it was a. little bit like. the week's top stories just minutes after a blast off a mouth function on a russian soyuz rocket forces the crew capsule to eject and sends the astronauts sputnik back to. the most two weeks on and there's 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 there something riyadh's denies. and a bad day at the office for german chancellor angela merkel's conservative allies in bavaria who risk losing their majority in the regional election as the far right

on the greens make his story games. i am. a warm welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international with me. now our top story an investigation is underway into what went wrong during a failed launch of the soyuz spacewalk it's on thursday is to mung crew narrowly escaped is also off to a boost amal function just minutes into their flights. you can be obese. right.

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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 cosmonaut aleksei off chin and astronaut nick a guy 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 corder r.t. baikonur alexi of chinon is forty seven years old and holds the rank of was a lieutenant colonel in the russian assholes say its flight would have been his seconds journey into space as american call a forty three year old snake hake as

a condo in the u.s.s. cole sun that was his maiden space flight. with masses of highly explosive rocket fuel right behind you when something goes wrong you need to make a false getaway and experts are applauding the escape system that propelled the path to safety. please. thank you very much a bunch of course i want to thank the rescuers and those who designed these keep systems thanks to them. back to earth 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

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 know 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 the official strongly denounced 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. 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 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 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 too however it was not the u.s. president voiced concern some u.s. senators called for tough action if saudi involvement is confirmed if we find out that they were complicit or direct at the sensitive way that the election should like that was appropriate and 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 and it's increasing the likelihood that something bad happened to this man at the hands of the saudi government has contempt for us. disrespectful to me 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 came that terrible the 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. you know his attitude is as business when i think it affects a little bit. relationship between the united states and so do i don't go on a golf clap doesn't affect where well because the problem is that now americans want to do something against russia and iran and turkey in the middle east and they

need. to be on the gulf countries and you need some money and i think it doesn't change anything. it's very important to the u.s. in terms of the reserve status of the dollar in terms of the petro dollar. it's very that they're tired and they're tired and hand in glove with them i really don't think anything is going nothing is going to happen that maybe people will be calling for something to happen nothing is going to happen. this week or so still the announcement of another high profile departure from the trumpet ministration on tuesday the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. they key haley took many by surprise when she revealed she was stepping down here's a look back at her time at the global top body. against all enemies foreign and against all that and.

i will not shut. 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 be 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 the united states is locked 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 we do but they were special. voters in the german state of bavaria have inflicted a heavy blow on chancellor merkel's key ally handing the christian social union is worst election result of decades the policy has lost its absolute majority in the regions paul them and while the greens have almost doubled their vote share on the anti migrant a.f.p. has entered the parliament for the first time following a hard fought campaign. punch

hit in meminger they all tend to fit him in the election party and the results are showing heavy losses in the system party the c s u especially compared with last

election this is seeing these top dominance head in the region of the various of the second world war these to be unthinkable that they could get anything less than the majority on sunday they lost this majority and surely this is a big blow to the merkel it's good news save for the end days events of the regional parliaments of the fans times one day member high stakes a said that he was happy with their face progress today it's well it's a great success and took the now off to going to start european parliament than all the others parliaments in the country owes of the dog and you see it is a celebration and big party this is the end of the old fashioned parties and there we are living in a frenzy of a century and this is now the time for bluebonnet is what i have to so we are. the party of tomorrow no this will say bring in another problem the problem of it forming a coalition now the c.s.u. been vocal about not pairing with them. and stay with the greens who came second in

the dairy and prime ministers who say just said that they'll be no choice with day to day but it does look like the pages have been moving away from the centrist policies to the left and the right and it's still the pages have been pushing the party base use such as immigration some people say that the c.s. will see both might be to blame for the bad polls i see how it's been arguing with mikkel and even this issue is at the micro crisis and how schools negative press around chimney and beyond saying should he stay or should he go now a loss to the c.s.u. could put the government in a fall in the top position and lead to possible government instability. us mid-term elections are less than a month away now the latest polls suggest there's everything to play for with the democrats enjoying only a marginal lead over their republican live rivals caleb maupin looks at how the traditional campaign book has been torn up and 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 grade well now barack obama's former attorney general has adjusted it just a little machine which says that you know when they go you. know. they go low will be cute. and some sectors of the u.s. public are pretty clearly ready for battle.

i'm. coming to be. because. some republicans are now warning that the chaos could turn deadly i fear that there's going to be an assassination i really worry this 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 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 what if the new message is get out in their face get in people's face but republicans are also out for blood to the democrats every come to extreme too dangerous to cover they've gone wacko.

matchups during our service and you don't give power to an angry left wing mob and that's what the democrats are big on the 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. as part of the midterm campaigning declensions are about that out on tour although some suspect this could be a precursor to hillary 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 bill in no way 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. coming to 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 trump my is allergic. to the basket of deplorable she's guilty is out what was his response to that was a lot to. be rather have a puppet as president you know prompts

a day where you have the right. british m.p.'s are calling for an inquiry it's reports doctors have been secretly charging couples to choose the sex of their child gender selection through i v f a's only legal long medical grounds britain's fertility regulator has launched an investigation. we are confident the 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 media reports claim couples have paid up to fourteen thousand pounds for the illegal procedure several senior doctors have allegedly set up a point that 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 us 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 me make other people choose to use gender selection in a way where as if i was having my first 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 may have been for children and them or being boys i just couldn't grow old and feel like a car that mother daughter relationship we put the 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 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 have at some stage four 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. after 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 i'm actually don't want to have ten children they want to have one or two children it's absolutely stan that 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 would not want what she wants to go on and it is inevitable that they're going to fall off 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 indiana forty 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 to live in diseases go down the idea route in order to to 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. two russian football stars are being investigated after a video emerged of them allegedly attacking two government officials at a moscow cafe and another man in the street

a court decided to place alexander kokoro in and preval the mire of in pretrial detention until december the eighth they both face charges of hooliganism and could be given lengthy prison sentences the players have apologized for their outrageous actions. has 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 it's other got caught in this leading strike instead of st petersburg he actually scored a winner in the europa league just a fortnight ago the others by the maya from class of that very same moment won how people were going to force fight in court of a greg 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 who is in intensive care with. with a brain injury with a head injury. they went to a cafe in 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 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 a get into that they cannot be any extenuating circumstances in this situation this is unacceptable unsportsmanlike behavior that casts a shadow on all russian football the words of five o'clock over 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 this incident will receive an appropriate legal assessment both clubs are looking into terminating these players contracts they're just looking at the contacts whether this domination 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.