a soyuz rocket failure forces a two man crew to abort their launch just a few minutes after takeoff. i. already did a. remember for a good. question cause i'm of malta cheatin and american astronaut nick hague both arrived back in kazakstan baikonur doing well after their emergency landing. and it's been a real emotional roller coaster for relatives some have already embraced their loved ones once again while other family members are still waiting to see the two crewmembers r.t.

talks exclusively to the wife of the russian cosmonaut about her experience it was an emotional part got it so you can be ready for that. cosmonauts are prepared they get trained but the wives just stay down here and warry. it's nine o'clock here in moscow you're watching international live from our studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. we continue our coverage of the failed space launch in kazakhstan a rocket malfunction has forced a manned soyuz launch to be aborted just minutes after takeoff the two man crew had to make an emergency return landing safely in that capsule four hundred kilometers away from bike not. both russian. and u.s.

flights engine in the cake is said to be in good condition all things considered and you could. write a much needed a. little bit for a good. russia's investigative committee says they're looking into whether a violation of safety rules caused the soyuz mishap we can take you through the failed mission is in actual footage and on a mission here's what happened. to . the. easy.

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earlier the crew landed back at the baikonur cosmodrome where that dramatic journey all started this thursday later they will be transported to the current cosmonaut training center in star city outside of moscow and if you thought things were going a horribly vaal ninety kilometers above the earth would cause a panic apparently it didn't for this come out at. six. the crew members remain in the medical surveillance they are resting up and a due to arrive back in moscow on friday don't hold a quarter reports from back now about the events after the accident i'm standing here right now in baikonur kazakstan where earlier today because minot aleksei the commander may not be in control of decisions he may not realize what's just happened as soon as something happens with the launch vehicle and it's

a dangerous device it can explode at any time but automatic systems are reliable and can save the crew it's unacceptable to wait for human reaction to respond in this way the main rockets life in this case ended the moment the emergency system started its fall and it hasn't gone up enough to burn into the atmosphere when the boosters are being separated there are two possible options the first stage boosters either haven't attached at all or have to attach to and hit the second stage boosters i'd say the first scenario is more likely in this case they can't proceed with their mission. while those involved have had a harrowing experience it's hard to imagine what family and friends of the crew have been going through some of the relatives have already met with the cosmonauts while others are still waiting on tito hawkins is it style city for us where the crew will eventually return to. name student we've seen today is of course very

rare of the last one took place in nine hundred eighty s. some sort of emergency landing which put lives at risk nevertheless when it does happen that obviously hits the headlines it becomes the top story of the day and it's also of course extremely stressful and tough for the families who are waiting hundreds of miles down below for but all clear there was only three cosmonauts and astronauts in such a launch is going up to the i.s.a.'s today those only two alexi of the russian cosmonaut forty seven years old a left turn and colonel in the air force reserve this was his second flight into space or rather second attempted flight into space and forty three year old nick cage american astronaut with nasa he's a colonel in the u.s. air force this was meant to be his maiden flight and what a flight it turned out to be understand there are in good health they're having their vital signs monitored in the hospital and elective should and has already met his mother who was at baikonur he was pictured hugging her earlier we managed to

catch up with his wife who is here waiting at the space center for the eventual cosmonauts arrival. i watched the launch on t.v. and then i got the news from my neighbors so you can understand my feelings at the time it was hard but the support of the team my friends my relatives they supported me so much you can be ready for that cosmonauts are prepared they get trained but the wives just stay down here and warry after an hour and a half i was able to talk to him he called and said that he was ok and we're going to see each other soon of course this is somewhat of a miracle but i want to see think you to the rescue team who designed the scape system thanks to that the crew returned alive and not injured. while we're about thirty five kilometers as we said outside moscow what star city here this is where the cosmonauts the astronauts will. arrived from kazakhstan it's about three and

off four hours flight from there once they leave the assessment center once the medics upset them over and declared unfit to come back here their family families all waiting here i will give you any updates of course as they come in on those astronauts cosmonauts condition as and when they land back in moscow. now says representative said that the u.s. space agency will launch its own investigation into the bucket stressed that it will be in close cooperation with russia. with regard to the investigation when you look back at the history of failures on the russian side we always work side by side closely with the russians as they perform their investigation they give us the insight we need in order to be able to go through our own process here our own readiness review process that that culminates with a flight readiness review. and number of experts we heard from say space flight still carries serious risk despite advancing technology. think this is the launch

facility of this launch today is a big lesson the engine is kind of they need to reassess what happened with this or why it failed and how they can prevent this from happening in the future no doubt tests will be made to make sure this won't happen again you know not a lot of pressure i believe on us to make sure that things like this don't happen it was a manned action which couldn't risk life so this is something he's taken into consideration many other space agencies will learn from this is going to make sure this happens to them of course we need to learn the details about what exactly happened and how they safely got away with it but i i am assuming that a major part of that has to do precisely fit with the fact that they are well prepared to even go to show you so it's been one of the most reliable locks around and for many years nothing has happened it remains a risky business and if you make for example the comparison with aviation which is much safer if you look at the statistics even there the few times that something

may go wrong the crews are excellently prepared so i'm i'm pretty sure that's no different here. and more expert analysis let's bring in robert while shepard astrophysics thanks for joining us on the program have well but i know an investigation is obviously underway it would be interesting to discuss what the possible causes of the rocket plane it could be could you help us out on that. well it is very early to. try and work out exactly what has actually happened here you were listening to your program though it's it's clear the booster rockets themselves seem to be the prime we and why the the astronauts on the cosmonaut have not reached the altitude that they need for the second stage to to kick in and for them to continue their journey into space so i think a lot of the investigation will be based upon those goods we'll see why they didn't

separate if you look at all those flights they come out on a very symmetrical pattern this time when we look at the data that we've seen from we've gone too far that isn't happening but hasn't happened here so there's nothing something about the booster rockets but of course there has to the system work extent exceptionally well you know we've got two. individuals back home are going to gain safely and therefore the source program has actually done what it said today if you can't get into space you get safely back down to earth again yeah so so you know we all focus in on the based only is it possible that the second states based is kind of being damaged by the first state. begins we will be on my expertise but yes lewis is a situation where there's something happens to one system there can be a cascade effect on the other systems and there will be a lot of investigations taking place know both from the russian and the american side to see exactly what is actually happened here this hasn't happened before and

they want to find out exactly what this does not happen again but you always find in my experience a sudden rocket that i've been working with so is that you check everything over and over again and you're always worried that just because one thing goes wrong that can lead to something else going wrong so it may have been the case one of the boosters actually struck some of the other markets but we're very early on to try and find out what are actually is. we do know your father looking just at the launch and we just was something about the bush just has not worked properly yeah. obviously checks like you said go on awful lot of training goes on but in this case something has gone roll on a lot of our experts have said that it is still very serious very dangerous when we have a launch like this what's all the chances of survival in an emergency situation all

does modern technology generally rule out any serious risk i mean this is the question the moment it could have been worse couldn't it oh absolutely things can go wrong with more cutters quote than we've seen today but you know one of spaceflight in all of markets whether it's monday and there's an awful lot of safety procedures put in place you only launch when you really mean want to launch when you know everything you say is correct in this particular case it looked like it was but something has actually happened so it is dangerous it is you know an environment where you know you are putting a lot of technology you know instrumentation but it but this particular case individuals risk something not to be taken lightly but you know our astronauts and cosmonauts you know are not ignorant to this they understand the systems they're working in and they understand the risks that they're undertaking and they have very cool heads to carry to make sure they returned after. capering into having on the program thank you robert parties professor of astrophysics thank you.

in other news now when it comes to policing the web google thinks it knows what's best for us elite company briefing called the good censor outlines how it and other internet giants including facebook and twitter a crap playing with how they censor content and that's it's done for our own good. has the details free speech on the web. ok google will you click like or is it a dislike i'm literally asking their bosses right now there is no way they'd turn their back on the solemn right for freedom of speech you'd think well some of what the guys at google have been busy with lately has been leaked.

the report with a bunch of guidelines at the end is called good sense or get it they're really discussing censorship for our own good and point out that the concept of free internet i mean the online world as we've known it is utopian white why one of the reasons is the popularity of a german opposition party alternative for germany and pretty much the whole ride gig once controversial voices have been voted by like minded individuals and making their way offline so google is a platform for everyone could be a utopia too now the trend is to create what they call well order spaces for safety and civility with little regard for free speech. in which people are starting to realize that private companies control whether or not their speech stays up or comes down the report comes with a few visuals this one tells you that tech giants used to be neutral and now

they've shifted to being politicized editors and publishers well you asked ford and you didn't yes you did it's all in the report governments would also love tech giants to get more responsible among other winners advertisers who'd be protected from anything controversial you post with a flag any of my stuff is controversial i haven't posted much since my college days how far as the next web evolution step when users will be told what to post keep reading their. report and you'll see it coming companies should put their foot down when it comes to users this is the type of speech we would like to see here and you are part of a community when you join us google bosses once promised to come up with a way to make politics better just after mr trump made himself mr president i certainly find the selection deeply offensive and i know many of you to think that

so it's worth be very vigilant and thinking about all these issues what can we do to lead to. maybe a better quality of governance decision making and so forth we had our tea wrote an official ok google request on the report they didn't confirm or deny the document existed but gave an update on their commitments committed to free expression supporting the free flow of ideas is cool to our mission. well we have developed our own content policies we enforce them in a politically neutral way and so seven out of ten americans think tech giants do censor political views hate good sense or google they're just not buying it i'm not surprised at all this is pretty much confirmation for many of us who have been talking about google consistently engage in a censorship of conservative viewpoints the piece the document that was released to

pretty much outlines it all is a lot of opinion in there things that they consider to be right extremist are simply just normal things that average people talk about a lie but you see the political by states in google they say one thing publicly but obviously they do different things privately is all about who's given a platform who's allowed to be heard and those that are heard are the minority and they're giving they're given loud voices by google facebook twitter because google facebook twitter agree with their particular points of view therefore they will be the ones that are hurt. by his champagne is a calling for a medical inquiry into a pool if there's some doctors in the in charge of couples for choosing to decide sex of the child gender selection. is legal in britain only on the grounds of medical reasons the country's medical watchdog has expressed concern

over these latest revelations we're confident that the vast majority of the u.k. is for the two it's equinix do not recommend sex selection either to morrow brought how the would take allegations of sex selection seriously and will investigate and in specific cases brought to all attention. according to british media couples have paid up to fourteen thousand pounds for the illegal procedure several seeded doctors have allegedly set up appointments of private clinics in the u.k. for clients and then they complete the medical treatment abroad in countries like cyprus and the u.a.e. we spoke to u.k. star daniel luke who has been criticised for her decision to use the procedure in the us i think obviously some people got angry because there is women out there who can actually have children i think they were angered because they think i should just love the children of gar which i totally understand and i do love them the my everything my kids my life for i think if this science is out there for me make

other people choose to use gender selection in a way where as if i was having my first child i would never want to pick the sex of the baby i was quite happy to go along and whatever the health of the baby selflessly the most important thing. for obviously for me having for children and them or be in boys i just couldn't grow old and feel like a car that mother daughter relationship we discussed this issue with political activist kate some earth way and josephine clinton who's the founder of comment on reproductive ethics which focuses on ethical dilemmas in reproduction. there are medical conditions which either only affect boys or only affect girls and it's actually fairly standard practice in lots of places around the world for couples who have a family history of those kind of conditions to be given i.v.'s and given the opportunity to select the gender of child that is less likely to suffer from those conditions i think we would all take steps to try and make sure that children were

less likely to have problems later in life in all sorts of different ways the idea of just choosing the sex of your child based on a whim i think you know i think to me it sounds horrifying but what we should be asking really is the question what kind of cultural reliving in if people have a really strong feeling if people really really only want a boy should we be forcing those people to have a girl do we want a girl raised in a family that really only wants a boy and in a culture that evidently values boys much more strongly by rejecting the embryo you don't want on the basis of that six and i think that six discrimination give women the vote i believe in women's rights etc i think women are quite capable of accepting a pregnancy and do not need to go into this nonsense of i want to boy or i want to girl you can suggest i might like one i have five lovely sons i might have at some stage four wouldn't it be nice to have a girl i've now got four lovely granddaughters you know boys and girls in my opinion are absolutely equal and i don't think you should do anything deliberate

two to make. a choice because the price is that you need to do is to discard the embryos of the wrong six when i.v. after is done it is absolutely standard to create more embryos than you intend to implant the spare embryos are normally kept in a fridge freezer or whatever to be used in the future if they're wanted every year lots and lots of embryos are discarded because people have i.v.'s i'm actually don't want to have ten children they want to have one or two children it's absolutely stan that if you are against discarding embryos then you are against i.v.'s and you're welcome to campaign. on that front person i think it's a very fantastic process and it's brilliant that it's available to couples and if couples have a strong feeling about what the woman does or doesn't want to be pregnant wavin what they want what she wants to go on and it is inevitable that they're going to follow up when you're choosing what schembri are you want you're going to analyze

which is male which is female you're making a choice and this is what i'm saying i don't accept that because in choosing my son not embryo going i am going to allow balti on many occasions these issues come to light because some conditions pass through the male rather than the female and and families that have had to meet in diseases go down the idea of root in order to to to see how they're going to solve that problem but just in a on a purely basic choice position you cannot just randomly choose one without discriminating against the other. news around that and i'll be back at the top of the hour with more updates right now it's worlds apart.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

con welcome to all the parts. in general and the trump administration in particular i'm never shy of extolling the economic achievements and that's without merit the american economy of late has indeed been looking great but there is an increasing number of economists who claim that these boom may be short wave and a setting the stage for yet another global crisis if the full indeed comes how hard is it likely to be able to discuss that i'm now joined by brunello rose a founder and c.e.o. at rose and roubini associates mr rose it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for inviting me now over the last couple of weeks we've

heard a number of prominent economists warn that the global economic growth may be slowing down but i think you've been the most passive mystic of all predicting a new global crisis around two thousand and twenty doc may be similar in scale or perhaps even wars than the one we saw in two thousand and eight is that still a possibility or already a certainty no of course is probabilistic assertion in the sense that we look at various scenarios for the ward economy and we have touch from the bigger twos to do what we do. compared to other economists out there and these are houses sense we patch a high probability to such an event to occur around forty five percent and this is based on an non but of forces that we see already at play and we can

think and we think that over the next couple of years would have gathered starting in my actually quite too cozy down to the more severe than what we have seen potential in two thousand and eight and more severe than. most economists.