scottish politicians police for the assets of journalists working for russia's sport making research and soon to be seized running the organization problems suit comes off the sputnik published leaked documents just in the u.k. is funding a think tank aiming to foster the russian sentiment across europe look at the think tanks allegedly. the scandal deepens obama toward winning the german reporter whose stories were exposed as from fake now alleged we've done nations collected on behalf of people pictured in this article.

and i welcome so an international law from moscow i'm going to walk in this river you are very welcome to join us the so i was go to make a house call for drastic action against alleged russian propaganda hamilton says the assets of russians working for the sport news agency should be seized when the work goes across the story. it's an internet based radio station whose u.k. had cortez up in edge him in scotland and this liberal democrat m.s.p. alex quayle 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 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 what can 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 so the newspaper outing these people as sort of being involved in anti british activities almost reads a bit like an incitement to violence in terms of why the spotlight has foreland 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 two of the journalists to the times gave us their reactions to the story. i didn't receive an request from the times to use my name in proof oil and natural and i'm annoyed with the fact that they did so overall i would say that the newspaper has been foolish and disrespectful to the staff at sputnik and r.t.

and that it forms part of the ongoing and to russia done to purchase a to buy the government as a deflection tactic from rags and other issues 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 crime when stooge but never had and we know that we've done nothing wrong and i would say that this very much into keyset we're doing something right here and we did send requests to several international media organizations for their views on

the story and while other times article met ethical standards we're still waiting for any response from the russian embassy in london says that in publishing journalist data the times is following the example of a controversial green craning website called peacemaker the site posts the personal data of those it considers enemies of the state some of the people who appeared on the list were later murdered so earnestly neil clark says the times article is part of a long running campaign against russian media outlets. 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 air 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 worked 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 mcafee ism. mccarthyism austereo is really what we've got at the moment. and it's article on russia at the times frequently site spend mimo defense fellow with the atlantic council he's posted numerous anti russian tweets latest article also talks about alleged violations by r t and the possibility of sanctions against this channel. that r.t. only emphasizes the kremlin's position while giving little airtime to critics and the most name has already appeared in documents showing his alleged links to the integrity initiative group spreading out to russian sentiment is not alone though the leaked papers suggest that the u.k. funded charity has been using journalists across the whole of europe to there

apparently russian feelings were against their has more on the story. 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 therefore shells one three quoted newspaper article calling corbin a useful idiot that goes on to state he's open visceral anti-press to knees and how the kremlin course as surely as if he had been secretly peddling weapons to tattle for money you can imagine the shock mr 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 the only job with integrity initiative which is working to counter disinter motion 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 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 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 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 two 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 so 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 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 nishi of 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 are the u.k. foreign office to comment on the integrity initiative allegations told us that the claims were being spread by criminal new shuttles as part of a russian misinformation campaign or tax professor piers robinson told us why he thinks the u.k. government's taken such an interest in the russian media. 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 u.k. government and other western governments in the us in recent years have had

increasing difficulty persuading enough of their populations as to food just in the sea of the foreign policies that they've 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 to really what's going on the problems much closer to home. another news new revelations have emerged on the german award winning reporter who was exposed last week as a fraud class who was fired from dish legal magazine allegedly stole readers

donations for people featured in his articles including all from syrian children shall i do can skew discourse the story not just being accused now of being a purveyor of fake and fictitious news he's actually being accused of embezzling money as a result of his stories the story ridiculous 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 this brother and his sister make their dreams come true and to get them to germany now 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 was and often so now dispy go as far as a criminal complaint looking into that basil mint possibly of money. as a react say it's 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 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 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

these for. us 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 prison trump so worked at dispy goal 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 through 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 was. 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 have to his deceit is far far deeper

than we already know following those accusations from the u.s. ambassador on speaker's perceived anti americanism which charlotte talked about there the magazine has now apologized to all american citizens who may have been insulted and slandered by reports magazine no however says it doesn't have an overall anti us bias political commentator and publisher told us washington's focusing only on the fake stories that don't fit its narrative turning a blind eye to the others they change those stories that make america look bad and jay those journalists who are most critical do not care on those people and those journalists who take stories about syria and most of the stories about syria and this war there were fake and were lies america is of course just taking those who don't want to stir up their their present policy policy they do the politics america first america all 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 government has fired shots at a restaurant in brussels as security chiefs warn of potential terror attacks across europe when you details right after this break. i certainly don't expect that very many people will choose to be biologically. move your body isn't working for it also means your mind isn't working so. i believe that we will have pretty much no biologically old people even though of course we will have a much greater number of call of the old people. you

know world of big partners. and conspirators it's time to wait 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 troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back to the program fears are growing a fresh attempts at terror attacks in europe offer a man with an assault rifle opened file in a restaurant in a wealthy district of brussels police found three bullet holes in the window of the

restaurant though no injuries have been reported the restaurant has been closed while police investigate the incident authorities have not yet identified the suspect barcelona was also on alert after the u.s. state department issued a statement warning its citizens of a terror threat there washington says that tourist hot spots. areas are of particular concern confusion also remains now over last week's incident at gatwick airport in the u.k. reports of a drone shut down the country's second largest one way police are saying there may not have been a drone in the area after all the two suspects previously named have been released just after the incident which in security minister ben wallace warned that terror group al qaida is resurgent and planning spectacular air attacks. ahead of interpol's also warning of a new wave of terrorism in europe as radical islamists are released from prison the consonants been targeted for contacts in the christmas period for several years

most recently a gunman opened fire on a christmas market in france two weeks ago. we spoke to former british intelligence officer she thinks that western military interventions have contributed to the current fears of a terror attack. whereas you look at the warning going out to 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 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 allow them to build a base 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's led partly to the migrant crisis across europe and this is leading again to terrorist bases that could then strike out against europe. the us girl scouts are warning parents not to encourage children to hug guests this christmas the organization says the

hugs could lead to other types of physical affection that a child herself should decide whether to give a hug or not girl scout psychologist under a bus journey archibald says that to choose an important life lesson sadly we know that some adults bring children into your door to avoid constant early on can help parent to stand her rights know when lines have been crossed and when to go to your for help us girl scouts work farther back in nineteen twelve the group calls itself a leadership development organization promoting confidence courage and character to discuss the latest advice from the girl scouts we spoke with psychology expert gina loudon as well as women's rights advocate resurfacing. the child decide on their own that they want to participate in the embrace yes it's a hug yes it's the holiday season we're all feeling very festive however children have to learn self determination self autonomy and they have to realise that they

are in control of their bodies if you don't teach a child early on that they are in control of their bodies and that they are in control of their boundaries then they're subject to later on not be able to set healthy boundaries this is all about communication and that's the key if parents are having the age appropriate conversations with their children that are well documented and data driven then they shouldn't have to have any sorts of concerns first of all i wouldn't put my child in the presence of anyone who i was concerned might be doing something to harm them thirty percent of the sexual abuse that happens to a child happens by a family member so here's the fact of the matter children are often not the around people that we would like to think are healthy people unfortunately we don't always know as adults what the appetite a person may have for a child in a sexual situations these conversations need to be taking long before any gifts are exchanged and any expectation is made i think it is important because you as

a parent have determined that these people are safe for your child to be around that the child this taught respect and manners and respect of elders and whatever whatever the appropriate response is for that child in that moment because some children have a natural bit toward inward and we need to teach our children to be. parents don't always know when a person is a safe person or not and more importantly we can't teach girls to put grace before being able to protect and set healthy boundaries and no one is saying that we should respect for elders before protecting our children but again if you decide only to protect your child on a holiday when they're already exposed to this relative that there are uncomfortable around. the mistake is already made those are the headlines for the south would join us again in photo minute sub next though an interview with russia's economic development minister. and we'll see you.

guys are financial but they say most of the delegates. close to these if this is a central plank support diet good news kind of problem right now so you stop the bad. seems wrong. just don't call. me if you get to shape out. educate and in gains from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to be cross that's what i'm up for three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the waters of. the ship. russia's minister of economic development mike seem thank you very much and welcome back to our team. my first question might sound a bit unusual but how does it feel to be someone who always finds himself in a position where he has to defend the ruble surely what in the deal if you could

france the ruble is the system of market economic incentives that were. created in russia in the past several years we are collecting of them every day it's the inflation targeting is the new fiscal rule it's the new mechanism which is only it's rational from the blitz you gets you on the global commodity markets and this is what's in the deal if you protects the russian currency makes it more stable because if you compare the cut institutionalization of twinship which you would have as if that put it at that point of time we have polls because of the sanctions stocks we have sharp decline in oil prices it's even the fuss that was happening in the autumn with to put you in but the difference is really dramatic at that point of them it was extremely well to have financial markets which were impacting the

mystic when they meet these time by the fed that we have full of floating exchange rate because previously bill currency would have previously able financial markets which are not on the big stress and that helps economy going forward and they're leaving a stable economy grows i would just like to explain really quickly to our viewers that i was lucky to have a conversation with the minister in september and i wasn't the only journalist by far who was asking mr rushton about the russian currency but today the ruble is about six percent weaker then you predicted back then so what is going wrong with the forecasts. well the first of course the thing that is impacting the russian currency next year all become what he called them is across the globe is the fact that the oil prices declined substantially minima to king with you in

september as far as i remember the oil price was you know and eight dollars per bottle now it's if you look at the bread price it's fifty five so it's you know dramatic change here and what we hear of that in the same period of time since september robel has appreciated at that point of time when we were talking to you we see you in the rubble was trading against the u.s. the as far as i remember it was above seventy year. old now we have sixty six sixty seven with a. little bit of volatility here a little bit of what you feel there but once again you spite sharp decline in oil prices ruble has appreciate that so still there are no reasons to change the forecasts well once again we have created a broad set of market economics institutes that a working.