you know. very. 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 and astronaut nick kagan 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 legacy of cheney and his forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve left and colonel in the russian air force thursday's flight was supposed to have been his second cheney into space meanwhile his american colleague forty three year old nick haig is a colonel in the usa air force and he was his maiden spaceflight when you've got more than half a million pounds of burning rocket fuel behind you in a boost of this going forward see you do need to get away and quickly experts and astronauts reporting the escape system that propelled the pad to safety.

thank you thank you but 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. him in presence of. about the design of how they built the escape 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 done 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 a 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's actually right. meanwhile the crew on board the international space station did have more than a bird's eye view of what happened then captured the moment today on camera we can show you these images taken by the current space station commander alexander goods and you can just about make out the white streaks of smoke from the rockets on this team are ready to welcome that colleagues on board but couldn't only watch helplessly as they saw the astronauts incredible escape shortly afterwards commander 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 so 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 contact. and i guess in the station he is in a good shape he is not at all afraid he trusts into so us. so therefore now he will he might or he might have to stay a little bit longer the stations and plant there is no change of plans so we are looking forwards to not only using also use for the next astronauts but also for some of our allies so we do not see a change in plan. now there's still no major breakthrough in the case of the prominent side a journalist who vanished almost two weeks ago he was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second now when there was heard from him since turkey is not officially accused riyadh of being involved but some reports do you claim its intelligence services do have evidence that not only was the shockey

kidnapped but he was also taught should and killed saudi arabia strongly denies the accusations and has offered help in the investigation of the case or the lack of information on a sensitive topic like this is prompted multiple media reports to 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 and detain a shogi others to say that turkish officials now have an audi a recording of the journalist murder said to have been recorded on his smart watch will though many do you say this is highly unlikely if we're trying to now has more on the journalists 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 hit 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 good 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 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. jamal khashoggi 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 a right. it's 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 to mr 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 does say he's worried about the incident you however it was not the u.s. president who voiced concerns some u.s. senate says religion tough action is saudi involvement is. if we find though 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. disrespectful to. meanwhile president has promised to punish saudi officials if their involvement is proven but also stressed to his desires to protect america's most a billion dollar business with the gulf kingdom. terrible to discuss thing 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 or five alternatives two

very good alternatives that would not be acceptable to. tromp is. you know is that it is as business when i think it affects a little bit the relationship between you not just. gonna go up and doesn't worry 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 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 very is

holding local elections this weekend that could have national significance in the country's ruling coalition so i. think now reports. well the polls and now a and the various sets of former regional governments by the end of the day system party to anger the medical c.d.u. 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 who's fighting to see. the

. pre-election polls show us that the c.s.t. are expected to suffer a loss if so voters are thought to be leaving towards the end they feel tempted to germany party they're set to make their debut with around ten percent of the fates 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 seers who is kind of copying our program is the losing massively raising the people and i regard the big part of off their electorates

absolute c.s.u. will be shoestring voters are also thought to be punishing the c.s.u. of issues such as immigration has pushed the c.d.u. atmosphere it's a great thing 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 burden sell situation in the but there in 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. election polls anything to go by voters attending away from the centrist parties and this is could be a worrying sign for michael but let's look at also what the status of area except for the fries it's one of the states that held 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 if when the votes come in tonight to see if the c.s.u. can hold on to its majority all it will be forced to go into a coalition which could rattle german politics will be keeping a close eye on that for you too still to come this hour on the weekly just ahead of the u.s. midterms the former first couple the clintons have hit the road with some suspecting too that hillary's getting fighting fit for another run at the white house we'll have a look at that in detail just awful. 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 developments only. i

don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. 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 the trying to change the weakness of the other is the norm geo political actors ideology and learn to fully accept each other.

welcome back now the united states midterm elections are less than a month away with both the democrats and the republicans appearing to grow increasingly animated and spoken and there's a lot at stake with polls this week do show only a six percent gap and support between the two parties but the democrats leading with forty seven percent. looks at how 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. 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 go. you know. they go low we keep it right. and some sectors of the us public are pretty clearly ready for battle but. i was going to leave me. right 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 coup 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 monday because you know at the new messages get up in their face get in people's face but republicans are also out for blood to the democrats every come to extreme to dangerous to cover they've done wacko you handed matchups during our service and you don't give power to an angry left wing mob and that's what the democrats are. 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. the big tour is about to kick off in the united states starring the form

of the scope of the clintons which some do 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 or hillary clinton you're in luck you know if 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 trump my is allergic. to the basket of deplorable she's guilty is what was his response and that was. being. rather have a puppet as president or no probs today no you have the right. british m.p.'s are calling for an inquiry into reports that some doctors in the u.k. have been illegally charging couples for choosing the desired sex of their child gender selection through in vitro fertilization is legal in britain only on medical grounds britain's fertility regulators launched an investigation into the issue. we

are confident of a vast majority of the u.k.'s fertility clinics do not recommend sex selection either at home or abroad however we take allegations of sex selection seriously and will investigate any specific cases brought to our attention but according to the british media couples have paid up to fourteen thousand pounds for the legal procedure several senior doctors have allegedly set up appointments at private clinics to in the u.k. for clients and they then complete the medical treatment abroad in countries like cyprus and the usa we spoke to the u.k. t.v. star daniel law and who has been criticized for her decision to use the procedure in the u.s. . 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 that are which i totally understand and i do love them my everything my kids my life for i think if this science is out there for me make

other people choose to use gender selection in a way where as if i was having my fair child i would never want to pick the sex of the baby i was quite happy to go along and for whatever the health of the baby selflessly the most important thing. of the sea for me have been for children and them or being boys i just couldn't grow old and feel. that mother daughter relationship where we discuss this sensitive 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 and 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 our 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 in 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 to boy or i want to girl you can suggest i might like one i have five lovely sons. i might have at some stage but 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 make you. get your choice because the price 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 embryos than 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 if couples have a strong feeling about what the woman does or doesn't want to be pregnant. want what she wants to go on and it is inevitable that they're going to follow up when you are 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. 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 diseases go down the ivy if route 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. be company today you've been watching weekly over the last half. of the top of the mix. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to. have to go right to be cross with a white woman for three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the

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