everyone my order is western media declared that we were in a building that the chairman of the russian central bank the best central banker in that wall there was a very fine if you can article right. and then the russian hackers decided that i think immediately after the cold war there was an interesting piece in new york times i think was in one thousand and three was one of the leaders of a national government for the marks and one of the sponsors of the marcus it isn't here is actually made the argument that a lot of what it did during the cold war covertly couldn't be done over at least in the name of the marxist i didn't even have to hide himself and more so since if you see a government which isn't what defined by us democratic then you can do whatever you want to topple the. government funded ok here's my deal with they will get it they were they were fearful they were futile they were the loser fighting and then flipped on it we're not going to mormon always make a good argument for promoting democracy but as. i think at the heart of it the problem is that it undermines the entire concept

the russians central bank not making any change to its interest rate policy.penstion is, what with sanctions. if you look at the currency column, you will see the brazilian real is rallying, up .8%. pushingdomestic buyers it up. foreigners are short the real. another weekday for the south korean won. -- us look at south sovereign bonds, inspectors tapering expectations of tightening, even in europe, pushing back the expectation of a rate hike to 2020. let us look at emerging markets, hoping -- joining global markets in heading for the worst monthly losses in years. tatiana orlova joins us now. speaking of emerging markets, let us start with russia. we found no change in the central bank policy but sanctions are in question. we should know more about that next week. what is your base case for the russian economy now? the russian economy is still going to grow this year and next, even if the u.s. imposes sanctions. it seems the sanctions imposed by u.s. senators may not be approved by the congress. the draft bill has been sent back for redrafting. the russian ma

the kremlin is behind cyber attacks that helped disrupt service on odessa airport and the russian central bankgencies. the british foreign secretary says of the gru, the russian military intelligence out first "gru's actions are discriminate and they try to undermine elections in other countries, this pattern demonstrates their desire to operate without regard to international law." the russian response, they say the west is simply coordinating a propaganda campaign against the kremlin, shep. >> shepard: and the russians got caught doping in the olympics. the feds say the russians tried to discredit the doping agencies. >> that's right. russian athletes were banned from 2016 and 2018 games. these anti-doping games that uncovered this sponsored program for russian athletes were the target of the russian government. that's according to the department of justice. they said the russian government entered into this massive disinformation campaign to try to discredit those agencies and they managed to steal information, medical information, private information for 250 athletes from nearly 30 differe

the fact that the russian central bank apparently was caught up central bank apparently was caught upng to deter them, what is the point? it is part of a tactic we have seen over the last few months of more strident vocal calling out by members of the government here and working very closely with allies as well. it also has to be seen in the wider political context, rising tensions particularly in the wake of the salisbury attack, and a sense that the russian state seems to be acting with a sense of impunity. this is pa rt with a sense of impunity. this is part of a series of responses and it is allies standing together saying we will not put up with this quietly. thank you. we will be talking to parents about how much screen time you allow your children to have, new research suggesting 50% of the night and four year—olds on their own device. it's the reality tv show which is being called the new big brother. the circle sees contestants moving into the same building but living in separate apartments. they can communicate using only a specially designed social media app, which means th

russian hackers working. for the g.r.u. even hacked russia's central bank which appears to be slightly odd but so tolerant of the. bank so essentially saying the government isn't doing enough but what tom is also doing is applying pressure to jeremy corbyn on this because jeremy corbyn stance on this is fairly mute he doesn't really get involved with the whole debacle between russia and the west he takes a step back from it it seems to be obsessed by evidence. shocking i'll tell you that we have a job former security official from the british army coming on the show next week and he's saying also do we have to investigate russian influence over corbin mcdonald these people are clearly they won the labor leadership because of that we need a mirror investigation against corbett as well it must be yes i surely will be that is serious. i'm sure it is very serious in his mind it's kind of flimsy from a and if you don't think this is the key element of what we should be talking about with putin cause bricks and. i'd say if we're talking about people subverting de

russian books, russia everywhere here. >> we're very similar people. >> preston does business in russia and has built some very close ties with power players like the deputy head of russia's central bankformer senator and putin ally. >> do you consider aleksandr torshin a friend? >> absolutely. senator torsion is a gun enthusiast and he's a big proponent of the right to bear arms. >> do you ever suspect that there's more to torshin than just a great friend and public servant? >> do i suspect that? well, you know, i don't live with him. he's a brilliant man. i've never heard a bad word about him. >> so, klein preston didn't have any suspicions about torshin, not a hint. he liked him so much he introduced him to the leaders of the nra. and the rest, as they say, is history. since our report, torshin has been placed under u.s. sanction and his assistant maria butina is charged with conspiracy. she didn't want to do another interview on camera with us, but he did tell us he hasn't changed his opinion about torshin or butina. he said they just wanted to develop relationships in the united states. well, that's one thing that's not really in dispute. maria butina was all about developing rel

russian books, russia everywhere here. >> we're very similar people. >> preston does business in russia and has built some very close ties with power players like the deputy head of russia's central bankn ally. >> do you consider aleksandr torshin a friend? >> absolutely. senator torsion is a gun enthusiast and he's a big proponent of the right to bear arms. >> do you ever suspect that there's more to torshin than just a great friend and public servant? >> do i suspect that? well, you know, i don't live with him. he's a brilliant man. i've never heard a bad word about him. >> so, klein preston didn't have any suspicions about torshin, not a hint. he liked him so much he introduced him to the leaders of the nra. and the rest, as they say, is history. since our report, torshin has been placed under u.s. sanction and his assistant maria butina is charged with conspiracy. she didn't want to do another interview on camera with us, but he did tell us he hasn't changed his opinion about torshin or butina. he said they just wanted to develop relationships in the united states. well, that's one thing that's not really in dispute. maria butina was all about developing relationships. >>> maria b

russian authorities will use this as a pretext for an ultimate crackdown on the crimeans, and members of the opposition. back to the us. donald trump has stepped up his criticism of the us central bankn gradually raising rates since 2015 — in response to the performance of us economy improving. last week the president said the bank under had "gone crazy" — —— under its new governor. he's now called it his greatest threat. samira hussain, new york. help me out, what is the president'sgreat? the president is saying that the biggest threat to his residency is the federal reserve and the fact that they are raising interest rates, the question is why? higher interest rates means it is more expensive to borrow money, meaning people may not be as inclined to borrow money or to spend. and likewise with consumers, it is more expensive to borrow money and they may not be as willing to spend money. as we know, spending money is a big part of how the us economy sort of moves along. the second part of course is that if you look at investors and stock markets, president trump has taken a lot of credit for the high valuation and the high—rises on us stock markets. but investors will probably start