the kremlin though and the ministry of defense are staying very tight lipped the kremlin says that it has no information about all of this the report should be verified and perhaps they should be put to the ministry of defense themselves now despite being technically illegal in russia private military companies have done much of the fighting on the russian side in both ukraine and syria it's a way of outsourcing military dirty work keeping costs and casualties off the books essentially but this catastrophe could blow the lid on all that and russian m.p.'s are starting to clamor for information it's not often the kremlin faces such a domestic challenge to its long maintain the stance of plausible deniability. sunday's plane crash in russia may have been caused by a frozen speed gauges minutes after taking off a passenger jet crashed in a field near moscow on sunday killing all seventy one people on board investigators say the crew may have failed to follow correct icing procedures an advisor to the former president of south korea has been sentenced to twenty years in prison tracing sho

ministry of defense in russia this. of that appears to say they received a call that the white helmets might be involved in perhaps a future chemical attack anything on that here in the i don't know i don't have any information that would be like saying a british funded agency was threatening a chemical attack in syria well i'll tell you but a listen you know to the commands of the foreign office they are very quick on some comments russian ambassador thank you more from the ambassador after the break plus a look at the papers with associate fellow chatham house professor matthew goodwin that's all coming up in bottom of going underground. last kaiser's financial survival guide liquid does it you can convert that as quite easily. to keep in mind that to me the place is a. record. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution. the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be increasingly violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know here i mean you know let's put video. pulling yo

is quoting unnamed security sources who say the foreign ministry and the ministry of defense have been the targets of cyber attacks what sort of attacks are we talking about here and have they been confirmed they haven't been confirmed yet officially but they are two quite reliable sources as you mentioned already deep a one of them quoting a security official so i think we can take this as a matter of fact apparently the government system was attacked were was placed on the government servers in the government network and also data was stolen from these networks from basically the inner core of data intelligence in germany and this tag was already discovered in december but got public only today now that d.p.a. a news agency story suggests that a group calling itself a a p t twenty eight was behind the attack what do we know about this group. well a.p.t stands for advanced persistent threat and these are groups intelligence authorities believe that there are some one hundred fifty around the world and all these groups are. particularly well equipped when it comes to time money and kno

the statement from the ministry of defense pointing the finger at russia, saying it may be interferingl bank governor was detained over the weekend on suspicion of securing bribes, a charge he denies. a spokesperson says the governor is not going to today's ecb governing council meeting. joining us now from moscow. is our senior reporter. still with us, the cio of saxo bank. henry, how are the russians playing this story? henry: there have not been any comments on these allegations made in latvia. russia wasn't actually named, but it was clear they were referring to it. issuedis statement was by the ministry of defense. so far, there hasn't been any official comment. this play more broadly? -- whichthis crisis ands to start fairly start escalate from there. how does it evil from here? what is the evolution likely to look like? henry: well, of course, the question is how long can the governor hang on to his job? he denies the accusations against him, but the longer it goes on, he can't go to the ecb meeting today. the country's political leaders have repeatedly asked him to step down an

the kremlin though and the ministry of defense are staying very tight lipped the kremlin says that it has no information about all of this there's the report should be verified and perhaps they should be put to the ministry of defense themselves now despite being technically illegal in russia private military companies have done much of the fighting on the russian side in both ukraine and syria it's a way of outsourcing military dirty work keeping costs and casualties off the books essentially but this catastrophe could blow the lid on all that and russian m.p.'s are starting to clamor for information it's not often that the kremlin faces such a domestic challenge to its long maintain the stance of plausible deniability. let's turn now to that conference in kuwait about rebuilding iraq after its campaign against i saw the country needs tens of billions of dollars to rebuild some of its cities after the war against that group made has more on just what iraq wants for fifteen years conflict has laid waste to iraq roads schools hospitals industry even entire cities are now in ruin millio

the kremlin though and the ministry of defense are staying very tight lipped the kremlin says that it has no information about all of this there's the report should be verified and perhaps there should be put to the ministry of defense themselves now despite being technically illegal in russia private military companies have done much of the fighting on the russian side in both ukraine and syria it's a way of outsourcing military dirty work keeping costs and casualties off the books essentially but this catastrophe could blow the lid on all that and russian m.p.'s are starting to clamor for information it's not often the kremlin faces such a domestic challenge so it's wrong maintain the stance of plausible deniability. sunday's plane crash in russia may have been caused by a frozen speed gauges minutes after taking off the passenger jet crashed in a field near moscow on sunday killing all seventy one people on board investigators say the crew may have failed to follow correct procedures turkey is one cyprus and greece not to explore for gas near its coastline cyprus says turkish warsh

targeted a number of countries in june last year including russian but it comes after the danish ministry of defense also accused russia of responsibility for the attack and recently the british government made the same accusation but it seems the u.k. foreign office minister man who made the statement couldn't actually confirm that it was the doing of moscow the u.k.'s national cybersecurity sends a sense is that the russian military was almost certainly responsible for the destructive not patch of cyber attack of june twenty seventh. yet the mower behind the attack is called not petyr the first reports on the cyber attack came from ukraine but quickly spread around the world it's believed not petty one hundred at least two thousand organizations including transport systems bikes and hospital grids russia the u.k. the us germany and france were all hit by malware we talked to adam garri director eurasia future news media who say you scapegoating russia well it's all the rage these these. it's just a trend it's a it was communists were everywhere in the fifty's then it was everyone who's a muslim is

was then subsequently killed in a fight with terrorists again that's coming from the russian ministry of defense they also added that it's believed that a anti-aircraft missile system was actually used in the downing of the plane and very quickly after the attack took place videos and photos surfaced online most of them very graphic and disturbing showing rebels taking photos of the dead pilot and stomping on the debris of the crashed plane now. of the group that has claimed responsibility of attack say that they are part of the moderate opposition free syrian army but it's widely believed that they are in fact actually allied with the latest incarnation of they have in the past enjoyed support from washington and even received weapons from the u.s. at this point russia did react quite quickly and has already carried out a number of persuasion strikes in the area with the ministry reporting that over thirty militants were killed as a result. friday still the release of the alleging the f.b.i. and justice department abused their powers to secure a warrant to spy on trump's election campaign putti

was then subsequently killed in a fight with terrorists again that's coming from the russian ministry of defense they also added that it's believed that a anti-aircraft missile system was actually used in the downing of the plane and very quickly after the attack took place videos and photos surfaced online most of them very graphic and disturbing showing rebels taking photos of the dead pilot and stomping on the debris of the crashed plane now. the group that has claimed responsibility of the tax say that they are part of the moderate opposition free syrian army but it's widely believed that they are in fact actually allied with the latest incarnation. they have in the past enjoyed support from washington and even received weapons from the u.s. at this point russia did react quite quickly and has already carried out a number of persuasion strikes in the area with the ministry reporting that over thirty militants were killed as a result. a newly released u.s. congressional memo has ignited a firestorm of controversy in washington the document written by republicans alleges the f.b.i. and the jus

at the ministry of defense in russia and this. of that appears to say they received a call that the white helmets may be involved in perhaps a future chemical attack anything on that here in the i don't know i don't have any information but that would be like saying a british funded agency was threatening a chemical attack in syria well i'll tell you better listen you know to the commands of the foreign office they are very quick on some comments russian ambassador thank you more from the ambassador after the break plus a look at the papers with associate fellow chatham house professor matthew goodwin that's all coming up in bottom of going underground. for. the book. and it's getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos and dismiss it. like you know. this isn't my cup of tea is going on sunday on meet. the only palestinians is who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the vision to look at this . and there's a lot. i

of cults were held alongside a. migrant protest. from moscow to the world this is r t international my names you know nato welcome to the program our breaking news this hour russia's defense ministry says rebel fighters have shot down a russian jet in syria's province and killed the pilots on verified footage of the incident has been posted online by the militants. a lot of. planning to look at. the let's talk about the. well a second video purportedly showing the rebels posing with the dead body of the pilot was also surfaced on the internet a warning you may find the images you're about to see obsessing. the clip appears to show one of the militants taking a selfie next to the victim others are also taking pictures and. more and what else we know but the incident by this stage. of the incident took place in the northwestern village of mosques around in the province and that's one of the last remaining rebel strongholds in the country now according to the russian defense ministry the pilot did manage to eject from the plane and parachuted down to the ground and an area that's actually controlled by the terrorist group. he was then subsequently killed in a fight with terrorists ag

al-jazeera reached out to the israeli ministry of defense for comment it says it has submitted a statement of defense to the court stating that the event in which the plaintiffs was killed constitutes wartime activity as defined by the law and therefore the state is immune from prosecution in this event in the light of the damage that was caused to the i.d.f. jeep as a result of the molotov cocktail three mother plaintiffs the ministry has filed a countersuit. remembered very fondly here and the thing as a martyr to the palestinian cause graffiti of his face adorns the walls of the village people here say they'll never forget about him. the family say they will continue to fight for justice for the law and they've named the new after him they say they would rather face whatever consequences there may be than pay the israeli army any money imran khan how does it go for the maalik occupied west bank when all the developments israel has started building a wall on its border with lebanon with leaders in lebanon saying that the structure will threaten security and a region that's already volati

this is included meddling in elections and hacking the danish ministry of defense and put them to stark among many others. it is seeking to weaponize information deploying state run media organizations to plant fake stories and photo shopped images in an attempt to sew discord in the west anyone seeing wednesday's episode of going underground will have seen the ambassador of the russian federation to the u.k. deny serious allegations like that made by britain's minority government leader let alone allegations like these from the head of the cia will be in germany today it seems that the world is stunned that the russians are trying to to poke their hand into the us elections and polls because this is not a new phenomenon the technology is different the tools that they use are different . but this was a threat in twenty six it will be a threat in the mid-term elections and twenty eight will be a threat in two thousand and twenty until there's a new leader in russia i suspect it will be a threat to the united states for an awfully long time well arguably that kool-aid is certainly being d

which targeted a number of countries last june including russia that comes after the danish ministry of defense also says russia was responsible for the attack while the british government has also made the same accusation but foreign office minister lord our man who made the statements couldn't actually confirm it was done to moscow the u.k.'s national cybersecurity center assesses that the russian military was almost certainly responsible for the destructive not patch of cyber attack of june twenty seventh. well as we heard there the malware behind the attack is called not pressure the first reports of the cyber attack came from ukraine but quickly spread around the world it's believed not pet your hacked at least two thousand organizations including transport systems banks and hospitals russia the u.k. the us germany and france were all affected political commentator adam gary says making russia the scapegoat is all the rage. it's just a trend it's a it was communists were everywhere in the fifty's then it was everyone who's a muslim is somehow a danger now it's russians maybe next month it

iraq and syria of recent huge everything is just under two billion pounds which is to say the ministry of defense or the british government say no civilians no evidence of any civilians being killed by this two billion pounds worth of drone warfare operations i think i would argue that see the no evil to liberally misleading especially when you kind of look at the figures where it says that the u.k. is actually spent less on humanitarian assistance in iraq and they have spent on trying to strike at the moment it's clear you know in the kind of words tony bennett you can find money to kill people you can fly money to help people or whatever side you are on the syrian civil war there's no doubt there have been masses of refugees so let's go to this next story about. about how britain is dealing with refugees yes this one from the canary about the yells with hunger strike which is going on at the moment a wake up call for the even humane detention policy un may not have been allowed to go in but the british government does maintain these are not really. anyway there are many of them are people who h

this is included meddling in elections and hacking the danish ministry of defense and put them to stark among many others. it is seeking to weaponize information deploying state run media organizations to plant fake stories and photo shopped images in an attempt to sell discord in the west anyone seeing wednesday's episode of going underground will have seen the ambassador of the russian federation to the u.k. deny a serious allegations like that made by britain's minority government leader let alone allegations like these from the head of the cia will be in germany today it seems that the world is stunned that the russians are trying to to poke their hand into the us elections and policy because this is not a new phenomenon the technology is different the tools that they use are different but this was a threat in twenty six it will be a threat in the mid-term elections and twenty eight will be a threat in two thousand and twenty until there's a new leader in russia i suspect it will be a threat to the united states for an awfully long time well arguably that kool-aid has certainly been

which targeted a number of countries last june including russia that comes after the danish ministry of defense also says russia was responsible for the attack while the british government has also made the same accusation but the foreign office minister lord outmanned who made the statement couldn't actually confirm if it was done to moscow. the u.k.'s national cybersecurity center assesses that the russian military was almost certainly responsible for the destructive not patch of cyber attack of june twenty seventh. when the mao where behind the attack is called not petyr the first reports of the cyber attack came from ukraine but quickly spread around the world it's believed not pecera hacked at least two thousand organizations including transport systems banks and hospitals russia the u.k. the us germany and france were all affected political commentator adam gary thinks making russia the scapegoat is all the rage. it's just a trend it's a it was communists were everywhere in the fifty's then it was everyone who's a muslim is somehow a danger now it's russians maybe next month it will be th

which targeted a number of countries last june including russia that comes after the danish ministry of defense also says russia was responsible for the attack while the british government has also made the same accusation but foreign office minister loued akhmed who made the statement could actually confirm if it was done to moscow the u.k.'s national cybersecurity censor assesses that the russian military was almost certainly responsible for the destructive not purchase cyber attack of june twenty seventh. well the malware behind the attack is called not pecera the first reports of the cyber attack came from ukraine but quickly spread around the world it's believed not pacha hacked at least two sounds nor can i as ations including transport systems banks and hospitals russia the u.k. as the us germany and france were all affected the sickle commentator adam gary says making russia the scapegoat is all the rage. it's just a trend it's a it was communists were everywhere in the fifty's then it was everyone who's a muslim is somehow a danger now it's russians maybe next month it will be the chin

this is included meddling in elections and hacking the danish ministry of defense and put them to stark among many others. it is seeking to weaponize information deploying state run media organizations to plant fake stories and photo shopped images in an attempt to sell discord in the west and anyone seeing wednesday's episode of going underground will have seen the ambassador of the russian federation to the u.k. deny serious allegations like that made by britain's minority government leader let alone allegations like these from the head of the cia will be in germany today it seems that the world is stunned that the russians are trying to to poke their hand into the us elections and polls because this is not a new phenomenon the technology is different the tools that they use are different but this was a threat in twenty six it will be a threat in the mid-term elections and twenty eight will be a threat in two thousand and twenty until there's a new leader in russia i suspect it will be a threat to the united states for an awfully long time well arguably that kool-aid has certainly bee

be considered to insult the state and its inhabitants al-jazeera reached out to the israeli ministry of defense for comment it says it has submitted a statement of defense to the court stating that the event in which the plaintiffs was killed constitutes wartime activity as defined by the law and therefore the state is immune from. in this event in the light of the damage that was caused to the i.d.f. jeep as a result of the molotov cocktail trained by the plaintiffs the ministry has filed a counter suit adel is remembered very fondly here and he's seen as a martyr for the palestinian cause graffiti of his face adorns the walls of the village and people here say they'll never forget about him. the family say they will continue to fight for justice for the law and they've named the new poem some after him they say they would rather face whatever consequences there may be than pay the israeli army any money imraan khan out is their call for malik occupied west bank the ukrainian president has dismissed his chief economic advisor after an al-jazeera investigation showed he received millions of dol

this is included meddling in elections and hacking the danish ministry of defense and put them to stark among many others. it is seeking to weaponize information deploying state run media organizations to plant fake stories and photo shopped images in an attempt to sell discord in the west anyone seeing wednesday's episode of going underground will have seen the ambassador of the russian federation to the u.k. deny serious allegations like that made by britain's minority government leader let alone allegations like these from the head of the cia will be in germany today it seems that the world is stunned that the russians are trying to to poke their hand into the us elections and polls because this is not a new phenomenon the technology is different the tools that they use are different but this was a threat in twenty six it will be a threat in the mid-term elections and twenty eighty will be a threat in two thousand and twenty until there's a new leader in russia i suspect it will be a threat to the united states for an awfully long time well arguably that kool aid is certainly being d

which targeted a number of countries last june including russia that comes after the danish ministry of defense also says russia was responsible for the attorney well the british government has also made the same accusation that foreign office minister lord are now to made the statement could actually confirm it was done to moscow the u.k.'s national cybersecurity center assesses that the russian military was almost certainly responsible for the destructive not patches cyber attack of june twenty seventh. for the mouw air behind the attack is called not petyr the first reports of the cyber attack came from ukraine that quickly spread around the world it's believed not pecha hacked at least two thousand organizations including transport systems banks and hospitals russia the u.k. the us germany and france were all affected political commentator adam gary says making russia the scapegoat is all the rage it's just a trend that was communists were everywhere in the fifty's then it was everyone who's a muslim is somehow a danger now it's russians maybe next month it will be the chinese but since rus

be considered to insult the state and its inhabitants al-jazeera reached out to the israeli ministry of defense for comment it says it has submitted state is immune from prosecution in this event in the light of the damage that was caused to the i.d.f. jeep as a result of the molotov cocktail thrown by the plaintiffs the ministry has filed account to suit. bob dylan is remembered very fondly here and he's seen as a martyr to the palestinian cause graffiti of his face adorns the walls of the village and people here say they'll never forget about him. the family say they will continue to fight for justice for the law and they named their new poem son after him they say they would rather face whatever consequences there may be than pay the israeli army any money imran khan how does it feel for the maalik occupied west bank. still ahead for you on the program. anger on the streets of dakar to bangladesh sentences former prime minister khalid his ear to five years for corruption. and the pride of democracy activists captured thailand's attention but also enjoying anger from the nation's military pla

israeli prime minister, sometimes they will assemble a small committee, usually almost always the ministry of defense or foreign affairs or one of the religious ministers or some authority from god, she wanted to have that as part of the decision-making process but they all understood and still understand the gravity of that to issue a death verdict in a country that does not have death penalty and doing that without due process , there's nothing there. the only thing you had is the chief of the organization coming to the prime minister to convince him. this is usually happening in his private house, the house of the prime minister injures them. the chief of the organization, whoever he is, he is not bringing with him, he is bringing the intelligent officers. these are people, most under the age of 30. some of them under the age of 35. this is how the israeli system works. they are trying to convince the prime minister, just imagine the drama that unfolds. also, throughout time, some of these people were there to convince the prime minister to issue an assassination of someone, some of these people c

statement saying that they will retaliate against any israeli aggression on the territory the ministry of defense is actually leading this operation they are in meetings right now trying to figure out what they're doing next but yes the operation is still ongoing but no confirmation as to how these really sixteen will playing which crashed and we know the israelis have been speaking to the russians they of course control the airspace above syria one of the israelis been saying about that. well the israeli ambassador to russia has been very clear saying it's time to get rid of iran and hizbollah militias from the border with syria now they've been saying this for a very long time but in the summer they really ratcheted up the language when it came to iran these rallies and said that they will not accept any presence on the border any iranian presence on the border and that going off the iranians how gets right now like he'd send a very big message to iran but what can russia really do russia and iran are on the same side they're supporting the syrian president bashar al assad so russia really has

was a tribute you could have someone because with his second tour's personal assistant to the ministry of defense of the philippines. and that is typical for the philippines. >> so to understand the situation in 1950 there was a fear in washington that communism was on the march the time the korean war was read today in china had fallen to the communist russia had acquired a nuclear bomb we felt we were losing this battle in asia and now with this insurgency in the philippines seem to be on the verge to take over manila so we were so committed to the korean war with no troops to spare even talked about sending multiple divisions to the philippines but instead frank who was the operations chief of the top secret that folded into the cia said their job was to rescue the philippines from communism so the way they did that was by latching on to the young defense minister because he thought they would turn the philippines around. and essentially he became like a brother and were roommates for a while. together, under lansdale's guidance they came up with population centric counterinsurgency. so issue

agency goes further it quotes unnamed sources who say that the german foreign ministry in the ministry of defense have been targeted what sort of attacks are we talking about here that's right the german interior ministry just confirmed these attacks that were carried out by the way during the whole year or maybe even a year ago they were just. discovered in december and published only today by the german news agency that you just quoted it's unclear helping the damage really is the fear is of course that certain networks off the government are infiltrated here what we do know is that malware was uploaded to the government servers here of the interior ministry and probably all the foreign ministry as well and that data will stolen now the d.p.a. story suggests that a group calling itself the a p t twenty eight was behind the attack what can you tell us about this group. well the so-called a.p.t groups are among the most powerful hacker groups worldwide and security experts believe that there are around one hundred fifty of these groups operating on a very highly professional level they're very we

the future and there are many few look in a grand coalition out will lead the ministry of economic affairs minister of defense remains under law in the new minister of agriculture. perhaps the biggest surprise is. taking the health ministry and the ecology check is responsible for education and research it was the inclusion of one of her most prominent critics an ambitious young conservative that raised eyebrows does mention byron is not the only one that makes critical comments that's fine we're here to build a better germany i believe he wants to contribute to that just like all other cabinet members. of us now inside the tent span watched from the wings quietly for now. earlier i spoke to kill a customer and ask her if chancellor merkel's new cabinet picks will lead to any real changes in policy but we can certainly expect a different kind of tone and what she did is she brought in someone who is completely unknown really on the broader political scene and your car to check she's an m.p. who comes from the same region as you and spot uses very prominent critic of german chancellor angela merkel who is now

saudi arabia's king solomon has replaced top military commanders in the shake up of its defense ministry now those fired include the saudi army's chief of staff and the heads of ground and air defense forces no official reason was given for the overhaul but it does come saudi arabia faces growing condemnation of the war in yemen saudi led coalition is supporting pro-government forces fighting with the rebels backed by iran. russia has vetoed a u.n. resolution which would have criticized iran for failing to prevent its weapons from falling into the hands of the movie rebels in yemen now instead the u.n. security council unanimously adopted a russian proposed resolution which didn't mention iran diplomatic editor james bays reports now from the u.n. in new york for the middle east this was an important moment russia for the first time casting its veto in the security council to protect iran it came in a moment of high drama in the council chamber to rival resolutions on yemen put to back to back votes the one vetoed by russia was a u.k. draft back strongly by the u.s. which contain critici

he will attend a meeting of the ministry of defense there. day is also ronald reagan date and celebration of reagan's birthday. and my mom's birthday, too. down in tallahassee, florida. we thank you for watching us tonight. a lot of news coming in on the memo. to recap the democrat's b6 was voted unanimously. it will go to the white house for the same legal scrubbing that was done with the g.o.p. memo and we'll watch to see. the president has five days, the white house to make sure to see if it will be publicly released. democrats think of the president doesn't release it, he will have people wondering why. we'll see what he decides and bring it to you, the very latest on "fox news @ night." for tonight, most-watched, most trusted, and most grateful you spent the eveni >> dow jones industrial average falling more point is otherwise than it ever has in history. >> anyone with a connection or done any work, positive or otherwise in russia, constantly sort of the number one target for attacks. it was a liability pretty quick. >> house intel commi

top military commanders have been fired in the shake up of saudi arabia's defense ministry those dismissed include the army's chief of staff and the heads of the. ground and the air defense forces no official reason has been given for the overhaul but it comes to saudi arabia faces growing condemnation over the war in yemen saudi led coalition is supporting pro-government forces fighting to see rebels backed by iran let's get more analysis of that from james dorsey he's a senior fellow at the s. rajaratnam school of international studies he joins us on skype from singapore james dorsey what impact will this have on the conflict in yemen i think that remains to be seen i think there are probably three aspects to the changes in the military command one is to bring to show that this is a more youthful a younger administration both to the domestic audience and the international audience the problem with assessing the impact on the war in yemen is that we don't know really what the sentiment is both within the saudi public as well as within the saudi military with regard to the yemen war there