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suicide bomber attacks a crowded festival in northwest pakistan killing twenty five and leaving many wounded at the same time gunmen target the chinese consulate in the nearby city of karachi. the russian foreign minister is not just about international relations but. the russian. is an argument with me. you know there is the russians. afraid of me. very good thanks for joining us this hour here on alt. start this 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 creating what anonymous has called a large scale secret service across europe it's not easy it is done off with the story. so this hacker group anonymous they're saying they got their hands on a trove of classified documents they see 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 amy say so and they're really almost all across europe looks like a ground and expensive operation has supposed to fight 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 policy makers 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 man of the russian opposition figure alexina valley all workers allegedly coordinated through concealed contacts inside british embassies now a very important detail in. neal is that yes this operation does have

a budget but we do not know whether or not the people mentioned in these cluster lists so to speak 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 by the u.k. government directly ok just how influential do we consider this operation any particular case is being 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 but obana 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

real sure we've achieved nothing by provoking russia a comment by likely new national security director burn us so yes that statement was what client london's richard beauty 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 banus by members of the cluster it not only makes pain look really bad it's a real danger for the contrary in europe as a whole when realising that without any effort he has just got one of his affiliates in government with full access to our security and defense policy 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 ballasts and this is one of these screenshots and it kind of doesn't. shed light as to how the whole

thing was coordinated by powerful people within the ruling socialist party are making pressure to stop this this meaning the nomination of the 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 the narrative of the anonymous 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 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 it engines 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 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 charles ship which 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 influence in 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 they're

pushing an opinion but everybody's entitled to an opinion aren't they and 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 it's certainly no problem with anybody expressing any opinion so long as it's no for doesn't. facilitate violence and so on but we've got to hear his hidden influence actually these are not genuine opinions or if they are genuine news that been pushed and given prominence because they are backed including by funding from organizations such as the u.k. government and the funding of backing so often of course the whole point of a cover operation is not disclosed and so that gives the impression that these are genuine popular failings when in fact they have been orchestrated by generous funding and important figures and in this case the u.k. government. russia's foreign minister has been answering some challenging questions in rome on a world visit to the mediterranean dialogues events in the italian capital not

easily but trying to has the latest thirty law was much more outspoken than he usually is at his regular press conferences and the audience right in this building was all years and it seemed that they view russia as a power that can give direct orders to the syrian government and so this question came up western. states. and. thousands of their own populations what's the rationale of keeping these kind of states if you obsessed with human rights and don't give them a boat the stability of countries if you dunked give us a boat the right to life which is a film on the road but. not to mention the going on between social routes then imo through the you are one side of the conversation actually took a real talian twist when the whole thing started comparing international lation

with those that he has and his family when my wife weapons to be a russian. it is an argument with me she often sais. me yet you don't respect me you know there is another russian saying. you. afraid of me than you respect me if you have some concerns normal polite people raise direct question i don't like what they could this is what i know can you explain this. i mean this if you were probable suspicion regarding your work. i mean you ask the right. you don't go to the new do and don't know the circumstance of the. lab rob you can shed light on the exact language that is used by officials as going

out former secretary of state rex tillerson when accusations are thrilled at russia you know yourself that you do the i'm not joking this is what the rex tillerson told me. to elaborate on hughes statement good because of undeniable fact that we muddled. you left and so but ask your special services though you know what i mean . saturday so flies on to portugal syrian ukraine on the topic set to be on the table we will bring you the very latest from that visit. and other news 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 peshawar region but there. were none of us are there some. of those.

in a separate attack three gunmen tried to storm the chinese consulate in the southern city of corrupt she during that incident two police officers and all three of the attackers were killed the following video captured the moment the gunfire began near the consulate. the presence of the pollution is going to force is very much in the know down the giants consulate there were more of them were terrorists who are deadly trying is going to be. used good made. a very go of this there was a drug reaction bipartisan majority of forces was stopped at the wrist which are probably people where they have been and before are sort of suggesting that probably some of the members of the security forces have also been killed the next

you're fired all members of the johnny gosch later will be one member of all three of. violence also flared in neighboring afghanistan at least 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 of those killed were believed to be working for the national security forces the attack comes 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 john mark i should also insisted u.s. intelligence had not officially concluded the saudi crown prince 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 indicates

a change in tone terms rhetoric regarding the khashoggi case when the news about the missing journalist first broke from valid a harsh response and even threatened to sanction saudi arabia and while the us did sanction several saudi nationals so far that has been washington's only punitive measure time claims he doesn't want to risk thousands of jobs because of this incident. they're vehemently denying. and we have hundreds of thousands of jews. 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 the turkish foreign minister has reacted to trump's words saying not everything in this world should be about money he also reiterated calls for the for an unbiased investigation jamal khashoggi was initially considered to be missing the saudi officials eventually admitted that he had been killed in what they claim to be

a rogue operation riyadh has denied any awareness of the planned killing and has launched an investigation charging eleven officials at least on this desire told us that trump is simply trying to protect u.s. interests. but trouble saying is what is actually so beyond closed doors every single time i don't think it's sitting well with a lot of. only the truth of the illusions of the clue we all need an enemy and since you aren't so really are at odds in iran and israel that are odds the us is going to go against iraq will trump president tom smile. you know on one hand that you may be actually trying to protect u.s. interests on the other hand if you seize this ultimate outcome a strong you move people who are trying to absolve themselves from blame where you can point back to everything you said and since those i don't want to do that but all of your mood disturbance i don't blame it on me. a man has been

threatening to blow up a petrol station in the french town avenger in the west of the country police are currently confronting an individual who's also claiming to have explosives on him a man appears to be wearing a yellow vests similar to those warm by activists who've been protesting nationwide against rising fuel prices french interior minister has confirmed the man is demanding to meet with president emanuel trump local media also report the individual is known to the author of. a flight to our correspondent in france charlotte dubin ski charlotte what is the situation at the moment. ok i do apologize we have been having some trouble with the connection with our correspondents been a bit on and off of if we do get it back or go back and get that report from charlotte da vinci in the meantime the british museum has agreed to give back a collection of bronze statues to nigeria but only temporarily on these political looks now at how a growing number of ownership disputes could see museums losing their treasures. it

may be called the british museum but many of the precious artifacts inside here are from far far away a quiet some might even say looted during the times that the british empire ruled far and wide and now an increasing number of persons former colonies all outright victims of theft all saying that they want their precious treasures to be returned home now in response to the british museum has all the 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 the bin mean bronzes as they're known were originally taken from africa by british troops in eight hundred ninety seven and other nations are submitting their requests to you have to take it keeping you two hundred in peace to use your skills so once and 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 tons i want to know what those resisting the museum those feasting their eyes on the foreign office in fact 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 receiving them there but what i want to great question of the way we just need to

talk you both to speak to speak very very spruced you. so you would put i still think you should go for their little stuff to do last pickup to the look of your stuff for other countries to shoot up to assure that we we we feel like we want to fight when we go on strike. should be given back confidence is that a bit rich as well say will lend you back the things that we stole from you possibly. see your lot in the in from the different could use and stuff is just wrong but would never get it to those who couldn't see it would we do it i mean yes you have a few of the stolen things in it or yeah you think yes it should go back to another otherwise i think we should keep it to remind ourselves of our history and why this stuff is here in the first base their risk of the museum being empty if it weren't gets everything back up as well as the law would put it 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 problem of objects and museum collections we still believe however that there is a very strong public benefit for 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. ok let's go back to that story in france or man's threatening to blow up a petrol station in the town avenger in the country's west police are currently confronting that individual who's claiming to have explosives on him. we go to do

been screen shot of you can hear me ok what is the situation at the moment. well we're actually in cali which is a few hours away from that situation that's been undergoing for the last few hours now in the western city of orange here what we understand is that a man who's in his forty's to fifty's a few hours ago is said to police nabbed going maids and he was threatening to explode those devices it's not being confirmed. whether he is just looking for attention from police but at the moment there is a perimeter that is surrounding the petrol station in or sure where that man says he's holding those explosives he says he's part of the yellow vests movement that hasn't been confirmed and he's demanding that the elise a palace this is the presidential palace the seat of power. actually allows the

yellow vests to go in and to speak to the president those are his demands at the moment we've heard from the interior minister here in france who has said that that situation is developing an ongoing at there are special police forces there who are trying to see it with this man it is an ongoing situation at the moment in all share that man who says he's part of this yellow vest movement says he is demanding an audience with the president and says that he's holding explosive devices elsewhere though here in cali as you can see the yellow messed movement is continuing in a peaceful manner you see people there crossing the road they doing that because president. told unemployed gardener if you cross the road he might be able to find a job and they're also using that as a mechanism to slow the traffic down here in cali probably up to around one hundred

. yellow vests supporters at this particular roundabout in cali but across the city there are other points also trying to stop the traffic like this across france it's estimated between five and six thousand people have come out to support this movement on the seventh day but to morrow saturday in paris a large gathering is expected with between thirty and forty thousand people they've said that they going to descend on plaster the concorde in the middle of the city that has been forbidden by the police they've been given an alternative destination which the protesters have said no to so for the moment at this protest situation continues in france these demonstrations big demonstrations expected to morrow and in that particular situation is ongoing as police are trying to negotiate with a man who says he's part of this yellow vest movement and his claim that he has

explosives at a petrol station in the western city of on sheer reporting for us from our correspondent charlotte dubin ski there thank you. tourists in the capital barcelona are no longer safe that's the message on leaflets being handed out by local police amid a spike in the city's crime rate over the last year three thousand leaflets have been given to tourists in seven languages including english french and italian the leaflets include tips on how to avoid becoming a victim of crime. currently there are some sixteen thousand five hundred officers in the area but the force says it needs around two thousand more police personnel and their supporters took to the streets back in october protesting against the catalan interior minister. thank.

god. i was official site of the crime rate has skyrocketed nineteen percent on the last year to levels not seen since the nine hundred eighty s. however some tourists and local residents think the situation isn't that bad. when i came this was one factor that was looming one may hear. this but i'm getting such a big magnet for normal company. to other parts of the world and it feels pretty safe all the places in the world you never get get rid of one hundred percent. just tell people to. be careful. keep their bibles in their pockets as if you know i haven't come across anything that should meet me feel uncomfortable and see. i feel super secure obviously i take care of my personal

belongings but it's a quiet city safe you can walk at night i don't feel like something bad will happen to me. in a legal first for the u.s. a judge has declared as unconstitutional a law banning the practice of circumcision known as female genital mutilation the judge said that the power to outlaw 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 you can have serious health consequences including in extreme cases death and estimated two hundred million women around the world are thought of undergone the procedure which the u.n. the world health organization consider a violation of human rights we put the issue up for debate and got 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 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.e.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 a 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 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. ok there was right up to date for this hour thanks for

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