if. flying high for twenty years the international space station celebrates two decades of pioneering research we go behind the scenes on learn its achievements both in orbit. are. also ahead on the program caps lock shock

a british university tells lecturers to avoid writing fully words in case it makes . rehired a major u.s. restaurant chains up the center of a viral video storm for refusing to serve a group of black men on the front for their food. from moscow to the world this is r t international a very warm welcome this tuesday november the twentieth you know. this day twenty years ago russia launched the first module of the international space station into orbit. is the third brightest object in the night sky on the largest in space your send a message from the crew on board now. we

are proud to serve in such a ship. the international space station is a unique scientific platform. mirror heathenish of course because for the looked silly as a mere if course must have. zeroed over our mission at all they just stand sea. it's both a green hosts an aquarium and witnesses more than a dozen sunsets every day the international space station is one of my braces the chief in our modern world but how much do we really know about it let's take

a closer look in three day the station is the fight it into two major parts one is effectively russian the other american wherever there's also japanese and european scientific modules you can see here let's move to the russian segment which currently has four docking ports marked in red that's twice as many as the americans each segment consists of several smaller modules which is how the whole station was initially put together a lot like building a giant lego model the russian segment for example has five of them however only four modules can host the cargo space ships coming on board the i assess efficiently allowing them to dock at any available port at any time currently three of those four docking ports are occupied one by this soyuz m.s.o. nine which recently docked at the module the ship experienced an early which was

fixed by the crew another docking port is occupied by the cargo ship progress only nine which is stationed at the piers module and on sunday another ship the progress m.-s. ten docked in the heart of the russian segment the module carrying two tons of cargo ranging from science equipment to earth and fuel will this area is probably the most important for those onboard it contains the life support and flight control systems also we can find the living quarters for three crewmembers a conditioner to maintain the correct humidity even a kitchen table in short it's the russian living room. other modules of course are equally important but. most of them serve as storage rooms and also alive for space walks. and there it is a short glimpse into the russian segment however the this isn't really about the

russian or american sectors or even the space station itself the name of the game is global cooperation platform for countries to night as one which so far hasn't been possible to do back here on earth in space we are all allies. but it has been a busy base more than two hundred people from eighteen countries have visited the space station over the years it's become an example of close international cooperation not least the beacon of warming relations between two bitter cold war rivals here's a look now at how the russia u.s. friendship developed to the moon.

so that ski american ski is enough to get the work. that you let it be. from structured your yes. you move out of. the mission or if you need a roof supported think of i think the population you run better or for your fuel. look for and see if there's less to birdsville all these years right and so there are lots and lots we are all for a brother to but. they were cutting new ground they said well gosh let's see if we can build

a bigger space station and what can we do what are the problems that might come up and what you learn. some of the money interesting and doesn't just give them more in them some listeners for falsely media if she were me. that you suddenly choose the media team in the group that's difficult to look at the scene stealing your least fifteen similar. we have to. make sure that have not always been from.

the police. gather here we've actually had to get other leader for the future together. well living in close quarters in zero gravity means some pretty clever designs for the modules that make up the i.s.a.'s. being given unique access to the simulators where future astronauts get to grips with their home in space. for two decades the international space station has been the most visible physical

testament to man's dream of space exploration and like things space it began as a smooth step which eventually turned to become a giant leap. in a way the international space station is the largest lego puzzle in the world because see it wasn't moved into orbit in one piece at first it was just one cargo module this is the exact replica of all that it's name in russian means sunrise and indeed it did become the dawn of the i assess as we know it's. this small jewel a star is more of a living space there's a cubicle here a dining space also there's a docking simulation area as well where cosmonauts practice there so use talking skills but some things i didn't plain sight because this is an actual space

exercise bike. the first person to enter the u.s. says is part of expedition one was this man sergei krikalev jr bush when you got the moment when we talked the first few modules was one of the most memorable in my career is area which is floating around in space but we had the u.s.p.o. unity attached to our shuttle a picture of the two modules together became a symbol of a new era as nobody could tell where it would lead. during that flight the crew watched on from orbit our earth and to the next millennium since then the ice is grown into a sixteen more jewel station roughly the size of a football pitch imagine old trafford circling. it first both russia and the united states sent cruise into orbit but since the demise of the shuttle program culminating in its and in two thousand and eleven it's just be in russia.

we got as close as we could to russia's workhorse rocket this or use during the journey to and from the international space station this is the module where crews spend hours of their time and i mean it's not very spacious it's actually looks small even for one person while it is designed to fit three inside it's a real work station there are no random things here to mourn it is just to showcase all sorts of technical information about how the rocket is doing indicators buttons but the most crucial the buttons that attend the most crucial commands they're actually hidden behind small covers like this so they have to be lifted so that they are not touched or pressed by accident or. among these problems there's one that might seem strange a command to depressurize the cabin to let all of the air out of even one of the

ships into orbit with it so that the crew can put out a fire. because this button is extremely important it has additional protection this small screw when the rocket detects a malfunction meshes lies on this board and among them this one particular ball which we pretend to ignore says rocket failure is this top left it turns red in the alarm goes off. for twenty years this station has been home away from home for adventure is visionaries overachievers risk takers people of action it's instilled a passion for discovering the unknown in our generation so that when it's life cycle and mankind's business is way beyond that first step into earth's orbit. dawn of oxy. will the speeds are something that really get me the space station orbits the earth once every ninety minutes or so doing the math means that the crew see sixteen sunrises and sun sets every day who oversees nasa as

human space flight operations told us how space brings people together in cooperation the challenge of space makes us work together and makes us really trust each other we're really dependent upon each other we depend upon the russians they depend upon us and that that dependence really forces us to work together and work really closely and lets us accomplish huge challenges hopefully we can be a role model for folks on the earth and for governments on a new way of working or we could be at least an avenue for which we could have positive cooperation and positive activity moving forward. ok back down to earth now we're studying college can be a taxing time but one british university thinks it knows what's really stressing out students lecturers writing to them in capital letters yes i was to see a turkey has been looking into. a journalism department at a university in leeds has been considering avoiding using capital letters when

giving assignments to students the reason it might make the students at. to frightened or upset the memo says any lack of clarity can generate anxiety and even discourage students from attempting the assessment of. generally avoid using capital letters for emphasis and the over use of do and especially don't they also reportedly suggested warm and helpful terms and avoiding negative instructions the university told us it was guidance from a course leader to academic staff and said it was proud of the personal and inclusive experience it offers on campus however some staff members have dubbed this nonsense saying students are being treated like kids so let's find out what students think about all this do capital letters make you anxious. i think i'd feel a bit tight. here do capital letters make you anxious. having a lot is you know. i am a student and cups of letters don't make me anxious but i got an email the other

day that didn't have any caps or lessons in it at all at all did that make you anxious it made me feel like the person who wrote it didn't really put the effort into writing it like it doesn't take much effort to push if to the beginning of the sentence is fine balance when there are none you're also kind of one we've seen cases to avoid offending students before most recently in manchester student union voted to replace clopping with what's known as jazz hands in order to not disturb students with anxiety or sensory issues yes. and at the university of kent a student union issued guidelines against outfits that threaten others rights to a safe space that included dressing up as a mexican priest and native american a cowboy and even a tory students need to be resilient they need to be treated like adults when they're over the age of eighteen they should be able to deal with small letters

capital letters instructions and anything the. comes out them if they can't deal with something like this then they're really not going to be prepared for normal life when i was a teacher there was a couple of years where i was told we shouldn't use red pen because red pen is an angry collar and it might make students feel frightened and this was completely ridiculous it's really taking things to an extreme and it's really undermining just the normal everyday interactions that people have and that's a very very bad thing on the way a major u.s. restaurant chain feels the burn in a racism rock and why the online auction of a teenage bride has shown the spotlight right back on facebook all after the break . the chinese economy in the last fifteen years is different than other countries

emerging that were once emerging economies that became big economies like united states did the same thing they were export exporting it with unfair advantages until they got big and then they transition to a consumer economy so china and britain before then did the same thing so china is just following history and now they want to become a big consumer economy and so far so good. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic probably only really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

you're back with r.t. facebook has found itself in bold in more controversy this time human rights activists have revealed how a teenage bride was auctioned on the social network. of the platform's ethical mrs now. it's twenty eight seeing we're well into the twenty first century but in south sudan you can still buy a teenage bride for a few hundred cows three jeeps and ten thousand bucks this isn't from a fresh out on a billboard somewhere in the sudanese savannah the auction and wedding are done and over with and guess where the bidding happened on facebook. any form of human trafficking whether posts pages or groups that coordinate this activity are

not allowed on facebook and so they took the auction posts down good job facebook just one problem like i said the wedding dress had been worn and it took days and days for the tech giant to act now this is how the family tried to impress the bidders by pitching the girls height the kids of the winner are guaranteed for n.b.a. slots and among the competing want to be husbands are said to have been local government officials they need to be suspended from their office and have risen full of it in this ng also only to needs to be held accountable that a girl could be sold for marriage on the world's biggest social networking sites is beyond belief. yes most of the activists fury was about how an entire online auction campaign could happen all facebook's radar so let me give you a quick reminder of some of the do's and don'ts on the network facebook is off

limits to you got it fake news and it's up to some mysterious fact checkers employed by the tech giant in america to decide what's good for you to read and what's not also among the stuff that's been banned by zox people are posts featuring the paintings of peter paul rubens because of nudes in them even though he's one of the most remount artists of the seventeenth century or this story on the starving children in yemen by the new york times for the same reason in that case concerns over facebook's image posting policies at least for some while outweighed concerns over a disastrous famine in a war torn country well we'll see if they're as alert next time someone tries to sell a teenage bride for cattle the response from facebook is oh we took it down as soon as we found out but clearly the implication there is that they still despite you

know so many similar stories of things that shouldn't be on facebook being on facebook for too long as far as i can see so far there's been no concrete answer from facebook as to how they're going to show that this doesn't happen again and for it to have been out there for days while this whole gruesome process was completed. seems you know it is the same story something that should take much more responsibility for and spend more of the profits are not actually making sure the platform is safe and is no abuse to the sake of human trafficking. an american restaurant chain has fund itself being dragged through a viral video maelstrom for a mother to refuse to serve a group of black men unless they prepaid for their food. boss is a mexican grill with disciplinary action until new information of merged was kill up and explain. what we had to do you never have money when you come in we.

know. the reason lawsuit one of the customers said it was racist he said she's asking me for prove who income is if i'm getting a loan the apparently racist manager was fired this is to pull a statement regarding what happened to the simple restaurant the manager full these gentlemen with the same customers from choose day night who were unable to pay for their meal regardless this is not how we treat our customers and as a result the manager has been terminated and the restaurant is being retrained to ensure that something like this doesn't happen again but it turned out that the manager was not being racist lawsuit only indeed had a history of ordering food that he could not pay for in fact even bragged on social media about dining and dashing social media users were up in arms the manager apparently did nothing wrong now chipotle a seems to be hiring her back but the outrage did not as many see this as an example of how corporations are so afraid of

bad publicity they don't seem to care about the truth this is not i emailed you media relations department and she claims you were aware of the tweets at the time of the firing they need to gather more information more facts before the actual run i wouldn't go back to work for the plot that she thought that we go back to somewhere else that's crazy it does i mean honestly i don't have much of a come because it's kind of like everything else that's going on people are just assuming based on how you look and not really taking the time to ask a question now with all the twists and turns in this story we actually reached out to chipotle a for a final statement here is what they got back to us with firing back and apologies included we have spent the last few days reviewing the evidence available to us regarding the the incident. based on our review we have a fatah manager who job back while our normal protocol was not followed serving these customers were publicly apologized to a manager through being put in this position well it turns out that shockingly

a short video clip isn't always enough information to know what's actually going on however there are lots of americans who want to scream racist instead of getting the whole story they will blow up and r.t. new york a political and social commentator anthony brian logan believes that cases like this only diminish real fights against racism was like this story of the little boy who cried wolf you know you always cry wolf and do never be you wolf and in one time he did cry wolf and the wolf was day or nobody came and then you got you know the same thing is going on here people left allegations of racism out there oughta time and that a certain point it becomes not effective people say oh ok another episode of racism so where i don't care but when you keep having episodes like this to come up people don't really know if it's a real a case of racism an allegation an overreaction nobody really knows so racism is so becomes less important therefore things can happen and nobody really cares and i

hope this way should happen if you pull a will be a lesson to people that want to engage in just for allegations out there there is no always sure to and sometimes you should just think for a moment before you say something about it so when they may or may not be to give evidence first. protests have broken out across the no lines over a controversial traditional christmas character called black paint so abrasions featuring the character have come in for increasing criticism in recent years with accusations that it encourages racial stereotypes. block page tells being a part of dutch christmas festivities since the mid nineteenth century when he first appeared in a children's book he said to be the trusted helper of father christmas climbing down chimneys to deliver presents on sweets to children in parades and other

appearances black pete is played by an adult wearing black make up a curly wig and colorful clothes well listen ears protests follow years of complaints of censorship indeed of black people within the netherlands and abroad in twenty seven a dutch christmas celebration was cancelled in a small canadian town after complaints of racism in twenty fifteen several dutch cities altered black petes image slightly for parades putting suits on his cheeks rather than full black face then a school in the canadian capital decided to remove black paint altogether out of respect for the diversity of its students a month ago dutch broadcaster n.t.r. ditched the black face version of the character instead opting for marks opinions are mixed though in the netherlands. we stand here to protest because you find they like b. three cities who want this to change so defaced it is a pleasant for everyone i think it's because it's. good because they don't see if.

you keep these black or white let's call it. i think it's yeah it's a nun discussion. and i think that we should keep the festivities as they are and keep black pete i see no point in having a white pete after all this is for children. or journalist luke or of a ses it's hard for people to change long held traditions but need to move with the times before it goes so far it's it would be it will be very difficult to defend this tradition. but i remember vividly the first day of my primary school you know being scared of this guy who had his surprising eyes coming to us it was a white man in a black face but he was the interesting character not since you know the same book a it was a nice old man but we were more interested by this person with the big crawling eyes so it's impossible i think to continue as he is but

only it is not racism a troll and we live in a funny world where the political correctness is becoming credible things evolve and obviously with the outcry in the netherlands you cannot keep a spot to pete pete that's it's unfortunate for those who love traditions but so it is. ok some news just coming into us from brussels police have shot at a police station after he'd stopped an officer with a knife the officers injuries are not thought to be serious the suspected attacker is in hospital no reports say the man shouted are which means god is greatest in our big police spokesman said there is no confirmation as to whether the incident right now is being treated as terrorism we will of course have more on this developing story in our next bulletin right half an hour's time but stay tuned for bust.

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