let's bring in emily sherman who's been at one of the protests in russia's capital moscow emily good to see you let's start by just saying what was the atmosphere there at the protest today well the atmosphere i would say was was tense from the beginning even as the demonstrators assembled on pushkin square in the center of moscow there were actually putin supporters waiting for them who basically started a shouting match with them they were shouting for putin and the demonstrators assembling there were shouting for russia without putin and were shouting against putin and soon after that the arrests started there were groups of riot police out in force basically grabbing people out of the crowd and putting them into police vans now there was some defiance among the protesters as well after the police cleared the square some of them kind of returned to the square and kept assembling around the pushkin monument on the on the center at the center of the square as police kept arresting them as well now police here say that three hundred people were arrested just in moscow observers say t

that was emily sherman reporting from moscow there the u.s. space agency nasa has launched its latest probe to mars a powerful atlas five rocket is propelling the mars insite lander to the planet's surface as we speak the journey is expected to take six months upon arrival the probe will be sent deep under the planet's crossed for clues about how it was formed for the launch is two years too late due to equipment problems the delay also ramped up project cost for more than eight hundred million dollars the solar and battery powered lander is designed to operate for twenty six earth months which is just one mars year. the inside lander will be the first to examine the internal structure of the planet mars scientists have been eager to gather data on the red planet's interior for decades. we know a lot about the surface of mars we know a lot about its atmosphere and even about its saw on a spear but we don't know very much about what goes on a mile below the surface much less two thousand miles below the surface down to the center this heat prob

all right we want to get both sides on this story this evening i want to bring in our emily sherman she is in the russian capital moscow and nick connelly is in kiev for us this evening nick let me start with you this is an extraordinary turn of events today he emerged alive and well and he said that he had no choice but to fake his own death while getting brant yes this is been a story is going to kept us gossiping all day he's version of events and the authorities here say that this was necessary to be able to. prove the organizes responsibility for this it was their connections to russia so by carrying out this attack. allowing the appearance of stacking up they were hoping to provoke the organized religion with this alleged attack to incriminate themselves basically and they say that they now have that evidence and they have detained someone they say ukraine sits and they say is the organizer of these attacks but they've yet to prove that direct links to moscow but they say they have that proof ok so we've we've got one person who is in custody tonight emily let me ask you from the

we're joined here in the studio by christiane trip by eastern europe expert and correspondent emily sherman is standing by with the latest from moscow welcome to you both a question i'd like to begin with you because this is a huge blow to ukraine's credibility isn't it that's how it looks like ukraine now has to try to explain and to justify the killing the fake killing or midst of a drinker and this would be a very to do as things stand now you crane seems to have played with politics and with emotions in an unprecedented way here in germany many of services one can still trust your cranium authorities and the government ever since ukraine's confrontation with russia started in early two thousand and fourteen this wall in eastern ukraine goes along with the wall of words with the propaganda battle a battle of accusations and fake news and it always looked like as if russia would be winning that war because of its massive state propaganda its message on slaughter of the state media against ukraine and ukraine always claimed that they are on the right side and that they are defending west v

narratives that we've got in this story tonight our nick connelly on the story for us in kiev emily sherman on the story in moscow to both of you you thank. fears about the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a senior north korean official has arrived in new york city for talks aimed at salvaging a possible summit between kim jong un and us president gul drunk last week drunk cancel the meeting set for june twelfth in singapore but now the white house says it expects that summit to go ahead greek labor unions have called a twenty four hour general strike and they held demonstrations in many cities to protest new austerity measures the strike affected schools hospitals and transportation services reeses last bailout ends in august but programs are expected to continue for at least two more years belgian authorities say the man who killed three people in the city of the age yesterday had killed another man the day before so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility for the incident of the attacker had a history of petty crime and drug offenses and may have been

all right we want to get both sides on this story this evening i want to bring in our emily sherman she is in the russian capital moscow and nick connelly is in kiev for us this evening nick let me start with you this is an extraordinary turn of events today he emerged alive and well and he said that he had no choice but to fake his own death walk. getting brant yes this is been a story is going to kept us gasping all day he's version of events and the authorities here say that this was necessary to be able to. prove the organizes responsibility for this it was their connections to russia so by carrying out this attack or. allowing the appearance of stacked coming out they were hoping to provoke the organized religion with this alleged attack to incriminate themselves basically and they say that they now have that evidence and they have detained someone they say ukraine sits and they say is the organizer of these attacks but they've yet to prove that direct links to moscow but they say they have that proof ok so we've we've got one person then who is in custody tonight emily let me ask