i'm. from. the. all right. good. drama. forced to make an emergency escape following the failure of their launching rockets leaving relatives on the ground and i just wait for news. you can. get trained but the wife just stay down here and warry. the post-war future of the controversial syrian rescue group the white helmets cause is

the vision in diplomatic circles gets inside from an activist who visited its headquarters. told me the white helmets with special expectation by. led by. what i was told around fifty percent were actually terrorists. three polish girls calls deep offense for posting a photo of them making gestures at the switch concentration camp we look at whether there's a bigger nationwide problem. on one am and one pm in bangkok and eight in the morning here in moscow this friday october twelfth welcome to r.t.

international our top story two astronauts are no dart thanking their lucky stars right after successfully escaping the failed launch of the soyuz spacecraft on thursday the booster rocket malfunction. just minutes into their flight causing them to abort and return to earth russian commander alexi of chinon u.s. flight engineer nick cake were expected to spend about six months on the international space station let's take a look at. military earth ports one of the entrances to the airport just northeast of moscow this is where the two men are expected to arrive shortly they spent a night in baikonur for medical assessment for some well well earned rest of children. to spend a couple of days the star city astronaut training center infestation into what

went wrong thursday is the launch is underway and part of the damage rockets are already being fine so again we're just looking. at airport the entrance to the military base where the two men are expected to be landing within the hour or so we think but for now let's say what was a brief but nail up by thing journey. baikonur cosmodrome food scene food c. local time lift off in five fool. anyone. and lawyer but i didn't see it and you did not know. she is always the most breaking bad's the energy and stress involved colossal rise of the recent dangers. of everything preceding as intended for today's

client near the two minute mark the first stage boosters begin to separate something. now. all right and i cheated and there's no time to wait or think that one hundred twenty one seconds and merge and see protocols engage will dramatically the mission is compromised they're on their way milli seconds to get the crew away with. the families of the crew with the heads of course morse and nasa watch on as the jackson system jettisons the crew module away from the rocket boosters before the tons of high explosive fuel detonate and we have lift gate tower for history is now jettison the ballistic trajectory their arm is rougher than anticipated the crew is shaken and battered but stay conscious with room for

a little humor. sixty. three minutes in emergency systems function as intended they begin their descent back to earth within minutes a search and rescue operation is underway helicopters as soon borne powering towards the landing site while lexi makes families crazy and hopeless. 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 there's no telling what medical condition the crew were in what we might call luck others would cool professionalism the crew trained for years for this the technicians who engineered the safety overrides the rescuers and medics who arrived in record time ross cos most nasa teams wasn't that miracle but it was

the next best thing when it comes through space nothing is left to chance as contingencies for everything sail safes protocols and provisions as checks. double checks triple checks and so is his track record the best in the world proves it's as safe as can be but that only gets yousuf space ease off the rule the final frontier yet former astronauts we spoke to say that crews are always well prepared for such emergencies and indeed praised of chinon and hate for their quick thinking actions. i flew out to the space station aboard a soyuz rocket myself came back at us or use 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 right and so first and foremost of course we're all very pleased that the crew is safe and healthy they're able to walk away from from the landing site and now it's just a matter of the investigation to determine what happened what corrective action needs to be taken in and then recertifying the vehicles for launch this was a situation that the crew were very well prepared for often it's almost impossible to believe that everything will go well however most of the time everything does go very well but we are prepared mentally things not going the way they're intended in this sort of event when there's no normally during the launch the crew reacted as they would in a simulator they practice their reactions multiple times in the simulator so they don't ask what's happening what do we do. leaving that story for now moving on to more global news this friday the controversial self-styled syrian rescue group the white helmets true focus of

a close united nations meeting on thursday diplomats are said to be divided over the group's possible removal from post-war syria the white helmets have been accused of links to extremists working alongside the newser a terrorist group they denied those claims insisting they are a civil rescue group an associate editor from the news site twenty first century wired dot com visited the group's headquarters in syria but they're simply will lay out in full what she phoned in saturday's going underground here in r.t. . we entered a functioning white helmet center now what was interesting is the presumption by those white helmets was that because i was british i was sympathetic to their cause so the conversation immediately turned to their funding the fact that made a rescue. the head of the white helmet said turned off the funding to this group in the last six months funding previously by the way that each individual working for

the white home it's received one hundred fifty dollars a month that was information was given to me. with things like the like the initiative by. you led by israel uncrossed three the. security fence into the occupied syrian territory of the golan heights so into israeli occupied territory and then over to jordan is what i was told around fifty percent were actually terrorist leaders most republican leaders and isis fighters coming in from the on the race and of the use of course some have been resettled now in the u.k. there is huge secrecy over those that have entered to pay and where they are being resettled they told me that while they were not affiliated to us were front despite the fact that there center was actually in a no sort of front complex the notes from front headquarters were directly next door to the white house at center that i visited they told is that while they had

no if any ation to mr front it was very likely that every other white holik group in syria did have affiliation to us were from were led by no sort of front militants but of course they had no for the nation and that. they should be considered for funding and financing by the british government. the united states the midterm elections are now less than a month away with both the democrats and republicans appearing to growing increasingly animated and spoken. a recent hugo of poll shows a six percent gap in support between the two parties with democrats leading the way on forty seven percent currently well kill them up and looks at campaign protocols being torn up in the current political climate. i may not agree with what you say but i shall defend to the death your right to say it now that used to be the favorite quotation of americans but not anymore civility is passe just ask hillary

clinton you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for what you care about if we are fortunate enough to win back the house and or the senate that's when civility can start again remember back when everyone hailed this motto when they go low we go high. well now barack obama's former attorney general has adjusted it just a little machine always says that you know when they go low. you know. they go low we keep it right. and some sectors of the us public are pretty clearly ready for battle. was coming to be.

some republicans are now warning that the chaos could turn deadly i fear that there's going to be an assassination i really worry that somebody is going to be too and that those who are ratcheting up the conversation they have to realize they bear some responsibility if this and a face to violence after the senator's personal information was released online his family is on edge you know i felt incredibly threatened and frightened i had been frightened when rand left for d.c. that one day because you know if the new messages get in their face get in people's face but republicans are also out for blood. dratch every come to extreme too dangerous to govern they've gone wacko. matchups

to an arsonist and you don't give power to an angry left wing mob and that's what the democrats are to be the odds so civility just forget it it's likely that even after the midterm elections americans aren't just going to get over it divisions are getting deeper and r.t. new york. poland is to investigate three teenage girls who calls one spread offense softer posting a picture online of the making nazi gestures of the former ice which concentration camp they later took it done but not before museum stuff took a screen shot more of the details now from. shocking and painful these are the words used by museum officials describe the outs of three young polish teenagers who made a nazi salute at a form of concentration camp in poland when museum officials discovered the photo on instagram they were quick to axe polish officials are now searching for the

girls propagating fascism in poland is illegal and faces up to three years behind bars. we never again. we all understand that there's a huge gap between far right ideas and naziism but surprises nationalist sentiments in poland hauspie making headlines just look at the far right protests held in poland on independence day last year sixty thousand people took part in far right ballets and was thought to be one of the largest in europe so far. oh and then there are there is pushing the boundaries even with a number of scandals shaking up the country.

we will crack down on the. activity and it must be eradicated. there was also outcry across the globe when poland's made as a criminal offense to accuse it of complicity in nazi war crimes particularly from israel. we have no tolerance for the distortion of the truth and history of. a few months all know and the law was decriminalised what was intended to defend the good name of poland will now be a civil. no offense to. that man. reacted to calls for washington to punish saudi arabia over the suspected murder of a dissident journalist by suggesting he's unwilling to take any actions that could harm the u.s.

economy in particular the president made it clear that he intends to protect the defense industry and continue selling arms to riyadh. i don't like stopping massive amounts of money that's being poured into our country. i know they're talking about different kinds of sanctions but they're spending one hundred ten billion dollars on military equipment or things that create. jobs. for this country well twenty two senators are demanding an investigation into the disappearance of jamal khashoggi in turkey last week if they want to see sanctions on saudi arabia if the nation is found to be culpable the fifty nine year old journalist was last seen visiting the saudi consulate in istanbul disfigured to have been murdered there it's a claim the saudis virulently. most recently been working for the washington post where he had a regular column he's long been

a prominent critic of saudi leaders political commentator lou rockwell says that the spike the outcry there is no reason to believe it will have any real impact on u.s. saudi relations. it is very important to the u.s. in terms of the reserves that dollar terms of the petro dollar. are tied in there tied in hand with them i really don't think anything is going nothing is going to happen there maybe people will be calling for something to happen nothing is going to happen. well same with all trump on the way he gets for india more russian defensive weapons we look at whether he'll go through with a thinly veiled sanctions threat against another ally.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand out of the news business is just the dance the right questions demand the right answer. question. hillary clinton says civility can only return when the democrats are back in power former obama a.g. eric holder is calling to phrase when they go low we kick them without a doubt both statements can be dismissed as political banter as the midterms loom but it would seem no one can claim much virtue and civility in this environment.

just coming up to nineteen minutes past nine am here in moscow this trying to welcome back donald trump is keeping india in suspense for its weapons deal with russia and the u.s. leader is this timing whether to punish new delhi for buying russian s four hundred or defense systems or give a presidential waiver either way he's keeping his cards close to his chest but. india's going to find. you'll see sooner than you think. when russia is currently india's biggest arms supplier the new thing earlier this month between the two countries leaders saw them. even further striking a five billion dollar deal to supply india with the s four hundred missile defense

system it is one of the world's most sophisticated surface to air weapons the system has a range of four hundred kilometers and can shoot done up to eighty targets symbol taney asleep besides india russian s four hundred being bought by countries including china algeria belarus turkey international affairs professor. told me trump's threats is more about business and politics. this is more. bolstering. trumps bargaining starting to interviews uncertainty and unpredictability and then you know drive you know a deal and that key thing to keep the other party down to who and then to see. i'm willing to reconsider this but when you give me in return so this is part of his transactional diplomacy and i think he's looking at india buying more u.s. defense equipment for example he may also be looking at you know india

opening market access to civilian american exports because there's also as you know finally a trade war that's been going on so the options i mean he will force feed tomorrow for influence and leverage in this country if he does the unthinkable and actually slap sanctions on us. ok to another story generating a lot of interest this hour a group of women working in this really high tech companies have staged a flash mob in central tel aviv criticizing the german chancellor it's after i got merkel was pictured meeting an all male group of israeli tech specialists a few days earlier.

merkel was here last week she met with future leaders was the name of the group and really it was a meeting about innovation and and future developments and she commented during the meeting on the fact there was not a single woman in the room. a photograph from that meeting that was released the world media immediately after showed her standing in the middle of a group of about twenty five men now we thought that in response to that the thing to do was to simply stage an alternative photograph of the israeli foreign ministry has responded seeing the choice of who to send to the meeting was dying to the companies involved i'll apologize that the lack of women wasn't picked up during preparations for the it. we are sorry for that and are committed to doing the

best we can together with other partners to prevent such cases in the future and to ensure the appropriate representation of women i receive the apology from the foreign ministry and i have spoken personally to the people involved i was told that it was unintentional but you know it's not acceptable to us that in two thousand and eighteen almost two thousand and nineteen people should not notice that there's not a single woman in the room how can you not notice that half the population isn't represented. us stocks continued to drop on thursday falling further after when the state sold wall street's worst day in eight months the plunge those being caused in part by investors concerns over the federal reserve hiking interest rates a decision that was angered the low trump. or

transfer marks come after the fed's third interest rate hike this year a move creases the cost of borrowing for businesses almost all the main u.s. indices are now in the red tech titans like facebook is on netflix are among the firms to take in big hits former u.s. congressman ron paul to lists that 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 over 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 the day out the most important thing if you're looking to prior for looking for a free market economy you have to have interest rates. settled by thinking 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 or supply of money that can only be decided by the market ron paul speaking to r.t. all the stock markets in china japan south korea also felt the effects of the fed's interest rate increase on thursday though they showed signs of stabilizing today financial commentator jim rogers gave us his thoughts on the volatility being witness. truth is that the federal reserve did raise you 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 is 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 in the 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 and 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 are involved in the trade war or not. trump supporter in hollywood is a rare thing but laurie king struck one dollar and former t.v. supreme dean cain their child and it's next.

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our day to answer. and in. the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. is china not russia to threat to us elections the administration says yes we'll explore that topic on this edition of politic. while going to politicking on larry king on wednesday homeland security secretary kirsten nielsen and f.b.i. director christopher ray said that china is engaged in an unprecedented influence

campaign leading into the midterms and the twenty twenty presidential elections what have a new russia is meddling is this a new and legitimate threat or a diversion from the russian investor. political panel there john wood back republican strategist former chairman of the republican party of virginia he's in lansdown virginia and in chattanooga tennessee brian joyce host of the brian joyce show on talk radio on w g o w f.m. john what do you make of this warning is about china. you know i look any any serious threat to our election system needs to be taken seriously and i think in terms of the question of whether it's a diversion there's been so much news lately if you haven't noticed i'm not sure that anything's going to be a diversion at this point there's just too much going on i mean the kavanaugh story and what not so i don't know whether it's

a diversion from the rest investigation the rest of us to geisha his way in the back burner anyway so i think someone should take seriously like we should any threat to our election system right. i think john is probably right about that i know in the trumpet ministration i'm sure it's a combination of both i'm sure it's probably a legitimate threat i'm sure a lot of this is also smoke and mirrors but to john's point really at this point of the game there has been so much that has come out the past couple of weeks especially with the cavanagh nomination in the cavanagh confirmation i don't know if a lot of americans larry to be honest i don't know if they even remember about russian meddling and i don't know if they would even care that there's chinese battling so it'll be interesting to see ok john ford motor company says it plans.