you. mean you're going to be. in the top stories of the week just minutes after blast off and hurtling toward space a rocket function forces a quick thinking crew to abandon their mission and face a nailbiting plunge back to earth. almost two weeks on the still no answer as to what's happened to a prominent journalist who vanished after entering the saudi embassy in istanbul turkey claims he was murdered something that denies. the office for german chancellor angela merkel's conservative allies in bavaria who risk losing their majority in regional elections as the far right and the green

space historic gains. giving a welcome you're watching the weekly here on out. and investigations underway into what went wrong during the failed launch of a so you space rocket two man crew narrowly escaped disaster on thursday just minutes into their flight. right you know you get on. the floor here you are in a utility. company

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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 corridor r.t. baikonur. alexia chin in his forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve lieutenant colonel in the russian air force thursday's flight would have been his second journey into space his american colleague forty three year old nick cage is a colonel in the u.s. air force it was his maiden space flight. with masses of highly explosive rocket

fuel rocket behind us something goes wrong you need to make a fast getaway experts are reporting live scape system that propelled the pad to safety. 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. in interests 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're going to be

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 around me back to what it's like being in that vehicle and imagining going through this kind of an emergency aboard but as you heard from the transmissions the crew was very calm very professional and they did everything's actually right. the crew onboard the international space station had a perfect view of unfolding events and captured the moment on camera and show you these images taken by the current space station commander alexander guest and you can just about make out the white streaks of smoke coming from the rockets yes in the same being getting ready to welcome the new colleagues on board soon after come on the guest expressed his relief. i'm glad that our friends are fine thanks to

more than a thousand rescue workers this day has again shown how great the soyuz is 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 so our next is going well i had some contact there's some gas into space and he is in a good state he's not at all afraid he trusts into the 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 station than plans there's no change of plans so we're looking forward to not only using soyuz for the next us amounts but also has some of our economics and so we do not see that its own. almost two weeks since the mysterious disappearance of a prominent saudi journalist and there's still no definitive answer as to what 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. jamal khashoggi was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october second no one has heard from him since turkey is not officially accused of being involved but some reports claim its intelligence services have evidence was tortured and killed the saudi arabia strongly denies accusations and has offered to help investigate the case or the lack of information it's prompted multiple media reports some news outlets 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 to detain ashaji other say turkish officials have an audio recording of the journalist murder said to have been recorded on his smart watch that many say that this is actually highly unlikely. where is

journalist jamal khashoggi what happened to him. for an entire week nobody has been able to answer that question and distributors 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 it is all alleged details of how it was done include sending over fifty 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 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 through a long time so i still hold a. good willing we will not find ourselves in a situation we do not want to. riyadh says is god 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 just. missed the report by reuters which site it took you to fish oils the saudi citizen jamal khashoggi was killed in the consulate in istanbul you fishel strongly denounce these baseless allegations and expressed 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 has 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 were sure the journalist vanished once he stepped outside now they're looking for him too 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 that it's worried about the incident two however it was not the u.s. president to voice concerns first some u.s.

senators called fatah faction if saudi involvement is confirmed. if we find out that they were complicit or directed specifically. at the lecture like that it's appropriate this is serious we need to get the facts and i know that's a startling proposition for the united states congress that we should get the facts before we act it just did happen in this increasingly likely that something bad happened to this man at the hands of the saudi government has contempt for us. disrespectful to. the more president has promised to punish saudi officials if their involvement is proven but also stressed that these are 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. tromp is a total of year you know his attitude is as business when i think it affects a little bit relationship between the united states and yet i'm gonna go flop 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. their p.r. and gulf countries andean it's 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 tied in there tied in hand in glove with them i really don't think anything is going nothing is going to happen there maybe people will be calling for something to happen nothing is going to happen. this week also saw the announcement of another high profile departure from the trump administration on cheesed the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley too many by surprise when she revealed that she was stepping down here's a look back at her time at the global body. of the count. against all enemies foreign and domestic and. i will not shut up rather i will respectfully speak some hard truths. the dictator of north korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer toward the assad regime and its

enablers russia and iran have a playbook for this war it's a playbook of death. it's one more example of the united nations doing more harm than good the european union has this so wrong and it's all because of their ego and their pride. what we witnessed here today in the security council is an insult to the united states is a lot and loaded and if war comes 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 will we do but they

were special. the counting is underway in the bavaria that's been holding a regional election will be speaking live to a correspondent get guest reaction after the break.

what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. some want to be. right to be close that's what the. real people are. interested in the august. sixth. welcome back voters in bavaria have inflicted a fatal blow on chancellor merkel's key ally handing the christine social union its

worst election result for decades early exit polls suggest it'll now lose its parliamentary majority in the region the greens are set to become the very second major political force on the far right if the party going to enough votes to enter parliament for the first time in what has been a hugely contested election. let . me. just say.

ok let's cross live to our correspondent things she is in the very giving to bring us up to speed with the results please. yes well i'm hit in not making the alternative the chair many election seeing the results that come in take it in august in the camp david nine million people get it it's possible that it's going to be an election that tore it up this is say that basically it's made up by it's ten out of the last states elections by it gave it to the impulsiveness old self while the exit polls showed heavy losses lead says the party to c.n.c. and something like that heightened sense of not sound from eight percent. but is good news so far they exit polls show the chance of him in the party likely and

seventy two pilots didn't start in the sense of safety celebration it sounds but looking at the greens they believe the t.n.c. slept with my legacy at least the whole film and me. and there is something. and he used to be unthinkable they could even take anything let him enjoy it this is not bring in another. hellish it let me see a scene in the ballot leading up to that. it's just settling. but it does look like. that. right this leads. to issues such as it is something he absolutely. lightly as he's been arguing with nicole about this like it was negative headlines

last fifteen months saying should he stay or should he let alone the c.s.u. let alone the top position in the election results it's a significant problem the smile that changes in him on the face of this. great imagery makes it legal wrangling that same elite see that government instability. many facts are so successfully bring is right up to date from bavaria . ok let's get some analysis now i'm joined on the line by. a member of the party good evening to you first of all let's talk about your policy how would you rate its performance today. well it's a bad performance but it is not unusual we've never been stronger very out it's like you know communists and texas doesn't get elected and party member and barrier doesn't get elected either nor surprises. certainly a bad day for the c.s.u.

we talked about some of the numbers there thirty five percent according to the exit polls expected usually to get majority. does this say much about the population's feeling towards the mainstream parties what can we read into this. well i think we can read a lot into it on the federal level because most of it has not been anger in bavaria it's been anger at the government in berlin and even though angela merkel was not on the ballot tonight she was on the ballot and the vote was a clear vote to end the era merkel do you genuinely think then that even though you know it's not her party this is going to put pressure on anglo america what do you think she'll stay as party leader will there be pressure on the to resign c.d.'s got a party conference coming up in december there's a party conference in the summer and the pressure will be growing there's another state election in two weeks so i don't think there will be resignations before then but of course it shows that the majority of the population wants

a change in government. given the situation we're looking at them but what are the chances of a stable coalition being formed do you think. well on the one side we have tried to grandstand nearly twenty percent of the green party which is left of center party but if they were to actually go into a coalition with the c.s.u. which has been imitating the janitor for germany and has been on the very contrary sides of many issues then the green party would betray the left wing that's for sure. and this is just the region but can we say that this is reflective of a mood across the country do you think or is this to be taken totally in isolation . it is reflective of. the country wants change and a very has seen the same government the same kind of government with the c.s.u.

as the government of the party for a while the whole period after the second world war and now they want change and this is the same all over germany we have people standing up with movement stand up standing up all over germany and i think we will see change maybe this year maybe in the beginning of next year but germany is changing vision appreciate your time thanks for being my guests this hour vision. party thank you thank you neil. talking of elections the u.s. midterms are less than a month away now latest polls there suggest that there's everything to play for the democrats enjoying only a marginal lead over their republican rivals are these killer more print looks at how the traditional campaign rulebook 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 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. i may go low. and some sectors of the u.s. public are pretty clearly ready for battle. her her or.

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