Analysis. Lets break this down, when it comes analysis. Lets break this down, when it comes to | analysis. Lets break this down, when it comes to state backed threats, he was accusing russia and iran, rather than anybody else, saying, because we are them in terms of so called diplomats and spies who have nearly all been expelled, because of that, those states are turning to proxy groups, to Criminal Underworld gangs, to do their job for them, he says, and underworld gangs, to do their job forthem, he says, and in the case of russia, 750 russian diplomats and spies have been expeued diplomats and spies have been expelled from europe since the start of the full Scale Invasion to them a half years ago of ukraine, that is. Two and a half years ago. He accuses the russian military intelligence, the people accused of the salisbury Lover Chop poisonings, of trying to sow mayhem on the streets of the uk and Europe Novichok poisonings. He talked about ten plots to attack iranian nationals or ir
you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. you can keep across that women s cricket match in leicester. england stilljust cricket match in leicester. england still just three down. cricket match in leicester. england stilljust three down. i will have an update on that and the rest of the sport later. let s go to the house of commons now, the home secretary priti patel is speaking about how a third russian spy now faces charges of attempted murder over the salisbury novichok poisonings. with permission, i would like to make a statement. 0n the announcement today by counterterrorism policing that the crown prosecution service is authorised charges against a third
and the word cup to end. evan, you re breaking this story. tell us what you mean by ramping up. intelligence services here and the u.k. noted the russians had been up to before the world cup, and so during the world cup and of course during the time that the president two presidents were meeting in helsinki, there was this plan, according to the intelligence that was gathered, to kind of keep things at a minimum to make sure it didn t detract especially from the world cup which is obviously a prestigious event the russians were hosting. the expectation now based on the intelligence is that the russians are going to ramp up some of their activity. that could range from everything from the social media activity, the propaganda activity we ve seen so much trying to influence elections to some of the more aggressive things like the novichok poisonings and the u.k. has reached out to allies to tell them this type of activity,
despite the fact that he hadn t changed any of his behavior, he hadn t even apologized for his behavior for his maligned behavior from syria to the shooting down of the mh-17 and the novichok poisonings. he didn t have to change any of that behavior. more than that, he got a pass for it. he got a pass for all of the activity from the united states president. that is absolutely extraordinary. i think it s something that even vladimir putin flying back to moscow this evening and all the oligarchs in russia and all the other politicians in that country will be celebrating and chuckling and, again, toasting president trump this evening. i want to also go to cnn s nic robertson for your perspective. nic, you talked about the last time the first time these two
novichok poisonings and the skripals, if you remember, ex-russian spies, were poisoned a few months ago. they survived but this last week others were poisoned, we believe it was an accident and a follow up from the debris of the novichok. nonetheless one of them has died and now it s a murder investigation so this is part of the tense atmosphere not to mention the involvement and kpaser base of internal affairs and putin acting the way he does in syria and in europe as well. so that part of it doesn t go down well. the president might think it would be easier to talk to putin and his allies. the other issues, it doesn t bear resemblance to the facts. the president said, as you saw that statement, that frankly the nato benefits the rest of the world more than the united states. that s clearly untrue because in