the u.s. security chief calls on saudi arabia to release details of the investigation into a dissident journalist disappearance in turkey. also ahead on the program this hour facebook is investigating which left millions of users dates a vulnerable day after launching a content bombing hundredths of a collins this is clearly a political move when you have these major tech companies appointing themselves as the gatekeepers of political thought we've been experiencing censorship throwing. everything you need and we've been banned i've been banned back to back thirty days time. germany's biggest state teds to the polls on sunday with the rightwing e.f.t.

party predicted to get its first seats there are key party members say but very in leaders are. copying their agenda this is very well known among the journalists and also among the. kind of copying all are brought home. saturday morning one minute past eleven am here in moscow hope you're all having a great weekend wherever you're tuning in from this international top story. the u.s. is finding itself charting a tricky course over the disappearance of a dissident saudi journalist in turkey while president trump speaks about protecting america's multi-billion dollar business with the saudis the u.s. national security adviser is cautiously pushing for riyadh to swiftly come up with

some facts i think the saudis themselves are being damaged because we don't have the facts out there's obviously been historical animosity between turkey and saudi arabia we have our own difficulties with turkey at the moment well jamal khashoggi was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second no one's heard from him since turkey has not officially accuse riyadh of being involved but multiple reports claim its intelligence services have evidence that not only was kidnapped but also killed so the arabiya vehemently denies any involvement in well there are several reports emerging not the u.s. reportedly knew of alleged study plans to capture the news outlets are claiming this society crime prince ordered an operation to lure and detained him correspondent at the scuffs the allegations on the program earlier. the mission of 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 us 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 for the rest of us anyway. don't let a trip like. this is serious or 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 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 well as jacqueline was just chronicling with pressure of. 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 it as well several firms of pulled out of a saudi investment conference to be held later this month but donald trump isn't doing yet kill up and 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 sent 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 that they can give the green light time 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 the oil 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 the oil but ok trump recently acknowledge that south korea is not completely sovereign in its actions like one south korea mulled over the possibility of easing relations with the north well they won't do it without her. 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 or staying in the us american rock for kenya west isn't someone who shies

away from expressing his opinions and he stayed true to form when he got to meet his president in the oval office. i mean he's been a friend of mine for a long time it was some of the time it is how and maybe your life for me made a superman our prayers will be here this guy right here let me get this guy. out of this guy right here. ok i'm doing this for everybody who's watching us or trying to volume down if you can put it back up again that night if you think you're going to miss that because it was what happens when you 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 then smoke it up a little bit in the bathroom when you read it i was trying to do it so you have to say i hate c.b.s. . whenever you go to somebody's house you have to give up something old don't come empty handed. green that states want to put your first wife but i mean. it's really good for.

facebook is finally revealing some details of the house in september which compromise millions of its users the social media and say it is working closely with the f.b.i. to find who is behind it. 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 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 those accounts to expand it to about thirty million people so one can imagine how alarmed users must be after in trusting their private information to facebook now the hacking resulted in fifteen million users having their names and contact details disclosed and

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. legal and media analyst lung all scenes facebook should concentrate more on that security even though i'm totally sing content. 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 zehr are to blame they're the ones do you mean to tell me that is 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 pay. that nobody would have even known about it had they not 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 and our opinions which you may not agree with that's the issue. lionel there all news of the hacking investigation comes a day after facebook shut down hundreds of pages on the consulate users of being misleading we spoke to some of those affected by facebook's latest purge 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 gate keepers 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 we've been experiencing self-censorship throttling. everything you needed and banned back to back thirty days damn small time so facebook is slowly but surely going trying to push us out. our. ideology information that we're putting out there even though it's based in peace and liberty they're trying to eradicate it from their platform it threatens the status quo this is nothing more than fake news on facebook misleading statements under the guise of trying to actually clean up their

platform quote by removing spammers this is nothing more than political censorship and trying to eradicate certain political ideologies. voters in germany's biggest region will let their next government on some day the right wing alternative for germany party is expected to enter but very is part of it for the first time according to polls looking at how the political landscape currently lies here is a nation city. time is ticking away and the chairman states of the various states election campaigns come to a place that even the polls say it's time for a system party to end the medical c.d.u. c.s.u. looks set to lose the dominance is held in the various second close will even taste and tradition is apparently losing its appeal. now the c.s.u.

use launched major rallies in a desperate and final attempt to attract the incidence of votes a swing that of angela merkel's compassionate micra stance is expected as the various take in the second time as number of asylum seekers house and sixteen regions in the country the heights of the migrant crisis twenty thousand private meeting safe and sound everyone was happy about. to see. a. league now this knows i'm show business i'll see you then. you need to let the audience you need to let people decide what is the relevance of them you don't need to filter he self censoring so john author saul censor himself he believed he knew better he believed 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 offers been a box gonzo journalist i've been a proper knew a journalist as you how do you how do you 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 office. sunday morning twenty minutes past eleven am good to have your company experts are still trying defying died what went wrong with the booster rocket from thursday's failed launch the dramatic escape of the two astronauts on board has also seen space industry experts praise the tech that 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 moon three of them were manned missions and the crew survived every time. i get most if of 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 over many many years and also the actual humans just 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 wonder if not the save your make space craft of the world. well the head of the european space agency meanwhile say's the organization will continue to use soyuz rockets under ready to help in the investigation there is no change of plans so we are looking forwards to not only using also use for the next astronaut's but also for some of our satellites so we do not see that there is

a change in plan the most important thing is now to find out who course and i hope that this can be done precisely and then we go just on. who was crossed months that is ready to participate in the. us to gaze in because of course we are interested in getting our information next time. you want to have another you have been or some other committee of next year. nearly two thirds of european union citizens think life would not be worse if the block didn't exist according to a new study the friends of europe think tanks findings are part of apush to highlight a perceived growing disconnect between the huge leaders and its people the group also find that nearly half of those polled think the e.u. is irrelevant while transparency is also an issue for citizens according to the research as well as frustration at peters the really for not focusing on the issues

people care about and that's not quite though how the power brokers in brussels see it in fact the e.u.'s foreign policy chief said recently of the world wouldn't survive without the twenty eight states 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 true much without the european union it will be much more city asian. or brussels or brussels based journalist who grew very tall lists why he thinks there is such a noticeable divide between the e.u.'s leadership and it's said that since they got . the last story of europeans with europe it's coming to an end that people still feel europeans fine but it's second rates not very important and they don't realize that all directors 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 their national identity they keep their nationality 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 any can say whatever she she wants to say but she's not the hero for the europeans. a study has found another round a third of american units wouldn't make it into the military because of obesity and their own healthy lifestyles the army's no warning to anyone who wants to the list get it if you can make your mission of meeting a recruiting goal for our army you're impacting our national security. well in the year two october the u.s.

military fell more than six thousand short of its goal of seventy thousand recruits indeed the three most affected regions are mississippi louisiana and the district of columbia where there is a high level of obesity u.s. defense analyst even elland suggests what might help. in the united states of course the military says the very small portion of the population in the the president the government can't tell people what to eat so the army can sponsor health programs or whatever with it 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 as far as you know getting more exercise eating healthier foods 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. artie's twitter page has you covered for up to the moment developments on the stories affecting our world today i'll get stuck into the big

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backed rebel groups to withdraw from a dip in syria we go underground with martha gellhorn prize for journalism finalist but this ability to ask her what she saw firsthand when she interviewed a u.k. funded helmet leader allegedly linked to terrorists than does the u.k. fire brigades union turns one hundred we speak with the general secretary about the tory cuts putting his members at risk plus how come climate change on the get it was three years away last year you know it's the first british politicians returned to parliament to question to resume his defacto governing coalition is now in doubt after a threat to vote down this month's u.k. budget for favorite to be next prime minister jeremy corbyn budget of sterett he was on his mind eight years of painful austerity poverty is up homeless person deaths on our street is up living standards down public services slashed and a million elderly are not getting the can they need wages have been eroded and all the oh mr speaker

a little while billions were found for tax giveaways to big corporations and. tourism ignored the bank bailouts and said labor's spending was the problem we know what would really her working people neighbors would cost one trillion how one thousand billion pounds of people's money uncontrolled by worrying spiralling taxes working people paying the price of labor yet again taking us but to square one ignoring where the country is born by britain into square one that the cost of thousands of millions to raise it may also celebrated the british military at this week's pm cues given it was world mental health day ensuring that we recognise those physical and mental injuries is important and we should never forget those with les. down then i use them and prosecute but all british bombs targeted by british soldiers on syria right now every day really for our freedom and security

and a better journalist but as a bee the has been on the ground in syria where the u.k. ministry of defense told this program the u.k. is bombing every single day according to latest figures she joins me via skype from bordeaux in france for us thanks for going back on.