it was along with the money. a warm welcome for the. third aborted rocket launch they have now arrived in moscow. a good. berley three minutes in immense speed quick thinking crew were forced to abandon their malfunctioning spacecraft before a nailbiting to send back to earth also ahead. if we are fortunate enough to win back the house and or the senate that's when civility can start again.

america is election friction democrats and republicans fight dirty with voters deeply divided over next month's high stakes midterm. polish girls calls deep offense after posting a photo of them making nazi gestures at the ice which concentration camp we look at whether there's a bigger nationwide problem. just hospital every am here in moscow this friday october the twelfth welcome to the program wherever you're churning in from i'm you know neal our top story two astronauts are no dog thanking their lucky stars right now after successfully escaping the failed launch of the soyuz spacecraft on thursday the booster rocket malfunction just minutes into their flights causing them to abort and return to

earth after a dramatic rescue and medical tests there was really from friends and family they were welcome to baikonur. well the crew has no arrived a three star city training center near moscow therefore a says well as artie's maria from the ria

a lot of travelling from them going up into orbit coming back. then to the mosque or report another to star city what's happening where you are. yes indeed you know we are now in star city outside most world famous gharyan cosmonaut training center is just behind me this is where russian cosmonaut exacting spend months and months training preparing for his second mission to the international space station that unfortunately never happened and now yes we hear that he and another crew member american astronaut need hague right now back to civilian to get a look this is russian for a star c.t. where they will be checked for the next two days although we hear from the doctor is that both space men feel very well right now both physically and psychologically the protocol requires that their health conditions are more and it's not for the

next at least forty eight hours but the question many right now want to know the answer to is what happened was caused these. incident yesterday we know that a criminal case was launched into this incident and as special commission high profile expert commission was also formed to shed the light on the causes of the incident we hear that they had of not saying european space agency have already offered there is systems in the investigation and we expect the first results by corporate twenty five not before that but already now we hear that suppuration system all function might be the cause of collision again this is just for a layman the recent gesture and we have to wait for official results for at least like two weeks is going to take and we hear that until then the exact cause is

determined all spaceflights must be suspended. so what actually happened just a brief to remind you everything appeared to be go in very well yesterday and then less than two minutes into the flight a problem was reported with the booster rocket between the first and second stages separated in the mergence escape system reacted to this immediately and that was automatically done by suppurating the crew capsule and alexi of cine no need haig for who by the way that was supposed to be his first flights to the international space station lended safely in kazakhstan and now they're back to moscow and we hear from the head of russian space agency admitted records in the they are already shared you'll for another space for another flight to the

international space station next spring let's take a listen. to where american stars these guys who fly we planned for their flight to be in the spring of next year. well this is a very happy news of course for spacemen they are now. again here in star city outside they will be checked here for the next forty eight hours but as far as we understand they are psychologically ready for the next flight that is shed for spring two thousand and eighteen the criminal investigation was opened and now we have to wait and see hunt to the exact cause of thursday incident determines that became a real schall for all the people involved in space industries and both sides of the atlantic and russian america for crewmembers for all cosmonauts for their families and friends and for ordinary people. actually the russians pace industry didn't see

an incident like this in the last thirty five years so it is very important right now to be careful in answering the question exactly what happened on thursday back to you yeah you get the sense the two men want to get back up there soon as possible quite extraordinary crew those two thanks very much for. star city. every moment of the brief tense flights was being closely watched as the of takes us through what occurred. by could no. food scene food see local time lift off in five fool three to be one engine and longer but if you did and you did not lift up.

the most nerve wracking plant the energy and stress involved colossal eyes of the respects and dangers this time of everything proceeding as intended for today's quiet new. the two minute mark the first stage boosters begin to separate something goes wrong. 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 automatically the mission is compromised there are 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 the for 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 battered but stay conscious with room for a little humor remember forty six. 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 are soon borne powering towards the landing site wealth legacy a mix families pray and hope it's not realize that the 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 cause 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. it comes through space nothing is left to chance there's contingencies for everything sale 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 you so far space is after all the final frontier. well former astronauts we spoke to say crews are always well prepared for such emergencies and praised. 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 it 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 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 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 so then 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 know what's happening what do we do. if we go into more global news now that the united states mid-term elections are less than a month away with both the democrats and republicans appearing to grow increasingly

unlimited spoken a recent hugo of poll shows a six percent gap in support between the two parties with democrats leading forty seven percent up and looks at how the campaign protocol is 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 michelle who says that you know when they go low you. know. they go low we keep it right. and some sectors of the u.s. public are pretty clearly ready for battle. come to me. 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 the 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 and i had been frightened when rand left for d.c. that one day because you know what if the new message is get out in their face get in people's face but republicans are also out for blood to the democrats every come to extreme too dangerous to cover they've gone wacko. handed matchups during arsonists and you don't give power to an angry left wing mob and that's what the democrats are because it was. 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 former u.s. congressman ron paul says that beyond the war of words republicans and democrats

agree on much more than they think the policies are very very similar and we who work in the free to move in the libertarian movement have said there's that there's a lot of bipartisanship when it comes to passing legislation like running up the deficits getting involved in. in foreign wars and being involved like this is they're very much the same but i think the disagreement is more of a cultural thing and there's a difference is. a loss of the is not so much and we would like we as libertarians would like to see the discussion about you know like our federal reserve system and spending and deficits and personal liberties and civil liberties but there seems to be too much agreement there but right now there's no doubt there's a lot of hostility between the two groups never very very angry. to a little trump is keeping india in suspense after it's a must have weapons deal with russia the u.s.

leader is deciding whether or not to punish new delhi for a russian s fourteen or defense systems he could also give a presidential waiver either way he's keeping his cards close to his chest. but the current trends are just going to. india is going to find earth. will say sooner than you think. russia is currently india's biggest arms supplier a meeting earlier this month between the two countries' leaders sold them even further striking a fine billion dollar deal to supply india with the us fourteen missile defense system now it is one of the world's most sophisticated surface to air weapons the system has a range of four hundred kilometers can shoot up to eighty targets. besides india russia for hundreds have been brought by countries including china algeria bellerose turkey international affairs professor. beliefs trumps threat is less

about politics and business leverage. i think this is more. trumps bargaining starting to interviews and so to do and unpredictability and then you don't drive you know a deal. to keep the other party. and then to see. i'm willing to reconsider this but what will you give me a return to this part of this transaction. and i think he's looking good 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 patently a trade war that's been going on so the actions i mean. really for feet to morrow for influence and leverage in this country if he does the unthinkable actually slap sanctions on us. the culture of herschel self-styled syrian rescue group the white

helmets true focus on a closed united nations meeting on thursday diplomats are said to be divided over the group's possible removal from postwar syria. the white helmets have been accused of links to extremists working alongside the al nusra terrorist group they deny those claims insisting there 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. to enfold. today's edition of going underground here on 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 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 its received one hundred fifty dollars a month that was information was given to me. like they showed it 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 for front despite the fact that their 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 those that 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 you know 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 news keeps rolling right after this. it's the same wrong but all wrong just don't call. me. yet to stamp out these days because as a kid and in detroit because of the trail. when so many find

themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground. 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 down in the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. questions.

a work in poland is to investigate three teenage girls who cause widespread offense softer posting a picture online of them making nazi gestures at the former concentration camp they later took the photo but not before museum staff took a screenshot the details from. shocking painful these are the words used by museum officials to describe the outlets of three young polish teenagers who made a nazi salutes 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 want anti semitism. 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 violation was thought to be one of the largest in europe so far. and then there are those 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. to accuse it of complicity in nazi war

crimes particularly from israel. we have no tolerance for the distortion of the truth. and the law was decriminalised what was intended to defend the good name of poland will now be a civil not criminal offense and. a group of women working in a really high tech companies have staged a flash mob in central tel aviv posing with a cardboard cutout of the german chancellor to mock her group photo of a meeting with an all male group of us really tech specialists a few days earlier the women also hope to highlight gender imbalance within the technology industry.

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 or the israeli foreign ministry has responded saying that the choice of who to send to the meeting was some productive the companies involved apologize but 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. double trouble as reacted to calls for washington to punish saudi arabia over this 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 or 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 and others for this country or twenty two senators in all are demanding an investigation into the disappearance of jamal khashoggi in turkey last week 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 cults late in istanbul and this feared to have been murdered there it's a claim the saudis vehemently 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 told us that the spy to cry he believes there is no reason to believe it will have 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 petrodollar is very you know they're they're tied in 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. all right the big topics of the day get their cross talk treatment next and i'm back in just over thirty minutes time with more of the stories affecting your world today.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle hillary clinton says civility can only return when the democrats are back in power former obama a.g. eric holder has coined a new phrase when they go low kick them without a doubt both statements can be dismissed as political banter as the midterms loom but it would seem to no one can claim much virtue and civility in this environment .