among those to face the pages exposing alleged corruption states or violence and police brutality and facebook have explained the pages broke the rules engaging inspire and inauthentic behavior something we've heard before and what makes this purge different to previous culls is that this is no secret kremlin bot operation as previously alleged by the media some of the biggest pages of all run by americans in america for americans the accounts removed express the whole spectrum of views both conservative and liberal pro trump and the page owners are scathing facebook page with over two point one million followers has been published along

with eight hundred other pages and accounts the purge of old media is upon us i've been memory hold from facebook three hundred fifty thousand followers. there is a dangerous precedent been said here where the big tech companies have appointed themselves as the gatekeepers are political thought an opinion this intervention comes out of crucial midterm elections in the united states it's a sign of social media giants waiting even further into the minefield of free speech versus fake news and could be seen by many as a sign of meddling in itself. well we're now joined by matt savoy co-founder of the free thought project the second biggest and by facebook thanks for joining us here on our team at let's start with you talking us through what happened when did you realize your account had been suspended. well facebook is normally glitchy all the time you know we have rough times trying

to post things to different pages all the time and yesterday around twelve thirty pm we started trying to post some of the articles that were written on the website to facebook and it wasn't allowing us to do that and then we didn't without notification we were just going to different pages and on refreshing the pages it gave us these warnings are not warnings that gave us these big red block boxes saying that our pages have been on published because we violated the terms of facebook yeah and what if any tool explanation from facebook as to why they had done this well immediately we thought it was a glitch so we went to google and started googling and just so happened that almost simultaneously a piece from the l.a. times was like at the same time that all of our pages were deleted a piece from l.a. times was published and it said that it had a statement from facebook saying that they were trying to crack down before the

elections on various pages who they think are on to us untrustworthy and and post bam and try to create these ad farms and such now yeah and but there was no there was no actual. comment directly to us from facebook we had to get this from third parties so they didn't inform me a told that they were going to do this correct correct and up until i mean last week we were a verified page you know that we had a little checkmark next to us we've been on facebook for years and. then up until we could go we're publishing their instant articles and everything and and it just seems like this they just they just turned like the switch off literally you know within five minutes now might you have had over three million followers on friday spoke what implications will this move how feel work now. well when that algorithm shifted about six months ago we had to layoff over half of

our workforce we. we they all if we couldn't afford to pay our journalists anymore and so we had to lay you know half everybody off and then now you know this is going to this is like a death blow we facebook was a source of how we were able to get our links out and drive traffic to the website and. and we no longer have that so it's you know the few remaining employees that we do have are you know they're going to be gone that i mean and this there's there's there's oh there's six hundred other pages they're going to go into this as well you know so we're talking thousands and thousands of people now. will be without work because of this move yes it's how to him impact on you know business has and how is it going to affect our ability to communicate. well i mean as far as social media goes we don't have that outlet anymore and it wasn't just facebook shortly after facebook deleted all we had dozens of pages in our network

by the way and it wasn't just you know as you as you guys reported there were there were hundreds of other ones that were all went down two very large ones and shortly after facebook deleted all these pages twitter followed suit and they started doing the exact same thing so when facebook to lead us we started you know pushing all this information to our twitter followers and telling them about our band and everything and and shortly after it was we were banned on twitter to. matt thanks very much for coming on to the program and bring us your story about savoy co-founder of for the whole project the second biggest news have by and by i spoke . previously facebook has also blocked accounts that allegedly had links to so-called russian agents and russia has become a scapegoat for western countries and media yet again recently russian foreign minister sergei lavrov told french media what moscow thinks about the latest claims . russia is constantly subjected to this from western countries and the media

including about interference in elections and cyber attacks from the un to do pick edge and see. for the prohibition of chemical weapons most recently the united states the united kingdom canada and the netherlands made similar dania sic is asians and they also provided information to the media six months ago what is this a planned effort to put pressure on russia and introduce new sanctions what do you think about the evidence presented. newton's laws of that which you will see it is very difficult for me to talk seriously about this topic because all the evidence is provided to us through the media and with all due respect to the media in the journalistic profession we are serious people cannot consider the every accusation thrown at the russian federation of committing all manner of mortal sins without engaging in those legal norms that were specifically created for such cases but our answer is very simple if you talk to us through the media then we will answer

through the same media but we will answer specifically incorrectly that means that we were asked absolutely practical questions so if our western colleagues seriously try to make as mad with this hysteria then they must not read history books if this is all just superficial and this attack of political rabies will just naturally go away when they speak out in full then we are always ready to engage by legal means and to have a serious professional known propaganda based conversation. and you can see the full interview with russia's foreign minister on r.t. dot com next thursday. the two astronauts who escaped a near death experience on thursday when their rocket failed are now back in moscow safe and sound a booster rocket malfunction on the ill fated soyuz just minutes after blast off for the crew to abort the flight the two men on board were russian cosmonaut alexi of chinon and american astronaut nick haig alexi of chin it is forty seven years

old and holds the rank of reserve left on colonel in the russian air force thursday to flight was supposed to have been his second journey into space his american colleague forty three year old mckay is a colonel in the u.s. air force in his case it was to have been his maiden flight following their ordeal a dramatic rescue and medical tests friends and family expressed relief as the two men were welcomed back to baikonur. i am .

when you've got more than half a million pounds of burning rocket fuel behind you and a baby so that's gone faulty you need to get away and fast for thursday so his crew that meant relying on an escape system first developed in the one nine hundred sixty s. . each and every soyuz spacecraft is equipped with an emergency escape system that is designed to enable the crew safe escape in case of an emergency on board during blast off and the ascension phase the system has an evacuation capture and powerful

engines attached to it the engines are active fifteen minutes before launch if the flight gets out of control they propel the capsule away from the main body of the rocket sending it away from the danger zone at more than thirteen thousand kilometers per hour that enables the crew to reach a safe distance in about four seconds parachutes then open to slow the capsules descent and ensure a safe landing this is the only system of its kind to this so deeply integrated in both the spacecraft and the launch vehicle the emergency system has been deployed eight times over the history of soyuz launch is three of them were manned missions and the crew survived every time but yet most people of course i want to thank the rescuers and those who designed. thanks to them our guys came back to earth safely it's a very dangerous situation and it's i am impressed of. 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 gone much much worse and it's just great that the escape system works so well every moment of the brief tense flight has been closely watched from the ground to mark as they have takes us through what happened. baikonur cosmodrome fourteen forty local time lift off in five fool. to one engine and warrior by doing the engine the next right lift up. the and she is always the most nerve raking part the energy and stress involved the colossal rise of the respects and dangers at this time everything proceeding as

intended for today's quite 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 of one hundred twenty one seconds and merge and see protocols engage automatically the mission is compromised there are a million seconds to get the crew away with. the families of the crew with 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 plenty of scape tower for this 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. sixty. three

minutes in emergency systems function as intended they begin their descent back to earth within minutes as search and rescue operation is underway helicopters assume born powering towards the landing site wealth a mix families crazy. who. started the out fast i watched the launch in t.v. but at a certain point i turned it off so you can understand my feelings at the time. there's no telling what medical condition the crew really what we might call luck others would call professionalism the crew trained for years for this the technicians who engineer the safety overrides the rescuers and medics who arrived in record time cosmos nasa teams wasn't that miracle but it was the next best thing when it comes through space nothing is left to chance there's contingencies

for everything sail saves protocols and provisions as checks double checks triple checks and so is a 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 from astronauts we spoke to say crews are always well prepared for such emergencies and praised of chinon and hague for that quick thinking actions. i flew to the space station aboard a soyuz rocket myself came back in a small used capsule on my fourth mission 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 is safe and hopefully they're 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 taken in recertifying the vehicles for launch you 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 no normally 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 know what's happening what do we do. the mystery surrounding the disappearance of a side a journalist in turkey has taken a twist as reports suggest riyadh was planning to detain him media in the u.s. says washington had come across in town of a special operation ordered by the saudi crown prince jamal khashoggi vanished ten days ago after entering the city consulate in istanbul and hasn't been seen since

saudi arabia denies any involvement joining me to discuss this further is a jackal. this has had a few twists and turns hasn't it looks like the u.s. may have been aware of an imminent threat to the journalist well initially the trumpet ministration was rather slow in responding to the disappearance and this really may indicate why earlier in the week reports surface that the u.s. had intercepts of saudi officials discussing a plot to lure him back to saudi arabia and detaining him. and there now he's of course been living in the u.s. for about a year now at this point and he writes for the washington post he's a journalist and a lot of his articles are rather critical of the saudi government now it's unclear when the u.s. may have intercepted this intelligence and if they may have acted on it but it does raise quite a few questions not least of which being whether or not they had a responsibility to warn the journalist that his life might be in danger in some

way shape or form now on wednesday a state department official did come out saying that they did not have any prior knowledge of the incident. though again it's government's own intelligence matters i can see the united states had no advance knowledge of the show his disappearance so while these reports are based on you know again unnamed sources more than one allen says to have confirmed them at this point and then one has to wonder whether or not this is a situation where the left hand just doesn't know what the right is doing then in the u.s. government because at the same time we have a group of almost two dozen senators who are up in arms about the situation. if we find out that they were complicit or directed simply play to the election like that is appropriate this is serious i think it's important in this situation that we we don't overreact or on the react we need to get the facts and i know that's

a startling proposition for the united states congress that we should get the facts before we act if this did happen and it's increasingly likely that something bad happened to this man at the hands of the saudi government has contempt for us. disrespectful to. so there we have calls for an investigation the word sanctions has already been brought up and there's even been a bipartisan movement to stop arms sales to the kingdom which would be a huge blow to the ties between the two powers of course but that's something that apparently trump is not willing to consider as of yet. i don't like stopping massive amounts of money that's being poured into our country. i know they're talking about different kinds of sanctions but they're spending one hundred ten billion dollars on military. things they. like. others for this country so he did go on to say that u.s.

investigators are looking into this situation but left it at that so many conflicting reactions there on the walked kind of investigation should we expect jacki well on thursday a turkish presidential aide did come out saying that there is going to be a joint investigation with turkey and saudi arabia and reports say that a delegation from riyadh has already landed in turkey but it's unclear how well that's going to work given the harsh accusations that we've had coming from the turkish side it's been alleged that turkey actually has audio and visual recordings of the incident that prove their claims that he was killed inside the consulate on october the second and certain articles quote people with quote unquote knowledge of the reported recordings thing that you can hear him being tortured and question interrogated and then killed but these recordings have yet to be released previously turkey had claimed that there was a fifteen man a hit group that murdered and dismembered the journalist while he was in the

consulate and then removed his body from the site now there has been no concrete evidence of that yet and that's something that doesn't need to be stressed this point and saudi arabia does flat out deny all the accusations saying that they are baseless their position remains that he left the consulate unharmed later that day and it is a mystery until the joint investigation gets under way isn't it thank you jacqueline because i have opposing force. the this jamal khashoggi has been missing since the second of october let's take a look back over the moments leading up to his disappearance and the events that have followed it.

now a new survey has real some europeans are starting to doubt the necessity of the you nearly two thirds of the people that responded to the polls say things wouldn't be any worse without the block the brussels based think tank band survey also found that forty nine percent consider the european union irrelevant. the findings go on to indicate a citizens want more transparency and are divided over the primary role of the block but those in power in brussels don't see it that way the e.u. foreign policy chief for instance said recently the world wouldn't survive without

the twenty eight state union. close your eyes and imagine for one moment the european union disappears from the global scene right now let us say for a month or week even for a few days the world will simply collapse the world is not in a good shape through much without the european union into a been a much worse situation independent journalist and you could have a told us why there's such a noticeable divide between the ease leadership and ordinary citizens. the last story of europeans with europe is coming to an end that people still feel europeans find but it's second reads not very important and they don't realize that all directors or their own legislation in their own country comes from brussels through the direct is produced by the european commission and approved by the european parliament so it is it is a strange situation into which europe is very important for european citizens but they don't perceive it you know and they date de prefer their national identity

they keep their nationality the de now want the borders back because they see that european borders don't function after four years of problems so that's the situation now and mrs morgan he can say whatever she she wants to say but she's not the hero for the europeans. russia's ambassador to the case says there's no reason not to believe that the knowledge of the two men accused of poisoning former spice . and his daughter back in march the man also denied being russian intelligence officers. you don't know if you shoot you're just against them because you know they didn't believe the russian this is first there is no official. from the british government to investigate this matter we are the official statement of these people and we don't have any reason to trust them while on the a latest allegations or a reports made here in the u.k. by the belling crowd group the russian ambassador essentially said that's the

identity identities that they said to have revealed of g.r.u. employees miskin and shipley those they were presented here in the u.k. according to the russian ambassador those are creations of belling fatah group that he described as one with quote very close ties to british security services and he said they're essentially not to be believed because he sees them as a tool of the deepest style bushman's in the west and he's also reminds of journalists here in britain that the government officials here in britain have not really commented on anyway or refused to comment on the belling cats reports being made describing them essentially us part of the public debate and again he calls on the journalists here to remember really bad to all of the leaks being made against russia russia has had to respond to yet so no cooperation between official channels

has taken place as of yet. the top stories this hour next it's time for a documentary in the executioners shouted so don't go away. and your own pal. coming up out.

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