RT News - January 8, 2019 (17:00 MSK)

US Democrats are again in the spotlight over alleged efforts to sway a state Senate election in 2017 using fake social media accounts. An MP from the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany party is seriously hurt, after a street assault which police are treating as politically motivated. Russian military police begin patrols near the northern Syrian city of Manbij, after US-backed Kurdish forces withdraw from the area.