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More than 1,000 people have been arrested in moscow during unauthorised protests against the banning of many opposition candidates from local elections. There were scuffles as police dispersed groups of protesters, who responded with anti putin chants. The Authorities Say around 30 candidates failed to collect enough valid signatures, but the barred candidates say they have been blocked for political reasons. The bbcs 0leg boldyrev was at todays demonstration and sent us this report. Police told...

Scott, this is what we in the Intelligence Community call incidental collection, and that means that the target was a legitimate Foreign National intelligence target and not an american. So, no, donald trump was not the target of this collection. And just because u. S. Intelligence is listening in on the conversations of one of these foreign officials, doesnt necessarily mean that official is up to something nefarious . Correct, scott. There are thousands of conversations every day between u. S....

Involving members of the trump transition team. That may mean either Trump Associates or trump himself were in contact with foreigners under surveillance or the foreigners were discussing the trump team. I believe it was all done legally. Reporter Nunes Committee is investigating russian interference in the election, but the chairman said the reports did not involve russia. After briefing the president , nunes said he was concerned that President Trumps name and those of his team were not proper...

Well, the republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said again today there is no evidence to support President Trumps claim that his phones were tapped during the campaign on the orders of president obama. But congressman devin nunes did reveal today that after the election, mr. Trump and some of his aides were intercepted speaking to foreign officials. Nunes said the intelligence intercepts were routine and lawful, but the Committee Chairman took the unusual step of briefing mr. T...

Tom keene in new york. There was a big surprise from the boe yesterday. Tom i have to tell you, and we will show charts, yields speak to the tensions out there into this mornings jobs report. Francine they certainly do. Then we will go to the boj. Lets go to the bloomberg first word news. More on todays jobs report. The government will issue another solid report later this morning. 180,000 increased by july with the Unemployment Rate falling to 4. 8 from 4. 9 in june. Fornumber of people higher ...

After the u. S. Accused north korea the does the deaf devastating attack. Experts at anyone in a basement could be behind the attack. The United Nations denouncing the attack on sony as the Security Council held its firstever meeting on human rights in north korea. Greek Prime Minister samaras failed to get lawmakers back to back, his only for president , huge because he only has one more chance. The vote earlier today in athens, the candidate fell short of the 200 ballots. Third and final book ...

Ruble were plunging in value as were numbers and life expectancies. Several former sel soviet members went their own way. Fast forward, Boris Yeltsin is dead, and yeltsine successor Vladimir Putin has reasserted russias place in the world. Russian president Vladimir Putin had a few surprises up his sleeve thursday as he announced the prisoner releases in his announcement. Most notable, mikhail khodorkovsky. He has spent ten year in jail. He was found guilty of tax invasion in 2015 and i am bes e...

Samesex marriage. It was called unconstitutional. 17 states now allow samesex marriage. The United States is blocking iran from participating in a syria peace conference set for switzerland. They all decided on the syrian delegations and on the other countries who will attend the meeting. One of russias foremost critics is now spending the night in germany. Many believed he was imprisoned by trumped up charges. Inside story is next. After the chaos of the post selsoviet 90s, russia and president...

What is the white house strategy . . Hat are they doing this has been a threat all along and the president is pushing through. The white house has announced the president has imposed visa b ans with certain individuals involved with undermining ukraine. That means they could be applied to both ukrainian individuals as well as russian individuals. We do not have the actual list of people. This follows action by the European Union. 18 were targeted by the European Union. The president has also aut...

Pelley this is our western edition. Just as the british were on guard for a possible terror attack in the sky, they were struck today on the ground. In the heart of london. A driver plowed a car into a group of pedestrians then stabbed a police officer, at least four people at least four people, including the officer, were killed. 40 others were wounded. Bethattacker was shot to death by the police and our Elizabeth Palmer has more in london. There has been a terror attack. Reporter in only seco...