that's what murder victims' families want that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite we've been through this this isn't the way. britain's foreign office is funding a secret operation of the russian campaigns across europe that's according to documents exposed by hacker group anonymous names of those involved in the clandestine network have also been revealed. yellow vests fuel price demo spread out across france as a man wearing one of their garments threatens to blow up a petrol station. replying to a tough question at the top level events in writing russia's foreign minister hits

back at the double standards of some states claiming to fight for human rights around the world. if you will. the boat. which is the fuel for. your one so. you're watching r.t. international 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 on public opinion crazy watson on the missed calls a large scale secret service across europe igor standoff 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 say directly from the u.k. foreign office according to the leak 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 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 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 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 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 director 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 no per draw barrenness 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 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 the narrative 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. 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. we as the u.k. foreign office for comments where yet to receive a response but it told another media outlets that information about the project is publicly available and that it welcomes any public gets meanwhile the source that russia's foreign ministry told told us that they're looking at the documents and they're not surprised that the u.k. is carrying out such activities they 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 the farmer discuss the issue with security analyst and former u.k. army officer chelsea bridge. 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 thing 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 all 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 the 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 look sets for another weekend of protests against the government's fuel price hike shouted to bin stays in the port city of calais forests where thousands were rallying on friday evening. playing kelly it's getting a little rowdy no as you can see the yellow dress protesters have taken over vis a section no 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 choosing their horns in 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 owen 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 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 will between thirty and forty thousand people are expected to attend a big protest emit paris for the moment it looks like things are heating up paying the last few notes that have been barely a huge number of schools she's between the police and the protest is and yet again it seems like the heat is on as this protest goes into the several flights in the eight day charlotte do you. see.

a string of deadly violence has 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 not the immigrants who got. 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 captured the moments the gunfire started near the consulate. the presence of the pollution is going to force very much remember on the current

conflict there were more of them were terrorists who are the arbitrary means going group. vote of boost or there was an earth growing reaction bipartisan. earn more stuff to go with which of the probably people who have been known before all sort of just in the global form of remember the difficulty for those of all to google extreme your quote all members of the johnny gosch roof will be one member's bill all through. violence also fled to 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 those killed where police have been working for the national security forces the attack comes three days after another suicide bombing at a gathering of religious scholars left dozens dead.

with the end of her chancellorship now on the horizon germany's angela merkel is becoming increasingly vocal in her rejection of nationalist politics on friday she called on a member states to accept that they must see the 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 could also launched a sitting attack on several countries opposing the un migration agreements she called their rejection of the deal which aims to establish international norms of the treatment of migrants nationalism in its purest form among those that rejected it swell strangely hungry and israel they said it posed a threat to their security. independence political analyst even 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 talent questions in bray on a way to the mediterranean dialogue the band's new tally in capital. has the latest target 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 the resident of these kind of states if you

upset was human rights and don't give a damn about 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 on we can socialize words then i'm afraid you are one sided 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 russian is an argument with me she often sees. 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 have a problem with suspicion regarding your wife. i mean you ask the director the right . way you don't go to the need and don't know. the. lab even shed light on the exact language that is used by officials announced by ray who has 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 the rex tillerson told me after i asked him to elaborate on he's statement that they have undeniable fact that we muddled was knowledge he left and said but ask your special services they know what they mean. on saturday say gay laugh or off will be in portugal syria and ukraine as

a topic set to be on the table and we'll be bringing you the very latest from the. the british museum has agreed to give back a collection of wrong statues to nigeria but only temporarily. looks now at how a growing number of ownership disputes could see museums lose that trashes. it may be called the british museum but many of the precious artifacts inside here are from 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 been mean bronzes as the 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 just below so months 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 we're to and 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 received there but what a great question that the world would just be talking about to speak it's been very nice to see you this. so you would put i don't think you should go for the little stuff you do lost but kept it in your car to yourself for other countries set up to shoot so should we briefly about we want it back where he wants to. speak it back home from school 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 use and stuff is just swallow but would never get to those who couldn't see it would we do it i mean yes you have a few of the stolen things it's all yeah you think yes it 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 it were and gets everything back up. well after the lot of people 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 wind up 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 over more thought any 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. making good on his words on an else till friday that france will be returning twenty six statues of thrones to the west african states of pennine that works have been stolen during a cloning war in one thousand nine hundred eighty. 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. some 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 four 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. think i. was. i was officials 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 it and i came this was one factor that was looming on my head that different not secure like that is why i'm getting such a big margin should look for normal company started by trying each other parts of

the world and it feels pretty sexy that's all the place in the world you never going to get rid of one hundred percent crime i just tell people to. be careful and don't keep their bibles in their pockets as if you know i haven't come across anything that should make me feel uncomfortable and see my sandal i feel super secure obviously i take care of my personal belongings but it's a quad cities safe you can walk at night i don't feel like something bad will happen to me. we are not robots that was the rallying cry of disaffected amazon employees across europe on friday as they staged protests against what they described as inhuman work dishes in the online retail giants warehouses. in germany spain were personally rulz house most is typically one of the busiest shopping days of the demonstrations but also held at several of us the cities of new italy those involved who are calling on c.e.o.

jeff bezos the world's richest individual to improve when. conditions and brace the salaries the u.k.'s champion trade union through its weight behind the protest is releasing the following video. knowing all sharma. and all the. critics of the company's part to says were also asked in force in new york for black friday they gathered in front of its flagship bookshop singing christmas carols and condemning its comes to a poor new headquarters in the city. the black friday protests were not the first time employees have his house at amazon over their working conditions since twenty thirteen new orleans and germany here frequently organized industrial action. amazon for its parts maintains that it provides a safe and positive workplace with competitive pay and benefits but labor rights

lawyer dan kadlec told us he believes that warehouse employees work in prison like conditions. so look. i did states that because of bad publicity and some calls by people like senator bernie sanders amazon raised its wages to fifteen dollars an hour from about twelve dollars an hour so we see that they are amenable to pressure look it's a consumer oriented business and so particularly if consumers are willing to put pressure on them they will change their way but also again people do care about working conditions of others in the pay of others and i think people are realizing

that while jeff bezos is making the many many millions of dollars in his people or working in prison like conditions it is this is unacceptable. from the days house on all stories to convince the toilet seat up i have the headlines in face in minutes. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that in the spot place the fall will convert. any interrogation out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of the interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame

of mind make the most culpable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said if i were. sad statement then i would be all about that 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 all the crime. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars and. more than ten white collar crime stamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be ultra rich point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building

two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one business shows you can afford to miss the one and only. did i come to the show are americans in america covering american news or called foreign agents yes no climate change is reshaping our country and our lives as we speak and we're quickly learning that climate change doesn't just mean . it's raining again i'm getting hungry and so tired of almost getting wet when i

run from the front door to the river i called them from the over to the temperature control office and know for a lot of the world climate change means showing people where your house used to be so it's great to see that this week the mainstream media has extensively covered the fact that california is on fire they have they have actually covered it they just can't bring themselves to say the words climate change no instead the reports are like there were five years and they were back and what caused them is they were big. as most reports take for example n.b.c. nightly news now it's a it's a great new pro you can you can find a fine or news program anywhere in the building where they take. this past sunday they open the broadcast with.