the director mission of the trump and 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 gone 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 al 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 they were complicit or directed specifically. know that you'd like to see . this is serious 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 this disrespectful to say 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 startling proposition for the united states congress that we should get the facts before we act. well with pressure on the white house munting to investigate the

disappearance senators from both parties say it's time to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia the business sector is joining in to several firms have pulled out of a saudi investment conference to be held later this month but don't trump isn't yet those kill up open reports. if you thought that the disappearance of a saudi journalist in turkey would hurt ties between riyadh and washington wrong military and diplomatic ties are closer than ever and donald trump recently spoke up about why that is i don't like the concept of stopping an investment of one hundred ten billion dollars into the united states. because you don't think it is going to take that money and spend it at russia or china or someplace else the media was pretty shaken by his honesty if the saudis are responsible and this is the bully that everyone elected to push around the world leader said it would not

be a good thing at all look at the messages he said we don't mind dictatorship we have no interest in human rights in your country saudi has been a client of the united states close relationship for a long time the administration and saudi arabia figure that they were so comfortable in their relationship with donald trump that they can give the green light seems to be admitting that u.s. policy in the middle east is not really about some moral impulse to spread freedom or humanitarian concerns he seems to be admitting that it's about money and selling military hardware the human rights record of saudi arabia has remained the same for decades but that's never stopped u.s. presidents from swooning over the saudi royal family.

trump has a way of launching into truth tantrums unloading unspoken realities about international relations for example this is his take on the u.s. invasion of iraq old expression to the victor belong the spoils you remember you always used to say keep if we kept you and you probably wouldn't have isis because that's where they made the money in the first place so we should keep doing it but . trump recently acknowledged that south korea is not completely sovereign in its actions like when south korea mulled over the possibility of easing relations with the north well they won't do it without her approval. they do nothing without her approval so to be clear donald trump is not changing u.s. foreign policy he loves the saudis he loves bossing south korea around and he is not talking about cutting the huge military budget however he's getting rid of a lot of the smoke and mirrors and telling things as they actually are up and r.t.

new york. now u.s. rep or kenya isn't someone who shies away from expressing his opinions he stayed true to form when he got to meet his president in the oval office. and he's been a friend of mine for a long time it was some of the doctors how they made their life for me made superman our favorite superhero this guy over here but you just gotta. love this guy right here. ok i'm doing this for everybody who's watching us return the volume down if you can put back up against that but if you think that kanye west is what happens when they grow don't agree. and we have this now and kanye west is hardly a political philosopher. and i've always believed that entertainers should first

entertaining keep their politics separate from their art. i know before the white house did you also they were smoking up a little bit in the bathroom when you were there i was trying to get to you say are you. going if you go to somebody's house you have to give up something you don't call empty handed. green that this was a ploy your first wife. but i mean. it's really so that's really.

where i'm moving on to another of our headlines this hour facebook is finally revealing the details of the huck in september which compromise millions of its users the social media giant sees it's working closely with the f.b.i. to find out who's behind it. the attackers already control 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 originally fifty million users were estimated to have been affected but today that number was reduced to about thirty million now the hacker started with a group of about four hundred thousand people and then use of those accounts to expand it to about thirty million people. so one can imagine how alarmed users must

be after and trusting their private information to facebook now the hacking resulted in fifteen million users having their names and contact details disclosed an additional fourteen million had all their personal info disclosed but this isn't the first time this has happened to facebook of course earlier this year millions of users were hacked by cambridge analytic a tech firm it's worth noting that the f.b.i. who is investigating the incident asked facebook not to discuss who could possibly be behind the attacks so it will be interesting to see who they find responsible hopefully not the usual suspect we've got the thoughts of legal media analyst lowell he should concentrate more on that security policing content there is 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 zaher to blame they're the ones giving me to tell me that is the year almost

twenty nine 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 has done this americans and the world are saying what are you going to do about it why do you care as much about our personal safety our data our information as you do in our opinions which you may not agree with that's the issue. well news of the investigation into the hucking scandal comes a day after a facebook shut done hundreds of pages on the it's accuses of being misleading we spoke to some of those affected by facebook's latest perch they say the tech giant

is policing people who speak out against the status quo. 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 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 we've been experiencing self-censorship throttling. everything you needed and then banned back to back thirty days damn small time so facebook is slowly but surely going trying to. get our. ideology information that we're putting out there praise the escape system propel them to safety. 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 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 that is so deeply integrated in 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 the mission and the crew survived every time. i get most difficult course i want to thank the rescue was from those who designed this cape system thanks to them came back to earth i don't think it was a miracle i think it's professionalism i think it's optional technology test

crew and over many many years and also the actual humans just the the emergency crews as you heard the 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 wonder if not the save your money spacecraft in the world there is a big divide between the e.u.'s leaders and the public according to a new poll we take into the details up to this.

you need to lead 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 author self censorship self he believes he knew better he believes he do 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 author has been a gonzo journalist and he's been a property knew a journalist had 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 journals like the. twenty minutes past eight am this saturday morning here in moscow welcome back nearly two thirds of e.u. citizens think life would not be worse if the bloc didn't exist according to a new poll the friends of europe think tank findings are part of a push really to highlight a perceived growing disconnect between the e.u.'s leaders and its citizens the group also found that nearly all of the people polled think the e.u. is a relevant. well transparency is also an issue for citizens according to the research as well as frustration of leaders for not focusing on the issues people really care about that's not quite though how the power brokers in brussels see it the use

foreign policy chief said recently at the world one 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 was out of the european union into a been a much more city asian or brussel based journalist luker of a told us why he thinks there is such a noticeable divide between the european union's leadership and its 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 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 the national identity they keep their nationality day now want the borders back because they see that european boards don't function after four years of problems so that's the situation now and. get any can say whatever she she wants to say but she's not the hero for the europeans. heading stateside again america's most expensive fighter jets being grounded now after one of the aircraft crashed in south carolina apparently because of faulty fuel chub the trillion dollar f. thirty five program almost two decades in the making has already been heavily criticized for its huge cost and range of flaws.

the f. thirty five spent a dream to fly it's wonderful. the u.s. services and internet. partners have temporarily suspended after thirty five flight operations. the enterprise conducts a fleet wide inspection of the fuel to within the engine if known good fuel tubes are already installed in those aircraft will be returned to flight status.

a studies follow that around a third of american units one make it into the military because of obesity on their own healthy lifestyles the army's no warning to any who want to enlist get fit. if you can make your mission of meeting a recruiting goal for our army you are impacting our national security. well in twenty eight in the u.s. military services fell six thousand people short of its goal of seventy thousand recruits the three most affected regions were mississippi louisiana the district of columbia where there is a high level of obesity u.s. defense analyst ivan suggests what could help states of course the military is just a very small portion of the population and the president the government can't tell people what to eat so the army can sponsor health programs or water with but i'm

not sure that that's really going to help that much i think you probably need to work on the society itself. you know getting more exercise eating healthier food etc and it's very difficult because there is so much fun stuff to eat that's not very good for you here in the united states. that's yourself on a morning news roundup more great programs to follow and then do join me in thirty eight for all the very latest things.

not. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race in this spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time time to sit down and talk.

the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. costing us tell us just a little simple i want to become lost a lantern i won the last post on this but i think many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the draft used to. information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities are the best present as they are going on. was it went on i felt it best when i got a man on a quest and i want that off the top of the hand what are their options to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house all over for the gravels because both of you have the if you beat out the do go with a fifty it's doubled of any couple won't fulfill it kill would choke up with a good impulse and one of those would come out of you output of up to the whole of the.

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united states is the last country in the developed west to execute criminals. about fifty percent of americans are for. for the death penalty and fifty percent against it. our capital punishment system is flawed this is not a matter of vengeance it's a matter of just that that we believe serves as a turn capital punishment is tainted by racial disparity having my father's killers executed did not bring me a sense of closure is it to restore society or is it an issue that if you take a life should your life be taken justice is about us as a society. one

nine hundred eighty two was my first execution. i was a correctional officer. one of my main jobs were to save lives so when it came down to execution i had to transform myself into a person that would take a life. jerry givens was appointed executioner in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven when the united states reinstated the death penalty. he grew up in the housing projects of rich.