you're not go away you're not quite. real the hard work we do is the truth. that. person's foreign office is funding the secret operation of the russian campaigns across europe that's according to documents exposed by hacker group anonymous names of those involved in the contest and networks have also been revealed. yet a vast fuel price demo spread out across from says a man wearing one of the government's threatens to blow up

a petrol station. replying to a top tough question at the top level events in writing russia's foreign minister hits back at the double standards of some states came into fights for human rights around the world. the bold. which is the feel good. you are. watching aussie international with me hamish to say welcome to the program. we start with bombshell documents released by the anonymous hacker group they appeared to show the u.k. government's leading a massive operation to control politics and public opinion creating what's now in the miscalls a large scale secret service across europe it goes down off joins neil harvey in

the studio 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. 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 by 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've conducted a so-called one claw operation in spain of course petrol banned as was seeking to become director of the country's department of homeland security but this is a statement made him to pro russian for the integrity initiative what country has everything we like russia 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 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 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 nope 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 try to do was to convince the spanish prime minister from the u.k. 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 for the e.u.

they presented the public opinion they themselves tailored to how they wanted at least that's the narrative 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. the u.k. foreign office to comments we're yet to receive a response but it tells another media that information about the project is publicly available and that it welcomes any publicity it gets meanwhile a source that russia's foreign ministry told us that they're looking at the documents and they're not surprised that the u.k. is carrying out such activities we also got 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 and discuss the issue with security analyst and former u.k. army officer charles she writes what struck me was the share 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 chelles on whether they're actually doing anything wrong here because the pushing an opinion that everybody's entitled to an opinion are 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 violence and so on but what we've got here is it 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 that 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 looks set for another weekend of protests against the government's fuel price hike charlotta bans gays in the port city of cali forests where thousands were arriving on friday evening. what a carol it's getting a little rowdy know as you can see the yellow vest protesters have taken over vis a section all of 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 what they owe in maintaining a close watch on the situation you can hear that the mergers are cheating their homes seeing support for this movement which is now in its seventh day about one hundred to two hundred you have are 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 of the protest 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 that have been barely 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 the several flights into you being

a day charlotte deviously party kalai. a string of deadly violence rocks pakistan some twenty five people were killed in a suicide bombing at a crowded festival in markets in the northwest region. but it was worth the running of the room for those of. the ok. 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 at the moment the gunfire started near the consulate.

the presence of the pollution is going to force very much remember on the germans consulate there were more of them were a terrorist group drawing is going to. be used. vote of boost or there was a reaction by a box of the security forces. more strong but the researchers are probably people for her own bill are all sort of poor for suggesting the global form of remember the difficulty for those of all to girl extreme your quote all members of the johnny gosch will be one member's bill all through. violence also flared to neighboring afghanistan at least twenty six people were killed and around fifty wounded in a suicide blast at a mosque near the army base in cost province that's according to security officials all those killed who are believed to have been working for the national security forces the attack comes three days after another suicide bombing at a gathering of religious scholars last dozen stat. the german chancellor has been

railing against nationalist politics in calling one eight countries to surrender their sovereignty to brussels we'll have more on that in just a few moments. the british government and the british establishment and mrs bush and mrs mrs may have

looks themselves up into hysterics about so-called new deal just self is incredibly misleading as i just said in so doing a lot of the european union to impose completely draco union is on the u.k. which we've lost anyway. welcome back to us with the end of her chance the ship now on the horizon germany's angela merkel is becoming increasingly vocal and have rejection of nationalist politics on friday she called on a member states to accept that they must see its sovereignty to brussels to the nation states should i would say must be prepared to give up their sovereignty but

of course in an orderly manner. earlier in the week merkel also launched a stinging attack on several countries opposing the un migration agreement she calls their rejection of the deal which aims to establish international norms of for the treatment of migrants nationalism in its purest form among those that rejected it's where australia hungry and israel they say opposed to threats to their security. independence political analyst even meissner told us he's surprised by how boldly the german chancellor is acting. 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. in her last year or two in office maybe three years at the absolute most which is kind of hard to understand what's going on because many you think she's proposing there 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. this would be some kind of like a nationalist view to not. ratify the agreement around the world is a lot of countries which would be potential. goals or target countries for the migrants to go to have decided they're not going to take part in 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 are

all those countries run by right wing nationalists i don't think so. russia's foreign minister has been answering some tough questions in writing on a web visit to the mediterranean dialogues events in the italian capital. the latest. 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. if the. thousands of their own populations once they rescued of keeping these kind of states if you obsessed with human rights and don't give a damn about the stability of countries if you dunked give a damn it both the right to life which is a human right but. not to mention the going to can socialize words then i'm afraid

you are one side of the conversation actually took a real it talian 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 is an argument with me she often sees the media you don't respect me you know there is another russian saying. are you. 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 need and don't know. 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 that's that's a i'm not joking this is what rex tillerson told me after i asked him to elaborate on his statement that they have undeniable fact that we muddled was all that he left and said but ask your special services they know what they mean. on saturday say they left off will be in portugal syria and ukraine a topic set to be on the table and i will be bringing you the very latest from that . the british museum has agreed to give back a collection of bronze statue nigeria but only temporarily party boy looks now at

how a growing number of and ship disputes could see museums lose that treasure. 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 ben mean bronzes as the known were originally taken from africa by british troops in eighteen ninety seven and all the nations are submitting their requests to you have to take it keeping him two hundred in two

to use just below 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 hear

a question of them all 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 can wash it kept it in your car do it yourself from other countries set up to shoot so should we we we feel like we want to fight when we go on strike those 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 swallow but would never get it to those who wouldn't see it would we do it i mean yes you have a few of the stolen things or yeah if you think yes you should go back to mother 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 if if one gets everything back up. well after the law would prohibit 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 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 all the more thought any thanks to a more laissez faire attitude across the channel the french president emanuel 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. making good on his words in the manual on announced on friday that france will be returning twenty six statues and thrones so the west

african states have been in the artworks have been stolen during a clone yawar an eight hundred ninety. tourists in the cotton capital barcelona no longer safe that's the message on leaflets being handed out by local place amid a spike in the city's crime rates over the last year some three thousand leaflets have been given to tourists and seven languages including english french and the tally and 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 august protesting against the catalan interior minister. i.

especially say the crime rate has skyrocketed nineteen percent on last year to levels not seen since the eighty's however some tourists and local residents think the situation isn't. when i came this was one factor that most new england man had there been five not sixty one leg that is why i'm getting such a big magnet soon to put in all my comfort sideband chinee 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 would just tell people to. be careful and don't keep their valuables in their pockets as if you know i haven't come across anything that should make me feed uncomfortable about it and see mishandle i feel

super secure obviously i take care of my personal belongings but it's a quiet city's safe you can walk at night i don't feel like something bad will happen to me. you know today to the latest global news stay with us on the thing best. in a world of big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

statistic from a couple weeks ago came out that showed the wealth and income gap around the world in different countries and there's there's the us there's there's france and then there's the u.k. it's like wow this stuff incredible spread between this concentration and then you've got the loyalists are people there in the tory party who support the queen whose whole point of bragg's it was to support the queen ok so they just aired a list and a moron a call. it cause you trouble poverty it's all about supporting the queen and getting rid of their world contacts. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that profile in the spot place the phone will converge. ted any interrogations 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 comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said their forwards are already set on the statement that i will be home by that time the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with solving their crime. fighter. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance i'm part killed in washington d.c. today we welcome you to a special edition of food bust if we focus on the great recession which is now

a decade in our rearview mirror we'll look at the causes of the calamity and what went down on that rough and rocky road to ruin and how it incredibly impacted the u.s. the eurozone and the rest of the world plus we'll look at where we are now how safe are we from another monstrous economic meltdown and what might be the next point entrails crisis ready let's go we start with bill clinton a democrat who was u.s. president and his financial policies clue. nomics which began in one nine hundred ninety three when he took office and lasted until he left in january of two thousand and one he started following the single term of george herbert walker bush a republican now known by many as bush forty one or simply forty one president clinton was handed a growing economy from bush forty one with annual gross domestic product g.d.p. rate of three point five percent the good economy was however partially premised

upon years and years of increasing spending and rising us budget deficits clinton nomic sought to keep the economy going while balancing the deficit and with the help of congress which was then controlled by democrats legislation was passed to increase taxes on the wealthy furthermore defense spending was cut from five point two percent of g.d.p. one thousand nine hundred ninety to just three percent in two thousand the house passed the tax increase without a single republican vote that vote was particularly difficult for democrats after bush forty one has popularized this phrase. push and i'll say no and they'll push again and i say to them read my lips the law and candidates for congress were asked to take no new tax pledges and while the bill passed it cost many democrats their election in one thousand nine hundred ninety four republicans won control of the house and

clinton nomics faced tougher hurdles in congress.