r.t. international riyadh's power play in the middle east intensifies saudi arabia drop small bombs on yemen while also being accused of stirring up a war against. the u.s. military steps up its efforts to militarize space splashing the cash on new warfare capabilities. cia whistleblower john kiriakou is removed from an e.u. parliament panel at the last minute simply for co-hosting a radio program on russian media outlets sputnik. they feel like they can't even risk even tangentially association with the russians or with anything russian.

riyadh. good evening money you're watching r.t. international and we'll start this hour with breaking news because wiki leaks claims that the cia's created a computer program that impersonates the antivirus software of the russian company kaspersky lab let's get more details on this story now from our correspondent kelli what else is in these revelations. well at this point we have a new batch of documents from wiki leaks vault a now this new batch is known as hive and essentially it reveals the source code and development logs used in cia malware infrastructure very very interesting now at this point it is revealed that the cia had a method for actually impersonating the russian company known as kaspersky labs now just recently it was reported that in two thousand and fifteen this company kaspersky labs had stolen cyber secrets from the u.s. national security agency with with software that they had developed however they've denied any wrongdoing u.s. authorities have actually barred anyone from any any u.s. government officials from using kaspe

r.t. . israel's top military official says his country is willing to share intelligence on iran with saudi arabia the remarks code further complicate not only an ongoing standoff between tehran and riyadh but also internal affairs in the kingdom isa ali has more on the story. over the past ten or fifteen years there's been a feeling amongst those in tel aviv and riyadh that they have a shared interest in pushing back iranian influence in the region but over the last year or two it's becoming more and more obvious and these latest comments by the israeli military's chief of staff essentially saying it admitting that israel and saudi arabia are ready to exchange information and share intelligence on iran and its allies in the region and it's thought that this is something which has been. perhaps to boo in the past something which saudi leaders haven't been able to make the case to their own populations but now it feel more comfortable to do so and it appears the rule of the middle east is that my enemy's enemy is my friend so those two countries increasing very cooperation in order to push back what they say is rainy and expansionism in the region now of course the situation here in lebanon has been somew