i i. was. at the top stories of the week just minutes after blastoff and hurtling toward space a rocket malfunction forces a quick thinking cream for a band in their mission and face a nailbiting plunge back to earth. almost two weeks on in the still no answers to what has happened to the prominent journalist who vanished after entering the saudi embassy in istanbul turkey claims he was murdered something in riyadh and. 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 are looming in the us for democrats

some republicans going all act as polls put both sides almost neck and neck in the german states very is voting today in a regional election which could sway the balance of power nationally. for the welcome you watch in the weekly here in r.t. international is just gone six pm this sunday evening in moscow now an investigation is underway into what went wrong during a failed launch of a soyuz space rocket its two man crew narrowly escaped disaster on thursday just minutes into their flight. all right i know you didn't. really notice or care to.

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where 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 some. thing 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 with a legacy of change in his forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve left and colonel in the russian air force those days flight would have been his second

journey into space his american colleague forty three year old nick haggis 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 eating one thing the need to make a fast getaway experts reporting the escape system that propelled the pair 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 guys came back to earth safely it's a very dangerous situation and it's the same interests of. about the design of how they built to leave 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 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 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 onboard the international space station had a perfect view of the unfolding events and kept them to on camera we can show you some of the images taken by the current space station commander alexander good and you can just about make out there i think the white streaks of smoke from the rockets and his team had been getting ready to welcome their new colleagues on

board soon after commander 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. but almost two weeks since the mysterious disappearance of

a prominent saudi journalist the still no definitive answer as to what has happened to him foreign ministers from the u.k. germany and france have issued a joint statement calling for a quote credible investigation into the case urging the saudis to provide a detailed response shogi was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second no one has heard from him since turkey is not officially keys riyad of being involved but some reports claim its intelligence services have evidence that the shah he was tortured and then killed saudi arabia strongly denies those allegations though in his offer to help in the investigation well the lack of information has prompted multiple media reports to some news outlets to claim that the u.s. intercepted saudi discussions of a plan to capture that you're doing proposition for the united states congress that we should get the facts before we act if this did happen is increasingly likely that something bad happened to this man at the hands of the saudi government shows

contempt for us. disrespectful to. him while president donald 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 deals 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 be a. trump is taught to live here you know is that it is as business when i think it affects a little bit relationship between the united states and around the gulf up doesn't affect where well because the problem is that now americans wants to do something

against russia and iran and turkey in the middle east and they need. contraries and you need some money and that's why 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 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 now this week also saw the announcement of another high profile departure from the trumpet ministration on cheese day the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. he haley took many by surprise when she revealed that she was going to step down is a look back at her time the global but. to have them out. against all enemies foreign against all enemies.

i will not shut up rather i will respectfully speak some hard truths. the dictator of north korea made a choice yesterday brings the world closer to war the assad regime and its enablers russia and iran have a playbook for this for it's a playbook that. now the united states is respected countries may not like what we do but they were special. on the weeklies the clintons hit the road to campaign for next month's midterm elections there is speculation whether hillary is actually considering another run for the white house we'll have a look at that. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in. spearing dramatic development only loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world a big part of the 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. 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back now in germany today but varia is holding local elections which could have a huge impact nationally because there is a significant chance the outcome could actually weaken the country's ruling coalition with more his initial. 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 are changing 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 wrong known among the journalists and also on the. kind of copying our program is the losing massive losing the people we've got the big part or four of the electorate. seats will be shoestring voters they're also thought. to be punishing the c.s.u. with issues such as immigration has pushed the c.d.u. atmosphere to the 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 burden still 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 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. meanwhile the u.s. midterm elections are less than a month away and latest polls do suggest there is everything to play for with the democrats enjoying only a marginal lead over their republican rivals often looks now at how the traditional

campaign rulebook though has been 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. you know. they go low to be cute. and some

sectors of the u.s. public are pretty clearly ready for battle. i was going. to be. there. were three. 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. droughts every come to extreme too dangerous to govern they've gone wacko. matchups to an arsonist and you don't give power to an angry left wing mob and that's what the democrats are people were 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 on this part of the midterm campaign the clintons are about to set a tone told though some to suspect this could actually be a precursor to hillary preparing for another shot at the white house.

if you're looking to get up and close and personal with bill or hillary clinton you're in luck bill and you know it hillary clinton are going on to all thirteen city tour with former president bill clinton former secretary of state hillary clinton. america is great because america is good. the upcoming total wrap up in 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 job i think about my youth allergic.

to the basket of deplorable she's guilty is out what was his response and there was a lot to being a rather have a puppet as president you know concertina you know the russian. two russian football stars are being investigated after a video emerged of the middle aged attacking two government officials in a moscow cafe and another man in the street a court decided to place alexander court in a. pretrial detention until december the eighth they both face charges of hooliganism and could face lengthy prison sentences the players have apologized for their actions election as more details 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 two footballers two star footballers now one of them 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 other spot on my from quest of that very same moment one how people got me off was fighting quantum gregory 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 is in intensive care with a brain injury with a head injury. 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. the victims have turned to the police there is video of the incident they cannot be any extenuating circumstances in this situation this is unacceptable unsportsmanlike behavior the casts a shadow on all russian football the words of five local of course are 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 the incident will receive an appropriate legal system both clubs are looking into terminating these players contracts they're just looking at the contracts whether this domination 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 are pretorius for their misdemeanors according to was caught several times reckless driving in moscow in his bentley there he was pictured in the south a set your wedding firing off pistols in the air 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. reporting you've been watching the week with more news in just over half an. you cannot operate as united nations this is not just wouldn't 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 cooperation with the locals or ities which are hamas in this case here or has been for most of the last few years. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer it be no in the death penalty just because they think that's the fair thing

the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying the is just no really hasn't been that we hear even many victims' families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to get pelley here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace it's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. with the whole make the manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. with the flame and merry go round lives only the one percent. that's not

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