documents emerged online suggesting the funding i think aims to. sentiment all across europe. it's clear that the most severe judicial response is the french president has punished violent protesters. government demonstrators behead. their danish song comparing. the girls controversy after a teacher from a broader. want to sing songs of stay out of tomorrow. tomorrow tomorrow i mean we passed we have a history and to know where you are you need to know your history.

it is monday december the twenty fourth time just after eight am here in moscow and you see him here hard at work rounding up the. documents that recently emerged online suggest that a u.k. based think tank called integrity initiative was trying to foster russian sentiments all across europe our correspondent within a question of investigates the integrity initiative first part of a u.k. based in suits called stagecraft charity promoting peace and security league documents published by a group claiming to be from the hacking collective phenomenon as revealed that the charities a main investor as the u.k. home office the integrity initiative suggests this is. that's progress do you know

people who understand the threats in order to provide a coordinated western response to russian dish information and other elements of hybrid warfare those leaked files say the initiative facilitated a visit from ukrainian officers back in july twenty sixth seen for them to share called bad acts bertie's regarding the russian military the documents to give food time table for that does it detailing who the militants met with over the course of seven days integrity initiative sent them on a countrywide tour including several days that major military installations offering extensive briefings to key british and nato military and towel and planning units they also said down with the u.k. defense committee so who was his military past and now given the red carpet treatment well that leaked documents provide a very little information about them they all say the ukrainian military was the

only thing a stablished along with the hundreds of parachute jumps each have under their belts perhaps enough to score an invite so we have a charity and a group of ukrainian military men now to get this information out in the open well me deborah haynes best known for being the defense editor at the ukase times newspaper well and she is given exclusive access to the ukrainian guests apparently on monday the eleventh of july well that's according to the league to schedule just several weeks later an article appears and the times sounding quite severely grint based on an anonymous defense sources that detail a russian triggered. war on a tiny scale and ukraine there is no mention of her alleged meeting with ukrainian military officers and no mention of integrity initiatives alleged how bin. bringing

it about just warnings of a ramped up russian threat president putin has turned information into a military to using websites social media radio stations and mass text messaging to influence opinion spread fear and cause confusion as part of a new kind of fighting in which anything is a weapon we rode to miss haynes but are still waiting for any response the only common she did make was on twitter answering a direct question from a journalist asking if she had met the military group while they were and the u k. you describe yourself as an investigative journalist was exactly i lying if you really i investigated a journalist you know there are serious legal consequences for publishing false accusations even implicitly even on twitter are you saying this isn't true. i haven't seen this hundreds of documents to know what they are all like is

a journalist meets people shanker it is called doing my job i meet people only time does not mean i am connected to them. doing your job what probably entails researching leaked documents as well know especially when you yourself are repeatedly named of them did you not research who range to the meeting and why to give a rats city of the documents published on the anonymous website have been called into question with contacted the times and british defense ministry about that but so far they have chosen not to respond r t did get a reply as well from the director of the state crop institute himself thank you very much for your inquiry but as r.t. is a state sponsored propaganda organization and not a legitimate news channel we have no comment to make your sincerely see in donnelly so here we have the birth of a big anti russia had line an exclusive story to bullet according to the league

documents its aims like a simple recipe westminster founding wing military man and the journalist to stay ahead together. with the think tank allegedly using so-called clusters of journalists all over europe to propagate its ideas the release documents suggest hanes may be a part of a u.k. cluster which it's thought aims at shaping domestic politics we asked the u.k. foreign office to comment on the initial well integrity initiative allegations told us that the claims were being spread by kremlin news channels as part of a russian this information campaign but i guess the of investigates. if she were an organization it would be integrity initiative low and behold an army of propagandists disguised as anti propagandists whose job is to malign the slander be it states ideas people even

british politicians our investigation has found wiring evidence the shadowy programs official twitter account has been used to attack or been the labor party and their fish oils one three quoted newspaper article calling corbin a useful idiot that goes on to state he's open visceral anti-press tinnies and how the kremlin course as surely as if he had been secretly peddling weapons to tattle for money you can imagine the shock mr coburn must have felt when he learned through these leaks that integrity knishes eve had no operational to defame him well funded by the british government no less but slandering german corben opposition politicians isn't the only job with integrity initiative which is working to counter disinter motion overseas by bringing together groups of experts to analyze and discuss the problem posed by russian this information the government

is funding this initiative with barely two million pounds this financial year but funding covers its activity outside the u.k. and it has not found any activity within the u.k. the hacktivist group anonymous has leaked details on the operation integrity initiative functions by setting up independent clusters candidates seem to be hand-picked plus a few influential charismatic but the chief requirement seems to be you've got to really hate russia the integrity initiative was set up to bring to the attention of politicians policy may. opinion leaders and other interested parties the threat posed by russia to democratic institutions in the united kingdom across europe and north america now here is what's been bugging me personally if these white knights and self professed fighters for the truth of what they say they are why are they

hiding why are they trying to stay in the shadows anonymity of the team remains paramount as our activity increases we will no doubt attract unwanted attention irregardless here is how their class the system works see you have an article in the french le monde a harsh attack on alleged russian propaganda in france the author the french professor happens to be part of integrity initiative french cluster at least according to the leaked lists and gets paid to trash talk russia they even boosted their grand plans when visited by a coup found the institute of statecraft which birth integrity initiative in italy and the atlantic council published a big study with help from an editor of less very influential italian newspaper

surprise more bashing russia it became increasingly evident in twenty sixteen that russian strategic narratives sometimes including dissent from asian and conspiracy theories were systematically spread in italy by the vast network of pro and five s websites and social media accounts not so much of a surprise it's called winnie is also listed as a member of the italian cluster and also gets paid for his work unfortunately according to an internal integrity initiative memo their peers to be a shortage of russian propaganda in italy in italy it appears evident that the. a strategy to spread disinformation and to influence the italian political opinions has been limited in came much more from national populist parties rather than from russia or what sort of a foreign country strange isn't it how they choose to keep that part secret we can

go on and on about other clusters but you get the point they're gritty initiative even targets are us here at c according to the leaked documents they have people presumably who they paid to report r.t. to off gone the british media regulator ofcom actually publishes complaints statistics only if there are over ten complaints didn't make that list it seems like integrity initiative not audience members convinced of calm to go off to sea we've all noticed our anti russian sentiment in the media has soared over the last years soules still we now know one of the reasons but above all these leaks and in my view tear the mosques off the baal that fights russian propaganda as they claim and what's underneath is ugly.

we spoke to piers robinson chair in politics or sheffield university he says that countering russian propaganda is only an excuse for promoting the u.k.'s moscow policy. it seems to be just as much about promoting ensuring up official u.k. policy towards russia as it is about actually countering any russian threat u.k. government and other western governments in the us in recent years have had increasing difficulty persuading enough of their populations as to the legitimacy of the foreign policies that they have been pursuing and at the same time western countries have been going through a period of political crisis an economic crisis and i think a lot of this drive is as much about trying to shore up shakey official narratives and trying to shore up political systems in

a situation of political crisis as it is actually about countering russian propaganda or i think i would suspect that's a little bit of an excuse here to really what's going on at problems much closer to home. but this is not just to do the u.k. this is europe wide and there also are indications from the documents that they are intending to start to have some kind of impact within the united states it's a very wide ranging network that seems to be established reason why it needs to be covertly of course is that if a media organization or of a journalist is to let on that he or she is involved in a program which quite clearly is pushing a particular agenda then the credibility of that journalist will be damaged and this is really what is very deceptive about the integrity initiative it's about co-opting journalists and academics into a into essentially a campaign which appears to be a propaganda campaign in order to manipulate opinions and the only way that can

really work effectively is that readers and viewers don't know what they're reading is something which has emerged from a particular political agenda so that's that's why it's covert and that's why it's necessary i think from their point of view to. to maintain a degree of secrecy over the entire process. some people might believe that such activity is necessary some people might believe in the official claims regarding russian propaganda and misinformation etc and feel that it's necessary i would expect a lot of to push public who want to have information being delivered to them which is not tarnished by such propaganda or manipulation campaigns would be very upset that so much money and so much resources are being put into what is effectively distorting and corrupting the public sphere within u.k. and across european countries this is political interference this is not what the

journalist is not what academic should be involved. in are to some of the news here on r.t. international today u.s. president donald trump sudden decision to harm the u.s. troop presence in afghanistan has taken many by surprise even to an off take a look back now at seventeen years of war in that country. over the past eighteen years u.s. leaders have named a multitude of reasons for its troops to be stationed fight and die in afghanistan . the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan this military action is a part of our campaign against terrorism nine eleven disfigured and reformed the global security order as ranks of u.s. troops moved into afghanistan to defeat al qaeda and dethrone the taliban.

desire quote as it may sound the outcome of this almost two decades long war is hardly worth the price both the u.s. and afghanistan have paid more than sixty thousand of us and afghan soldiers have been killed al qaeda is still there and nineteen other terrorist groups including eisel cropped up and gained foothold in afghanistan right under the nose of the u.s. army there. as

for the taliban it is no longer in power but still this is hardly a victory worthy of eighteen years of hard fighting as the current government struggles to remain in control of just over a huff of the country but the war on terror was only one of the points on washington's to do list in the country. we will work with local leaders the afghan government and international partners to have a reconciliation process in every province huff of children without education poverty and discrimination are rampant the country is ranked third for corruption by transparency international not exactly a shining light of democracy so when donald trump stepped into the oval office he promised among other things to focus on soft power let afghanistan be the country

its people wanted to be. we're a partner a friend but we will not dictate to the afghan people how to live or how to govern their own complex society trump calling afghanistan a partner falls into the basket of cases when long distance relationships just don't work be it afghan leadership ordinary citizens they don't see american troops making a difference for them. either side and as we have a number of civilian casualties as a result of these attacks if they are here for our protection and why bomb us why do we have civilian casualties that is why no one ever felt safe in their presence better do as an afghan citizen and i don't feel safe with the u.s. army vehicles and tanks in the streets we are afraid a blast maker at any time the afghans have faced a lot of issues because of that what they mean of this creation of course business is down there is no security and people can't believe american cheve one thing in

afghanistan and that was to destroy an already very very hard very damaged country in terms of removing the terrorists removing taliban everything they have failed because taliban is still there taliban have actually expanded now and so trump boasted about being a problem solver in the end. we will win but since the u.s. president's own definition of victory is this obliterating isis. preventing the taliban from taking over afghanistan the u.s. army is not withdrawing its evacuating running away deserts in the battlefield beaten. the french president is calling for calm and harmony after a sixth weekend of yellow vests demonstrations and when your mccrone also stated

that severe measures will we moved out against those who spread on rest during the protest. it's clear that the most severe judicial responses will be brought it is now time for order calm and harmony to prove me and we will meanwhile this weekend some of the yellow first demonstrators chose a graphic way to show their anger with the french president there are ninety protesters are gathered in the town of angola and they beheaded an effigy of emanuel macron the performance cause an outcry on social media france's prime minister condemned the protesters behavior. a more beheading of the head of state acts of unprecedented violence against the police and to semitic justice in the heart of paris trivializing such acts is out of the question they must be unanimously condemned and punished local officials issued a statement saying the incident had been referred to the public prosecutor's office there authorities have confirmed that a probe has been opened we got reaction to these developments from an adviser to

former french presidential candidate marine le pen. the movement has evolved from a simple tax reform frustration into a more i would sit the deeper change of friends comicon social relations what we see re now is a more radicalized movement now they're asking about a referendum. now do you know the stark. just saving the banking system this to rebuilding against message integration for and against european union and the government and those in power of course cannot tolerate that's unacceptable for them and this is why you see such a harsh response from us from the police obviously this social movements everywhere in europe do your opinion he's killing everybody else killing the workers the middle class workers like those you know decent human being or working and the only thing the asking is to eat decently. the traditional danish song has sparked

a wave of controversy and so after a foreign female teacher of the danish business school was offended by a line that associates denmark with a young blonde girl the school promptly apologized and some media reports saying the song was banned by the college but some a danish politicians decided to i gather together and actually sing the song that. i hear the. one of the schools teachers says important issues have been raised by the debate generated by the song saying it's helped danes realize how blind we are without just enrage some danish politicians and even more. come on this song is about the essence of being then ish it's a pillow for gaucho we should never bow just for it it's a great time to find out whether it was a joke unfortunately it was and still pete just stop if we're no longer allowed to

single songs then the party stops it to start the way out of proportion we have come so far in the discussion of identity and the violation culture that our society has fallen apart. the song was written by kai hoffman in one thousand nine hundred twenty four since then it has become very popular and is regularly performed across the country and now it's not the first time a national classic has been dropped off to someone took offense a school in the u.s. city of philadelphia scrapped the book with the adventures of huckleberry finn due to some questionable use of wording in there and u.s. radio stations refused to play the christmas hit baby it's cold outside after some critics said it was actually about sexual assault but i guess it's a debate the issues raised by the danish song. but the only one who really takes it seriously seriously is this head of the school it's

a metaphor it's not that everybody here has to be a blond girl to be accepted as a person or to be a citizen in the society denmark has a real problem with integrating whether it's assimilation project where this integration of tolerance projects all the attitude towards immigrants people coming from war zones people escaping conflict and torture and those who are genuinely not and who are generally asylum seekers refugees there's no link between denmark's ability to integrate people and this song this is a song that is hundred years old it's part of being a sculpture it's part of our cultural heritage and i think it's horrifying that we're now we have to erase our past people want to live in diverse multicultural blended societies nowadays that nobody's asked them to change the culture or leave their culture behind in modern enlightened societies where tolerant and inclusive people should be able to come to denmark and feel included in society but don't

forget you're not actually allowed to come to denmark and be integrated or welcome in society unless you already speak danish this is an attack on and danes cultural identity and i think this was a chance of these are the kind of these are the kind of ridiculous tropes these are kind of ridiculous tribes no no no that you know if you're free is your point. and he did you point your point is that these are charges. and it's a great danes called you you need to know what it's all about i tell you get your paul your horrified we're raising your culture the point is this culture change to change there are migration there are migration flows around europe and ultimately you are going to have to give way to the new generations who are coming and saying we want integrated blended multicultural society they should. use of yesteryear. history i mean people here larry we get today's nation way yesterday's news our don't want to sing songs of yesterday i mean we have a past we have

a history and to know who you are you need to know your history and what i'm we're very afraid about about this but it will discussion but it will correct discussion is that a to stickle freedom is under threat because now you can write a song without you know trying to raise your past are just some of the headlines on this monday here on r.t. international eight twenty six am now december twenty fourth we are back with much more. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront ation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. i certainly don't expect that very many people will choose to be biologically. move your body isn't working for a while it also means your mind isn't working so well i believe that indeed we will have pretty much no biologically old people even though of course we will have a much greater number of prolifically old people.

rushes minister of economic development mike seem thank you very much and welcome back to our team. my first question might sound a bit unusual but how does it feel to be someone who always finds himself in a position where he has to defend the ruble surely what immediately difference the ruble is the she said. well market economic incentives that were. created in russia in the past several years. we are allowed to move them every day the inflation targeting in the new fees will continue mechanism which is only it's rational from the blitz you could see it on the global commodity markets and this

is what's in the deal if you protects the russian currency makes it more stable because if you compare the cut institutionalization of twinship which you we have as if that part of that point of time we have polls because of the sanctions stocks we have sharp decline in oil prices it's even the fos of the what's happening in the autumn of twenty foot you but the difference is that really dramatic at that point of them it was extremely well to have financial markets which were infecting the mystic when they meet these to him by the fed that food flows you can exchange rate with previous feeble currency we have previously able financial markets which are not on the big stress and that helps economy going forward and that leaving a steeple economy grows i would just like to explain really quickly to our viewers that i was lucky to have

a conversation with the minister in september and i wasn't the only journalist by far who was asking mr rushton about the russian currency but today the ruble is about six percent weaker then you predicted back then so what is going wrong with the forecasts. well the first of course the thing that is impacting the russian currency all come. across the globe is the fact that the oil prices declined substantially minerva taking with you in september as far as i remember the oil price was at all and eight dollars per bottle now it's if you look at the bread price it's fifty five so it's you know dramatic change here and what we call that in the same period of time since september ruble has appreciated at that point of time when we were talking to you we see you in the rubble was trading against you is the as far as i remember.