[000:00:00;00] ah ah, big story this our facebook whatsapp and instagram suffer one of the largest outages in internet history. meanwhile, rival platform stuff and technical problems to do to massively increased traffic on their networks. denmark's energy agency gives the green light part of brushes. no $32.00 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. or british officials down play their own on going fuel crisis. they've now deployed military forces across the country, as the petrol stations remain dried you to panic, buying with cues of angry drivers,

waiting to philip. ah, oh, good, happy with us. just him 1 in the morning on tuesday, the 5th of october here in moscow. my name is colleen bray with the world news for marty international. this our 1st and 3 of the world's most popular online services have been crippled by one of the biggest ever internet outages. facebook, whatsapp, instagram and facebook message year of all been offline for more than 6 hours. now, the 3 of course run on shed infrastructure because they're all owned by facebook, with the problem being logged around the globe from the u. k to the u. s. and here in russia, right, let's go live to our t correspondent nika, how so we were just checking online earlier, it seems at facebook and instagram are slowly getting back to life. you can't do much else, but open a page at the moment. any word yet from facebook on what caused this? no, there still is anywhere from facebook on what caused this. and i know that some people

are reporting that they can open their app. now i actually could open my app as well, but i've actually been able to open my app since this morning. i just couldn't refresh the page and the same thing for instagram. and that seems to still be the case. i did just check to make sure, and there is a casto cam refresh from anything pat with the within the last 12 hours. so i'm not exactly sure what's going on there and the facebook domain is not working on the desktop. facebook. facebook dot com is coming up at all, so i'm not sure if they're finally able to fix the issue. and i'm not sure if they even know what exactly caused it. but that's what updates are, have been so far as i'm any of the official channels. i mean, i specified to result a twitter in order to try and keep that customers informed about what's happening. they've given no indication as to whether this was either deliberate or just an accident. no, no, and so far and no one is given any indication as to whether or not this deliberate or an accident. there haven't been any allegations of a score called cyber attack, at least not by those 2 companies. but hey,

we are in the us. so i'm sure you give it about 10 to 30 minutes. one of the officials will come out and try to blame, trying to rush or ran in and in a very short period of time. i'm sure. so what are people doing in the mean time and about 6 hours without being able to send any messages on what's apple communicating on facebook or uploading the pictures of their lunch to instagram or whatever it is they doing instead? so some people have, some people have a twitters picked up traffic significantly. some people were joking about saying, you know, if face says facebook down of twitter goes down next. and they'll be posting all their rage tweets in food pictures on tinder instead. and in other people, of course, that have tinder goes down along with all those other 3. well, they're not exactly sure what they're going to do with their lives. because, you know, given all the shut down and things like that, people's love life is already hanging by a thread and of tender facebook and twitter girls and i have no idea i any one's going to find her soulmate. and so it's pretty hard situation, but hopefully it does gay reconcile because, you know,

beyond the social aspect of facebook and instagram, there is a business aspect, and a lot of people's businesses are on these platforms and do communicate using these platforms. and it would be pretty sad to see people lose a good marketing tool. you know, we do want to see facebook out accountable, but we do want them to be held accountable in the right way. not something that hurts a lot of people. yes, very good point. us, there's something i'm going to put on our sketch. in fact, i ok for now. i'll take, i'll respond a niko house. thanks for that. thank you. ok, let's now talk to michael rectinwald's, who's a liberal studies professor, also an author of many books including google archipelago, the digital go like and simulation of freedom of michael got to have you on, i'll say, as nika was mentioning that aside from the joke he aspect of, we will use these apps to ascend silly pictures to each other. they are also a utility, aren't they? there are businesses. the rely on facebook being online for its advertising and for their custom. yeah, i mean, millions of businesses rely on facebook now and many other many others use facebook

in order to, to connect to other apps and so forth. so it's a very big issue across the board. as a few seconds ago, i was able to log on to facebook. i haven't tried posting anything, but it seems to be up for me at least. and that's pretty interesting, but it's been 6 hours, 7 hours at this point that it's been down that i was unable to access it myself. and in terms of offering an explanation, cuz the last time something like this happened to me a couple of years ago. but nowhere near the magnitude of anyone else for a couple of hours would have 6 hours in and still not very much from facebook. should it be offering a bit more of an explanation. not much from facebook, however, some other important players have offered opinions. cloud fair, for example, suggested that gateway for their facebook or gateway protocol routes. that is how the networks pick the routes to get to the internet. to facebook happened,

withdrawn from the internet, or had been withdrawn from the internet. that is, they didn't exist. and you know, this is a d n s probably a d n s domain name server issue. why they couldn't locate facebook. it's like looking in the phone book, a list of names with no phone numbers. so the servers had no way to connect to the actual site. this has been, this is, these are the explanations that have been given by cloud fair and others. does it send something of a warning shot about the fragility of the networks that we rely on, especially when you've got a company, the sides of facebook that 70 millions of people use? like i said, not just the fun but also for communicating with schools. employers, hospitals, and the like. it says a huge warning across the bile because here we have a major social network site. but you know,

this shows us the extent to which we rely on digital technology across the board. and cyber attacks of sorts can bring down whole systems. and facebook is just one. it's a social networking platform, but a lot of businesses as we said, relying on it. but imagine a much more intrinsic infrastructural attack. i'm not saying this was a cyber attack. in fact, i have a theory about what happened, but this shows you the fragility of the entire digital infrastructure that we're relying on. what, what, what is your thoughts on it then, what is your theory? well, recently, you know, just last night the whistleblower francis hog was on 60 minutes here in the united states and has revealed practices that she beams to be unethical on facebook part and their lack of treating or actual promotion of what she calls hate speech.

and she's calling for some serious regulation. i will speak to congress on tuesday about this. my thoughts are that it was an inside job to some extent, there has to be some insiders who were involved because facebook employees who tried to go to the office that they weren't even able to get into their offices because they're bad. digital badges didn't work. so somehow there had to be some insiders involved, perhaps disgruntled face and employees says, you know, this whistleblowers report were just too much and that they had to do something about facebook's practices. that's my theory. it could be wrong. it could have been a cyber attack from outside, but even all of the system going down at one facebook watch app, instagram and there inside pages, all the facebook employees page is also down there, internet internet within, within the company also down. so this means that somebody was able to attack the

entire system perhaps, and bring everything down at once. simultaneously, the simultaneous character of this really makes it quite suspicious, yet suddenly, no indication yet history exactly was caused, and hopefully facebook will give us some details in due course in terms of it being one of facebook's worst mondays. since its inception. you mentioned the whistleblower that we've got this massive power outage, also reports that one and a half 1000000000 accounts have been leaked onto the dark web and also facebook back in court with that anti trust the case with the federal authorities looking to break up facebook at once facebook to let go of walt sap and instagram, it's not been the company's best ag think those coals, those anti trust coals will now grow even louder? will they get even more powerful? yes, i think the anti trust cause will get louder and the calls for regulation are going

to get louder. i think the regulation calls are actually playing in the facebook scans because they want regulation because they count on regulatory capture. and so i think that facebook will welcome regulations because that helps them to control the market and keep out other, you know, entrance into the market. because the higher the more regulations, the more difficult it is for competitors to compete in the marketplace. as for the anti trust, they'll certainly resist those calls. they don't want to break up the company because it's too powerful and it's too profitable, and they're afraid of losing those power profit centers, i believe. ok, good to talk to you. thanks very much for joining us. liberal studies professor michael rex involve author of google archipelago. thanks for your time. thank you. next that mark's energy agency has played part of rush has no stream to gas pipeline for operation. his are europe correspondent, painter oliver. 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 last this year. it 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 sensitive occasion 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 guy. and hopefully,

hopefully see some of those bills go down. while, as peter says, the whole european union's on the brink of an energy crisis, gas prices continue to hit record highs, surging to have a $1200.00 per 1000 cubic meters. and with winter coming, that concerns over how the block is managing. the crunch reporting next from paris, he shall ado, bent ski. there is a lot of finger pointing going on as the block faces this unprecedented energy crisis. that winter crunch is looming in, according to some, 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 tariffs that follows several months of other rises, the payment of social cast access. it 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 impacts on the poor. but small business unions are just saying this is an impossible situation coming after the cobra crisis. businesses just cannot take any more. and then in italy, prices are set to so by 40 percent, the 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, the power plant had to completely shut up shop. and it's not the 1st time at all to do the same and number of times in september. why? well, because it couldn't get enough coal. 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 that 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 and at the same time as moved away from fossil fuels. and essentially what it done is last, the entire book exposed energy price is currently soaring across the u and putting unprecedented pressure on both energy companies and all our citizens when designing energy and climate policies, we have to ensure their social acceptability. otherwise we risk their failure. well, the ease flatly deny is there sit with jackson. it says actually this crisis shows that the problem is there is too much dependence in the you 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 is scratching its head over what to do. it's 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 nord stream to pipe. this is a pipe that was completed last month and would c, 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 find out. some illnesses are likely to discuss this week as 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. the difficult choices that they will have to make in detail. i the heat that homes or feed their families all the while it is wondering how it will keep the light. so on brussels based journalist le group a predicts and the price is, will soon be back to normal. and an old 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 a 100 percent over one year, which is of course,

a lot. so now is the time to support 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 through 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 at most across the channel that a 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 governments now 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, the 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 sense. so as a measure 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 he says it's getting that way. so the government says that this shortage is easing the problem is get from vassar, the prime minister also reiterating cited javits comments just that the ali being deployed is simply a precautionary measures. now around 200 military personnel are getting involved in this operation. they're trying to focus on is london on the southeast region. they argue that these are the worst affected it 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 one a tool. millions of people are now affected. in fact, it's such a hot topic that discussing the petro 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 at the patch or pump stations. if you're going to fuel a 6 or 7 narrative developing peaks and troughs, one minute, one day you're, you're fluffy, nearby taking 3 turn does not normally the next day you run a fuel in there look good. so the, the, i just doesn't get sold because nobody comes in. well, 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, those people tonic, buying all of this patchwork. but can jonas be blamed for simply reporting the news? no. can the public really be blamed for simply buying depleting? results is neither 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 country that they are from. so this seems to be a direct result of numerous things, particularly, like breck said, and it doesn't seem that it's going to be a quick fix for the united kingdom. this is all to up ahead. it's a stay of extradition. catalonia is top separate, is leader of natalia and george delays sending it back to spain to face addition

charges. it's all next story when we come back for

ah. join me every thursday on the alex salmon? sure. well, i'll be speaking the guess of the world of politics. sport business, i'm sure business. i'll see you then. ah ah. hello again. natalia court suspended the extradition to spain of catalan, independently to college push to bomb, who says he's happy about that decision. was put on my you nasty, as you can imagine, i'm very happy today i was calling because i knew it would end up like this, or you, spain, hassan achieved any of its political objectives. and i say political because it's clear this vein uses the judiciary a fundamental power in the rule of law, a power whose independence determines the quality of

a democracy. spain uses the judiciary to achieve political objectives that the read . oh, which to mom is detained. last month in sardinia, he's been awaiting a decision on whether it was lawful for the european parliament to remove his immunity from prosecution. earlier this year, or really a heard from pushed him on to lawyer who says the spanish government doesn't have the right to extradite. when are you from ashley? this situation is illegal and is caused by actions of the spanish high court that we consider contradictory to international law. we can see that the spanish high court does not respect e. you laws. they want to be part of a club, but they're not really contributing to that. not following e u 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 separatism supporters took the streets of barcelona on sunday to mark the 4th anniversary of the cattle and independent referendum. demonstrators waved banners proclaiming we won demanding, regional government leaders heat the poles results as more than 90 percent of 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 that a 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. here with a hill on my sassy. i don't know anyone who stop being a pro independence activist now. it's

a matter of political leaders joining us and we can achieve it together. donald trump is demanding that the pulitzer prize board strip new york times and washington post journalists of their awards for what he calls the now proven fast of their rush. a good coverage of his 2016 election when as has been widely publicized, the coverage was no more than a politically motivated force, which attempted to spin a force narrative that my campaign supposedly colluded with russia. despite a complete lack of evidence underpinning this allegation, i would expect that you will take the necessary steps to rectify the situation, including stripping the recipients of their prize and retracting the false statements which remain on the pulitzer website. report has picked up the 2018 prize for almost 2 dozen articles linking trumps election campaign to moscow. a year later, trump demanded the award should be rescinded after an investigation into the conspiracy found no evidence to prosecute the president. the special council's investigation did not find that the trump campaign or any one associated with it,

conspired or coordinated with russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 u. s. presidential election on from renewed his demand to take away the award after a former clinton campaign lawyer was indicted on charges that he lied to the f. b i . when relying information about supposed connections between trump and russia. that attorney pleaded not guilty, but trump believes the indictment has proven his point out. the americans chris hedges is also a former long time. new york times reporter things trumps request will go unfulfilled. there is no way they'll be deprived of a surprise because i can guarantee you everybody on the pool. it surprised committee as a di, banum, as towards donald trump. well, the, the whole discourse around trump is politicized. and both the supporters of trump and the opponents of trump engage in conspiracy theory. both sides are essentially non reality based belief system. so the whole political

discourse in the united states is politicized. and each side embraces very dangerous conspiracy theories without confronting the fact that the forces that have thrown the country into such decline are these corporate forces that of de industrialized move jobs overseas are, should be the common target. but of course they're not. and that, that's what it's, it's a non reality based discourse. it's very frightening and widening and growing more antagonistic by the day for those of us who come out of that old journalistic tradition. and it has harmed news organs that we care about. in fact, one that i used to work at, but whether that demographic is affected by the demographic, that those, that news organisation caters to. i don't think so because it is feeding it what it wants to believe in feeding it what it wants to hear. which shouldn't be journalist,

it's a very different media landscape from when i began as a young journalist. and especially if you look on commercial television like cnn. i would argue they don't even do much news anymore. all life may have been all americans disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan. the u. s. military is now facing a revolt from within its own soldiers. speaking out against the leadership and the damage done by supposedly well practices a 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. we were taught that the country was able to, 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 that 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 you know, we can't take away from people use with