To the world. My names you know neil hello and welcome to the program. Russias Foreign Ministry say. To embassy employees from germany is on friendly justified berlin claims theres evidence to link to the murder of a Georgia National in the german capital several months ago chancellor Angela Merkel has also accused russia of not sufficiently cooperating with an investigation into the shooting. We took this measure because we did not see russia supporting us in clarifying this murder and in bilateral context of course he also talked about this with allies we consider this move unjustified and friendly politicised to prove to the end of us to geisha is unacceptable we are forced to implement an integrated response the 40 year old victim was an Asylum Seeker of chechen descent he was targeted in a berlin park on the way to a mosque with witnesses saying he was shot in the head and chest by a man on a bicycle with more of what we know about the case heres our berlin correspondent of oslo s
Military base. Ok we just have to break it into our program because the 26. 00 meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe has just kicked off in a couple of slovakia dozens of top diplomats in attendance including the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov hes just begun speaking to the media and promised lets listen sure bonds security at the expense of someone elses security. And it was also agreed that beside this state. State participants the dialogue would always include sub regional organizations as well those which are in the your Atlantic Region and that is the c. I. S. The council of europe the c. S. U. Anothers attempts have been made to start the dialogue in the ninetys but afterwards our western colleagues those who initiated these brosius these declarations which were adopted right after the soviet union collapsed they. Decided not to follow through and they are categorical about car defying the individual security principle they do not want to do t
Just after 9 am and also 10 pm and 5 in the evening here in moscow this thursday december the 5th welcome to our international. Part of life its biggest strike in years this thursday with workers protesting primarily against pension reform plans the countrys transport systems have been brought to a standstill and schools and hospitals are closed hundreds of rallies are expected nationwide lets cross live. Parra charlotte big. Big why. Well huge anger here so over these proposed changes to the Pension System. Basically what the french government emanuel might want to do is to amalgamate the foodie to current systems into one universal system now other people on the street say theyre angry because that could mean that their pension could go lower and they might have to work even longer and that anger is palpable here on the streets not just in paris but across france at the moment i just want to give you a sense of how many people come up to this march 1 of the main marches were looking
I call the hearing to order. Today the committee convenes its seventh open hearing of 2017 to examine russias interference in the 2016 u. S. Elections. In the 12th open hearing this year, to date our open hearings have largely focused on the domestic impact of russias activities. Todays witnesses, however, will highlight for the committee and for the American People russias interference in the european elections. We hope to gain additional understanding of russian efforts to undermine Democratic Institutions, worldwide as the committee continues its inquiry. The Intelligence Committee assessed in january that moscow will apply Lessons Learned from its campaign aimed at the United States president ial election to further influence efforts worldwide. It further assessed that russia has sought to influence elections across europe. Director of National Intelligence coats echoed those words as recently as may when he testified before the senate that russias seeking to influence elections in