subscribe to read. for just twelve euros fifty. flying twenty years the international space station celebrates two decades of pioneering research behind the scenes i learned its achievements both in orbit the earth. shock british university lecturers to avoid writing fully

words. make students interests. to fired rehired a monitor and a major u.s. restaurant chains out the center of a viral video for refusing to serve a group of black men unless they paid up front for their food. just three am in new orleans five pm in beijing here in moscow this choose the november the twentieth welcome to r.t. international. 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 object in space on a verse ring message from the crew on board right.

we are proud to serve in such a ship. the international space station is a unique scientific platform. heathenish of course because of the looked silly presumably if course must. have a smidgen of. stunned see. it's both a green hosts and an aquarium and witnesses more than a dozen sunsets every day the international space station is one of mankind's greatest achievements 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 five it into two major parts one is effectively russian the other american wherever there's also japanese and european scientific modules you can see details 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 of 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 the soyuz m.s.o. nine which recently docked at the module the ship experienced an early which luckily was fixed. 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 and a half tons of cargo ranging from science equipment to air and fuel will this area is probably the most important for those onboard it contains the life support on flight control systems also we can find the living quarters for three crewmembers a conditioner to maintain the correct. even a kitchen table in short it's the russians living room. other modules of course are equally important but. most of them serve as storage rooms and also a life for space walks docking and there it is a short glimpse into the russian segment however the 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. more than two hundred people from eighteen countries have visited the space station over the years and speak come an example of close inter-national cooperation not least the beacon of warming relations between two bitter cold war rivals here's a look at the russia u.s. friendship develop to the moon and back.

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the other here actually but together we are responsible for the future together. yeah fascinating two decades and living in close quarters in zero gravity means some pretty clever designs for the modules that make up the i assess in fact. the lucky enough has been given unique access to the simulators where future astronauts get to grips with their home and space. for two decades the international space station has been the most visible physical

testament to man's dream of space exploration and like all 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 it its 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 it's 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 they're so used to walking skills but some things i didn't plain sight because this is an actual

space exercise bike. the first person to enter the ira says as part of expedition one was this man sergei krikalev jr fish when you got the moment when we talked the first few modules was one of the most memorable in my career is the 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 dual station roughly the size of a football pitch imagine old trafford circling. but first both russia and the united states sent crews 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 in the. least among these problems there's one that might seem strange the command to depressurize the cabin to let all of the air out even while the ships in orbit 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 and measures lights up on this board and among them this one particular ball which we pretend to ignore says rocket failure is this top left one turns red in the alarm goes off for twenty years this station has been home away from home for adventurers 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. of r.t. . leaving all things studying our college can be a taxing time but one british university thinks it knows what's really stressing and students the lecturer is writing to them in capital letters unless they see

a church explains. the 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 a bit too pricey and or upset the memo says any lack of clarity can generate anxiety and even discourage students from attempting the assessment at all generally avoid using capital letters for emphasis and the over use of do and especially don't they also reportedly suggested warm and helpful to loans 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. like a story out here to capital letters we could actually. having

a lot is in obviously aimed at it as 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 capital losses 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 pressure if to begin to sentences a fine balance when there are none you're also kind of work 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 a 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 that comes out them if they can 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 color 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. quarter past midday here in the coming clued in a major u.s. restaurant chain feels the burn in their racism raw this is our international.

good politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to. let you go right to be close this is what the full story of the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the was.

a low a can police in brussels have shelter in a police station in the city center after an officer was stabbed with a knife correspondent charlotte dubinsky told me more a little earlier. we understand that the police officer was wounded in that attack and eyewitnesses have suggested that the man shouted out the words but god is great the police officers wounded but is being treated for those injuries and is not in a serious condition we also understand that attack also wounded and he is also now been taken to hospital where he is being treated for his injuries and this of course though is the first type of attack like this in two thousand and eighteen

but if we go back to two thousand and seventeen there were two confirmed terror attacks in that year one attack which was a failed explosive in two thousand and seventeen and the second one in august two soldiers were actually wounded again by a man wielding a machete and going back just over two years ago a belgian was subjected to a huge terror attack with two civilians being killed for the moment the police the authorities are not claiming that the incident today is a terror attack but they will be looking to find out exactly what happened but belgium for the moment remains on high alert as it has now for many years as that country and many others in europe have suffered at the hands of many terror attacks . on american restaurant chain has found itself being dragged through a viral video mill stream after a monitor refused to serve a group of black people on the prepaid for their food bosses are partly mexican

grill with disciplinary action on till new information emerged killer bargain talks it's true it. was. no more. the. lawsuit one of the customers said it was all racist he said she's asking me for approval of income as if i'm getting a lot of them need to get fired the person. running the ridges to the person making the food need to be fired immediately this is blatant discrimination this send to blackness is disgusting what did you want to do ball days to populate 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 a fluke i i emailed you media relations department and she claims you were aware of the tweets at the time of the firing they need to probe data more information more facts before the actual rock to the i wouldn't go back to work for the plot that we go back to somewhere else that's crazy it does i mean honestly i don't have much of a column 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 chip away 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 incident based on our review we have a fatah manager job back well our normal protocol was not followed serving these customers we publicly apologize store manager to 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 salem up and r.t. new york lots of reaction to political and social commentator unfunny brian logan believes that cases like this really only diminish real fights against races. like this story of the little boy who cried wolf you know you always cry wolf and do never be a wolf and in one time he did cry wolf and the wolf was day or nobody came in the

new guy you know the same thing is going on here people who left the allegations of racism out there are at a 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 have an episode 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 is waste and happiness you probably will be a lesson to people that want to engage induced through allegations out there there is no always sure to and sometimes you should just think for a moment before you say something about when they may or may not be to give evidence first. facebook has found itself in bold in yet more controversy this time human rights activists have revealed how a teenage bride was auctioned on the social network at

a tranquil the accept the platforms ethical hits and misses. it's twenty 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 ad 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 girl's height the kids of the winner are guaranteed four

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 free 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 remote artists of the seventeenth century or this story on the

starving children in yemen by the new york times for the same reason and 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's a mystery 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. it's day two of the world chemical weapons watchdogs and you'll conference yesterday so russia and china squared up to britain the u.s. to try and reverse plans to grant the o.p.c. w. powers to apportion blame in any investigation let's take a look. position on the proposal made in june is that in downing the o.p.c. dubey with the functions is not meant to have would constitute an infringement on the un security council. decision in front of us today and let's be very clear. was agreed by suggesting it was not compliant with the convention that is simply not true coming from the russian federation frankly it is pungent hypocrisy but delegations present at the conference are told everything proposed by

the western group and the number of times those delegations have come on to psychological pressure from the same countries it all got very heated in the chamber at the o.p.c. w. conference on monday here in the hague russia and others very unhappy at a proposal to give new powers to the organization that was put forward by the u.k. and voted on by the body back in june russia says that these new powers that would . allow the o.p.c. w. to identify perpetrators of chemical attacks it says that they shouldn't have been voted on in the first place because they go against the mandates of the o.p.c. w. and in fact step on the toes of powers that already exist within the un security council the proposal passed back in june by eighty three votes out of the hundred ninety three that were available the very minimum to allow something to go through this body now what we're going to see all day is the votes that was asked for by

russia it's not a vote on the proposal by the u.k. all over again it's a photo on whether the all not proposal by the u.k. should have been allowed to happen in the first place now what we're hearing is the dots decision made in june may very well be a pal's by their p.c. w. that means we would then go on to another big vote which is only budgets for twenty nineteen you know what we're hearing from russia. from china from iran and from syria all saying that they wouldn't be willing to pass a budget which contain financing for these new powers alexander should gain who's the russian permanent representative to the o.p.c. w. also the russian ambassador to the netherlands he's accused his western partners of trying to interfere and undermine russia's proposals. considering all the tricks of so-called partners use we understand they are really afraid they do all this if they weren't afraid unfortunately we see that our american colleagues are

continuing their conflicting line and we're used to it they already left the paris climate accord the iran nuclear deal and now they're attempting to d. rail the whole p.c. w. so we set a plenty more action here in the hague at the o.p.c. w. conference on tuesday i'll be bringing you up to date with it as it all unfolds here on r.t. . and we crack on with more great r.t. programs in seconds this is our teachers. with no make this manufacture consent instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round listen to the one percent so. we can all middle of the room six. million real news

room. at the time a local television reporter from detroit is following the case closely bill proctor is well aware of the methods used by local police to close certain cases as quickly as possible. they did this all the time. they had people make statements whether in writing or they did the writing they had some buddies and with the suggestion that hears this and you can go home i've heard that.