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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
Maybe tuning in from rights around the world this hour a warm welcome to moscow on to our international. 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 on substantiated claims against the Internet Research agency risk prejudicing a jury im joined live by our Senior Correspondent the if. Indeed take us through this really significant well this this is a huge huge decision a huge ruling because it seriously undermines a large portion of found with regards to u. S. Accusations of russian. In the election the election they say the election meddling they say was to stage it was 1st of all intelligence agents. Agents hackers hacking the d. N. C. Stealing democrats emails releasing them through we can leaks and embarrassing the democrats which was part of the election meddling the 2nd part of the operation how the russians their
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