piece calling for the assets of journalists working for russia sputnik to be seized spreading the media a little kremlin stooge comes after sputnik publish nearly documents this is just a new case for i think a think tank to foster anti bush or some of the typical syrup we take a look at the think tanks the legs methods. also the outcry over one of germany's most acclaimed journalists exposed to having faked stories for years deepens as it's alleged that he stole readers' donations elected on behalf of people featured in his article.

for joining us this is all to international. with the alleged threats of russian propaganda still trumpeted across the west the scottish m.p.'s now issued a threat speaking to you can use paper the times call hamilton demanded seizure of assets of russians working for the sputnik media outlet calling it the kremlin stooge who has the story is 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 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 and other countries have taken a tougher line on the assets of russian nationals than we have in the ukraine 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 sputnik up in edinburgh it reads a bit like a wall of shame editorially that 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 a sputnik u.k. producer named in the times article she told us that such accusations suggest she 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 ante russian sentiment there is you know travel in all your key newspapers just say and 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're doing something right here. or have some requests through numerous international media organizations to get their take on the story and where they think the times article met with ethical standards we await their responses. person embassy to the u.k. says that in publishing journalist data the times has followed the example of the controversial ukrainian website peacemaker and to see how did the organization for

security and cooperation in europe should be looking into the actions of the british newspaper the speicher prince personal data of people that it calls and abuse of the country and its so-called blacklist has been strongly criticized after some of those named were murdered last month berlin called to shut down the website when it published details of former german chancellor gerhard schroeder the un says peacemaker violates the right to privacy a presumption of innocence journals the right and you can't believe the times article shows anything goes when trying to shut down dissenting media. the sunday times and its sister 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 journalist who work i think of him threaten the persecuted and i think that you know we've got to stand up against this macafee use of. mccarthyism on steroids really what we've got at the moment. with any passion sputnik in that times article cites nimmo defense fellow with the atlantic council and he's posted numerous anti russia tweets in a most latest article also talks about alleged violations by r.t. and the possibility of sanctions against the channel r.t. and precise is the kremlin's position or giving little time to critics. name out already appeared in documents that showed his alleged links to the integrity initiative group spreading anti russia sentiment and he's not alone the leaked paper suggests the u.k. from the charity has been using journalists across europe to stir up anti russia

feeling as the of investigates. if she were an organization it would be integrity initiative low and behold an army of propagandists disguised as anti propagandists whose job is to malign the slander be it states ideas people even british politicians our investigation has found wiring evidence the shadowy programs official twitter account has been used to attack corbin the labor party and their fish oils one three quotes a 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 operational to defame him

well funded by the british government no less but slandering german corben opposition politicians isn't their only job but 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 the early 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 he 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 asian and conspiracy theories 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. new to 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 whatsoever foreign country strange isn't it how they choose to keep that part secret we can go on and on about other clusters but you get the point they're gritty initiative even targets are us here at r t according to the leaked documents they have people presumably who they paid to report r.t. to 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 nishi of not audience members convinced of calm to go after tea 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 masks off the bol that fights russian propaganda as they claim and what's underneath these ugly. cry surrounding one of germany's star journalists exposed last week as having faked stories for years is deepening class for lotus who was fired from the spiegel magazine allegedly appropriated readers donations for people featured in his articles that included orphaned syrian children to charlotte devinsky has more. 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 and a 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 this 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 wasnt an orphan so now dispy go as

far as a criminal complaint looking into that embezzle mint 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 boy yes. you. as 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 it's all worked out just beagle 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 and 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 a journalist of the year will just spiegel is admitting that at least fourteen all 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 feeling those accusations from the us ambassador on spiegel's proceed and to merican ism which shall described in her report the magazine has apologized to all american citizens who may have been insulted in slandered by

reports spiegel however says that it does not have an overall anti us bias political commentator and publisher ica told us washington's focused only on the figs stories that don't fit his narrative instead turning a blind eye to the rest. they change those stories that make america look bad and change 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 politics 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 government is five shots at

a restaurant in brussels a security chiefs want to potential terrorist attacks across europe details after the break. her. told her to. seemed wrong. just don't call. me. to say proud just being educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. get to the right to be close this is what before three in the morning can't be good. interested always in the water. fears are growing a fresh terrorist attacks in europe after a gunman wielding a k forty seven five 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 of louis' district though no injuries were reported the restaurant was closed while people in the police investigated the incident authorities have not yet identified and identified

a suspect. barcelona's also an alert after the u.s. state department issued a statement warning its citizens of a terror threat that washington says tourist hot spots and public areas are of particular concern. of interpol's also warning of a new wave of terrorism in europe as radical islamists are released from prison they can constant has been targeted for attacks in the christmas period for years now most recently a government open for a christmas market in france two weeks ago. we

spoke to former british intelligence officer annie marshawn who thinks western military interventions of can contribute to the current fears of a terrorist attack. whereas you look at the warning going out to us alone or 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 tourist where 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 i think the support and encouragement that was tacitly given by certain western countries to the terrorists in syria allowed them to build a base and sunny 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's led partly to the migrant crisis across europe and this is leading again to terrorist bases that can strike out against europe. meanwhile the security minister has revealed he met with defense chiefs just before the drones to discuss a possible port terror attack. wallace told the sunday times newspaper that thoughts of an aviation attack by al qaeda even ministers quote awake at night the report around the terror groups growing capabilities will force a security crackdown in the wake of the gatwick incident last week when reports of a drone paralyze britain second busiest airport. u.k. ministers are reported to be concerned by the u.s. withdrawal from syria warning it will create a new safe haven for islamists french president among democrats and shares those fears saying he deeply regrets strong troops decision to pull out of the country the u.s.

is also planning to harvey its troop presence in afghanistan after seventeen years of war in the country but analysts warn that the war on terror has not only failed to defeat al qaeda but it's actually spawned the birth and spread of numerous other extreme militant groups has done of 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 in afghanistan this military action is a part of our campaign against terrorism nine eleven disfigured and reformed the global security order as ranks of u.s. troops moved into afghanistan to defeat al qaeda and do thrown the taliban peru.

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 to. raised 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 half 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 half of afghan children without education poverty and discrimination are rampant the country's rank third for corruption by transparency international not exactly a shining light of democracy so when donald trump stepped into the oval office he promised among other things to focus on soft power let afghanistan be the country its people wanted to be. we're a partner

a friend but we will not dictate to the afghan people how to live or how to govern their own complex society trump calling afghanistan a partner falls into the basket of cases when long distance relationships just don't work be afghan leadership ordinary citizens they don't see american troops making a difference for them. rather voting as we have a number of severe. 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 better than 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 is the cause of the me of this creation of course business is down there is no security and people come to america chief one thing in afghanistan and that was to destroy an already very very hard very damaged

country in terms of removing the terrorists from moving taliban and everything they have failed because taliban is still there taliban have actually expanded now into poso trump boasted about being a problem solver in the end we will win but since the us 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 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 as 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. this is this your. top social media researcher who faked russian bots election activity is among five accounts suspended by facebook the tech giant took the move for quote coordinated in authentic behavior during last year's special election in the state of a bomber his killer more power to explain. 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 rather. use food you know it's pretty alarming when a guy who lives in a fluent russian or speaks fluent russian and is russian it everywhere year later 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 and 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 box 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 this isn't an actual teacher with me for the latest news updates at the top of the hour. because there's this survival guide book stacie just before the start. of the all the surface. the series there you can see them back to back to. good susan repatriations heat to get the us to seven years. delicious and.