guilty you need to get out of the situation with dignity not guilty good we have no goals to discredit the country close to us or the cir

now the russia the kremlin has already reacted the spokesman for the russian president dmitry peskovhe has said that russia as of now still does not have the full extent of information as to what exactly they are being accused of by the way belarus has opened a terror investigation in relation to this incident so things are pretty serious but according to the to vladimir putin's spokesman they do not know anything about about the allegations the russian ambassador to. contact with the foreign ministry of that country to get that information but the completely ruled out the possibility that it was some organization that had sent those people there and he sees the well in fact the private military companies are illegal in russia it's not that they're illegal but there's no such different in the russian law as to what a private military company is but this whole thing it has caused a lot of while it has caused a large a very significant reaction in belarus especially from the higher power for example here is what the country's president what the better russian president xander looking s

russian backed forces that the allegations against russia have been dismissed by the kremlin spokesman dmitri peskov said we don't know of any illegal activity that would be grounds for detention. an ice hockey fan has caused widespread protests in better routes by dismissing covert 19 as a threat. he is however still the favorite to win the election having had quarter of a century in power. but many observers believe the president seen here with putin at a military parade in moscow in june can ill afford a spats with the russian president and through simmons. at least one person is reported to have died after floods hit a city in central south korea hundreds of homes and dozens of cars have been submerged in the city of daraa june which recorded its 4th highest amount of rainfall ever emergency personnel are evacuating residents from their homes including dozens from a flooded apartment complex south korea's national weather agency as now lifted a heavy rain warning for the city and neighboring areas. devastating floods in northeastern india have killed dozens of wild animals including rare

say his focus on stalin's crimes is seen as incompatible with the state's view of russian history dmitri have was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison but is expected to be released within months because of time already served. some of my greatest desire now i would really like to see my father and hug him i hope that i will see him tomorrow but unfortunately without the possibility of hugging him however i hope that this will happen very soon now the self-confessed middleman in the murder of a maltese journalist has been found with serious knife for instance hours before a court hearing it's unclear if melvin through met tried to kill himself the former taxi driver was given a presidential pardon and immunity in exchange for evidence about the case daphne khurana glitzier a maltese journalist known for exposing government corruption was killed by a car bomb near her home 3 years ago now sudan has appointed 18 civilian governors as the country continues to transition into democracy following years of military rule prime minister abdullah doc says there they will begin their jobs in

russian backed forces that the allegations against russia have been dismissed by the kremlin spokesman dmitri peskov said we don't know of any illegal activity that would be grounds for detention. and i saki fan has caused widespread protests in better routes by dismissing curve it 19 as a threat he is however still the favorite to win the election having had quarter of a century in power. but many observers believe the president seen here with let him have putin at a military parade in moscow in june can ill afford a spat with the russian president andrew symonds al-jazeera. australia has taken another step towards forcing google and facebook to pay for news content published on its platforms and the government has given the digital giants 3 months to negotiate a fair deal with the straining media companies released a draft mandatory code of contact with aims to increase competition protect consumers and create a sustainable media landscape. canada's prime minister has appeared before a parliamentary committee over a multi-million dollar deal involving a charity with ties to his family appea

spokesman dmitri peskov said we don't know of any illegal activity that would be grounds for detention. because shinku an ice hockey fan has caused widespread protests in better ruse by dismissing curve it 19 as a stretch he is however still the favorite to win the election having had quarter of a century in power. that many observers believe the president seen here with not a mere putin at a military parade in moscow in june can ill afford a spot with the russian president and to simmons' al-jazeera. while an opposition political rally in belarus described as the biggest since independence from the soviet union has been held in the capital minsk thousands turned out and supporters footlong a tick and a skier who's challenging alexander lukashenko his bed for a 6th term and next month's elections the government has accused the opposition of collaborating with moscow to cause civil unrest ahead of that vote the opposition says the claims of russian subversion are a sham. saudi arabia's king solomon has been discharged from hospital after having his gallbladder removed there's a 4 year o

spokesman dmitri peskov said we don't know of any illegal activity that would be grounds for detention. an ice hockey fan has caused widespread protests in better ruse by dismissing curve it 19 as a threat he is however still the favorite to win the election having had quarter of a century in power. but many observers believe the president seen here with not a mere putin at a military parade in moscow in june can ill afford a spat with the russian president and to simmons' al-jazeera. bellerose has been one of russia's most reliable allies since the fall of the soviet union but relations have been strained in recent years moscow wants belarus to implement a union agreement signed in 1999 that would create a single currency constitution parliament and court system but there is resistance president lukashenko blames moscow for domestic discontent and has also accused russia of plotting to overthrow him at the same time relations between batteries in the west have improved in serbia unlike pompei it became the 1st u.s. secretary of state to visit minsk since the early 1990 s. after that w

russian backed forces that the allegations against russia have been dismissed by the kremlin spokesman dmitri peskov said we don't know of any illegal activity that would be grounds for detention. and i saki fan has caused widespread protests in better roost by dismissing covert 19 as a threat he is however still the favorite to win the election having had quarter of a century in power. but many observers believe the president seen here with putin at a military parade in moscow in june camp. in lieu of food or spats with the russian president to simmons. italy's former interior minister is set to face trial after he was stripped of immunity from prosecution atos so vain enough faces a 2nd trial for blocking a migrant ship from docking in the country last year he faces up to 15 years in jail if he's found guilty after the country's senate voted to lift immunity he received as a member of parliament prosecutors accuse the right wing politician of illegally detaining with 100 migrants after he stopped a spanish ship carrying them from docking on the island of lampedusa for 19 days. they've got t

steve: dmitry? >> yeah.proud of you for making this decision and taking this proactive step and at the end of the day, there has to be a balance approach. that's the message. we got to take a balanced approach to this. that means in conjunction with those federal officers coming to chicago and other cities around the country. there needs to be oversight and proper oversight. this is that moment where you can get the community involved and get other thoughtful americans and organizations involved and make sure we take a balanced approach to ensuring that this violence stops in our cities. steve: because it has got to. so many lives are on the line. toby and brad adimitri, thank you for your service and thank you for joining us live on this thursday morning. >> thanks for having me. steve: very good. 14 minutes before the top of the hour and jillian has headlines. jillian: good morning and we start with this. army officials releasing the name of another fort hood soldier found dead. investigation underway into

tricks -- imented don't know if anyone remembers president dmitry medvedev -- he put in a puppet president to keep his seat warm. he followed the letter of the law. won theple the way he election quote unquote in 2018 his main surviving opponent was artificially disqualified. again, officially there were still an election. now, and this is crucial here and a central point to me in all of this exercise, by simply subverting the constitutional term limit and not even abolishing it, but waving it for putin isvladimir becoming the judge and jury, in the same rogue league of dictatorships that have used strict operating constitutional term limits before. from burkina faso, to belarus, to peru. from this date and from the end of his current mandate in 2024, vladimir putin has constructed himself to that rogue league of dictators. this is where the most important intellectual -- international consequence of this plebiscite is. nothing changes inside russia. the political fate of russia will be decided on the streets, not through the ballot box. it won't be next month or next year, but it will cer

economic downturn russia's judiciary has come under fire for jailing a problem and historian yuri dmitri have was convicted of sexually abusing his adopted daughter a child she denies human rights groups and activists say he was jailed for his work on covering massacres during the rule of soviet leader joseph stalin supporters say his focus on stalin's crimes is seen as incompatible with the state's few of russian history. knows that that alliance got more news here and i was there right after al-jazeera world now. paris a major european capital known for its cosine its odd fashion famous landmarks and french culture. but behind the facade lies a complex multi-ethnic city full of contradictions. i am up to me and i've come to the aid of longs to try and discover what it means to be french especially on the sometimes troubled outskirts of the capital. in 2015 former french prime minister manuel biled spoke of the tourette tauriel social and ethnic apartheid in france. so what does this mean for the ethnically diverse communities in the sea take in the suburbs. so as a small town in the no

president dmitry medvedev was officially president for four years but he put in a puppet president to keep his seat warm and then he came back. he followed the letter of the law, he didn't violate the term limit. or the way he won the election 2018 when his main surviving opponent was artificially disqualified. officially, there was still an election. here in thisal exercise is that just by simply subverting the constitutional term limit and not even abolishing it but waving it vladimiry for himself, putin is becoming a legitimate, not just effective, but in the and league of regimes dictators that used this trick of breaking constitutional term limits before. from this day and certainly from the end of his current mandate in 2034, vladimir putin has prescribed himself to that rogue league of dictators. for us toch changes mystically in russia. it's been known for a long time that the system that putin has created, the political fate of russia will be decided from the streets, not from the ballot box. it won't be this week where this month or next year but it will than 2036.er the int

2009, hoping to restart a partnership between the united states and russia with then new president dmitry medvedev. i will not go into details of this but the relationship ended in 2009 at the lowest point -- 2016, 2017 at the lowest point since the cold war. before that, the bush administration tried to improve the relationship and announced a new partnership in 2001 but the 2009 was at its lowest point after the war between russia and georgia and before that, the clinton administration borrowed the same pattern starting on a high note in 1993 and ending on a very low note in the beginning of 2001. you will remember this since you are at the state department at the time. it's fair to say that after 30 years of our lateral relationship since the end of the cold war, we have proceeded to the present day in her dealings with russia on the basis of three fundamental assumptions or hopes. one was that russia would reform a country thatme is not dissimilar from us, democratic or an open political system with a market economy and expecting a security architecture for europe and that would put t

russian backed forces that the allegations against russia have been dismissed by the kremlin spokesman dmitri peskov said we don't know of any illegal activity that would be grounds for detention. and i saki fan has caused widespread protests in better routes by dismissing covert 19 as a threat he is however still the favorite to win the election having had quarter of a century in power. but many observers believe the president seen here with let him have putin at a military parade in moscow in june can ill afford a spat with the russian president and through simmons al-jazeera. up to one in 3 of all children across the welder being poisoned by lead the u.n. warns that pollution from metal in the air and water is a massive and previously unknown health crisis lead poisoning can be fatal and cause long term damage in children it can. it into adult hood oregon money reports an. 8 year old actor love sport but it has suffered as a result of years of exposure to the toxic metal lead in the bangladeshi village of kut gora there's no sign there was once a battery was cycling plantinga workers aband

pushed our own agenda and that has not been helpful just your opinion or one particular statement from dmitri alperovitch he's the former chief technology officer at a cyber security company crowd strike you know him he said that some experts have suggested that such a low theft is low or theft of sort of code of virus details is low on the list of priorities in terms of seriousness that would want more to god in terms of other issues that are much more important and dealing with people's or governments electoral decisions votes. the medical side of covert 19 isn't really a priority of the moment would you agree with him. you know and i like dimitri very much we've been friends for a long time but in this case i'm sorry but the whole stability of our company of a country depends on our having a vaccine the horror of the stability of the global economy and of and of countries everywhere depends on there being a vaccine to counter this pandemic and so it has to be one of the highest priorities of the moment we can focus on all these other kinds of cyber and hughes and what needs to be done but