oh ah, this is all t headlining right now. facebook, whatsapp and instagram suffer. one of the largest outages in internet history, sending bol smog zak, a bugs 14, tumbling by $7000000000.00 within just a few hours. also ahead, denmark's energy agency gives the green light to part of russia's known string to gas pipeline. as europe grapples with soaring fuel prices, i say the situation is stabilizing. no one's going to pretend his completely back to normal. i wish it was, but it is, it's getting it that way. but british officials down play their own ongoing fuel crisis. they've now deployed military forces across the country. as petrol stations

remain dried, you to panic, buying with cues of angry driver's, waiting to fill up. ah, hello, good to have you with this live from moscow. this is alta internationals, world news at 11. i'm calling bry 1st story for you this out of that 3 of the world's most popular online services facebook, whatsapp and instagram have been offline for the past few hours in what is one of the biggest ever internet outages. the 3 run on shed infrastructure because the role owned by facebook and the problems being logged around the globe, including the u. k, the u. s. and here in russia, galactose correspondent, elliot trenches who's cross this of forest for i was into this problem. now, while we're any clues as to why it's happened, call hello there. well, just to think about it. these are really 3 behemoths of facebook,

instagram watts app, instagram and watts up like you said, are owned by facebook and all of them have billions of users worldwide. and most of them use one of the apps or the website at least once a day. so if something as serious as a global outage happens, just imagine how many people are affected. websites wouldn't open the abs, wouldn't load the messages, wouldn't be sent and user see error messages popping up. this has been going on for several hours. it began and in the evening, if you're in asia, in the afternoon, if you're in europe or early in the morning, if you're living across the atlanta in the us, for example. and the biggest problem is that we're not being given any explanations by facebook or any of the other companies with the facebook statement. pretty much

says we are aware of the problems we're working to get things back to normal and we apologize for any inconvenience, but we don't know why this is happening and we don't know when this is going to end . and this is indeed like an avalanche because we are already getting reports with issues with google services, with amazon services, with tick tock as well. but i can tell you that the telegram messenger is working. at least there have been some reports that has been slowed down as well, but at least it's working. so this could be the only universal messenger that is properly operating at this moment. now, when it comes to the reasons the internet, experts have speculated that the issues could have involved errors with the d n. s, which is called the the domain name system. some can this with a phone book or an address book of for the internet which points the web browsers

to the computer systems that are serving specific websites. but the consequences of this outage are absolutely massive. the, some are calling them unprecedented. in particular, the seo facebook mark zuckerberg has lost it's been reported more than $7000000000.00 just and these 7 hours. but the, there are further reports that could be even more alarming for the users. one report says that the personal information of over 1500000000 facebook users are again, reportedly up for grabs at this point on a hacker form. there other kinds of reports ranging from facebook employees not being able to enter their office because their passes are supposedly not working from a drones falling from the skies, had

a festival in china. so this is how difficult the situation is right now. and like i said, we don't know why this is happening. we don't know when this is going to end. and this is, was really warring. well, this is one black monday for facebook isn't or okay, labor to anchor. thanks very much for that. right? let's talk life now to radio host and political analyst day perkins. i that dave, i suppose, until major problems like this happen. we didn't realize just how much we take these kind of companies for granted. and it's not just people sending messages to their friends. we rely on them to contact our utility companies out banks and, and such like he takes facebook should be more forthcoming with an answer. well, the answer is not going to be forthcoming because i don't think that they want the public to know what it actually is. i have a feeling and this is intuitive. and i confess a bias in my heart that this might be a chinese hack of some sort. and this after facebook and twitter and all of social media went to so much trouble to help donald trump out of office earlier this year

. that the chinese might be doing some harm to the infrastructure as a demonstration of power and to, to put the tech lords in their place in the united states after, after essentially allying with china who was also being being in a big way by president donald trump. and this looks like a power play by the chinese to me, there's no other real explanation. the domino effect of, of stupid mistakes. one after another doesn't hold water for me. at this point, i'm beginning to believe that this is something that was done on purpose by state actors, someone who puts a lot of money in a lot of effort into software engineering and the only people on the globe that do this with an eye toward dominating other people and causing problems for them to teach them power lessons or the chinese ok. you know that there's no indication that that's the case and certainly i yeah, yeah. ok. other services are still operating,

but somehow having wobbles in likes and telegram. there's also signal, there's plenty of options out there, but also some of the major carriers in the usa. they've had some technical wobbles today. i suppose it's difficult until facebook says what the problem is as to whether this is just a surgeon traffic because people got more time on hand because i know, and the longer they go without telling us what happened, the more one ought to suspect the story that they come up with when all is said and done the honest truth spit right out there at the real time that it occurs is never a problem unless what's going on is something they don't want people to know about . and those are the kind of things that work to prevent information him from getting disseminated. and the longer this goes without a proper explanation, the more suspicious i get. but again, i confess to be someone with a little bit of bias and hoping that the tech lords pay some kind of price for having essentially defacto supported the chinese communist party in their effort to alter america's government in the last year or so. and this could be exactly what

they get back for their trouble. they try to pretend that doing business with, with harmful nations and dealing with the devil is not going to cost them anything . and i think they might have just been taught a lesson. now that's just me, the longer they go without explaining this, the more i begin to believe what i intuitively believe already, and some pretty unfortunate timing for facebook too, because today they went back to the course, didn't they, with a federal fight in the anti trust case, with the governments trying to get facebook to offload whatsapp and instagram saying it's got too much of a monopoly. this isn't really going to help facebook cases it. no, it's not. and especially since they just had the big whistleblower story in america, ms. hogan who came out with thousands of pages of internal documents and revealed that facebook's algorithm, liens on emotional reactions from people as being what the facebook power players want from their customers. and anger is the easiest emotional reaction to get out

of people. and so lady miss hogan was explaining to us that facebook biases itself towards things that develop anger as a response. and people in that certainly imply as a whole lot more political involvement and activity by facebook than they ever would confess to in the past. so this is kind of a triple whammy for them. they're in some big trouble here. and that this also, i mean, that big a questions are going to be asked about the future of regulation of companies, the size of facebook. because although it's a private company, it gives its products away for free. reality is it's not just a social network for a lot of people, it's a social utility. it is. and for that reason, it's developed into a utility because the software engineers are facebook have encourage the customers to use it like one. and that may be the thing that causes them ultimately to lose their monopoly. is that once it becomes something like the phone company where everybody depends on it for business and personal and, and contact of all sort. and facebook then acts like

a monopoly and pulls rugs out from under people and cost them money and difficulty . that is something they're going to have to account for at some point, but i have a feeling that what they're going through and now at this moment is more accountability than we know. and the longer they go without explaining it, the more i believe they're being punished by somebody for something. well that will there be any lasting damage to this? we said that's had mcglochan back last 7000000000. he's now down to his last 100. 20000000000 the whole thing, but in terms of the facebook gets hold over the coals in congress, it gets hold up in front of european regulators. but that brouhaha doesn't last more than a 24 hour new cycle. does it in his back to square one again? well, this goes any lasting damage, not in terms of law and government because facebook, let's face it is on the side of government, facebook liens to the left, politically. that's not a problem for them in europe, and it's not a problem for them. in the united states, regulators are on their side because they are on the science,

and the utility of facebook will be right back in the sites of the whole world. and they'll all be back on happily using it, and this will be forgotten unless there is a long term damage being done in addition to the short term damage. but since we don't have the story yet, we can't speculate as to what the longer term damage might be to them this short term damage, they'd better explain it fast, because the longer they take, the harder it's going to be to believe them. and i can say that one person is loving this is twitter i saw on their official failure and they said hello. literally everybody said us and having a good day. all right, yeah. jack dorsey's going to have to be careful because he may get the same treatment next from the same people. oh yes. okay. de perkins? good talking. thanks for joining us on our team. thank you. gone next week, denmark's energy agency has cleared part of the north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany for operation. more on that next from our europe correspondent. we're not quite there yet, but this is

a step along the way to this gas pipeline eventually being up and running. what has happened is the danish energy agency has given its rubber stamp to the 1st string of the node stream to gas pipeline ad. that means that it has undergone air pre commissioning. it's also the hardest number of tests carried out on it, and it's passed those tests in the eyes of the, the danish energy agency. there's still some way to go yet bow before the pipeline will be open running to its fullest extent. the 2 strings were tied together in the summer of lab this year. that was, of course, much delay due to sanctions and everything that came with that at all of the, the political wranglings they are now in the past. it would seem as we're into this stage of going through the compliance and certification for the infrastructure project. and ultimately, once the 2 strings have been given the approval, they will be able to see gas flow through them. what's going to happen now with this 1st string that's been approved by the danishes that they'll fill it up with

gas very slowly and gradually to essentially make sure that it takes all of those boxes as well that it can carry the load that it's opposed to the 2nd string of nod stream to that is currently undergoing its air pre commissioning. you would imagine that once that's gotten de gone, that then it also goes through the ad this to vacation stages that the 1st strings being going through. eventually, when all of this is connected up, it will as start the working light for this pipeline stretches over 1200 kilometers from russia into germany on a, on the, or the baltic sea coast there. and it could pump as much as 55000000000 cubic meters of gas into germany every year. that's enough to heat $27000000.00 european homes every year. gas, of course, in high demand across europe at the moment and coming with high prices. lot of people looking to nod stream to, to wealth fill the gap when it comes to that gas, and hopefully, hopefully see some of those bills go down. was peter says the whole of europe is on

the brink of an energy crisis. gas prices continued to hit record highs, surging to over $1200.00 per 1000 cubic meters. and with winter looming, there were concerns over how the block is managing, the crunch reporting from paris here charlotte davinsky. there is a lot of finger pointing going on as the block faces this unprecedented energy crisis. that winter crunch is looming and according to summer, this is a problem that has been years in the making. let's have a look at some of the main issues across europe at the moment. and we'll start here in france, where there has been a price increase this month of 12.6 percent in gas towers that follows several months of other rises. the prime minister shall cast excess that will not be a freeze and they will not be any more increases. but of course, that doesn't mitigate the months of increases that people have already seen on their household bills. then in spain, where the price is,

they have tripled in the last year. i mean, we know that the spanish government is made emergency measures to try and mitigate the worst impact on the poor. but small business unions are just saying, this is an impossible situation coming after the cobit crisis. businesses just cannot take any more. and then in italy, prices are set to so by 40 percent, italian government is announced to package over $3000000000.00 euros to try and aid that. and then in germany, we also heard last week that one power plant had to completely shut up shop. and it's not the 1st time at all to do the same a number of times in september. why? well, because it couldn't get enough co. this crisis when it comes to natural gas, has pushed more people towards buying coal, depleting those stocks as well. so it seems like this is a double whammy. so what's behind this looming catastrophe?

well, the you cannot agree on that, but some member states see that this is a problem that he was cause itself because it's pushed too fast too quickly to move to greener energy in at the same time as moved away from fossil fuels. and essentially what it done is, is last the entire book exposed in the g price is currently soaring across the u and putting unprecedented pressure on both energy companies and all our citizens when designing energy and climate policy is we have to ensure their social acceptability otherwise we risk their failure. well, the ease flatly deny is this. it would checks and it says, actually this crisis shows that the problem is that is too much dependence in the u on fossil fuels. and the reality is that the only way to mitigate crises like this in the future is to move harder and faster towards green energy instead of being paralyzed, those slowing things down because of the price hike. now, in the energy sector, we should speed things up in the transition to renewable energy. so the affordable

renewable energy becomes available for everyone was the e u, a scratching its head over what to do it also looking potentially for a scapegoat. and some have suggested that russia is to blame for this crisis, saying that it is holding back on natural gas reserves. russia says that's not the case. in fact, russia says it's willing to step up to the hour of need of it to you repeat neighbors. and increase the supplies of gas to meet those needs, those demands. but what needs to happen for that to take place is the certification of the north stream to pipe. this is a pipe that was completed last month and would see natural gas be able to be delivered directly to germany. but before that can happen, that certification needs to take place. that is something that you finance. i mean, this is our light need to discuss this week is they meet to discuss this entire crisis. but the idea that you finance ministers are discussing bread and butter

subjects like energy bills and how people are going to pay them really gives you a sense of how this crisis is. and as they scratching their heads, looking for a solution, there are tens of millions of households who are concerned about what this winter is going to bring difficult choices that they will have to make in with it. so i the heat that homes or. ringback feed their families all the while, it is wondering how it will keep the light. so on brussels based journalist luke river predicts the prices will soon be back to normal and that north stream to can play a key role. there is no lack of gas in the world, and a good example of it is the fact that the price of gas is not increased by one euro cent in the united states over the last few months. while can europe, it has increased by more than one percent over one year, which is of course, a lot. so now is the time to support the, the customers, the consumers,

the and consumers to avoid a price hike. now in the winter, but by sprain, this will be finished. everybody knows that the easiest is of course, to get the gas from russia, from an all stream to. and again, there is gas, everywhere in russia is not stopping this gas from being the liver thing is that we need to finalize all stream to and it's a matter of months and most across the channel. the 3rd crisis in the balance and the u. k. as well with petrol stations, they're still running dry and angry drivers forming huge qs. the government's deploying military personnel nationwide to get supplies moving. shoddy, edwards dashti reports next from london. put it this way as day 10 now of the petrol crisis situation and the united kingdom is still seeing many cars backed up outside of petrol stations. people waiting hours to fill up that tanks and even the public transportation is being diverted away to avoid all of this gridlock things

have gotten so bad. now, the minute tree has now been deployed and drafted in to try and get the fuel to the petrol station. i think it's also really important. we can actually call in the military at a time like this for that extra support to give that confidence and have a misha that's there as a precaution, because as i say, the situation is stabilizing. no one's going to pretend his completely back to normal. i wish it was, but it's getting that way. so the government says that this shortage is even the problem is get from invest that the 5 minutes also reiterating started. javits comments is that the all the being deployed is simply a precautionary measures. now, around 200 military personnel getting involved in this operation that trying to focus on nuns and on the southeast region, they argue that these all the west affected for myself. personally, i'm a little bit worried because in my journey on the way to work this morning,

my call was flashing red at me, meaning i need to get to a petrol station as soon as possible. but of course, i'm not the only wanna tool, millions of people are now affected. in fact, it's such a hot topic that discussing the actual situation is as common as discussing the weather here in the united kingdom, which goes to show just how many people affected, particularly those people working on petrol pump stations. if you're going to fuel a 6 or 7 narrative developing creek to cross one minute, one day you're, you're fluffy and you'd be taking 3 turn didn't like you normally do. next they run a fuel and i look good. so i just doesn't get sold because nobody comes in will the last 10 days have also be defined by a bit of a blame game on the one hand, gentleness of being attacked, saying that the media is really reporting on

a big headlines. and then on the individual level as well, people pointing the finger of blame directly at those people panic of buying all of this patchwork. but can jonas be blamed for simply reports in the news? no. can the public really be blamed for simply buying depleting? results is not the seems remotely irrational, especially the crux of all of this is the very fact that a 100 a 1000 laurie drive is how now have now had a mass exodus leaving the united kingdom. there are many reasons full that particularly things like the breakfast with these laurie, dr. a staying in the countries that they are from. so this seems to be a direct result of numerous things, particularly like brick set. and it doesn't seem that it's going to be a quick fix for the united kingdom with, i'll tell you up ahead. it's a study of extradition for catalogue is top separatist leader. and italian judge delays sending him back to spain to face addition charges. it's all next story when

we come back. ah oh, is your media a reflection of reality? in the world transformed? what will make you feel safer? isolation, whole community. are you going the right way or are you being led somewhere? direct. what is true? what is great in the world corrupted you need to descend, have join us in the depths or remain in the shallows.

join me every thursday on the alex, simon, sure. but i'll be speaking to guess what the world politics, sport business, i'm sure business. i'll see you then. oh, hello again, an italian quarter suspended the extradition to spain of catalan independence liter colors pushed him on. as he stepped out of the court building, he was greeted by supporters waving capital. i'm flags and shouting freedom. oh which one was arrested last month? insomnia. he's waiting on a european court of justice decision over his immunity as a group in parliament member, which was stripped off in march, which the ones lawyer spoke to r t prior to italy's ruling on monday, he said spanish efforts to extradite him over alleged sedition for his role in the

2017 catalan independence vote or illegal what is known as the chalet. this situation is illegal and is caused by actions of the spanish high call that we consider a contradictory to international law. we can see that the spanish high court does not respect e u laws. they want to be part of a club, but they're not really contributing to that. not following e, you norms and prosecuting politicians for their political activity as if they were criminals. several countries such as switzerland said that this was a political crime back in 20182019. meanwhile, some 3000 separatists protested, took to the streets, barcelona on sunday, to mark the 4th anniversary of the catalan independence referendum, demonstrates his wife, banish proclaiming. we won demanding, regional government leaders heed the results of the poll 4 years ago, where more than 90 percent voted to split from spain. the okay. okay. those of us in favor of independence of not jumped on the bandwagon and the cattle and government which has

a pro independence majority needs to get his act together once and for all and take sides and apply what we voted for, which is a unilateral declaration of independence i to day i don't see many people, so it'd be like a feeling that we still have to be mobilized and not get tired. but we are a bit tired already. because even though i'm here, i don't think it's of much use. and i'm sorry to say this, but i don't see any response from the people or the politicians in particular massa . so see, i don't know anyone who's still being a pro independence activist now it's a matter of political leaders joining us and we can achieve it together. russian military has successfully test launched its cutting edge hypersonic anti ship missile called zircon. for the 1st time, it was fired at sea from a nuclear submarine. the missile hit its intended target in the barren seen rushes arctic. zircon was 1st produced in 2016 and it can destroy enemy ships as well as ground targets. it's exceptionally high speed,

makes it difficult for anti aircraft stems to intercept the pentagon, a single that the missile is one of russia's most dangerous i will, i may have been on america's disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan. but the u. s. military is now facing a revolt from within it. some soldiers speaking out against the leadership and the damage done by supposedly woke practices. ah, all those people did die in vain. people are upset because their senior leaders let them down and none of them are raising their hands and accepting accountability are saying we messed this up with. we were taught that the country was evil, that it was founded in 1619 and not 1776. and that whites are inherently evil to

i've made that very clear to my own people, but in the light of a hyper politicized environment, i will not tolerate any discrimination of any kind based on politics. this is really about the freedom of the american people, the right to choose your own medical procedures, the right to decide what's going to be injected into your, your body and what's not. those are a natural human right that we can't take away from people with hey, are now your up to date. if you do wanna follow us on the line,

the ones that are still operating anyway were on youtube, are on telegram. we're on twitter and we're on tv. that's where i'll be in half an hour with your next update for marcia moskowitz, even ah, these are the 4 people who pulled the trigger a survive something on survival. one of the hardest things that i had to face was not having a face at a low expectation to life. i accepted accept the fact that i made that work. we had no fears, general change pre fashion, 4 shots, different stories behind the bullets. oh no. when i was sure seemed wrong when i just don't know. i mean you world, yes to say proud. disdain becomes the advocate and engagement equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds of horn, we choose to look for common ground. ah ah, the unique singular marsh for our lives is that he, the adults are afraid of us, quite frankly. members of congress are very afraid of us. and that's something we know and we definitely use to our advantage. or we're able to get meetings with people who quite literally will never vote in favor of any gun battles from.