stella creasy, thanks so much, even with the backing of the london traffic we heard every word. security services faked the murder of a russian journalist — in order, they claimed, to save him from an assassination plot by russia. moscow said the world had been misled by propaganda, europe's security body, the osce, said it deplored ukraine's tactics. he our moscow correspondent, steve rosenberg, says many people believe the affair might ultimately play into the kremlin‘s hands. what we have been seeing today is the russian state media using this fake murder in kiev to try to undermine the credibility of some of the many accusations that have been levelled against russia over the last few years. so, for example, the government newspaper today likened the story of arkady babchenko to the case of the skripals, poisoned in salisbury, claiming that their recovery was somehow similar to the resurrection of a russian journalist. i think the aim is clear, to lump all of this together as fake news, and i think from now on, every time russia will be accused of something, whether it's hac