in the top stories of the week just minutes after blastoff and hurtling toward space a rocket malfunction forces a quick thinking crew to abandon their mission and face a nail biting punch but. also to come almost two weeks on this still no answer as to what's happened to a prominent journalist who vanished after entering the saudi embassy in the bull turkey claims he was murdered there something though. if we are fortunate enough to win back the house and or the senate that's when civility can start again. the mid-term elections looming in the u.s.

with democrats and republicans going all out his polls put both sides almost neck and neck in the german state of the various meanwhile is voting today in a region of election which could sway the balance of power nationally. hello there you're watching the weekly here in our international where gone five o'clock in the afternoon in moscow. an investigation is underway into just what went wrong during thursday's failed launch of the saw soyuz spacecraft the two men two man crew narrowly escaped 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 cake 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 artie baikonur but actually of chin in his forty seven years old and holds the rank of

reserve left town in colonel in the russian air force base flight would have been his second journey into space his american colleague forty three year old nick a is a colonel in the u.s. air force and it was his maiden space flight with masses of highly explosive rocket fuel right behind you when something does go wrong you do need to make a fast get away and experts are reporting to the escape system that propelled the pair to safety. thank you very much a bunch 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 seriously it's a very dangerous situation and it's. in interests of.

about the design and 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 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 was actually right meanwhile the crew onboard the international space station did have a perfect view of the unfolding events and captured to the moment on camera and that we can show you some of the images taken by the current space station commander alexander because just about make out i think they're the white streaks

of smoke from the rockets and his team have been getting ready to welcome the new colleagues on board soon after commanding expressed 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 had some contact. and i guess into 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 in 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 has some of our economics so we do not see that there is a change in plan. now almost two weeks since the mysterious disappearance of

a prominent saudi journalist in this still no definitive answer as to what has happened to him. he was last seen entering the saudi concha litany stumble on october the second no one has heard from him since so he is not officially keys riyad of being involved but some reports the claim is intelligence services do have evidence that a shogi was taught and killed saudi arabia strongly denies those allegations though and has offered to help investigate the case well the lack of information has prompted multiple media reports to some news outlets claiming that the u.s. intercepted saudi discussions of a plan to capture the journalist claiming the saudi crown prince ordered an operation to and detain a shogi this to say that turkish officials haven't already a recording of the journalist murder said to be recorded on his smart watch although many do you say that is highly unlikely with more tragic where is

journalist jamal charging 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 prosecutes in istanbul is investigating the issue there is both a security investigation and an intelligence one it's the extremists the new and this incident took place in a country move for a long time so i still hold out hope good willing we will not find ourselves in a situation we do know. riyadh says it's got nothing to do with it

all the claims are absolute blogs and 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 are 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 does say it is worried about the incident to you however it was not the u.s.

president who voiced concern first some u.s. senate has called for tougher action if saudi involvement is confirmed. if we find out that they were complicit or directed somebody play. with the election should like those. this is serious we need to get the facts and i know that's a startling proposition for the united states com. still to come on the weekend is the clintons now hit the road to campaign for next month's midterm elections to spend the speculation whether hillary is actually considering another run for the white house will have more math just off. what politicians do sometimes even. put themselves on the line they get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to go right to be for us this is what the four three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters in the hollow. place should. you cannot operate as united nations this is not just wouldn't but u.n. 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 locals or a tease which are hamas in this case here on or has been for most of the last few years.

today in germany bavaria is holding local elections which could have a huge impact nationally there's a significant chance to the outcome could weaken the country's ruling coalition with more his initials sethi. well the polls and now a pen and the various sets of former regional governments by the end of the day sister party to angela merkel c.d.u. the c.s.u. has long held dominance here in the various since the second world war but things change let's take a look at who's fighting to see. 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 they'll tend to the 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. kind of copying our program is the losing massive losing the people we've got the big part or for for their electorates. will be shoestring voters they're thought also. to be punishing the c.s.u. with issues such as immigration has pushed the c.d.u. atmosphere to breaking point and the c.f.c.'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 saw a situation in the bavarian state parliament 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 with the pre-election polls anything to go by voters attending away from the centrist parties and this is could be

a worrying sign for merkel but let's look at also what the status of area except for pfizer is 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 ferry 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. meanwhile the u.s. midterm elections are less than a month away now and the latest polls do suggest there is everything to play for with the democrats enjoying only a marginal lead over their republican rivals more pin looks at how the traditional campaign rulebook has been torn up in the current political climate. 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 end of aids 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 jam. kratz every come to extreme too dangerous to cover they've gone wacko.

handed matches to an arsonist 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 on his part of the midterm campaign in the clintons are about to set a goal although some do suspect this could be perhaps a precursor to hillary preparing for another show at the white house. if you're looking to get up close and personal with bill and hillary clinton during the book bill and hillary 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 movie may twenty nineteen around the time that 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 time i think about it trust me is allergic. to the basket of deplorable she's guilty is out what was his responsibility to. be rather have a puppet as president obama today know he has a right. we've been watching we've been here not international company

deceiving don't forget we've got plenty of stories to. have faith in this government official of president left facing the system i swear to god it's over i'm too liberal the system designed for people like me. is bloodless. defend the poor here for different reasons but also job we also hope. most people in philadelphia are only about two paychecks away from homelessness.

join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. you know world a big part of the new law 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. 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.

plant welcome to all the part there was never at any love lost between the soviet union or russia on the one hand and the intel on another but over the last couple of years that animosity has once again transformed into the main policy determinant for both will the bloc mentality ever stop wanting glaciers in larger europe of to discuss that i'm now joined by stefan the pillow top professor at the tree as being a versatile in telling professor 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 story good 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 need to 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 it's interesting russia is doing the same to nato now because as you point. i think the russian

policy is much less multilayered than what you describe think that in 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.