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False flag operations, under which russia would stage some sort of attack on its own forces and use it as a pretext forces and use it as a pretext for invasion, invading ukraine, so a lot of growing concern about what might happen on that extremely volatile border there. ~ ., extremely volatile border there. ~ . there. meanwhile, has there been any _ there. meanwhile, has there been any suggestion - there. meanwhile, has there been any suggestion as - there. meanwhile, has there been any suggest...

>> to be very, very clear, we have not seen that. in fact, we have seen the opposite. in recent weeks, and even in recent days, more russian forces, not fewer, are at the border. and they are meeting, concerningly, into fighting positions. this is cause for profound concern. at the same time and as we have warned previously, over the past several weeks, we have also seen russian officials and russian media plant numerous stories in the press, any one of which could be elevated to serve as a pret...

Correspondent richard engel explains. >> reporter: as russia builds up forces around ukraine, u.s. officials are warning of a possible russian plot to create a pretext for an vaccination, a propaganda campaign that would try to prove ukraine is attacking russian speakers here, complete with a video showing the faked aftermath of a ukrainian attack. >> as part of this fake attack we believe that russia would produce a very graphic propaganda video which would include corpses and actors that would...

Metastization. you have isis k who was responsible for the terror attack in abu dhabi airport. so abdullah was able to provide overarching structure for the larger organization but to be directly involved in operations. >> are you concerned about a retaliatory strike from isis? >> we are always watching for threats by isis. we dont have any indication right now that there is some sort of retaliation in the offing, but well be watching this very, very closely. obviously well do what we need to do...

And what theyve done in other nations. people are familiar with the russian effort to impact the election in the united states in 2016, but if you go and read what they were doing at the same time in other nations in europe, i mean, its astounding, the disinformation campaigns they put together to try to create pretext or chaos. the u.s. had very, very good intel that that was the intent here. that putin was going to fabricate a video that made it look like russian speakers in ukraine were being...

The kind of provocation, the kind of false flag operation that ukraine is facing that could be a pretext to some kind of russian invasion of ukrainian territory. so, they welcome that and they agree with it. on the other side of the dispute, if you like, with the russians, well, theyve -- as you might expect -- distanced themselves from any kind of operation like this. theyve also said that they have no plan. theyve said this again and again. they have no plan to invade ukraine, and certainly wo...

The story about shielding children, it wasnt true. it didnt need to be true. it just had to help convince russians that the war they were raging in ukraine was justified because ukrainians are monsters who crucify babies. well now today, the u.s. state department is warning that we should be expecting something like this again from russia in the next few days. according to the deputy national security adviser today, they were ready to fake -- russian mourners and fake ukrainian military equipmen...

The u.s. saying russia is looking for a pretext to attack ukraine, russia accusing the u.s. of whipping up hysteria president biden in the oval office today, what he said the u.s. is ready to do. also tonight, the federal judge rejecting a plea agreement for ahmaud arberys killers why arberys mother said she felt betrayed by the deal. the big news from moderna, its covid vaccine getting full fda approval also, when will children under five get vaccinated the new possible timeline. in the u...

How people say they feel about it and what we see in the numbers. >> romans, catherine, mark, i know what were all going to do, were going to dig in and try to make sense of this. i appreciate you being here for this very surprising release of data. how is the white house going to respond to this jobs report? hmm, i wonder. thats next. and the u.s. government says russia has been concocting a plan to use a graphic propaganda video portraying fake corporations and actors as a bea pretext tous...

Pretext to attack there or further solidify russian control of ukraine. >> and russia is quite literally putting a gun to ukraines head, forcing them to implement the minsk 2 agreement, which would be very beneficial to russia in the end, too. its very hard to see how this ends any time soon. of course, youre on the ground there. we will continue to cover this throughout the day and the weeks ahead. still ahead, five years later and the man who killed two teenage girls in indiana is still out ...