lou ah, facebook or stop and in surround stuff of one of the largest outages in the internet history. meanwhile, wible platform suffers technical problems as well. teeth and massively increased traffic on that network than most and to agents. they gave the green light to powder rushes and all stream 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 he is getting it that way. while british officials downplayed their own ongoing fuel prices, they've now deployed ministry forces across the country. as pastoral stations remain, drive you to panic, buying with keys of unburied driveways waiting to fill up.

ah, a life for most for young, she's been using on seen to national was me. you lash paula, thanks for joining us. facebook, seo monk is eco box complet apologize for his company's major social media platforms being offline for more than 6 hours. facebook instagram, whatsapp, a messenger coming back online. now. sorry for the disruption today. i know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about. says 3 of the world's most popular online services has been clipped. hold my one of the biggest at an internet outage is facebook a lot south and instagram? well offline for more than 6 hours. those platforms run on shad infrastructure because they're owned by facebook with the problem being locked around the globe

from the u. k to the us and his russian, well as well. facebook now says it's happy to report that it services are coming back online. my colleague clean, re discuss neisha with anson contributor mika house. 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 camera fresh from anything pat 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 the updates are. have been so far. i don't see any of the official channels. i mean, especially as a result of twitter in order to try and keep that customers informed about what's happening. they've given no indication as to whether this was the,

the deliberate or just an accident. no. and so far and no one has given any indication as to whether or not this deliberate or an accident. there haven't been any allegations of a quote unquote 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, in, 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, some people have twitters, picked up traffic significantly. some people were joking about saying if face says facebook down of twitter goes on next. and they'll be posting all their rage tweets in food pictures on tinder instead. and, and other people, of course, that of tinder goes down along with all those other 3. well, they're not exactly sure what they're gonna 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 of tender facebook and twitter goes on. i have no idea. i any one's going to find her soulmate. and so it's pretty hard situation. but hopefully it does get reconciled 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 will be pretty sad to see people lose a good marketing tool. you know, we do want to see facebook held accountable, but we do want them to be held accountable in the right way. not something that hurts a lot of people and less how cross life to lower in china on say, contributes a journalist and a blogger. lauren, hello. that nice to see. welcome, tante. so, any idea what could have caused such a massive outage around the world? well, as of yet facebook has not said anything about the causes. we don't know if this was something to happen intentionally or if it was a cyber attack or my feelings are if that if this was something done by a 3rd party, facebook would be very reluctant to admit it. and i have heard conspiracy areas

floating around that ever since the facebook whistleblower. i contacted the media saying that there's proof that facebook actually, he helps and aided and abetted the january 6 insurrection that perhaps this was facebook's way of almost cleansing their logs and trying to not incriminate themselves, especially as they come under increase increase scrutiny from u. s. congress, but as of yet it looks like we have no concrete evidence and i'm, i'm frankly not sure if we ever will of considering facebook tends to keep things like this pretty close to the chest. yeah. and apart from that, this coming reported leak of private data from one and a half 1000000000. facebook ease is day thing. that is a connection. well, i say if these 2 things are connected, i think the thread that weaves them together is the fact that facebook is not infallible. and what's app is definitely not infallible. what's apple? so came under scrutiny because there were reports that even though they claim that the user messages were encrypted, that they were actually sending some user data to authorities in order to help with different types of prosecution. so if there is a message to take away from this,

i think it was absolutely that we should be very skeptical of the claims that facebook whatsapp, your, all the subsidiaries are making about their ability to keep your, your data private. because clearly it seems like they can't, at least for the moment, i keep their sites even online. right, and aid the data, indeed leak. and it's confound, wouldn't be the biggest in the history of cybersecurity then. absolutely, because where you have to understand about facebook is that these aren't just people as a profiles and family pictures. although there is that there is banking information that is available on facebook. there's a lot of sensitive information in terms of private messages between users as well as different companies. they host a lot of different infrastructure on flight facebook. there's facebook market place . i think people would be shocked and appalled even to know what type of data facebook is keeping on all of them. so if nothing else, i hope this makes users a little bit more cautious as to what type of platforms they give different privacy permissions to. and i also encourage people to start looking at alternatives. a

facebook for a long time has been known to kick people off the platforms for breaking. they're very vague and arbitrary seeming terms of service. and it seems that we may be approaching a time where even facebook itself cannot keep its own terms of service. it at least to the point where it remains functionable to, to users. right, right. so many of us do use these platforms. many businesses use these platforms, but how closely will this be for facebook at south? good, the company lose market share to its competitors. well there of course that i as of right now, mark sucker bridge has decreased his value by around $7000000000.00, which is even for mark zuckerberg, nothing small. and i think absolutely this opens the door for different competitors, different social media platforms, including twitter, which did see a boost in users as facebook was down to gain market share for the social media market place. but what is concerning is that i feel like facebook knows this and it's on the offense. recently we saw facebook actually launch an ad campaign,

trying to encourage people to support government regulation of the internet. facebook is now actually trying to encourage people to go to the government and have them have them implement the kinds of restrictions that facebook already uses to moderate its contents. what this means is that if facebook has its way, the government will be holding sites like twitter, gab or even telegram to the same content moderation policy policies that twitter already applies to its own site, which is very terrifying. and again, this all just speaks the fact that if you are a facebook user i, if i were you, i would absolutely looking at different alternatives because we do not need mark soccer work, having more powered influence than he already has her eyes. and could that they any repercussions from the u. s. government or any other countries? if the data leak is indeed confined? that's a hard question. a facebook has been subject to fines before i'm sure there will be subject to fines in the future. but when you're dealing with a company as large and as rich as facebook,

we have to understand that even millions and hundreds of millions of dollars when you're looking at facebook's bottom line. it is a small, small percentage of, of the revenue that they bring in. and you, we've seen u. s. congress go after facebook increasingly hard for things like allegedly violating anti trusts and for breaches of user privacy protection. but i, until i actually see these, these congressmen go to facebook and, and i guess give them hard terms. i'll, i'll have trouble believing that facebook will face any type of meaningful repercussions. and it's actually interesting the type of countries where we've seen facebook come under increase scrutiny. i actually, ah, places like australia which, which came down hard enough on facebook where they actually did manage to get them to change their terms of service. so far we've not seen any meaningful action from us government or i took lauren, china i'll take, contributes a journalist and a blog. got lauren, thank you very much indeed for a time where appreciated. thanks for having me. thanks. now denmark's and your

agency has cleared pont of russia's north tryng to gasp, pipeline full peroration. and he is all europe corresponded to pay to only with more 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, though, 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 nord stream to well that is currently undergoing its air pre commissioning. you would imagine that once that's gotten begun that then it also goes through the ad, the certification stages, that the 1st strings being going through. eventually, when all of this is connected up, it will start the working light for this pipeline stretches over 1200 kilometers from russia into germany on a, on the, at 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. so as peter says, the whole european union 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 wind to looming, there were concerns over how the block is monitoring the crunch reporting from paris. his challenge 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 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 prime minister shall cast excess, they 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 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 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, 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 left 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 policies, we have to ensure their social acceptability. otherwise we risk their failure. well, the e you flatly deny is this it with jackson. it says actually this crisis shows that the problem is there is too much dependence in the you own 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'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 your peer 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 ministers 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 the 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 order to either heat their homes or feed their families all the while. it is wondering how it will keep the light so on. so brussels based journalist luc, every vapor digs that 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 euros sent into 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 b, the customers, the consumers, the end 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 old stream to. and again, there is gas everywhere in russia, not stopping this gas from being the liver thing is that we need to finalize all string too, and it's a matter of months at most and across the channel. and as a crisis in the balance in the u. k. as well with petrol stations on still running dry and angry drivers, forming huge keys, the government's deploying militia personal nationwide to get supplies moving

shadow edwards dashti reports now from london. but at this way, as day 10 now of the pachel crisis situation and the united kingdom is still seeing many cars backed up outside of pachel stations. people waiting hours to fill up their tanks. and even the public transportation is being diverted away to avoid all of this gridlock things have gotten so bad now that the military has now been deployed and drafted in to try and get the feel to the petrol stations. i think it's also really important that we can actually call in the military at a time like this for that extra support to give that confidence and, and have this 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 it is. it's getting it that way. so the government says that this shortage is easing the problem is get from vassar, the filing also reiterating satta javits comments just that the ali being deployed

is simply a precautionary measures. now around 200 military personnel getting involved in this operation. they're trying to focus on is london and the southeast region. they argue that these are the worst 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. 6 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 actual situation is as common as discussing the weather here in the united kingdom, which goes to show just how many people are affected, particularly those people working at the petro pump stations for, for you to fuel a peak to trough one minute, one day your, your flux, you'd be taking 3 turn does not normally they run

a few seconds to each other, things from which it doesn't get cold because nobody comes in. well, the last 10 days have also be defined by a bit of a blame game on the one hand journalist 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. a directly at those people panic, buying all of this pattern, but can jonas be blame for simply reporting the news? no. can the public really be blame for simply buying depleting? result is neither seems remotely irrational, especially at 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 for that, particularly things like breakfast with these laurie, dr. a staying in the she's 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. i'm coming up later, an italian called a suspends. the extradition of cats learning is top independence needa display tremendous pressure from spain will have known that after a short break. lou join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world of politics, small business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. mm. ah, is your media a reflection of reality?

in the world transformed? what will make you feel safer? isolation for him. unity. are you going the right way? where are you being led somewhere? which direction? what is true? was his way. in the world corrupted, you need to descend. ah, so join us and the death will remain in the shallows. ah ah, welcome back tones international donald trump is demanding that the pulitzer prize board strip new york times and washington post journalists of that was what he calls the now proven fast on there. russia get coverage over his 26 in election

when as has been widely publicized, the coverage was no more than a politically motivated force, which attempted to spin a false narrative that my campaign supposedly colluded with russia. despite a complete lack of evidence underpinning mis allocation, i would expect that you will take the necessary steps to rectify the situation, including stripping the recipients of their prize and retracting the full statements which remain on the pill. it's a website report as fix have the 2018 prize for almost 2 dozen ask calls linking tram selection campaigned to moscow. a year later, trump demanded their watch and be rescinded. after investigation into the conspiracy found no evidence to prosecute the president. the special councils 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. so trans aretha reiterated his demand to take away their ward after a former clinton campaign lawyer was indicted on charges of line to the f. b i.

when talking about a supposed connections between trump and russia, although that attorney has pleaded not guilty, trump believes that indictment has proven. his point. i'll see is america's chris hedges, who's a former long time new york times reporter. things trans 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 deep animal towards donald trump? well, the whole discourse around trump is politicized. and both the supporters of trump and the opponents of trump engage and 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 is, 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 organization 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. and it's highland course

suspended, the extradition to spain of counsel and independence liter kind of push them on. and he says he's happy about that decision of the splittings. as you can imagine, i'm very happy to day i was calling because i knew it would end up like this at spain. hassan achieved any of its political objectives. and i say political because it's clear the spain 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. oh said push him on was detained last month in sardinia has been awaiting a decision on whether it was lawful for the european parliament to remove his immunity from prosecution. earlier this year, and we early had from pushed him as neu, whose as the spanish government doesn't have the right to extradite him. whoo! from us. but surely, the 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 u 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 201820198 while sell 3000 separate his her support and stick to the streets of barcelona on sunday to mount the 4th anniversary of the cattle on independence referendum. demonstrators waved banners for claiming we won, demanding, regional government leaders, a heed the polls result as 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 catalan 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 the unilateral declaration of independence e o e, at a day i don't see many people, so it would 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 myself. so see, i don't know anyone who's stopped being a pro independence activist. now it's a matter of political leaders joining us and we can achieve it together. rushes, house ministry has taken another step towards diminishing their facts, have carried 19 by red string and inhale and for treatment and prevention of the pneumonia caused by the virus. the drug called lighter, again, is aimed at preventing and competing as cytokines. stall, a life threatening immune reaction, and it ultimately helps to protect the body from pneumonia. and we've spoken to

this, see all the medical institutions that develop the drug looks like in 2020. the 3rd phase of little guns clinical trials was completed is involved 320 patients. and the results were excellent. all that patients recovered and the recovery period took 8 days as opposed to full tune for standard cove. it therapy. clinical research was carried out by the russian medical biological agency. nobody really knew anything about it back then. the drug wasn't directly tested in intensive care units. the issue of research into seriously ill patients is being discussed with health experts. if we let us will gladly demonstrate little guns efficiency in i see use. and the care is not based on any foreign developments. and congress fully produced here in russia. it was peyton's and in 2020 and mass production is said to begin, seen the trunks develop that say it is unique and the way it works. ah, currently there's no other drug on the market, is designed to suppress

a seat to can storm like liter. again, we figured out the mechanism, the receptors that lead to again acts on the enzymes that it triggers. and the molecular targets that it acts upon the results of this research were published in the september issue of the journal of immune or research, the fundamental difference that liter, again, has versus other drugs as it's comprehensive effect on multiple targets. we hope that this new approach in the treatment of seated can storms as well as the mechanisms we've identified, will improve therapy and reduce the risks pertaining to cove at 19. and that brings us up to date for this hour. join us for more news and segment and sign up next states our documentary ah ah.