but then we started getting signs that something was wrong cause i'm not aleksei off chain in an 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 corridor r.t. baikonur alexi of chinon is forty seven years old and holds the rank over reserve lieutenant colonel in the russian air force as flight was supposed to have been his second journey into space his american colleague a forty three year old nick haig is a colonel in the u.s. air force and his case it was to have been his maiden flight. now when you've got more than half a million pounds of burning rocket fuel right behind you and 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 path to safety.

thank you very much you betcha of course i want to thank the rescuers and those who designed these keep systems thanks to them but our guys came back to earth safely it's a very dangerous situation and it's. him 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 have. flew on 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 an emergency abort but as you heard from the transmissions the crew was very calm for professional and they did everything's actually right. the crew onboard the international space station had more than a bird's eye view of what happened on the captured the moment on camera and we can show you these images taken by the current space station commander alexander you can just about make out the white streaks of smoke from the rockets a girl sternness team were readying to welcome their colleagues on board because then only watch helplessly as they saw the astronauts incredible escape shortly after come on the girl 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 fall 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 station he is in a good shape he's not at all afraid he trusts into so us 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 are looking forwards to not only using soyuz for the next astronaut's but also for some of our economics so we do not see there is a change in plan. still no major breakthrough in the case of the prominent saudi journalist who vanished almost two weeks ago jamal khashoggi was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second nobody has heard from him since turkey has not officially accused riyadh of being involved but some reports

claim its intelligence services have evidence that not only was how georgie kidnapped but also tortured and killed saudi arabia though strongly denies the accusations as offered help in investigating this case now the lack of information on a sensitive topic like this certainly prompted multiple media reports. now as some news outlets allege that the u.s. actually intercepted saudi discussion of a plan to capture the journalist claiming the saudi crown prince orden an operation to lure and detained house georgie others say that turkish officials have an audio recording of a journalist's murder said to have been recorded on a smartwatch though some say that's unlikely in the upper trenka investigates. where is journalist jamal. 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 and clued sending over a fifteen man a head squad from the kingdom to make sure the man's dead anchor was shocked something so horrendous could have happened in istanbul a prosecutor in istanbul is investigating the issue there is both a security investigation and an intelligence one it is extremely thorough the news that this incident took place in the country i knew to move for a long time so i still hold out hope god willing we will not find ourselves in a situation we do not want and 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 you 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 their official. even invited warders on a tour around the consulate. jamal who lives and works in the u.s. but to obtain a license to get married he had to see saudi officials he's definitely been to the consulate twice on september the twenty eighth and when he disappeared now here's what's crucial mr who 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 washington says it is worried about the incident as well however it was not the u.s. president who voiced concern for rather some u.s. senators so urging tough action if saudi involvement is. if we find though that they were complicit or directors of the way. over the edge of what was appropriate

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 increasing the likelihood that something bad happened to this man at the hands of the saudi government has contempt for us. this disrespectful to say meanwhile the president 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 kingdom. terrible and 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 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 of five alternatives two very good alternatives that would not be acceptable to break. his.

you know his art to this as a business when i think it affects a little bit the relationship between you not just sold you out i'm gonna go flop doesn't affect what i do well because the problem is that no. one wants to do something against russia and iran and turkey in the middle east and they need. some money 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 tired and they're tired and 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. to germany now where bavaria is holding local elections that could have no significance by weakening the country's

ruling coalition live nala two hundred various reckons for joining us live here i want to program now on the show how are things looking as the day progresses. well the polls and now they and the various sets of former regional governments by the end of the day. the c.s.u. has long held dominance in the various since the second world war but things are changing let's take a look at his fight to see. the

. pre-election polls show us that the c.s.t. are expected to suffer losses so voters are thought to be leaving towards the end of day the alternative for germany party that's set to make their debut with around ten percent of the vote but those who don't like the strong rhetoric of the f.d.a. are tending towards the left towards the greens who are expected to make around twenty percent of the votes. this is very well known among the journalists and also among the people who are the. kind of copying our program is losing massively raising the people of god though

a big part of their electorates. will be to strew. voters are also thought to be punishing the c.s.u. over issues such as immigration has pushed the c.d.u. atmosphere to breaking point and the c s e's top party candidate thinks he knows who's to blame. these are all numbers that are heavily influenced by burl in politics i do not want to burn situation in the bavarian state parliaments internal disputes hurts no matter what causes them i admit that things. can get better in berlin but if you let your own personal ambition take over it becomes impossible to govern so if the pre-election polls anything to go by voters attending away from the centrist parties and this is could be it could be a worrying sign for merkel but let's look at also what the status of area except for the fries is one of the states that holds the lowest rate of unemployment is

also the hub of the car manufacturer at b.m.w. but at the brink of the economic crisis it took in the second highest number of migrants across germany but people do say that the very is the backbone of the german economy but later we'll wait to see when the votes come in tonight to see if the c.s.u. can hold on to its majority or it will be forced to go into a coalition which could rattle german politics and we will be checking in with you throughout the day. reporting from. thank you. all still to come here on the weekly on. various reports in the british media couples are paying up to fourteen thousand pounds for illegal. if you do sells them.

what politicians do. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. to be close it's like them before three in the morning and people are. interested in the why she. thinks it.

could if you join us for the weekly the united states midterm elections are now less than a month away with both the democrats and republicans appearing to grow increasingly animated and outspoken and there was 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 percent. and investigates. 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. i was going. to be. worried because. 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 fates 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 jew or extreme too dangerous to govern 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 with. 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. r.t. new york. british m.p.'s are calling for an inquiry into reports that some doctors in the u.k. have been secretly charging couples for choosing the desired sex of the child gender selection through in vitro fertilization is legal in britain only on medical grounds britain's fertility regulator has launched an investigation into this issue . we are confident the vast majority of the u.k.'s fertility clinics do not recommend six election either at home or abroad however we take allegations of sex selection seriously and will investigate any specific cases brought to our attention according to british media couples have paid up to fourteen thousand pounds for the illegal procedure of several senior doctors over allegedly set up appointments at private clinics in the u.k. for clients and then they complete their medical treatment abroad in countries like cyprus or the u.a.e. we spoke to u.k. t.v.

star daniel lloyd who is being criticized for her decision to use the procedure in the united states i think obviously some people got angry because there is women out there who can actually have children and i think they were angered because they think i should just love the children now i've got. which i totally understand and a to love them i have retained my kids my life for i think if the scientists out there some may make other people choose to use gender selection in a way where as if i was having my first child i would never want to pick the. sex of the baby i was quite happy to go along and whatever the health of the baby selflessly the most important thing. for obviously for me having for children and them or being boys i just couldn't grow old and feel like a card that mother daughter relationship we discuss the issue with our guests. there are medical conditions which either only affect boys or only affect girls and

it's actually fairly standard practice in lots of places around the world for couples who have a family history of those kind of conditions to be given i.v.'s from given the opportunity to select the gender of child that is less likely to suffer from those conditions i think we would all take steps to try and make sure that children were less likely to have problems later in life in all sorts of different ways the idea of just choosing the sex of your child based on a whim i think you know i think to me it sounds horrifying but what we should be asking really is the question what kind of cultural reliving it if people have a really strong feeling if people really really only want a boy should we be forcing those people to have a girl do we want a girl raised in a family that really only wants a boy and in a culture that evidently values boys much more strongly by rejecting the embryo you don't want on the basis of that six and i think that six discrimination give women the vote i believe in women's rights etc i think women are quite capable of accepting a pregnancy and do not need to go into this nonsense of i want

a boy or i want to girl you can suggest i might like one i have five lovely sons i might have at some stage for wouldn't it be nice to have a girl i've now got four lovely granddaughters you know boys and girls in my opinion are absolutely equal and i don't think you should do anything deliberate to to make you. get your choice because the process is that you need to do is to discard the embryos of the wrong six when i.v. after is done it is absolutely standard to create more and. then you intend to implant the spare embryos are normally kept in a fridge freezer or whatever have to be used in the future if they're wanted every year lots and lots of embryos are discarded because people have i.v.'s i'm actually don't want to have ten children they want to have one or two children it's absolutely stan that if you are against discarding embryos then you are against i.v.'s and you welcome to campaign on that front person i think it's a very fantastic process and it's brilliant that it's available to couples and it's

couples have a strong feeling about what the woman does or doesn't want to be president. want what she wants to go on and it is inevitable that they're going to follow up when you're choosing which embryo you want you're going to analyze which is male which is female you're making a choice and this is what i'm saying i don't accept that because in choosing my eyes i'm not going to i am going to altie on many occasions these issues come to light because some conditions pass through the male rather than the female and and families that are hard to meet in the diseases go down the ivy if root in order to to see how they're going to solve that problem but just in a on a purely basic choice position you cannot just randomly choose one without discriminating against the other. is the weekly for this hour here on r.t. international plenty more still to come your way though you can join us in about

twenty five. you cannot operate as united nations this is not just one round 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 without pragmatic. with the locals or a tease which are hamas in this case here on or has been for most of the last few years. i don't have faith in this government official of president i don't have faith in the system. i've got it's over i'm too liberal the system designed for people like

this. as well as there are. different people who are here for different reasons but also john we also hope. most people in philadelphia are only in ballot two paychecks away from home. you know world a big part of the new lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for

the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. previously on the great american field trip right into the military one nine hundred sixty eight ship to be what you were you born nine. forty eight hundred sixty six close nineteen fifty eight forty eight oh i'm not even close. to the reason i'm just the host of the program. everybody i'm stephen baldwin gosh i want to ask hollywood guy you know suspect every proud american first of all i'm dressed as george washington and r.v. enthusiastic uncle steve to me is going to join the big board buzz this is my buddy max the famous financial guru and we'll she's a little bit different i'm not a abraham lincoln hall or not that's no no no the last but not least my larger than life. the night an aspiring star rio. with all the drama happening in

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