facebook steps up its fight against fake news hundreds of pages and accounts. opens its arms and a warm welcome to the two astronauts who escaped death on thursday an aborted rocket launch ended their journey in midair as they crash landed in kazakhstan. and a special operation by the crown prince us media reports that riyadh planned the detonation of the saudi or the french or brother of the saudi journalist who disappeared in turkey last week and that american intelligence was aware of that threat.

or broadcast. international thomas glad to have you with us. now a leaked google briefing earlier this week revealed how the internet giant and others like facebook and twitter are increasingly policing which content stays online and which doesn't and it seems that they're wasting little time facebook has shut down hundreds of accounts and pages it accuses of being misleading. reports. trolls tackling fake news defending american democracy from foreign meddling social media. what is facebook doing to prevent for an actor's from interfering in u.s. selection. to system promise to protection for consumers across the. internet ecosystem have you heard of total in for. you know i'm talking about. you

know i do know ok would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night. no. this time though it's closer to home more than eight hundred pages banned by facebook and these are not some fringe accounts conspiracy. some of the pages have been around for years and have millions of followers. among those to face the acts of pages exposing alleged corruption states of

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 and anti 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 who've gone there is a dangerous precedent being set here where the big tech companies have appointed themselves as the gatekeepers are political thought an opinion this intervention comes ahead 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. we spoke to some of those who have been affected by facebook's latest purge they say the tech giant is taking aim at dissenting voices this is clearly a political move when you have these major tech companies appointing themselves as the gatekeepers of political thought i was told this was because of spamming that we are mass collectively pushing our information on people or that it was operated from a fake account all of these things are on true the information that i've used to post on facebook was information that i produced on my website which goes against the government it goes against the status quo it doesn't even matter left right side of the political spectrum and anybody who goes against the status quo right now seems to be a target they felt they were being run by fake profiles and we were doing spam but

they didn't really say anything specific about it yesterday our page was just down and i was my account was actually deleted off facebook for a few hours along with the other admins of the page it's so obvious that they hit everybody at once like that it's obviously messed up they don't think highly of independent media. and in addition to the criticism over its policing of online content some have been questioning whether facebook is doing enough and to protect user privacy from said back in late september but almost thirty million users had their data accessed by hackers and a massive security breach the attackers already control the set of accounts which were connected to facebook friends they used an automated technique to move from account to account so they could steal the access tokens of those friends and for friends of those friends and so on totaling about four hundred thousand people. all right the hackers started with a group of accounts totaling about four hundred thousand people but harvested the

data of twenty nine million accounts they used an automated program to steal the digital keys that keep you logged in to facebook so there's no need to reenter your password fifteen million people have their names and contact details accessed and another fourteen million had more severe data breaches including profile information and check in locations facebook said of the f.b.i. asked them not to disclose who was behind the attack but political commentator lionel believes the ultimate responsibility lies with the tech giant itself. they're the main suspect their negligence the fact that they're paying attention far too much to what somebody is saying then to the internal security of their system they are to blame they're the ones you know me to tell me that in the year almost twenty nineteen they have not figured out how to protect names yet this

also screams out for the internet bill of rights all over the world you see that's what facebook should be paying attention to but instead oh oh no no it's worried about shutting down. and pages that nobody would have even known about had they done this. all right facebook previously went about blocking accounts with alleged links to so-called russian agents and while a growing trend has seen in russia fend off a number of accusations lately foreign minister sergei lavrov says moscow can't take them seriously when they're produced in the media and not diplomatic channels 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 agency for the prohibition of chemical weapons most recently the united states the united kingdom canada and the netherlands made similar dania sic his emotions and their own so provided information to the media six months ago what's 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 know that but still more sit 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 with 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 will ask 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. you can see the full interview with russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov on our team dot com next thursday now two astronauts who narrowly avoided disaster on thursday when their soyuz rocket malfunctioned are back in moscow we'll have that story latest on that after a short break this is our international. when lawmakers manufacture consented to the public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the fight merry go round there's only the one percent. we can

all middle of the room sick. real news. it's been. too many times when you know us. cities but close. said the. terrorists you know it. is said billions has been terrible lately a more hopeful than i was a few months back. and was a glimmer of hope in in all of this. right welcome back this international the two astronauts who narrowly escaped

disaster on thursday when their rocket failed are now back in moscow safe and sound a booster rocket malfunction on the soyuz just minutes after blast off forced the crew to board the flight the two men on board were russian cosmonaut alexi of cimon and american astronaut nick haig chinon is forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve lieutenant colonel in the russian air force thursday's flight was supposed to have been his second journey into space and his american colleague forty three year old nick aig is a colonel in the u.s. air force and in his case it was have is to have been his maiden flight following in their ordeal a dramatic rescue and medical tests friends and family expressed relief as the two men were welcomed back to baikonur.

well when you've got more than half a million pounds of burning a rocket fuel behind you and a booster that has gone faulty you need to get away and fast well for thursday's so

his crew that meant relying on an escape system first deployed 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 creature safe escape in case of an emergency on board during blast off in 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 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 both the spacecraft and the launch vehicle the emergency system has been deployed eight times over the history of soyuz mungy three of them women mission and the crew survived every time. i get most difficult of course i want to thank the rescue was from those who designed this cape system and thanks to them came back to. us i

don't think it was a miracle i think it's professionalism i think it's actual technology test crew and over many many years and also the actual human system the the emergency crews as you heard. the to get there in time and i'm sure what was happening in the council was was very professional the soyuz is. you know the ground or rather it's been around forever it has proven it so repeatedly. and i think it's probably one of if not the safest human spacecraft in the world every moment of the brief tense of flight was being closely watched from the ground as well or two but our guys have takes us through what happened. baikonur cosmodrome fourteen forty local time lift off in five fool.

here by doing the engine that lift up. the wound she's laying waste the most nerve racking the energy and stress and bolts of the colossal rise of the response and dangers at this time everything for seating as intended for today's life near the two minute mark the first stage boosters begin to separate you get some care of the crew goes wrong so you now. are right and i cheated and there's no time to wait think of one hundred twenty one seconds and merge and see protocols engage with the magic eat the mission is compromised they're on their way and nearly six months to get the clue away top of . the families of the crew of the heads of course morse and nasa

watch on this the jackson system jettisons the crew module away from the rocket boosters the for the tons of high explosive fuel detonate and we have lift gate tower for history is now jettisoned the ballistic trajectory they're all in is rougher than anticipated the crew is shaken and batted but 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 are soon and borne powering towards the landing site as well. as families crazy. not realize that the one that fast i watched the launch on t.v. but it is certain point. you can understand my feelings at the time this new telly

what medical condition can we read what we might call others with the professionalism who trained for years for these technicians when genea the safety hoover writes the rescuers and medics were right in record time lost cause more nasa t.v. wasn't a miracle it was the next best thing when it comes through space nothing is left to chance as contingencies for everything sail safes 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. 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 kushal gave

vanished last week after entering the saudi 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 of saudi arabia denies any involvement or to treat or discusses this with jacqueline. 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 detain 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 going just mothers 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 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 for the rest of the city play. no 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 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 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 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 and 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 of their own 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 man hate 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 are baseless their position remains that he left the consulate on harmed later that day the saudi arabia constantly barbarically violate human rights human rights of its citizens it has no legitimate freedom of press this week of however the united states keeps giving the saudi arabia billions in military aid and other foreign aid just as the united states turns a blind eye to its own violations of civil liberties including freedom of the press they constantly turn blind eyes to the violations of basic civil liberties and freedom of the press of its allies this is exactly what the u.s. has been doing the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi has been missing since the

second of october let's now take a look back over the moments leading up to his disappearance and the events that have followed. you know survey has revealed some europeans are starting to doubt the necessity of

the e.u. nearly two thirds of the people that responded to the poll say things wouldn't be any worse without the bloc of the brussels based think tank behind of the survey also found out that forty nine percent consider the european union irrelevant the findings go on to decay that 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 ears 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 a 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. an independent journalist look revived told us why there is such a noticeable divide between the e.u.'s leadership and ordinary citizens. the last

story of europeans with europe it's 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 directives all their own legislation in their own country comes from brussels through the directors of 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 that you know and they they they prefer the national identity they keep to a national 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 any can say whatever she she wants to say but she's not the hero for the europeans. it does for me i'll be back in about thirty four and a half minutes before the news you are watching aren't interest.

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you need to let the audience you need to let people decide what is the relevant to them you don't need to filter he self censoring so john rother so censored himself he believed he knew better he believed he knew with what the needs were of these folks and that self-censorship which is such a step and this is completely wrong and this is why we have been sleepwalking into the next financial crisis how john authors spend a gonzo journalist i've been a property of new age journalist how do you and he not self-centered himself as this next crisis unfolds people would be better prepared to deal with it but they won't be because of the failure of fake journalist like an author.

this is a poem bus broadcasting around the world i'm part children in washington d.c. welcome aboard we're glad you're with us coming up today as global stock markets theory is a momentary meltdown of the last few days today they recovered some and in the u.s. they closed up slightly we'll take a look at the global weekly market roundup plus the other day we told you about the saudi journalist for the washington post that went missing after visiting the saudi consulate in turkey well there is more unsettling news and today we consider the business and economic relationship with saudi arabia from an arms and oil perspective energy expert rajiv warner and defense expert michael maloof are standing by and we told you about amazon after years of browbeating by politicians

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and coordinating pricing scheduling and other information amongst the four airlines the c.m.a. said quote this case is an early stage and no assumption should be made that the atlantic joint business agreement infringes upon competition law that said the regulators.