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integrity initiative sounds like a brainchild of russian intelligence especially given all the recent hype and hysteria around it except it isn't it's british at least according to a hacker group called anonymous which has published what it claims are classified documents from the u.k. foreign office through a london based and the u.k. government has allegedly been working with opinion makers all across europe to promote anti russian narratives an effective network is best achieved by forming in each european country a cluster of well informed people from the political military academic journalistic and think tanks fears who track and analyze examples of this information in their country and inform decision makers and other interested parties about what is happening clusters the key instrument of integrity initiative and a fairly powerful one as proven by the spanish cluster which has shown how the program gets things done back in twenty seventeen the u.k.

seemed surprisingly concerned with events playing out in spain's catalonia and london's keenness to see russia's hand in that bid for independence from spain so step one get public opinion on your side it's simple really you can write up a study yourself this cluster produced a major study on russian influence in the catalan referendum process which was circulated privately to key influences in spain including the prime minister's office and throughout europe on the integrity initiative network step to feed the results of your research to the media its main means of influence is through academic papers and especially through articles written by independent journalists in newspapers like el pais based on material provided anonymously by the cluster. the most read spanish newspaper put out quite a number of independent pieces on catalan referendum some of them written by the man named as the. head of the spanish cluster just take

a moment for this information to sink in the leader of the cell designated with pushing a very specific message parts of an information secret service with a budget poses as an unbiased journalist in some of the most popular national newspapers that is what anonymous claimed to have revealed in its leak and the hackers claim it's not about one outlet the list of names in the spanish cluster includes writers and contributors to different media some even outside of spain peddling the same message and then it's step three sit back relax and enjoy the show you scripted. for the u.k. foreign office says that information about this project is publicly available and that it welcomes any published city that it gets meanwhile a source at russia's foreign ministry told us they are looking at the documents and are not surprised that the u.k. is allegedly carrying out such activities we'll see what reaction from one of the

people featured in the documents released by the hackers 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. we discuss the various aspects of research with columnist and political analyst to watch some . western countries doing exactly what they are accusing the the russians of doing i mean they are essentially waging a psychological propaganda war. directed at the russians what that should

tell us is that we really should stop believing. all the various the pronouncements of government ministers and the stories that constantly appear in the media russia did this russia did that russia is responsible for this ruff is responsible for that because it's clear that this is all part of a. concerted campaign to manipulate public opinion. and so seen a week of protests by people in fluorescent yellow vests demonstrating against a government imposed a fuel price hike and deteriorating living standards of piracy is bracing itself for a huge rally in the heart of the capital on saturday we will be reporting there live today friday also sort of protest this time in the french port city of cali from where you know it reports. only it's getting a little rowdy know as you can see the yellow vests protesters have taken over this

section no roads they are now complete control of it and trying to stop the traffic from coming through the police at the moment are remaining on the back but they are maintaining a close watch on this situation and you can hear that the merger is. on seeing support this movement which is now in its seventh day. a hundred to two hundred you have are supporters all saying that they won't see the resignation of president and they want there to be a complete change in the first break in front we disagree with the point six you

want to do. it's not possible to keep going like that there was more and more. you know there are people who work but when they get to the end of the month they're in extremism perhaps that's why these people are here and we'll keep taking these measures how to look at them some of them while doing the excitement as they feel that the momentum of this movement is still building official figures suggest only between five and six thousand people who are employed just on friday but people say that's because many people are at work and they can't be out to the protests every day at the moment it looks like things are heating up being only the last few you know it's there have been. 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. this several nights in a day. agin.

hillary clinton defended her suggestion that europe needs to curb mass immigration to prevent the election of populist leaders some critics say it's hypocritical to fight populism with what looks like populism they also know that the refugee crisis was created by foreign military interventions as pretty or all of a now explains former u.s. secretary of state and twenty sixteen presidential candidate hillary clinton has been having her say on the state of liberal democracy in europe she says the e.u. nations need to copy immigration if they. to halt the rise of the populists i think europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lead the flying i admired the very generous and compassionate approaches that were taken europe must send a very clear message we're not going to be able to continue provide refuge and support if hillary clinton is correct and immigration is the root of the popularity

of the populists and i have a look it's where those refugees and migrants have come from and why they came to the european union well the top three nations of origin for asylum to the e.u. since twenty fourteen syria iraq and afghanistan all of those countries that have been bombed or in some way to stabilize by the united states and their allies in nato. currently one of the main routes into europe for refugees and migrants is the dangerous mediterranean sea crossing from libya a nation that was plunged into chaos following the nato intervention that took place on mrs clinton's watch we came we saw that he died. apparently politicians couldn't have forseen that people would start fleeing in their thousands since they were bringing democracy and

a new promise for the future we are standing with the people of libya. let it be european soldiers have been fighting shoulder to shoulder with american soldiers in afghanistan and get out of his domination of libya so freedom can develop his country and when refugees did start arriving they told europeans not to worry we need to face our own european demographic trends we need and we would continue to meet migration of those who flee misery a war of political oppression there we have the responsibility to help we need european solution. slamming the door on every syrian refugee that is just not we are the rise of populous parties is also a major concern for those at the very top of the e.u. tree liberal democracy has never been under such attack since the collapse of the soviet union it's all well and good for hillary clinton and like minded e.u. politicians to say that they are concerned about a rise of populism in the e.u.

but when they say that the way to stop this is to clamp down on refugees and migrants it comes across as more than just a little bit hypocritical especially when they had a direct hand in making those people refugees in the first place she directly contributed to this rise in populism it was under her rule so to speak under the obama administration that libya was bombed into the stone age. supposedly to promote democracy and created a failed state is in direct effect from what she did in office well europe isn't just being told that migration is about idea of plans for an e.u. army of also being criticized from across the pond in case you missed it takes a closer look at the french german idea of a european military force which has upset washington. in case you missed it may european talking about building

a bomb even get. to go wrong. and i know my own and the angle of not will have been breezy outlining their plans to dominate continental europe the french president declared that it safe friends at a german responsibility to prepare have the reef founding of europe i'm sure that the other twenty five union members have nothing to worry about i'm sure the plan much less nineteen thirty easy in the original french at least this time paris and berlin all working together the german chancellor she won't run in another election can finally say what she actually wants and she really was a real true european army isn't it lovely how europeans have mitchell and because no one's really males grieving their hearing a german leader say that well i want from britain who can't wait to get out and

seeing eminem's plans of friends it may finally lead like a good idea of course looming in the room is a rather large numbers around a brother nato which has been in charge of making sure that europe doesn't hasa look after itself for the past seventy years behind very specific to the public pays i'm usually startled the world does not like the sound of it your. drum kits the news from his french kissing buddies all the well breaking out the classics you'd be speaking german if it wasn't for us. britain kolby idea of a european army to undermine nato crazy so why do we stand european nations don't like being told they morph a nation a say they plan a whole new army of their own which will cost more than outsourcing to the us marines i am usually the us once europe to do. wall to defend itself as long as it

doesn't fall when you want to do it and britain moans about the threat to nato unity he couldn't quite join just a pure peace and unity of these armies to fight anyway micron is worried about china and russia and the us that that is a whole nother episode. plenty more of yourself there are stories still to come here on the program see including violent clashes between protesters and police on the streets of haiti's capital claiming more lives those details in just a month. and. i think that i would want to go fast but inside i'm i'm

dockside i think. going down to your next side that you can improve yourself. but it's also a buddy. but i really believe that the bottom that we show our side that it's all really depend. on our condition a lot. on the sea on the line circumstances that's a long road for these emergence of this very very lengthy violence. i think that we may get the sons and even grandsons of darshan at some point in the future it's primarily a political issue in iraq that has taken on minutes where you. know mr cations.

if you do join us today for the saturday program here on out so you know of violent clashes between protesters and police or anti government demos on the streets of haiti's capital claim more lives a week of on rest is now seen eleven people killed. police used to people saw the throwing rocks and molotov cocktails of the demonstrators one of the country's president to step down over his failure to investigate corruption after a week of silence haiti's president has now said his office will investigate the

accusations insisting though that he would not be resigning. american lawmakers will investigate president donald trump response to the death of . a possible double standards when it comes to treating allies and enemies and small household she was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul last month riyadh has denied any awareness of the orchestrated killing and has launched an investigation charging eleven officials. and investigates. no significant action will be taken against saudi arabia for the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi says they are significant allies so we have to give them a pass now many prominent democrats and republicans disagree the language that was used it was as if they were writing a press release for the saudi arabia not for the united states it is certainly testing the proposition that the enemy of our enemy is our friend our friends don't

murder journalists but in response to his critics trump has a pretty solid rebuttal maybe the world should be because the world is a vicious bush and there you have it us middle east policy in a nutshell in order to maintain your allies put your moral principles the side it's not. just saudi arabia back in twenty seventeen the u.s. secretary of state blocked all aid to egypt and since then they've admitted that the human rights situation is getting even worse but now aid has started flowing once again and trump has had glowing words for president el-sisi relationship has never been stronger than. we're working with egypt or these different fronts including the military and for aviation the roads you can see we're working. we're going to be. honored to be with you. and how about cutter a long time u.s. ally that's not exactly a human rights paradise probably used to say that they were sponsoring terrorism

the nation of. unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism and a very high level the palestinian organization known as hamas designated by the u.s. state department as a terrorist organization is quite open about receiving qatari support however washington and doha are cozy working very well together and i think it's working out extremely well so amir thank you very much for being here. now the same thing is true for nato member and long time u.s. ally turkey the usa hasn't stopped them from going after the kurds and u.s. allies in the fight against islamic state in syria so from the words of paul in a little flat yes please mr courage we're trying to get along very well we do get along great with the kurds were trying to help them a lot to great people. and we have not forget we don't forget i don't forget what

happened some day later but i can tell you that i don't forget these are great people ok for a long time it seemed like cable news had most americans convinced that foreign policy was about lofty ideals like spreading freedom and overturning dictators but it seems now that most americans realize that that's not the case at this point it seems pretty clear that us foreign policy is about taking care of your friends no matter how shady they might be it does seem if are critical in some ways that the united states preserves democracy promotion for its enemies but that has been the trend in the past it's still the most powerful country but it can't do what it used to do i mean nine hundred fifty three for example we were able to overthrow most adept in the iranian government for three million dollars today we're spending billions of dollars on sanctions on trying to affirm other countries and we have the un we have not been succeeding in overthrowing the islamic republic and that's

a sign of it is growing you know that there are other competitors out there. we are not robots that was the rallying cry of disaffected amazon employees across europe on black friday as they staged a protest against what they describe as inhuman working conditions in the online retail giants warehouses and was on it workers in the spanish capital demanded better conditions on salaries well over in america they protested against plans to open a new amazon headquarters demos were also held in france germany italy and i think you. know one trade union through its weight behind the protesters with the following video. as a no no sham of a book. and so we are not. yet over. i was on has over half a million employees worldwide including

a quarter of a million in america the minimum wage it pays and now it's twelve dollars in europe and fifteen dollars in america the company recently increased its a minimum wage in the u.s. off to workers protested now after the black friday protests amazon for its part denied its exploiting its workers saying that it provides a safe and positive workspace with competitive pay and benefits and labor rights lawyer told us amazon is susceptible to work and consumer pressure we see in the united 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 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 many many millions of dollars in his people or working in prison like conditions it is unacceptable. animal rights activists have been accused of woolly headed thinking off the calling for the english town of wool to be renamed apparently the name change would be an animal friendly thing to do though not everyone is and totally convinced. with the simple maintains huge can take a stand against cruelty. and remind everyone that it's easy to see and be warm

hearted to sheep by choosing vegan whom. the name should remain as its news media or three naming the village is possibly ridiculous the most easy i have come across in a long time the wall has nothing to do we cheat it comes from the sack to the word push for a. new . program here on r t international the many stories still to come on this day at the top of the hour.

i'm going to have. you. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from day shouldn't let it be an arms race and it is often spearing dramatic development the only way i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful a very critical time usage. and tom.

nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in the small place the ball which if you had any interrogations out there what you'll see is fred promise threat promise threat lie a lie lie process of the turkish was designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the uncomfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said if i wait for a very sad statement then i will be home by that time the next day there's a cult heard on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the crime.

they did the comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents yes so climate change is reshaping our country and our lives as we speak and we're quickly learning that climate change doesn't just mean oh i'm it it's raining again i'm good i'm good sunshine of almost getting wet when i run from the front door to the louvre i called them from the over to the temperature control office i 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. the fornia is on fire they have they have actually covered it they

just can't bring themselves to say the words climate change you know instead the reports are like there were five years and they were bad and what caused them is they were bred. as most reporters take for example n.b.c. nightly news now it's a it's a great new you can find a finer news program and anywhere in the building where they take. this past sunday they open the broadcast with five full minutes on multiple california fires the destruction the loss of life and yet throughout the entire report they couldn't find the words climate change or global warming or even simply we're thinking they just couldn't it got caught in their throat they were like climb clank clank. car dash in was good. here take it turns out color correction cause most of the fires but take

a look and let's see how long it takes for n.b.c. nightly news to say something stupid this is n.b.c. nightly news with kate snow. good evening they are wildfires for california's history books hold on there. about those history books they're going to have to start being shorter and shorter because the thousand year fires are quickly becoming the five year fires saying these fires are one for the history books implies the twenty years from now the children in california will be reading about the great fires of twenty eighteen but they won't because in twenty years their history books will be on fire ok. and the great fires of twenty eighteen will look like nothing but a warm day with a pina colada here's an example of what i mean the headline this is a headline from the huffington post california's wildfires this year have been breaking records this.