services which is important but he also accepts as i do the need to have security services that do protect as well the role of the u.k. security services together with powerful forces in the city of london and elite classes in overthrowing elected socialist government has perhaps never been portrayed more brilliantly than in a very british coup by m.p. chris mullin and now there s a sequel the friends of harry perkins christianity now christiane welcome to going underground let s just start with a reminder of your classic political conspiracy thriller a very british coup well it was written a long time ago it s been in print for the last 37 years it s fact it s enjoying a bit of a comeback with the rise of jeremy corbyn basically it was set in the 1980 s. when there was speculation about the possibility of a government led by someone like tony benn. and the establishment. conspired to bring it down the establishment in this case being a sort of mixture of the security and int
of all coming up in today s going on the ground but 1st it s 32 years since margaret thatcher denied to the house of commons any of the spycatcher conspiracy allegations about an attempt by u.k. secret intelligence agencies to overthrow the british government led by labor prime minister harold wilson the book spycatcher was banned by the british government a fact no doubt not lost on the current labor leader jeremy corbyn there is an ongoing inquiry into secret intelligence activities against him with no real news on when it will report it was corbin s number 2 john mcdonnell who appeared to get corwin s of trouble ahead of the last u.k. general election when interviewed about any possible shake up of britain s allegedly unaccountable secret services what about money for the security services how could we take that seriously when your shadow chancellor was photographed holding a letter which called for the abolition of bear my 5 the abolition of a special branch and the disar
are from moscow where it s now seven pm this sunday as we bring you the biggest stories reported on right here on international over the past seven days from the start of the united states where a scandal surrounding the alleged meddling in the alabama state election campaign from twenty seventeen continues to unfold what s been called a small experiment by a pro democrat cyber group that fake russian bots is now suspected to be a planned effort to influence the vote as the state s attorney general launched a probe into the case. best against. americans not the russians have at least set up one army of pseudo russian bots to sway opinion and boost election turnout it s the big story this december and as more and more details come out as the new year gets closer those involved are having to do more explaining. scott shane started the domino effect by writing about the whole false like scheme in the new york times a week later another outlet reveals his scoop was from way back
of being a reporter of the country s economic. it s seven o clock and you re watching all to live from moscow studio with me. welcome to the program. the co-founder of social media giant linked in has apologized a pro democratic party operation which created over a thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like they backed a republican rival last year republican candidate roy moore ended up losing the election but in this story fake russian is a company that tracks russian bots reports. embarrassing to say the least and here i thought you could get away with. any. thing nowadays apparently not but it does set a new loo for democrats making think russian boats to win the elections here s the irony i find the tactics that have been recently reported highly disturbing for that reason i m embarrassed by my failure to track the organization i did support more diligently as it made its own decisions to perhaps fund projects that i would reject the recap reid