in one of the most serious space incidents in years a russian soyuz rocket failure forces a two man crew to abort their launch to the international space station as the capsule crashes down to work. right. up. to the. russian cosmonauts. and american astronaut nick cave both arrived back where the journey started in cassocks stands and by canal after that near death experience. and it's been a real emotional roller coaster for relatives some have already embraced their

loved ones again while other family members and left waiting six crew surveyed to the wife of the russian cosmonaut about the experience. you can be ready for that. they get trained but the wives just stay down here and worry. it's one o'clock and you're watching all the international live from moscow studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. we continue our coverage of thursday's story in kazakhstan where american and russian astronauts have escaped tragedy and their launch for the international space station a rocket. malfunction on the soyuz vehicle forced the two man crew to abort their

mission just minutes. we were at the launch site doing live coverage of so i use m s tens blast off into the cosmos earlier today and at the beginning things seemed according to plan we

saw the rocket go into the sky the tourists that were watching friends and family other journalists they were taking pictures smiling clapping congratulating the crew on their successful blast off into the sky but then we started getting signs and unconfirmed reports that something was wrong for something that hasn't happened in over thirty years it's really a miracle that these two came out on injured and alive donald corder r.t. by kind of the last of us and we had from top to david to prime heroics at the european space agency's plato mission he told us the crew had a lucky escape. the g. forces they experienced were significantly higher than the new for launch over reentry because of the trajectory they had to take it can force blood away from vital organs it can cause temporary blackouts and there are a lot of quite severe consequences so given the conditions in the capsule it's

possible that they could've they could have come out of this much worse and i did i think we should all be very thankful that the systems which had been designed for just this eventuality have worked exactly as they've been designed today. well those involved a father 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. for us where the crew will eventually return to blame student we've seen today is of course of the last one took place in nine hundred eighty 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 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 good health they're having their vital signs monitored in a hospital in gaza should and has already met his mother who was a white noise 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 cause of. the and 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 in warri 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 mirror. but i want to say think you to the rescue team who designed the scape system thanks to that the crew returned alive and not injured. well we're about thirty five kilometers as we said outside moscow but star city here this is where the cosmonauts and astronauts will arrive from kazakhstan it's about three and all four hours flight from there once they leave the assessment center once the medics upset them over and declare them fit to come back here and their family felonies 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 we spoke to. a

retired astronaut on the international space station commander he went through what could have caused the failure and the experience for those that. i flew on to speciation aboard so you struck it myself came back in this were huge capsule on my fourth mission and so you know kind of brought me back to what it's like being in that vehicle and imagining going through this kind of emergency aboard but as you heard from the transmissions the crew was very calm very professional and they did everything jacqui right and so first and foremost of course we're all very pleased that the crew is safe and hopefully they're able to walk away from from the landing site and now it's just a matter of the investigation in term of what happened what corrective action to take in in research finding vehicles for launch. even though it's early to speculate based on what i saw on the replays of the watch coverage

right after the four strap on boosters separated there seem to be more debris coming off suggesting perhaps that one or more of the strap ons may have hung up and may have caused some kind of a structural damage to the core and then as you heard soon thereafter the war was declared. the crew was instructed to use the hand controller to engage the ballistic model. in a case of this ballistic natural you don't know where you're going because you know you didn't predict when you're going to have a problem have to abort and so that's why you just go into the spin mode this ballistic mode and you just take what you get you generally know all about where you're going to land and they kind of have some helicopters staged along the way for this kind of contingency mess one of the helicopters were able to get them pretty quickly and get them out of the council mankinds as space exploration has ended in tragedy on a number of occasions over the years with deadly consequences in one thousand nine

hundred sixty seven technical problems during the landing of the soyuz one spacecraft resulted in the death of the only cause we know what on board four years later the soyuz eleven's three crew members were killed when the capsule the pressurized astronauts had a fortunate escape in one thousand seventy five when their launch vehicle malfunctioned all those involved survived one thousand nine hundred six was particularly tragic with all seven crew members on board a challenge a spacecraft dying off from an explosion and in two thousand and three the space shuttle columbia broke apart during re-entry killing all seven astronauts. the risks of space flights have been made all the more evident today but earlier my colleagues kevin though in an eco shutdown of went over the possible faults of the incident and by canal and what probably saved the lives of the crew on board. the design goes all the way back to nine hundred fifty seven that was the first

prototype kind of working thing of a rocket that moved the first satellite man made satellite into space a groundbreaking event then through several iterations it became the way it is right now the current version of it was introduced back in two thousand and one and this is nothing like the original it changed it is it has changed quite a bit for example of the emergency module that saved the lives of the of those two men today it was introduced only mind sixty seven i think so ten years after the initial design no before that there was no escape known and the first man you're a good guy in fly you fly it when he flew into space there was. no way back for him so the emergency rescue system detaches fires of the rocket moves the crew as far away from the rocket as possible starts the ballistic descent on earth then it detaches itself from the capsule and the parachute opens. it opens and well

that's how it sort of forces they hit the ground with when they when they get down it's no different from landing when they return from the ice is but during the old flight nasa told us experienced g. force of around six or seven which is more than twice the norm but still as we've been explained as we've been explained by the as we've been explained by the former cosmonaut here it's nothing special really so it's not out of the ordinary so to speak because they are trained for this sort of sort of you can even look remarkably well. now says representative said the u.s. space agency will launch its own investigation into the rocket failure this stressed that it will be in close cooperation with russia. from what the guard of 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 retired to russian it cause we know what alexander gave us his expertise on the so is every incident. when a launch vehicle lifts off the force is about three to three point five g. that's not too hard to handle when the emergency safety system kicks in it could increase to seven g. but that isn't too intense for a human we're prepared for about eight g. or even more talking about how they felt at the beginning the forces continue and then after one hundred twenty seconds the boosters broke at that moment they experienced gravity most likely in a second or two the emergency engine start working that's when the force increases rapidly the rest of it is quite routine a spacecraft is divided into modules and

a catch all land using its parachutes everything is pretty much automated 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.

join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to the world of politics sport i'm sure i'll see you then. it's easier to find an enemy where there are far to. much more difficulties explaining all things are once you start telling people look you my hate the banks where do you put your money. you put them in the bank and what happens if the bank goes under your money anymore these kind of reasonings

will be much more careful to make people understand every year old dynamics that is why people locked on consequences of prices the last post nobody wants to. come back to the program has reacted to calls for washington to punish saudi arabia over its suspected murder of a journalist by saying he won't take any actions that hurt the u.s. economy in an interview with fox news the president stressed that he will not and to riyadh as many lawmakers have been demanding. we have a country that is doing probably better economically that it's never done before

a part of that is what we're doing with our defense systems and everybody's wanting them and frankly i think that that would be a very very tough pill to swallow for a country congressional republicans have demanded an investor. ation to the disappearance of jamal khashoggi in turkey last week and want to see a robust response if saudi arabia is found to have been responsible the fifty nine year old journalist was last seen visiting the saudi consulate in istanbul and is feared to have been murdered there riyadh however denies the claim. because shoghi worked for the washington post where he had a regular column he's long been a prominent critic of saudi leaders. to discuss the issue let's cross live now. well i did have a quote dot com finds the comments of the program now it seems that the u.s. is not willing to isolate its key strategic partners so how in your opinion

could trump's position affect the situation. oh i think nothing's going to happen if saudi arabia i mean it's a bird barbaric regime they chop people's heads off at the drop of a hat couldn't you know young teenage dissidents it's a it's a pretty brutal place so the idea that what's wrong with this is they were let's say just too open about it if he'd been disappeared in some other way maybe that wouldn't have been a controversial thing whatsoever and no the u.s. is not going to cut off arms sales to them although the u.s. has no business selling arms to anybody as far as i'm concerned but this is this is a big part of. what the u.s. does it's saudi arabia spreads a lot of money around washington they bribe many many people and it's why there are we remember george w. bush taking his walk on his ranch holding the hand of the. saudi ambassador remember obama bowing down to the saudi king i mean the all the u.s.

presidents are in effect bow down to saudi arabia it's a very unfortunate arrangement but i don't want to imply by what i like criticism of the brutal saudi regime and some of the u.s. has got to clean hands how many millions of people is the u.s. killed over the years so the use these are these are very informal importunate regimes and it's not true that everybody wants u.s. weapons of course we know the india and turkey are buying russian weapons which is driving the us crazy so it's i think the whole international arms business is very unfortunate. i like to see countries just keep their arms to themselves including the u.s. but it's not going to happen very soon the thing is obviously. there's been no definitive evidence has that as of yet but if the saudis are shown

to be responsible how likely is it that this could actually be a turning point. i think it's very unlikely. and of course one thing they're going to do is they're going to refuse anybody the turks want to get into the air to the consulate and see if there's evidence of a murder and they're they're not going to allow them in they're not going to allow anybody in how is it going to be proved i mean it's the guy went into the consulate and never came out again but. you know we've we've known that for some time i think . it's not going to worsen relations you know not to worsen relations but of course the saudis are maurice strong allies of israel knows what some of you out there. are going.

to welcome to the alex salmond she went to the last in our series looking at the key issues raised around the party conference season today we focus on the subtle shifts in labor's position on brakes it and what that means for the upcoming and vital votes in both houses of parliament can labor succeed in forcing a general election drama out of the brics a crisis or continues to make chief impossible and secure the passage of a checkers agreement which virtually nobody supports with any enthusiasm whatsoever but first your tweets your messages and your e-mails and first up from arthur he says bravo alex and todd's one of the best amongst the great c.d.'s if it was so

many voices representative of our mortar nation of scotland's leading party and yes we've got best coverage on his own media the nation would have to claim it's a star to conceive penzance already thank you at the very enthusiastic message people are says a lovely people are excellent alex i'm unsure about democracy and referendums i always enjoy listening to try it and so do i have lots of praise for treasure in fact for last week valley also says it's especially good to hear from to share mark so knowledgeable on catalonia just a car before could tell and that's of course just can't. part and the catalan parliament has been imprisoned for facilitating debate the market says reacting to alex news comments absolutely in relation to using our own currency cullen hunter saying is get yourself dancing to some of our of course calendar funding to the prime minister's performance or to the party conference with none of that on the alex salmond shoe and finally from body curricula funding to independent says we want it now before we are dragged out of the e.u.

now by general consent the labor conference in liverpool strengthened jeremy corbin's position although the polls are still no better than level pegging the tory party high command are certainly taking the prospect of a corp in premiership very seriously indeed alex talks to the politicians who one commentator described as a biggest winner at the conference darby labor m.p. chris williamson a man who not only thought every candidate he supported successfully elected to the new labor any c. or no it's and being jeremy corbyn successor were slashed from one hundred to one to twenty two to one. because williamson labor at a conference so huge cheer for one is improbable reference to the potential of staying and being on our ballot paper not after the end of our labor edging towards our people's will our preference when we're talking about the people so it would obviously to be a general election that's what we would like to see rather than this notion of

a of a second referenda because the problem is where do you start with that and i my a real fear as well of course is that it would embolden the far right we've seen the rise of the far right across europe but also in this country i never thought see the day again where we'd have thousands of fascists marching on the street but earlier this year we saw that with the support that tommy robinson achieved and he's got over a million followers on social media as well and i just think the likes of tommy robinson the extreme right in the conservative party would be strengthened by a second referendum it would be misrepresented and i also think just from. that insanity from some of the polling the second referendum would be lost as well so it would be a kind of a pointless thing to to do in the absolute power.