in the top stories of the week just minutes after blast off and hurtling toward space a rocket malfunction forces a quick thinking through to abandon their mission and face a nailbiting plunged back to. almost two weeks on in the still no answer to a prominent journalist who vanished after entering the saudi embassy in istanbul turkey claims he was murdered something riyadh denies. the german chancellor angela merkel's conservative allies in the very risk losing their majority in regional elections as the far right and the greens make historic

gains. thanks for joining us this evening this is r.t. international. an investigation is underway into what went wrong during the failed launch of the soyuz space rocket is to now really escape disaster on thursday just minutes into their flight. all right i know you didn't. really know the floor here or there and if you did a. little bit. i think. something.

that. you think. you know. me. 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 cage 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 corridor r.t. baikonur. alexei of chin in his forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve lieutenant 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 haig is a colonel in the u.s. air force it was his maiden space flight. now with masses of highly explosive

rocket fuel right behind you when something goes wrong you need to make a fast getaway experts are applauding the escape system that propelled the path 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. seriously it's a very dangerous situation and it's. impressive. about the design and how they built the scape 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 sleaze 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 an emergency aboard but as you heard yeah from the transmissions the crew was very calm very professional and they did everything's actually right. the crew on board the international space station had a perfect view of unfolding events and captured the moment on camera we can show you these images taken by the current space station commander alexander guest you can just about make out white streaks of smoke coming from the rockets i guess and his team being getting ready to welcome their new colleagues on board soon after commander 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 so use is 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 there's some gas into space and he is in a good shape he's not at all afraid he trusts into the so you were seated in the past so therefore now he will he might or he might have to stay a little bit longer in the station then plant there's no change of plans so we're looking forwards to not only using soyuz for the next astronaut's but also for some of our economics and so we do not see that there is a change in plan. 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 to maher how should she was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october second no one has heard from him since turkey has not officially accused riyadh of being involved but some reports claim its intelligence services our evidence showed she was tortured and killed so the rebel strongly denies the accusations and those offered help investigating the case of a lack of information that has prompted multiple media reports some news outlets claimed that the u.s. actually intercepted saudi discussions of a plan to capture the journalists claiming that the saudi crown prince ordered an operation to lure and detain others say that officials have an order recording of the journalists murder said to have been recorded on his smart watch though many say that is highly unlikely. as more. 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 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 a 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 hope 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 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. and washington says that it's worried about the incident however it was not the u.s. president to voice concerns first some u.s.

senators call for tough action is saudi involvement is can. we find though that they were complicit or directors of the way. over which like those programs 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 increasingly likely that something bad happened to this man at the hands regional election we'll be speaking live to a guest from the f.t. party after this break. you cannot operate as united nations this is not just wouldn't but you 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 local authorities which are hamas in this case here or has been for most of the last few years. what politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to the press this is what the three of them will be good. interested always in the waters in the. city.

welcome back to voters in bavaria have inflicted a fatal blow on chancellor back key ally handing the christine social union its worst election result for decades the exit polls suggest it will now lose its power the bench majority in the region with just thirty five point five percent of the vote the greens are on track for a historic result will become very a second major political force while the far right body gained in levon percent of the vote meaning that they will enter parliament for the first time in what's been a very hotly contested election.

the reason. big losers such as the left the liberal party is taking less than five percent of the vote. they break down the implications of a potential political shake up in german politics. i'm hit in manning and they all tend to fit him in the election party and the results are showing heavy losses and a medical system parting the sea as seen especially compared with last election the santa seems to have dominance ahead in the region of the various since the second

world war the used to be unthinkable they could get anything less than the majority on sunday they lost this majority and surely this is a big blow to the medical it's good news safe today and they have entered the regional parliament for the fans time so they'll be celebrations ten eight outs now this will say bring in another problem the problem of it forming a coalition now the c.s.u. been vocal about not caring when they stay with the greens who came second in the dairy and prime ministers who say just have that they'll be no told the day to day that it doesn't like them pages have been moving away from the centrist policies to the left town the right and it's thought that they just have been pushing the party to bases such as immigration some people say that the c.s. sida will seem unfair might be to blame for the bad polls as he has been arguing with michael and even say she hated them like the crisis in the middle schools the negative press around chimney and beyond saying should he stay or should he die now

a loss to the c. and c. you could put the government in a on the top position the only two possible government instability. move from the old terms of a journey party joins me on the lawn very good evening to you so with a bit rich people. during the last twenty years your expression after the best of friends will stroll school died shortly years ago. this you saw what has taken all the steps to get that with this you do all three systematical still being more and more to the will go away even some crime to the far left. insists on of course to be left. in the middle so. that speaks only for the better result. still greatly appreciate your time thanks for coming on this evening hans one of my guests from the alternative for germany party. i just go. and that wraps things up for a salad more updates on those before i read elections and the rest of the day's top

stories in half an ounce you know. when we all make this manufacture to send it to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room see. real news is really. you know world of big partisan movie 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. klunk welcome to all the part there was never any love lost between the soviet union or russia on the one hand and the tail 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 for stop blocking relations in larger europe of to discuss that i'm now in joined by stefan the pillow top professor at the tree asking adversity in telling us 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 them away. first of all it's interesting from the start of the 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 me to now because as you pointed out i think the russian policy is. much less multi-layered than what you describe i 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 differential called to do men the result of the which means a privileged area of interaction between the former soviet republic we may understand that for instance in some of the counties such as in the baltic states

there will not always a huge through friendship between some part of those population and there are also natural economic ties that sustain not only russia but i understand many in the baltics the correct and not only economic ties but also a common you often way of thinking a common way of having more to our relations it is a because of the history and even though the ballot ecstacy that they can of course concede that in the past there were other troubles they were independent between the two world wars and then the wording clued in the soviet union at the beginning of the second world war. but with ardor former soviet republic such as crane or georgia well may need a crane or crane or russia they have a common history they have come i would say cultural and religious but

let's discuss does in detail but let me press here once more do you think russia current policy means every nato could really be described as containment i do consider that what i've been in the very recent months sure that russia on one side the east turning two were easier in order to create a stronger eastern. block and didn't i you can ask the west yes and dead would be a first step to stop a large amount of the western counters to work toward russian federation secondly the new generation of weapons the seer the president of russia for the nation doing the speech and beginning of march he showed a new new weapons and that means a dem or nato is acting in order to establish a new meter he bases in sentence to euro or to more of the now the cities are looking forward the new system of the ballistics misses and so on the more this has

no sense look at it as far as i understand from the russian point of view there is a big difference between containment as an effort to contain to limit the spread of nato not only in the russian neighborhood but around the world and pure defense and trying to keep nader abate russia sees the main difference between those two actions but from what you're saying it looks like you believe russia is actually trying to deal with a low ball of concrete way would discount tain meant containment is no creamy and don't bust on one side so to say it's unmarked at that because on the other side this is a very concrete step in action in order to stop to war no the orders are to.