to the cia defense and foreign affairs analyst gregory copley told us the allegations against us perske here likely had no grow these actions based on political machinery which which they should perhaps be in africa an outrage and he hit the headlines back in for two miles for myself and i decided to you know with you know a little bit of thoughts of what would i decided to try and get all her family is quite obvious that you know i didn't do it for money it was quite obvious i didn't do it for you know any political gain or anything out there it was quite will be purely did it out of the humanitarian. desire to help this little girl the french government the three judges in the call so all this for what it was they viewed it as a stupid act by an ex soldier. that almost live in five years in prison far before his punishment was reduced to a one thousand euro fine and called a crime of compassion by the media rob laurie again spoke to us about a possible agenda now from the french authorities. i could only presume their agenda would be that if they were to stop aid workers are humanitar

are you aware of any breaches to our national security that have been facilitated by the cat's perske products so we are still working through the process to identify for that phrase several times a day working through the process and that is not sufficient of an answer so it's not conclusive at this time you don't know whether or not systems have been breached by cast brewski lab products you had we do not currently have evidence that conclusive evidence that they have been breached or two months ago homeland security ordered agencies under its umbrella to identify cast perske software on their computers and remove it on the grounds of that alleged espionage threat well that is after the moscow based company was accused of leaking classified information to the russian security services well kaspersky lab denies the allegations stressing that it has never assisted any government with cyber espionage efforts the fence on foreign affairs analyst gregory copley told us the allegations against kaspersky likely had no grounds to begin with they're making these judgments and taking these ac

earlier the us department of homeland security ordered federal civilian agencies to identify cast perske software on their computers and remove it that was on the grounds of an alleged cyber espionage threat softer the company was accused of leaking classified information to russian secret services their risk that the russian government by their action i had sown or in collaboration with conspiracy could capitalize on access provided by kostecki products to compromise federal information and information systems directly implicates u.s. national security. has denied these allegations in a statement the moscow based company said it has never helped any government with cyber espionage efforts it went on to say that kaspersky is a cyber security firm with no involvement in politics now the story actually goes even further just last week we can reveal that the cia has created a hostile special hostile program that actually imitates caste perske software according to wiki leaks it implants a virus on the user's computer and then sends information back to the cia itself defense and foreign affa

wiki leaks has revealed in the past week that the cia has created a hostile program that imitates perske software according to the whistle blowing group it uses computer viruses to send back information to the cia. the lebanese president is accusing saudi arabia of a hostile act it concerns the lebanese prime minister who flew to the saudi capital under properly resigned there on saturday. nothing just defies that hariri did not return after twelve days we consider it to be custody and detention violating the vienna convention and the convention of human rights. based journalist martin g. joins us more to shed some light hopefully on this story and it does need some light being shed on it doesn't it martin it just seems so so dense from the outset what is the latest on this diplomatic right bring us up to date. it's reading more and more every day like a really bad hollywood movie scripts were nobody really knows the ending certainly least of all the saudis today we received a statement in beirut which i could got them out of attention that the president here michel own is losing some pa

perske the victim by any chance in all of this it had been thrown up as a sacrifice. yes yes i suppose it is you know that it has a good reputation a lot of companies as well as governments of usually services to protect it remember it is a protective service basically and so if you can. insert a virus into that protective operation that. really queries the their own credibility so as i say it is mischief making. if it were. gaining information gaining information about new high tech. and missile systems that would be more of the traditional role of intelligence agencies seeking information but as i say this is compromising the alternative the opposition compromised and it's a hugely expensive program but it is one that the americans and the american co-writers are extremely effective at doing. more some fascinating views appreciate your time i guess the more training a harvey british intelligence analyst. thank you. united states is trying to sow divisions in russia ahead of march's presidential election this is according to vladimir putin did that it comes as retali

homeland security admits it has no evidence against past perske lab that's the spot buying the russian for software from government computers over cyber spying claims . global news twenty four seven live from moscow this is all to international i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program now we go first to spain where.

found eugene cast perske confirmed on twitter that the malware mimicked his for software he added though that all uses of the genuine antivirus product are safe and on effective details here now with r.t.s. . one of the revelations in the new batch of documents shows that the cia has a program for imitating kaspersky laboratory a well known russian software company conspiracy laboratory has been at the center of some scandal recently we had u.s. authorities essentially barring any government agency from using their products saying that they present a risk to homeland security a recent report from the wall street journal accused kaspersky laboratory of essentially stealing government information and secrets with its malware software from the u.s. n.s.a. national security agency we actually had a statement from the u.s. homeland security secretary regarding the laboratory that their risk that the russian government by their action on its own or in collaboration with conspiracy could capitalize on access provided by kaspersky products to compromise federal information and information system