RT News - October 12, 2018 (17:00 MSK)

Facebook wields the axe in the fight against fake news - and bans hundreds of pages and accounts. Moscow opens its arms in a warm welcome to the two astronauts who escaped death on Thursday. An aborted rocket launch ended their journey in mid-air, as they crash landed in Kazakhstan. Barely three minutes in - and at immense speed - the quick-thinking crew were forced to abandon their malfunctioning spacecraft, before a nail-biting descent back to Earth. America's election friction - Democrats and Republicans fight dirty, with voters deeply divided over next month's high-stakes mid-term poll.