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me a glove with said basil makes dreams come true that every one who falls in love with people look like. mm ah, a facebook whistle blower, a test defies before us senate accusing the social media giant of spreading hate on taking advantage of its users. is the latest headache for the platform coming just a day after millions of people who are disconnected from the world's biggest social network, as well as instagram and what's up for 7 hours with even company engineers. seeing their electronic passes stop working, europe's energy crisis deepens with italy, bearing the brunt record gas prices have left many on able to pay the bills or
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jeremy. i'm really shocked. i'm aware of what is going on, and i have to say we are upset, an absolute shame italian state instead of protecting its citizens does exactly the opposite. it is raised the tariffs of goods such as electricity and gas. what a shame also cover y'all. history in the making, a russian film crew arrives at the international space station to shoot that 1st ever feature lent movie in orbit ah, from moscow to the world, this is our t wherever you're counting the program from today across the globe. welcome to then use our a former facebook employee is testifying before a u. s. senate hearing panel after leaking documents that showed flaws in the
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platforms, algorithms. the whistleblowers accusing the company of putting prophets ahead of the users safety. now spreading hatred and division. facebook exploited teams. do you think that teams are profitable for their company? i would assume so those dangerous algorithms that they had met are picking up dead that they stream sentence the division, their product. it is often destructive. facebook's products harm children, stoke to vision and weak in our democracy. the damage to self interest and self worth of inflicted by facebook to day will haunt a generation. it is pulling families apart. and in places like ethiopia, it's literally fanning ethnic violence less cross live. now to r t contributor nico house for more on this nico good to see, you just tell us indeed what the whole process is about here. what's being talked to by the big details today. so it just seems honest like blumenthal in hug
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in or pulling their best. nancy grace, what about the children routine in front of the world where they constantly focus on the quote unquote damage that facebook's algorithms and histograms, algorithms are doing whether it comes to marketing children where are 2 children, whether it comes to the conversation of this course being had on facebook, but quite honestly, i find it a little bit troubling that just 2 weeks ago there was a whistleblower leak. that said that facebook actually has a white list for celebrities that they actually protect when they full men violence or when they, or when they say something that could be considered misleading or misinformation. and yet there was nobody called in for to, to have a conversation about that. also there's been a lot of this zacko barguss's trying to escape accountability. zuckerberg will not be here for the hearing. is watch, which is once again laughable. because if the senate wanted him to stand before the senate to have this conversation,
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they could have merely subpoenaed him. so i just feel like it's a lot of theatrics going on in an attempt to push for more censorship, more than what we already see on facebook. and in just the inconsistencies on how they want to apply these principles of. let's make sure that these platforms don't harm anybody when we see them every day harming some people's brands, small businesses, and causing legitimate ha dangers to people's lives by, by suppressing certain information and certain accounts. and that's never discussed . i'd say just all comes out looking like, dear to me, go, we'll keep in front of the details emerging from that set of hearing the next few hours for now are teak, contributor nico hi sense, nico, thank you. well, even before today's senate session, facebook was already making headlines after the biggest outage in the tech giants history on monday, which left users locked out for 7 hours. it's engineers have blamed a technical error for the web apocalypse,
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a problem calls facebook alone. tens of millions of dollars and lost revenue disrupting business and social interactions around the world. our dishes were also reported across a variety of sites and services, including bank of america, tick tock, unlinked in journalist, and commented or child with more questions. so such a vast that company can be so vulnerable to a technical failure. facebook. oh is a one trillion dollar company and i always outages happen a lot. it happened in april in june of just this year. you don't see google outages or any other big companies, apple happening quite so frequently. so it's a bit bizarre that facebook has a problem with this. it seems to be that all of their, these properties oculus, instagram, whatsapp, and basically all run through some sort of similar server. facebook is now sort of saying they were making upgrades and, and, and program or gotten locked out or something. sounds fair. she sounds really strange. the fact that this and facebook always
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a privacy problems and they always have problems there and they always go offline, it went down to one. so it's, it's very suspicious. and it's also suspicious that facebook seems to have bigger problems than most tech companies with these issues. and, and i would whistle blowers as well, acknowledging back this has a look at the dangers of these monopolies if they can blink out of existence so quickly. hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue was lost in 6 hours today till these companies have it so much control, so much power. they are monopolies and look at how they could just wipe out revenue . whether the shut that was intentional or it was just the mistake there earlier, my colleagues worries to shay and eager to sit down and discuss a brief taste of a world without facebook on what's up was quite a, quite an experience now was and, and it was like going in some version of a cyber and a co chamber if you like. and just, you know, completely, you know, muting out the rest of the rest of the world. yeah. it was again, it was quite an experience and in fact,
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it was one of the longest outages that facebook has experienced in its history. so yet it was long and there were long, tense hours because nobody seemed to know what caused the outage. how long it will glossed and well, well, what we should all do with it. so well, it seems all seems back to normal now, but it wasn't easy because apparently when facebook service went down, they took along with themselves the so the infrastructure inside the, the, the facebook headquarters or wherever their services are located. so engine is when they tried to get in, they found out that they have electronic cards, their passes simply did not work. so they had to literally forced their way into the server room to manually rebuild them. so, and it took mark zuckerberg also hours to come forward and explain what was going on. 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. so again,
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there were hours of radio silence before that statement. maybe because mark was trying to, well, put out a statement on facebook, not realizing it was down, but that's just my wild guess. well, eagerly 11 window closes perhaps another window opens any other services out there . taking advantage of this historic crash for facebook. well, short answer, yes, but it's not that simple because you might think that it was just facebook, instagram and, you know, facebook says to companies essentially, but no, a lot of other companies, a lot of other businesses that do not necessarily rely on facebook as a social platform but rely rather on their technical physical infrastructure like service. they all went down to from well tended to netflix to zoom, to literally websites of airline companies and well, bank apps as well. so a lot of the lots of sites, a lot of services that were used to using they, well they went off line. but one apps seem to take advantage of it and mainly to take advantage of what's happening,
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not work. and that's the telegram messenger. they estimate their social media team even had their fun on twitter before twitter went down as well. and well, they try to attract new uses. and well, they successfully did so because it is estimated some 50000000 new users joined telegram and it almost went down as well, but not because of the facebook thing, but because you had to process so many new accounts being registered. so yeah, and there were a few funny reactions on line to this whole mayhem unfolding. have a look. we're working to get things back to normal. telegram, you're single, come over, the servers are up and my parents aren't home. so yeah, being a little tongue in cheek, the s m m team, they're by probably well capitalizing on the whole situation. but in general, this whole thing, it underlines especially the fact that other businesses not, not well, accounting linked, which didn't appear to billing to facebook. that they experienced troubles,
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it really points out how much people and in general, massive massive companies rely on the infrastructure of one particular tech giant. millions of businesses rely on facebook now and many other, many others use, say, spoke in order to, to connect to other apps. it sends 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 are who said relying on it. but imagine a much more intrinsic infrastructural saw attack. i'm not saying this was a, a cyber attack. in fact, i have a theory about what happened. but ah, this shows you the fragility of the entire digital infrastructure that we're
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relying on. facebook insist this service outage did not lead to any user data being compromised, but it is just another set buck weeks after a former product manager claim the social network knowingly allows users to spread hate and information are guest gave us their views on where facebook, the brung currently stands after recent events. but what's interesting about the leak documents of the wall street journal published is that they show quite clearly that facebook is in decline and knows it's in decline. and so you see all these desperate measures of attempting to attract preteens and children, i mean even children. so there is a kind of convergence of several bad instances. i mean, not just to shut down, but the anti trust effort to break it up, coupled with now what these leak documents show is and understanding by facebook officials, that crest of the wave is now headed downwards. that facebook is not infallible.
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and what's app is definitely not infallible. what's apples that came under scrutiny? because there were reports that even though they claim that 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's a message to take away from this, i think it was absolutely that we should be very skeptical of the claims that facebook whatsapp. if you, 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, bringing new meaning to the term star studied cuffs, the russian film crew has docked at the international space station. now they are hoping listen to this, to create the 1st ever feature length movie shot entirely in space. the saw use spacecraft, crew members took their 1st steps on board the i assess earlier today, ortiz donal quarter, told me more well,
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the psy use m. s. 19 just successfully docked at the international space station after blasting off from the bike and or cosmo jerome and kaz extend early on tuesday. now as you can see on your screen, this is the docking procedure taking place. usually it's done by an automatic docking system, but this time the commander of the flight and the actress on board took manual control to complete the procedure for part of a film that they're, that they're filming. now, before the launch of the rocket, we heard from the commander at a press conference, he talked a little bit about what it's going to take to accommodate these new crew members. about aboard the international space station will do better with the spacecraft, has been reconfigured for it to be managed without an on board engineer. but i think that as soon as we get to the space station, a lot will change that because we've got so much vital equipment for shooting the movie, a lot of photo video equipment, lights, et cetera. it's the international space station will be transformed significantly. the russian unit will turn into a film set for these 2 weeks. now, there is
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a unique thing about this specific space flight. actually, the russian film director clim chapin co and russian actress eula paras, hilde are tagging along. they're going to spend a 12 days aboard the international space station where they're going to be filming parts for a fictional space drama movie called the challenge. and this is actually going to be the 1st professional team of movie makers that will be filming in space. now, several cosmonaut, it's on board actually in the scenes, i wanted to say that paris sealed will be playing a surgeon that was sent to the international space station to actually save the life of a cosmonaut and several of the cars, not already on board. the i assess, are actually playing rolls in this movie, like oleg novit sky, who actually sent his greetings over twitter right after watching the launch from space. now, the movie itself is even set to make history as the 1st feature film filmed in space. this is something that the russian team has been locked in,
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a literal space race to accomplish for a while now with the american actor, tom cruz and the director, doug lehman. so this is certainly some interesting news coming out of biking or, and the international space station. and just a fascinating process don't quarter there still had, this is our t both string, it's barricades on the line. the british government is looking to spin bay gun and you cyber warfare center, but will it prove value from money for tax pierced us to read more few up to the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even foundation, let it be an arms race group is often very dramatic development. the only personally i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully,
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very critical of time to sit down and talk to rob is driven by a dreamer shaped bank. concur some of those with there's things we dare to ask a ah hello again.
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hundreds of thousands of children who've been abused by catholic clergy, men and friends since the 1950s. that's the claim of a report released today by an independent commission. it describes a culture of, quote, cruel indifference within the church to what was a systemic problem. this report rocking the foundations of the catholic church here in france. this is just the latest scandal to hit the church world wide, but showing the depths of depravity of those who were in positions of authority and positions of trust. let's have a look at some of the main points now in that report some 3000 p to files uncovered, acting within the french church since 1950. and that is said to be a minimum estimate to some $330000.00 children who are abused by those who are affiliated with the church includes priests and the clergy. 80
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percent of the victims were boys between the ages of 10 to 13, the head of the commission. all of that independent report said that the church was to blame for not doing enough sheesh good, deeper these until the 2 thousands there was a profound and even grew and difference to was the victims. they were not believed, not heard. the church did not know how to see or hear. they did not pick up on signals or take the rigorous measures which were necessary. the institutions responsibility has to be recognized on shore marie. so of a wound that the problems had not yet been overcome. each fulsheti thought keel. we must get rid of the idea that sexual violence in the catholic church has been completely eradicated. the problem is behind us. the problem remains. so this report that lines 45 recommendations. this includes listening to victims and also a psychological assessment. the report of those who wish to join the church in the
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feature as well as looking at the governance of the church itself. as that report is being released. some of the heads of victims associations describe how they would be linked to the role fit. i know you've been through hell. you have explored the darkest and most object state the men sometimes creating mind. the president of the conference of bishops of france, reacted to that report. in the moments off that it was revealed, piece at the time from beginning to you, the time for naivety was over and he described the report as being overwhelming. he asked for forgiveness for the church, for what had happened to these hundreds of thousands of children on social media. there has been angry reaction to that report with many saying that the time had come for reckoning within the church. this organization, the catholic church, must be dissolved and bad. no other association company structure would not be
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dissolved, dismantled after such crimes. 330000 victims in churches. they should be dissolved chemical castration for all priests to take vows of chastity. there has been a long list of scandals involving the catholic church now for the last 20 odd years or more. we've had scandals in places like australia in australia, in the us, in germany and now he in problems. but no matter how many times we get reports that are exposing what happened for decades, what was known by senior members of the church. when you see the sheer scale of what happened to people, the numbers and how they were abused. people are still extremely shocked. the british government is preparing to funnel billions of ponds into a new cyber war, 1st center, capable of attacking states that the u. k. views us hostile. what more on what's known about the plans?
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here's ortiz shoddy. edwards dusty well as being described to hare buying the government in britain as a once in a generation opportunity and a real game changer and placing brits and back on the map as a global lead. an influence there in terms of cyber security. in fact, it's so much of a priority for the government that it's setting aside a whopping finds a 1000000000 pounds to set up this new headquarters for cyber warfare in the united kingdom. many eyebrows, though, raised at that amount of money, particularly during all of this time we've seen in the kind of pandemic, very difficult, of financial past 20 months. not least looking at current affairs to like the fuel shortage here in the u. k as well. so that's a huge amount of money, but the defense secretary is defending this amount of money on the move in general, saying that the u. k. must be better equipped to defend itself,
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but also must be in a better position to launch these cyber attacks as well. some foreign states are waging cyber warfare not every single day, and we have a right on the international law and among ourselves to defend ourselves. and one of the way see can do that is to dismantle the tools that i used against you. for example, with the hostile state is using a server to deploy ransomware against you, spyware. using disinformation, you could use offensive side, but to deal with those service has been on this trajectory for some time. now, in fact, the national fiber force has been in operation. it was established since at least november of 2020, but what we do know is in the past few months now in 2021. british officials have been hinting at who these hostile states really are. namely russia and china. russia has combined military and non military means to alter the map, attempting to change the balance of power and undermining the cohesion of all societies through disinformation, russia, and china winning
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a decisive advantage in information h military technologies. we know that russia has consistently denied any involvement and cyber attacks here in the united kingdom and says that london has time and time again failed to provide any solid evidence to back up its claims against it. but still, the united can, the kingdom continues and is indeed setting up this new headquarters. and it seems as though the u. k is not as ramping up as a rhetoric, but it's clearly a ramping up its capabilities as while another story we're closely following today. the kremlin says, a major investigation is needed if a video showing inmates allegedly being raped and tortured, and russian prisons is proven. true. russia's prison service is currently probing. the claims we can show you the disturbing images for understandable reasons. but our t correspondent, dmitri polk, come bring us more of the details. well,
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moscow has now sent a team of investigators to serrato, after videos emerged online, allegedly showing the abuse and torture of an inmate at one of the serrato prisons now gulag that net as website and an organization that is dedicated to protecting the rice of russian inmates across russia's prisons, they're the ones who released this video, how're investigators must now confirmed the authenticity of it. however, the head of the organizational at intercession has now said that he has received over 40 gigabytes of videos and other materials showing that the violations abby's have actually been wide spread across several russian prisons. russian inmates have been subject to violence, torture abuse, rape at the hands of other inmates who were apparently allegedly working at the past of the penitentiary system workers. now here's what the head of the organization said about how he actually obtained this footage. we managed to hold out of russia, a person who for 5 years served to sentence in one federal penitentiary service
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establishment. he's a programmer underwent beatings and torture himself, but then they decided to use him for his professional abilities. for 5 years he had access to federal penitentiary service computers in c, c t, v, and the security forces headquarters of the prisons tuberculosis hospital in saratoga though, according to the organization, some 200 inmates hadn't been come. the victims of this abuse throughout several years starting back from 2018. however, the video was obtained, allegedly only show about 40 of those cases. your organization says that, according to these videos, the inmates were subject to violence, torture, abuse, rape, in order to get them to sign false, confessions, report on other inmates, and actually even carry out abuse towards other inmate's problems. spokesperson musicals has said that these allegations are very serious and the must be investigated in a calm and thorough manner. to 1st of all can further reliability and truthfulness . now, there are more videos to be released apparently,
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but investigators have reiterated that 1st of all, these videos have to be confirmed to be authentic, and only then a large scale criminal investigation could be launched against those who have been perpetrating these poor and violations. dmitri polk, i recap, coming up know of waltz, was a quite extraordinary 12 months ahead of the last u. s. presidential election or short. doc, my america gets going enrollment. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah
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