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When you consider there are at least another 130,000 russian troops that have already been positioned in other areas, mainly in russia, near to the ukrainian border, potentially poised to come in. so, very disturbing new developments in terms of that ongoing russian deployment in the region of forces and threatening ukraine, anderson. >> whats the response been to the u.s. claims about russia plotting some sort of video, fake video attack, to -- as a pretext for invasion? >> yeah, pretext, provo...

Are against. >> richard, what do you make of the report about this so-called staged attack where russia could then claim that they were invaded? is this possible? where does it come from? >> yes, it is possible. mika, think about it. it is consistent with everything putin has done. he manufactures this crisis, puts north of 100,000 troops on ukraines border and tries to portray russia as the victim, that russia is reacting to events and he has no choice but to do things. so this is the latest ki...

I guess that is where they are stored. giving the tendency to surveilled americans and tendency to think the worst of americans expressing free speech rights, there is an understandable cause for concern. >> you have to view it all in context or just a few years ago the irs went after conservatives. then we find out that vi is spying a presidential campaign. then we learned that theres all kinds of abuses. not just what we had talked about, but the inspector general has pointed out with her beca...

What was it? lets go out front. good evening, i am erin burnett. out front tonight, a false pretext for war. the pentagon says it has evidence russia is plotting to produce a video that would fake an attack on russian troops. propaganda that would create a pretext for russia to invade ukraine. >> um, fake attack we believe that russia would produce a very graphic propaganda video, um, which would include corpses and actors that would be depicting mourners and images of destroyed locations and ...

Operendi. its compromising information in many situations as they have used against intelligence officers here in the united states. talk me through what we know about this and how they can protect against something like this happening. are we prepared? >> reporter: yeah, thats right. for some time now weve been hearing concern about some sort of a false flag operation that russia may conduct in ukraine as a pretext to invading that country. weve learned specifics from u.s. officials saying ther...

Within hours of each other. dan rosenfield quit as chief of staff, martin reynolds as principal private secretary, jack doyle as head of communications and munira mirza as head of policy. president biden says the leader of the islamic state group abu ibrahim al-qurayshi has been killed during a raid by us special forces in the syrian province of idlib. reports say he detonated a bomb at the start of the operation. the us says the kremlin were planning to broadcast fake images of the ukrainian ar...

Years ago as relations between the two countries deteriorated. and as talks intensify about a possible invasion, the hope is things dont break down completely. tensions are still rising on the border. today russian jets made their way to joint military drills with neighbouring belarus. ukrainian ministers have welcomed the delivery of us military equipment, and now a call for the uk to step up its own support. the british government has delivered 2000 anti—tank missiles this week and says it i...

Team have him exactly where they want him. he is now in a position where he has said he will defend his name and he will be defending it as a private citizen, after losing his military titles and his royal patronagees, as well as his title, hrh. the pressure is increasing on him. washington and kyiv have accused russia of preparing to carry out "false sabotage operations" — to create a "pretext" for an invasion of ukraine. the pentagon said moscow had sent a group of trained operatives into ea...

A nonstarter for the west and for nato, and so i think the russian regime was setting that up as a pretext for conflict, aiming to paint nato as the aggressor when nato policy has been the same since 1991. it hasnt changed, there are no surprises here. and unfortunately, russia is painting itself into a corner. nina jankowicz speaking to me a little earlier on that story. lets take a look at some other stories in the headlines. in syria, kurdish—led forces say theyve reta ken full control of a...

>> odonnell: tonight, theres a number of major stories developing as we come on the air including that dangerous winter storm leaving a quarter of a million people without power, and the storm is far from over. brutally cold temperatures, ice and snow on the roads as accidents turn deadly. the cleanup tonight at airports after more than 5,000 flights are canceled, where the storm is headed next. terrorists leader killed, new details about the risky middle of the night raid in syria, and how the ...