.— by the kremlin. yeah, exactly. this is all muscle _ by the kremlin. yeah, exactly. this is all muscle flexing _ by the kremlin. yeah, exactly. this is all muscle flexing coming - by the kremlin. yeah, exactly. this is all muscle flexing coming from i is all muscle flexing coming from putin and the kremlin. it is interesting, reading this piece and having talked to a couple of people. it does seem the americans are more concerned about it than the british. there have been briefings, i think the line the telegraph used was, twitching us and anxiety, but there seems to be less twitching his anxiety in london than there is in washington. nonetheless they are taking it seriously. it seems the ukraine, as we have to call it, has really irritated russia by using turkish drones, apparently. many people will remember this story double up in april, and russia said, no, no, no, these thousands of troops amassing near the border, it isjust an innocent is just an innocent training exercise. apparently the sign th

, the kremlin says the u.s. secretary of state's assessment of the migrant stand off and russia's actions is wrong. russia is ready to mediate in the standoff and is already doing so to a degree kremlin says russia would not use nord stream 2. the kremlin coming out with strong lines this morning, confirming that russia is already doing so -- is already taking a mediating role, according to the kremlin, in the migrant standoff between belarus and the eu so this is quickly escalating into a situation that is much bigger than what's happening at the border with the kremlin now acknowledging that it has already gotten involved in a, quote, mediating role. these lines are fresh out of the kremlin now. so we'll keep an eye on anything new as it comes through. but for now we are going to take a break. coming up we'll take a look at the ihs market business outlook. rachel barton joins the conversation next. >>> welcome back to "street signs" i'm julianna tatelbaum and these are your headlines countries agree to phase d

the kremlin calls the allegations a diabolical cocktail and rich fantasy. for everyday russians, the sanctions are so regular now that they are largely ignored. but for cyber security professionals in russia, they provoke anger. alexandra is a professional ethical hacker, or white hat. when she is not at her computer, her second love is motorbikes. like many hackers i have met, alexandra says she first got into it by playing games. everybody. they are all coming? now is our time to attack. how do you feel about the stereotype of the russian hacker? the highly—anticipated summit between us presidentjoe biden and his russian counterpart vladimir putin is getting under way in geneva. cyber crime was a major talking point at biden and putin's geneva summit. present biden brought up the recent ransomware attack on an oil pipeline that caused fuel shortages in the us. responsible countries need to take action against criminals who conduct ransomware activities on their territory. the talks have yet to bear significant fruit. i spoke to an investigative reporter

the kremlin denies any plans to invade, but the conflict is alarming nato countries like estonia, now mobilizing troops. correspondent: as estonian reservists get battle ready, nearly 2000 of them were deployed as part of snap military drills the country held directly at the border with russia. >> the messages, we are ready. this is an exercise to improve defensive readiness. it is important to have all our men and women on duty. this is a way them to demonstrate to them a potential aggressor that the price will be very high for to do something. correspondent: estonia and the baltic states were once part of the soviet union here now they are nato members hosting western troops -- union. now they are nato members hosting western troops. the fear of russian aggression runs deep. one reason is the border standoff between belorussia and poland, and fears of pressure using natural gas to exert pressure on europe, and now an ominous buildup of russian troops near ukraine and belorussia. >> the kremlin is because of different reasons became much more now aggressive and nervous, and that is w

the kremlin has responded in the last minutes. lisa: the kremlin came out and said this is normal it we are not doing anything exceptional and not going to invade ukraine. this is the background unscheduled and scheduled maneuvers. but the rule falls that tells you what the concern is. tom: the kremlin not responding to the bloomberg article. it was ruble as well. kailey leinz has been looking out of london. you have to look at the equity market. mastec 100 now year-to-date -- nasdaq 100 now outperforming s&p. kailey: the s&p still up 25%. we are looking at features north of 4700. a number of strategists publishing overnight saying look through any coven -- covid related. tom: i just featured with anna edwards in london, amazon is the one that has come on and we see it with retail. it is a celebratory holiday season. it is for amazon and everyone else. kailey: it will be interesting to see how it translates into black friday or if a lot of people did shopping earlier. have seen people frontloading buying because of supply chains a

operatives in the kremlin and the siberian curse how the planners left russia out in the cold and has roots in extensively on issues with eastern asia. there's nothing for you here. as the daughter of a coalminer to three u.s. presidents. to examine the desperation impacting american politics it shows why expanding opportunity is the only long-term hope for our democracies. tonight she will be in conversation witht trudy, the worldview columnist with the philadelphia inquirer and trudy, fiona, it is an honor to have you join us. the screen is yours. >> it's a pleasure to be doing this and it couldn't be more timely because this book goes from the personal to the political and to the whole issue of populism and how we are all struggling to save democracy. and since you all know about the testimony and the impeachment, it is interesting to see the ex-president still can't let go of coming out of anyone who criticized him and has put together an outrageous statement after issuing the book but it does have a wonderful punchline. fiona hill. that speaks to the issue about the conspiracy th

the kremlin accuses kyiv of provocations with pro—russian separatists in the country's east. and, in response to allegations of an imminent invasion, a spokesperson said russian never does such things. but in response, mr akhmetov said he was "outraged by the spread of this lie", adding but in response, mr akhmetov said he was "outraged by the spread of this lie", adding he "will continue to defend a free ukraine". the kremlin accuses kyiv of provocations with pro—russian separatists in the country's east. and, in response to allegations of an imminent invasion, a spokesperson said russian never does such things. but president zelenskyy says he's received promises of support from western partners should russia take action. if russia uses force against that will have costs, that will have consequences, and therefore we continue to call on russia to deescalate. now, as residents hold their breath as tensions mount, president biden says he will in all probability have talks with his ukrainian and russian counterparts. as ukraine's president calls on president putin to state pu

these raw intelligence reports described an alleged plot being run out of the kremlin to influence the u.s. election, a plot that involved several campaign figures, allegations that the russian government had compromising information about candidate trump that they could use as leverage over him if they wanted to. all of those reports would later be published months after the election as the so-called steele dossier. in september 2016, these things were not publicly known at all. these raw intelligence reports were coming in from a trusted source and they landed at the fbi. that is how that top counterintelligence official, peter strzok, described those reports when he published a book about his experience last year. he said, quote, what was significant about the material was that it confirmed information, contours of events and players, that we knew to be accurate and consistent with our understanding of the way putin and the russians were operating. at the same time, many other pieces of steele's information, most of them in fact, were devilishly hard to either prove or refute. but p

the military publications, as far as i understand the kremlin, the military provocations from nato from united states are there already. i don't think it's an issue of length of time, and i think it is a real possibility. this will be a military action taken. but if so, it is hardly going to be some spirit border skirmish or some seizure of search or search, or that's known by no means the strategic view of the russians who are concerned with ukraine being de facto used as a base of operations by the 9 states in a way that it would otherwise have been used, had ukraine been admitted to nato, which is presently excluded. more senate for washington than what once it got to gained by getting more stuck into what's happening in the region. for washington to losing game there, good luck. there is utterly impossible for washington to resist any military action that moscow should decide finally to take against care. but i think that the military action involved with scott, again, will be a very, very well conceived and very well executed with an intention of reducing will removing ukrainian so

what do you think the kremlin is thinking? i you think the kremlin is thinking?— thinking? i think it's difficult _ thinking? ithink it's difficult to _ thinking? ithink it's| difficult to speculate thinking? i think it's . difficult to speculate on thinking? i think it's - difficult to speculate on what the kremlin is thinking. you would need to ask them. but i should say we are very concerned by the buildup of russian troops on the border with ukraine. we are very concerned about the abhorrence attempt by the lukashenko regime to engineer the migrant crisis thatjenny was reporting on earlier. and we work closely with russia in a number of situations, but there are some really important issues around supporting ukraine's territorial integrity here, which we are proud to be doing. some are speculating that they are looking for leveraged on the nord stream 2 gas pipeline deal, which germany has halted for now. what kind pressure you think should be applied to russia to stem these crises? well, the prime minister has been very clear in his support for president zelensky in uk

that uncovered the fates of those who disappeared in soviet purges may now be in danger itself and the kremlin is not objecting. and k pop superstars bts are back on stage. fans celebrate as the boy been hells -- holds its first concert in two years. giving the crown permission to dance. i'm brent goff. welcome. a positive pandemic outlook coming from the white house tonight. joe biden saying he doesn't expect the new omicron coronavirus variant to force new travel restrictions. the world learned about omicron days ago but the u.s. president is not veering from his public health message. the best defense in the pandemic is and remains vaccinations in booster shots. >> the day the new variant was announced, i took immediate steps to restrict travel. while restricting travel can slow the speed of omicron, it cannot prevent it. what it does is it gives us time to take more actions to move quicker, to make sure that people understand you have to get your vaccine, have to get the shot, have to get the booster. sooner or later we are going to see cases of the new variant here in the united states an

so it's very interesting. kremlin says stay out german say stay out. you know, i think most thinking people would say stay up with this or, and it just seems like chaos all around at this point. now when we talk about the timing, i know there has been a lot of focus on the fact that germany was looking at a federal election. now we know that we have this new coalition government in germany and it's getting a lot of pressure to reverse course on north stream to does is create more problems for the pipeline, getting up and running, getting certified. we've got about 30 seconds left. i think it could, you know, poland is one of the latest countries to come out and basically say that the new government should reverse course and not certify. and in this relationship with russia over the pipeline. and again, they're doing it for the same reasons. talking about ukraine money for ukraine. i think what we're going to see though, as, as, as high as gas prices are now. and the need, as i mentioned is winter approaches. germany is not really in a position to negot

there have been messages of support from the russian foreign minister and the kremlin today. moscow making it clear that russia and belarus are basically on the same page here, regarding this crisis. belarusian and russian officials claim the crisis has nothing to do with moscow or minsk, they blame european leaders going back to the 2019 migrant crisis in europe and bloom european leaders today for not allowing these migrants into the eu. >> as you can tell, there is an extensive blame game going on. let's have a look at the u.n.'s perspective on this, this is the high commissioner for refugees speaking to the european parliament. >> these challenges simply do not justify the knee-jerk reaction we have seen in some places. the xenophobic discourse. the walls and barbed wire. the violent pushbacks, that include the beating of refugees and migrants, sometimes stripping them naked and dumping them in rivers, or leaving them to drown in seas. paying other states to take on one's own response abilities -- responsibilities. a union based on the rule of law should and can do better

in just a few days, on the 1st or 2nd of december, the kremlin denies any such plot. it's a dramatic escalation in the war of words. russia is accused of amassing forces, poised to invade, which the kremlin also denies. president zelensky said he has evidence, including an audio recording, but no evidence has yet to be made public. he also suggested ukraine's richest man, may have been involved, something strenuously denied to cnn by the man himself. the information made public is an absolute lie. at a ukrainian citizen, country's biggest investor, taxpayer and police officer, i will defend a free ukraine and do everything i can to prevent authoritarianism and censorship. for years now, ukraine has been facing enormous pressure from the powerful russian neighbor, fighting a trench war with rush-backed rebels. it was the threat of holding back u.s. military aid that let to president trump's first impeachment. now u.s. officials arussia is engaged in destabilizing activities inside ukraine as well against the zelensky government. that is one of the reason he seems on ed

but also in connection with the competition of putin's kremlin. and the kremlin's sustain campaign us a political subversion aimed at your. i would say that campaign is effective in germany and i'd like jamie to comment about russia is contributing to a weakening a result. but example, the u.s. not being maybe as tough on our allies as much as we love. them backing off on the nordstrom to pipeline which is going to give russia courses power over germany's economy. >> h.r., china. the year in the white house. you're national security adviser. you have the top job in the institution that brings together military and diplomatic initiatives and presents them to the chief executive of the united states. at the moment, when the whole country, partly because of donald trump president xi jinping. the whole country is realizing that china is not going to be our friend. we're in for something new here. yay h.r. mcmaster quote, the berlin wall is an exact analogy for the great fire wall of china. the combination of law and technologies denying designed to is

the kremlin readout gave very few clues. the minsk readout had more details. they both expressed concern about polish soldiers moving close to the polish-belarusian border. judging by what state tv has been saying in russia, moscow is supporting alexander lukashenko and the belarusian side. mr. lukashenko gave an interview today to an editor in chief of a russian defense journal who was gushing his praise of mr. lukashenko and called him an outstanding politician that gave lukashenko the opportunity to put forward his view of the world. as he so often does, he called lack white and white black. for months now he's been accused by the european leaders of weaponizing migration. turned everything around in the interview and blamed european leaders for the current crisis. ♪ ross: let's shift from steve to the conflict in ethiopia. the u.n. says more than a dozen local staff have been detained in the capital addis ababa. we don't know why but last month several officials were expelled after being accused of meddling in ethiopia's affairs. the u.n. release a state

how the kremlin is responding >>> celebrating stephen sondheim. tributes pouring in for the man behind some of broadway's biggest smashes. >>> and shake the holiday season into high gear with the return of the famed rockettes. >>> this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening we're going to tell you what we know and what we don't know tonight as a worrisome new covid variant rears its head labeled with the greek letter omicron and classified by the w.h.o. as a variant of concern. today the u.s. announcing restrictions on travel to here from south africa where the variant is spreading experts troubled by the large number of mutations. while there are early indications it could be more transmissible than previous variants, it is not known if it is more deadly and if it can weaken the effectiveness of vaccines uncertainty rattling financial markets today as the u.s. averages 90,000 new covid infections a day. in a moment, some of my conversation with dr. fauci about the omicron variant. but first, gabe gutierrez with the latest >> rep

but also in connection with the competition with putin kremlin and the kremlin sustain campaign of political subversion aim at europe i would say that campaign is effective in germany and i would like jamie maybe to comment more about how -- how russia is contributing to weakening of resolve in germany, and an example of the u.s. maybe tnot being as tough on our alls as much as we love them is backing off on -- on the north stream two pipeline to give russia course of power over germany's economy. >> it is china, i can't -- you are in the white house. national security advisory, you have a top job in the institution that brings together militaryry and diplomatic initiative to present them to chief executive of the united states, at the moment, when the whole country partly because of donald trump and partly because of president xi jinping, the whole country is realizing that china is not going to be our friend. we were in for something new here. hr mcmaster, quote, the berlin wall is exact analogy for the great firewall of china the combination of laws and technology designed to isolate the

if you missile crisis 962, when, when kremlin brinkman ship, ah, brought the world to thermonuclear war, the threshold with them on the war. we are much stronger than russia today. oh, there's no reason why we need to panic. so again we, we produce a strong reaction, i think by just doing that. and then the russians want to talk, that's fine. but the most important thing is that strong reactions to put knows the consequences, the nasty consequences for his team. if in fact he escalates alex, i am going to bring you in here in just a moment by do and a half from puzzle and moscow. what do you make of that? john hobbs cummins most we hear from russia moscow different opinions coming out of washington and in the present situation, even from the bio ministration. but those of course there have been warnings. there have been contacts, they'll be more likely more in moscow. they also have different opinions there. those are the diplomatic, the foreign ministry defense ministry, kind of party of war guys who believe that now is a good time to make the have a final solution of the gradient prob

the kremlin denying a role in it. meanwhile tensions between china and taiwan continue as the united states readies for two crisis at once. congresswoman claudia taney and andy puzder on powell and yellen's testimony as we face rising inflation in new covid fears. how much is inflation caused by bidens policies as opposed to the pandemic. we investigate. keeping here on "the evening edit". a lot more to come. ♪ an official message from medicare. did you try it yet? comparing plans? oh yeah. they sure can change year to year. i found lower premiums and lower prescription costs. that'll save you money. so uh, mark? on medicare.gov now. open enrollment ends december 7th use the plan finder at medicare.gov to compare medicare health and prescription plans. comparing plans really pays. paid for by the u.s. department of health & human services hey, angie! you forgot your phone! paid for by the hey lou! angie forget her phone again? yep. lou! mom said she could save up to $400 on her wireless bill by switching to xfinity

amplify the effect of that online interference, furthering the aims of political strategists in the kremlin. so this relates to bulgaria more specific in, but this has been also the kremlin strategy on an international scale to build ideological and economic leanings with the layers and societies that are pro russia. its effectiveness is clear, invoke air is low vaccination numbers and fast rising infection rates and health systems struggling under the weight of a campaign of misinformation. fueling not just the resurgence of the pandemic in europe, but also the re emergence of historical divides between east and west, showed a whole al jazeera sophia. i still had on the news are moto g. p legend valentino rosie will race for the final time on sunday will show you how he got on in clarifying. that's coming up next week, jenny, to say, ah, mother, nature's gift of cold full landscapes. but strong infrastructure governance arising, we're investments are waiting to flourish. we're great to be even supplied by tradition indonesia where beautiful possibilities are offered. a welcome to a world o

increase its exercises and reconnaissance flights in the black sea raising significant concerns for the kremlin. but it's colonial doctrine says that the western accusations detached from reality so much of what we read in the, in the, the major mainstream newspapers have no connection with the way the real world real world works for how major politicians think they're coming from the think tank within the pentagon and from associate propaganda organizations and they're not for identification charges against russian military provocations from nato, from united states, or they're already united states. and nato countries are very quick to attribute to russia their own their own activities in their own designs. and they take, this is a starting point for, i suppose, at western response point of fact it's not, there's no response from the west. it is initiative of the west to which rushes typically react and have sort of military threat hose by these. these m visits by, by u. s. naval forces was strictly a political dimension. and mainly i believe was projected to ukraine as to a land grab by bein

while the kremlin, at the same time as western officials of accused russia, of conducting a military build up near the border as a se ot dot com for that. and so much more today. protests of again shaken sedans, capital of the country's military, reinstated a prime minister. it aroused it just 2 months ago. i tribes could be seen running from tear gas canisters and throwing the back of police. testers have rejected any government dale involving military forces their anger at the deaths of dozens of police in the kale or people rather in the chaos falling last month, power transition, an exclusive interview, a member of the countries nearly reinstated interim government told us as to channel out the arabic, that an investigation into those deaths is underway. the leg is that asked the state, the country is reached in the sense of economic collapse and infighting between ruling parties. this is what led to it. so by law, the military's role is to maintain security and stability in the country. the government has reached the points of collapse. so a correction of the revolutionary cours

amplify the effect of that online interference, furthering the aims of political strategists in the kremlin. so this relates to bulgaria more specifically, but this has been also the kremlin strategy on an international scale to build the ideological and economic links with the layers and societies that are pro russian. its effectiveness is clear, invoke air is low vaccination numbers and fast rising infection rates and health systems struggling under the weight of a campaign of misinformation. fueling not just the resurgence of the pandemic in europe, but also the re emergence of historical divides between east and west. joe. the whole al jazeera sophia, defending champions finance booked their place and exit next year's football world cup finals and cut are after an absolute hammering of kazakhstan and paris, the host beat live opposition each nil carry on bobby's school. the 1st half had tricky then added a 4th. late in the 2nd path, had even been simmer also scored twice. france joins brazil, belgium denmark, and germany who walsall made it through a.

it comes after the kremlin spokesperson said there has also been a suspicious uptake in what he called illogical military accusations from the us. we cannot exclude the possibility of a provocation. this hysteria is artificially inflated. we are accused of some kind of unusual military activity on our territory by those who brought their own forces from overseas. in other words, united states of america. this is not very logical or decent. western media have recently launched a number of unsubstantiated claims of an imminent russian invasion of ukraine. us officials have also alleged that russia is placed $100000.00 troops on its border and is readying an attempt to expand its territory. meanwhile, nato has increased its exercises and reconnaissance flights in the black sea roofing significant concerns in the kremlin political alas gilbert, the doctor says it all amounts to double speak from the west. so much of what we read in the, in the, the major mainstream newspapers have no connection with the way the real world real world works for how major politicians think they're coming from

president said russian "representatives" are planning to overthrow his government next week but the kremlin insists russia has no plans to get involved. mark lobel reports. ukrainians living in the rebel—held east survey recent damage amidst a war of words with russia as western and ukrainian officials speak of a build—up of russian forces on the country's borders with ukraine. ukraine's president, addressing the media on friday, suggested his country could come under attack as early as next week. translation: we've received information that in our state . there will be a coup d'etat in the first days of december. then, citing secret recordings, he names the country's richest man, a mining and media tycoon — and critic of his — being lured into the plot. —— being lured into the alleged plot. i can say that we have not only intelligence information, we even have audio information where, let's say, representatives from ukraine and, let's say, representatives of russia, discussed rinat akhmetov�*s participation in the coup d'etat in ukraine. but in response, mr akhmetov said he w

amplify the effect of that online interference furthering the aims of political strategists in the kremlin. so this relates to bulgaria more specifically, but this has been also the kremlin strategy on an international us cale to build ideological. and i economic links with the layers in our societies that are pro russia. its effectiveness is clear in bulgaria is low vaccination numbers and fast rising infection rates and health systems struggling under the weight of a campaign of misinformation. fueling not just the resurgence of the pandemic in europe, but also the re emergence of historical divides between east and west jona haul al jazeera, sophia, the daughter of philippines, presidents as he go to town, he is going to run as a candidate for vice president solder detailed his announcement for the 2022 election was immediately endorsed by the party of the presidential front runner. she's come to the mayor of devolve city, defending champions, france of book their place at next year's world cup finals in cutter. after an absolute harmony of cousin started paris, the host beat their oppo

amplify the effect of that online interference furthering the aims of political strategists in the kremlin. so this relates to bulgaria more specific in but this has been also the kremlin strategy on an international scale to build the ideological and economic links with the layers and societies that are pro russian. its effectiveness is clear, invoke air is low vaccination numbers and fast rising infection rates. a health system struggling under the weight of a campaign of misinformation. fueling not just the resurgence of the pandemic in europe, but also the re emergence of historical, divides between east and west joe, the whole al jazeera, sophia, dozens of pro democracy activists in hong kong. i said to appear in court this month, charged with conspiracy to commit some version. the arrest came after china introduced a sweeping national security law in response to protests in 2019 laurens. louis looks at what impact it's having on politics in hong kong. the tisha ones, 1st foray into politics, was also her last. she was elected as a district counselor in hong kong in 2019, but resigned

amplify the effect of that online interference, furthering the aims of political strategists in the kremlin. so this relates to bulgaria more specifically, but this has been also the kremlin strategy on an international scale to build the ideological and economic links with layers and societies that are pro russia. its effectiveness is clear, invoke air is low vaccination numbers and fast rising infection rates. and health systems struggling under the weight of a campaign of misinformation fueling, not just the resurgence of the pandemic in europe, but also the re emergence of historical, divides between east and west showed a whole al jazeera sophia. russia's president is denying any involvement in the border stand on between bella, bruce and poland. the u accuses belarus if allowing asylum seekers to cross into poland illegally and as preparing to impose further sanctions. thousands of refugees remained stranded and freezing conditions where the body of a young syrian man has been found as a bank for still stuck still with nowhere to go. watch from one side by belushi and soldiers, and on

and according to the kremlin, where st accusations that russia is acting as c aggressor ah unfounded, we cannot exclude the possibility of a provocation. this history is artificially inflated, were accused of some kind of unusual military activity on our territory by those who brought their own forces from overseas. in other words, united states of america, this is not very logical or decent. will mainstream media have made unverified claims of an imminent russian invasion of ukraine, us officials have also alleged to russia's placed thousands of troops on its border . meanwhile, nato's increased its exercises and reconnaissance flights in the black sea raising significant concerns for the kremlin political ominous doctrine says the west in accusations that are actually detached from reality. united states and nato countries are very quick to tribute to russia, their own, their own activities and their own designs. and they take, this is a starting point for, i suppose, a western response. in point of fact is not, there is no response from the west. it is initiative of west to which r

the kremlin is behind this crisis. we don't have evidences, but we can look at what happened. they could play constructed role in the the crisis in belarus. >> what incentive for putin to keep using lukashenko as a puppet, what's the incentive? what's in it for putin? >> reporter: i think that there would be several incentives for russia. on the one hand, of course, it would be, at least, it seems the kremlin believes catastrophic if alexander lukashenko were to have to leave power because essentially what you could have, then, as far as the russians are concerned, you could have belarus essentially going into the western orbit, as they put it, move closer towards the west. you just heard her there, and also other members of the belarusian opposition. there has been some talk over the past couple years and indeed some real initiatives to move belarus closer into russia's orbit, where you already have a border regime that they have together. you have obviously a lot of cooperation in the defense sector as well. but righ

what the kremlin says the west is merely whipping up hysteria. we'll take a look. my hygienist cleans with a round head. so does my oral-b my hygienist personalizes my cleaning. so does my oral-b oral-b delivers the wow of a professional clean feel every day.s my oral-b hey hun hey, get your own vapors relax with vicks vapobath or with vicks vaposhower. take a soothing vicks vapo moment wherever you chose. >>> russia is accusing the west of whipping up hysteria over its troop movements near the ukrainian border. a you crannian military official told the military times that russia has more than 92,000 troops amassed around the borders and is preparing for an attack by february. the kremlin dismisses the accusations and complained about an increased nato presence in the region. nato and the u.s. have been raising alarms about the troop movements in recent weeks. well, for more on this we want to turn to nic robertson who joins us live from london. good to see you, nic. so, the kremlin calls it hysteria, but these amassing russian troops on ukraine's border are causin

affected left from in the clear from any sort of conspiracy to steal election with the help of the kremlin. nevertheless, speculation allegations persist in fueled and fought by documents such as the infamous steel last year report released in like 2016 by full of respond christopher steel. which, you know, as you rightly say, contained a lot of insinuations and allegations of conspiracy between the kremlin and donald trump. to steal that election on that report was subsequently largely the bunks. it was put on the heavy criticism and in the dealt with cost over much of its contents . while the author himself i'm prepared to accept that not everything in the dosier is 100 percent accurate. i've yet to be convinced that that is one of them are still referring, of course, that to allegations of a secret meeting between michael cohen, trump's former possible attorney and russian officials in prague, a meeting which was later prove totally false by the prob, and once again the arrest of dancing, the key contributor, adding a new plot to this tale. yeah, that trump, russia collusion investigati

now here's another build up, and the kremlin says it's holding behind the scenes talks with the white house about another possible summit. the biden administration says it doesn't know of any plans, but it does say it's been holding talks with russian officials about you. cray, bernard smith, al jazeera moscow last spring, and marcus macowski. now to talk more about this, he is a non resident senior fellow at the atlantic council joint council joining us via skype now from washington. thank you for being with us. let me ask you, 1st of all, what are the chances of this point based on what we know so far that russia is, will in fact invade ukraine? no, i think that the risk of crisis is real and it's growing. i think the scale of the russian escalation and mobile invasion of forces to the tune of over a 100000 with artillery intelligence enablers. logistics has surprise us officials and also has raised the concern that this is much more serious than the russian mobilizations in march. and april, so i still believe that present improvement seeking political concessions from ukraine and

powerful new hypersonic weapon, as he responded to a pentagon statement, escalating tensions of the kremlin or t corresponded roman cosser of gave me the latest on it while answering questions from the participants of the russia calling economic of forum. vladimir putin, a question, nato's potential weapons placement in eastern europe. and he warned of the consequences that may follow. i in particular, he wondered if natal missiles could reach the russian capital in about 5 minutes, then the what reaction do they expect from the kremlin? now, russian president followed up by saying that the country will soon have mock 9 hypersonic weapons and he did so in response to a, one of the questions about this so called red lines in ukraine and natal steps that led to the current tensions between moscow and the western military alliance, and you, if miss al sites appear on the territory of ukraine than the flight time of missiles to moscow will be 7 to 10 minutes. and the case of hypersonic weapons 5 minutes. imagine that. and what else can we do? we will be forced to create similar sites as a react

with some administration officials concerned they could be seen by the kremlin as a major escalation. >> anti-tank missiles are effective against the t-80 tanks, which the russians are employing in these efforts against ukraine right now. >> reporter: the u.s. has been warning allies of a possible russian invasion. with just a short window to prevent russia from taking action, top u.s. officials increasingly sound the alarm publicly. >> we have real concerns about russia's unusual military activity on the border with ukraine. >> we're not sure exactly what mr. putin is up to. >> reporter: a top ukrainian intelligence official claims in an interview with the "military times" that russia has more than 92,000 troops amassed near ukraine's border that are preparing to attack in january or february. these satellite images from earlier this month show those russian t-80 tanks, as well as armored personnel carriers and other equipment. masked in a small town, a possible staging area for invading from the north, potentially through russia's ally belarus. >> we don't know what president putin'

amplify the effect of that online interference furthering the aims of political strategists in the kremlin. so this relates to bulgaria more specifically, but this has been also the kremlin strategy on an international scale to build the ideological and economic links with layers and societies that are pro russia. its effectiveness is clear, invoke air is low vaccination numbers and fast rising infection rates. and health systems struggling under the weight of a campaign of misinformation fueling, not just the resurgence of the pandemic in europe, but also the re emergence of historical, divides between east and west showed a whole al jazeera, sophia francis presidential election is 5 months away. but the race has already seen some unexpected twists writer in talk show commentator exam or has expected to announce his candidacy. he said to run on an anti immigration platform that could eclipse far right leader mine in the pen, natasha. but larry force from bordeaux. eric moore says france is being ruined by immigration, islam, and political correctness, and his message is seducing far right