stories are international more tools through the block on russia's name appeared to be being developed as newly emerged documents suggest the u.k. is funding. the russian sentiment across. the organization so. it's clear the most traditional response is. the french president has vowed to punish violent protesters as anti-government demonstrators behead an effigy of emanuel. and a traditional danish song comparing. girls. from a broader takes of our guests you. want to stay out of tomorrow. but tomorrow tomorrow i'm in the past we have

a history and to know who you are you need to know your history i. want to say on monday december twenty fourth welcome to our top stories right now. well with the alleged threat of russian propaganda still being touted far and wide ever more tools to counter it appear to be emerging a newly emerged documents suggest that a u.k. based think tank called integrity initiative has been trying to foster russian sentiments in europe. investing. the integrity initiative first part of a u.k. based and cold stagecraft charity promoting peace and security league documents published by a group claiming to be from the hacking. to phenomena as revealed that the

charities a main investor as the u.k. home office the integrity initiative suggest this as its practice 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 that leaked files say the initiative facilitated a visit from ukrainian reserve 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 visit detailing who the militants met with over the course of seven days integrity initiative sent them on a country wide tour including several days major of military installations offering extensive briefings to key british and nato military intel and planning units they also said down with the u.k. defense committee so who was his military personnel given the red carpet treatment

well that leaked documents provide very little information about them they also have and the ukrainian military that's the only thing a stablished along with the hundreds of parachute jumps each have under their belt perhaps enough to score an invite so we have a charity and a group of ukrainian military man 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 lead scout actual just several weeks later an article appears in the times sounding quite severely grint based on an anonymous defense sources that detail a russian triggered world war on a tiny scale in ukraine there. there's no mention of her alleged meeting with

ukrainian military officers and no mention of integrity initiatives alleged how been bringing it about just warnings of a ramped up russian threat president putin has turned information in term illiterate 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 what exactly are you implying if you're really a investigative journalist you know there are seriously the consequences for publishing false accusations even implicitly even on twitter are you saying this

isn't true. heaven knows this have to documents to know what they are all i can say journalist. shanker it is called doing my job i meet people only time does not mean i am connected to them. doing your job which probably entails researching the leaked documents as well know especially when you yourself are repeatedly named of them did you not research who ranged from the media why to the rest 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 organisation and not only. news channel we have no comment

to make your sincere lisi in donnelly so here we have the birth of a big anti russia had line an exclusive story to boot according to the league documents it seems like a simple recipe westminster founding wing military man and the journalist to stay together. with the thing 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 is thought aims at shaping domestic politics so we asked our the u.k. foreign office to comment on the integrity and initiative allegations it's told us that the claims were being spread by kremlin news channels as part of a russian this information campaign but i guess the texaco so. if she were an organization it would be integrity initiative lo and behold an army of probably gand this this guy's that 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 fresh us one three's quota newspaper article calling corbin a useful idiot that goes on to state he's open visceral anti-press to news 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 corben must have felt when he learned through these leaks that integrity knishes eve had not brazen to defame him well funded by the british government no less but slandering german corben opposition politicians isn't their only job the integrity initiative which is working to

counter disinter mission overseas by bringing together groups of experts to analyze and discuss the problems posed by russian this information the government is funding this initiative with the early two million pounds this financial year that funding covers its activity outside the u.k. and it has not found any activity. in 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 big 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 policymakers 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 custom 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 a very influential italian newspaper surprise more bashing russia it became increasingly evident in twenty sixteen that russian strategic narrative sometimes including dissent from asian and conspiracy theory. rhes were systematically spread in italy by the vast network of pro and five s. web sites and social media accounts not so much of a surprise it's called mini 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 promotion of 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 would see initiative even targets are us here at r t 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 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 how anti russian sentiment in the media has soared over the last years soars 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 a chair and politics at sheffield university he says this is much less about countering russian propaganda and more about sowing and then bedding narratives on a domestic and regional level. it seems to be just as much about promoting insuring up official u.k. policy towards russia as it is about actually countering any russian threat the 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 that really what's going on the 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 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 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 the parties public who want to have information being delivered to them which is not tarnished by such propaganda or manipulation campaigns would be very upset 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 journalist is not what academic should be involved in. it is r.t. international a traditional danish song has sparked a wave of controversy after a foreign female teacher at a 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 indignant danish politicians decided to gather together and sing the song. in. one of the schools teachers says important issues have been raised by the debate

generated by the song saying it's helped danes realise quite how blind we are that just in a rage some danish politicians even more. go 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 wasn't stop it just stop if we're no longer allowed to single songs then the party stops. it just felt really out of proportion we have come so far in the discussion of identity and of only should culture that our societies fall in the fires. the song was written by hoffman in one nine hundred twenty four and is regularly performed across the country that was not the first time a national classic has been dropped off as someone took offense a school in the u.s. city of philadelphia scrapped the book the adventures of huckleberry finn due to its use of a racial slur us radio stations refused to play the christmas hit baby it's cold

outside of the critic said it was actually about sexual assault on our guests debated the issues raised by the danish so. 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 against cultural identity and i think this was the chance of these are the kind of these are the kind of ridiculous tropes these are kind of ridiculous tribes no no no i think you've reached your point. and he said 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 around 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. of yesteryear. history i mean people here larry winget today's a nation where yesterday's news hour 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 erase your past still up and coming on the program here on r.t. the french president evolves a tough response to violent yellow vest protesters that after a short. just

manufactured sentenced to public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the crime. lifts only the one percent. nor middle of the room sick. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical

time to sit down and talk. stories here on our t.v. and the u.s. is planning to hof its troop presence in afghanistan after seventeen years of war in that country but analysts warn the war on terror has not only failed to defeat al qaeda but it's actually spawned the birth propagation of numerous other extreme militant groups you could have done takes a broader look. 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 and 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 and 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 afghan leadership ordinary citizens they don't see american troops making a difference for them. rather than 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 i never feel safe in their presence. as an afghan citizen 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 that's the afghans have faced a lot of issues because of that what it is to the hearts of the me of this creation of course business is down there is no security and people come to america 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 crushing al qaeda 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 vest demonstrations and i know macron also stated the severe measures will be meted out against those who spread unrest during the protests. it's clear that the most severe judicial responses will be brought to see if it is now time for order comment you know how many want to prove me and we let them go meanwhile this weekend some of the yellow vests demonstrators chose a rather graphic way to show their anger with france's president around ninety protesters gathered in the town of and beheaded an effigy of emanuel micron performance caused an outcry on social media in france as prime minister condemned the protesters behavior. among the 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 and therefore it is 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 demand of a deeper change of friends economy can social regulation what we see right now is a more radicalized movement now they're asking about a referendum. now did you know the start criticizing the banking system distort rebelling against message integration 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 the european union skilling everybody is telling the workers the middle

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