see heard of. jack the. president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. european think tanks funded by the u.s. and u.k. embassies publishes a list of thousands of controversial report channels policy. the us state department official knowledge is that anti assad forces in syria are using chemical weapons russia's defense ministry says this is the first such admission after years claiming only the assad government carries out chemical attacks that. students at cambridge university of being issued warnings over a potentially distressing material in classic literature a move but some are calling. if you're reading literature you should expect some surprises i think the problem with the world these days is that there's just so

much focus on being offended by everything that people are just so scared of what they can actually say or do you. feel good evening to you money was neil harvey your watching. first this has become the target of how do i call this let's say it's a good old fashion full scale which by european think tank funded by the us embassy and other leading members of the western establishment now the group calling itself european values issued a report on this channel's programs it listed thousands of people who've appeared as guests to correspond with joins me now from london with this story now i don't know exactly what's in this report i'm going to think positive maybe this is all very nice stuff in the report tell me what is the. well let me you know it's

a bit of a surprise for you the bashing continues now and this particular report the issues that artie's guests are having really a dig at themselves this is a report why i think tank based in the czech republic called european values reporters called the kremlin's platform for useful idiots in the west an overview of ortiz editorial strategy and evidence of impact now what this report does is neatly compile a list of basically all of our t.'s guests because it features thousands of people and it's not just you know or a round of list not only are there seven categories in this report dividing our guests into us politicians and political figures british politicians european and other international politicians writers journalists academics and so on so seven categories now not only are they broken up in that but they're also listed in alphabetical order and if that wasn't enough it also indicates the number of times

each guest appeared on our teeth and links to some of the most relevant episodes now obviously it's clear that this particular think tank really worked hard at watching r t here in the u.k. in the states and all around the world now he doesn't really mince its words when it comes to our team gets not only is the report dubbed useful idiots but it also calls the guests naive and oblivious to our tease intentions so certainly something that is not being too nice to people who have chosen to come and express their opinion on our network and here is why the report decided to really look into all this. the purpose of this list is to identify individuals who either due to underwent a political agenda or indeed explicit support of it and instead names incredibility . and proxy agents of the kremlin well apart from looking at all of our guests of course this wouldn't be

a proper think tank report if it didn't actually try to get r.t. itself it does say that the goal is to look at the history agenda of evidence of impact of the channel that they describe as quote pushing program one agenda or under the guise of free speech and alternative journalism now not only does this report claim to be debunking certain what it calls myths about the channel such as being a reliable news source saying that it's not harmful it also goes into key points such as saying that our cheese whole goal is to denigrate the west and our tea is rooted in the denial of truth so really quite a piece of work there and we can say that some of the sponsors behind this piece is mostly private donors but as well as open society which is obviously a george soros foundation the european parliament the u.s. embassy in the czech republic and we do know that the author has been doing some work with the atlantic council which of course is known for certain anti russia

hype so really no surprises there but i took quite a piece of work and we'll have to wait and see what kind of reactions we see from all of those thousands of people who have been coming onto our channel to express their views not still is pretty clear we need to start. to see what. all we need to be ashamed about a missing one the two things what have i done what have you done what have we done wrong. well you know it's it's a good question to ask considering this particular report actually does say that it's important to not over inflate the threat of individual influence of agent such as r t sputnik but it's really kind of misleading here because if it's not really something worth overinflating it seems like the channel is so relevant but nobody can stop talking about it because just this week alone here in the u.k. first we saw the u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson talk about r.t.

at the house of commons trying to accuse labor m.p.'s of having appeared on the channel and being slightly lenient towards it although his own father had appeared on r t just a very short time before he was making those statements and also we saw a whole sort of hysteria unravel over our team's leader ad campaign here in them in the london underground where posters saying things such as mr train lost a vote blame it on arts were seen as extremely outrageous so really lots of attention towards our tea over this last period of time and of course this is not the first time and it probably won't be the last given all of this buzz and continuous anti sort of russian messages that have been flying around recently i think you can guarantee it won't be the last many thanks for bringing that today into the line from london. now the pressure. increased last month when the justice department demanded an anti america register under the cold war foreign agents act

russia says that the hindus the channels work in the united states and that it will have serious legal consequences and with the pressure growing artie's also been pulled from you tube premium the times enlisted in the us with no warning in response moscow has now said it isn't ruling out counter measures against us media working in russia with a foreign agent deadline that's now passed on to america still hasn't registered putin as one any attacks against russian media will not go unanswered. this is just . what we're seeing right now and what is happening around our media isn't comparable and much less powerful than argue worse and u.k. counterparts i don't even know what to call it they're flipping everything upside down. we're going to mirror any action they take and we will take action fast as soon as we see any steps being taken to restrict our media outlets until versus theory has been making headlines for months it started with alleged moscow meddling

in the u.s. election then moved on to the french and german boats they've been suggestions that russians hacked the catalan independence vote and one of the loudest complaints is coming from the politician who claims that russian interference lost the presidency . many members of parliament have been asked by russia. france. campaign when can i have a massive cyber attack before their president. nobody ever says that russian hackers are q e mails since the civil war there is no possible to say useful bisley

a stated goal was to a criminal group it really can be anyone. still the simplicity of the technical part can make us think you just assume. you created it and so this person can be in any country with any kind of motivation. maybe you've even seen the ads and a london underground one day on propagandist or bragging watch archy and find out who they are planning to. the fact is they're also opening a new scottish. well let's bring in host afshin rattansi host the going underground show which personally i have to enjoy but obviously the people who made this report don't the reason positive always look for the positive they said that many of your guests all useful idiots so. how do you feel about that and how do they feel your guests feel

about. exactly i mean this report monica richter i mean she's mentioned my name in her report i think we should look at who this european values contributor is monica richter educated at the reuters institution oxford and at st andrews university and that so and financially is college in oxford and she is saying that you and i. we have a bleak effect as a pollutant within the information space but that r.t. does not produce the hypodermic needle effect postulated by traditional propaganda theory i think when it comes to this person from the czech think tank luckily they put their revenue stream online in real time and i just checked they only have three thousand dollars amazing that reports like this are actually presumably being read by politicians and hopefully you know our guests who still continue to appear

but as regards guests the guests that they mentioned in the delineate in this report i mean does she really think and the politicians here and in the united states have learned are going to think that robert kennedy jr is an idiot to that yanis varoufakis and former first minister scott and alexander the former mayor of london they're just idiots they useful idiots of course than often this is incredibly insulting you know i watched recently an episode of yours i think you were at the conservative party conference you spoke to several politicians how can an airing the views of democratically elected and pays be a bad thing. yes and they don't seem to see the absurdity of what they're saying if there there are a view is that the russian state is malignant which is the word used throughout this report are they in general and if we take away the names of countries do they just believe that if a country senses its journalists and then backs another t.v.

station then britain should be able to censor people as well i mean there is no logical consistency here this is clearly the kind of mccarthy. atavism that we are witnessing today and it is at the moment we're joking about it you are joking about it a little but of course there is a serious side as you imply that the british foreign secretary did this week ask democratically accountable politicians in britain not. to that he should decide which networks are democratically elected politicians should be allowed should be appearing on that that the unprecedented i do think there is a very serious issue here joking aside because you know we've been accused of airing the views of labor politicians i've seen you interviewing conservative pays surely some people will put two and two together and say that constitutes balance we've spoken to people on both sides and that's a dangerous and rare thing to do these days. well of course our the u.k.

is actually being regulated by an official state censor a state regulation regulator ofcom regulates the output from this channel so if we were to be partial to labor or to conservative we would be punished for it we know fines from off corm for r t u k g u k was launched and there were no fines levied by the regulator of programming produced by our t.v. in moscow r.t. in america and so on broadcast here in britain so. apparently is doing its job according to the regulator here in britain but not according to politicians they clearly do not want certain views being expressed and given the oxygen of publicity to the british public well i think we should say thank you to european values for the for your show and for the channel actually returns are great to speak to you most of us is going underground now the news addition to the alleged russian

meddling frenzy comes from britain as a labor party m.p. calls for a probe into moscow interference this time in the braggs it but given the widespread public concern over foreign and particularly russian interference in western democracies we're sure sure this house but the government and the electoral commission will examine these reports very carefully and reassure our country that all of the resources spent in the referendum permissible source is. now in response to the claims made in the u.k. parliament a top bragg's it campaign finance a says that the m.p. just can't get over losing this vote and banks added it's sad the tedious myth of a russian conspiracy still being used writer and broadcaster married to jess ski told us that alleged russian meddling is just the pretext. this is less about russia russia as a sort of a convenient peg to hook other things on that this is being used by people

opposed to the british leaving the european union and that what they're trying to do is to find some pretext so that they can maybe challenge the vote it's been so unchallenged if you like in washington you know if you read everything that's coming out of washington or if you're in washington the consensus that is so pervasive it's so powerful that russia was involved in somehow manipulating the american election or that it's extraordinary difficult to contest that and i think a lot of that has crossed the atlantic. when you coming up stay with us. we're in sochi in the south of russia turning the ball by discussion on this edition of the program we discussed. here is the impact on u.s. pressure we'd like.

to. have it is our view that i'll be here. much as you. tell us a little. you. paid. by then got a session on their own. by then is assess the long. haul of a study that's not instead of. going on want. some certainly not so it. then you know support was your view how did it move the whole multiple injuries among current america so for them to keep sophie hold the rope but shows real your mercy on the phone to the book on the if you can book

a political social services so you're going to book a little some of. my. own i'm a bit of nothing. off allowed me. somethin to work. on long enough something outside of. the market to sell into huddles look ma it's what i can now maybe i maybe i'm a big forward after. welcome back a group that claims to be fighting against what it calls russian propaganda has been caught red handed trying to bury a news story the website proper or not us the buzz feed reporter not to cover

a story on the cia arming syrian rebels on the sell it to trying to reports. sell one of buzz feed senior investigative reporters went on twitter to say that his colleagues have demanded answers over cia's campaign to arm the rebels in syria a group called prop or not which claims to be fighting russian propaganda and fake news responded with criticism here's what these tweets said more news buzz feed news just filed a freedom of information act lawsuit against the cia for all documents on arming syrian rebels of the trump declassified program. guys don't do this it doesn't help of course we supported syrian moderates democrats we should have done it more please don't muddy waters in the syrian rebels we are and worse well fellas when she won that information to get out so public opinion would be influenced why so troubled by this can have an easier time hunting them down and bombing their whole

neighborhood you'd like that wouldn't you want other twitter users wondered why whoever's in charge of the problem or not twitter accounts thinks that the us taxpayers should know where their bodies go and when it comes to arming foreign militias the reply was basically if classified info gets released then regimes that are quote unquote caught to war with the us may get hold of it and since washington is backing syrian rebels that could be damaging both for the us and their allies in syria the question though is whether that justifies what a group claiming to fight against fake news asking another media outlet to burry a story that could potentially be called some very important serious real. organization or just really a website prop or not is it propaganda or is it not it claims to be deep in can

propaganda sites in fact of course it is a propaganda site and then when you look at the coverage that it got for example the washington post and elsewhere you really once again as we saw many of these websites as we saw many of these think tanks and other groups you have to question i think where the funding and backing for these kind of organizations is coming from meanwhile the u.s. state department has officially acknowledged another until assad force using chemical weapons in syria aside from islamic state this revelation comes in the latest travel alert for the country and refers to the al knows for a group now known as terrier al shaab russia's defense ministry says it's the first kind of a mission like this following years of allegations that only the assad government carried out chemical attacks in syria. tactics of isis hyatt's to here and other violent extremist groups include the use of suicide bombers kidnapping small and heavy arms improvised explosive devices and chemical weapons they have targeted major city senses in damascus aleppo how mama daraa homes it lip and bare is all

provinces. in the province just mentioned in the state department document has had only one widely known deadly chemical attack on its soil that took place in the town of concha corn in april it killed doesn't it washington apparently didn't consider terrorists being responsible quickly blaming government forces. yesterday morning. we awoke to pictures to children of beautiful little babies being carried in the arms of desperate parents these heinous actions by the assad regime. cannot be tolerated if they absolutely claim from the outset that the only people that use or have even the ability to use weapons of this type in syria is the government of president assad and of course that would then make him responsible for him to learn sponsible for

these alleged chemical weapon uses despite the fact that of course the rebels in this case of had every incentive to use these weapons. if you like a false flag to prompt western intervention and of course that intervention in the last attack did happen and the un security council have come together to investigate what's been going on in syria in respect of chemical weapon use looking more deeply into it don't forget detailed investigation is due to report very soon and it may of course for all we know report that actually it's true that rebels don't use chemical weapons and so it may be that this is an early attempt to if you like preempt that by saying well the american government has never denied this. the u.s. led coalition has confirmed victory against islamic state in syria's rock are doing its operation in the country will continue until the group has been eliminated the pentagon is hailing the operation a great success in the fight against isis. we have

a great success against what was once known as the core caliphate iraq in syria and now we're actually in the beginning i think the. regional life of the caliphate as rocket. or the latest pictures coming from rocket debatable whether they give a sense of success it is a virtual ghost city destruction you can see here was caused by militia shelling and coalition airstrikes aid agencies say a huge effort will be needed to end the humanitarian crisis there are so claimed as this defacto capital back in two thousand and fourteen the first major offensive against the terrorists there began two years later they used to be want to sue is largest cities but it's now little more than rubble.

recently called nation after us as well ready to demolish the whole building to target one member of i so they have no problem killing civilians. we ran from death and fear any human being would be afraid the sound of the planes makes us afraid they were shelling the civilians destroying buildings and houses that killed was destroyed by a coalition at craft only ten percent hit their targets the rest hit civilians. the un estimates that's an average of twenty seven people are being killed in iraq every day. and they seem to be no real escape for these civilians their level of suffering. friends relatives family of the children exceptionally. statistically.

william shakespeare's literature has me stumped with a trigger warning by lecturers at cambridge university to avoid causing distress students have been warned which texts contain scenes of sexual assault or violence on the spot a book asks why the bods work is raising concern for centuries later. ok to me from their worse than killing last and tumble me into some loathsome pit whenever man's i may behold my body do this and be a charitable murderer so should i rolled my sweet sons of their fee no let them satisfy their lust on the man's a snippet from shakespeare is a first tragedy titus andronicus the play features graphic violence gang rape and fourteen murders and now certain english lecturers at cambridge university

are putting special warnings on their timetables when they're going to be covering potentially distressing topics like these they're going to have to have a lot of disclaimers with the works of shakespeare though some of his plays can be very gory they feature things like incest rape murder and suicide they also happen to have kept people talking about thorny issues like close relations race relations and anti semitism for centuries i want to know what the people visiting the famous shakespeare globe theatre in london have to say about the warnings i think. demis down the students. in the churn for smart enough to be able to handle this without a warning. for. being good enough for them. if you're reading literature you should expect to have some surprises you

expect to be shocked to see or similar at that particular student i think the problem with the world these days is that there's just so much focus on being offended by everything that people are just so scared of what they can actually say or do cambridge university has told me that any warnings that they put out are the initiative of individual professes and that it's not a policy adopted by the english department as a whole. by the way when the globe says to stage tied to some john three years ago several people fainted from the graphic violence including one of the theater critics reviewing the show that very same critics still gave the production an exceptional review art isn't always comfortable the most challenging arts can be anything but and now there are growing concerns not just in academic circles that modern students are being too morally called old if they can't handle the content in classic literature how are they going to cope with life in general. that is it

you are right up to date with what's happening in the world with the very latest news headlines hope to see you at the top of the hour. so we have received this information and we agree with some of the issues raised in the report there was some others who don't agree with you but i can sell it clearly we have never had a state sponsor system in russia which is the premier accusation in the report we have never had any institutional conspiracy. greetings and salutation as the late great whitney houston sang i believe the children are our future so today hawk watchers let's turn our collective gazes upon

two stories that highlight the reality that many children across the united states based today especially those born in the wrong income bracket and start with the recent f.b.i. announcement that over eighty four children have been rescued from a human trafficking ring and a multi-state staying that saw the arrest of one hundred twenty child sex traffickers for once i think i think we can all truly say bravo and good job to the f.b.i. the sting was part of the innocence lost national initiative which since its inception in two thousand and three has been responsible for finding and identifying over sixty five hundred children who are in harm's way f.b.i. director christopher ray announced to the media that the sting quote isn't just about taking traffickers off the street it's about making sure we offer help in a way out to those young victims who find themselves caught in a vicious cycle of abuse but but let's just hope none of them end up in the.