this song. welcome to the program. about the growing capabilities of. security. the potential for. what he calls the. threat is real. in the still

a blue ribbon event for these terrorists al qaeda are resurgent they have reorganized they are pushing more and more plots towards europe and have become familiar with new methods and still a sponsor aviation attacks the minister told britain's sunday times newspaper that thoughts of an al qaeda aviation attack are keeping ministers quote awake at night and also said the terrorist group is developing technology to bring down passenger jets the u.k. ministers are also reportedly concerned by the recently announced u.s. withdrawal from syria warning it will create a new haven for islamists and the french president is also concerned saying on sunday he deeply regretted u.s. president donald trump's decision but the u.s. is also planning to have its troop presence in afghanistan after seventeen years of its war in that country but analysts warn of the war on terror has not only failed to defeat al qaeda but has actually spawned the birth and propagation of numerous other extreme militant groups ati's either stand off take support or 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 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 qaida 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 beat out good 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 i never felt safe in their presence. 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 that's 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 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 we will. in 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 now withdrawing its evacuating running away deserts in the battlefield beaten u.s. officials generals whatever they will always keep saying that this war has reached a stalemate because they will never admit that this war has already been lost when the u.s. invaded afghanistan in two thousand and one the taliban consisted of maybe two hundred to four hundred members today that were his ation has splintered into several different organizations across continents in the numbers of tens of thousands this war has been a complete and utter failure the pentagon the white house and trump will never

admit that they will call it things like a stalemate and then now they're going to look at private contractors to try to see if this. a traditional danish song has sparked a wave of controversy a softer a foreign female teacher of the danish business school was offended by a line that associates denmark with a young blonde girl the school apologized with some media reports saying the song was actually banned by the college but indignant danish politicians decided to gather together and sing the song. you. know. one of the school teachers says important issues have been raised by the debate generated by the song saying it helped danes realize quote how blind we are about just enrage some danish politicians even more. among this song is about this and so being then

ish it's a below for 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's just stop if we're no longer allowed to sing all songs then the party stops it to start really out of proportion we have come so far in the discussion of identity and a violation culture that our society has fallen apart the song was written by i hope one in nineteen twenty four that is regularly performed all across the country however it is not the first time that a national classic has been dropped because someone took offense a school in the us to hear philadelphia scrapped the book the adventures of huckleberry finn due to its use of a racial slur and a us radio stations refused to play the christmas hit baby it's cold outside of the critic said it was actually about sexual assault our guests debate the issues now

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 a scaping 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 we tolerant inclusive people should be able to come to denmark and feeling clued in so much 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 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 you have your victory is your point. and he said your 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 society changes 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 it should be done i don't know you said yesterday or. today. history i mean people

here larry we get today's 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 where you are you need to know your history and what i'm we're very afraid about about this political 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 path. the french president is calling for calm and harmony after a sixth weekend of yellow best demonstrations emanuel mccrone also stated the severe measures will be meted out against those who spread unrest during the protests. this clearly the most severe judicial responses will be brought it is now time for order comment no harmony going to be only local meanwhile this weekend some of the yellow first demonstrators chose a rather graphic way to show their anger with france's president around ninety protesters gathered in the town of our own and beheaded an effigy of emanuel micron

performance cause an outcry on social media and france's prime minister condemned the protesters behavior. 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 he thought his have confirmed that a probe has been opened and we got a reaction to these developments from an adviser to a 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 economic and 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. this to

rebuilding against message immigration and against the european union and the government and those in power of course cannot tolerate that's not acceptable 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 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. in washington the national christmas tree may be closed to the public on christmas eve according to pog services the u.s. government shutdown makes it difficult to repair damaged lines and senate democrats are still at an impasse with president trump over his demand to fund a border security wall meaning the shutdown is unlikely to end soon i mean while the u.s. president is celebrating one design of what the new u.s. mexico barrier might look like.

what building the wall what building the wall for the building a big beautiful powerful wall a great great wall and it's going to be a real what's going to be i what's going to be beautiful it's going to be like you are actually would build the greatest war you have ever seen. that.

it looked like something that was made on microsoft paint in maybe about one thousand nine hundred ninety eight when trump talks about his ideas for the country he sounds like playing the sims video game for the first time and now he's really proving me right because he you know you see this picture and it looks like something that would bet that a child could have made it's cartoonish it's amateurish it's amazing that a group of people who are allegedly in charge of the country saw that design and said ok the wall is a largely unpopular idea nobody knows exactly how much it's going to cost it's a total waste of resources it's a total waste of money it's a waste of time and it's based in spite and bigotry. and i dare program continues in just a moment. you

know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream 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 who will have

a much greater number of prolifically old people. in my day program thanks for joining us but the alleged threat over russian propaganda is still being touted far and wide after more tools to counter it appeared to be being developed a newly a most documents suggest that a u.k. based think tank called integrity initiative has been trying to foster anti russian sentiments in europe but seen a caution about investing. the integrity initiative first part of a u.k. based ensuite called stage craft charity promoting peace and security league documents published by

a group claiming to be from the hacking collective anonymous revealed that the charities a main investor is the u.k. home office the integrity initiative suggests this is its purpose 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 a full time table for that visit detailing who the militants met with over the course of seven days integrity initiative sent them on a countrywide tour including several days major 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 this military personnel given the red carpet treatment well that leaked documents provide very little information about them they all say 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 disco actual just several weeks later an article appears. in the times sounding quite biliteral and based on an anonymous defense sources that detail a russian triggered a third world war on a tiny scale in ukraine there is 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 termed information inter milan through 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 haines but are still waiting for any response the only common she did make was on twitter answering a direct question from a drawn list 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 can find if you really are an investigative journalist you will know there are serious consequences for publishing false accusations even implicitly even on threaten. are

you saying this is untrue. documents to know what they are all i can say chaunced needs people. it is called doing my job i meet people all the time not this mean i'm connected to. doing your job would probably entailed researching leaks documents as world know especially when you yourself are repeatedly named of them did you not research who arranged the meeting and why to the veracity 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 parts. he did get a reply though from the director of the state craft institute himself thank you very much for your inquiry but as our 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 good according to the league documents it seems like a simple recipe westminster founding wing military man and the journalist to stay it 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 actually be a part of the u.k. cluster which is thought it aims at shaping to mystic politics we asked at the u.k. foreign office to comment on the integrity initiative allegations it told us that the claims were being spread by kremlin news channels as part of a russian this information campaign what are you guys do you takes a closer look. if she were an organization it would be integrity initiative lo and behold an army of propaganda ists disguised as

anti propagandists whose job is to malign the slander 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 quoted newspaper article calling corbin a useful idiot that goes on to state he's open visceral and best unease in how the kremlin course as surely as if he had been secretly peddling westminster 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 discuss the problem posed by russian this information the government is funding this initiative with barely two million pounds this financial year that 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 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 for 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 and 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 stump a 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 system. radically 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 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 gritty 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 our anti russian sentiment in the media has soared over the last years and saw as still we now know one of the reasons but above all these leaks and in my view tear the mosques off the bol that fights russian

propaganda as they claim and what's underneath is ugly. we spoke to piers robinson chair of politics to chair field university he says this is much less about countering russian propaganda and more about sewing and embedding narratives on a domestic and regional level. 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 you could 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 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 in.