an a-list i would say he was extremely superficial. very immature. and very misinformed. it took the former u.s. marine an enormous effort more than two months to get a soviet passport only for one year the day after he got hold of the document he set off for minsk and bell reuss the capital of one of the u.s.s.r. small republics to work out a soviet factory he boarded his train ride on this station in minsk oswald met his first soviet lover but she turned down his marriage proposal because she was afraid to marry an american and just two months later he met a nineteen year old marine a person his future wife and mother of his first child yet with a drab job and nothing to do outside of work according to oswald himself he would soon make the decision to leave the u.s.s.r. for good along with his family.

after what seemed to be disillusionment with the u.s.s.r. there was only one way home for oswald and that was through the american embassy. ilya patrolling court t tracing the footsteps of lee harvey oswald in moscow. ok let's go back to our breaking news this hour because twitter has blocked order to dismiss from accounts of this channel we can get the details now from downhole can see he's back in the studio dan just bring us up to date then on what's being said what it means and also there's an awful lot of background to this there is quite a bit of background it's very much multilayered story very much a developing story as well of course the breaking news we have over the last hour or so is that twitter has officially confirmed by advertising from the platforms including sputnik news agency r.t. american german. russian arabic across the whole network on their social media now

ironically enough they do begin their statement saying at twitter we believe in freedom of expression and in speaking truth to power they do go on to say though they want to ensure people feel safe when they use the site and that's why the taking the decision to stop us advertising now this is very much ironically a different position to what twitter had just a year and a half ago when they were in negotiations with the channel for the us presidential election twenty sixteen at the time when the channel began negotiations with twitter as early as april twenty sixth the r.t. was offered an exclusive package by twitter which included a whole host of customized perks some of these included. special him oh do you have tags testing of new tools customize that little research even i can see here a team of twitter experts to help content curation and media strategy all this would have helped are to broaden their reach on social media on twitter increase

the number of viewers they had and effectively strengthen their message to their view is now after negotiations are to be turned down the saw for the price tag was simply to have tea and went against all their social media budgets for that year. what's happened in the in the eighteen months since he's gone from trusted media partner to being labeled power well with bots and trolls that try to influence and control the us election well we have seen this theory and over alleged russian media interference in fact twitter back in september also published a report called russian interference in the elections bots and misinformation in which r.t. was mentioned and in which sure twitter released some confidential information pertaining to how much r.t. had spent on advertising as a whole on that year the figure was two hundred seventy four thousand dollars mentioned. now twitter representatives will also go before congress just in

a few days time when the first of november in which they will talk about this russian election interference russian hacking russian misinformation no doubt r.t. will feature heavily in that again although again the question begs to be asked how does an international news organization become just the new year and a half power with bots and trolls really baffles me now r t house come under increased pressure not only on social media but through registering as a foreign agent in the u.s. that whole scandal going on we've had a reaction as well from our editor in chief about how this could impact media relations on both sides of this scandal let's put it that way let's take a listen to what you had to say. well honestly i didn't believe that twitter was controlled by american security services it looked like a conspiracy theory to me but twitter has just come fast it's bt especially because american news outlets operated in russia will now feel the tenderness of russian tea to protect measures. as you say and it's just very ironic that

a social media platform but itself offered r.t. a customized package that would enable it to reach more audience members on a wider reach in the united states then goes on to conduct a reporter affectively having very thinly veiled accusations at the channel about misinformation and wrong doing and violating policy terms and conditions which are to you of course adamant it never has done so it will be very interesting to say whether to or to do mention that in their report to congress as well and where that story leads on from there sure ok something definitely to watch is going to continue isn't it thanks daniel that was a daniel hawkins there. well the decision to block all adverse news from r.t. and sputnik accounts we should mention was immediately followed by reaction online some of expressed discontent move on the social media platform itself signing it for being connected to the white house and for locking news outlets that contradict its feeling. this channel has been under pressure since the u.s. intelligence reports on alleged russian meddling back in january yet no solid proof

alleged influence on the twenty sixteen u.s. election has ever come to light up these act messrs measures have been supported by state controlled russian media including r.t. and sputnik was any evidence of russian involvement in the u.k. most recent works and of course boasts r.t. and sputnik made their effort to have a a an effect on the election media outlets. or directed in many cases by russian government i have no direct evidence to say that the particular narratives we see in these outlets during the election period in u.k. would have been directly directed from kremlin you're watching for news hour here in r.t. we're going to take

a quick break now but when we come back we'll have more on our breaking news story the fact that twitter has banned r.t. ads on its platform will be back until minutes. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous.

we can all middle of the room sick. hello again our breaking news this hour i'm not saying twitter has brought order ferguson from accounts of this channel to discuss this a bit further we're going to we're going underground host. afshin good evening good to have you on what do you make of this then in the move by twitter to block all these ads on its platform and also about the timing. well the timing i should add twitter was reporting pretty poor according to some quarter three results

revenues down profits down but this isn't about that really this decision should send a chill down the spines of every editor of every newspaper every magazine every t.v. station in the world after all even the new york times family own new york times has been reporting that this decision is without precedent twitter allows promotion of any other media on its platform clearly this is targeted directly at our team because and as twitter says this decision has not been taken lightly it believes that you the people in that studio there in moscow the people here in the london bureau let alone bureaus. the arabic fronts they are so so powerful now that they can change the results of elections and change the democracies and civic societies all around the or around the world

so powerful is the journalism now at r.t. and other media providers with their journalism no doubt is powerful in covering stories giving a voice to the voiceless and trying to seek truth through all the powerful structures that try to stop truth from being disseminated around the world they too presumably have reason to fear we're awaiting that statement from the russian government the foreign ministry saying that this is an aggressive action and they will retaliate but it's not really a story about russia or even anymore is it it's about media freedom in the united states i saw some people on twitter commenting to jack dorsey the founder of twitter about george orwell and animal farm. i should say there are other investors there is saudi elements of investment. in twitter but the multi myriad investment within twitter will do something to change this this decision which is

obviously caused a chilling effect on freedom of speech as it is seen in the united states and all around the world and we'll have to wait with the governments right around the world will know retaliate not just against twitter but against the united states itself sure i mean just on the finances of twitter i notice or at least i've been told that their share price has gone up a lot this afternoon i don't know if that's connected. it's strange though isn't it because over the last few months or certainly over the last year and a half r.t. is being considered a trusted partner of twitter but now it's a complete about turn and there's no real explanation. yes if one doesn't take the line of the editor in chief your team agreed to see morning and you seem to imply that it's quite possible that this is just proof that twitter is an arm of the u.s. security state those people arguably according to some of trump friends trying to

undermine donald trump the president of united states one could see it as a corporate story twitter is not only frightened of the elections the so-called alleged election meddling is it really is it more about the fact that twitter is thinking if it does this if it allies with the so-called liberal deep state in the united states it can curry favor it may have to overcome regulatory reforms and so forth this is a this is a good way of being able to show it's a good platform it doesn't support president trump and to believe hillary clinton should have won the election but the way the power the power of a multinational company like twitter can start contravening what amounts to the first amendment of the us constitution quite a shocking day and does this race suspicion to video being part of a broader campaign given the fact we're seeing an investigation start in the u.k.

into possible russian in interference in in the brics vote and also the latest election there's also we've same france complain previously that we believe that russia into feed in our elections it's all lining up nicely isn't it it does seem to be a coordinated campaign one could argue. here so let's make it clear this isn't about russian troll accounts particularly because this is about r t c in which case this is about a tag on our t. journalism and it is a tacit admission that such is the power of the journalism on this channel that it can change the french election it can change elections from catalonia to bricks it to washington to who knows caracas i mean this is quite a quite a badge of honor some might call it for the journalist or r t but they have that much power certainly that's the conclusion jack dorsey. investors at twitter seem

to have come across i don't know whether you'd agree with that or whether even the journalists here in the london bureau would agree do we really have that much power i don't think we're arrogant enough to say the yet thing yeah and i remain objective is always seen as good journalistic thanks very much for you tom we'll leave it at i was afshin rattansi how is it going on the ground thank you. now british lawmakers have revived attempts to find any trace of russian interference as we were mentioning then the outcome of last year's brics it referendum and see it your can or has more on that. well the anti russia hype continues now here in the u.k. following the brave but quite futile example of this we've seen in the us of trying to implicate russia in election results that were seen as a unfavorable now we do know that here in london a committee within the house of commons had sent a letter to the c.e.o. of facebook mark zuckerberg asking him to provide details on russian ads linked to

not just the bracks it referendum but also the last u.k. general election now this is part of an investigation being carried out by this committee and inquiry on feek news trying to determine whether or not for an actor's are getting involved by using online platforms to interfere in elections now the russian ambassador to the you can exonerate prevent go so he was surprised to see this kind of reaction from the u.k. given that the brits at referendum was called of course by the previous conservative government he's asked a question of it's not clear who the british government is if russia is able to influence these kinds of things now this comes just days ago we saw a labor m.p. within the british parliament also say that it's important to enquire into any participation by russia in terms of interfering in western democracies and really all of this is seen as a sort of repetition of this having been carried out on a also quite wide scale in the us facebook had said that russia linked accounts had

bought one hundred thousand dollars worth of ads but obviously this was seen as largely seen as very little proof of anything given the multi-million dollar of budgets when it comes to the election campaigns in the us so really all of this despite the lack of any tangible proof really showing us that the show must go on considering russia has become everyone's favorite bad boy it seems i was on can i will a little did manage to speak about this story with russia's ambassador to the u.k. . once there was a decision to make this referendum for brig's it it was done and the country still divided because half of the country is for folks who brags it of the country is posing this i'll tell you even the government is this divided the parliament is

divided some newspapers and even the officials there saying that one way or another russia. meddled this decision of the british people but for me the doesn't look. quite convincing it looks even funny because in this case definitely it looks like the outright insulting for we were both the british government and the british people that was their decision we don't have any effects from any single publication in the british press and most of them are very negative every day that russia interfered i mean almost everywhere and but the key question is where are the facts said where is the be. we don't have them so basically i'm quite sure that there will be some ill again. but no facts this will be the outcome. now another needs to say evening the catalan president carter's pitchman has given a long awaited statement he said he will not call

a snap election and the many had expected him to make the spanish set its meanwhile will start debating a prying article one five five on removing catalonia is autonomy and voter meet on friday. you almost are more than willing to put forward an election as long as there's a go and see the vote will be validated and treated with respect there's been no such guarantee to date but yes many people have been left confused by the apparent inaction of the region's government throughout the day people have been rallying in barcelona demanding that the capital and government deliver on the results of the independence referendum and break away from spain party shut it dubinsky said miss report from barcelona. there was much speculation that colas put your mood would you use his speech on tuesday evening to class not election here in catalonia many people including many reports in the local spanish media had been speculating that

the catalan president would make that announcement because that would be one way of stopping a very crucial vote that's due to take place on friday evening the spanish government even with which that is opposed to the article one fifty five now if senators in spain vote full article one fifty five essentially you could move to a regional autonomy that catalan has held for the last three years that is of course something that many people here are unhappy about this comes a bit stout almost a month of tensions between the governments in madrid on the government in catalonia over the future of this country since many people millions went to the polls at the beginning of october and food t.v.'s and then a referendum on independence now the president old cats of the new colors talks about why he didn't call that snap election he said that he attempted to get the warranties for these elections to make them happen but he said he couldn't get those warranties and so therefore there was nothing

a new guarantee that the justifications he wanted to quit the election would happen that he has enormous pool that snap election he had did go on to say that no one can say that he's not been willing to sacrifice he has been a deadlock to looks pretty much throughout the day in fact he canceled this announcement twice because he's been talking to people from all sides of the spectrum here in catalonia before he made that announcement that they will not be a snap election however what he has said is that the food the measure is in the dog see this crisis between the trading catalonia will now be in the hands of the council movie in parliament and there is a chance of catching the new parliament itself could. destroyed all whether it should declare outright secession right independence from spain that would be something that will happen we will find out more about that in the next few days if that is something there is trying to do but for the moment this puts the ball back

in the spanish court which is they are due to vote more on article one fifty five now i can tell you that we were at a protest on wednesday many people at that protest said they supported staying part of spain however they were unhappy with article one fifty five they didn't want catalonia to lose its regional autonomy so this could actually spoke even mood division here in catalonia we could see people reaching the unionists who wanted to stay in spain she decided to change their vote because the way that madrid has handled this crisis. now later today new light could be shed on one of the twentieth century's darkest episodes donald trump's administration is allowing the release of classified documents into the assassination of president kennedy that is the fifty year congress deadline passes to keep the information secret well kennedy was killed in dallas in november of one nine hundred sixty three he was in an open top car with the first lady when shots rang out the killer

was lee harvey oswald he was swiftly arrested but was shot and killed two days later while under police escort historians have long discussed his motive and his past and he did have an interesting if brief experience to win the soviet union. retraces his footsteps. where might you find the most drama and lee harvey oswald's life story before the events of november nineteenth sixty three well it could be his short but eventful stay in this city four years before he is president kennedy. most of the places which form part of extraordinary trip still exist like the. railway station where he arrived from helsinki in finland his last stop in

a western country before reaching the u.s.s.r. . stayed right here at the hotel berlin which is now the savoy it's just a few minutes walk from the kremlin and the former k.g.b. headquarters. his visa meant that he only had six days to get a soviet citizenship so he wasted no time in trying to secure his hammer and sickle passport which began with this letter i believe harvey oswald requested that i be granted citizenship in the soviet union i want citizenship because i am a communist and a worker i have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves i do not want to return to any country outside of the soviet union there was interview after interview with the k.g.b. but couldn't convince officials he should be allowed that passport then back inside

hotel berlin his russian guide in reality a supervisor that is assigned to every foreign visitor inside the bag. inside one of these rooms he slashed his wrist. attempting to commit suicide doctors managed to save oswald's life he was allowed to stay and wait for mercy from a higher soviet authority with this confidence boost to the extreme asked american diplomats to revoke his citizenship then he agreed to an interview with one u.s. journalist i would say he was extremely superficial. very immature. and very misinformed and. it took the former u.s. marine an enormous effort more than two months to get a soviet passport only for one year the day after he got hold of the document he

set off for minsk and bell reuss the capital of one of the u.s.s.r. small republics to work out a soviet factory he boarded his train ride on this station and minsk oswald met his first soviet lover but she turned down his marriage proposal because she was afraid to marry an american and just two months later he met a nineteen year old marine a person his future wife and mother of his first child yet with a drab job and nothing to do outside of work according to oswald himself he would soon make the decision to leave the u.s.s.r. for good along with his family. after what seemed to be disillusionment with the u.s.s.r. there was only one way home for a lost world and that was through the american embassy. ilya patrolling co r t tracing the footsteps of lee harvey oswald and moscow.

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