the fsb colleagues he denounced. the russian mobsters he was investigating.e who thought he was a traitor for working with british intelligence. since november 2006 litvinenko's widow marina has been asking how big was the conspiracy? who was behind it? 's h how high did it go? dangerous questions, as she knows better than anyone. >> you think you play chess, but they play russian roulette. >> reporter: those who were closest to litvinenko believe the kill order may have come e from the very top because rd litvinenko picked a fight with the wrong person from his past. none other than russian president vladimir putin. >> sasha was on a mission. he was trying to prove that putin is as corrupt as anybody in post-communist russia. >> reporter: the mission may have started years before when litvinenko made that flow chart of corruption in the fsb. the head of the agency at the time was putin. after litvinenko fled to london, and putin became president of russia, litvinenko attacked him relentlessly and by name. >> i and others said that this is a very dangerous th

the provisions including sanctions on the 24 fsb sailors deemed complicit in the ker strait atika. sanctions on the russian ship building sector if russia thes violates freedom of navigation in the strait or anywhere else in the world. that's a hard hitting sanction. i came in at the tail end of the mr. kerafan oh o talking about sanctions. my view is that we only have a handful of peaceful diplomacy tools at hour dploesle the use of aid and trade to induce countries and leaders to act in a certain way. international opinion to the extent that a country and/or a leader is actually subjective to that, and then the denial of aid, trade and access to our financial institutions as a consequence to move them in a different direction. other than that, after 27 years of foreign policy work i haven't figured what other foreign peaceful diplomacy tools we have. now russia uses its military in pursuit of its fobject he was. we don't do that. shouldn't we pass something like dasca keeping all the elements of the stool together, the energy side, the diplomacy side and all of that. but shouldn'

comes knocking on your door at a campaign, they don't hand your car saying, hey, i'm working for the fsb, russian intelligence. they'll do it under the guise of something else. i'm a lawyer working on behalf of a candidate. let's be clear. there's no way for campaigns to discern that difference. and let's just underscore. this is just wrong. whether it is leave. we've talked about that. but it's cheating. it's like playing basketball and saying i'll take advantage and breaking the rules of the game. i think we should underscore, this is just wrong. and after two years of talking about how it's wrong, that the president would still say this. it is shocking to me as an american citizen. >> that's why we're human beings and we can process with this. >> there is the part that is almost the baroque. to your point, take a listen to kevin mccarthy who did back flips to defend trump but ultimately admitted he too would call the authorities. >> the president does not want foreign governments to interfere in elections. >> he said he would look at the information, listen to it and if there were a p

the way, not just a foreign government, actual hostile foreign power, autocratic regime lead by kgb fsbiet style leader who is actively trying to undermine our country, the integrity of our democratic elections, it's fundamentally different than what every campaign, as dirty as it is, i don't like it either which is opposition research. to compare is disappointed an deeply disappointed to see the consider consider for a half of moment which he did in the campaign which chris just said was a joke, foreign interference influence and intrigue is our what our founding fathers were worried about and not be joked about. >> we can't lose sight of, this dirtiness agrees on both sides, there's members of the dnc going to meet with representatives from foreign governments to try to find on what they have on business dealings or michael cohen, compiled political dossier that the clinton campaign paid. they cause a lot of damage, we don't want to lose sight of that at the end of the day unforced news cycle of the president that he didn't need to create after mueller report said clearly there was no

thesomes announced today and charged today are a colonel from the fsb, the russian spy service and two suspects from the gru that ran the russian attack on our 2016 election. the same agency alleged to have carried out the nerve agent poisoning of a russian dissident and his daughter in the uk. russia of course still denies having anything to do with the shoot down of mh 17. in addition to the charges, the prosecutors name said and implicated edaide to putin himself for the transfer of military equipment that made the shoot down possible. so russia doesn't want to admit it and they don't want to have to answer for this and think the denials are good enough. this is an emotional day for the families of the victims five years ago. it is astonishing that russia is denying responsibility for it. the guys are going to get charged and i'm sure russia will not extradite them. they will be charged in absentia. prosecutors will seek international arrest warrants and are looking for still more witnesses to potentially charge more people. that happened also today. and because the news gods have b

the suspects announced today, charged today, include a colonel from the fsb, the russian spy service, and two officers from the gru, the same military intelligence agency that ran the russian attack on our 2016 election. same russian military allege that's alleged to have carried out the nerve agent poisoning in salisbury in the uk. russia, of course, still denies having anything to do with the shoot-down of mh-17. but in addition to these charges announced today, the international prosecutors also named and implicated a senior aide to putin himself for having been involved at the highest level in organizing the transfer of military equipment that made this shoot-down possible. and so russia doesn't want to admit it. they do not want to have to answer for this and they think their denials are good enough. this has been i'm sure an emotional day for the families of the victims of that disaster five years ago. it is astonishing that russia is still denying all responsibility for it. but now these guys are going to get charged. and i'm sure russia will not extradite them, so they will be

. >> when it comes to russia and the svr, gru or fsb, their number one, number two and number three priority country. it doesn't surprise me at all that the russian government launched sophisticated cyber operations against our country during the times when we located in the report. they're some of the best in the world at this, quite frankly. >> how could the russians use what they knew about paul manafort to their advantage? >> well, i think they did it very effectively. one of the ways they did it that it's immediately apparent is they actually tasked him and that tell -- that's one of the initial tests when you are developing an asset for intelligence collection. >> can you elaborate on that? you just said that the russians tasked the campaign chairman of donald trump's campaign. can you just elaborate on how the russianed tasked him? >> they asked him to provide polling data. and like you said, i mean, polling data isn't the keys to the kingdom, right? but it is a small step that illustrates his willingness to provide information to someone he knows he's beholden to, financially, and i

they have ways of communicating with the kremlin and with their counterparts, the fsb in this case, insidehey wanted to get that message across. somebody obviously thought it was in our interest to do it publicly, and, you know, maybe that's right, i'd have to think about what might be positive about that. but my reaction to that report is we don't want this in the public because it creates, you know, interest in other actors trying to thwart our capabilities. why do that when you can keep it private? >> all right, ambassador mike mcfaul. thank you very much, sir, for your time and your insights. >>> coming up next the fear about the president inside the president's administration. our experts are back at the table coming up next. ble comingt but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost. unfortunately, it can't do anything about that. now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? you might or joints.hing for your

if i were sitting in moscow in the fsb office i would start right now involving myself in american elections. start hacking phones, emails and the rest. they can influence the outcome of it. do we really want a president of the united states who is backed by a hostile foreign country? i don't. i mean, seriously, i've been talking about this. this should be impeachable. cooperating with a hostile government. and this is what trump asked for yesterday. >> susan, the politics of this, nancy pelosi, the speaker, has resisted so far opening formal impeachment proceedings, preferring the investigative route with the powers they have, also the courts. does this put her in a greater political bind here when the president today is talking about ignoring a u.s. law? >> look, i think it does demonstrate that this is just going to get worse and worse and worse and so sort of this reluctance to not pursue sort of even opening an impeachment inquiry. trump really is demonstrating in real time, you know, the harms that he could inflict by remaining in office and especially remaining in office without sort

do you believe the kgb's successors, such as fsb or fdr, or the gru continue these practices? mr.nderson: yes, and i will tell you from my experience. when i started in law enforcement, the only way you could find out about somebody was hard-fought work, knocking on doors and physically talking to them. nowadays with social media and cyber techniques and artificial intelligences available to not only the open public but more sophisticated versions of that to hostile intelligence services, they have a pretty good idea of what you like, what you don't like, who you want to hang out with, where are you going to go for coffee. it makes them much easier of a target. i would tell you that the modern day version of what some of us have done 25, 30 years ago provides much more available information to target somebody. >> thank you. and finally, we discussed the concept of blackmail at several points today. but can you explain how the use of blackmail or leverage including financial leverage over government officials by foreign powers can pose a counterintelligence danger? and i believe th

people who have been named, three are russian and they are firmer geo— military intelligence and former fsbfor russia. during the conflict in eastern ukraine, russia has maintained that this is a conflict of local origin and this is not russia, this is not a russian backed forces and these are insurgents, separatists, ukrainians working for their own personal interest. russia will continue to push that line, that it will continue to push that line, thatitis will continue to push that line, that it is nothing to do with moscow and, for the moment at least, although the evidence is damning from the dutch led enquiry, it is interesting that no russian serving officials are leading politicians have been named. might we see the three russians on television saying they like sending russian —— ukrainian churches are something like that? one of them in particular, igor girkin, he was the firmest defence minister in the donetsk people's republic. he has been a better visible character over the years, since 2014, in moscow he has appeared on tv and any debate with one of opposition politicians. at on

andrew: we really dropped the term "shadow banking," the fsb. tom: it is not a proper word.hat has changed since the financial crisis, shift and the balance of financial intermediation towards the nonbanking system in the sense that assets held in nonbank it is one of the causes of vulnerability. it means we have to spend more time thinking about what can inpen in the nonbank system two respects, from a financial stability point of view. could it lead to the tremors and problems that went through the system 10 years ago, and what do we do about that? if you are in the position of being a markets regulator, we worry about integrity. it is not financial stability, but can we undermine the operation of markets, and what do we do about that? francine: we need to talk about neil woodford. tom: he had a bad week. sca do towhat can the oversee these funds? andrew: it is a good illustration of what we were talking about in terms of market integrity. the reason it was necessary and essential but there was a suspension of the fund was because otherwise, you could have had a disorderly

igor girkin born on the 17th of december 1970 as a foreigner colonel of the fsb, the russian federale only ukrainian suspect. he was born only ukrainian suspect. he was born on the 10th of january 1972, only ukrainian suspect. he was born on the 10th ofjanuary1972, and has no military background. injuly 2014, he led a combat region unit in the donetsk region. a fierce battle raged in eastern ukraine. on the 12th of may 2014, pro—russian fighters proclaimed parts of eastern ukraine as so—called donetsk people‘s republic, and serve people‘s republic. all of these areas are not independent states, administratively, they are organised that way. —— luhansk people‘s republic. the groups appointed to run prime ministers and ministers and they consider themselves the armies of the people‘s republics. igor girkin was appointed minister of defence and was given the highest position of the army of the so—called donetsk people‘s republic. from this area, flight mh17 was down. he was the commander of their on that day. in the highest military officer, igor girkin was in direct contact with the ru

hat might concern the fbi all, when it comes fsb, theirnd the priorities in this country, they will exploitny avenue that they can when it comes to trying to get the end to whatever they're try to get, whether it is intelligence or it is looking to extort somebody into action. it doesn't surprise me at all that the russian government launched cyber operations against our country and the time -- they are some of the best in the world. they will take that information and exploit it in any way they can. when it comes to the actual individuals that have been approached in and around the trump campaign before he became president and even afterwards, it also does not surprise me that they are going after are looking to appear to meet with numerous individuals around and inside the campaign. that is an absolute classic tradecraft of russia. they will never have one point of failure. they are looking to pass information on employment information, they will make sure they have numerous aspects or points where they can try to get that done. to answer your question about that, there aren't situations

the former members of russian military intelligence and the fsb.he had anything to do with the attack. a couple of investigations led by the dutch and mh17 took off from amsterdam before it crashed. they determined the plane was brought down by a russian made anti-aircraft missile fired from rebel-held territory backed by russia. investigators reconstructed the plane during their investigation. russia denies it doesn't make the missile. and it doesn't take the claims seriously because it is not part of the investigation and something that will likely hamper efforts to go forward from here. sandra, as russia does not expedite its citizens, it is very unlikely we'll see these men in court in the hague. the best that prosecutors are hoping for here is that the russians will themselves question those people. again, no one is holding their breath for that. with or without their participation this trial will get started next march. >> sandra: we await more on that. amy kellogg in london. >> bill: the first democratic debates begin today. what he plans to

first of all, when it comes to russia and the svr, gru or fsb be with number one, two and three priorities in the country. they will exploit any avenue that they can when it comes to trying to get to the ends to whatever their trying to do, whether intelligence or looking to potentially extort somebody into action. it doesn't surprise me at all that the russian government launched sophisticated cyber operations against our during during the times when we look it at it in the report. they are some of the best in the world at this, quite frankly. they will take that information and exploit it in any way they can. when it comes to the actual individuals that have been approached or talked to in an around the trump campaign before he became president, even afterwards, it also doesn't surprise me from what i read in the mueller report that they are going after -- or at least looking to appear to meet with numerous individuals around and inside the campaign. it's an absolute trade craft of russia and the russian intelligence services. they will never have a point of failure. if they are looking

two thirds of businesses have told the fsb they have had some impact from weather—related incidents have notjust about shops, small businesses are at the heart of our community, it could be the post office or the local pub, it could be any numberof office or the local pub, it could be any number of businesses, and they will have to be able to have footfall getting to them and be able to get out and about so when there are extreme events like this and we are extreme events like this and we are seeing more because of the risk of the change of, climate change, businesses need to be more resilient and look at a plan and how they are going to cope if they are affected by an extreme weather incident. what sort of advice are you giving your members in terms of coping with this weather? they should be looking at having a resilience plan in place, business continuity, what happens if you get flooded, how will you cope with that, they need to look at insurance, which isn't always easy for small businesses, particularly those in flood hit areas. but the solution is notjust to move them out of those