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President ial election so for a senator ference in the polls is not fake news all the indictments marks the first criminal charges against the russians by special Counsel Robert Mueller it centers on a social media effort that began in twenty fourteen and continued to the election it doesnt accuse any american of knowingly participating in the meddling President Donald Trump as you can see right there was quick to react on twitter saying the results were not impacted the Trump Campaign did nothing wrong no collusion but the federal indictment does not resolve the collusion angle thats at the heart of the continuing probe remember the investigation has earlier produced charges against four Trump Associates well the u. S. National security adviser master says that russias efforts at polarizing western societies are just not working and as you can see with the f. B. I. Indictment the evidence is now really incontrovertibly and available in the Public Domain whereas in the past it was it was difficult to attribute for a couple of reasons first technically it was difficult but then also you didnt want to divulge your intelligence capabilities but now that this is in the in the in the arena of the Law Enforcement investigation its going to be very apparent to everyone well russias foreign minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed the indictments. Mr foreign minister i just wanted more your reaction is to the indictment stewart published yesterday the United States that show you just one point two five Million Dollars a month of russian taxpayers money being spent in trying to influence the American Election do you think that was do you see a good return on that investment its a. I have no response you can publish anything and we have seen those indictments and ive also read the statements from the Homeland Security adviser in the u. S. Who denied the reports that any country to influence the Election Results the same was said by mike pence either here or maybe in another European Capital so until we have the facts Everything Else is just blather tom argument covering the story joining us from washington d. C. So President Trump was quick to react tom but how is all of this going down in the u. S. Well as you see in the headlines in todays major newspapers in the United States it does command the headlines however it is competing with the aftermath of the shootings in florida understandably but whats interesting here is the impact here in washington a lot of people on capitol hill and in various other quarters in the government say that the any effort to spike the moeller investigation now seems practically politically impossible because of the factual details as outlined in the indictment and obviously also contradicts the president s longstanding claim that the that the whole issue of collusion or at least interference in the election was a hoax the headline in the Washington Post says. What the president calls a hoax turns out turns out to be real the former director of the National Secure or rather cia john brennan tweeted that this claims of a hoax are now left in tatters and in fact the president s reaction today or last last night actually to the indictments. Notably. Walks back any of the implications of his long standing implications that this is just a democratic explain explanation of why Hillary Clinton lost the election and more and more importantly the president says that this proves that there was no collusion the head of the or rather the chief democrat on the House Intelligence Committee responded by saying that in fact the indictment and the statements by the Deputy Attorney general outlining the indictment says actually that the oak leaves open the question of whether the campaign knowingly played a role in in the in interference in the election moreover the president has still not responded to the the out. The explanation of the. Expressions of concern about what the implications might be for the two thousand and eighteen and two thousand and twenty elections in the year in the United States and what efforts the government is now making to prevent further meddling in those elections tomei comment thank you for that update from washington were chalons has more from moscow well the way this usually works particularly on weekends is that you get early comments coming from senior lawmakers other figures in the russian political scene and then some time later in the day will probably get a response directly from the kremlin itself so what weve had so far is low in its use is a senior russian lawmaker with some fire and brimstone stuff that these senior lawmakers often come out with he said that how could thirteen people affect the voting by more than three hundred Million People in america with its huge state apparatus and billions of dollars in election spending he says that this is something straight out of a hollywood criminal comedy that could be called putin the scene and interesting weve also heard from. Who is widely believed to be the boss of the troll factory and simply thats at the center of this indictment also known as putin the chef by the way now he says that americans are very impressionable and that they see what they want to see if they want to see the devil let them he has no problems as he says with being on this list. Well lets just take a closer look at whats being alleged in the indictment so the St Petersburg based Internet Research agency is a major target of the investigation its said to have undertaken operations aimed at interfering with elections and political process sees also known as the troll factory its accused of manipulating social media in the United States and staging political rallies in support of donald trump while attacking Hillary Clinton named in the indictment is this man right there you see him his name is a pretty close and hes a close associate of the russian president Vladimir Putin and one of russias richest men hes listed as financing the troll factories operations now twelve other individuals are also on the list accused of working in the United States to further the firms objectives we can now speak to all of our new in tallinn estonia hes the c. E. O. Of the Technology Firm cybernetica hes also worked in the estonian government on Cyber Security issues thanks very much for speaking to us on the news with your initial reaction to whats come out in this indictment does the scope off the russian effort surprise you or shock you at all. I think its been you know why be expected. To know with these investigations coming up and now finally. As we were also noted in the news we have something to talk about. Evidence of what happened at the Munich Security Conference going on right now the u. N. Secretary general and when you get terrorist called for a serious discussion about the International Legal framework in which cyber war is take place do you agree that that is the way forward how do you prove that prevents this from happening. Well and the the show the governance of the cyber space has been in discussions or at least twenty years and if you look there have been. Initiatives like put up this convention or cyber crime there are two or so ready for it in two thousand and one so there have been International Legislations its just that it becomes more and more acute today to have these kind of frameworks in place but obviously its a very high stakes game its a very very complex issue and its a very very hard its very very hard to reach an International Consensus and in this in this serina when we look at for example at European Union and what European Union has done in the last. In the last president they have come a long long way and actually also regulating whats happening in the cyber space especially in Information Security but these discussions have even in europe taken a very very long time and finally. At the end of last year we have seen the enactment of network. Information security directive coming into place so these things from a governing perspective take a very very long time and back to the reason they have the indictment for a for a moment here the investor the indictment does not say that russia changed the actual outcome of that election in the United States is there any way of knowing thats for sure well i definitely. Cannot say that and i dont think there is any easy way of saying that if you go basically the indictments are talking about. Many believe social media manipulation root people perceptions and that is very very weird. Ok we will leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from. Or how people react to to the story online retailer a during this been a huge reaction online in the past twenty four hours weve seen over eight hundred thousand tweets just searching for muller mainly coming from the United States europe australia as well as some posts coming from russia now are seeing two arguments some have dismissed that the allegations are real saying that the interference actually had no interference on the outcome of the election heres a tweet from Alexei Kovalev he says that hes downplaying the role of the thirteen russians involved calling them underpaid journalists from failing local news outlets adding that the Internet Research and agency was the only place that would employ them and then chris hayes from m s n b c says that this whole discussion about whether the russian operation impacted the outcome of the election is ridiculous because it is in a deep sense unknowable and also not the point but then you have dan pfeiffer the former advisor to president barack obama he responded with this saying that in a race decided by eighty thousand votes over three states everything matted. Then professor richard painter thinks that this is about the social media side of the russians a version and he adds that one thing is clear that anyone who says the Russian Investigation is a hoax is a fool and has no Business Holding federal office now social media did play quite a crucial role in this campaign according to the indictment the defense the actual defendants its the pose as americans and formulated strategies to support and disparage the president ial candidates now their plans include things like political rallies like darren has said also posing as a grassroots groups and promoting their agenda through social media using hashtags like trump twenty sixteen and hellery for prison a Facebook Twitter and google have all admitted to congress that the Internet Research agency hosted thousands of fake accounts on that platforms now the Tech Companies have spent months pledging to fix these issues ahead of the twenty eighteen midterm elections that are coming up pretty soon and they have retreated that those same promises will be trying to achieve for the coming the future ahead now i. 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S. National security advisor h r mcmaster they were both speaking at the Munich Security Conference so the u. S. Used the gathering of World Leaders to call on the International Community to take action on syria north korea and iran mcmaster also said public reports show that the Syrian Government is continuing to use chemical weapons according to him he also warned north Koreas Nuclear program poses a threat to the world we know that syria north korea are not the only rogue states developing using spreading dangerous weapons nows the time to address serious flaws in the arend deal and counter irans destabilizing activities including its development and proliferation of missiles. And its support for terrorist proxies and militias that fuel destructive conflicts across across the greater middle east so while that is happening indoors there have been protests on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference outdoors its an annual demonstration with people rallying against a range of subjects including nato but this year has also seen a large turnout of kurdish demonstrators there rallying against the advances of Turkish Forces in Northern Syria live not to have someone about who is joining us from munich so a lot of hot topics so were discussed how summarize it say topics on a lot of hot spots in the region. Indeed during a particular with the journal. Trans National Security and highlighting the white house as a vision when it comes to the dealing with areas particularly of the middle east and north korea as far as the middle east is concerned they said basically other the biggest challenge that the administration faces is the conflict in syria blaming the government for continuing to use chemical weapons and saying that the International Community has to afford the government accountable for those practices but we have to wait and see what would be the next step by the u. S. Administration which has been accused by different regional partners for distancing itself from the conflict over the last few years. Also has been very critical of iran saying that iran is the destabilizing factor and that there needs to be a very strong approach by the International Community to contain iran and speaking of iran then its to morrow that we hear from not only iran but as well as saudi arabia what do we expect theyre. Talking about two key regional players there why every has been creating some tension over the years sound arabia has been accusing iran of destabilizing the region by trying to promote radical she ideology and also. Financing proxies particularly in places like syria and also in the yemen accusations that have been dismissed in the past by the iranian government which has been accusing on Easter Sunday arabia of colluding with. The west to try to undermine the Islamic Republic it would be really interesting to see to listen to what the Saudi Foreign minister i did their job or higher. Going to say two more and also the response from the iranian counterpart mohamed study of the every the growing tension in the middle east has been an issue of concern for the Munich Securi