europe's highest court has ruled that russia is responsible for the murder of a former kgb man who died that was slipped into his tea. the verdict supports that of a british court. this is live from paris. ♪ >> thank you very much for being with us. joe biden took to the lectern to make his first speech to the u.n. as u.s. president and told the u.n. that the u.s. is embarking on an era of his words, relent this diplomacy instead of military reactions to world crises, but the context could not have been more controversial, the defense deal where france was stabbed in the back, the words of the french foreign minister himself hanging heavy over the proceedings. there he is hanging over the speech. >> in the words of joe biden, the united dates and australia are working in lockstep. he and scott morrison held their first one-on-one meeting on tuesday and the u.s. president was picked to praise the new security ties. >> the united states has no closer or more reliable ally than australia. we can rely on each other and that is a reassuring thing. >> the meeting comes a week after the united

which is still not been explained to me this day and that is the fsb, the successor agency for the kgb that as a journalist i am somehow a threat to russia and that was a real shock. now steve rosenberg is now essentially trying to cover all of russia and the region on his own. i wonder can the bbc really cover russia effectively now? i think steve will obviously do a very good job in as much as he can but it is a vast country but so many stories and i think it's obvious that our coverage will be impacted, and i tried to explain that to the foreign ministry as they were telling me that i was being kicked out that we are there as the bbc providing objective reporting from a huge and important country. so they were really shooting themselves in the foot by halving the bbc�*s presence in russia because the story needs to be told. russia thinks it's important, we think russia is important and we were trying to tell the truth about russia. ithink, you know, it will reduce our reporting footprint, obviously. steve cannot do everything. it's physically impossible. but you know he is continuin

what right does this kgb like entity have to investigate the personal information and communicationsy members, my grandchildren, things of that nature. i hate the idea they are trying to turn this into a police state. >> coming after kevin mccarthy threatens companies to cooperate with the january 6th probe. are they saying in part quote if these companies compile with the democrat order to turnover private information, they are in violation of federal law and subject to losing their ability to operate in the united states. companies still choose to violet federal law, the republican majority won't forget and stand with americans to hold them accountable under the law. incredible threat. "out froblnt "now, pete aguilar and i appreciate your time tonight, congressman. i want to start with this threat from the minority leader mccarthy. right? very clear threat. do you think that it will force telecommunication companies or social media companies to not cooperate with your investigation? >> i don't. i don't think it will have any bearing because i think people see it for what it is. it'

european court of human rights, which found that russia was responsible for the killing of the former kgbdon in 2006. mr litvinenko, who became a british citizen, was fatally poisoned with radioactive polonium—210, which was put in his tea. a public inquiry conducted a decade later concluded that the killing was "probably approved" by president putin. the defence secretary, ben wallace, has ordered an investigation, into a data breach which could threaten the safety of more than 250 people in afghanistan. they include dozens of afghan interpreters, who worked for british forces. the mod, has referred itself to the information commissioner's office and one person, has been suspended. our special correspondent, lucy manning's report, contains some flashing images. it was an e—mail that was supposed to reassure. instead, it might have put afghan interpreters at greater risk. when the ministry of defence sent the message to those still stranded, all 250 e—mail addresses, some names and photos, could be seen by everyone receiving it. an interpreter we can't identify, currently in hiding in afg

you would have heard in moscow in 1980s, but if you heard it, you would have been in trouble with the kgb, but we have it nonetheless. stalin and khrushchev and brezhnev are riding on the train together, and the train stops and they look at each other, and say, how do we get this train soviet yets knew that something was wrong but refused to do anything about it is revealing in the following joke, which o you would have heard in moscow in 1980s, but if you heard it, you would have been in trouble with the kgb, but we have it nonetheless. the joke goes as follows. stalin and khrushchev and brezhnev are riding on the train together, and the train stops and they look at each other, and as leaders are want to do, and say, how do we get this train moving again. and stalin says, we gather up the peasants, and we shoot half of them, and the other half will be incentivized to move the train. and their discuss the various merits and the downsides of this, and suddenly khrushchev comes up. it's much easier than that. all we have to do is denounce the previous train driver, and then everything will

the european court of human rights, which found that russia was responsible for the killing of former kgbioactive polonium—210, which was put in his tea. a public inquiry, conducted a decade later, concluded that the killing was "probably approved" by president putin. the family of the teenager harry dunn, who died when his motorbike was struck by a car in northamptonshire in 2019, say they've reached a settlement in a claim for damages against the wife of an american diplomat. anne sacoolas was able to leave the uk shortly after the crash, claiming diplomatic immunity, and refused to return. our correspondent graham satchell is at the us embassy in south london. what else do we know about this statement? the family are describing this as a pivotal moment, a milestone in their campaign. you will remember that anne sacoolas was charged with a criminal offence of causing death by dangerous driving, but because she claimed diplomatic immunity and left the country, there was no chance of pursuing that criminal claim, so the family, all the way through this, have said itjust isn't right that s

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european court says russia was responsible for the 2006 assassination of alexander litvinenko, the ex-kgb agent who was a defector became a vocal critic of the kremlin and died after being poisoned in london with a rare radioactive substance. cnn's matthew chance is live for us in moscow with more. matthew what are we learning? >> reporter: yeah, well, remind you that alexander litvinenko was a former fsb federal security service operative who fled to britain and was helping the british security services there when in 2006 he met some former colleagues from russia, had a cup of tea with them in the lobby of a hotel and he became sick very shortly afterwards and it was identified the substance that poisoned him as being this very rare radioactive substance called polonium 210, originates in specific kinds of nuks of nu rea reactors. there was a reactive trail plotting their journey. other people in britain and london were contaminated as well with this polonium 210 because it left that kind of -- that kind of a trail. in 2016 there was a public inquiry in britain that identified the russia

pg and e has program some lines to deactivate, if disturbed more tonight from kgb ktvu is deborah villalon in marin county. deb what's going on there? well frank, there's been a half dozen power outages, the latest today. which prompted the owner of lagunitas market to give us a call looking for answers. lauren jones opened his market wednesday but locked up soon after when the power went out, and this is the sixth time and six weeks that they've cut the power onnnoued lagunitas is a small town in west moran, where day long outages started in august, often 700 customers at a time, schools, homes and businesses all knocked out. so we had to put everything away. jones always rushes to get his perishable, safe and a generator running preserving the food. but it can't power the store so employees go home, customers are turned away. revenue lost your heart just sinks. you just go. oh, god, and you don't know when it's going to be back on. people figured pg and e maintenance or tree removal was to blame. we'll be open in the morning, okay, but are learning selected lines in their cases circuit a

the kgb is rob roth tells us today's vote was controversial. violence on oakland's streets is soaring 100 homicides so far this year. shootings and armed robberies are also way up over last year, but the same time the number of police officers is shrinking. it's dipped below 700 for the first time in seven years, officers are leaving the department at an average of 10 a month. we get an opportunity here. an opportunity to actually hire people who care about oakland city councilwoman shane tower is proposing the city council fund two additional police academies when this year in one next year. that would increase the academy's from 4 to 6. the cost is more than $3 million per academy. my piece of legislation not only calls for an academy, but it calls for hiring locally hiring women and hiring people of color and uh, looking at a feasibility study around providing childcare services at a virtual city council public hearing tuesday afternoon regarding the proposal for more academies, people had differing views. we believe that this is. the only s

worked for the cia during the cold war met their fate, a bullet in the back of the head, and thrown in kgbson. we have been able -- we talked about exfiltration, many people out, but some of the most prominent ones unfortunately were martyrs for the cause. a follow-up, quick. we passed back and forth. if we are not mistaken on one of the slides, it says we had oral briefs with the colonel. how did the cia receive those oral de-briefs if he was in soviet russia? >> he got out. there is a great book on him and it is called, you will remember the title, the spy who saved the world. because of the information he gave -- let me get rid of this. this is odious. the spy who saved the world, it's a story. and in it he was an influential, had some perks, part of a soviet military trade mission to britain. and he would go occasionally to the west, i think to paris once. and he would get away from his delegation and be met in a safe house by cia and mi6 de-briefers. so there were extensive debriefings. and that book, a great book, reveals all that stuff. the -- there is a story that he got to meet wi

her name was betty ong and today kgb's amberley talk with her brother about the family's sadness andpride twenty years later. cypress lawn memorial park in colma offers solace in solitude for harry on when he comes to honor his sister betty ong she was a flight attendant on american airlines flight eleven. credited with being the first person to alert authorities to the deadly hijackings that took place september eleventh two thousand one i just have that. feeling that just wasn't there for her it's just really hard. to- to hear otherwise on says his sister's last words during a phone call to report the hijacking reflects her courage and poise. welcome to the club. and i think they've made that we can't create i don't know i think look at night. many remained on the phone for twenty three minutes providing critical information until the plane crashed into the world trade center the nine eleven commission declared her a national hero. i never wanted. i if anybody it. can you get into the pocket we don't know they're her last words were pray for us twenty years has gone by but i also h

for cia during the cold war met their fate a bullet in the back of the head in the lubianca prison kgb prison in moscow. we have been able to get we talked about exfiltration many people out but some of the most prominent ones unfortunately. we're we're martyrs for the cause. yeah. they follow up real quick server, and i we just passed back and forth if we're not mistaken on one of the slides it said that we had oral debriefs with the kernel. yes it how did the cia receive those world deep briefs if he was in soviet russia. well, he got out occasionally. he's a great book on him and it's called you'll remember this title. it's called the spy who saved the world. because of the information he gave for the let me get rid of this. this is odious. the spy who saved the world and it's a story about pencofsky. and in it, it describes that he was an influential for kernel. he's pretty influential. he had some perks. he was part of a soviet military trade mission to britain and he would go occasionally to the west to britain i think to paris once and he would get away from his delegation and b

that's how his time was in the kgb and he didn't really need to apply a lot of tools on the tool trump. >> you are saying trump was an easy mark? >> an easy mark. he was a useful idiot would be the term of art in the kind of human committee. he was somebody that aspired to be an authoritarian, have those tendencies, really admired authoritarians and was looking to kind of ingratiate himself to a certain extent with putin. and being an easy mark, and arming term, free chicken. i used that for an interview one time. because again he was an easy mark, putin didn't have to work for it. he was manipulated in certain ways, but in ways that were useful to trump himself who is not a successful businessman. let's not buy into that thing, based on his failed businesses. his reputation in new york. there should be a rule, you can't win a majority in your own locality, you should be disqualified for any kind of higher office. nobody in new york would vote for because anybody understood who he was come his kind of a used car salesman. but because he's kind of savvy at least trying to work with peop

you would have heard in moscow in 1980s, but if you heard it, you would have been in trouble with the kgb, but we have it nonetheless. stalin and khrushchev and brezhnev are riding on the train together, and the train stops and they look at each other, and say, how do we get this train moving again. and stalin says, we gather up the peasants, and we shoot half of them, and the other half will be incentivized to move the train. so they talk about the downsize of this, and khrushchev says, it is easier. we have to denounce the previous train driver and everything will be fine. they talk about that for a while at which point brezhnev says pull down the window shades and rock back and forth and pretend that we are moving. and in a sense that tells you everything that you need to know about what the soviets were doing until mikhail gorbachev comes in and says that we are going to change the system. and change the system fundamentally by bringing in a new spirit of democracy and more importantly a new spirit of openness, and we are going to become, if you will, more western, and this is the kic

worked for cia during the cold war, met their fate, a bullet in the back of the head in the prison, the kgb prison in moscow. we have been able to get, we talked about exfiltration, many people out, but some of the most prominent ones, unfortunately, were martyrs for the cause. >> and a follow-up. >> sure. >> we just passed back and forth if we're not mistaken on one of the slides it said that we had oral debriefs with the colonel. >> yes. >> how did the cia receive those oral debriefs if he was in soviet russia? >> well he got out occasionally. there is a great would think on him and it's called -- you will remember this title -- it's called "the spy who saved the world" because of the information he gave for the -- let me get rid of this. this is odious. "the spy who saved the world" and it is a story about penkovsky. and in it it describes that he was an influential, for a colonel he was pretty influential, he had some perks, he was part of a soviet military trade mission to britain, and he would go occasion in a he will to the west, to britain, i think to paris once, and get away from h

the european court of human rights, which found that russia was responsible for the killing of former kgbn his tea. a public inquiry conducted a decade later concluded that the killing was �*probably approved' by president putin. the latest official figures on the pandemic in the uk. there were 31,564 new infections recorded in the latest 24—hour period. that means in the past week an average of 31,083 new cases per day. latest figures showed over 7,700 people with covid are being treated in hospital in the uk. another 203 deaths have been recorded, of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid test. the average number of deaths per day in the last week is now 144. 0n vaccinations, 89.4% of people aged 16 or over have had theirfirstjab, while 81.9% are now double vaccinated. the family of the teenager harry dunn, who died when his motorbike was struck by a car in northamptonshire in 2019, say they've reached a settlement in a claim for damages against the wife of an american diplomat. anne sacoolas was able to leave the uk shortly after the crash claiming diplomatic immunity, and

but if you heard it, you are probably going to get in trouble with the kgb. the job goes as follows. stolen and khrushchev and brezhnev are writing in a train together. and the train stops. and they look as -- they looked at each other and say how could we possibly get this train moving again? they discuss it for a while and stalin comes up with the first idea. he says it's very simple, we gather all of the peasants, we should half of them and the other half will be really incentivized to move the train. they discuss the various narratives suddenly khrushchev comes along and says it's easier than that. all we have to do is denounce the previous train driver and then everything will be fine. they talk about that for a while at which point brezhnev looks at them and says, comrades, i have an easier solution. all we have to do is pull down the window shades, rock back and forth and pretend that we are moving. and that sense, that tells you everything you need to know about what the soviets were doing during this period, until a man named gorbachev comes in and s

which is still not been explained to me this day, and that's the fsb, the successful agency for the kgbere reporting it, but steve will obviously have to do it all on his own. i know that you have already said that you feel there's a wider attack on independentjournalism. how far can russian journalists operating anything that's regarded as independent? it's really difficult. it'sjust getting harder all the time. they try and there are many brave russian report ——reporters doing a very good job, but they are really up against this, and that has been throughout the president put ——putin's time in power since he came 20 years ago which is when i first started reporting from russia and there was a crackdown on the television stations, particularly they gradually came under state control, they gradually had to tell the kremlin line. independent places have been squeezed out over the crest of the 20 years, but now there is a real sustained and deliberate and focused attack on independent russian journalists. they're getting labelled foreign agents, they're getting links to suppose that weste