One minutes past 10 am in philadelphia and 9 pm in bangkok and 5 meaning right here in moscow welcome to our to international i mean you know in our top story a u. S. Federal judge has told the Justice Department it must stop alleging that our russian firm accused of election interference was funded by the kremlin or face a range of potential sanctions the rebuttal comes in response to on substantiated claims from the attorney general william bar owner senior correspondent. Joins me in the studio to talk us through what we know at this story tell us about the ruling the revelations as well here it will this this is a very serious ruling. That challenges a major part of the report because he has a little background music. Routed his report they established that the russian interference as they called it in the us election consisted of 2 elements the 1st element active measures as they called them was carried out by the ira the Internet Research agency a russian social Media Company and
Elite. From our International News center in moscow this is r t a warm welcome to the program my names you know on our top story a u. S. Federal judge has told washington it must stop alleging that a russian firm accused of election meddling was funded by the kremlin or face a range of potential sanctions the court found that such. Claims against the Internet Research agency which are not included in the 28 an indictment against that risk prejudicing a jury im joined live by. Senior correspondent to put some lights on to this breakdown if you would the court ruling and the potential significance of it well its huge no other way to describe it its very big in. Did at 1st but its quite simple really 1st a little background the Mueller Report the us investigation the media everyone accuses russia of carrying out a sweeping Systematic Campaign meddling campaign in the us election into in 2016 they did it via 2 methods the 1st one was. Intelligence Agency Hackers g. I you had kids who broke
In moscow my name calling bray welcome to world news from r. T. International the us a federal judge has told washington it must stop alleging that a russian firm accused of election meddling was funded by the kremlin or face a range of potential sanctions the court found that such unsubstantiated claims against the Internet Research agency which are not included in the 2018 indictment against it risks producing a jury and i guess the effort ports. The mule report the us investigation the media everyone accuses russia of carrying out a sweeping Systematic Campaign meddling campaign in the us election in 2016 they did it 2 methods the 1st one was. Intelligence agency. Hackers you have because who broke into the d. N. C. Systems they allege stole a bunch of embarrassing democrat emails and then released them causing again embarrassment for the democrats all again allegedly russia denies all of this the 2nd part of the operation is the scribe William Burns the special counsel report outli
and in ukraine, russian forces advance on the centre of the key city of severa donetsk in the eastern donbas. good evening and welcome to bbc news. breaking welcome to bbc news. news on our top story toda with breaking news on our top story today with the problems at the football over the weekend. we are just hearing in the last couple of moments that you aare launching an independent report, commissioning and independent report into what happened. let s look at the events of saturday night. the french government has blamed what it called industrial scale ticket fraud, for the chaos at this weekend s champions league final in paris. french ministers held emergency talks earlier today with police, and french and european football officials, as the row continued about what happened at the match. there s been widespread condemnation of the tactics of the police, who used tear gas and pepper spray on thousands of liverpool fans as they queued for hours to get into the stadium.