and the british establishment and mrs bush and mrs mrs may have worked themselves up into his styria about so-called new deal which is self is incredibly misleading as i just said. doing a lot of the european union to impose completely draco union terms on the u.k. which we've lost anyway. britain's foreign office is funding a secret operation of russian campaigns across europe that's according to documents that were exposed by the hacker group anonymous the names of those involved in the clandestine network of also being revealed. rising fuel prices spot yet more demonstrations in france as protests spill out across the country.

who should be held accountable. maybe the world should be held accountable because the world is a vicious words. trump says that the world that is perhaps the blame for the murder of the prominent saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. and also a suicide bomber attacked a crowded festival in northwest pakistan killing twenty five and leaving many more wounded at the same time gunmen target the chinese consulate in the nearby city of karachi. good evening and welcome this is international. we start this hour with bombshell documents released by the anonymous hacker group they appear to show the u.k. government leading a massive operation to control politics and public opinion creating what anonymous

has called a large scale secret service across europe let's get more on the story now can speak to our correspondent joins me in the studio. first time i've heard anything like this tell me what's in these documents well the anonymous how could group they say they got their hands on the classified documents coming directly from the u.k. foreign office and apparently if you believe those documents the u.k. government has been funding an operation that essentially prompts opinion makers policymakers across europe really to push forward an anti russian narrative now their goal their cause how the outline it is quite noble they call it a complaint against russian misinformation but in reality this is more about generally countering russian influence german just all around the world really so apparently this has been going on since twenty fifteen and this operation is called integrity initiative now it's important to realize that this initiative is not

confined just to europe for example or not not let alone the u.k. they have an ambition to go global with it and to engage the united states canada and really all across the atlantic now this is the map that we have here that showcases all the colossus there's the work through with now they have as you can see they have a cluster in spain in france and germany in italy all around europe that's where they put their basically so the work with opinion makers and they divide them geographically based based on where the operations to lie in terms of geography. the map suggests to me that russia has its tentacles all over the world with this this information if it's fighting this information isn't it quite simple don't you just prove what's false what exactly is happening so what is happening is the again it's all about these clusters that they target certain people who are big shots in

their own countries like for example if we talk about the u.k. cluster which is not exactly on this map but still it exists it does exist the u.k. cluster has such name. names on it as bill browder for example and very outspoken russia critic it has the right hand man of alexina valmy a very prominent russian opposition figure and so the work of these people is coordinated through contacts inside british embassies now this program does have a very concrete a very strict budget we know of that although there is no indication at least not in the documents provided by the anonymous group that these people named in those in those documents have gotten even a penny from the british government for all it's worth they may not even know that they are property it by the u.k. government because they work through a london based and geo there so really there you have it ok so well it's a bit i'm going to put this bit lacking on hard facts at the moment in terms of

wrongdoing or how they're fighting it if you got any specific cases one of the most powerful clusters apparently is the one in spain not only was it tasked with countering russia as well narrative when it came to the catalonia independence referendum it also for example prevented one person from taking up a very high level position within the government but was seeking the job of the director of what is not homeland security agency and he was viewed as pro russian because of statements like this. country has everything we like russia we've achieved nothing by provoking russia a comment by likely new national security director. so yeah it's statements like these that put him in the pro russian bosket just saying that russia has its interests around the world so what so what the cluster did they worked with the

twitter users so they put out a whole twitter campaign that has been smearing has a reputation and they've included tweets like these. now the only makes spain look really bad it's a real danger for the contrary in europe as a whole government preparing to name colonel battles known for his pro russian pro putin stance in the syrian and ukrainian conflicts as director of the department of national security a key government agency put in when realizing that without any effort he has just got one of his affiliates in government with full access to our security and defense policies. so all those tweets were just phase one that was the online phase then headlines followed that also kind of picked up with the same message that is no good anonymous also say that they obtained a screenshot of the what chad very bluntly named know how to draw banners and

apparently that chad coordinated in that chant coordinated all the sort of p.r. activities even if i may say so so what the spanish class this is this is the charge what they're saying is powerful people within the ruling socialist party are making pressure to stop this to stop the nomination of federal banus so effectively what the what the u.k. tried doing the tried convincing the spanish prime minister. was no good he was to progression and that public opinion was against him the very public opinion the themselves created the themselves tailored to how the wanted and so and guess what they succeeded because some fifty days into the nomination process the spanish prime minister decided to appoint a nother person to take up the job so really you have the u.k. doing a convert operation in spain to prevent the leader of the country from appointing

who he wants to become the head of the department of national of homeland security so if that's not meddling in other countries affairs then well what is. it's a first name story a little of all of us to make their own minds up as to what they want to believe about this or not but it's absolutely fascinating many things you can start off with the story for us now we have contacted the foreign and commonwealth office and asked for confirmation or denial about this claim that they funded the so-called integrity initiative and we will let you know as soon as we hear anything nothing as yet let's get some analysis now from journalists of white choice may very good evening to you john anonymous of come up with these these documents from my own memory their track record pretty good in terms of trusting information they get do you believe that these are legitimate. i have no doubt that they are which are to me because we understand the stakes involved in this kind of nefarious activity are so high mainly the maintainance of us western hegemony of which president is

a key and so there's no surprise to me that this has been going on in this really does place in pristine context doesn't it the unremitting campaign of demonization against russia accusing russia of these very tapes of activities where all the west has been engaging in these activities and is an interest in the date that this campaign is said to have begun twenty fifteen a fool year before breakfast food year before trumps election in the us presidential election is this was seen as a cast as belly of russian interference in both head of two up to no there's been no evidence to support of course but if there had been russian interference in those events sort of russia had been engaging in hybrid warfare that's a case of push back against the west's campaign of hybrid warfare so i have no doubt that this is true and what people in the west are increasingly being served up as an invaluable education into the nif areas that pivotal he's taken place in

their name behind the veil of democracy and human rights we have this specific case of the spanish homeland security chief do you think the u.k. foreign office is in your opinion guilty of meddling. or certainly capable of i mean let's not be naive we're talking about the british fleet is not a normal state is a say it's a key powar of western hegemony the way by washington and so this is part and parcel of what the security forces and foreign office and the think tanks and increasingly the media establishment delaney has been blurred between each of the aforementioned i think no longer exists they are one in the same they speak with one in the same voice and they are engaged in the same activity driven by this ideology of western hegemony if these. claims will be made against russia in the current political climate i think we have a u.n. security council meeting to talk of sanctions will we see

a strong response to this all this be just brushed films of page three of the u.k. newspapers and everyone on carry on. under the carpet will be put in a box marked russian propaganda as everything else has been in the past when it comes to the west's activities of surveillance and trying to undermine and interfere in the affairs of other countries which goes back many many decades and so yes it will be brushed under the carpet. as you see the inner pages of a newspaper a couple of paragraphs but if it was russia that was engaged or was it accused of being the asian this type of activity as we've seen up to know there would be a foodborne campaign will be parliamentary questions and motions past will be diplomats will be expelled and will be. unleashed in the mainstream media and this is a case of projection psychological projection believing the other guy for your own sense was ever a person of a show be. again unproven as yet but if this is all true if these claims in these

documents are all true is the u.k. doing anything wrong or is this just the way the world works these days. this is the way the world works this is how it is these countries are engaged in hybrid warfare call it soft power we're in a new cold war whether we like to accept the fact or not and the emphasis of western foreign policy is to contain russia push back against so-called russian influence and all stems back to the demise of the soviet union and the promises that were made and thereafter broken when it came to the eastward expansion of need to which is no taken place resulting in a crisis in ukraine in conjunction with the e.u. and it's taking place on all fronts sanctions happy washington administration under the trump presidency as using sanctions is the weapon of resort rather than a last resort when it comes to the chain of diplomatic relations in foreign affairs and so the tensions of never been higher than they have ever been since the cold

war in fact arguably including during the cold war and this is a result of this kind of activity so as i say i think people are being given an invaluable education into the fetus activities of their governments in their name bringing them to the very edge of military conflict and i don't think hyperbole. i mean speak to journalist john white john thanks for coming on good to speak to you . on to other news now a string of deadly violence has rocked pakistan some twenty five people were killed in a suicide bombing at a crowded festival a market in the northwest passage while reaching. but there. was.

a separate attack three gunmen tried to storm the chinese consulate in the southern city of karachi during that incident two police officers and three of the attackers were killed the following video captured the moment the gunfire started near the consulate. the presence of the pollution the security forces were very much to do it in the not around the chinese consulate there were more of them were terrorists trying it's going. good made. a very go of this there was a strong reaction by parts of the security forces. more stuck to their wrist which is probably people they have been given and there are sort of suggesting that probably some of the members of the security forces have also been killed in exchange of fire although members of the johnny gosch later being one member or three of. violence also fled in neighboring afghanistan is twenty six people were

killed and around fifty wounded in a suicide blast at a mosque near an army base in khost province that's according to security officials all those killed were believed to have been working for the national security forces you track comes three days after another suicide bombing at a gathering of religious scholars left dozens of people dead. donald trump i suggested the world should perhaps be held accountable for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi you also insisted u.s. intelligence had not officially concluded the saudi crown prince had ordered the killing despite media reports to the contrary u.s. president was asked by reporters on thursday who should be held responsible. maybe the world should be held accountable because the world is a vicious blows world it's a very very vicious blows the statement in dark indicates a change in donald trump's rhetoric regarding the khashoggi case when the news about the missing journalist first broke from valve

a harsh response even threatened to sanction saudi arabia while the us did sanction several saudi nationals so far that's been washington's only punitive measure so i'm going to see does not want to risk thousands of jobs because of this incident they are vehemently denying. and we have hundreds of thousands of jobs does do people really want me to give up hundreds of thousands of jobs and frankly if we went by the standard we wouldn't be able to have anybody who's in our because look at what happens all over the world with turkey's foreign minister reacted to terms words saying not everything in this will should be about money you also reiterated calls for a number. jamal khashoggi was initially considered missing saudi officials eventually admitted he had been killed in a claimed rogue operation riyadh has denied any awareness of the planned killing and as launched an investigation charging eleven officials middle east analyst told us that trump is simply trying to protect u.s.

interests. but rather sane is what is actually said behind closed doors every single time i don't think it's sitting well with a lot of people but that is the only truth of their illusions politicly we all need an enemy and since we're on and so to the right we are at odds and iran and israel that are at odds the us is going to go against iraq we can't get it to tromso president tom's mind about you know on one hand he may be actually trying to protect us interests on the other hand if he sees this ultimate outcome is coming he may be politically trying to absolve himself from blame where he can point to everything you said as i don't want to do that but all of you who made this happen so don't blame it on me still to come for you protest as against rising petrol prices have been gathering ahead of mass rallies coming up this weekend in france details after the break.

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overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one one doesn't show you can't afford to miss the one can only. come back france is heading for another weekend off protests thousands are expected to join rallies against the recent hike in fuel prices demonstrations have been spilling out across the country while correspondent has the latest from kalak. we're now in the seventh day of this yellow vests protest i'm here on the outskirts of cali and as you can see there are probably about fifty people who have turned up for the protest tonight it has been growing this evening though why else we've been

here and what you might be able to see is what they're doing is they conjugating and occasionally they would be across a pedestrian crossing as a way of stopping the traffic in this operation s. cargo or parisian snail that's been ongoing now for the last seven days here in cali they have been in the evening blocking the a sixteen which is one of the main routes here in france they've been taking it over and if they have actually been skirmishes with the police as the protesters have taken control of this road well in terms of this weekend tomorrow saturday is expected to be a big protest day for this movement last saturday we saw some three hundred thousand people across france. you sure.

are. if you can see they are there the crossing the pedestrian crossing there as a method of slowing the traffic and as you can see there's a police officer here there's also a police officer on the other side trying to control what's going on and if you take a look down in the distance you see that there are some police vans out ready and that's because as i mentioned the protesters are hoping for a third night in a row to take control of this major route in france now this movement that's been going on for seven days and to say will go on to an eighty two more and that big protest expected in paris. has also been spreading to other countries in europe the yellow vests and now is demonstrating in countries such as belgium which is just across the border but also in places like bulgaria germany and even reports of some

of the protesters here saying they now have support for this movement in state it's a social movement a spontaneous movement where they're saying that there are no bosses there are no unions and there are no politics involved and what they're looking for is an improvement in the quality of life back or is working alone with only. three. problems in his head but it is not i think it is not a good. moment complot behavior because a lot of people our big big could become more poorest it's not possible to keep going like that there is more and more poverty some people are walking or their life and can't warm inside a home don't have enough money to buy food or to bring their kids to a foreigner so. life is big it's becoming very bad very bad and this all started

over the price of taxes on fuels here in france but it is grown into a much bigger movement that is now looking at the social construct of france and some people are describing this movement is something that has not been seen in france since before the french revolution but to morris' protest saturday in palace in perry we know that at least thirty thousand people are expected to come along there many more will probably join them at the main point where the protesters would like to hold a demonstration which is a plus to the concourse has been foot beaten by the authorities but the protesters say that they still will be there. in a legal first for the united states a judge has declared as unconstitutional a law banning the practice of circumcision known as female genital mutilation the judge said the power to laura was down to individual states not congress and he

dismissed some of the charges against eight people including two doctors for conducting the procedure on under-age girls. the practice is mostly carried out in africa asia and the middle east and can have serious health consequences including in extreme cases death an estimated two hundred million women around the world are thought of undergone the procedure which the u.n. and world health organization consider to be a violation of human rights who put the issue up for debate and good opinion on both sides of the argument. it is absolutely misleading to suggest that female circumcision i'm talking about all three forms is intended to actually suppress female sexuality well i'm a doctor of human development and i can tell you that this flies in the face of everything that i've ever studied regarding women's rights so i want to make it clear that i am not pro mutilation i would never support the mutilation there are a set of practices that supporters like myself refer to as female circumcision and

there are many different forms usually what happens with this terminology female genital mutilation or s.t.m. is that the most extreme form which is very actually quite rare is what gets gets conflated with all the other practices my counterpart here is is comparing apples and oranges she's talking about the difference between women who make a conscious decision as an adult to have to undergo some sort of cosmetic or other sort of procedure no one has a problem with that here and that's not what our conversation is about we are talking about seven year old children almost babies having these decisions to make them essentially a sexual and to risk their lives doing it i reject the term i reject the term mutilation as sexist and racist you do not refer to boys as mutilated so you don't refer to our bodies as mutilated so how far do we let those values impose

themselves up on american values which are based on constitutional and individual freedoms and certainly genitally mutilating a child without their ability to even consider it as an adult is not an american value most of the women from my knowledge from my twenty five years of research as well as from my experience do not. consider themselves as mutilated and don't experience themselves as new ladies. i'm staying with us here not international updates coming your way at the top of the. imax keyser with more of my guide to financial survival this is fun it's

a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these has flaws are simply not accountable and we're just adding muumuu to them. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get informed was kaiser for. the british government and the british establishment and mrs mrs mrs may have looks themselves up into his studio about so cool new deal just so she is incredibly mislead as i just said in so doing they've allowed the european union to impose completely draco union terms of the u.k. which would last anyway. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that profile in this book the wish to fall for converts if you look at any interrogation out there what you'll see is

threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most uncomfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said therefore we. sat on a statement that i will be home by the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage. and misconduct that has nothing to do with all the crime. this is a poem bus broadcast around the world from washington d.c. i'm part thanks for joining us we appreciate you hanging out with us coming up

today we focus on any policy around the planet we'll be joined by professor richard wolfe and our t. correspondent on your part and bill looks at a recent united nations report on poverty in the united states and some reactions at home and abroad plus the c.e.o. of straw market we're word which looks at the wealthiest and poorest nations around the world and r.t. correspondent trinny charges goes to fisher island florida of the wealthiest zip code in the u.s. for a special report part of it from the. us r t correspondent dan cohen looks at the war on work at the poor areas in the nation including right here in the nation's capital the belly of the beast washington d.c. all that straight ahead but first let's get to the few headlines we seek to bring a global perspective to the issues we cover here boom bust so to get a real grasp on the problem of inequality we begin with a report from the library of the british house of commons which is analogous to the library of congress here in the u.s. on what our world will look like in twenty thirty if trends continue the report

finds that the richest one percent of humanity is on track to control sixty four percent of the planet's capital and wealth by two thousand and thirty up from the current fifty percent and measured in dollars that one percent will increase their huge holdings from the current hundred forty trillion dollars to three hundred five trillion dollars the labor party's m.p. lam byrne who requested the survey told the u.k. guardian that absent major reforms global policy makers are. risking a new explosion instability corruption and poverty on the other side of the proverbial coin a november twenty seventeen report from credit suisse found that people on the bottom fifty percent of the income scale on less than one percent of global wealth got that fifty percent of lower income folks on less than one percent o.-m. g. .