looming with democrats and republicans going all out as projections put just six percent but train them in next month's high stakes vote. today's top headlines on the weeks leading stories welcome to the weekly. while the space industry experts are busy investigating what went wrong during thursday's failed launch of a soyuz spacecraft the crew of two who are on board are no doubt thanking their lucky stars off the narrowly escaping disaster just minutes into their flight.

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well we were at the launch site doing live coverage of so i use m s ten's blast off into the cosmos 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 that something was wrong because minot aleksei off chin in and astronaut nick cage had to make an emergency landing emergency services arrived at the scene within ninety minutes of their landing 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. baikonur alexi of training is forty seven years old and holds the rank over as of lieutenant conal of the russian air force thursday his flight was supposed to have been his second journey to space his american colleague forty three year old nick haig is a colonel in the u.s. air force and his case had was to have been his maiden flight. now of course when you've got more than a half a million pounds of boning rocket fuel behind you and a booster of those going faulty you need to get away and fast experts and astronauts are applauding the escape system that ultimately prepared the path to safety.

thank you thank you but of course i want to thank the rescuers and those who designed these keep system thanks to them our guys came back to earth safely it's a very dangerous situation and it's. in impressive. about the design of how they built the scape system that it works so very well but you're in a very volatile situation with lots of rocket propellant around you going very very fast very very high so things could have gone much much worse and it's just great that the escape system works so well i flew out to the space station aboard a soyuz rocket myself came back in the soyuz 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 the

right. the crew on board the international space station had well more than a bird's eye view of what happened and ultimately captured the moment on camera and we can show you these images taken by the current space station commander i guess on the ghost you can just about make out the white streaks of smoke from the rockets a gust and his team are readying to welcome their colleagues on board because then only watch helplessly as they saw the astronauts incredible escape when i shortly after commander ghost jumped on to twitter to express his really. i'm glad that our friends are fine thanks to more than a thousand rescue workers this day has again shown how great the still uses despite a false start the crew was safely brought back to earth space travel is tough but we must go on for the benefit of humanity alex is doing well i have some contacts there's some gas in the sage and he's in a good shape he's not at all afraid he trusts into the so use as he did in the

past so therefore now he will he might or he might have to stay a little bit longer in the stations and plant there is no change of plans so we're looking forwards to not only using soyuz for the next asked amounts but also has some of our economics so we do not see there is a change in plan. for still no major breakthrough in the case of the prominent saudi journalist who vanished almost two weeks ago. ultimately i was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second and no one's heard from him since he has not a fish really accused riyadh of being involved but some reports claim its intelligence services have evidence that not only was hush orgy kidnapped but also tortured and killed the saudi arabia strongly denies the accusations and has

offered help in investigating this case now the lack of information on a sensitive topic like this prompted multiple media reports some news outlets allege that the u.s. actually intercepted saudi discussion of a plan to capture the journalist claiming the saudi crown prince ordered an operation to lure and detain her shoji others say the turkish officials have an audiobook ordering of the journalists murder said to have been recorded on a smartwatch some say this is highly unlikely. trying to has more now on the journalist's mysterious disappearance where is journalist. what happened to him. for an entire week nobody has been able to answer that question and vesta gaiters on the ground who might be the closest to solving the riddle believe he could have been brutally murdered behind the walls of the saudi consulate and its stamboul alleged details of how it was done and clued sending

over a fifteen man a hit squad from the kingdom to make sure the man's dead anchor was shocked something so horrendous could have happened in istanbul prosecutes in istanbul is investigating the issue there is both a security investigation and an intelligence one it's extremely thorough the news that this incident took place in the country i knew to move for a long time so i still hold those who are good willing we will not find ourselves in a situation we do know. still. riyadh says it's got nothing to do with it all the claims are absolute blogs an official at the consulate general of the kingdom of saudi arabia in istanbul dismissed the report by reuters which cited turkish officials the saudi citizen jamal khashoggi was killed in the consulate in istanbul he fishel strongly denounce these baseless allegations and express his down to that they came from turkish officials they were informed of the investigation or

authorized to comment on the issue the saudi kingdom is transparency record has been poor to say the least but in a rare display of openness there officials even invited warders on a tour around the consulate. g lives and works in the u.s. but to obtain a license to get married he had to see saudi officials is definitely been to the consulate twice on september the twenty eighth and when he disappeared now here's what's crucial mr has shoddy writes about the saudi government and. it's not exactly glowing actually had been worried something bad could happen to him before the second visit to the consulate the journalists left his cell phone with his fiance with instructions on what to do if he didn't come out soon the woman called turkish police four hours later when jamal was nowhere to be seen saudi officials

say his stay at the compound was very short they were sure the journalist vanished once he stepped outside now they're looking for him too mr his fiance is full of hope he's not been killed but kidnapped rather the story's been picked up by media all over the world one of the newspapers jamal wrote for the washington post came out with a blank column where they were supposed to print his piece but that hasn't helped there's been no trace of the man. says it's worried about the incident as well however it was not the u.s. president who voiced concern for some u.s. senators are urging tough action if saudi involvement in confront. if we find that they were complicit or the rest of the city is way. over the edge of what is appropriate this is serious we need to get the facts and i know that startling proposition for the united states congress that we should get the facts before we

act it decided it happened is increasing the likelihood that something bad happened to this man at the hands of the saudi government has contempt for us. disrespectful to. the president going to trump has promised to punish saudi officials if their involvement is proven but also stressed his desire to protect america's multi-billion dollar business with the gulf. terrible that disgusting about that if that were the case so we're going to have to see we're going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment if we don't like it and we don't like it even a little bit but as to whether or not we should stop one hundred ten billion dollars from being spent in this country knowing they have four or five alternatives two very good alternatives that would not be acceptable to be. tromped is taught to live here you know is that it is as business when i think it affects a little bit the relationship between the united states and this road yet i'm gonna

go flop doesn't affect where well because the problem is that now americans want to do something against russia and iran and turkey in the middle east and they need. contraries and didn't need some money and despite i think it you know doesn't change anything. is very important to the u.s. in terms of the reserve status of the dollar in terms of the petro dollar is very they're tied in there tied in hand in glove with them i really don't think anything is going nothing is going to happen the maybe people will be calling for something to happen nothing is going to happen. people on the caribbean island of martinique are stepping up calls for the french state to accept complicity in a major health crisis that i say the failure of successive administrations to end the use of a highly toxic pesticide as left the french overseas territory polluted and has

caused cancer rates to skyrocket. in the nineteen seventies this kind of ground zero was back in the in the usa the second year in this period plus started using it in martinique until ninety ninety four so the question is why.

for years we have swallowed and inhaled these past decides not one yell to it was for years and the regional health agency knew officials knew and no one and not a population this is very. soon it's not possible to get an estimate of the number of patients who are victims of florida con will you be the priority is to determine the number of farmers who are working in the banana plantations i don't know there are hundreds and many of them have died of prostate cancer has many had premature babies why did they let french people sleep the sweet potatoes because they contaminated but they let us eat the same potatoes train same period. when one is aware that a product is toxic and still use is assassination such as not up to the french

state is complicit in this assassination because they will slice. peace talks of. the little things of the steve must take its share of responsibility for this pollution must make progress on the path of for abrasion and projects i hope that collectively we will put our efforts towards zero cortico in food that's the only thing that makes sense to please the feast we're not one state facts are there and out here is that it is unfortunately irreversible. i expect the culprits to take responsibility and face the consequences. and i still plenty more to come on the weekly here when i see international including the us myths about actions what of course are less than a month away now suddenly continuing to stuck divisions among voters are more on that in just a. few

cannot operate as united nations this is not just one rob but un d.p. world health organization and in fact other international organizations like the international committee of the red cross you cannot work in a place like gaza with pragmatic cooperation with the local authorities which are hamas in this case here or has been for most of the last few years. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to the press this is what the four three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the how. things should.

good of you to join us today for the weekly united states midterm elections now less than a month away with both the democrats and republicans appearing to grow increasingly animated and outspoken and there's a lot at stake in the polls this week show only a six percent gap in support between the two parties with the democrats leading with forty seven percent. and looks at how protocols being torn up in this 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.

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 the fights 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 the new message is get out in their face get in people's face but republicans are also out for blood to do. every two or extreme two day jurors. they've gone wacko.

matchups during our service and you don't give power to an angry left wing mob and that's what the democrats are a bit of thought 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. two russian football stars are being investigated after video of most of them allegedly attacking two government officials in a moscow cafe and another man in the street a quarter size of place alexander record in the. detention until december the eighth they both face charges of hooliganism and could now face years in prison the players and turn have apologized for their quote outrageous actions of sports correspondent a chef he breaks down the story and i looked at those videos i thought somebody was trying to reenact the grand theft auto computer game in the streets of moscow but

then it happened to be not just to footballers to star footballers now one of them i saw that got caught in this leading strike and then in st petersburg he actually scored a winner in the europa league just a fortnight ago the others bible my from quest of that very same moment one how people got made up was fighting quantum gregor in las vegas they were in a strip club in central moscow came out of a drunk and clashed with a man who turned out to be a personal driver of a t.v. host in russia now this man who is in intensive care with a with a brain injury with a head injury they did not stop there after that brawl and we can see the video the man in the white hat is actually my if according to eyewitness reports they went further they went to a cafe and in central moscow and kalash with to visit this of that cafe the visitors were turned out to be public servants both relatively high ranking government officials. all of them also ended up in hospital with with injuries the reactions have been overwhelming and they have been overwhelming criticism as well coming from the very top now let's listen to what the russian sports minister had

to say about that. the victims have turned to the police there is video of the into that they cannot be any extenuating circumstances in this situation this is unacceptable unsportsmanlike behavior that casts a shadow on all russian football the words of five o'clock over echoed in their reactions coming from the russian premier league and the both respective clubs senate st petersburg and crossed the russian premier league expresses its concern strongly condemns the hooligan behavior we believe that those responsible should face the strongest possible punishment there is no place for hooligans in football we are waiting for a legal assessment from the respective agencies but from a human and emotional point of view this incident only evokes shane. we consider any form of violence an acceptable and condemn we are certain that at the end of the investigation the incident will receive an appropriate legal system both clubs have been relatively quiet about the possible repercussions for both players but the talk of the town that both clubs are looking into time in eighteen these

players contracts they're just looking at the contracts whether this time a nation is possible but let's not forget if they are found guilty if they're charged and found guilty of these misdemeanors they could face up to two years in prison each they operated the tories for their misdemeanors but they were caught filmed in one of the monaco's nightclubs with a lavish party with champagne. should not be doing even if it's not you know if it's outside of the of the page. according to us caught several times reckless driving in moscow his bentley there he was pictured in the south a sense your wedding firing off pistols in the air so they operated the tories for their misdemeanors but of course all that pales in comparison to what they did this last weekend and it's absolutely no chance that they will scape any sort of punishment from that and the weekly returns of the top of the hour.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. i don't have faith in this government official of president i don't have faith in the system. i'm too liberal the system designed for people like me. as well as the. different people who are here for different reasons but also john we also have.

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we're watching closely watching the hawks. klunk welcome to all the part there was never any love lost between the soviet union or russia on the one hand and the tail on another but over the last couple of years that animosity has once again transformed into the main policy determinant from both the bloc mentality of our style blocking relations in larger europe of to discuss that i'm now joined by stefan a polite top professor at the trio university in telling us it's good to talk to

you thank you very much for your time we are recording this interview right after your public talk about how the western containment policy against the soviet union has now been replaced by russia's efforts to contain nato and i wonder if in the case of russia it's really containment as much as let's say the effort to simply keep away. first of all it's interesting from the start of the point of view to see how old the this where the containment was exploited to the right after the second world war by the united states to you need to contain the potential expansion of the soviet union towards the eastern side of europe and at that moment containment became more or less one of the pillars of the foreign policy of the united states in it was one of the tool of the containment not the only one but in europe need to was for sure the most important tool to try to

contain the soviet union dissing russia is doing the same to me to now because as you pointed out i think the russian policy is. much less multi-layered than what you describe i think that scene in one sense of russia was waiting to see how far need to go how much need to cool insurance in the form of soviet republics because we had the explosion of soviet union and many new independent counties but there remain in my opinion what the french called to do men the result of the which means a privileged area of interaction between the former soviet republic we may understand that for instance in some of the counties such as in the baltic states there will not always a huge friendship between some part of those population and there are also natural economic ties that sustain not only russia but i understand many in the baltics the

correct and not only economic ties but also a common you often way of thinking a common way of having more to our relations it is a because of the history and even though the ballot extent they can of course concede that in the past there were other troubles they were independent between the two world wars and then the worrying clued in the soviet union at the beginning of the second world war. but with ardor former soviet.