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the allagash transferred. by from. this is the day of the news coming to you live from berlin a rockets carrying the crew of the international space station failed in mid air to launch from kazakhstan a bit to go belle at first but then minutes off to blast off the two astronauts one russian and one american reported a problem and before to make an emergency landing pleading with the very latest from moscow also coming up. a new the port shows record numbers of people around
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the world died groups from malnutrition yemen is one of the countries where people especially children are suffering the most elite thirty percent of the population there on the brink of starvation. and the most modern storm in florida is recent history continues to reach higher again michael lashes the stupid fierce winds and torrential rain leaving a creed of destruction. oh no warm welcome to you i'm on the dock shima two crew members aboard so you spacecraft have had to make an emergency landing after their rocket engine failed on liftoff russian space officials say the two men are in good condition and the soyuz rocket was carrying a russian cosmonaut and the u.s. as. they crossed took off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan nasa said it
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has been informed by russian space officials that the crew has made in the margin sea landing at an unspecified indication in kazakhstan and is in good condition search and rescue crews are heading to the landing site let's take a look at the moment that the crew ejected from the rocket. everything looking good proceeding not only. inaudible. and we have our producer to use now jettisoned. straight to our moscow bureau where our correspondent in the show when is standing by and what can you tell us about what happened well the kremlin has now confirmed that the astronauts are alive and well and that the emergency systems did work reportedly rescue services have now actually reached the
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astronauts who have been evacuated from the capsule as well and they're being brought to a hospital in at the baikonur cosmodrome now when it comes to what happens things what actually happened things are a little bit less clear the accident apparently took place just minutes after the actual launch and they performed an emergency landing near the city of just cuz gon that's in the center of kazakhstan and experts have now been speculating what actually happened what actually went wrong what is clear also from a statement from the deputy prime minister here is that something went wrong when the capsule detached from the rocket carrier but what exactly remains unclear as yet and then the russian state dollars if it's space program what have reaction is there being to this now function. well absolutely as you say people here are very much very proud of the space mission
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this is huge news in russia and of course this will be a huge blow as well to the reputation of the russian space mission it will raise questions about the state of russian space engineering russia after all runs the cosmodrome and this mile function took place on a site used capsule and this isn't the first malfunction on such a capsule there was a malfunction as well at the end of august when a hole was found in the wall of a say use capsule that was actually docked at the international space station and of course this will also have political ramifications it's the only remaining one of the only remaining cooperations between russia and the u.s. and you can see russian politicians now kind of scrambling to do damage control the head of the russian space agency is on its way to the site of the accident and the deputy prime minister of russia today said that they won't conceal the reasons for
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the accident kind of showing that there is still some trust between russia and the u.s. and that russia is very much interested in keeping that up and the show in a correspondent in moscow thank you very much. so what does an incident like this mean for a manned space flight let's go in a body from the science desk so if you could how serious is an accident like this. his quite serious of course and it is a stark reminder that manned or people that i like to say people space flight is still quite a dangerous affair i mean we like to think that we could all travel to space very soon but it is a dangerous thing we are talking about rockets with huge amounts of fuel on board and it's a very tricky operation not for nothing have we not landed on the moon again and not for nothing have we been speaking for many many years about manned missions the do not just go out say just advisedly from to the international space station so
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that we've done quite a few times but it still can go wrong so this is a real stark reminder that space exploration is still very dangerous and what are the implications for the people who are currently on the international space station the i assess well there are some implications the american astronaut nick cave was jude to join germany's astronaut alexander gas is now the commander of the i assess. on the on oct nineteenth for a space walk an extra vehicular activity in actual fact to replace some batteries from some old technology only i assess to some new technology to power the solar panels of the international space station that has been postponed once before and it's quite possible the batteries can still hold on for a little while but the this does put a spanner in those works and it's a. bit unsure whether other astronauts on board the i assess could replace nick cage in that space walk. if they get a body from the science desk and
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a space expert thank you very much for that. turning now to the united states one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the mainland has been battering southern coastal states michael made landfall in florida on wednesday leaving behind widespread damage and flooding which is taken by the international space station captured the storm shortly before it hit the southern part of the state known as the florida panhandle it was the state's fiercest tarakan in more than eighty years the storms intensity has waned as it moves inland but neighboring states including georgia and north and south carolina are bracing for more destruction. hurricane michael carved a path of destruction as it crashed ashore near panama city florida.
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with winds up to two hundred fifty kilometers an hour the storm was the worst to hit the northern panhandle in decades flooding homes and streets. the wind was so strong and with the trees you can hear just about every tree cracking in breakin in the rain just hitting up against a house. you could tell it was something major but again if you've never experienced a hurricane or a major storm trust me this is something that you never want to go through. to feel when you decide to stay for the good jet engine. the winds just super super high pitched you could feel it in your ears like the pressure just changing the you know. overnight michael moved towards the state of georgia and is expected to plow northward threatening south and north carolina. the hurricane weakened to
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a tropical storm but it is still dangerous menacing georgia with heavy rains and winds. fallen trees and power lines are among the hazards left in hurricane michael's wake. hundreds of thousands were ordered to evacuate their homes for many michael that's turned life upside down. there's been a bring you up to defeat some other stories making news around the wilds a powerful cycling has struck eastern india with winds of up to one hundred fifty kilometers per hour cycle its lee has claimed at least two lives and caused widespread power outages three hundred thousand people have been evacuated it's expected to downgrade to a deep depression by friday. bridges collapse in the italian city of sardinia during heavy rainfall it had been closed off due to a sinkhole and no vehicles were on the road at the time the country's infrastructure has been under scrutiny since dozens died in
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a bridge collapse in genoa in just. china syndrome region has passed laws so that muslim leaders can be sent to. authorities claim the center's aim to curb radicalization among muslims but critics say these are in effect prison camps for the country's a muslim minority there an estimated one million readers being held in such camps. the united states has returned dozens of ancient colombian artifacts plundered over decades by an american collector the items were discovered after a tip off investigators also found thousands of pieces from other countries in the man's home the elderly collected died after the investigation was launched. the number of people suffering from hunger one wide is rising according to the wild hunger index more than one hundred twenty four million people experiencing hunger
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that's forty four million more than two years ago it's the african continent that suffers most the majority of the countries in africa have a serious hunger problem they just it african countries where hunger and starvation are not an issue central african states are at the top of the index. outside of africa war torn gehman is not the worst hit countries off with twenty eight million people more than eight million on the brink of starvation and this concern the figure could double by the end of the. these other faces of a famine. the scars of war are visible everywhere in yemen and as a waffen the most vulnerable are children. in the dhaka hospital in aden every very miss filled with tiny patients he came with a seat equipment ration sherry habitation and communicated with acute what that is
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the area that's what i do if it is here. clinics here are overwhelmed after three years of conflict some five million children are at risk of starvation. resumes of new footage in terms. of the symptoms in both the movies. on the front to the men in who has been over the last one to one of. the blockade of the vital pulled city has caused feed prices to skyrocket the world food program and numerous n.g.o.s are working to deliver aid to the many people who need it but the situation is precarious. fighting continues in her data and elsewhere and there's no guarantee that the aid corridors that are open today will be open tomorrow. providing assistance to eight million
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people every month which is what world food program's target is in a very complex conflict situation is very challenging. the conflict in yemen has been called the world's forgotten war that makes its citizens the forgotten people the u.n. want in may that if conditions don't improve chief thirds of the population could start by the end of this year. president says he's spoken with saudi authorities at the highest level to demand answers about missing saudi arabian journalist jamal khashoggi he had been writing for media organizes and from the u.s. and had been highly critical of the saudi leadership he's not been seen since entering the saudi consulate in istanbul in turkey more than a week ago. this image obtained by turkish media allegedly shows journalist.
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walking into the saudi consulate the last time anyone saw him eight days have passed and there are no traces of his whereabouts turkish sources say they believe a saudi arabian hits quote to fifty nine year old media outlets published photos purporting to show the suspects arrival the day before went missing before his disappearance he worked for the washington post during a self-imposed exile in the u.s. . there he wrote columns criticizing saudi arabia's new rule as the washington post supports the view that saudi arabia captured him and says that u.s. intelligence knew about the plan to capture that columnist the u.s. denies any formal h. the president says he has talked to high level saudi authorities to demand answers over the case and it's very sad situations very bad situation and we want to get to the bottom of it meanwhile saudi arabia remained silent as the alleged c.c.t.v.
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images run on news shows. it has yet to prove its claim that he left the saudi consulate by a back door. it was in the news coming up ahead stock markets are all the while take a hit after u.s. president adama trump orders own federal reserve crazy for raising interest rates. that's an other business just coming up with christoph shockey do stay with us. there's a long way to survive that it's not just hard you're adding. bangladesh. the true face of the country. for independence a separation of state and church that used to be important but for decades
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