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Latest. so his family, the whelan family, saying russia has this wrong. what has russia said about whelan's arrest? >> reporter: well, officially very little indeed. this has been the new year period which perhaps has given officials a bit of a period of respite from having to engage in these issues. but there have been reports in the local media that we are have not been able to verify suggesting according to the rosbalt news agency that mr. whelan was caught quote/unquote red handed, that he was observed in receipt of an electronic memory device and that his hotel was then raided by the loca...

Pursuing. in terms of what the news agency put out earlier on today, that is uncorroborated by our own reporting, so we can only quote what they're saying. they're saying their security sources in russia suggest that he took possession of some kind of electronic memory device, a thumb drive or similar, shortly before he was arrested in a hotel close to the kremlin, poppy. this is all causing a degree of outrage across the world, not least because mr. whelan has multiple citizenship, american, canadian, irish, and british. in the last hour, jeremy hunt has said that individuals should not be us...

Capable of navigating through this mass of information it will be hard to consult just like the paper archives prior to the development of the venice time machine. these new navigational tools already exist. in the united states i.b.m. has developed an ultra powerful interface called watson. with its algorithms the supercomputer can analyze and retrieve two hundred million pages in three seconds. in the near future we may have an interface on our computers or our mobile phones that will have enough computing power to be something of an additional memory device. even now our memory is an interc...

Heathrow won't be looking at who may have been behind this, but checking the dark web to see if some of this information wasn't just on the usb and got to where terrorists could see it. that would be the worst case scenario. >> you talk about the fact this is on a memory device. it could suggest or does it suggest it could be in multiple hands. >> these usb drives cause huge headaches for security folkings. we talk about the internet a lot, but they have the internet and they are connected to each other internally, but not to the internet. the only way to get information in and out is on a mem...