it was a glimmer of hope in this. in one of the most serious of space incidents in years a russian soyuz rocket failure forces a crew to abort their launch for the international space station as their capsule crashes back down to earth. all right unless you get a. good. russian cosmonauts alexina. american astronaut cady both arrived back where their journey started in kazakhstan baikonur after their near death experience. and it has been

a real emotional roller coaster for the relative some have already embraced their loved ones again while other family members are left waiting r.t.d. talks exclusively to the wife of the russian cosmonaut about her tough experience. they get trained but the wife just stay down here lori. broadcasting live direct from our studios this is our international i'm sean thomas truly glad to have you with us all right now we. are we we continue our coverage of thursday's big. story in kazakhstan where

american and russian ai astronauts have escaped tragedy in their launch and for the international space station a rocket malfunction on the soyuz vehicle forced the two men crew to abort their mission in just minutes after takeoff and the emergency landing left spectators and families in total shock. all right unless you did a inaudible. and we had been escape tower for the city is now jettisoned or russia's investigative committee says they are looking into whether a violation of safety rules caused the soyuz mishap we can take you through the failed mission using actual footage and animation here is what happened.

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you are earlier the crew landed back at the baikonur cosmodrome but whether dramatic journey all started at two forty pm local time later they will be transported to the gun cosmati training center in star city outside of moscow and if you thought things were going a horribly wrong ninety kilometers above the earth would cause a panic apparently not for this commander. i don't know he said s. . six d. i see said that. some of the. wow ok so the crew members remain under medical surveillance they are resting up

and are due to arrive back in moscow on friday donald quarter reports now from the baikonur cosmodrome about the events after the accident. i'm standing here right now in baikonur cassock stand where earlier today cause may not alex a change in an astronaut nick a guy had to make an emergency landing outside of the site use am s ten rocket launch that was supposed to make it into the eye s.s. now there was some trouble with the rocket and they had to make an emergency capsule landing a military parachute was deployed and emergency services arrived at the scene within ninety minutes of their landing and let's take a look at the timeline of events that led up to this. where.

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. cts 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 corridor r.t. by can one of us earlier we heard from dr david brown who works at the european space agency's plato mission and he told us that the crew had a very lucky escape the g. forces they experienced significantly higher than than usual for launch or re-entry because of the trajectory they had to type it can force blood away from logan it can cause temporary blackouts and they're all a lot of quite severe consequences so given the conditions in the capsule it's possible that they could do if they could have come out of this much worse and they

did i think we should all be very thankful. these systems which have been designed for just this eventuality have worked exactly as they've been designed today well 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 artie's daniel hawkins is at star city for us where the crew will eventually return. the incident we've seen today is of course 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 pundits 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 one to stand there in good health they're having their vital signs monitored in a hospital in kazakhstan should and has already met his mother who was at work nor 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 what survival. i watched the launch on t.v. and then i got the news from my neighbors 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 this cape system thanks to that the crew returned alive and not injured. well we're about thirty five kilometers as we said outside moscow what star city here this is where the cosmonauts the astronauts will. a roy from kazakhstan it's about three and all four hours flight from that once they leave the assessment sense of what's the medics upset them over and declare them fit to come but kid their family felonies always in here will give you any updates of course as they come in all those astronauts cosmonauts condition as and when they land back in moscow we spoke to leroy chiao a retired nasa astronaut and international space station commander he went through what could have caused the failure and the experience for those on board.

i flew on to the space station aboard so you struck it myself came back in this well used 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 an emergency aboard but as you heard from the transmissions the crew was very calm very professional and they did everything exactly 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 the from the landing site and now it's just a matter of the investigation term of what happened what corrective action to take in in research find the vehicles for launch. even though it's early to speculate based on what i saw on the replays of the launch coverage right after the four strephon 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 soon as you heard soon there after the it war was declared and. the crew was instructed to use the hand controller to engage the ballistic mode. in a case of this ballistic manager 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. 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 to them pretty quickly and get them out of the council mankind's thirst for space exploration has ended in tragedy on a number of occasions over the years some with deadly consequences in one nine hundred sixty seven technical problems during the landing of the so use one spacecraft resulted in the death of the only cosmonaut on board four years later

the eleven eleven and three crew members were killed when their capsule depressurized astronauts had a fortunate scape in one thousand nine hundred five when their launch vehicle malfunctioned all those involved survived their one nine hundred eighty six was particularly tragic with all seven crewmembers on board the challenger spacecraft dying after an explosion and in two thousand and three the space shuttle columbia broke apart during reentry killing all seven astronauts on board as well the risks of space flight have been made all the more evident today but earlier my colleagues kevin owen and you got it done of went over the possible faults of the incident in baikonur 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 the rocket that moved the satellite man made satellite into space

a groundbreaking event then through several iterations it became the way it is right now with the current version of it was introduced back an. hour.

or welcome back let's. switch gears to some other news making headlines here on r t international so when it comes to policing the web google thinks it knows what's best for us at least a company briefing called the good censor outlines how it and other internet giants

including facebook and twitter are grappling with how they censor content and that it's done for our own good are trying to go comments 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 what 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 on 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 t.v. 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 google is committed to

free expression supporting the free throw if i did is cool to a mission where 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 those who have been talking about consistently engaged in this issue of conservative viewpoints the piece the document that was released to pretty much outlines it all is lot of opinion in near things that they consider to be all right extremist are simply just normal things that average people talk about a lie but you see the political by dates in google they say one thing publicly but obviously they do different things privately is all about who is 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're. be the ones that are hurt. u.s. stocks have taken another hit continuing to drop after wall street experienced its worst day in eight months on wednesday the plunge has been caused in part by investors concerns over the federal reserve hiking interest rates a decision that has angered donald trump. trump's remarks come after the fed's third interest rate hike this year a move that increases the cost of borrowing for businesses almost all of the main u.s. indexes are now in the red tech titans like facebook amazon and netflix are among the firms to have taken big hits former u.s.

congressman ron paul told us that in his view interest rates should be determined by market forces it's not trump's fault it's not the federal reserve the current federal reserve's fault that we had this drop yesterday and today that comes from the fact that the federal reserve of these past ten years these q.e. manufacturing creating a massive amount of credit over all these years which causes the distortions in the malinvestment and that day out the most important thing if you're looking to prime for looking for a free market economy you have to have interest rates settled by the economy in a free market because it's a very very important information so i don't i think the president's wrong in thinking that he can just lecture the federal reserve and the federal reserve is wrong because they think they know what is the right thing to do and they don't know what the right rate of interest is or the right number of supply of money that can only be decided by the market the effects of the fed's interest rate increase

are being felt in asia as well with stock markets in china japan and south korea suffering on thursday financial commentator jim rogers gave us his thoughts on the volatility we are seeing through it is the federal reserve did. well crazy a few years ago drove interest rates down to zero which is never happened in history everywhere else in the world they went to zero so yes they went crazy central banks everywhere and did something which has never been done and drove interest rates to zero and below zero now they're trying to get sanity back and raise them to the proper level america's the largest creditor no largest debtor nation in the history of the world and america has the largest economy in the world so of course what america does has an effect on other people but you know it affects japan japan it's the third largest economy in the world it affects europe europe is a huge economy so if america has a problem everybody has a problem or everybody who deals with america but especially if there's

a trade war going on and it seems there is and will be more that affects everybody whether you were involved in the trade war or not i that does it for me i will be back in won't say thirty three minutes with a full of q. news your watching our chief national hunch on thomas stay with us. the ability to keep inflation genie in the bottle is a bad break so we see prices going up across the board while it's just one of them we see interest rates rising that's inflationary we see the dollar eventually cracking and have a catastrophic collapse that's usually inflationary so prices across the board go up that makes that russia saudi arabia venezuela. their oil based economies they all benefit wildly from this emerging market takes the benefit of this in oil and gold gold starting to perk up again and but going of course would skyrocket two hundred thousand people. it's been too many

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