cluster which it's thought aims at shaping to mystic politics piers robinson again says the group's alleged actions amount to political interference some people might believe that such activity is necessary some people might believe the official claims regarding russian propaganda and misinformation etc and feel that it's necessary i would expect a lot of to produce public who want to have information being delivered to them which is not tarnished by such propaganda or manipulation campaigns would be very upset so much money and so much resources are being put into what is a threat to bully distorting and corrupting the public sphere within u.k. and across european countries this is political interference. a disgraced former top german journalist has alleged to have stolen donations from off and syrian children all those details after this break. you know world big part of. lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up 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 bats and shouting past each oth

we spoke to piers robinson chair of politics to chair field university he says this is much less about countering russian propaganda and more about sewing and embedding narratives on a domestic and regional level. it seems to be just as much about promoting ensuring up official u.k. policy towards russia as it is about actually countering any russian threat you could 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 at problems much closer to home. but this is not just to do the u.k. this is europe wide and