feel. a little bit like. in the week's top stories just minutes off to blast off a malfunction on a russian soyuz rocket forces the crew's escape capsule to reject and send the astronauts back. almost two weeks gone and there's still no long so i ask you 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 the german chancellor's conservative allies scored dismal results of the various state elections while the greens on the far right a.f.d. make historic games.

to. a well welcome this is the weekly on r.t. international continue around the clock the headlines with a past week thank you for joining us our top story this hour an investigation is underway into what went wrong during a failed launch of a soyuz spacewalk is on thursday is to mung crew narrowly escapes disaster after a boost a mole functions just minutes into their flight. keep to get.

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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 cage 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 quarter r.t. baikonur alexei often in his forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve lieutenant colonel in the russian thursday's flights would have been his second journey into space his american colleagues forty three year olds nate cake is a cuddle and the u.s.s. cole and it was his maiden flight into space. with masses of

highly explosive rocket fuel right behind you when something does go wrong you need to make a fast guess away experts are applauding the escape system that propelled the path to safety. course i want to thank the rescue of those who designed the system thanks to them. safely it's a very dangerous situation and it's. impressive. about the design of 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 going very very shallow story very high so things could have gone 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 the right the crew onboard the international space station had the perfect view of the unfolding events and kept to the moment on camera we can show you these images taken by the current space station come on the alexander and you can just about make out the why streaks of smoke from the rockets time his team had been getting ready to welcome their new colleagues on board will soon after commanding 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 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 very well content there's some gas in the station he is in a good state he's not at all afraid he trusts in too so he was suited to so therefore now he will he might or he might have to stay a little bit longer stations and plant there's no change of plans so we're looking forwards to not only using so use for the next astronauts but also for some of our so we do not see that as 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 the saudis to provide a detailed response jamaal has sought g. was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second no one's heard from him since turkey has not officially accused riyadh of being involved in some reports claim its intelligence services have evidence has thought gee was tortured and killed saudi arabia strongly denies the accusations and has offered help to investigate the case the lack of information has prompted multiple media reports with some news outlets claiming 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 saudi others say turkish officials have an audio recording of the journalists murder is said to have been recorded on his smart

watch although many say this is highly unlikely to trying to has more details. 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 news that this incident took place in the country i knew to move through 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 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 a right. 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 is worried about the incident

however it was not the u.s. president who voiced concern first from u.s. senate says quote for tough action if saudi involvement is confirmed if we find though that they were complicit or the rest of the city is way. over the edge of like this but 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 if this did happen it is increasingly likely that something bad happened to this man at the hands of the saudi government has contempt for us. disrespectful to meanwhile 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 kingdom airable 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. 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 you are you know is that it is as business when i think it affects a little bit the relationship between you not just sold you out i'm gonna go flop doesn't affect where well because the problem is that no. one wants to do something against russia and iran and turkey in the middle east and they need. some money i think it doesn't change anything. it is very important to the us in terms of the reserve status of the dollar in 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. is because i saw the announcement of another high profile departure from the trumpet ministration on tuesday the us ambassador to the un nikki haley took many by surprise when she were failed she was stepping down here's a look back at her time at the global party. against all enemies foreign and domestic against all enemies. i will not. 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. 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 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 closest ally in the christian social union its worst election result for decades the posse has lost its absolute majority in the region's parliament the greens around the. binyamin while both enjoyed a huge surge in support with the details his. i'm hit in manning and they all tend to pitch a mini election party and the results are showing heavy losses the angle of the system party the c s u especially compared with the last election we see a c.v. used to have dominance head in the region of various as the second world war used to be unthinkable that they could get anything less than the majority on sunday

this majority and surely this is a big blow to the merkel it's good news save for the end of the. we've entered the regional parliament for the fans times one and a member i spoke to said that he was happy with their face progress today well it's a great success reacted to now after going to start european parliament and all the others parliaments in the country also biracial and dog and you see here is a high celebration and big party this is the end of the old fashioned parties and there we are living in a front of a century and this is now the time for blue parties what i have to so we are. the party of tomorrow now this will also bring in another problem the problem of it forming a coalition now the c.s.u. been vocal about not pairing with the f.d.a. with the greens who came second in the dairy and prime ministers also just said that they'll be no chilled sweet day today but it does look like the voters have been moving away from the centrist policies to the left and the right and is still

the voters have been pushing the party a shoes such as immigration some people say that the see a senior leader will see will further might be to blame for the polls as he has been arguing with nicola davis if she goes to the mike this crisis and then how schools negative press around chimney and beyond money saying should he stay or should he go now a loss to the c.s.u. could put the government in a volatile position the only two possible government instability. the reports are surfacing that a van driver has been arrested in paris off to mounting a pavement and attempting to run over pedestrians on sunday night he was pursued by police on call to hold on to offices open fire several times so pedestrians are believed to have been injured in the incident which took place in a suburb in the north the french capital a friendship police officer reportedly sustained minor injuries the driver was shot in the are. now the u.s.

midterm elections are less than a month away latest poll suggests that. everything's a playful with the democrats and joining only a marginal lead over the republican rivals caleb maupin looks at how the traditional campaign will book is being 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. 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. 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 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 elevates to violence after the senator's personal information was released online his family is

on edge you know i felt and cry. play 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 the democrats every come to extreme too dangerous to govern they've gone wacko you have to match yours during our service and you don't give power to an angry left wing mob and that's what the democrats have been. 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 the clintons are about sites out on tour well some suspect this could be a precursor it's a hell are you preparing for another assault at the white house.

that you're looking to get up close and personal with bill or hillary clinton during the book bill and hillary hillary clinton are going on tour thirteen city tour with former president bill clinton former secretary of state hillary clinton. america is great because america is good for. the upcoming talking roughly twenty twenty nine teams around the time the twenty twenty presidential contenders are expected to stop announcing that plans to run

for the white house. she does not look president. she doesn't have the stamina stamina tremendous stamina for every job i think about drugs but you know we're. the basket of deplorable she's guilty what was his responsibilities like to be. rather have a puppet as president and not saying oh yeah the right. british m.p.'s are calling for an inquiry into reports doctors have been secretly charging couples to choose the sex of their child gender selection through i v f is the only legal long medical grounds britain's fertility regulator has launched an investigation we are confident that 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 samia doctors have 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 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 of gaar which i totally understand and i do love them the my everything my kids and 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. of the sea for me have been for children and

them or be in boys i just couldn't grow old and feel like a car that mother daughter relationship but 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 it 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 a boy or i want to girl you can suggest i might like one i have five lovely sons i might have at some stage for 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're 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 couples have a strong feeling about what the woman does or doesn't want to be president and would not want what she wants to go on and it is inevitable that they're going to follow up when you're choosing what schembri 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 son not imperiling i am going into indiana that already on many occasions these issues come to light because some conditions are passed through the male rather than the female and and families that have had to live in the diseases go down the i.v.'s route in order 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 choosing r.t. international we're back at the top of the hour with the latest. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to go on to be cross it's like that before three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters in the house. first sit.

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fellow and welcome to cross talk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle take tyranny you too can be disappeared in broad daylight also the fate of a saudi journalist is testing washington's relations with riyadh is the crown prince's rule in doubt and much much more on this edition of. crosstalk in some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow and he is a professor at the higher school of economics and author of the decay of western civilization and the resurgence of russia we also have alex christopher he's the director and writer for the duran dot com and we have dimitri bob and he is a political analyst with sputnik international. rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime want you.