i i. i. i i. facebook will the x. in the fight against fake news and hundreds of pages and accounts. moscow opens its arms in a warm welcome to the two astronauts who escaped death from an aborted rocket launch ended their journey in midair as they crash landed in cars exist on. barely three minutes in and immense speed the quick thinking crew were forced to abandon their malfunctioning spacecraft before

a nailbiting descent back to worth. and a special operation by the crown prince u.s. media reports riyadh planned attention of the saudi journalist who disappeared in turkey ten days ago and that american intelligence was aware of the threats. it's nine o'clock and you're watching international live with mina dirac you welcome to the program. briefing earlier this week revealed how the internet giant and others like facebook and twitter are increasingly policing which content stays online and what doesn't and it seems they're wasting little time facebook has shut down hundreds of accounts and pages it accuses of being misleading than hawkins' reports. trolls talking fake news. the finding american democracy

from foreign meddling social media join this for months what is facebook doing to prevent foreign actors from interfering in u.s. election. promise to protection for consumers across the our. ecosystem have you heard of total information awareness i'm talking about. by removing spammers this is nothing more censorship trying to. 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 moscow thinks about the latest. russia's constantly subjected their positions from western countries and the media including their vote interference in elections and cyber attacks from the un to the big edge

and see their gaze ation for the prohibition of chemical weapons most recently the united states the united kingdom get into and the netherlands made similar dania sic is asians and the oh so provided information to the media six months ago what is this a blend effort to put pressure on russia and introduce new sanctions what do you think about the evidence presented by your actions 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 if you will 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 more to sins so 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 and correctly 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 so 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 tuesday the next thursday. the two astronauts who escaped a near death experience on thursday when their rocket failed and now back in moscow safe and sound a booster rocket malfunction on the ill fated stories just minutes off the blastoff forced the crew to abort the flight the two men on board were russian cosmonaut alexy of chin and american astronaut nick haig alexi of chinon is forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve left and colonel in the russian air force

thursday its flight was supposed to have been his second journey into space his american colleague forty three year old nick haig 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 task friends and family expressed relief as the two men were welcome back to baikonur.

when you've got more than half a million pounds of burning rocket fuel behind you and a booster that's going faulty you need to get away and fast for thursday soyuz 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 capsule 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 launches three of them were manned missions and the crew survived every time. well you have most people of course i want to thank the rescuers and those who designed the system thanks to them our guys came back to earth safely it's a very dangerous situation and it's. 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

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 was being closely watched from the ground to work takes us through what happened. baikonur cosmodrome fourteen forty local time lift off in five. three two three one engine service. engine and lift up. the most breaking parts of the energy and stress involved a colossal rise of the recent dangers. so they don't ask what's happening what do we do. now the mystery surrounding the disappearance of a saudi journalist in turkey has taken a twist as reports suggest riyadh was planning to detain him jamal khashoggi

vanished ten days ago after entering the side of the consulate in istanbul and hasn't been seen since u.s. media says washington has come into possession of intelligence that a special operation was ordered by the saudi crown prince saudi arabia denies any involvement earlier i discussed this with my colleague jacqueline thinka. 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 the week reports surface that the u.s. had intercepts of saudi officials discussing a plot to lure him back to saudi arabia and detained him 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 gone so. i can see the united states had no advanced knowledge of the show his disappearance. so while these reports are based on you know again unnamed sources more than one 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 for the rest of the city way. you know let's just like that it's appropriate this is serious and 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 it is increasingly likely that something bad happened to this man at the hands of the saudi government has contempt for us. disrespectful to so that 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 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 oh and i know they're talking about different kinds of sanctions but they're spending one hundred ten billion dollars on military equipment. things that create jobs 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 conflicting reaction there on the what kind of investigation should we expect jacki well on thursday a turkish presidential aide did come out saying that there is going to be an engine a joint investigation with turkey and saudi arabia and reports say that a delegation from riyadh has already landed in turkey but it's a. clear 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 shoghi was killed inside the consulate on october the second and certain articles quote people with quote unquote knowledge of the recordings recording saying 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 minute 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 does need to be stressed this point and saudi arabia does flat out deny all the accusations saying that they're baseless their position remains that he left the consulate on harmed later that day sunday janice 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 offensive that a followed.

and the survey has revealed some europeans are starting to doubt the necessity of the. you nearly two thirds of the people that responded to the poll say things wouldn't be any worse without the block the brussels based think tank behind the survey also found forty nine percent consider the european union irrelevant the findings go on to indicate e.u. 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 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 disappeared

from the global scene right now let us say for a month or week even for a few days the world will see the collapse the world is not in a good shape true result the european union it will be in a much worse situation independent journalist saluki told us why there's such a noticeable divide between the e's 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 rates not very important and they don't realize that all directors all of 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 a strange situation into which europe is very important for european citizens but they don't perceive it you know and they date they prefer their national identity they keep their nationality to the day 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 u.k. says there's no reason not to believe that the knowledge of the two men accused of poisoning from. his daughter back in march and then also tonight russian intelligence officers there are no sure use against them because you know they didn't believe the russian this is first there is no official. from the british government to investigate that matter we have the official statement of these people and we don't have any reason to trust them while on the leaders delegations or reports made here in the u.k. by the belling cat group the russian ambassador essentially said that the identity identities that they said to have revealed of g.r.u.

employees miskin and shipley that they were presented here in the u.k. according to the russian ambassador those are creations of belling fattah group that he described as one with quote very close ties to british security services and they said they're essentially not to be believed because he sees them as a tool of the deepest stablish men in the west and he's also reminded journalists here in britain. government officials here in britain have not really commented on anyway or refused to comment on the belling katz reports being made describing them essentially as part of the public debate and again he called on the journalists here to remember really all of the leaks are being made against russia russian response you. know cooperation between official channels has taken place as of yet. like quickly turned to love when president trump welcomes kanye west

to the oval office the u.s. rapper who now wants to be known as yeah he was wearing a make america great again cap in front of the media and officials which he said gave him super powers. put his hand off and maybe feel like superman you made a superman that was that's my favorite superhero you know what i don't like about it it's not that i don't like what i do what i mean saturday night live to improve on what i do that liberals improve on is if you don't look good we don't look good this is our president he has to be the freshest the largest flying planes the pair discussed some serious topics west went on a ten minute monologue about social policy mental health and foreign issues like north korea he also lashed out at democrats saying they are using the concept of racism to control voters that comment on the meeting in general sparks fury online across america's mainstream media. to the oval office today unfiltered and not

apologetic not only was this a crazy conversation for this white house this is the kind of conversation that would typically be held between people wearing hospital bracelets this is not funny they were laughing there this is a man who needs help needs help i've said it before president trump is exploiting kanye using him to try to reach black voters if you are anything but a white male historically. life wasn't better for you then it is in the current moment it's stunning hourly the united states midterm elections are less than a month away now with both the democrats and republicans appearing to grow increasingly animated and outspoken and there's a lot at stake a huge poll this week shows any a six percent gap in support between the two parties with the democrats leading on forty seven percent cannibal looks at how campaign protocols being 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. i'm going to go low. and some sectors of the u.s. public are pretty clearly ready for battle.

because. 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. and that those who are right using up the conversation they have to realize they bear some responsibility if this elevates 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 one day because you know if the new messages get in their face get in people's face but republicans are also out for blood to democrats every jew extreme too

dangerous to govern they've gone wacko. matchers join arsonists and you don't give power to an angry left wing mob and that's what the democrats are. so civility just forget it it's likely that even after the midterm elections americans aren't just going to get over it divisions are getting deeper and r.t. new york only us congressman ron paul says that be on the war of words though republicans and democrats agree on much more than they think the policies are very very similar and we who work in the free to move in the libertarian movement have said there's there's a lot of bipartisanship when it comes to passing legislation like running up the deficit it's getting involved in foreign wars and being involved like this is there very much the same but i think the disagreement is more of a cultural thing and there's

a difference is. the loss of the is not so much and we would like we as libertarians would like to see the discussion about you know like our federal reserve system and spending and deficits and personal liberties and civil liberties but there seems to be too much agreement there but right now there's no doubt there's a lot of hostility between the two groups never very very angry. top stories this hour next up it's watching the home so don't go away.