some people's wants to take our thing all the power are just far down south as it is the mother. of. the small english town gets a shock as its run down streets appear in a republican attack ad in the u.s. . space agency says a faulty sensor caused a failed rocket launch last month in which the two men crew safely ejected.

and western officials and athletes accuse the world anti-doping agency of damaging queen sports after its decision to reinstate russia. broadcasting live direct foresters moscow this is r.t. international i'm shawn thomas glad to have you with us right a small seaside town in the u.k. has found itself in the spotlight pictured as a rundown backwater by the u.s. republicans an image of jay wicks sans twice named as britain's most deprived area has become the headline news before the mid-term elections in america and he's probably boyko explains why. what links this essex seaside town to the upcoming u.s. mid-term elections and insensitive political hundred that's what locals here in jail

exxon's in essex have been left feuding ofter a pro trump republican candidate for the senate for the state of illinois used a photograph of j. wick sands on his social media feed as an anti advertisement so the caption next to the photograph read only you can stop this from becoming a reality but the problem is the picture wasn't quite reality the image of jay wick sans that he used was taken several years ago and since then the local authorities have made quite a few improvements to the local area so the locals here all rather cross country to try to park in america are and then you come to a cover of a walking tour a week and you see the different plane. when it is in america we don't remember for there right now again i was iraq everything america we here is just let's say we can refuse it winds come in use an old fire of africa somewhere and say look your town is going to look like this is the bad news sells good news it doesn't. match

nobody should be used are going to put a good picture on it we got a bit of hostility with the camera down there is it kind of is it is do you guys feel a bit kind of burned by the negative press attention that you guys have heard yes because of the t.v. show that happened way before yeah now when you want to come study would say become a sticks in people's faces yes just you know we would you know people don't like it they don't like it or the offending advice has now been removed and dr nextel a spokesperson has issued an apology or cough an apology our intent was never to smear to town and to photo known to us as j. week sands in essex we never used a name for us it was an example of a town overburdened by poor governance. which is exactly what we in our district are seeking to provide at every level back in two thousand and ten and two thousand and fifteen the government named the area as the most deprived in england in fact i

was here to report on it at the time the time was thought up as a holiday resort for city dwellers back in the one nine hundred twenty s. these are all meant to be summer houses but because rents were so cheap people started living here all year round some parts of the town like tarmac roads street lighting or even pavements lost to shops that were here have been boarded up unemployment is rife in the town in fact sixty two percent of the people that live here depend on welfare payments. and the town isn't exactly a luxury seaside resort it is still a deprived area and even though local authorities have been keen to stress that they have invested in new roads and new drainage systems it could use more money there is some hesitation when you talk to the locals as well they don't want to talk to the cameras they've been burned before by bad press and they're keen to

turn the image of the town around some concede that they could definitely use more investment but it's not up to politicians in america to judge their hometown one interesting suggestion came from the director of a documentary about j. which she said that dr nick stella should come over here and she could show him around the town and so he can see for himself all the improvements that have been made i get the sense that the locals here would have one or two things to say to him. russia's space agency says it damaged sensor it was responsible for an aborted soyuz rocket launch three weeks ago the two man crew was forced to eject and both of the american and russian on board were unharmed the agency released. video from an onboard camera which shows the rocket failure just two minutes into the flight.

amazing images there are spaces crew now cool the crew were on their way to the international space station artie's where if national has more on the aborted space flight. it was an absolutely shocking news back then the first failure of this kind in the last thirty five years shortly after the incident a special high rent in commission was formed to investigate what went wrong with the sea use launch last month and today we're heard their verdict a sensor that is supposed to detect there a separation of the rocket stages a metal detail that big is to blame for the incident pictures were also released today showing that this detail was visibly deformed and it may sound like

a technical failure but the commission concluded that the different mation happened at the time when the rocket was assembled and as we know it is done always manually so as one of the members of the commission told me answering my question this tragedy has a name and a last name is us free from its law enforcement agencies are investigating the matter i would prefer not to discuss that here we are investigating the technical aspect of the mouth function but of course someone is always responsible for the different mission of the center caused the peroration issues and eventually the rockets stagers bumped into each other and it's crippled the rocket and this is when they merge into the system reacted automatically by suppurating the crew capsule this is a short to be do showing what exactly happened. a

russian cosmonaut and an american astronaut the crew members of that flight came back safely to earth in that capsule and they are in good condition and their health was going to fact and as we hear from russia's space agency was also missed

their flight is shaping for next spring so approximately next march they will fly to the international space station but even before that there will be another manned flight from baikonur that is shed yule for december third. funerals have been held in gaza for three boys killed in an israeli bombing raid the children between the ages of twelve and fourteen were hit by an airstrike last sunday in southwest gaza relatives of the victims say the boys were setting nets to capture birds when they were killed but the israeli army says that youngsters had approached the border security fence and appeared to be placing bombs or troops spotted a squad of three suspects approaching the border under the cover of dong this in a crouched and suspicious manner the three operates in a way that was identical to previous incidents in which terror operatives had

placed explosive devices in the same location we got reaction from both sides on this latest incident. take three young boys who unfortunately were killed but they were clearly approaching an open fire zone that had been established by hamas six months ago families and close associates of those victims the children victims of two media outlets that there were children were doing a routine work over a teen activity simply putting traps for bait for bears so if i was a parent i wouldn't let my child anywhere near that border fence and the only reason that they were near that hostile border fence is to either cut the fence or plant explosives or kill or kidnap israelis it's the only reason there is no other logical reason for them to be there the israelis always declaimed the. targets he really ns well in fact many cv indians have been victims for is really are we

actions as throughout the region the i.d.f. the israel defense forces is the only army in the middle east and i would argue one of the only our music is the only army in the world that has multiple layers of confirmation before it issues open fire orders on anybody the latest incident in which a three policy that children were killed in the. was a part of the of this repeated the story by the israeli army terms of the buffer zone israel has been directing the buffaloes on this comes actually against the well of the people who lead in this these areas especially the farming community. western sports officials and athletes have criticised the world anti-doping agencies decision to reinstated russia earlier this year they made some emotional pleas to the organization during a meeting in the white house. has more not every day you would see tears shed inside the white house but that was the case with the emergency summit of several

national anti-doping agencies which actually looked like a on the ground meeting of rogue revolutionaries in this case the u.s. anti-doping agency the u.k. anti-doping agency. a bunch of very famous athletes convene at the white house to discuss waters recent decision to reinstate the russian anti-doping agency in its rights and to talk about the future of clean sport interestingly enough but the world anti-doping agency claims it was not even invited to that meeting if water president athletes or others that were supportive of the decision had been invited they would have been able to bring perspective to the debate to explain why the decision to reinstate rosado was the right one for a clean sport the head of usada travis tygart denounced those accusations said that in fact the vice president of water was there but the overall language he was at that summit can give you a very clear idea of how toxic and political the fight against doping has become wilder's leadership along with the i.o.c. are increasingly isolated with athletes and public opinion they need to wake up and smell the coffee step out from their ivory tower because athletes are demanding

change and change is coming. the president of water circle a greedy was having a symposium all with someone in london and he was asked the question whether there was any rift among the anti-doping watchdogs worldwide and he gave a very indefinite answer to that one government voted against the recommendation one. and one of steamed. the people we hear from most often on a pretty short length of group not of government the pretty selective group of national and you tube and organisations and those receiving i don't reach. now what does this select group have any leverage on the situation of course you would expect the head of the u.s. anti-doping agency to use trump's method some may say it's blackmail in this situation that's exactly what he did speaking about the budget u.s. contributes the biggest amount of money to what is annual budget more than two

million dollars the u.k. about nine hundred thousand dollars and travis tygart hinted that this budget may be pulled so it's about three million dollars of thirty four annual money that water has in its possession now you may ask yourself what's the bone of contention here obviously the world anti-doping agency has decision to reinstate. in its full rights as part of the world anti-doping family on september twentieth the headlines were vicious and there still are vicious some media are in total frenzy about that decision but the president of water so craig really the recipient of biggest criticism following that decision spoke about that about his decision in london today. how can you describe. do you find right public pleas to the russian authorities i copied not lecture to all of my committee sheen given shot just two conditions we will declare a result of compliant and then we get a lecture from russia. and the executive committee.

commented on it and a member of fifteenth water will gather for a big executive meeting in and they are there by johnny capital of baku and that's where we're expecting the fists will be flying high with sports and politics coming very close down the finish line. r.t. reporting from moscow. former sports lecturer ellis cashmore says the doping claims against russia have become highly little sized. anybody who knows anything about doping in sport knows that doping goes on in every country in the world where there are professional sports well russia is the fall guy here russia has been a convenient scapegoat and all the evils of the doping have been conducted over the past few years americans who have lost out on medals over the years on are complaining about this that and the other with that naming any specific culprits but what they're saying is that wada has being too soft on russia basically

awarded is an organization that was seen to be working in there not specifically their interests but in the world of sports interests but now seems to be a part of this intersection of politics and sport in other words what they have tried to retain the position of independence from all this but whether they like you or not they have been dragged into a political route i've been a big critic of why there are not a of the past couple of years so let's get that out of the way first of all but i'm now being a little bit more sympathetic than i usually have because it seems to me that what is damned if it does damned if it doesn't a few months ago before it agreed to reinstate resigned of the russian anti doping agency it was really getting it in the neck because people were saying well hang on you know you have this report they have basing all your. or you would decisions and

justifications that those decisions are that is the mclaren report and it isn't transparently clear what evidence mclaren has gathered over the past several years so i i was amongst the critics who were attacking wide it for its lack of transparency now why there has done what i consider the right thing and readmitted russia back into world sport. and americans are starting to go a little bit it's too soft particularly soft on russia. more news after a short break this is art international.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. the talk of impending war around the world is on the increase the great powers speak openly on the need to prepare for a conflict what does this tell us if anything it appears to be a sign the global order they came into being after the second world war and the cold war has come to an end what is replacing it.

i welcome back this is r t international the afghan taliban has picked five senior members to represent in the group had talks with of the u.s. all of them were formerly held at america's guantanamo bay prison where they were exchange for u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl a tell about prisoner in two thousand and fourteen they have now been posted to the taliban's office in doha to negotiate an end to the conflict with the u.s. in afghanistan a spokesperson for the group told r.t. that if the u.s. wants to go to be successful has to change its strategy. negotiations are at a low level initial stage this is because the americans are opposite sides are fighting against if the other side will be honest in the negotiations and really change their strategy from fighting to negotiating then i'm sure we will reach

a high level and there might be a good result the taliban is considered by most countries to be a terrorist movement after seventeen years of war in afghanistan the militant group is still going strong forty one percent of the country's population live under taliban rule according to a new study from the foundation for defense for democracy afghan journalist ali latif he believes that all sides need to make concessions. the u.s. will you know they'll have to accept them because the truth is if you're talking about who has been negotiating you know all of these figures have been controversial figures they've had to have how do you support him being there and being allowed into a ha and i think donald trump is very eager to figure out some way out of that of on quagmire so you know if they had any kind of a protest they would have expressed that by now as much as the talabani is could be correct in their statement in saying that if the u.s.

wants to i want to get real about negotiations they have to end the war the fighting but at the same time with taliban has to do the same thing we saw in the first ever cease fire three day cease fire we saw that the tall one were able to lay down their arms were able to come into the cities were embraced by the people and i remember after what happened a friend of mine who works in the office of the chief executive he said you know what this proves is that the abhorrent war could end in fifteen minutes if both sides agreed to it. the c.n.n. anchor has a stirred controversy by claiming that the biggest terror threat in the u.s. comes from whiteman. you have to stop demonizing people realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men most of them radicalized to the right. don lemon said comments come after three recent hate crimes involving white suspects last saturday eleven jewish worshipers were massacred at

a synagogue in pittsburgh in the same week two black people were killed in a shooting at a supermarket in kentucky and fifteen mail bombs were sent to high profile opponents of the u.s. president we've heard contrasting views from inside the u.s. from a journalist who no rivera and political activist anthony rogers right. i think that mr levin was actually stating facts there are twice as many terrorist incidents from white right wing terrorists and those people who submit to al islam what they're saying right now is saying that the majority of the country are terrorists pretty sure that if white men were the real problem in america we'd have a higher incident a higher rate of incidents with these types of terror attacks radicalized white people who are sending pipe bombs to people of the opposing party who just killed eleven jewish people who just killed two black people in kentucky because they couldn't get into a black church look at the result things deaths and look at the perpetrators d.n.a.

and is doing everything they can to try to cast a negative light against anything trump in obviously the majority of the voting bloc in america is working class white men believe incidents that are being painted are happy and are being painted as down from what is really not true people like don lemon are going to continue to perpetuate these false narratives in the hopes that maybe it can just prop people from what's actually going on in america which is a great thing right now economically numbers for people across all demographics including white latino and blacks in particular where black unemployment is a historic low bombs that were just sent did not kill anyone but they were still acts of terrorism and you can't deny that the person who was caught by the enemy i was a donald trump supporter. don was from supporters and if we're being honest really but he has a grudge and that's all there is there is there is information that he doesn't

matter he's going to write something where a crack is a god only if we can read his mind i ses up a bunch of different ways you can sit there in julian sam and think that he specifically and donald trump supporter he was inspired to do that by donald trump we have to be honest about post reconstruction white terrorism against black people for not being honest about that we're not going to get to the root of the problem white supremacy found in the united states of america white supremacy exists in the united states of america and white supremacy is rising across the world called don lemon fed this is just a further and continuance of the division that was created in america under the eight year old ministration of barack obama and it has a from a i'll be back in just under thirty six minutes to watch march international. relationship banks but recommend trouble couples to keep talking to each other this

advice would also apply to president putin and president trump on the eve of the second meeting is it enough to pull the us russia relationship out of crisis. given the way in which the last terrorist attacks were proclaimed structured using european logistics these as you say there's a certain desire to change the way of life change to society in france. while give easy evolve find this us. i yearn for unions at once like yeah so i'll say yeah. crash the south

so that. designer filigree need. to get the new doc awesome place now which. pull me up like peter zimmer pulled the idea from sheila the systems that i'm. assaulted you cease to. exist for watching in that indeed you are. watching very outnumber a lot about this more than i suspect naturally. welcome

to the alex i'm insurance a very special edition the show is celebrating our first anniversary and to do that back it was some of i guess if i had to see over the last year and we filmed in brussels geneva be there it's dublin new york washington gibraltar barcelona brittany strasburg out of course scotland but first what has become a fixture of our show here treats your messages i am to emails i do more to alex. yes thousand of a big selection this week thanks largely to our facebook premiere which had a record audience and first stop is luis hogg who says it was interesting to hear four from the house a lot of the phrase for for the moths still not sure if enough m.p.'s are willing to blow up and reverse breaks a little more than holmes will from the same issue says very informative show once

again i like it as mina as usual i was up with a lot the smart thing to watch it's always the highlight of bye week thank you bonnie but john connally warns given the u.k. is due to leave the e.u. in march the twenty one of twenty one thousand than any constitutional wrangling before the judges would have to occur quickly in the new year well john i think the luxemburg court hearing on article fifty is going to be at the end of this month so there might well be time enough another couple of messages from the pullbacks at point a few poll freeman says i want blacks and scottish independence or quote what is the point leaving the u.k. to then make the e.u. our new ruler and in the same vein many good fellas says at what point will you address the thirty eight percent of us who voted to leave and a group of five people that flee who voted remain true for breaks that that's not the land slade you keep talking about and what he's saying there is about the vote

in scotland which was overwhelmingly for him in but wasn't alarmed slayed as money points and finally election b. says it would be cracking if mr samad was here on a facebook live chat to engage with his audience that actually has a great suggestion the end will certainly take you up and that i noticed as miller said this is our first and a vastly so let's take a look at what we promised to last year when we launched the show join me every thursday on the alex salmon show and obviously going to get us out of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome to another part of our fit here at the alex i mean hugh now last year alex great to be to interview one of the world's most expedient leader is president michel aoun of lebanon seven hundred members is the boy general to go through thing lebanon from vichy control and declaring independence in one thousand nine hundred

forty one and i can see alex here waiting the same suit a button but it changed my shirt so generally a very cool customer as you say he's seen it all it is is many many years in poland in politics but they've been i interviewed him he just extracted his prime minister from the the tender mercies of of saudi arabia and was he a same with his cabinet he speaks great english is conducted to be not a bit because english is excellent i had a an audience for from before the interview proper and he said to me said first minister. could you explain to me the differences in the similarities between scotland in the lead them. i said well differences climate scotland could be but you don't could be but call lebanon sco a wonderful claimant so they said on the similarities so i said well we're both small countries with large objects.