tell us how close he is to the kremlin, to putin himself? been scribed in some publications as the second wealthiest man in russia and there was a state department table that was leaked in wikileaks which describe him as one of the very few people who are close to putin. in russia. so, he's very powerful guy. one of the wealthiest people in the country. you don't get to that position of wealth and power without having a good relationship with the kremlin. i should note, erin, there have been times when he has had some conflicts with putin, but the two are believed to be very close and as investigators look for ties between the kremlin, prominent russians and the trump campaign, this is going to be an area where they'll be looking. >> and we're going to be talking more about oleg in a moment. obviously, he and paul manafort had a long relationship that includes significant financial dealings. now, the information you have, these e-mails that you have been some of these that you have seen are coming from information turned over to congressiona

on the geopolitical pool table, play has not gone the kremlin's weight. -- kremlin's way.ctions and nato troops are still all there. right now, vladimir putin looks well and truly snookered. if russia was playing on trump's team in america's election, that strategy may have backfired with the russian investigation in america in full swing and suspicion of russia at a new high, trump is in no position to make concessions to moscow. since august, congress won't even let him ease sanctions without it say so. he's stuck. politically, donald trump's hands are tied. it does make scoring rather tricky and that has a knock on shutting down of diplomatic buildings. mind you, after 17 years at the table, in power in russia, the one thing vladimir putin has plenty of his experience. we've seen before that just when you think he's boxed in for good, the kremlin leader somehow finds a way to come out on top. u.s.-russia relations still in the deep freeze. we usually bring the opening of an art exhibition. tonight it is an ending we are focused on. a giant than a year work by lynn myers

think that the kremlin this hand is behind all this let's take a listen. that was bought by this russian troll farm on facebook was a black lives matter ad that was targeted specifically to the city's baltimore and ferguson missouri and is based on my conversation my sources is that the goal here was really about creating chaos and the shooting his sources my sources a lot of this information from. from official reports that new speculation to these reports by the social media platforms they have relied on unverified sources source which haven't made public and haven't been revealed really i mean how trustworthy are they would you trust anything i say from my sources i don't think many people would do that well of course that's only one pundit but it's nothing new for c.n.n. to see the kremlin around every corner but the allegations that we're seeing more often than not they're based exclusively on claims by u.s. officials like you're saying these unnamed officials source says but they don't always hold up to that and you know that's right the department o

and this has a knock—on effect for the kremlin. things have gone askew for vladimir putin.the shutting down of dramatic buildings. mind you, after 17 years at the table, in power in russia, the one thing that vladimir putin has plenty of his experience. we have seen before that just when you of his experience. we have seen before thatjust when you think he is boxed in for good, the kremlin leader somehow finds a way to come out on top. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. so a draw for liverpool but the match had far more significance for the local authorities. it's one of two champions league games in the russian capital this week. and that means the authorities are hoping to prove they are ready for the world cup next summer as a large contingent of foreign supporters mingle with locals. 0ur moscow correspondent sarah rainsford reports liverpool band made for red square. it is just liverpool band made for red square. it isjust time liverpool band made for red square. it is just time for russia, as it gears up it is just time for russia, as it gears up to host the world cup.

now some media would have that the kremlin this alleged influence goes even beyond the twenty six the election of the kremlin is actually responsible for sowing discord problems within us society it's going to control most recently in fact the black gloves mounts a movement on the racial tensions and have taken place as well we can take a listen to that as well. that was bought by this russian troll farm on facebook why is a black live matter ad that was targeted specifically to the cities of baltimore and ferguson missouri and is based on my conversation my source is that the goal here was really about creating chaos they really make it seem like the kremlin's reach has no end whatsoever and the allegations of russian meddling are often based exclusively on claims coming from u.s. officials today always hold up here that's what i mean just take the latest one where the department of homeland security actually informed officials in twenty one states that they had been targeted or they've been victims of an alleged attempted to hack attack boy the russians or russian linked accounts wi

manafort offered updates on the presidential race the a russian billionaire with close ties to the kremlin. >>> there's also a report that the special counsel wants documents on president trump's actions. >>> down to the wire. the senate is expected to vote next week on a last ditch effort to ree peel obamacare but with a deadline and array sor thin margin for support, will it pass. we welcome our viewers around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following the breaking news, the entire island of puerto rico and 3 1/2 million americans are without power after hurricane maria unleashed what one official is calling total devastation. the strongest storm to hit the island in 85 years ripped trees from the ground and triggered widespread flooding. >> we're also following the search for survivors following a 7.1 earthquake in mexico city. and following a school where rescuers are searching by han to reach a young girl trapped alive. >>> in the white house, there's news paul manafort offered to give a billionaire to the kremlin pri

. >> seth: tell me what are your ties to the kremlin?rice? you know like rice paddies -- with like the -- you know, there's like the water, and you've got to go get the rice? >> seth: yeah, uh-huh. >> fred: so -- you sound like you don't believe me. >> seth: i don't believe you. >> fred: a bunch of us -- >> seth: i will say, it's a weird start to your ties to the kremlin. >> fred: a bunch of us -- >> seth: uh-huh. >> fred: run one of those together. >> seth: who do you mean, "a bunch of us"? who's the us? >> fred: guys from the kremlin. >> seth: okay. [ laughter ] >> fred: you know, yuri. do you know yuri? >> seth: i don't know any of them. >> fred: okay. so they live outside of moscow. and i've met them and we were just like, "hey, we should sell rice." everyone loves rice. so we just started this paddy. and we go in there and we have like, it's like a strainer. >> seth: i don't want to know the process of making -- [ laughter ] >> fred: why not? >> seth: well, i'm fascinated by your kremlin connection. >> fred: it's beautiful. so we ju

broadcaster and in london we crossed alexander across with he is a political commentator and a former kremlin advisor all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated scott let me go to you first in tampa. applying to r t and sputnik this is not for security reasons and this is a very political thing this is a extension of the conspiracy called russia gate and i'm taking it very seriously go ahead scott what's your opinion well it is a very serious situation you have obviously a world that's been run by western media and there and there finally is someone chipping away at the iceberg and breaking the glass ceiling artie's done a great job of getting a voice of reason out there giving a platform to them for information that's out there available and making it really mainstream you look at the billions of hits on you tube at once again everybody's taking a look at the information and agreeing that there is a difference of opinion and in fact this difference of opinion from our perspective comes with a lot of facts and these facts

the parent company gets their instructions from the kremlin will. >> before the 2016 hacking, there'ser been a big push to make sputnik register as a foreign agent. and that's what paul manafort and meike nine were doing. did they show an interest in that? >> absolutely. that was the that you recall in the interview. that's what they're looking at. they are interested in determining whether or not sputnik should be registering under the foreign agents registration act as foreign propaganda. and there is a carve out in that act for what they call bona fide news agencies. based on my experience there, i would argue the they are not working as a bona fide news agency. >> and you're one of the few who spoke out about it. the first amendment issues are big. you've raised the question, are they real journalists. here are some other sputnik employees speaking out about the same they know. >> i cannot be in a network funded by the russian government that white washes putin. i'm proud to be an american and believe in disseminating the truth and that is why after this newscast, i am resigning.

. >> "the washington post" reporting manafort offered to give information to the kremlin. >> to me itms unusual. clearly mr. manafort had a series of relationships with folks in ukraine and in russia. and we've seen, and i think this is part of the public record that there are a number of these oligarchs in russia, extraordinarily wealthy individuals who are quite connected with putin and the kremlin. it's one of the reasons why mr. manafort also falls into that category of someone who has had a staff interview, but at some point we're going to want to bring him in as well and appear before the senators to answer as many questions as possible. the more information, the more documents we have before we bring him on that meeting, the more fruitful that session would be. >> that's what's interesting. "the washington post" is reporting on e-mails with the russian billionaire. is he someone you're looking at as well? >> anderson, i'm not going to be able to comment on specific individuals that we're looking into. >> your committee was supposed to marry in private by michael cohen. that int

are outlets like sputnik independent news or kremlin propaganda? it matters. there's freedom in united states to write whatever you want including adversaries. it's illegal to fraudulently pose as american media if they're something else. line drawn at dawn of world war ii to combat nazis. had got operatous in the time. you have the freedom to write about the nazis but not write for the nazis and pretend it's independent journalism. obscure but not more air lately. michael flynn, law is federal agents investigation act, cropping up in the russia-related investigations. hunter walker broke it and joins me and foreign policy analyst. hunter, where does this inquiry go? >> already seeing it may be widening. the story i did with my colleague mike issuekof focused on sputnik, it's funded by russian government. but this afternoon rt, english language tv station run by russia and reporting that one of their suppliers has been contacted by doj and told to register under this act, fara, foreign agents registration act. it does seem to be widening, never seen fara used

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in terms of the kremlin, only last month they we re of the kremlin, only last month they were sayinge? they flatly denied they were behind the adverts and indeed the group they are linked to is what they call a troll farmer. it is based in saint petersburg and they are known to be a presence on the internet pushing pro— kremlin propaganda. as you mentioned, the russian government has said it has nothing to do with us has said it has nothing to do with us but quite frankly, that denial is not given much respect, frankly. that is what you would expect the russian government to say about this. what you make of facebook saying they are going to share information with investigators because they have been under enormous pressure to do so?l because they have been under enormous pressure to do so? a lot of pressure. a lot of people want them to make those advertised at public. they said they are not going to do that themselves but they expected the committee, the senate committee, to perhaps do that at the end of the investigation. what is also interesting is their move to be more transparen

as sandy pointed out, the kremlin has twoity vulnerabilities here. one is the isolation and impact of sanctions on the russian economy. the other is the fact that the russian people do not want to be fighting in the dunbas. so providing weapons to increase russian casualties will make mr. putin more cautious. die have one minute sunset thank you. i agree that american's enable to see the future is a problem. we are not arguing that if we give weapons to ukraine, this will for sure deter mr. putin from additional direction in ukraine. might not. but it will certainly raise the cost of that aggression, will make it -- mean he has fewer resources to conduct provocations and aggression against our baltic allies allied means the west will respond strong if if he escalate its. one final point. no doubt russia seems to have a greater interest in ukraine per se than the united states. but it doesn't have nearly as great an interest in ukraine as the ukrainians. and ukrainian people are fighting for their territorial integratity, and their sovereignty. the as

yeah hi terry we don't have any official reactions from the kremlin but we do you know what people on the streets of moscow are saying most of those we told to do saturday are satisfied with the main result of that until america won this election as they argue that the german chancellor stands for stability stability not only in germany and europe but also stability in the german russian relationship also people seem to like america as a mediator in the russian ukrainian conflict and of course everybody realized that the far right party is now getting to the gym and going to stock beach racist concerns in moscow. but actually the f.t. got sent to palm and so obviously the german people and they need to be listened to but they wanted the right wing party that's another in the history of great and we know how that turned out in the corn so they need to be. anything new hasn't been tried out yet so it's an experiment and no one ever knows how experiments will end up with medical let so many people into the country it's hard to believe it's awful she must go. medical selection will stabil

is washington trying to push the kremlin into doing something irrational. to make them over react because with this this environment of no rules you can expect you could expect the unexpected i don't i sense that's not going to happen that there will be a reaction but asymmetrical probably well i mean right now we have some liberal commentators here in russia are a great thing but the fact that we didn't didn't respond in the way immediately. and obviously these people are just interested in the deterioration of relations if not over the group i say yes i regret it i don't agree with the process that basically there are no rules but i will just tell very quickly what are the rules that i represent knowledge that bird in place during the cold war during the cold war we had an arms control regime which is basically dead now you know a.b.m. treaty of was destroyed two thousand to. see if he can version of forces in europe doesn't. all the media range nuclear fear as you know russia now is going to have joint exercises with belarus there to see as an excuse for

reported the kremlin is responsible for racial tensions in the states let's take a listen. that was bought by this russian troll farm on facebook was a black live matter ad that was targeted specifically to the city in baltimore and ferguson missouri and this is based on my conversation my source is that the goal here was really about creating chaos. now the department of homeland security has also alleged that twenty one states were hacked last year but some of those states seem to think otherwise don't they well that's right it was quite a serious allegation that quite a number of states were targeted again specifically to do with the presidential election last year but since then some of these states of come back and said i'm going to minute that's wrong we haven't actually been targeted here for example texas. the secretary of state for texas he said and i'm quoting here that his office has the term and conclusively it's agency web site was not targeted and furthermore the d.h.s.s. relied on incorrect information so they've been quite clear that they haven't been talkin

elections and the kremlin and on the other hand you've got what julian asuncion is just sort of brought back to the surface from the trove of leaked predestiny emails and that's that we have clear evidence in these e-mails that facebook expressed an overt preference for hillary clinton in the run up to the twenty sixteen election in the u.s. i still want hillary rodham clinton to win badly i'm still here to help as i can i'm thrilled at the progress hillary's making. and supports you can see it to working with you to let the first woman president of the united states well these e-mails beg the question is the u.s. senate intelligence committee going to be as interested in hillary clinton's campaign manager working with facebook to elect clinton as they are in russia allegedly hacking the u.s. elections and does the u.s. senate know for example also from these leaked e-mails that mark zuckerberg facebook c.e.o. wrote a personal e-mail to protest back in august twenty fifty saying that he enjoyed spending time with podesta and that their conversation gave zaka bug quote a lot to think abo

that has a knock—on effect for the kremlin. things have gone askew for vladimir putin.one thing that that you put in —— that vladimir putin has is experience. when you think he's boxed in for good, the kremlin leader somehow find their way to come out on top. 140 characters. brevity is at the very heart of twitter. but it's a frustration for some people who find it hard to cram their thoughts into such a short amount of space. if you're one of them, the announcement that the social media platform might be doubling its character limit to 280 could be very welcome news. twitter is testing the idea among random users. this has had a great reaction here. i had to show you this tweet from eric, the democratic congressman from california. he posted this this morning. for every single one of donald trump's staff who live in terror of those early morning tweets when it's only 140 characters, imagine what they will think when he has the chance to put out 280!|j they will think when he has the chance to put out 280! i was a tad sceptical about this because i thought, what is the

which is what kremlin policy is. it's significant that our distinguished colleagues here have not addressed russian re z revisionism in doctrine and on the ground. the notion that there's a contradiction between providing arms to ukraine and providing diplomacy is simply wrong. again, we tried a soft approach. i'll not use the phrase appeasement, although i think it may apply here. we applied that soft approach after the russians carved up georgia. and we achieved nothing. instead of that making the russians more sympathetic to our friends in the region, it prompted them to -- permeitted them to seize crimea. we tried the same approach with crimea and what we got was a war in donbass. it's time to learn from our mistakes. it's time we toughened up. that will enable us to maintain our nato allies with minimal -- not minimal effort, but with less effort, with less danger of bloodshed, with less danger of american intervening to protect our baltic allies. or the polls for that matter, or romania. this is the smart play

which is what kremlin policy is. it is significant that our distinguished colleagues here have not addressed russian revisionism. indoctrination on the ground. that there is a contradiction between providing arms to ukraine and pursuing diplomacy is simply wrong. we tried a soft approach. i will not use the phrase appeasement but i think it applies. we applied that after the russians carved up georgia. we achieved nothing. instead of that making the russians more sympathetic to our friends in the region, it prompted them to -- it permitted them to seize crimea. we tried it the same approach with crimea. .hat we got was a war it is time we learned from our mistakes. it is time we toughened up. that will enable us to maintain efforto allies with less , less danger of bloodshed, less danger of american intervening to protect our baltic allies. romania. this is the smart play with a risk we can manage. >> thank you very much ambassador. forhanks to all four of you raising a full set of issues surrounding the questions. i

in the mainstream media to feel that the kremlin's reach has no and when so ever but these allegations of russian meddling are often based exclusively just on claims coming from u.s. officials their certainty of varying degrees and to those claims always hold up your will just take this recent report by the department of homeland security actually notified officially notified twenty one separate u.s. states that they'd been targeted by russian all russian linked hackers on the subject of the sixteen presidential election but if we take a look at what the states have said themselves texas for example has come back to texas secretary of state orlando problem he said and i'm quoting him here that his office has the time and its agency was not targeted and furthermore the church has relied on incorrect information so they've been very clear they've held their hands but say hang on a minute we've not been acted toward target at all so what's the big deal here wisconsin another state here they've said there was an attempt to hack them there was some sort of a but the target was the departmen

the kremlin is insisting that the -- are entirely defensive. there are fears the exercises could escalate towards its neighbors. at the country's largest military exercise since 2013. -- purely defensive end don't violate international agreements. across the baltic sea. just under 13,000 minutes of. defenseto belarus's minister. we have joined strategy drills is purely defensive end is not pose any threat to the european community as a whole or the neighboring countries. >> officials say they are watching operations. is the kremlin is threatening into belarus or launching -- militarygainst exercises. >> thomas low is in moscow. he told us more about what russia's motives behind its military exercises might be. is great tvhiss pictures for our tv viewing country. a lot of people support vladimir putin to make russia's strongng agagain. c country with a very strong military and evil army. it's part of a show. a discussion with nato and the u.s.. it's a a very stronong warning o both nato and the u.s. pushing toward russian borders. it has said a

. >>> demonstrators protesting the communist party marched to the walls of the kremlin.ho has promised to accelerate the pace of his reforms. these people want him to deliver on that promise, now. >> many of the protesters carried the flag of free prerevolutionary russia. >> gorbachev's reforms weren't working. prices for food and energy in russia will go up several hundred percent next week. >> life was becoming harder. consumer goods harder to find. food even hard to come by. the economic system was breaking down. >> in a country accustomed to shortages, people are saying they've never had it so bad. >> hardliners did not like the tone of reforms introduced by gorbachev. >> gorbachev's reforms were meant to restore and refresh communism and save the soviet union and actually they had exactly the opposite effect. >> you couldn't reform this economic system. you had to throw it out. gorbachev wasn't willing or able to do that. so it was only a matter of time before the old establishment were going to try to get rid of him. >> his message calling for national unity has fa

the foreign ministry this is another case where the shortsighted goal justifies any means and the kremlin spokesman says many creative people full prey to emotional stress without real information about the real state of things but perhaps more surprising is the response from several experience russia analysts their worries thinking about russia or is being replaced in the united states by hysterical jingoism one state russia experts no expertise required writes leonid bush should ski in bloomberg he says the committee to investigate russia's advisory board includes film directors conservative commentators and a former director of national intelligence but few if any obvious russia experts and sam green from king's college london has similar misgivings we have to be able to see shades of gray if we if we. elevate everything to terms of war and and through. this would be a harper baller who are sort of categories then we can see the sense of. so i'm green and the other russia other lists take very seriously the accusations that russia meddled in the us democratic process but they fear camp

. ♪ >> the moment the kremlin is spending on defense means less money for other things. >> the sovietncreased consumption and defense. >> leaders from around the world gathered in moscow to pay their last official respects to the soviet leader and have gone to shake hands with the new leader, mikhail gorbachev. >> there's interest in the new leader, mr. gorbachev. this picture appeared prominently on all papers today. >> i want him to fight for peace. >> enter a bear smiling, but why is he smiling? he won over the british press, which may be something to smile about. he won over britain's iron lady, which is certainly something to smile about. >> i like mr. gorbachev. we can do business together. >> and he seems to be exploiting a potential division in the western alliance, and that is something to make him smile back to the kremlin. at 53, this rising star exudes charm, smiles easily, has a keen sense of humor and an attractive wife. >> the soviet government has gone to great lengths to portray gorbachev as the voice of reason, the man trying to prevent an arms race in space. >> mr.

hasn't stopped the world from pointing the finger at moscow and also predicting that the big bad kremlin would do the same again in europe the russian hacker scene is huge german security agencies and cyber experts are alarmed own evidence points to russia that's why we cannot rule it out why we are preparing for a similar efforts to influence germany's election many warned that the upcoming german elections would be a prime target for those pesky russian hackers so security was bumped up and investigations were launched but even a year long search by german intelligence for potential russian interference failed to uncover any evidence of kremlin backed meddling or not though that hasn't stopped anyone from seeing russia as democracies enemy number one a recent article by the washington post examines what sinister implications there could be behind the fact that we have yet to see moscow's hand trying to steer berlin's vote it's just not an election anymore without russian hackers with one think tank director saying the silence worries him quote it doesn't feel right the article edges th

intelligence identified as connected to the kremlin. >> yes., there was a lot of discussion, andrea, after the election about fake news and whether or not facebook had been used unwittingly as a platform to spread this information to vulnerable or receptive voters. people who might want to read something about hillary clinton's declining health alleged, or who might want to read about how hillary clinton was going to take away america's guns. these kinds of things. what facebook did was initially say that they really weren't being used, they had no evidence of any fakery on their site. in the last several months, facebook conducted a much more extensive investigation and concluded that they found more than 400 -- actually 470 fake accounts and pages that all tied back to a very murky russia firm based in st. petersburg and this firm is associated with pushing essentially pro kremlin propaganda. the ad they found on facebook, the ads were essentially on divisive wedge issues we all can recognize. gun rights, civil rights, racial discrimination,

all wondering whether or not it will actually slide back to its more hollowed rights origins the kremlin says the us actor morgan freeman might be suffering from emotional strain after he appeared in a high profile video accusing russia of declaring war on the us the video was produced by a new group called the committee to investigate russia which aims to inform americans about alleged russian attacks on u.s. democracy but as our moscow correspondent roy chalons explains it's drawn criticism from outside the expected official official russian circles. we have been attacked we are. at war morgan freeman is in many ways an ideal fronts man for a campaign like this imagine this movie screen a former k.g.b. spy angry at the collapse of his motherland the sonorous tones of this elder statesman of hollywood give instance gravitas to an issue many americans feel is of national security importance and then he sets his sights on his sworn enemy the united states bled a mere two thousand is that spine and this is no movie script the committee to investigate russia launched in the u.s. on tuesday

that's the kremlin!need to install cameras in here, they could just give putin binoculars. with my initial survey complete, andrei rejoined the investigation. because the presidential suite is known to be under surveillance, andrei and i swept the room for cameras and listening devices. they could be anywhere, even the pottery. so, is there any way of knowing if there's listening devices in here? >> well, for that you need special equipment. >> stephen: or you could break it open? >> that's also an option. >> stephen: yeah. >> obviously. >> stephen: yeah, there's nothing in there. ( phone ringing ) >> stephen: hello? ( inaudible ) >> stephen: there is an emergency button in my room? ( inaudible ) >> stephen: no, everything is great. thank you. thank you for checking. yeah, they're on to us. ( laughter ) yeah. that was andrei's cue to leave. but i wasn't done. so, who knows what really happened in this room? science does, and tonight, science is on your side. hit the lights. ( cheering ) let's investigate

election and that donald trump's campaign manager paul manafort offered to give a kremlin linked russian billionaire information about the election. joining me now, carol loennig, bylined on both stories. >> i don't know how you have time to master a knowledge of every properreporting piece goik to july. >> hyperlinks on my skin, just all memorized. terrible. you are reporting tonight a very detailed list of what robert mueller has asked for from the white house. one of those things appears to be give us anything you've got related to paul manafort. want to ask you a big question about where all the reporting is going on manafort. there's been so much reporting on manafort's potential legal jeopardy. to your mind is it becoming clear yet if that legal jeopardy is just his own? or are paul manafort's legal problems also problems for the white house? >> i don't want to prejudge what bob mueller knows. i like to say he knows a lot more than i do and his team, they've got subpoena power. don't want to prejudge any of that. but what we're seeing in our reporting and interviewing witnesses gon

with the tools of analysis so how is the big bad kremlin done at this time with the same old fake news weapons of course online trolls legions of bots and fake social network profiles and interestingly enough even julian assange and edward snowden's tweets about the impending referendum are being laid at russia's feet as well and our channel of course is in the mix being accused of publishing news about the situation in catalonia forty two times since the end of august not sure why a news agency publishing news is sinister but yes apparently they counted were also accused of publishing false stories about the boat with for example this headline which reads the e.u. will respect catalan independence but you'll notice that the quotation marks in the headline itself were left out in the body of the spanish article and respect is exactly what the european commission president said so it's unclear what their issue is the articles full of contradictions including emitting that catalans president is determined to hold a referendum and a large percentage of his people support it as well and ye

that's about your screens but no it's actually a new york times article use your imagination now kremlin bots turn into americans who influence the u.s. presidential elections since ational plot line the script must be amazing well here's a spoiler it was inspired by a post by facebook's security chief which said they had discovered hundreds of bots purchasing space for political ads our analysis suggests these accounts and pages were affiliated with one another and likely oprah rated out of russia this plotline also has a hint of mission impossible to sway the elections for just a hundred thousand dollars compare that with the whopping clinton campaign budget and what was the impact of that mish well facebook estimates that out of all the election related content posted on the platforms only one tenth of one percent resulted from information attacks like the alleged kremlin pain they'll need to do better than that if they want to sell this dollywood but ok what about the main villain i think you know what i'm talking about ip addresses can simply be made up mr putin said referring to in

take this lying down so at that point the kremlin ordered the u.s. state department to reduce their numbers their personnel in russia by seven hundred fifty five members washington then decided to take a more tit for tat approach to the situation and what they called parity shut down the san francisco consulate and the two and axes like i said in washington d.c. and new york city sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister expressed regret over the rise in tensions that he says was not started by russia and those closures really did signify an all time low. in us russian relations and while tensions seem to have called at this point we can only wait and see if the departure of these last few diplomats will be the last word on the matter. french president emanuel micron has been hit by a fresh wave of criticism after cutting taxes for the wealthy he's responded by saying his latest tax reform is aimed at encouraging investment and promoting talent in the country however many people in paris don't agree mourning the new leader is already becoming a pres

i mean you know so it's unclear what their issue is the kremlin's position on the matter is also to be found in the piece stating that the issue of catalan independence is one for spain to address. but it seems such denials coming from moscow don't matter to those pushing an increasingly shaky narratives every time the elite of whichever country feels that there might be a some sort of populist revolt or a vote against what the elite think they should be voting for they almost. actively say oh it must be russia interfering in these elections because they might get or any result that they don't want but it's crazy because we have seen time and time and time again there is no evidence of russian hacking. let's go to southern russia were chilling story has emerged police have detained what is alleged to be a curveball couple suspected of killing and eating up to thirty people ramon cost roads in the city of cross the door to his reporting includes graphic descriptions of what's alleged to be warned. we're standing outside a detention facility in crossman's are a city in south in russia th

indoctrination in the soviet union, which discouraged individualism and encouraged passive acceptance of kremlinule from cradle to grave. in 2011, the cia's information management services declassified over 200 documents regarding intelligence on the soviet union that the cia provided the reagan administration. included in the release were video briefings created by the directorate of intelligence for policymakers.