i. remember. in the top stories of the week just minutes after the blast off and hurtling toward space a rocket malfunction forces the quick thinking crew to abandon their mission and face a nail biting plunge. almost two weeks in the still my answers to what's happened to a prominent journalist who vanished after entering the saudi embassy in the fall turkey claims he was murdered by something though riyadh denies that. 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 u.s.

with democrats and the republicans going all the polls put both sides almost neck and neck and today's polls are closing in a divisive election in the german state of area that could lead to a political shake up in the country live to our correspondent in germany later in the. other welcome you're watching a weekly here on r.t. international look back at what's been happening over the last seven days as well as the latest news. that an investigation is underway into water when for a failed launch of a soyuz space rocket its two man crew narrowly escaped disaster on thursday just minutes into their flight.

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me. well we were at the launch site doing live coverage of so i use m s tens 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 r.t.

baikonur. channon is that forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve left and colonel in the russian air force the flight would have been his second journey into space is american colleague forty three zero nick haig is a colonel in the u.s. air force and he was his my space flight with masses of highly explosive rocket fuel right behind you when something does go wrong to make a fast getaway and experts have been a porting to the escape system that propelled the pad to safety. thank you very much 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 this levy 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 jacqui right. meanwhile the crew onboard the international space station had a perfect view of the unfolding events and captured the moment some camera we can show you some of the images taken by the current space station commander alexander

good you can just about make out there the white streets of smoke from the rockets and this team has 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 so uses despite a false start the crew 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 contacts. and i guess into sation he is in a good shape he is not at all afraid he trusts into the story was. asked so therefore now he will he might or he might have to stay a little bit longer in the stations and plant is no change of plans so we are looking forwards to not only using also use for the next astronauts but also has some hours so we do not see

a change in plan. now 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 of issued a joint statement calling for a quote credible investigation into the case of aging the saudis provide a detailed response which mouse was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second no one though has heard from him since turkey is not officially accuse realit being involved but some reports the claim its intelligence services have evidence that a saudi was tortured and also killed saudi arabia strongly denies those allegations though and has offered to help in the investigation well the lack of information has prompted multiple media reports to some news outlets do you claim that the u.s. intercepted saudi discussions of a plan to capture the journalist claiming the saudi crown prince ordered an operation to lure and detain her soldier others say fischer was have an already

recording of the journalist murder said to be recorded on his smart watch although many to say that that is highly unlikely with more details. is. 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 a 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 knew

that this incident took place in a country i knew jumo 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 hope 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. jamal khashoggi 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 saudi 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 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 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 respect. my poems have just closed in the very which has been voting today in a regional election that could have national implications to the we'll be going live there just 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 hit apply this wisdom to geopolitics and you'll see that trying to change the weakness of the other is the norm geo political actors ideology aside and learn to fully accept each other. he's been arguing with nicole that in the micro crisis and that's cause negative headlines and same shitty state bullshit he gets that is that the very is the state that somebody is jim and how are the states with the lowest unemployment rate came to well so maybe he'll have an industry b.m.w. as well that's the last of the c.s.u. for the party to put the party in the bottle position that the election results might also signal big

a challenge is the chairman politics. ok thanks initiatives in the society there for us live in bavaria of course we'll be following that on the results of the coming through the thank you. the u.s. midterm elections meanwhile are less than a month away and latest polls through suggests there's everything to play for the democrats enjoying only a marginal lead over their republican rivals kind of more pain now looks though the tradition of how the traditional campaign rulebook 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 we keep it right. and some sectors of the us public are pretty clearly ready for battle. i was going. to be. worried because greece. 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 a face 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 if the new messages get in their face get in people's face but republicans are also out for blood to do. mcgrath's 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 leftwing mob and that's what the democrats are because it was 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 caleb mop and r.t. new york one is part of the midterm campaign in the clintons are about to set eyes on two zero zero some do suspect this could actually be a precursor to hillary preparing for another shot at the white house. 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 two to make. a choice because the price is that you need to do is to discuss the embryos of the wrong six when i v f 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 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 and they actually don't want to have ten children they want to have one or two children it's absolutely standard 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. 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 you. balti but on many occasions these issues come to light because some conditions pass through the mail rather than the female and then families that have had didn't even diseases go down the ivy if route in order to toot 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. would be more snow we play here and i say thanks for the company we're back again and how often.

i would call make this manufactured. public well. when the ruling class is project themselves. larry go around be the one. making all the middle of the room sick. is really. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so what you want to express the interim.