Ex-national security adviser 'to defy Senate Russia inquiry'

The fired US national security adviser will refuse to hand over documents to a Senate panel investigating alleged Russian meddling in the US election.
Michael Flynn reportedly plans to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination on Monday.
The Senate Intelligence Committee is probing possible links between the Trump campaign and Kremlin.
Mr Flynn quit in February, after it emerged he lied about the nature of his contacts with the Russian ambassador.
The committee issued a subpoena - a legal summons - two weeks ago to obtain the documents.
My Flynn's lawyer has previously demanded immunity from "unfair prosecution" in order to co-operate with the committee.
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Last week the committee's chairman Senator Richard Burr told reporters that Mr Flynn was "not cooperating" with the investigation, adding that they had not received "a definitive answer" on whether he would testify.
Mr Flynn is also being investigated by the Department of Defense, after it was revealed that he received payments from Russia and Turkey shortly after leaving the Pentagon.
Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified to senators earlier this month that she had warned the White House 18 days before he was fired that Mr Flynn was vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
The Russians had "leverage" over the ex-national security adviser, Mrs Yates testified, adding that her concerns were of a legal nature, and were not simply a "trust issue" between the president and his staff.
Mr Flynn has been accused of discussing lifting US sanctions on Russia during his conversation with Moscow's envoy Sergei Kislyak before Mr Trump took office.
Mr Trump injected a sense of urgency to the Senate investigation after he met the Russian ambassador and foreign minister in the White House.
The US president said in that meeting that he fired the FBI director because he was a "real nut job", adding that his dismissal eased "a great pressure because of Russia", the New York Times reported.
During the Oval Office meeting, which US media were not invited to cover, Mr Trump also reportedly divulged secret information on the military campaign against so-called Islamic State.
Israel was reportedly the source of that sensitive intelligence.
But while travelling in Israel on Monday, Mr Trump told reporters four times that he "never mentioned the word Israel" in his meeting with Russian officials.
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Mr Flynn is also at the centre of an FBI investigation into possible collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
Former FBI director Robert Mueller was appointed last week to lead the FBI investigation following Mr Trump's firing of the law enforcement agency's director, James Comey.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been forced to recuse himself from that investigation after he neglected to tell Senators about his meeting with Mr Kislyak during his confirmation hearings.
If Mr Flynn continues to refuse to comply with Senate investigators, it is thought they could vote to hold him in contempt of Congress, or even refer his case for possible criminal charges.