matteo renzi looks to comfortably defeat his two opponents, the minister of justice, and a governor. with the general election expected in the next 12 months, some people in italy are now talking about russia's role in their country's politics. willem is in rome. how is that, willem? >> it's interesting, actually. yesterday we spoke to one of the members of italian parliament foreign affairs committee, she's in matteo renzi's own party. she said she asked the government about russian interference in the election. it's something people have been talking about following allegations from the u.s. and france. one man who pushed back on that is a member of the five-star movement, he is also on the same foreign affairs committee. here's what he said about italy and russia. >> current role, no. i think that we have to reduce our economic investment in nato. nowadays we are spending 1.16% of our gdp. and it's something like 80 million euro per day. i think there are wealthier things to put this money. we have to review that and we think about what we are supporting nowadays. we are still in

your government is now building detention centres, something that under matteo renzi it refused to dos. no, it never refused to do on humanitarian grounds. they have built 16. yes, because we also say that we must work and be more effective, as italians and europeans, also on return policies. and we have said it is not only... we have been negotiating for months with the european commission on the so—called hotspot. it identified the potential asylum seekers, but we have also said this is only a part of the issue. the other side of the problem... a representative of the northern league, the right—wing northern league, said, were the league and i are not made out to be racists, inventing fears, when we were calling for these centres, and suddenly, as he says, i thought everything was under control, and there was a change of policy. if it was right then, why has it changed? he pretends not to understand. he understands perfectly, but he pretends not to understand. we need to do much more on the return policy. so it was a mistake not to do it? we must be more effective on the return poli

four months after resigning as italy's prime minister, matteo renzi is hoping to be re—elected as leader party. polls suggest mr renzi will win the vote despite a crushing defeat in a referendum on constitutional reform that caused him to stand down in december. he faces two rivals. whoever wins will lead the centre—left into the general election. a scientific study suggests that people with certain blood groups have a slightly—increased risk of heart attack and stroke. the research says it could be because people with a, b and ab blood groups have higher levels of a blood—clotting protein. scientists say the findings could help doctors better understand who is at risk of developing heart disease. we are nowjoined from paris by the lead author of the study, dr tessa kole. how much greater is the risk of heart attack or stroke if you are in these blood groups? the daytime we have suggests that it is about 5%. —— the daytime we have. have suggests that it is about 5%. -- the daytime we have. how concerned should people be? what can they do to protect themselves? people don't need be concer

so no need for the eu to modify its rules because you all know that matteo renzi, your party leader and suspend state aid rules to allow a recapitalisation and angela merkel basically said no. well, she wasn't supposed to say yes or no because it is not the german government who decides this. she made the point, we wrote the rules for the credit system, we can't change them after two years. we should evaluate and as i say, it is whether there are rules on this banking recovery, have been really implemented in the rest of the union. if you look, the only case where there have been really fully implemented has been in the case of cyprus. in the other cases, there hasn't been a full implementation of this rule. if everybody is trying to adapt, to add just, this rule. if everybody is trying to adapt, to addjust, common this rule. if everybody is trying to adapt, to add just, common rules to the specific situation, probably it is because the common rules are not so efficient. so what are you saying? are you saying to ignore the rules ? saying? are you saying to ignore the rules? i am saying

the polls show the former prime minister matteo renzi will win by a comfortable margin. renzi resigning after the referendum defeat. is this really back into politics for him? >> based on the polls it looks like he's likely toned up the candida to end up the party candidate. he was up on stage last night debating against two of his main opponents here in the primary. one of them is a governor, and the other is the current minister of justice here. andrea orlando. one thing renzi was focused on during his conversations was about the european union and italy's role in europe. this is something he always put at the heart of his candidacy. he's been a pro european candidate for a long time. in italy there are movements against the european union. the five star movement and their coalition partners. there's a lot of euro skepticism at the moment. there's also the italian attitude towards russia. i spoke a while ago to the head of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee here, and she told me she saw russia as a major threat to italian politics. >> the way the russians are g

sanctions, boris johnson said he thought there should be, but it is italy chairing the g-7, and matteo renzi last year who is now out of office, was the first european leaders to break ranks and pete putin after the sanctions put on putin because of ukraine, met with him in st. petersburg in may last year. that's because italy has a stronger economic ties and interdependence with russia. italy tends to be a bit more politically close. so, when we try to look at why allies weren't so ready to get behind additional sanctions, there's a diplomatic rational as we heard, not to box russia in. but there are divisions among the european countries. at one time the united states would turn to england to have euro influence on its partners now with brexit, not so much. >> let's discuss all of this with robert hunter, former ambassador to nato under the clinton administration and former foreign policy adviser to senator ted kennedy, and retired major general, spider marks. thank you both for being here. you have tillerson saying either russia and putin were incompetent or complicit in the weapons attac