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 alexy of cheney and his forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve lieutenant colonel in the russian air force i thought his flight was supposed to have been his second to join into space his american colleague forty three year old nick is a condo in the u.s. air force and his case it was to have been his maiden flight. when you've gotten more than half a million pounds of burning rocket fuel right behind you in a booster that's gone faulty you need to get away and get away fast experts and astronauts are applauding the escape system that propelled the pair to safety.

thank you thank you but yes of course i want to thank the rescuers and those who designed these keep systems thanks to them our guys came back to earth safely it's a very dangerous situation and it's the interests of. about the design and 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're going to be 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 sleaze 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 an emergency aboard but as you heard yeah from the transmissions the crew was very calm very professional and they did everything is actually right. so the crew onboard the international space station had more

than a bird's eye view of what happened and capture the moment on camera and we can show you these images taken by the current of space station commander alexander you can just about make out the white streaks of smoke from the rockets. and his team were readying to welcome their colleagues on board but then only watch helplessly as they saw the astronauts incredible escape shortly after come on a ghost and jumped on to twitter to express his relief. 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 use is 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 had some contact there's some gas in the sage and he is in a good shape he's not at all afraid he trusts into this so us as he did in the past

so therefore now he where he might or he might have to stay a little bit longer in the stations and plans there is no change of plans so we're looking forwards to not only using soyuz for the next asked amounts but also for some of our economics as oh oh. see that is it seems and. still no breakthrough in the case of the prominent saudi journalist who vanished almost two weeks ago jamal how short she was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october second no one has heard from him since autokey has not officially accused riyadh of being involved but some reports claim its intelligence services have evidence that not only was he kidnapped but also tortured and killed saudi arabia strongly denies the accusations and has offered to help in investigating this case now the lack of information on a sensitive topic like this certainly prompted multiple media reports in fact some

news outlets allege that the u.s. 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 that turkish officials have an audio recording of the journalists murder said to have been recorded on his smart watch those some say that's unlikely is. where is journalist demolish 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 in istanbul alleged details of how it was done include sending over a fifteen man hit squad from the kingdom to make sure the man's dead anchor was shocked something so horrendous could have happened in istanbul prosecutor in

istanbul is investigating the issue there is both the security investigation and intelligence one it is extremely thorough the news that this incident took place in the country i knew to move through a long time so i still hold. good willing we will not find themselves in the situation we do to. 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 a 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 has 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 for 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 to 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 or two and says it's wired about all the years of it as well however it was not the u.s. president who voiced concern for some u.s. senators who are urging tough action if indeed saudi involvement is confirmed. if we find though that they were complicit or directed their sympathies way to the election should like to. know this is serious we need to get the facts and i know that's startling proposition for the united states congress that we should get the facts before we act if this did happen it is increasingly likely that something bad happened to this man at the hands of the saudi government has contempt for us.

disrespectful to meanwhile president donald trump has promised to punish saudi officials if there is proven but also stressed his desire to protect america's multi-billion dollar business with the gulf kingdom. terrible the 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 we don't like it 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 b.m.w. when people say it really is the backbone of the jam an economy that took the brunt of the my current price if it took in the second highest number of migrants across the country but we'll be watching the votes come in tonight to see if the c.s.u. can hold on to its majority or will it suffer losses and have to form a coalition which will rattle national politics have in germany. thank you.

on tuesday one of the high profile members of the trumpet ministration announced her resignation nikki haley has stepped down as the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. taking most officials on media by surprise just for a moment let's look back at her time at the organization. against all enemies foreign and domestic and. i will not. rather. i will respectfully speak some hard truths. the dictator of north korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer toward the assad regime and its enablers russia and iran have a playbook for this war it's a playbook of death. it's one more

example of be united nations doing more harm than good the european union has this so wrong and it's all because of their ego and their pride. what we witnessed here today in the security council is an insult to the united states is locked and loaded and if war comes make no mistake the north korean regime will be utterly destroyed. america will put our embassy in jerusalem that is what the american people want us to do and it is the right thing to do. now the united states is respected countries may not like what we do but they were special.

and so they are hitting the road just ahead of the u.s. mint so i'm elections before couple book clinton's drumming up democrat support ahead of the elections all getting hillary fighting fit for another run of the white house details after the break. except someone for who they are not what you want them to be this is the advice a therapist might give to a couple in a relationship crisis it apply this wisdom to geopolitics and you'll see that trying to change the weakness of the other is the norm. and learn to fully accept each other.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic. only. i don't see a. very critical time to sit down and talk . it's good to have you with us today for the weekly united states midterm elections are less than a month away and with both the democrats and republicans appearing to grow increasingly animated and outspoken and there's a lot at stake polls this week show only a six percent gap in support between the two parties with the democrats currently leading at forty seven. 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 we. know. they go low we keep it right. and some

sectors of the u.s. public are pretty clearly ready for battle. 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 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 you around handed matchups to an arsonist and you don't give power to an angry left wing mob and that's what the democrats are think. 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 so a big tour was about to kick off in the united states starring former first couple the clintons which some suspect is a precursor to hillary clinton preparing for a third shot at the white house.

if you're looking to get up. with bill and hillary clinton during the book you know hillary clinton are going on tour thirteen city tour with former president bill clinton former secretary of state hillary clinton. america is great because america is good for. the upcoming may twenty nine teams around the time the twenty twenty presidential contenders are expected to start announcing that plans to run for the white house. she does not look presidential she doesn't have to stamina stamina tremendous stamina for every job i think about aaa is allergic. to the basket of deplorable

she's guilty is out what was his response and that was a. big big rather have a puppet as president obama today now you have the russian. two russian football stars are being investigated after a video emerged of them allegedly attacking two government officials in a moscow cafe and another man in the street a court decided to place alexander record and in pretrial detention until december the eighth they both face charges of hooliganism and could now face some years in jail the players in turn have apologized for their quote outrageous actions our sports correspondent. 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 from quest of that very same moment won how people got metaphors fighting quantum gravity 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 brain injury with a head injury they did not stop there they went further they went to a cafe in central moscow and clashed with two visitors of that cafe the visitors were turned out to be public servants both relatively high ranking government officials one of them also ended up in hospital with injuries the reactions have been overwhelming and they have been overwhelming criticism as well coming from the very top of. the victims have turned to the police there is video of the into that cannot be any extenuating circumstances in this situation this is unacceptable unsportsmanlike behaviors that casts a shadow on all russian football the words of 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. we consider any form of violence an acceptable and condemn we are certain that at the end of the investigation this incident will receive an appropriate legal assessment both clubs are looking into time and eighteen these players contracts they're just looking at the contacts whether this time a nation is possible but let's not forget if they are found guilty if they're charged and found guilty off of these misdemeanors they could face up to two years in prison each so they operated the tories for their misdemeanors got caught and was 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 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 wrapping up the weekly for this hour here on r.t. international though it's been a busy week for your top headlines and more of the weekly to come your way in about twenty five. just manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round lifts and be the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to be. that the two going to be cross with what the four three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters in the house. first signal.

is a good sign and i'm not sure. if i'm good with. it all depends on the price of oil what's your best price look at least i think right now we're about the best on a good home down seventy five ish dollars right and they're all good so they know everybody's busy to handle really well that's hard to get all my guys trained in safety and me and all of that stuff. to get

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