trails. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. the united states. troop presence. in the war on terror has failed to defeat al qaeda as well as. other. stories for years. he had been collecting. people.

across. the program we look at the. methods. of the traditional. takes of. this song is a kind of. real. whether it's a simulation project where this integration project. you joined us here for this program we're rounding up this hour's top story. whether you expressed concern about the growing capabilities of terrorists security minister has warned of the potential for attacks. owing to what he calls.

the aviation threat is real aviation is still a blue ribbon event for these terrorists al qaeda a resurgent they have reorganized their pushing towards europe and have become. it was new methods and still a sponsor aviation attorney the minister told britain's sunday times newspaper that thoughts of an al qaeda aviation attack are keeping ministers awake at night he also said the terrorist group is developing technology to bring down passenger jets well the u.k. ministers are also reportedly concerned by the recently announced u.s. withdrawal from syria warning the deal to create a new safe haven for it in the midst of the french president is also concerned saying on sunday he deeply regretted u.s. president donald trump's decision now the u.s. is also planning to hof its troop presence in afghanistan after seventeen years of war but analysts warn that the war on terror has not only failed to defeat al qaeda but is actually stolen the birth and propagation of numerous other extreme militant

groups. 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 countries 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 feel 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 to make her at any time the afghans have faced a lot of issues because of that what it is that they mean this creation of course business is down there is no security and people can 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 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 no 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 in 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 save this war. a scandal surrounding one of germany's leading journalists who was exposed as having faked stories for years has deepened klaus real otiose who was fired from joe spiegel magazine allegedly stole money donated to people featured in his articles including orphaned children in syria and that's a cross live now to our special a do you joining us here on the program charlotte people were shocked by the initial allegations of fake news but now this how did he allegedly end up stealing donations. well this is a really extreme story when you hear the details what we understand is that klaus relates he has actually published an article back in two thousand and sixteen it was a hot breaking tale of two syrian orphans who are living hundreds of miles apart in

turkey and trying to eke out. the life trying and dreaming of a life together reunited brother and sister in germany but it turns out according to a turkish for talk of for who was with him on that story that one of the children never even existed and the child that was true in the story was actually living with his mother and wasn't an orphan a tool now what really did is he asked people to donate money to try and bring these two siblings back together and to give them a life in germany and is alleged to have said that he managed to achieve that now just spiegel the magazine which published that story has now taken out a criminal complaint against us for embezzlement it's also on its latest edition apologized to its readers on the front page and with

a twenty page in-depth article inside as to how this happened. this house is shattered the worst thing that can happen to a print media outlet has happened to us for years we allowed fake reports to go to print for us it's particularly horrifying that managed to deceive us for so long without being uncovered. well now dispy gold seems to have to be defending itself against accusations made by germany's the us ambassador to germany who's described the magazine as having an anti american bias. these for you stories logy for us policies and certain segments of the american people it's clear that we were told by an institutional bias the anti american bias that the magazine has exploded since the election of president trump. has said worked as a freelance writer for dispy goal for many years until he was made stuff back in

two thousand and seventeen he was seen as being somebody who excelled in his field of power a goal of more than journalism so much so he actually won many accolades in germany and internationally in fact just this december he was actually awarded a prize for german reporters association for his work on the life of the syrian child and he was also named journalist of the year by the american news channel c.n.n. back in two thousand and fourteen well just beagle is so far highlighted a number of his articles as being fictitious or partially faked it's now investigating others and it could be that the depths of his deceit a yet to be no. child of humans can thank you. a traditional danish song has sparked controversy that's after a foreign female teacher of the danish business school was offended by

a line that associates denmark with a young blond girl at school promptly apologized with some media reports saying the song has now been banned by the cottage but indignant danish politicians decided to gather together and sing the song anyway. you. are going to be. one of the school teachers says that important issues have been raised by the debate generated by the song saying it helped danes realize quote how blind we are but i just enraged some danish politicians even more. come on this song is about their sense of being then ish it's a pillow for gaucho we should never bow just forward lots of extract time to find out whether it was a joke unfortunately it wasn't stop it just stop if we're no longer allowed to sing

our songs than the party stops it is steadily 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 hoffman in one thousand nine hundred twenty four and is regularly performed all across the country though this is not the first time that a national classic has been dropped because someone took offense for example a school in the u.s. city of philadelphia has scrapped the book with the adventures of huckleberry finn due to its use of a racial slur and u.s. radio stations refused to play the christmas hit baby it's cold outside of the critics said it was actually about sexual assault or regarding the danish song our guests debate the issues 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 is called 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 tolerate an 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 an danes 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 the ridiculous tribes no no no i think you know if you're. is your point. is worse that he said your point and point is that these are. you instigated is culture you need to know what it's all about i tell you we get it you're pulled your horrified we're raising your culture the point is this culture change sometimes 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 moved out of the songs of yesteryear what they mean is that all of us today all of this theory i mean people here larry we'll 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 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 past are still to come here on your monday program new leaked documents suggest that the u.k. is funding a think tank that is stirring up anti russian sentiment across europe about a much more interesting moment. kind of financial survival job today with all the money laundering first to visit this cash into three different. oh good this is a good start well we have our three banks all set up here maybe something in europe something in america something overseas or the cayman islands or do we do all these banks are complicit in their tough talk or says we just have to give mccoll and say hey i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while

we've got home got a nice laundry watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry how about. luxury automobile again for a match you know what money laundering is highly illegal here for a watch guys record. but i certainly don't expect that very many people will choose to be biologically go through a big move your body isn't working for also means your mind isn't working so. i believe that we will have pretty much no biologically old people who will have a much greater number of call of the good old people. could have you with us today for the monday program the french president is calling for calm and harmony after a six week end of yellow vest demonstrations emanuel mccrone also stated that

severe measures will be meted out against those who spread on rest during the protests. they create this clear that the most severe judicial responses will be brought it is now time for order and harmony to prevail meanwhile this week and some of the yellow vest 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 macro on the performance of course an outcry on social media and france's prime minister condemning 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 the authorities have confirmed that a probe has been opened and 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 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 system this to rebuilding against message integration and against the european union and the government and those in power of course cannot tolerate this is unacceptable for them and this is why you see such a harsh response from from the police obviously this social movements everywhere in europe do your community skilling everybody is telling 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. it is on to international with the alleged threat of

russian propaganda still being touted far and wide of scottish m.p.'s who lost out to the russian media outlets sputnik speaking to the u.k. newspaper the times he branded spot the kremlin. with its cross live now it was his party boy who for more on this so good to see you paul what do you think is a provoked this outburst. scotland's got a devolved government so this kind of hostile talk about the radio station is coming from a scottish and mess p and they focus as you said their own sputnik which is a russian state funded internet based radio station which has its u.k. headquarters up in edinburgh in scotland and this liberal democrats m.s.p. alex cole hamilton has said arguably not a very liberal thing which is that any russians who live in scotland and in gaijin what he calls information warfare to destabilize britain should have that asset see

and that would have been it really only that his quote has been printed in the sunday times that is the system paper of the times and they've written an article about sputnik and they've really gone and printed the photographs of all the journalists that welkin sputnik up in edom bra and in this current climate where some would say that there is somewhat of a political or not political a bit of a witch hunt now when it comes to russians in the u.k. printing the pictures of the people that are accused of essentially engaging in anti british activities as he is accusing them of doing is somewhat sylvia in terms of why the spotlight has fallen on. the radio station well it's done a lot of reporting recently on this story about integrity initiative and it appears to have rubbed a lot of people up the road. long way this news channel by the way have has done

reports on it as well integrity initiative you'll remember perhaps it is that the leaked documents that reveal that there is an anti russian sort of saw iops program that is funded by the u.k. foreign office organizations such as you can r.t.e. pump propaganda backed by vladimir putin and have been complicit in the cover up of events from human rights breaches to the russian invasion of crimea and other countries have taken a tougher line on the assets of russian nationals than we have in the u.k. the u.k. government must look again at work can be done. joining us live thank you. well thanks for joining us so far for the monday program here on international us polly mentioned a u.k. funded think tank cold integrity initiative has allegedly been trying to foster russian sentiments in europe correspondent what i guess the sixty. if shady

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 fresh us 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 westminster 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 bracing 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 counted this information 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 daily 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 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 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 who 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 narrative 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. call binny 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 problem. 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 us here at c according to the leaked documents they have people presumably who they paid to report. on the british media regulator ofcom actually publishes complaints statistics only if there are ten complaints didn't make that list it seems like integrity initiative not audience members convinced of gold to go off to sea we've all noticed how 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 bol that fights russian propaganda as they claim and what's underneath is ugly reality 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 descent from asian campaign we spoke with piers robinson a chair and politics of sheffield university he says this is much less about countering russian propaganda and more about sowing and in betting 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

difficulties 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. 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 just only one thirty pm on monday here in the russian capital that's wrapping up the program for this hour on r.t. international and my colleague tutor to bring you more of your worldwide headlines in about twenty five minutes.