scottish m.p.'s calling for the assets of journalists working for russia's support needs to be seized spreading the media from the stooge comes after support been published you link documents that suggest the u.k. is funding a think tank that aims to foster anti brusha sentiment across europe if you take a look at the think tanks the latest methods. plus the outcry over want to do in these most acclaimed journalist exposed fake stories for years that deepens it's alleged that he stole readers' donations that were collected on behalf of people in his own. living thanks for joining us this is r.t.

and. with the alleged threats of russian propaganda still being trumpeted across the west the scottish m.p. has now issued a threat speaking to you can use paper the times alex goen hamilton demanded the seizure of assets of russians working for the sputnik media calling it a kremlin stooge bullyboy has been following the story it's an internet based radio station whose u.k. headquarters are up in edge him in scotland and this liberal democrat m.s.p. alex quill hamilton has told the sunday times that any russians who live in scotland and engage in what he calls information warfare against britain or to destabilize britain should have their assets seized take a listen to what he had to say to the sunday times. organizations such as you can are to 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 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 to be done that is pretty harsh rhetoric but that would have been a hit if the sunday times hadn't printed it along with the photographs of all the people that work in the sputnik up in edinburgh it reads a bit like a wall of shame editorially there doesn't seem any reason for those photographs to be there other than sort of the newspaper outing these people as sort of being involved in anti british activities it almost reads a bit like an incitement to violence in terms of why the spotlight has fallen on the radio station up in edinburgh and sputnik well it appears that some of the

reporting that they've been doing has been rubbing politicians up the wrong way in particular the radio station just like r.t. has reported on the leaked integrity initiative documents and they have been to reveal that the u.k. foreign office happens to be funding and anti russian public influence campaign through a british think tank and that's been quite a major story both. sputnik and c but the times article has already written off these leaks these documents about integrity initiative because they say that they come from russian hackers we spoke to us putting u.k. producer named in the times article she told us such accusation suggests they might be doing an effective job. and initially it was it was a bit of a shock on the other hand it's kind of hardly surprising given the anti russian sentiment there is you know travel in all your key newspapers just say we expose

this integrity initiative which ruffled a few feathers people are not too happy about it and then we saw this times article carpark and make the claim that somehow this explosion of the integrity initiative by an r.t.c. suggests that it was a russian hack of the anonymous integrity initiative documents so it's i mean it's just ridiculous not nice to see your picture up there with your name except and under the headline of being part of a stooge but never hand we know that we've done nothing wrong and i would see that this very much into keys that we are doing something right here but we have sent requests to numerous international media organizations to get their take on the story and whether they think the times article met at the call stand as we await their response the russian embassy to the u.k. says that in publishing journalist data the times is following the example of the controversial ukrainian website peacemaker embassy added that the organization for

security and cooperation in europe should be looking into the actions of the british newspaper peacemaker prince personal data of people that he calls and the peace of the country its so-called black list this being strongly criticized the broad after some of those named will murder a small burly call to shut down the website when it published details on former german chancellor gerhard schroeder the un says peacemaker violates the right to privacy and presumption of innocence jonathan right and you're caught believes the times article shows anything goes when trying to shut down dissenting media. the sunday times and it says the paper the times have waged a war against russian media which is operating lawfully in this country in the u.k. for a number of years now and the intention or the aim is quite clear they want to get sputnik closed down and they want to get r.t. taken off there in the u.k. that's very very clear and they will do anything to try to further that that you know what's been happening is it's i would good for us call it harassment i think putting the pictures the photographs of people who work to support the on a in

a newspaper like that i think is tantamount to incitement almost it might put those people's lives in danger people who work for russian media british journalists who work i think of him threaten the persecuted and i think that you know we've got to stand up against this but after years of. mccarthyism or steroids really what we've got at the moment. or with any passion sputnik in that times article the outlet side the nimmo defense fellow with the atlantic council he's posted numerous anti russia tweets the most latest article also talks about the alleged violations by r t on the possibility of sanctions against this channel on the emphasizes the kremlin's position or giving little time to critics the most name is already appeared in documents that show his alleged links to the integrity initiative group spreading anti russia sentiment is not alone the paper suggests that the u.k. from the charity has been using journalists across europe to stir up until russia

feelings. 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 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 coburn 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 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 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 and 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 very influential italian newspaper surprise more bashing russia it became increasingly evident in twenty sixteen that russian strategic narrative sometimes including dissent from ation 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 a do it appears that the promotion of a strategy to spread disinformation and to influence the italian political opinions has been limited and came much more from national populist boxes rather than from russia what 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 had 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 of course 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 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 asked 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 we spoke to piers robinson chair in politics at sheffield university he says that this is much less about countering mr propaganda and more about sowing and i'm betting narratives on 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 for legitimate see 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. they are crisis only one of germany's star journalist exposed last week is having fake stories for years is deepening class

a lotus who was fired from the spiegel magazine allegedly appropriated reader's donations for people featured in his articles they included often syrian children explains. not just being accused now of being a purveyor of fake and fictitious news he's actually now being accused of embezzling money as a result of his stories the story particularly that this relates to is one from two thousand and sixteen he told a heart wrenching tale about two syrian all phones a brother or sister they were living hundreds of miles apart in different cities in two after escaping syria and they were dreaming of a life together a life together in germany and he urged his readers to donate money to try and help these two siblings his brother and his sister make their dreams come true and to get them to germany where the money was funneled into his private account and while it's not known how much actually went in there to spiegel is now investigating the

claims that he actually embezzled that money because it turns out according to a turkish photographer who was working with him on this story that one of the children didn't even exist and the second one the brother who did exist was actually living with his mother in turkey and was and often so now dispy go as far as a criminal complaint looking into that embezzle moment possibly of money. as a reaction to that story now to speak also used its front page this week to say its sorry to its readers for the fake news that it's been publishing for many many years this house is shattered the worst thing that can happen to a print media outlets 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 in the fallout of this scandal dispy girl is now

facing other accusations notably one from the u.s. ambassador to germany who's accused the magazine of having anti american bias is for. you. his policies and certain segments of the american people it's clear that we were targeted by institutional bias the anti american bias that the magazine has exploded since the election of president trump well o.g.'s all worked out to speak all for a number of years and he was considered to be such an excellent journalist that the magazine decided to make him stuff in two thousand and seventeen he's won many accolades both in germany early internationally for his work including just this december he was given the route german reporters association prize and back in two thousand and fourteen he even was named by c.n.n. as being journalist of the year we just spiegel is admitting that at least fourteen of his articles were fictitious they were fake it's now looking deeper into his

other articles and it could be that the scale of to his deceit is far far deeper than we already know following those accusations from the us ambassador on spiegel's proceed until americanism which show that described in her report the magazine as apologized to all american citizens who may have been insulted and slandered by reports spiegel however says that it does not have an overall anti us bias political commentator and publisher ica him told us that washington's focusing only on the fake stories that don't fit his narrative turning a blind eye to the rest. they change those stories that make america look bad and take those journalists who are most critical do not care on those people and those journalist who did fake stories about syria and most of the stories about syria and this war there were faked and where. america is

of course just taking those who don't want to stir up their their present quality policy they do with the politics of america first america only america great and whatever and they don't they just don't care anymore whether it is very obvious or whether it is not obvious the american pro-democrat group turns out to be behind so called russian sanctity on facebook that story more after the break. when i was told seemed wrong. roles just don't. get me the world

yet to see how he's doing. and in detroit. went on to find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. but i certainly don't expect that very many people will choose to be biologically go through a big bowl of the good old move your body isn't working for a while it also means your mind isn't working for well i believe that indeed we will have pretty much no why would we old people even if we will have a much greater number of chronologically old people. is our growing fresh attempts at terrorist attacks in europe after

a good man wielding a k forty seven fired shots at a restaurant in one of the most prestigious parts of brussels police found three bullet holes in the window of the restaurant in the avenue louise district though no injuries have been reported yet restaurant has been closed while police investigate authorities have not yet identified a suspect. barcelona's also an alert out of the u.s. state department just issued a statement warning citizens of a terror threat that washington says the tourist hot spot some public areas are of particular concern and confusion remains over last week's incident gatwick in the u.k. where reports of a drone shut down the country's second largest airports police are now saying that they may or may not have been a drug in the area they're not quite convinced either way the suspects have also been released but just after the incident britain security minister ben wallace warned that terrorist group al qaeda is resurgent and planning spectacular attacks

. well europe first being targeted for attacks in the christmas period for years now most recently a gunman opened fire in a christmas market in france two weeks ago. speak down to former british intelligence officer good evening do you see

a pattern here when it comes to government attacks and threats occurring during the christmas period. i think it's certainly a prime time for al qaeda or isis or jihadist inspired terrorists to try and carry out attacks across europe but i do find it interesting that the the two cases mentioned today about the shooting in brussels and the warning going out to tourists in barcelona i think highlight two extreme ends of what might be the sort of current threats that we all face in europe and it's not just about jihadi terrorism and this is a theme that i've been discussing for a number of years now so you know my instinct looking at what happened in brussels someone shooting with apparently a kalashnikov towards a prestigious but closed restaurant would strike me as potentially gangland criminal type threatening activity but we have to wait the police report on that whereas you look at the warning at barcelona from the u.s. state department that would indicate potentially that they have specific

information specific intelligence that there might be some sort of operation planned there although warning tourists to be aware going on buses and going to major tourist transport hubs i fail to see how that's going to potentially stop some sort of attack and it would probably just potentially frighten the tourists so yes if there is a resurgence in violence some of it could be terrorist inspired some of this is going to be criminal and some of it can just be sheer mental health issues for people who are socially damaged and quite often we've seen particularly with the lone wolf attacks over the years across europe now that the three intersect very closely we heard the u.k. security minister ben wallace saying that they had a meeting and they would consider that to be a serious threat against their lines from terrorists particularly al qaida it doesn't bode well if you look at this suspected drone incident because you say for sure there was a drone to release the first few people that they arrested as a source but it suggests that actually there's not very good preparation to deal

with such incidents if there was an attack. well there should be in preparation people have been predicting that trains could be used to disrupt and sabotage flight paths around airports for years now so why the intelligence agencies and the police were not prepared for that plus of course it quick calls into question the pictures that were released in the mainstream media certainly in the u.k. which seemed to indicate there were drones flying around kept wicket so what on earth was going on plus the bungled investigation and the bungled arrest of someone who apparently turned out to be manifestly innocent because he had a rock solid alibi from his boss so i don't know what on earth the intelligence agencies and the police were thinking about around that very serious subatomic that attacked the second largest airport in the u.k. and i think we need some very strong answers very quickly. the u.s. withdrawal from syria but that's a problem and that is going to create

a base for the terrorists to to build and to attack the west do you share that opinion. i do not know i think the support and encouragement that was tacitly given by certain western countries to the terrorists in syria allows them to build a base and the pushback with the russian assisted assad government regime forces has actually quenched that to a large extent unfortunately what we have seen is that terrorist bases are thriving in libya which of course was intervened in seven years ago by nato and we all knew that once gadhafi was toppled once the whole region was destabilized then al qaeda or isis or other types of terrorist groups would gain the base there and that is indeed what we're seeing and sony isis had a foothold in the benghazi region and if al-qaeda is resurgent then they are going to have the same so the whole of north africa now is a mess and that was created by nato intervention and this is what led partly to the

migrant crisis across europe and this is leading again to terrorist bases that can strike out against europe of his beautiful british intelligence of the russian army good evening and thank you very much. a leading social media researcher a freaking russian bot activity is among five accounts suspended by facebook the tech giant took the move for quote coordinated inauthentic behavior during last year's special election in the state of alabama morgan explains. viewers will recall back in twenty seventeen there was a special election in the u.s. state of alabama and the republican candidate roy moore was basically accused of having lots of russian bots and trolls on the internet supporting his campaign now he tried to defend himself but this is what the mainstream american media had to say it's no surprise that choppa supporting more they both have a deep love of country the countries russia but still run through to push forward

you know it's pretty alarming when a guys lips in a fluent russian or speaks fluent russian and his russian is everywhere your waiter is moving closer to the oval office so now we have a report from the new york times that has revealed that some of these alleged russian bots and trolls were actually coming from an experiment conducted in the united states what people are referring to as alabama project was conducted paid for by billionaire reid hoffman he's one of the creators of linked in and he's a top contributor to the democratic party now he apparently paid one hundred thousand dollars to essentially set up this operation in which they had individuals in the united states carrying out activities designed to imitate what alleged russian bots and trolls did on the internet the democrats have said that one hundred thousand dollars is simply not enough to really have an impact on a u.s.

election however when it was alleged that one hundred thousand dollars had been spent by russia it was considered to be impactful people will recall the race how the democrat ended up winning the special election by by a very small margin at this point now that the report has come out we've got jonathan morgan who is involved with the alabama project and he says that this was not intended to in any way sway the election it was simply an experiment designed to explore the possible activities of russian trots and bowls on the internet he's calling for an. a geisha in order to show that there was not any impact on the election itself now jonathan morgan it's important to note is also tied to the twenty sixteen report that was released by the senate intelligence committee regarding russian meddling and alleged activities by russia in the united states so as americans look at reports coming out about alleged russian meddling or alleged russian interference in the united states they'll have to ask themselves is this

actually the activities of alleged russian medlars or are these the activities of americans being paid to imitate russian medlars as a little experiment of about with a base we would often see them. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more some want to. have to try to be for us it's like the forty three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. this should. be when lawmakers manufacture consent instead of public wealth. when the

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