through your skin in your muscle down the but. there is no relief. not to sure this is just. like. the foreign office is funding a secret operation rushing campaigns across europe that's according to documents exposed by the hacking group anonymous names of those involved in the clandestine network of also being revealed. yellow vest fuel price demo spread across france as a man wearing one of the garments threatens to blow up a petrol station. replying to a tough question of the top level event in rome russia's foreign minister hits back

at the double standards of some states claiming to fight for human rights in the world. if you are obsessed with human rights and all. the bold the road life which is appealing the road for. your. answer joining us this evening this is r.t. international. we start this hour with the 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 is called a large scale secret service across europe isn't easy for the story. so this group anonymous they're saying they got their hands on a trove of classified documents they say directly from the u.k. foreign office. according to the league 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. 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 an expensive operation house is supposed to fight what is so called russian descent from asia and it is that it's expansive it as in all major powerhouses of europe but the key to understanding this is who they 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 the man of the russian opposition figure alexina valley all who is allegedly coordinated through concealed contacts inside british embassies now a very important detail here 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 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 the are being property by the you can buy the u.k. government directly ok just how influential do we consider this operation any particular case is being highlighted well the. illustrated for 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 all 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 real sure we've achieved nothing by provoking russia a comment by likely new national security direct to burn us so yes that statement was would collapse 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 in not only make 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 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 does 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 badness so what they 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 we did reach out to the u.k. government but guess what apparently the spanish cluster succeeded and. i mean well historically it's a story called fact that patrol banus 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 what we asked the u.k. foreign office for comment we're yet to receive the response but it told another media outlet that information about the project is publicly available and that it welcomes any publicity it gets meanwhile a source that russia's foreign minister told us the looking at the documents and are not surprised that the u.k.'s carrying out such activities was about quite a response from one of the people featured in the documents released by anonymous the documents prove no such thing i have not been paid by the institute but i applaud their work in dealing with the chekist regimes pertinacious information and influence operations the kremlin is losing russia bullying neighboring countries

and murdering its critics why don't you investigate that the real risks of phobia instead of trying to smear people who are trying to resist the kleptocratic xenophobic incompetent hoodlums who make your wonderful country into an international pariah my colleague under pharma discussed the issue with security analyst and former u.k. army officer rich. what struck me was the sheer speed in which this influence 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 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 lawful doesn't. facilitate or violence and so on but what we've got here his 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 the 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. man threatened to blow himself up at a petrol station in the french town of anger on friday police are currently confronting the individual who's also claiming to have explosives on him the man

appears to be wearing a yellow vests similar to those worn by activists who've been protesting nationwide against rising fuel prices french interior minister is confirmed the man is demanding to meet with president. it comes as the yellow vests movement spreads elsewhere in france in cali protesters of block sections of a motorway correspondent has more. carefully it's getting a little rowdy now as you go. see the yellow vest protesters had taken over this and section all the roads they are now completely in control of it and trying to stop the traffic from coming through the police at the moment are remaining a further back but they own maintaining a close watch on this situation and you can hear that the mergers are cheating their homes seeing support for this movement which is now in its seventh day by a hundred to two hundred you have a supporters all saying that they won't see the resignation of president mark on

and they want there to be a complete change in the first break here in fronts just how to look at them some of them while do the excitement as they feel that the momentum of this movement is still building official figures suggest that only between five and six thousand people were out in protest on friday but people say that's because many people are at work and they can't be out to the protests every day but saturday is expected to be another big pinch point in terms of the protests over three hundred thirty and forty thousand people expected to attend a big protest in that paris for the moment it looks like things are heating up paying the last few notes there have been. a huge number of skirmishes between the police and the protest is and yet again it seems like the heat is on as this a protest goes into you know this several nights in syria being

a day shall i do not see 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 region. but. 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 captures the moment the gunfire started near the consulate. the presence of the pollution the security forces were very much in the know down

the chinese consulate there were more of them. would be chinese going. good made. their edges very obvious there was an earth drawn reaction by a box of quarter forces. more stuck to their wrist which are probably people they have been. all sort of suggesting that probably some of the members of the security forces have also been giving exchange of fire all members of the johnny gosch being one member or three of. violence also flared in neighboring afghanistan at least twenty six people were killed and around fifty others wounded in a suicide blast at a mosque near an army base in course province that's according to security officials all those killed were believed to be working for the national security forces you tack comes three days after another suicide bombing at a gathering of religious scholars left dozens dead.

defended a key new u.n. agreement on migration accusing its opponents of being blinkered nationalists speaking in berlin the german chancellor even called for e.u. members to hand over their sovereignty to brussels. today nation states should i would say must be prepared to give up their sovereignty but of course in an orderly manner independent political observer stephen meissner told us he's surprised by the development i was actually expecting that she would basically be a bit of a lame duck chancellor slowing down things and just sort of running the show until the next leader takes over but it appears to me. she's really stepping on the gas pedal now she's basically proposing in a very short period of time a tremendous number of very radical initiatives. and in her last year or two in office maybe three years at the absolute last which is kind of hard to understand

what's going on because many who think she's proposing now are things that the german government had consistently opposed for the past years and that other countries wanted let's look at what she said that this would be some kind of like a nationalist view to to not. ratify the agreement around the world is a lot of countries which would be potential. goals or to target countries for the migrants to go to have decided they're not going to take part from the information i last saw united states. canada is a real. australia. austria and a number of other countries have decided they're not going to go there and switzerland as well they're not going to go and sign the agreement so i mean all those countries run by right wing nationalists i don't think so after a dramatic spike in crime police in barcelona of tourists there they might not be

safe but story after the break. geysers financial survival guide stacey let's learn about fill out let's say i'm the troika here please grease the flight. thank you for take. on the story that's right. that's slavery. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest read in truth to stand losing business is just the right questions to the right answer.

question. the foreign minister has been answering some challenging questions in rome on a visit to the mediterranean dog's event in the italian capital has the latest. sergey 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 wants to mention

states. and thousands of their own populations what's the rest of these kind of states if you're upset with human rights and don't give them a boat the stability of countries if you don't. give a dam a boat the right to life which is appealing the right but. not to mention the going to come so sure it's 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. me yet 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 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 right. way you don't go to the media and then no. thank you. thank lab robbed even shed light on the exact language that is used by officials who have former secretary of state rex tillerson when accusations are thrown at russia you know yourself that you did the i'm not joking this is what the rex tillerson told me after i asked him to elaborate on hugh's statement that because of undeniable fact that we muddled

was all that he left and so but ask your special services though you know what i mean. on saturday sergey lavrov there will be in portugal syria and ukraine a topic set to be on the table we'll bring you the very latest from his visit. the british museum is agreed to give back a collection of bronze star cheese to nigeria but only temporarily ole boy looks 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 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 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 all the nations are submitting their requests to you have to take it keeping you two hundred in peace to use your skills so once 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 returned i want to know what those resisting the museum those feasting their eyes on the floor an artifact 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 i'm told that would be received. but i want to great question you know we just need to talk you both to speak it's been very very scrupulous. so you would put i still think you should go for the little stuff you do lost but kept it in your heart to yourself for other countries set up to shoot up to assure that we we we feel like we want it but we don't stress. should we give back confidence is that a bit rich as well say will lend you back the things that we stole from you possibly from the city your lot in the in from the different could you send stuff is just to all who 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 or yeah if 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 emptied if it won't get everything back up and well off the lot of us 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 wide depth 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 benefit from museums like the british museum housing objects from across the world under one roof while the issue of foreign artifacts has been made over more thought he thanks to a more laissez faire attitude across the channel the french president emmanuel

macron it is 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. and making good on his word emmanuel micron announced on friday that friends will be returning twenty six statues and thrones to the west african state of burning the artworks have been stolen during a colonial war in one thousand nine hundred two. tourists in the catalan 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 and a half thousand officers in the area of the force as it needs around two thousand more police personnel and their supporters took to the streets back in october

protesting against the catalan interior minister. i . was. official say the crime rate has skyrocketed nineteen percent on last year to levels not seen since the eighty's however some taurus and local residents think the situation isn't that bad. when i came this was one factor that was new when one my head that if i am not secure leg that is why i'm getting such a big bag instead of know my comfort sideband travel to other parts of the world

and it feels pretty scifi outside all the place in the world you never going to get rid of one hundred percent crime i just tell people to. be careful you know don't keep their bibles in their pockets as if you know i haven't come across anything the should make me feet 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. if i'm staying with him and all to international my colleagues and assess he will be here to bring you right up to date at the top of the.

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depend. on our completion a lot. bumpus response to the california wildfires and a growing battle about a whole be the next speaker of the house willie brown the outspoken former mayor of san francisco is here to talk about those topics and more on this edition of. well politicking i'm larry king willie brown is the always candid and often entertaining former democratic mayor of san francisco he also served as

a speaker of the california state assembly and now he delivers a wildly popular weekly column for the san francisco chronicle it's always a pleasure to welcome him to we know each other a long time he joins us. really how goes it it's gone extremely well larry although the smoke from the far up in the butte county is creating a problem for us here we're all out we're in mask right it's killed it's the deadliest in california history so she it impresses the seventy six deaths thirteen hundred missing the president has said this was poor management of the forests what do you make of that well at shows you how uninformed this particular president happens to be after all larry some sixty to seventy percent of the land involved is under the control of the federal government and only the state when it asked

permissions can do something about that particular land certainly obviously there are some things that should and could have been done and should in the future be done but it is not just mismanagement it is a lot of nature to take its course period. in your column in the chronicle you took a little swipe at the lack of help from hollywood use you wrote that have you notice the celebrities silence about the fire victims don't telethons no benefit concerts no nothing why do you think that well i suspect because there's just not the same connection when we had a fire here a year or more go up in the napa valley when sonoma and when napa santa rosa and all of those places went up in smoke many of them were second homes larry of people who live here in san francisco of people from lausanne.