the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. facebook steps up its fight against fake news that hundreds of pages and accounts. and a warm welcome to the two astronauts who escaped death on thursday and aborted rocket launch and their journey in midair crash landed in kazakhstan. and a special operation by the crown prince us media reported that. the detention. of journalists who disappeared in turkey last week and that american intelligence was aware of the threat.

broadcasting live from our studios michael this is our john thomas from the guide to have you with us right 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 they're wasting little time facebook has shut down hundreds of accounts and pages it accuses of being misleading and has done your reports. trolls tackling fake news the finding american democracy from foreign meddling social media giant suffering at this for months what is facebook doing to prevent for an actor's from interfering in u.s. selection do you think we need to system problems to protections for consumers across the. internet ecosystem have you heard of total information awareness 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're. they didn't last.

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 peddlers or extremists 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 in gauging 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 bought 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 mammary hold from facebook three hundred fifty thousand followers. there is a dangerous precedent being set here where the big tech companies have appointed themselves as the gatekeepers are political thought and 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. all right we've spoken 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 was told that 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 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 to protect user privacy from said it back in late september that almost thirty million users had their data access to by hackers and a massive security breach the attackers already controlled a 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. hackers started with a group of accounts totaling four hundred thousand people but harvested the data of twenty nine million accounts they use an automated program to steal the digital keys that keep you long to facebook so there's no need to reenter your password

fifteen million people have their names and contact details access and another fourteen million have 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 that 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 them to the internal security of their system zehr are to blame they're the ones to 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

. facebook previously went about blocking accounts with alleged links to so-called russian agents and while a growing trend has seen russia fend off a number of accusations lately foreign minister sergei lavrov says moscow can't take them seriously when they're produced by the media and not diplomatic channels . your chance was no 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 and the journalistic profession with serious people cannot consider the every accusation thrown at the russian federation of committing all manner of mortal 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 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 so have a serious professional known propaganda based conversation. you know the ukrainian patriarchate is not turning its back on the russian orthodox church because the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate is against the provocations that patriarch bartholomew is orchestrating boards while getting open encourage men and support from washington this provocation is meant to use the two canonical churches in ukraine to excommunicated churches the ukrainian orthodox church of the key of patriarchate and the ukrainian autocephalous church which have never been recognized by any orthodox church in order to advance the plan patriarch

bartholomew summoned a highly signed note in constantinople and reinstated the excommunicated churches and their heads as for clerical matters the law both in ukraine and in russia and hopefully in any normal country prohibits the state from interfering but when the us special representative for church relations openly welcomes bartholomew's ruling mr volcker who is supposed to represent the us and help solve the crisis in ukraine using the minsk agreements says what he says about these things then i can only respond with a russian saying the thief always reveals himself and people who cannot show us a single fact to confirm their indiscriminate accusations that we're interfering in someone's internal affairs behave as if this is the norm i hope very much that these extremely negative processes the processes of replacing the culture of dialogue the culture of negotiations the culture of diplomacy with the culture of

ticked at a rude blackmail these problems will not remain outside the field of vision of those organizing the paris peace for him. firstly the agreement is really temporary the end of the story will only be when the power of the syrian people is restored in syria and when all those who are in syria especially those who were not invited there leave the country and that is clear to everyone i do not agree with he that it was the last problem area in syria but within syria there are huge areas to the east of the euphrates york where absolutely unacceptable things are happening the united states is trying to use these lands through its syrian allies primarily through the kurds in order to create a quasi state there but on this territory the united states is absolutely illegally trying to create across the state trying to do everything to create conditions to normalize the situation for their allies creating or thirty's their alternative to

the legitimate government of the syrian arab republic and actively promoting the return of refugees specifically to that area and this is all despite the fact that in the territory under the control of the legitimate syrian government neither the united states nor france nor any other western country wants to create conditions for the return of refugees as the west says until there is a credible political process what is the question why on the eastern bank of the euphrates which is controlled by the united states and their local com raid shouldn't we also wait for the beginning of a credible political process the answer can be only this because they're there they want to create the prototype of a new state or maybe again will see this dangerous game with kurdistan with the idea of a big kurdistan but i do not exclude it because the united states in this area as a rule is trying to maintain the situation in a heated state so that no one can calm down and in such muddy waters it's much

easier for them to catch the fish they want is never lead to good results. you can see the full interview with russia's foreign minister on our team dot com next thursday. a harrowing story now the two astronauts who narrowly escaped a disaster on thursday when their rocket failed are now back in moscow safe and sound and a booster rocket malfunction on the so use just minutes after blast off forced the crew to abort the flight the two men on board were russian cosmonaut. and american astronaut nick haig alexi of chanaan is forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserves lieutenant colonel in the russian air force those days of flight was supposed to have been his second to journey into space as 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

in a dramatic rescue and medical tests after that friends and family expressed relief as the two men were welcomed back by can or.

so when you've got more than half a million pounds of burning out rocket fuel behind you and a booster that's gone faulty well you need to get away and very very fast for thursday's so his crew that meant relying on an escape system that was 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 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 camera she

was to send and ensure a safe landing. 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 former astronauts we spoke to say crews are always well prepared for such emergencies and praised of cimon and for their quick thinking actions. i flew on to the space station aboard a soyuz rocket myself came back in the soyuz capsule on my fourth question and so you know 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 healthy they're able to walk away from from the landing site and now it's just a matter of the investigation determined what happened what corrective action taken in and then 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 simulation and they practice their reactions multiple times in the simulator so they don't know what's happening but what do we do. 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 acushla the

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 discusses this with just one voice. 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 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 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 specifically. know that you'd like to see. 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 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 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 or things that create. 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 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 recordings recording saying that you can hear him being tortured and question interrogated and then killed. borders back because they see that european borders don't function off the four years of problems so that's the situation now and. any can say whatever she she wants to say but she's not the hero for the

europeans. other officials in occupied gaza say israeli soldiers killed seven people and wounded more than two hundred fifty more during protests along the perimeter fence on friday many of the injuries reported were. we caused by live fire the i.d.f. said it resorted to lethal force after a group of demonstrators used an explosive device to blow a hole in the fence and then attempted to attack a military post following the protest israel's defense minister. the supply of fuel to the blockaded strip the u.n. had been overseeing an operation to get gaza's only power station back up and running territories present residents only have electricity for four hours a day. and as of now you're back with headlines in thirty one minutes you're watching our international i'm john thomas stay with us.

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. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. most. simple. but many of

them look for refuge in the so-called sentries sides of the draft used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities. than. they have. to stay in the country with donald trump in the.