most of you will be partial to the film oh thank you bill for water proofing your thank you. just a small experiments a democratic party group explain away alleged interference in an alabama state election and investigations being launched over the group that fakes more than a thousand russian social media blogs to allegedly describe it to republican candidate. yellow vest protesters have been out on the streets for a seventh consecutive weekend in running battles with police. and chinese tech giant huawei is the focus of spy allegations once again this time in the u.k. as soft america has been reportedly pressuring allies to follow their lead and bought the company.

a very warm welcome to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international or the latest on the roundup of the stories that shaped and we. will start of the u.s. where a scandal surrounding alleged meddling in an alabama state election campaign continues to unfold what's being called a small experiments by a pro democrat cyber group that fakes russian bought says now suspected to be a planned effort to influence the vote and is the state's attorney general launches a probe into the case that artie's are trying to to investigate. americans not the russians have at least set up one army of pseudo russian bots to sway opinion and boost election turnout it's the big story this december and as more and more details come out as the new year gets closer those involved are having to do more

explaining. scott shane started the domino effect by writing about the whole false like scheme in the new york times a week later another outlet reveals his scoop was from way back in september when he was invited to speak at an off the record event for the group behind the bots project but the journalist didn't see a thing about that in his article i don't think there's any kind of disclosure that's relevant so i'm happy to be corrected it's always a tradeoff as to what the ground rules of whether you get something useful for your readers journalists also eventually got hold of a report assessing how well the scheme worked and it the experts don't call it an experiment like scott shane did the journalists also wrote that the whole thing was likely too small to have a significant effect on the race compare that to these words enormous effect on the

turnout that's the phrasing from the report. the venture cost one hundred thousand bucks pennies compared to the money usually splashed out on campaigns but that doesn't take responsibility of the man who stumped up the bill reid hoffman billionaire co-founder of linked in and big democrat donor he ended up having to admit he had no idea where his cash was flowing i find that tax exempt have been recently reported highly disturbing for that reason i'm embarrassed by my fee there to track the organization i did support more diligently as it made its own decisions to perhaps fund projects that i would reject and so there you have it we have an apology from. the head of the firm behind the technical side of the op jonathan morgan is another person still under pressure he came up with a blog post where among other things he wrote this this seemed to us to be the work

of internet trolls not russian activity just to remind you this came from the man who during the actual alabama senate race yelled on twitter the russians were busted russian trolls truck by hamilton sixty eight and taking an interest in the alabama senate race what a surprise this tiny detail aside jonathan morgan keeps defending their false flag experiment after all they've said it it's in the name of democracy now it's up to the probe to judge if these people cross the line in their noble endeavor and in any case america's definitely learned the masterminds of meddling could very well be home grown. former u.s. congressman michael flanagan expressed doubts that the case would have any real consequences. i.e. it's water under the bridge there's no chance that the election can be invalidated less of course they can demonstrate that the sitting senator and self participated

in some sort of illegal activity or subterfuge which i doubt can be done or or is even done it was even done on his part the first tenet of democratic politics is they will accuse you of what they are doing themselves in an effort to to distract in an effort to confuse those who might be honestly reporting it if they're saying it they're doing it and i'd like to have mr moeller look into this and come after this in the same way. you know best protesters have been out on the streets of france for a seventh weekend in a row more than twelve thousand people joined the anti-government demonstrations. oh.

well there are lots of dangers from these l.b. de foodies or more commonly known as flash for weapons now they use to launch things such as tear gas grenades sound grenades and even these rubber bullets and those can all do significant damage if they hit people in those protests people with broken bones fractured teeth bruising internal injuries we even saw a number of crew being injured over the last few weeks by some of the items that are being shocked out of those. balls but the injuries can be even more serious than that and for some people they can be life changing oh wow the right you were going to. come or. why would the

french government want to pull states of still all these flash walls that can as i say launch things such as this the rubber bullets well that's largely due to the protests that we've seen in france over the last few weeks the country has been in gulf by these void the process for some people describing them as being the worst roi it's in half a century and they've actually been some specifically into the injuries caused as a result of rubber bullets with many civil liberties groups just saying that they shouldn't be used now a group of u.s. academics published a study in december of last year saying that fifteen percent of people who were injured by rubber bullets specifically actually ended up with permanent injuries with the majority of people losing their sight they said three percent of those injured specifically by rubber bullets actually went on to lose their lives so the question is why is the french government still deciding to go with using the flash

tools which have been proven in some cases to be deadly and still wanting to spend more than two million euros on its version of protecting the state. dozens of protesters were arrested in paris but city officials say that new year's celebrations will go ahead despite the rest the yellow vests movement started in november against a fuel price hike and continued even after government concessions the demonstrations claim they're ready to take on the or far as. i. organize all souls in this way we use called the messengers we're now trying to make the police job more complex they were easier because they did not make it easy. they remove all masks protective glasses watch room would be in the tower during these demonstrations the protection that we have they want us to stand the flash will make it so that the i do not remember how much four hundred fifty to two hundred

yards to two hundred one that is truly naked can withstand super what people will not to do for the search you must build an arsenal so different. but since defense minister voiced deep concerns about a possible spying threat from chinese tech giant chua way on thursday this comes amid a confrontation between the company and the u.k.'s closest ally the united states as washington has reportedly been pressuring allies to bar the firm probably boyko digs deeper into the story. they seemed like the best of friends one side with cash to flash the other keen to court chinese investment you have a golden era of u.k. china relations and what about the relations between britain and choice of very good issues in the past i think we've come to an understanding over. premier li

said yesterday this should be an indispensable partnership. we have cemented britain's position as china's best partner in the west with the u.k. playing bragg's it really with brussels trade ties with china seem as important as ever but there's a bone of contention coming between london and beijing or rather a phone of contention we've got to look at what partners such as australia in the us doing in order to ensure that they have the maximum security of the five g. network and we've got to recognise the fact there's been recently exposed the chinese state does sometimes aren't in the maligned way while our way is one of china's most important tech companies that the world's second largest mobile phone producer and it makes the laptops and tablets gadgets that rival apple and samsung but crucially weiwei also sells some of the communications hardware that allows mobile phone and wireless networks to operate and where the u.s.

currently embroiled in a tip for tat trade war with beijing the chinese tech giant has come into the spotlight washington says it's concerned that using weiwei hardware will give beijing the ability to spy on foreign countries and exert too much control over western infrastructure by the way his raise serious concerns among u.s. officials for a potential role in cyber espionage given their reported links to china's state security services and wire way threaten the security of our networks. due to their close ties to the chinese government and now the u.s. is pursuing well ways chief financial officer who was arrested in vancouver at washington's request to now faces extradition to the u.s. over possible violations of sanctions against iran but the case appears more than a little politicised the u.s.

president suggested he might use china's tech princess as a bargaining chip with beijing if i think it's good for the country if i think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made which is a very important thing which is good for national security i would certainly intervene if i thought it was necessary australia or new zealand have followed the u.s. is lead and banned huawei from providing tech for its five g. rollout citing security risks the u.k. has yet to follow although there are murmurs in that direction what we're witnessing is more kind of security hope something it can. russia for we have other work you know sees itself and a vulnerable position where it doesn't have secure access to this particular market over the margin or having talks in the back room between the american state department and the british foreign office trying to pressure raise or put leverage on the british government to come out and support the years sanctions tree attire

for the husband channel but i don't think for one second that britain will go america's foreign policy to dictate to the policy that britain needs for truth through the world after broke so there's little hard evidence of why our way ever having engaged in any spying or handing over of data the company denies any ties to the chinese government beyond paying its taxes for the u.k. following washington's lead and banning way risk souring up until now fruitful friendship as well as slowing down the rollout of vital new technology for london it'll be a tough choice between wa way and the us way. the syrian army reported on friday that it had entered the northern city of man beach at the request of civilians and kurdish fighters in the area becomes that as the kurds try to strengthen the city's defense amid a predicted turkish offensive considers kurdish fighters to be terrorists. we

invited the syrian government which we belong to to send its armed forces to take over these positions and protect man beach and the freeze of turkish threats. in response to the request of the population of man beach the syrian government and its armed forces announce it is sending in troops to manage. so claim that the syrian army was using psychological warfare and that the situation among beach was unclear. the turmoil in my own beach follows donald trump surprise decision to pull u.s. troops out of the country locals there fear possible turkish offensive now as america had been giving support to syrian kurdish fighters there. over the past couple of years americans gave the best safety and stability for the north of syria in this region and also entirely are going to be. people who shall flee and terrorism will prevail the american withdrawal would destabilize the security we have had for

a couple of years in this region. the american withdrawal from one beach by don't trump was disappointing for the city as i said woman because residents are afraid that others might come to loot just as it happened during the. we want to say situation. also on friday turkish armored vehicles were reportedly seen entering the northern syrian city of gen since trying to announcements turkey has been boosting its military presence on both sides of its border with syria abilities around forty kilometers from the city. the following day top diplomats and high ranking military officials from turkey agreed to coordinate with russia on the syria crisis after holding talks in moscow issues such as the fight against terrorism humanitarian problems and the return of refugees were all covered during the meeting. russia's foreign minister focused on the work done regarding

a new constitution for syria. during the talks we specifically mentioned that russia and turkey because it is a patient of iranian colleagues did everything promised to create a syrian constitutional committee this is being done by our states as mediators between the syrian government and opposition and we hope that those including our western partners he called gastown a group to finish his work as soon as possible would not interfere in his continued work of security and political analyst we spoke to believes that the kurdish crisis can only be resolved with open dialogue the syrian army. can be flexible and. at the same time it can be flexible if there is a situation that can create stability there is an agreement it is important to see if an agreement can be reached to control the situation if the syrian army is capable i think it is capable but with the backing of the russian army and the

iranians to actually control the situation in full and create you know a certain dialogue these are the that turkey the kurdish problem there is a kurdish problem in the north part of syria and in the north part of it are going to it's affecting the security in turkey and this matter will have to be resolved it can only be resolved politically that is the position of the foreign minister in russia however you know the turks would have to pay a proper price for their miscalculations by delving into syria and creating this chaos and contributing to this chaos twenty more still to come this hour including leaks documents revealing how u.k. funded charity tried to boost anti russian sentiment but the details for you after the break.

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welcome back as the year jewels to an end so called russia bashing has a new low recently leaked documents revealed that a u.k. funded charity has been trying to full stop anti russian sentiments the paper suggests the integrity initiative group has been using pundits and journalists across the world to achieve that goal. 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 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 the 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 its accounts of 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 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 a coup founder of 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 as websites 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. it appears that the promotional 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 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 are us here at r t according to the leaked documents they

have people presumably who they paid to report r.t. to off gone the british media regulator ofcom actually publishes complaints statistics only if over ten complaints didn't make that list it seems like integrity initiative not audience members convinced of calm to go off to sea we've all noticed our anti russian sentiment in the media has soared over the last years and saw as still we now know one of the reasons but above all these leaks and in my view tear the mosques off the bol that fights russian propaganda as they claim and what's underneath is ugly whereas the u.k. foreign office to comment on the integrity initiative allegations they told us that the group's parent organization had been hacked and that the leaked documents were

amplified in favor of a russian this information campaign chair in politics piers robinson who's been investigating the paper's told us why he thinks the u.k. government has 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 the u.k. government and other western governments in the us in recent years have had increasing difficulty persuading enough of their populations as to the legitimacy of the foreign policies that they have been pursuing and at the same time western countries have been going through a period of political crisis an economic crisis and i think a lot of this drive is as much about trying to shore up shakey official narratives and trying to shore up political systems in a situation of political crisis as it is actually about countering russian

propaganda or i think i would suspect that's a little bit of an excuse here that really what's going on the problems much closer to home. a broadcaster in sweden has come under fierce criticism over its coverage of the murder of two scandinavian women by eisel terrorists in morocco viewers though the child downplays the horrific incident one norwegian one danish woman were killed while hiking in the atlas mountains a video of their murder was posted online and it's reporting s.p.t. fail to mention that one of the girls was beheaded all that islamic state was involved the broadcaster did though warn people against sharing the video for legal reasons. i have now seen this very strange report and you look at the has been created to protect the rape victims from having video of the crimes proud is now being applied to the beheading of the danish and the region girls in morocco i

myself would never watch such a be do let alone share it now we're more upset about the proliferation of crime instead of beheadings. to sum up s. vitis coverage of the muslim terrorist attack in morocco and dieth warriors one you'll be sent to prison if you spread the beheading film to die as worries have returned home to sweden three they died of knife wounds sort of for the murder in morocco has nothing to do with islam well we're yet to get a reply from the swedish broadcaster on the situation meanwhile criminal lawyer mohammed a country and political and social commentator milan's gave as their views. you know i think this is tricky because it brings into question. ideas around editorial impartiality bias do national broadcasters like s.p.t. and others have a responsibility to report carefully on such issues and so we've got three main

issues the first is under article ten of the european convention on human rights the second issue we have is about editorial freedoms for broadcasters to report responsibly and lastly why on earth would we show such brutal horrific killings because it's exactly what terrorists and exactly what the far right who want to demonize muslims foreigners americans migrants that's exactly what they want to do we cannot play into their hands. come from a difference review point in the sharing of something that is quite that horrific is certainly not something you'd want to see thrust upon you without any sort of warning but also the mainstream media doesn't cover these things in more graphic detail means that the content stays online and organizations like i.i.s. can close a narrative around these with these images and this these images have gone viral internationally and the commentary around it is now being effectively hold by the

far right and some of the more extremist elements rather than the mainstream media being able to pull out pull them out conversation so that it could be properly discussed if these type of images were to be shown they would radicalize the far right white supremacist which is burgeoning across europe it would also radicalize islamist inspired let's remember these are not muslims at least has nothing to do with islam the same twisted ideology is used by the likes of the terrorist is used by the likes of the right wing anti muslim islamophobia lobby to peddle the idea that somehow muslims are the edwards side other that they need to be held back at the borders we cannot let them in they can integrate. but don't forget share your views on all stories by following us on social media and if in all your comments that join us again at the top of the hour for the latest see if.

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