i m helena humphrey. good to have you with us. we start here in the us, where thejustice department is investigating the leaking of dozens of leaked intelligence documents which surfaced on social media a few days ago. some officials have suggested the topics point to an american source but they re not ruling out the possibility that pro russian activists or agents might be involved. the bbc s carl nasman is here with more. carl, what exactly is the pentagon saying? well, these documents, they have been circulating online and social media for days now, but clearly us officials are concerned, especially when it comes to security. in a recent statement from the pentagon officials say they re working on verifying the documents to work out if they are the real deal or not. but they say the documents contain classified material, highly sensitive material, highly sensitive material, they also say that they are focused on assessing they are focused on assessing the impact that these
our allies and partners. we also know that a criminal investigation has been opened into this case and that this is likely the largest league of classified documents since edward snowden back 2013, zindzi gave some classified documents, thousands of them, to journalists. documents, thousands of them, tojournalists. it has been about a decade. this is a big deal. remind us about these leaked documents themselves. what s in them and who leaked them? well, we don t know who is behind the legs. us officials are trying to determine that. leaks. given the breadth and depth of information in the documents they do suspect it could be an american or somebody at least within the us thatis somebody at least within the us that is behind them and they have not ruled out the involvement potentially of russia or russian sympathisers. in terms of the documents themselves, their two different leagues, the first one happened backin leagues, the first one happened back in march, a handful of documents