against anyone responsible for undermining the election process and he s also approved the expulsion of 35 russian diplomats from the us. three weeks before donald trump is sworn in as president, promising to rebuild relations with moscow, mr obama said ‘all americans should be alarmed by russia s actions‘. tonight russia said it would order ‘adequate reprisals‘ as our correspondent laura bicker reports. russia stands accused of trying to help donald trump become president. moscow had been warned but now it is being punished for interfering in us elections. the top intelligence agencies believe a cyber attack on the e mail is of the closest aides of hillary clinton was orchestrated by the highest levels of russian government. but mr trump has always questioned the evidence.“ government. but mr trump has always questioned the evidence. if you catch them in the act of hacking you never will. you don‘t know if it is russia or china. it could be somebody sitting on a
the russian foreign ministry has announced it intends to expel 31 american diplomats from its embassy in moscow and four from its consulate in st petersburg. the measure is in response to president obama s decision to kick out 35 diplomats because of allegations that russia interfered in the american presidential election. the kremlin denies trying to discredit hillary clinton during the campaign by publishing hacked emails. our correspondent laura bicker reports from washington. russia stands accused of trying to help donald trump become president. moscow had been warned but now it s being punished for interfering in us elections. america s top intelligence agencies believe a cyber attack on the e mails of hillary clinton s closest aides was orchestrated by the highest levels of russian government. but mr trump has always questioned the evidence. once they hack, if you don t catch them in the act, you re not gonna catch them. you don t know if it is russia or china or somebo
the boss of sony tells us why goods and information must keep flowing freely. but first, american intelligence chiefs have given their most explicit warning yet about the threat, as they see it, from russian cyber attacks to the united states and beyond. they say there s no doubt russia tried to interfere with the us presidential election, although they ve stopped short of calling it an act of war. they will brief donald trump later on friday. the president elect is unconvinced, so far, about moscow s involvement and the kremlin denies it. dan johnson reports. the three wise men of us intelligence. together in their belief that russian hacking interfered with the presidential election, intending to help donald trump win. the hacking was only one pa rt trump win. the hacking was only one part of it, and it also entailed classical propaganda, disinformation, fake news. but in the last few our president elect has again questioned theirjudgement. it s the latest in a long list of
among the winners. it s five o clock. our main story is the deepening political crisis in northern ireland, following the decision by sinn fein‘s martin mcguinness to resign as deputy first minister. his resignation took effect a few minutes ago. it s the latest twist in the controversy, about the mismanagement of a green energy scheme, which has cost hundreds of millions of pounds. sinn fein have been demanding that the democratic unionist leader arlene foster stand aside as first minister, while her handling of the scheme is investigated, but she s refused. mr mcguinness says he s demanding an assembly election, so that the people of northern ireland can express a view. a short while ago, mr mcguiness gave this statement. can i say first of all, i have met with the first minister arlene foster at 1.30, and we had a conversation about what i would like to speak to you about. over the last ten years, i have worked with dup leaders, and i have reached out to unionists on the
recent decades has encouraged bad actors around the world to break their word. we cannot afford to ignore violations of international accords as we have done with iran. we cannot continue to accept empty promises like the ones china has made to pressure north korea to reform only to shy away from enforcement. looking the other way, when trust is broken, only encourages more bad behaviour. and it must end. we cannot be accountable if we are not truthful and honest in our dealings. as you are aware, my long standing involvement with the boy scouts of america, one of our bedrock ideals is honestly and indeed the phrase, on my honour begins the boy scout oath and it must underline our foreign policy. we need to be honest about radical islam. it is with good reason that our fellow citizens have concerns about a radical islam. radical islam poses a grave risk to the stability of nations and the well being of their citizens. powerful digital media platforms now allow isis, al-qaed