The russian government says the charges are absurd, so what exactly are they alleged to have done . Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Senior us officials have charged thirteen russians with interfering in the american president ial election in 2016. Theyre the first charges from the department ofjustice in a long running investigation, alleging meddling in favour of donald trump. The indictment accuses the russians of setting up bogus social media profiles to spread fake news about his rivals, of organising political rallies, and of trying to encourage minority groups not to vote. A Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman called the accusations absurd. Our north america editor jon sopel has the story. Theres probably not a person anywhere in the world who doesnt know who won the 2016 president ial election. But how it was won and who influenced the result is still the subject of rancorous dispute. Today, in a dramatic development, charges were brought against a number of russians for
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Amy oxfam is facing a growing crisis for covering up sex crimes by its aid workers in haiti i afr the devasastating 20 earthquauake. We will speak t to a reporter at the times o of london who exposed ththe scandadal plus the hehead of the coalition against trafficking in women and the haitian writer Edwidge Danticat in miami. Then we look at the role of army junior reserve officer Training Corps program after nikolas cruz, a former jrotc cadet, carried out one of the Deadliest School shootings in u. S. History. Cruz was on the schools jrotc team when it received a 10,000 grant from the nra. All of that a more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Syrian Government is continuing its deadly barrage of airstrikes and artillery fire against the rebelheld enclave of eastern ghouta, outside the capital damascus, with aid workers reporting at least 200 people have been killed over the last 48 hohours. Many of the victims are wo
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