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a royal warship that sank 340 years ago while carrying the future king james ii is discovered off the coast of norfolk. the ukrainian ambassador to the uk has told the bbc ukraine is in negotiations to free the two britons sentenced to death for fighting against russian forces and says there will be a prisoner swap. aiden aslin and shaun pinner were captured while fighting with the ukrainian army and have been tried as merceneries by a court in russian held territory. both men had been living in ukraine at the time of the invasion. his comments come as the defence secretary ben walla...

This investigation. and there's a new report that was prepared for the senate intelligence committee which showed that russia was also trying to undermine and discredit the fbi in 2017. russian operatives targeted special counsel robert mueller through fake accounts on social media. the news russian operatives used division and disparagement to create and amplify the narrative that the whole investigation was nonsense, comey and mueller were somehow corrupt and the russian conspiracy sories were, quote, weird conspiracies pushed by, quote, liberal cry babies. let me welcome msnbc analyst frank...

Troubling for all americans. the russia story and their motives are one thing. understanding the capacity in these platforms is another. i hope it will give us another push to get congress to move on an internet privacy bill of rights. >> most of the focus has been on facebook and twitter. take a look at these instagram numbers. russians operated 133 instagram accounts according to the reports. posts went from 2600 a month in 2016 to 6,000 in 2017. russian gram posts generated 185 million likes and 4 million user comments over three years. what groups of people did the russians target? what do...

Hell she's been through in the last two days. i'm sorry, but there were no other options. >> reporter: this was the reaction from arkady babchenko's colleagues after he turned up alive on tv. babchenko was critical of russian actions in ukraine and syria and left russia in 2017 because of threats to his life. he wrote about his experience suffering what he called political harassment and putin's russia in an essay published by britain's guardian newspaper in 2017. russian officials fuming after the ukrainians revealed the staged assassination. kiev in the situation with the alleged attempts to...