a saudi journalist vanishes in turkey with reports that he has been killed inside the saudi consulate in riyadh fiercely deny such allegations. also dismisses the dutch claims that russia tried to hack the international chemical weapons watched on the o.p.c. back in april saying it was a routine visit to the hague by russian technical experts. record a record breaking mixed martial arts champion. returns home to a cure as welcome in russia as a republican after beating irish superstar conor mcgregor in a clash marred by a massive post fight brawl.

broadcasting live direct from our studios moscow this is our team international tour guide to have you with us. right mystery surrounds the fate of a prominent saudi german journalist who has been highly critical of the kingdom's royal family he has been missing for almost a week now after entering a saudi consulate in turkey there have been conflicting reports over what's happened and the world's media has been whipped into a frenzy over the story. has more on the journalists disappearance where is journalist. what happened to him. for an entire week nobody has been able to answer that question and best gaiters on the ground who might be the closest to solving the riddle believe he could have been brutally me. behind the walls of the saudi consulate is stamboul alleged details of

how it was done and clude sending over a fifteen man a hit squad from the kingdom to make sure the man's dead anchor was shocked something so horrendous could have happened in istanbul a prosecutor in istanbul is investigating the issue there is both a security investigation and an intelligence one it is extremely thorough the new this incident took place in a country i knew to move through a long time so i still hold out hope god willing we will not find ourselves in a situation we do not want and still hope riyadh says it's got nothing to do with it all the claims are absolute blogs and official at the consulate general of the kingdom of saudi arabia in istanbul dismissed the report by reuters which cited turkish officials the saudi citizen jamal khashoggi was killed in the consulate in istanbul he fishel strongly denounce these baseless allegations and express his

down to that they came from turkish officials they were informed of the investigation or authorized to comment on the issue the saudi kingdom is transparency record has been poor to say the least but in a rare display of openness there officials even invited warders on a tour around the consulate. jamal who lives in works in the u.s. but to obtain a license to get married he had to see saudi officials is definitely been to the consulate twice on september the twenty eighth and last tuesday that was when he disappeared now here's what's crucial mr has shoddy writes about the saudi government and it's not exactly glowing actually had been worried something bad could happen to him before the second visit to the consulate the journalists left his cell phone with his fiance with instructions on what to do if he'd. didn't come

out soon the woman called turkish police four hours later when jamal was nowhere to be seen saudi officials say his stay at the compound was very short they are sure the journalist vanished once he stepped outside now they're looking for him to mr his fiance is full of hope he's not been killed but kidnapped rather. the story's been picked up by media all over the world one of the newspapers jamal wrote for the washington post came out with a blank column where they were supposed to print his piece but that hasn't helped there's been no trace of the man i am concerned about is i don't like hearing about it and hopefully that will. sort itself out right now nobody knows anything about it this is a pretty sad story i do not like this is outrageous that he's been somehow disappeared the administration needs to demand his release it is absolutely an

acceptable and a further sign that this crackdown on free speech is getting more serious we should probably be rethinking the political and military blanching we've been giving the saudis what if the journalists never found alive donald trump's latest all related comments have already made washington react relations somewhat complicated the disappearance and the possible murder of jamal. may well make them much more tricky . dr cohen. a turkish affairs expert told us he believes both riyadh are trying to avoid escalating the crisis but two states are not willing to escalate the situation because if one of them will release such c.c.t.v. records it means that they are going to provide concrete evidence and with this kind of a concrete evidence and new diplomatic crisis will be inevitable between the two states and as far as i understand and now they are trying to find

a proper solution in order to end this crisis and that's why today the turkish foreign ministry asked the saudi consulate to open the gates of the consulate so that they can get in in order to search for we still don't have any evidence says. moscow has responded to dutch allegations that russian spies tried to hack the international chemical weapons watchdog with foreign minister sergey lavrov noting that the claims were designed to attract maximum attention my colleague jacqueline vogel discussed of the incident with our treatment in a culture of the real incident took place back in april last year but let me tell you that the real scandal unraveled last week when the government held the press conference that actually arranged into a some kind of a high profile event and that particular press conference of the defense minister accused of russian citizens of an attempted cyber attack on the organization for

the prosecution of chemical weapons the minister even had a name for what happened back in april and it cooled in a g.r.u. operation well if you have been following the news in the past couple of months well you already know that g r u has become some kind of a bogey word to the west thirteenth of april this year and me for a day carry it out an operation to disrupt. operation. targeting the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons p c w. there was nothing secret about the visit by the russian technical experts it was a completely transparent and routine business visit all right after that particular incident the russian foreign ministry actually published a statement with the fool explanation of what happened let me just give you some details from that statement now of the ministry explicitly said that there was

nothing extraordinary that the russian delegation checked in at the marriott hotel which is located very close to the o.p.c. w. had quarters the statement the ministry statement said that the hotel has been used by the russian delegations for decades as it is located just five hundred five hundred meters away from the russian embassy and that also explains the fact why there were so many russian cars parked outside also it was mentioned and that statement that the dutch side was very well aware of all these facts presented in that statement but still all has been portrayed as something from a spine movie really now as you mentioned this has all been going on since april was there any reaction back then well back then actually there was no reaction from any side the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov even said today that back then

it all looked like a misunderstanding. russians that were explored from the limbs weren't given any explanations or any opportunity to contact their representatives in or embassy in the netherlands and were to leave it really looked like a misunderstanding especially given the back when there were no protests. in moscow nor in the hague again the russian foreign affairs minister sergei lavrov said that the sit with. and surrounding the so-called russian spies and the unites alliance is a deceptive and i knew her and that the story was made public especially i had seen your needle need thing between minister is so that the timing is not at all accidental. mixed martial arts star not a muggle mid-off has just returned home to a hero's welcome in russia's republic of dagestan after beating conor mcgregor in las vegas in the fight of the year these are pictures from the stadium where babe

showed off his title belt to cheering crowds and thousands of devoted fans gathered to greet the champion who holds the longest unbeaten record in tournaments history our reporter was that we here and she every know where thousands and thousands of fans have gathered to see the hero of. the year see a lightweight champion of course yet that fantastic victory over economy a great weekend going by fourth round technical submission by written a key choke jory not fight here. thousands and thousands of fans just as they hit inside the stadium were inside movie theaters restaurants wherever was showing a live broadcast they were absolutely crazy when he was announced that we don't know what happened in the arctic and. just as there was joy in the fight there's a party atmosphere. heavy but let's not forget the first russian fight setsu in the u.s. the championship and he defended the weekend in the best way possible. a fight ended in scandal though when sparked a huge brawl after leaping outside the octagon to confront

a connors coach for taunting him conor is also in trouble after a video emerged showing him punching a teammate father and coach who met him at the airport gave his reaction to the events. they say on the scale from one to five the fight was for close but his jump out of the origin cannot be assessed in any way. this is simply that the discipline must come first i think i should punch him from the right or the left straight to the airport and say what did we teach you. tactically the fight conforms to what we expected in the first round in the very first minute we managed to control mcgregor to pin him impose the fight speed that works him out in the second round we managed to carry out that plan. a journalist investigating an alleged misuse of funds as found dead details after

a short break to watch r.t. international stay with us. what politicians do something anything. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be. considered to be close this is what the full story of the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the was our. first six.

i welcome back this is r.c. international now a un report notes an appalling increase in the number of civilian casualties in afghanistan victims from bombings using improvised explosive devices or i e d's have risen twenty one percent in the last year deaths from suicide attacks are even worse up forty six percent the report shares the story of a teenager injured in one such attack. i was taking part in a cricket match at the time after the game some of the guests were to give speeches

but before those got underway i heard an explosion and saw smoke i saw my blood and realize i'd been injured i started running there was a second explosion and i fell to the ground and lost consciousness it's inhuman to attack players at a game. seventeen years a sense of the start of the u.s. invasion of afghanistan and despite the war the taliban has only increased its influence and now controls almost half the entire country. on my orders the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime and afghanistan.

caliban willing to come to the negotiating table this is no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliban trembles as a hero put. it in the first movie picked up the taliban side even the boys before the call protect their choices are to reconcile to live in irrelevance for doc. the director of the u.k.'s crisis research institute says washington doesn't want to admit defeat in a failed invasion where we're seeing the real radicalization of afghanistan almost the syrian model if you like ironically as the civil war in syria has wound down

there's been an increase in boston up and so on and that it's probably the most violent of these conflicts in the world at the moment the use of these kinds of attacks is way both spectacular it's also very unsettling because what it does it shows that the afghan government and its allies the americans the british and so on can't really control the situations of britain and america from afghanistan recently through syria and libya and should have shown we're very good at destroying things smashing up our own but we don't we don't do reconstruction any more just look at the fate of mosul in iraq or rock or in. so a little differently do councils in washington i think probably trump would like to disengage from any of these wars which will cost sleep both money and men for the americans and not particularly successful on the other hand the pentagon doesn't want to admit defeat and the taliban of course since in that power it's getting close to the victory on it doesn't feel the need to talk to the americans but the taliban also may feel that talking to russia talking to the neighbors were afghanistan will help create a situation we're. in

a post war settlement in afghanistan will be acceptable to the neighbors. switching gears now we're looking at live pictures of judge brett kavanaugh being sworn in at a special ceremony being attended by the president it follows the judge's official confirmation as a supreme court justice on saturday after fifty two forty eight vote in the united states senate appointment will be seen as a success by donald trump but was defended cavanagh throughout the entire process the judge has been embroiled in controversy since he was accused of sexual assault by christine border back when the pair were in high school in the one nine hundred eighty s. two other women also came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against the johns how ever the senate judiciary committee hearing and an f.b.i. investigation can find sufficient grounds to block is nomination and as you can see he has just been sworn in as a justice of the united states supreme court court in the last scene with his family in the prison now it's donald trump.

switching gears now a candlelit vigil has been held in the bulgarian capital in honor of an investigative journalist who was brutally murdered over the weekend actually peter oliver as details. thirty year old reporter victoria martin over was raped and murdered in the northern bulgarian city over rose a prosecutor. say that she died following being beaten to the head and suffocated now the interior minister of bulgaria has been on the scene in northern bulgaria he said that ms martin of his death had nothing to do with her work as an investigative journalist however if we look back at claims made by ms madden over prior to her death she had major issues with the state of investigative journalism in her country the image of investigative journalism in bulgaria's very

contradictory strong government in corporate pressure on media owners and i wanted needed more and more banned subjects' systematically sidelining investigative journalist friends timmons the first vice president of the european commission has said that there must be a full investigation into the slaying of miss martineau over he described her as a campaigner for a fighter for freedom and someone who fought against corruption in journalism she becomes though the third journalist in the e.u. to have been killed in the last twelve months a car bombing last october in malta claimed the life of daphne corona. while in february of this year the slovak journalist chick was shot to death here in germany the government of angular merkel has echoed what was said by mr timmons that the investigation must be full and they want to get to the bottom of what led to the slaying of miss martin over. a controversial far right lawmaker dubbed the

trump of the tropics and has won the first round of brazil's presidential election by a large margin over a year while so naro failed to secure the fifty percent needed to avoid a second round runoff his supporters have taken to the streets claiming fraud as this high stakes election heats up what is more if a national reports. yes brazilians cast their ballots but we're going to see a second round as none of the candidates was able to get their fifteen percent needed to win outright it is yet to early to say who will rule the country next but many predict victory will go to the current favorite they winner of the first round the most controversial candidate the so-called tropical trump mr paulson r o people have grown tired after twenty years of left wing government also narrow is not corrupt he is for family values and ethics he's our only hope and that is why i

am here to do only one who is going to rein in take care of her country will handle corruption improve our education system if she doesn't win i don't know what really happened i'm here to celebrate and i'm here because i'm hoping for a new and better brazil so who's both sonar and why did he become so popular it would be fair to call him a new face in brazil's political life confronting traditional approaches with fresh ideas and far right congressman former army captain both another is not affiliated to any major political power in brazil he's also famous for his hard stance on laur issues including a tougher punishment for offenders and controversial views. they're both of you if you thought go too far we'll go through a couple of. doffing with poor. dogs would you go to fill that out.

of the new and old guard to fit. your view of the world. to understand the popularity of mr controller see let's take a look at brazil ahead of the election widespread nationwide corruption has become the biggest concern with former presidents jailed impeached and the current president under. investigation following fraud scandals many thought enough is enough next security with the murder rate at an all time high seven people were killed every hour last year economic challenges were just as serious with thirteen million people unemployed and latin america's largest economy coming out of a dramatic and prolonged recession people went to polling stations frustrated angry and tired both us though there have been so many thieves and people cheating

us and our country that's a disappointment to me all those pieces and so we need to brazil those better than those if not for us for just sake of our children who are you sure i speak people know what's going on and they feel unsafe even to walk on the street how can they be comfortable knowing they can be easily modes or worse at any moment both sonora has ridden public criticism of the failing ruling party promising changes that people of brazil so desperately wanted some may say that with forty six percent of the vote in the first round he managed to convince the people that hayes case manager can dictate hifi of us as i was very scared but the officer even belaire me visited me and supported me and he brought toys to play together has become a friend of mine.

but as of for me this hour back to the top of the hour with more news you are watching our two international. you asked the cycling. to this idea of the u.s. dollar reserve currency empire they've built over a post world war two hero for everyone gets in the depths of america and pays homage to america china russia iran africa become a man they're all saying no we want markopolos and even trump wants markopolos and we want to go for it we want to trade directly bilaterally we don't want to be part of the globalization any more. one else chose seemed wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any new polls

to get to shape our system becomes to educate and in gains from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle washington's ambassador to nato threatens to take out russian missiles and the u.s. interior secretary threatens a naval blockade of russia is the trump doctrine finally being revealed.

cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have dimitri bobbitt he's a political analyst with sputnik international and we have these and he is a professor at the higher school of economics crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate glenn let me go to you first here we have this k. bailey hutchinson the american ambassador to nato she had a little while she got into a bit of a scrap.