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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 muscovites not to come out for this unsanctioned protest, but a few thousand people turned up anywa...

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. Officials and foreign officials, and some of those conversations are picked up. The incidental coll...

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 properly redacted from the reports, thus unmasking their identities. So your issue is the unmasking, not t...

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. Trump. Margaret brennan picks up the story. I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions, the Inte...

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 permanent positions in the u. K. Slumped the most in seven years in july, according to a report impr...