having spent months and months of training preparing for his second mission to the international space station that unfortunately never happened and now we hear that he and another crew member american auster not need hate just lended at the military airport just minutes drive away from here they are heading to the star city right now almost twenty four hours after an escape emergency a lendin in kazakhstan want to everybody now calls a lucky escape actually what happened just to remind you everything appeared to be go in very smoothly with the launch but less than two minutes into the flight that problem was reported with the booster rockets between the first and second stagers separated in the emergency escape system reacted immediately automatically to the separating the crew capsule from the rocket so aleksei of china need

a lend it to safely inside this capsule that some call the miracle. in the x. bird's call and normal thing because they say what the emergency system is supposed to do to save lives all of the crew and now they are heading here i have to say that thursday incident was a real short for all the people involved in space industries on both sides of the atlantic in russia in america for crew members families and their friends and and of course for ordinary people russian space industry didn't see an incident like this in the last thirty five years now a criminal case was put in students to gauge exactly what happened to special commission including high profile professionals all for the industry was formed to shed the light on. exactly what did go wrong so we have to wait and

see. we do not know exactly the cause us right now and now we just now received information that from the head of russia's space agency ross cost. that. for another flight to the international space station. for spring next year so. happy news for them i guess saluki like the way you explain to their normal is essential the earth extraordinary isn't it just the expert piloting there in moscow. as well thanks maria for the update for now. an investigation into what went wrong is of course way part of the damage rockets already being followed and in fact in rough because the of cannot climb really what was a brief but biting journey. baikonur cosmodrome fourteen forty local

time lift off in five four three two one engines are at war here by doing the engine that lift up. the law and she is always the most nerve raking part of the energy and stress involved the colossal rise of the respects and dangers at this time everything proceeding as intended for today is quite near the two minute mark the first stage boosters begin to separate something goes wrong. all right and i cheated and there is no time to wait or think of one hundred twenty one seconds and merge and see protocols engage automatically the mission is compromised there are only milliseconds to get the crew away with.

the families of the crew with the heads of course morse and nasa watch on as the ejection 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 jettisoned the ballistic trajectory they're all in is rougher than anticipated the crew is shaken and batted 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 as search and rescue operation is underway helicopters assume born powering towards the landing site wealth a mix families crazy. and who realize that 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 this new telling what medical condition the crew what we might call luck others would cool professionalism the crew trained for years for this the technicians who engineer the safety overrides the rescuers and medics who arrived in record time was kosmos 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 saves protocols and provisions as checks double checks triple checks and so is a track record the best in the world proves it's as safe as can be but that only gets you so far space is after all the final frontier.

yeah. we spoke to say that crews are always well prepared for such emergencies was i'd learning there and then the praise of china for their quick thinking actions i flew on to the space station aboard a soyuz rocket myself came back with us were 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 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 taken in and recertifying the vehicles for launch you just this was a situation that the crew a 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 an anomaly during the launch the crew reacted as they would in a simulator and practice their reactions multiple times in the simulator so they don't ask what's happening what do we do. to moving on to more big news stories today the united states mid term elections are less than a month away with both the democrats and republicans appearing to growing increasingly on the mated spoken our recent you go of poll shows a six percent gap in support between the two parties with the democrats leading on forty seven support. percent support looks at how campaign protocol is actually being torn up in the current political climate let's take a look. 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 pay. say 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. i was going. to be.

worried because we've. got. 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 elevates 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 monday because you know if the new messages get in their face get in people's face but republicans are also out for blood to the democrats every crumb to extreme too dangerous to cover they've gone wacko. handed matchups joining. and you don't give power to an angry left wing mob and that's

what the democrats are to be 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's to investigate three teenage girls who have colds one spread offense of to posting a picture online of the making nutsy gestures at the former switch concentration camp they later took but not before museum stuff took a screen shot more details now from. shocking and painful these are the words used by museum officials describe the acts 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 x.

polish officials are now searching for the girls propagating fascism in poland is illegal in 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 below. zero and then there are there is pushing the boundaries even with a number of scandals shaking up the country.

we will crack down on. 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 in history or denying the holocaust i see amongst all know and the law was decriminalised what was intended to defend the good name of poland would now be a civil. criminal offense and. double trump reacted to calls for washington to punish saudi arabia over the suspected murder of a dissident journalists 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 twenty two senators are demanding an investigation into the disappearance of jim. in turkey last week they want to see sanctions on saudi arabia if the nation is fun to be culpable the fifty nine year old journalist was last seen visiting the saudi consulate in istanbul and is feared to have been murdered there it's a claim the saudis pyramid really deny. 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 cry there's no reason to believe it will any real impact on u.s. saudi relations. saudi arabia is very important to the u.s. in terms of the reserve status of the dollar terms of the petro dollar is very they're they're tied ins they're tied in hand in glove with them i really don't think anything is going nothing is going to happen that maybe people will be calling for something to happen nothing is going to happen. the news continues in ninety seconds here on our to international. hillary clinton says civility can only return when the democrats are back in power former obama a.g. eric holder this point and new 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. so let the audience you need to let people decide what is the relevant to them you don't need to filter he said john author says. he believes he knew better he believes he do with what the needs were of these folks and that's self-censorship which is such and this is completely wrong and this is why we have been sleepwalking into the next financial crisis how john author has been a gonzo journalist have you been a proper. journalist how do you how do you not self centered himself as this next crisis unfolds people would be better prepared to deal with it but they won't be because of the failure of faith just like the.

hello again the controversial self-styled syrian rescue group the white helmets drew focus on a closed united nations meeting on thursday diplomats are said to be divided over the group's possible removal from post war syria the white house being accused of links to extremists and working alongside the terrorist group they deny those claims since this thing there are a civil rescue group and associate editor from the news site twenty first century wired dot com visited the group's headquarters in syria and this ability will lay out in full what she found on saturday's edition of going underground here on araa . 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 that course 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 the special expedition and by. led by israel uncrossed three taken a security fence into the occupy syrian territory of the golan heights so into israeli occupied territory and then on to jordan is what i was told around fifty percent were actually terrorist leaders no surprise leaders and isis fighters coming in from the race and all of these of course some have been resettled now in the u.k. there is huge secrecy over those that have and 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 while they had no if any ation to the store front it was very likely that every other white helmet 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. donald trump is keeping india in suspense after it signed a must have weapons deal with russia the us leader is deciding whether to punish new delhi for buying russian s. four hundred defense systems or give a presidential waiver either way he is keeping his cards close to his chest. we current plans are going to. india is going to find earth day. you'll see sooner than you think. of russia is currently india's biggest arms supplier and the

meeting earlier this month between the two countries leaders sold them even further striking a five billion dollar deal to supply india with the s four hundred missile defense system. it's one of the world's most sophisticated surface to air weapons the system is a range of one hundred kilometers and one can shoot done up to eighty targets. besides india russianness for hundreds have been bought by countries including china algeria belarus turkey international affairs professor surely it believes trumps threats is more about business than politics i think this is more. trumps bargaining starting to interviews uncertainty and unpredictability and then you don't drive you know a deal. to keep the other party. and then to see. to reconsider this. return so this is part of this transaction. and i think he's

looking at it buying more u.s. defense equipment for example he may also be looking at you know. opening market access to civilian american exports because there's also as you know a lot that's been going on so the actions i mean. really for feet to morrow for influence and leverage in this country if it does the unthinkable actually slap sanctions on us. a group of women working in is really high tech companies have staged a flash mob in central tel aviv criticizing the german chancellor posing with a card but. after she was pictured meeting. an all male group of us really tech specialists just a few days before. 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 to 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 well the israeli foreign ministry said the choice of. the meeting was done to the companies involved the

apologize that the lack of women wasn't picked up during preparations for the event . 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 received 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 the future of war torn syria is the focus of today's sophie and co and it's next and then after that all the news making headlines this friday stay with

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