on accountability police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the. people. for just twelve euros fifty per month. britain's foreign office is funding a secret operation of brushing campaigns across europe now this is according to documents exposed by the hacking group anonymous names of those involved in the clandestine network of also being revealed. rising fuel prices of spawn get more demonstrations in france as protests there spill out across the country. who should

be held accountable. maybe the world should be held accountable because the world is a vicious appliance. says it's the world perhaps to blame for the murder of prominent saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. in other news a suicide bomber has attacked a crowded festival in northwest pakistan killing twenty five people and leaving many of the wounded to the same time target the chinese consulate in the nearby city of karachi. good evening and welcome this is r.t. international. where we start this hour with bombshell documents that have been released by the anonymous hacker group they appear to show the u.k. government leading a massive operation to control politics and public opinion. is called a large. secret service across europe let's get more on the story now from our

correspondent started he joins me in the studio and you've been across this story for israel eyebrow raiser explain it but first let's just tell everybody what's in these documents so this hacker group anonymous they're saying they got their hands on a trove of classified documents they say are directly from the u.k. foreign office according to the leaked the u.k. has been funding an operation that prompted public opinion makers to promote anti russian narratives on social media or by planting planting stories in the press the british government has apparently been running those since twenty fifteen through proxy organizations it's called the operation integrity initiative now this initiative is not confined to just the u.k. for even europe for that matter london apparently plans to establish similar operations all around the world really neal you can see the map here for example it shows the already active cells if i may say so and they're really almost all across

europe looks like a ground and expensive operation has supposed to fight what what is so called russian this information and it is that it's expansive it as in all major powerhouses of europe but the key to understanding this is who the work of the work with they say it's policymakers opinion shapers and so on and so forth and they are formed into clusters according to the documents this network has a very concrete structure influences are divided into clusters based on the geography of their activities there's a u.k. one for instance featuring dozens of names but most prominently perhaps outspoken critics of russia and the right hand the man of the russian opposition figure alexina valley all workers allegedly coordinated through concealed contacts inside british embassies now a very important detail here neal is that yes this operation does have a blood. it but we do not know whether or not the people mentioned in these cluster

lists so to speak to get even a penny out of the budget because well the documents that have been proposed that have been published by anonymous they shed no light when it comes to that so for all we know for all it's worth the people mentioned they could be in it without even knowing that they are being property and by the you can buy the u.k. government directly ok just how influential do we consider this operation any particular case has been highlighted well the most illustrated example is the example of the spanish class it seems to be the most powerful at least judging by the documents and they conducted a so-called one kilo operation in spain of course petrol banned as was seeking to become director of the country's department of homeland security but this statement made him to pro russian for the integrity initiative what country has everything we

like we've achieved nothing by provoking russia a comment by likely new national security direct to burn us so yes that statement was what client london's rebuke of machinery into action and he was put on the bad guys list so it's all started with tweets like these in an attempt to discredit banas by members of the spain cluster it not only makes spain look really bad it's a real danger for the contrary in europe as a whole putin when realizing that without any effort he has just got one of his affiliates in government with full access to our security and defense policy is. but that was just the beginning it didn't take long for headlines to follow the online phase the initial phase also anonymous say that they obtained screenshots from the whatsapp conversation quite bluntly called the hash tag no pedro barrenness and this is one of these screenshots and it kind of does shed light as

to how the whole thing was coordinated like powerful people within the ruling socialist party are making pressure to stop this this meaning the nomination of us so what the essentially tried to do was to convince the spanish prime minister from the u.k. that the guy he wanted to take one of the top jobs in spain was no good you was too pro russian and as a justifiable cause he they presented the public opinion they themselves tailored to how they wanted at least that's the narrative the anonymous are saying is in their documents of course we couldn't really very find them independently although we did reach out to the u.k. government but guess what apparently the spanish cluster succeeded and. i mean well historically. that battle banners did not get the position as the director of homeland security in spain so if that's not meddling in foreign countries affairs

then what is so by the sounds of it it's a u.k. operation of influence but it's good influence according to them what they say. is that eventually many things fascinating story it is that of bringing all the details that we have indeed as you mentioned the british foreign office to comment on whether they are or not funding the integrity initiative or we'll let you know if and when we hear anything earlier my colleague andrew pharma discussed this issue with security analyst and former u.k. army officer rich. what struck me was the sheer speed in which this influx operation was able to swing into action in real time not just in organizing or rather influencing media coverage but actually through. twitter and other social media very rapidly. mobilizing resources in order to change minister appointments even in other countries when you look at the timeline of that operation it was just just a few hours from when the operation was launched to when the operation succeeded is there a gray area. on whether they're actually doing anything wrong here because the pushing

in opinion but everybody's entitled to an opinion. it would be up to using the spanish case would be up to the spanish officials to take everything on board before finally deciding who to appoint. yes you're absolutely right and certainly no problem with anybody expressing any opinion so long as it's lawful doesn't. facilitate violence and so on but what we've got here is the hidden influence actually these are not genuine opinions or if they are genuine news they're being pushed and given prominence because they are backed including by funding from organizations such as u.k. government and the funding of backing so often of course the whole point of a covert operation is not disclosed and so that gives the impression that these are genuine popular feelings when in fact they have been orchestrated by generous funding and important figures into in this case the u.k. government. france is heading for another weekend of protest thousands are expected to join rallies against the recent hike in fuel prices demonstrations have been

spilling out across the country correspondent has the latest from kelly. we know 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 protests tonight it has been growing this evening though while we've been here and what you might be able to see is what we're doing is the conjugating and occasionally they walking across a pedestrian crossing as a way of stopping the traffic in this operation esko go on for a nail that's been going now for the last seven days here in cali they have. i've 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 was. was. was very sure. i am. 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 protests 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 a bulgarian germany and even reports of some of the protesters here saying they now have support for this movement in spain it's a social movement

a spontaneous movement where they're saying that there are no bosses there are new unions and there are no politics involved and what they're looking for is an improvement in the quality of life back or he's working alone we need. to re. a problem in his head but it is not i sink it is not a good. behavior 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 the kids. saw. life is big it's becoming very bad very bad this all started over the price of taxis 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 protests saturday in palace in perry we know that. russia's foreign minister has been answering some challenging questions at a news conference on a work visit to the mediterranean dialogue event in the italian capital markets are trying to has the latest. thirty lavrov was much more outspoken than he usually is at his regular press conferences and the audience right in this building was all yours and it seemed that they view russia as a power that can give direct orders to the syrian government and so this question came western. states. and thousands of their own populations. the rest of these kind of states if you are obsessed with human rights and don't give them

a boat the stability of countries if you don't. give a damn a boat the right to life which is a human right but. not to mention the going to console szell rights then i'm afraid you are one side of the conversation actually took a real it's how you and twist when the whole thing started comparing international lay sions with those that he has and his family when my wife weapons to be a russian it is an argument with me she often sees the media you don't respect me you know there is another russian saying. you are afraid of me then you respect me if you have some concerns normal polite people raise direct question look good i don't like what they could this is what i you

know can you explain this. i mean this if you have a problem with suspicion regarding your wife. i mean you ask the director the right . way you don't go into the media and then no circumcision. even shed light on the exact language that is used by officials as well as former secretary of state rex tillerson when accusations are thrown at russia you know yourself that you did that's that's a good i'm not joking this is what the rex tillerson told me after i asked him to elaborate on his statement that because of undeniable facts that we muddled was all that he left and said but ask your special services they know what i mean. on saturday so good luck for flies on to portugal syria and ukraine are topics set

to be on the table though we'll bring you the very latest from his visit. a string of deadly violence has rocked pakistan's a twenty five people were killed in a suicide bombing at a crowded festival a market in the northwest region. but there. i. was. in a separate attacks three gunmen tried to storm the chinese consulate in the southern city of karachi during that incident two police officers and all three of the attackers were killed the following video captured the moment the gunfire started near the consulate. the presence of the pollution is going to forces very much to do it in the not

around the chinese consulate there were more of them were terrorists be joining is going. good mood. as it is very god this there was a strong reaction by a box of the security forces more stuck to their wrist which is probably people they have been given and there are sort of support for suggesting that probably some of the members of the security forces have also been killed the next you're fired all members of the journey cost lives being one member's bill all three of. violence also flared in neighboring afghanistan at least twenty six people were killed and around fifty wounded in a suicide blast in a mosque near an army base in khost province that's according to security officials all those killed were believed to be working for the national security forces attack comes just three days after another suicide. bombing at a gathering of religious scholars left dozens dead.

donald trump or suggested that the world should perhaps be held accountable for the murder of journalist mark 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 thursday who should be held responsible. and maybe the world should be held accountable because the world is a vicious blows world is a very very vicious blows this statement indicates a change in terms of rhetoric regarding the khashoggi case when the news about the missing journalist first broke trumpet day harsh response and even threatened to sanction saudi arabia while the us did sanction several saudi nationals so far that's been washington's only punitive measure from claims he doesn't 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 that standard we wouldn't be able to have anybody who's in our eye because much of what happens all over the world the turkish foreign minister reacted to trump's words saying not everything in this world should be about money he also reiterated calls from biased investigation. marcus shoji was initially considered missing saudi officials eventually admitted he'd been killed in a claimed rogue operation we had denied any awareness of the planned killing and has launched an investigation charging eleven officials middle east analyst ziad nasser told us that trump is simply trying to protect u.s. interests. but a trouble saying is what is actually behind closed doors every single time i don't think it's sitting well with a lot. of the troops of the delusions of the we all knew and since iran and so really are all odds and iran and israel those are odds the u.s.

is going to go into this there are going to try and present tom smart. you know on one hand he may be actually trying to protect u.s. interests on the other hand if you see is this ultimate outcome it's going to move people who are trying to absolve themselves from blame where you can point to everything you said and since those i don't want to do that but all of you who made this stuff and so don't blame it on me. the british museum is agreed to give back a collection of bronze star choose to nigeria albeit temporarily looks now at how a growing number of ownership disputes could see museums lose their treasures. it may be called the british museum but many of the precious artifacts inside here are from far far away acquired some might even say united during the times that the british empire ruled far and wide and now an increasing number of britain's former colonies or outright victims of theft are saying that they want their precious

treasures to be returned home now in response the british museum has rather courteously said that it's willing to lend out some items rather than return them the latest loan will be to nigeria a collection of bronze statues that been mean bronzes. is as then known were originally taken from africa by british troops in eight hundred ninety seven and all the nations are submitting their requests to you have to take it keeping him two hundred fifty years yes it was so months then we can hope that was the governor of easter island begging the british museum for its precious statue earlier this week and the list of disputed museum treasures keeps on growing.

so should the spoils of the empire be were tunde i want to know what those resisting the museum those feasting their eyes on the foreign artifacts have to say about it there's a lot of dispute actually over some of the foreign artifacts the british museum got in the times of empire should they just return everything. well that would be nice even if. what a great question of the old who just made talking about it to speak it's been very nice for steele to soothe but i still say we should go for the little stuff we've been lost but kept it in your power to yourselves for other countries set up to shoot so should we breathe feel like we want to fight where you go straight there should be given back confidence is that a bit rich as well say will lend you back in the things that we stole from you

possibly. the sea all up in the in from the different countries and stuff is just school but would never get it to those who wouldn't be to see it would we who are the mean yes you have a few of the stolen things you know yeah you think yes it should go back another otherwise you think we should keep it to remind ourselves of the. our history and why this stuff is here in the first base their risk of the museum being empty if if everyone gets everything back. well after a lot of it would be over but as for the british museum itself well it told us that it welcomes debate and transparency regarding the history of its collections but that in many cases allowing them to stay in the museum gives them wider public access we are very much in favor of more transparency around the provenance of objects and museum collections we still believe however that there is a very strong public benefits museums like the british museum housing objects from across the world under one roof while the issue of foreign artifacts has been made

all the more thought he thanks to a more laissez faire attitude across the channel the french president emanuel macron appears to be more willing to send france's colonial acquisitions back to their rightful owners and that's putting museum directors here at risk of losing large swathes of their collections in a bit of an awkward position. 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 g.m. was down to individual states not congress he dismissed some of the charges against eight people including two doctors for conducting the procedure on underage girls. this practice is mostly carried out in africa asia and the middle east can have serious consequences including in some cases extreme ones death an estimated two

hundred million women around the world of thought to have undergone the procedure that the un will toefl denies they should consider it a violation of human rights we put this issue up for debate and go to pin you down 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 just 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 f.p.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 the janitor. mutilating a child without their ability to even consent 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 mutilated. eleven's you brought up to date thanks staying with out see that. the british government and the british establishment and mrs mrs mrs may have looks themselves up into his studio about so-called new deal just so he's incredibly misleading as i just said in so doing a lot of the european union to impose completely draco union terms on the u.k.

which would last anyway. going to places like camp sundown to get for people that can't. and they're like so vampires. this is like a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with this because we understand her daughter katie was diagnosed with a very rare son sensitive condition if i get sunburned i heal she does or she'll patients when they have problems with the walk to talk to some of the brains of her actually shrinking inside the skull gets taken in the brain still small. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscles all the way down to the bone and there's no relief. so we're just not sure this is going to stop.

well. this is the pat on the land. five years ago it was all grass. down over there now and this is pumper going day in day out we didn't have any choice really we could have put it over that way or ways i mean we could have moved it a little bit. but we have to let the people who own the mineral rights get to those minorities and they compensated us for what they took here but the company built it

and we have it now for own next forty years i'm guessing i don't own. my house up there from there we have we used to have a beautiful view. now we have this to look at brings in a little bit of money very little if they took us out of here and get back all the money i made off of it. ain't going to happen.

someday. you know an oil is all pumped out of the ground they will come back here and level it all out and turn it back into farmland but that's you know like i said it's going to be out of most of our lifetimes be out of the. i know for sure. you have nothing to say about where. i should say i have nothing to say you can suggest but they don't have to listen to you don't mean you have no legal say in it put it that way so they can put a wherever they want they don't need any your permission foreign oil industry follows a proper practices i don't think will have a problem but there's always that if me if they don't then we could have an issue in the biggest issue would be to to ground water as i see it when we live are in rural areas most of us depend on wells for our our drinking water and all along.