people have been murdered up here people been raped they're massive drug issues up here you have a boom you have everything else that comes along with money. and headlines is free from moscow facebook in the fight against fake news and closes hundreds of pages in account. of the two astronauts who they supported rocket launch they're now back here in moscow. all right unless you did a. good. water story was barely three minutes in a minute speed the quick thinking crew were forced to abandon the mel functioning craft before but nail biting descent. plus two. if

we are fortunate enough to win back the house and or the senate that's when civility can start again america's election friction democrats and republicans fight dirty with votes is deeply divided over next month's high stakes mean to. their welcome direct smarties main studio. kevin i am with you this friday afternoon for this update on the big fight against fake news steps up a gear after it leaked google briefing earlier this week revealed how the internet johns and others like facebook and twitter are increasingly policing which content stays online doesn't and it seems the wasting little time to facebook shut down hundreds of accounts and pages it accuses of being misleading whole kids told me more. so who's falling on to the digital facebook acts that was usually the bots

the trolls the fake news the spam to stop this foreign interference in the us elections a democracy we've heard that story a lot we've heard it from the social media from congress that's old news this time though things of a little bit closer to home around eight hundred accounts have been banned have been suspended by facebook the only thing there are five of them actually the rest are as yet unknown but these are a lot sort of marginal account saw crazy conspiracy conspiracy theorists these are very big accounts that have been around for some time with many followers in some cases we've got one here at the resistance the river press they've got two hundred forty thousand. eight hundred sixteen thousand followers so the owners of these pages they've said they're on shore why they've been banned why the mr spend it or what the terms of use even are now before facebook did do this so-called purge they've released a statement they've said they've banned these accounts because they've consistently broken rules and participated in inauthentic behavior that sort of course we have

heard before when we've talked about fake news bots and trolls etc the response on twitter though has been quite strong against this action facebook has been accused of targeting independent voices alternative media and the the interesting thing about this is of course these accounts are run by you know some sort of russian troll factory in st petersburg or whatever these are run by americans in america for americans so it's very much close to home and what's also interesting is the political spectrum of accounts of and bad all of them are pro donald trump conservative leaning a lot of the war and the donald trump and liberal leaning so that doesn't seem to be some sort of rhyme or reason here this has been the response on twitter so far from some of those that have been banned facebook page with over two point one million followers has been unpublished along with eight hundred other pages and accounts the purge of all the media is upon us i've been mammary hold from facebook three hundred. a few thousand followers poof gone there is

a dangerous precedent being set here where the big tech companies have appointed themselves as the gatekeepers after the ticket thought an opinion rich with this if you care about free speech so as well as being political accounts that oppose the support of donald trump some of them of also given you know alternative meaning media monitor police corruption looked at political corruption as well as the scale here is quite big and what's interesting in this of course comes ahead of the u.s. midterm elections every vote seen as very crucial the parties are neck and neck according to latest polls. this leads into the bait about free speech versus fake news that endless stories that we've heard over the past few months with zero but i mean some of the congress etc it's been very much in the news and by many this step by facebook will be viewed as some sort of meddling in the political process itself . it down all kids there will be full of the twists and turns of that one the next those two astronauts know thanking their lucky stars right now after yesterday's

successfully escaping that failed launch of the soyuz spacecraft the booster rocket motor function just minutes into their flight causing them to abort and return back to earth again after what was a dramatic rescue and medical tests there was relief from friends and family as they were welcomed back again to where they started in baikonur.

you know if you go about that the office with a crew arrived over the city trading center near moscow of his roof and that was that. star c.t.o. supposed to get a look in russian is where russian cosmonaut alex see of cheney has been training for months and months preparing for his second mission to the international space station now he and another crew member and merrick an astronaut and nique hague right now here i have to they a lot of key escape as they call it the emergency landing in kazakhstan they will be checked here for the next forty eight hours we hear from the doctors that both

space men feel very well right now both physically and psychologically but the product will require is that they their health conditions are mourning for the next two days we know that some family members are also here of course every very warm welcome but the question many now want to know the answer to is exactly what happened on thursday a criminal case was launched and as paschal high profile state commission was also formed to shed the light on the cause of the incident on thursday we hear that they had of the nasa and the european space agency already offered their assistance how when the investigation we expect the first results spiked over twenty foot already now we hear that separation system all function might be cause of collision again this is just preliminary. suggestion they had of men programs the russian space

agency ross cos most mr click a lot of provided more on what is happening right now on. the commission history roots were the first rocket programs have already been found and the results are expected by the twentieth of october our systems will help analyze the reasons for what happened. until the exact cause of these student is found all the space flies must be suspended but a very good news for both alexei of jean and in the hague we hear from the head of russian ross coarseness that they will fly to the international space station next spring already where back in star city these guys will fly we planned for their flight to be in the spring of next year while the incident became a real shock for people involved in space industries on both sides of the atlantic to it is very important right now to be careful in best to gating and in answering

the question exactly what caused this incident you have a look at all the above and all this the crew onboard the international space station have more than a bird's eye view of what happened they actually captured the moment on camera check these pictures this was taken by the current space station commander alexander girl she just about see the white streaks of smoke from the rockets that is in the clear we're going to try and bring that in a bit later on the coming hour was person is team were ready to welcome their colleagues on board but they can only watch helplessly of course as they saw the astronauts incredible as as they fell back they're worth again even for a club which is up on the girls for a leaf was pope mobile. i'm glad that our friends are fine thanks to more than thousands of rescue workers this day has again shown how great the so uses despite a false start the group was safely brought back to earth space travel is stuff but we must go on for the benefit of humanity we are of course is the practical side of

it too when you've got more than half a million pounds of burning rocket fuel behind you in a booster this going fold here need to get away and you need to get away fast so the thursday so you screwed that meant relying on an escape system that was first developed in the one nine hundred sixty s. . it's a very dangerous situation and it's. him impressive. about the design of how they built the scape system that it works so very well but you're in a very volatile situation with lots of rocket propellant around you going very very fast very very high so things could have done much much worse and it's just great that the escape system works so well every moment of the brief ten flight was being

watched closely from the ground to more gadsden takes us through what happened. in or cosmodrome fourteen forty local time lift off in five four three two one engine at laurier by doing the engine the right lift up. the law and she is always the most nerve raking pots the energy and stress involved the colossal rise of the respects and dangerous this time everything proceeding as the intended for today's plight near the two minute mark the first stage boosters begin to separate something goes wrong. all right and i cheated and there's no time to wait think one hundred twenty one

seconds and merge and see protocols engage automatically the mission is compromised there are milliseconds to get the crew away with. the families of the crew the heads of course morse and nasa watch on as the ejection system jettisons the crew module away from the rocket boosters the for the tons of high explosive fuel detonate and we have been escape tower for to say is now jettisoned the ballistic trajectory they're on is rougher than anticipated the crew is shaken and that's it let's stay conscious with room for a little humor. six. three minutes in emergency systems function as intended they begin their descent back to earth within minutes a search and rescue operation is underway helicopters

a soon airborne powering towards the landing site while lexi makes families pray and hope. that the first i was to launch on t.v. but it is certain point attended tough you can understand my feelings at the time. there's no telling what medical condition the crew are in what we might call luck others would cool professionalism the crew trained for years for this the technicians who engineer the safety overrides the rescuers and medics who arrived in record time ross cosmos nasa teams it wasn't a miracle but it was the next best thing when it comes through space nothing is left to chance there's contingencies for everything sail safes protocols and provisions as checks double checks triple checks and so is this track record the best in the world proves it's as safe as can be but that only gets you so far

space is after all the final frontier nor goes there before a source we spoke to said crews are always well prepared of course for such emergencies and they praised of chen in the hague for the quick thinking out. i flew out to the space station aboard a soyuz rocket myself i came back it was for use capsule and my fourth question and so you know it kind of brought me back to what it's like being in that vehicle and imagining going through this kind of emergency aboard but as you heard from the transmissions the crew was very calm very professional and they did everything right and so first and foremost of course we're all very pleased that the crew was safe and healthy they were able to walk away from from the landing site and now it's just a matter of the investigation to determine what happened what corrective action needs to be taken in and then recertifying the vehicles for launch it just this was a situation that the crew were very well prepared for often it's almost impossible

to believe that everything will go well however most of the time everything does go very well but we are prepared mentally things not going the way they're intended in this sort of event when there's an anomaly during the launch the crew reacted as they would in a simulator they practice their reactions multiple times in the simulator so they don't ask what's happening what do we do. three moscow time other headlines today the united states midterm elections are less than a month away now but both the democrats republicans appear to have been growing increasingly animated not spoken maybe as you'd expect there's a lot at stake you go poll this week shows only a six percent gap now in support between the two parties with the democrats leading on forty seven percent caleb maupin looks at how come pain protocol's been torn up in the current political climate. i may not agree with what you say but i shall defend to the death your right to say it now that used to be the favorite quotation of americans but not anymore civility is passe just ask hillary clinton you cannot

be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for what you care about if we are fortunate enough to win back the house and or the senate that's when civility can start again remember back when everyone hailed this motto when they go low we go high. well now barack obama's former attorney general has adjusted it just a little machine always says that you know when they go low you. know. they go low we keep it right. and some sectors of the us public are pretty clearly ready for battle. i was coming believe me. we.

were. worried that you could reach. some republicans are now warning that the chaos could turn deadly i fear that there's going to be an assassination i really worry that somebody is going to be too and that those who are ratcheting up the conversation they have to realize they bear some responsibility if this and the fates to violence after the senator's personal information was released online his family is on edge you know i felt incredibly threatened and frightened i had been frightened when rand left for d.c. that monday because you know what if the new message is get up in their face get in people's face but republicans are also out for blood to do. separate camps sure extreme too dangerous to govern they've gone wacko. matchups join our meeting earlier this month between the two countries leaders saw

them boost that even further striking a five billion dollar deal to supply india with the s four hundred missile defense system talk a little bit about the system itself it's one of the world's most sophisticated surface to air weapons it's going to range of four hundred kilometers it can shoot down up to eighty targets simle taney asli besides india russian s. four hundred seven purchased by countries including china algeria but a recent turkey its national affairs professor and charlie a believes trumps threat right now is less about politics and business leverage. i think that this is more posturing and it trumps bargaining starting to interviews uncertainty and unpredictability and to then you know drive you know a deal. to keep the other party turned to folks and then to say ok i'm willing to reconsider this bar what will you give me in return so this is part of this transactional diplomacy and i think he's looking at india buying more u.s.

defense equipment for example he may also be looking at you know india opening market access to civilian american exports because there's also as you know a pattern really a trade war that's been going on so the options i mean he will force feed a lot of influence and leverage in this country if he does the unthinkable and actually slap sanctions on us. the controversial self-styled syrian rescue group the white helmets to focus at a closed united nations meeting on thursday diplomats are said to be divided over the group's possible removal from postwar syria but helmets of often accused of links to extremists and working alongside the illness or terrorist group it's something they deny along the way insisting though that they are indeed a civil rescue group only associate editor from the new site twenty first century wired dot com visited the group's h.q. in syria for nasa bailey will lay out in full in what she found first hand on

saturday's addition to going underground on this very channel. we entered a functioning white helmet sunt now what was interesting is the presumption by those white helmets was that because i was british i was sympathetic to that course so the conversation immediately turned to their funding the fact that made a rescue. the head of the white helmet said turned off the funding to this group in the last six months funding previously by the way that each individual working for the white home its received one hundred fifty dollars a month that was information was given to me and white home mix with the special expedition by. led by israel and crossed three. security fence into the occupy syrian territory of the golan heights so into israeli occupied territory and then on to jordan is what i was told around fifty percent were actually terrorist leaders no surprise leaders and isis fighters

coming in from the yarmouk race and all of these of course some have been resettled now in the u.k. there is huge secrecy over those that have and to pay and where they are being resettled they told me that while they were not affiliated to us or front despite the fact that their center was actually in a no sort of front complex the notes for front headquarters were directly next door to the white house center that i visited they told is that while they had no if any ation to the store front it was very likely that every other white holik group in syria did have affiliation to us were from were led by no sort of front militants but of course they had no for the ation and that. they should be considered for funding and financing by the british government. on this very channel to international words given over to moscow thanks ever so much for watching.

hillary clinton says civility can only return when the democrats are back in power former obama a.g. eric holder has coined a new phrase when they go low we kick them without a doubt both statements can be dismissed as political banter as the midterms loom

but it would seem no one can claim much virtue and civility in this environment. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer it be in the death penalty just because they think that's the way or think the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying those just mooned the arrogant and that we're even many of the dems families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way.

and your own pal. coming up. in from there is a trade in young girls sold into an underground six in the street sometimes but the people they trust the most. to. greetings and salutation so what did cheese danishes bags of sugar

a semi truck and department of homeland security g.p.s. trackers have in common well sadly it's not a new cooking show on the court t.v. but it has everything to do with the recent drug case involving homeland security agents placing a g.p.s. tracker on a semi truck crossing the canadian border that has raised many disturbing questions about the d.h.s.s. and its attitude regarding the fourth amendment to our constitution you remember the fourth amendment right you know the one that protects us from unreasonable illegal search and seizure well apparently u.s. homeland security is interpretation of that amendment is a. blog either say track to a destination in southern california the semi truck carrying legal frozen food was raided by the f.b.i. and multiple bags of sugar were collected into evidence which law enforcement believes are being used as a dry run for cocaine smuggling however the federal judge threw out that evidence

citing the fourth amendment and calling the practice unconstitutional meant they needed a warrant before tracking the vehicle outside the border exceptions the homeland security responded to the judge's decision declaring that given their job as defenders of national security it is policy that a customs officer made install a g.p.s. tracking device on a b. a goal at the u.s. border without a warrant or individualized suspicion h.s.i. limits warrantless g.p.s. monitoring to forty eight hours within the exception of or with the exception of airplanes commercial vehicles and a semi tractor trailers which every significant lead reduced expectation of privacy . so with homeland security looking to risk away our fourth amendment i think it's time we start watching the hawks. you. want to see the street looks like. it's what. lies at the bottom if

you. like you know that i got. pretty. well the watch of the hawks so i am i wrong for him to have a lot less. blood.