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

good evening you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international. investigation is underway into what went wrong during a failed launch of a space rocket to create a now really scary disaster on thursday just minutes into that flight. all right i know you didn't. really know the authority here to.

say. anything. but. 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 corridor r.t. baikonur. alexia cheatin is forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve lieutenant colonel in the russian air force as they slot would have been his second journey into space his american colleague forty three year old nick cake is a colonel in the u.s. air force it was his maiden space flight. with masses of explosive rock you feel

right behind you when something goes wrong you need to make a fast getaway and experts are applauding the escape system that propelled the pad 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 our guys came back to earth safely it's a very dangerous situation and it's. him impressive. 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 going very very fast very very high so things could have gone 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 a 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. well the crew on board the international space station had a perfect view of the events unfolding 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 from the rockets guess the nice thing they've been getting ready to welcome the new colleagues on board enough to command a 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 uses despite

a fall 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 the gas industries and he is a good take his 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 stations and plant there is no change of plans so we are looking forward to not only using so use for the next astronauts but also has some of our allies so we do not see 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 foreign ministers from the u.k. germany and france 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's heard from him since turkey hasn't officially accuse riyadh of being involved but some reports claim its intelligence service is our evidence that he was tortured and killed saudi arabia has strongly denied the accusations and has offered help in investigating the case. well the lack of information that's prompted multiple media reports some news outlets claim that the u.s. intercepted sounded discussions of a plan to capture the journalist claiming the saudi crown prince has ordered an operation to lure and detained her shoji mother say turkish officials have an ordeal recording of the journalists murderous sets have been recorded on the smartwatch though many say that's highly unlikely. as more where is journalist jamal. what happened to him. for an

entire week nobody has been able to answer that question and vesta gators 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 in istanbul alleged details of how it was done and clued sending over a fifteen man head 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 third inning that this incident took place in a country i knew jamal 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 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 you 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 see to. of openness there officials even invited warders on a tour around the consulate. jamal who lives in 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 to print his piece but that hasn't helped there's been no trace of the man washington says it's worried about the incident however it wasn't the u.s. president to voice concern first some u.s. senators who fatah faction if saudi involvement is confirmed. if we find out that

they were complicit for the rest of the synthetic way. the election shit like that is 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 decided happened in this increasingly likely that something bad happened to this man at the hands of the saudi government shows contempt for us. disrespectful to. him our president trump has promised to punish saudi officials if involvement is proven but also stressed is these are to protect america's most billion dollar business deals with the gulf kingdom. terrible that disgusting 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 the relationship between the united states and yet i've done a golf clap it doesn't affect where well because the problem is that now americans are wants to do something against russia and iran and turkey in the middle east and they need. to be on a gulf countries and b. and it's some money and 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. this week also saw the announcement of another high profile departure from the trumpet ministration on tuesday the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley took a lot of people by surprise when she revealed she was stepping down is a look back at her time at the global body. against all enemies foreign and domestic next. 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. because i really. don't know what 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 right using up the conversation they have to realize they some responsibility if this elevates to violence after the senator's personal information was released online his family is on edge you know i felt incredibly threatened and frightened and i had been

frightened when rand left for d.c. that monday because you know if the new message is get up in their face get in people's face but republicans are also out for blood to the democrat separate to extreme too dangerous to go over they've gone wacko. matchups during arsonists 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. the midterm campaigning the clintons are about to set out on tour although some suspect this could be a putting the hell are we preparing for another shot at the white house.

if you're looking to get up close and personal with bill or hillary clinton you're in luck no hillary clinton are going on two or thirteen city tour with former president bill clinton former secretary of state hillary clinton. america is great because america is good. the upcoming to wrap up in may twenty nineteen around the time that twenty twenty presidential contenders are expected to stop 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 my youth allergic. to the basket of deplorable she's guilty is now what was his response and that was a. big big rather have a puppet as president obama wants a day now you know the russian. british companies are calling for an inquiry into reports that doctors have been secretly charging couples to choose the sex of the child gender selections through i.v. or fees only legal on medical grounds britain's fertility regulator has launched an investigation we are confident of a vast majority of the u.k.'s fertility clinics do not recommend sex selection either at home or abroad however we take allegations of sex selection seriously and will investigate any specific cases brought to our attention we do report cyclo mean that couples of poe's up to fourteen thousand pounds for the illegal procedure

several senior doctors of allegedly set up appointments at private clinics in the u.k. before completing the medical treatment abroad in countries like cyprus and the u.a.e. we spoke to british glamour model danielle lloyd who's been criticised for her decision to use the procedure in the united states i think obviously some people got angry because there is women out there who can actually have children and i think they were angered because they think i should just love the children that have gaar which i totally understand and i do love them my everything my kids are my life for i think if this science is out there for may make other people choose to use gender selection in a way where as if i was having my fair child i would never want to pick the sex of the baby i was quite happy to go along and whatever the health of the baby selflessly the most important thing. for obviously for me having for children and

them or be in boys i just couldn't grow old and feel like i can not have that mother daughter relationship. we put this issue up for debate. there are medical conditions which either only affect boys or only affect girls and it's actually fairly standard practice in lots of places around the world for couples who have a family history of those kind of conditions to be given i.v.'s and given the opportunity to select the gender of child that is less likely to suffer from those conditions i think we would all take steps to try and make sure that our children were less likely to have problems later in life in all sorts of different ways the idea of just choosing the sex of your child based on a whim i think you know i think to me it sounds horrifying 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 of at some stage thought 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 discard 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 and what want what she wants to go on and it is inevitable that they're going to follow up when you are choosing which are 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 indiana altie on many occasions these issues come to light because some conditions pass through the male rather than the female and and families that have had genetic diseases go down the ivy if route in order to to to see how they're going to solve that problem but just an on a purely basic choice position you cannot just randomly choose one

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