you know a little movie. in the news that hit the headlines this last week hailed as heroes those 2 russian pilots pulling off an expert emergency landing to save their passengers lives out of their plane suffered double engine failure during takeoff. we'll talk about it plus coming up in our news review of the week a medical examiner rules that the death of the disgraced former finance jeffrey epstein was a result of suicide but the multibillionaires lawyers though say they're not satisfied with that conclusion let's say they intend to carry out their investigation. this in overnight a bomb blast devastating a wedding ceremony in the afghan capital kabul it's left 63 dead and 182 wounded.

this is out international here in moscow my name is kevin owen thanks for checking in with us for the weekly roundup of the big stories of the last 7 days as reported to you by someone from russia the big one 1st off those 2 russian pilots who went down aviation history on thursday morning pulling off what's been described as a miraculous emergency landing there crimea bound ural airlines flight suffered twin engine failure after striking a flock of birds while taking off from moscow airport but against all those olds they were able to bring it down safely in a nearby field saving the lives of everyone onboard here's some video of the moments just after it touched. i don't already have a. look at the syllabus.

still trying to get to grips with what was going on or rather well those pilots of flight you 6178 had just moments to react to the bird strike to avert a pending disaster they decided to land the plane on its belly in the course field wheels up without dumping any fuel no time this video taken from inside the airbus a 321 is it says ray slow get the v one and take off with 226 passengers and 7 crew on board then that is what you don't want to see even worse a flock of them seagull sucked into both engines you see there was a fleetingly through the window was more and thursday's remarkable events roman culture of who was at the same within the hour. 226 passengers and 7 crew members of ural airlines flight bound for crimea from moscow are celebrating their 2nd birthday the air bus a 321 collided with

a flock of birds just shortly after takeoff from the capital's zuckoff ski airport's the captain jameer yusupov had just seconds to make the right decision when he discovered the strike caused engine failure with 16 tons of fuel on board no ability to make it back to the runway he knew that an emergency landing could result in a catastrophe the shell you know about a parole after we took off the engines became unstable 1st the left one and then the right one we usually simulate the situations when one or 2 engines are off despite all our efforts the plane was going down we realized that we didn't have much time just one or 2 minutes to make a decision in a blink of an either or. and with nerves of steel decided still land the aircraft in a nearby cornfield without using the landing gear and shutting off all power to prevent an explosion and various officials praised the crew for their professionalism

during the spine chilling landing as well as for a well organized evacuation it is something we acted in line with our training with similar situations like this before so there were no surprises the passengers were disciplined listen to our instructions and evacuated very quickly they did as we expect there was no panic on board even though the landing was rough the pilot did a great job he landed the plane really kathleen has to cook with tell us please how do you feel now did you hurt your leg. you know it's better than if i was there lying on the field so everything is rather good the landing was good the pilots did a great job landed the plane on the belly everything is fine the media was quick to make connections with the another such incidents when loss of life was a virgin thanks to a pilot the miracle on the hudson involving a u.s. airways the aircraft flown by captain chesley sullenberger and jeffrey skiles hit

a flock of geese after takeoff from new york city's la guardia airport and lost all engine power i'm able to land at any available airport they had to ditch the jet in the hudson river just outside of manhattan with all of the 155 passengers a rescued by nearby ferries and bolts thanks to the heroic solved by the captain and his crew their relatives and loved ones self all the people involved will get to see them again ramana koester of artsy moscow region here mark who was in a way to expose who spoke to say the potus made all the right decisions under extreme pressure. i take my hat off to the pilots and to everybody onboard the crew and the passengers because this was a textbook emergency landing the video i've just seen of it was absolutely amazing i think he took a calculated risk he said right we are too near the ground by the time the landing gear gets down it might not have locked in place we'll go for what we call

a belly flop and that's basically what he did and he landed it beautifully and this is a bit like the if you remember the hudson river incident when the plane landed on the lake the whole point is that he brought it down with the nose slightly out and so literally sailed over the cornfield and that's quite a rip us crop so that helped the landing these pilots did brilliantly because they were really quite low when the bird strike took place and the engine power dropped away almost completely so they had to look around for an open space in which to land and they didn't and as you can see they've done it brilliantly russia does have a history of having very good pilots that it is a profession that russians are very proud of having those who have it placed exactly 10 years ago there was what has become known as the miracle on the hudson they got a little bit higher before the birds hit them but this time they were geese and

those a very big birds they lost both engines the pilot looked around the highly urbanized area near new york couldn't see anywhere safe to land so he landed on the river and again like this event everybody survived. next the new york medical examiner's office said on friday that the death of discrete former money manager jeffrey epstein was caused by suicide the convicted paedophile was found dead in his jail cell last week while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges but lawyers for the financing who had connections in high places in washington have said they're not at all happy with the findings of that autopsy the. defense team fully intends to conduct its own independent and complete investigation into the circumstances and cause of mr epstein's death we are not satisfied with the conclusions of the medical examiner the 66 year old multi-millionaire was set to face trial over the alleged abuse of dozens of underage girls and the creation of a sex trafficking network just days before his death

a manhattan court had released 1200 documents relating to his case he had repeatedly denied the charges against him last month absolut been placed on suicide watch though after an apparent attempt at taking his own life since the tycoon's death of been numerous reports about the conditions he was living in some of even suggested he was having to pay other inmates for protection others that he was sleeping on the floor and was unable to wash some even go this far as to claim that the death may not have been suicide taken a close look at it all. if there are screenwriters out there right now racking their brains over ideas for a mega juicy plot i've got a perfect one for you the life and death of convicted paedophile jeffrey epstein who was at the same time a friend of the likes of presidents clinton and trump or you case prince andrew just how many skeletons in his claws a did this man have his death as

a real shocker and a staggering mystery some details of it though have been revealed to the public.

america baffled you really can't help asking questions. even though last month jeffrey epstein apparently already tried to kill myself a source within the law enforcement reported he was only put on suicide watch for less than a week plus it's been claimed epstein wasn't checked on every 30 minutes by guards and got deprived of his cellmate in violation of the prisons normal procedure there was also a rumor that surveillance cameras malfunctioned on that night when the death happened. only a day before the inmate was found unconscious a court released 1200 pages of documents detailing numerous claims of child abuse by him and his girlfriend was that the last drop of anguish we'll never find out. oh this is a giant playground for fans of conspiracy theories these have been ranging from the

idea that bill clinton had jeffrey epstein killed even president trump tweeted about that one to the russia did it kind of stories president from using his massive twitter platform $63000000.00 followers to spread a deranged conspiracy theory in a statement a clinton spokesman said the suggestion that the clintons were involved is ridiculous and of course not true and donald trump knows it you know this is just more recklessness what he's doing is dangerous a guy who had information that would have destroyed rich and powerful men's lives and dead in his jail cell how predictably russian it's hilarious and ultimately completely predictable that you would have leftist democrats and the media trying to pin something else on russia we haven't seen any ties to russia in the eps and that's the case we haven't seen any russian oligarchs that have been on this fly

list that we know of but anyway you can't turn away from the fact that mr epstein was close like i said with some of the most influential people on this planet most likely they had nothing to do with the death but all those politicians and money makers can now brave a sigh of relief because dead men don't speak the really aggravating thing to me is all the flying monkeys that are out there right now on conspiracy theories if you look at the facts of this case it was no question this was going to happen 1st of all in lock up settings like that there is no such thing as a personal privacy there there are no un control settings if rules are followed no shoelaces no belts no access to even as much as a finger nail clipper or radio show us the darn films what do the cameras have to say who had access to the cameras where are they this is a remarkably simple program just 1st show us what was recorded. he will rights activist has been pardoned in bahrain after almost 3 years behind bars for

making critical comments online about the government bahrain maintains she was jailed for promoting and encouraging people to mount a coup and name larger use of she alleges in turn she was tortured and sexually abused by police officers after her arrest but any official say the referred her complaint to a special investigation now early geishas relates to a local police station whose chief was trained by u.k. police. taylor in the week spoke to the organization the petition for use of release and got some more details. mitchell yourself a former bahraini civil servant and mother 4 was jailed in april 27th teen up he criticised the regime for hosting the motor racing show case that is formula one use of gave account of the abuse and sexual assault she was subjected to at the hands of the offices she was arrested by this threaten to kill me they tried to bribe me they beat me but worst of all officers tour off my he job and attempted to strip me of my clothes before an officer sexually assaulted me in custody the pain

and humiliation of that week will haunt me for the rest of my life the gist of it. is that the fact is she is involved in what they call it terrorist activity is. that it finishes off this means that criticizing formula one race and. reflecting good opinion on facebook or on twitter could considered to be a terrorism act and unfortunately for had she was subjected during combat interrogation to sexual assault and she was tortured only to interrogated about terror. facebook account which was simply just a critical formula one a domestic bahraini issue while not really because the appears to be just soft it all happened as activists claimed in the police station headed up by brigadier far was. because trained by none other than the british police back in 2015 office on

travel to belfast on a study visit basically a crash course in how to manage protesters the trip cost british taxpayers 16000 pounds now engineers have raised the alarm question how this all fits in with bahrain's human rights records. regarding. when i arrived at the building in morocco they blindfolded me interrogated me because of my human rights activities during the interrogation the use the worst forms of physical torture they told me some harsh words threaten me and sexually abused me. the members of the national security service insulted me they threatened me with rape restricting my wife with huet preventing kryten and depriving that

thermally of education and housing in addition to psychological and physical torture i was jailed 5 times in the past year most of the time i am banned from driving targeted jailed tortured and my cause targeted attack by rubber bullets and tear gas. one can often why is the u.k. continuing its cooperation with the regime regularly condemned by organizations all over the walled well the u.k. says that to give a helping hand in improving human rights so it's all in good faith and in the name of democracy given the high level of skill and expertise across british policing it is not surprising that there is an international appetite to learn from the best we cannot stand by and criticize countries from the sidelines if we want to see wholesale changes it probably doesn't hurt that it brings in a tidy sum to the arm of the u.k. home office responsible for training officers abroad has bought and over 3000000

pounds since 2012 with 89 percent of that some coming from countries where the death penalty still exists when the british government really talk about training those police what they are really doing is empowering what we call it culture of impunity and they are there one which pretty much training towards serves but also rewarding them if a police officer committed an abuse or something people could resort to things like this like and was an office. you can submit complaints over the since 2012 to this date we have seen that those institutions which had been officially is the british today ending resulted in only one thing that they they kept the torch out of the still systematic in the country this is what the united nations said this is what amnesty and what the human rights watch said and then secondly that that is the climate of impunity is this the status in the county allegations of complicity in

human rights violations and bolstering authoritarian regimes increase daily complicit or not one has to admit it's not great for the british croutons saskatoon . and. big say 2 minutes past the hour straight to hong kong a sea of umbrellas what's the ball moving heading to even there of course now in hong kong a lot of protests on the streets again estimates tens of thousands as divisions continue to grow and speculation continues to mount about where this is all going to go to china and to vague it's a story where across the globe a coffee break. should seem wrong. but all wrong just don't call. me that yet to shape

out these days because etiquette and in detroit equals betrayal. when somebody find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. interest rates are gapping and the spread is widening in what i call the interest rate apartheid if you're in the wrong side of the friends of jeffrey epstein you bantustan of extortion ery credit card rates if you're a friend of jeffrey epstein then you get the insider rate of negative and you get paid to lend money or to borrow money excuse me from the bank.

of the top stories for most of the last 7 days this who came in last night sad story powerful suicide explosion told through wedding hall of the afghan capital killed 63 and injured over 190 others reporting next from kabul. the suicide attacker ditson it it is explosives cording to the afghan interior ministry the main section of the wedding where the main war eating their dinner at least 63 people killed a woman and children are among those killed more than 100 in 80 people or wounded analysts afghanistan gets a comprehensive cease fire the people of afghanistan will continue to lose their entire families in these attacks this is an area in west kabul in the past the islamic state have targeted the shias in has are as and some more openly

questioning the inability of the afghan government why they contradict these places here is what. many afghans told us about this diddley attack last night you had them in pursuit of the explosion happened near the stage where the musicians were near all the youth children and all the people who were there some were killed some were wounded and now they are in hospitals and others are dead it was my father's cousin's wedding i took my uncle and cousin who were wounded to a nearby hospital and then they were taken to another emergency hospital there are so many dead and wounded victims my father and other uncle are still there to identify the other victims there are a large number of casualties around 1200 guests were invited to the wedding i was with the groom in the other room when we heard the blast and then i couldn't find anyone everyone was lying all around the home i was trying since last my den up

until now to find out what exactly happened to the groom and bride we're being told he was a tailor and i'm in the heartbreaking reality in an attack like this is how can entire families vanish like this we have heard from the afghan government condemning this attack we've also heard from the taliban calling it. barbaric and cruel and many are now pointing their finger at the islamic state which i think also tells you that once there is a peace deal between the afghan government in the taliban unfortunately the islamic state and other foreign fighters really continue to pose a grave danger to everyday life. are by talking calling out another mass anti-government rallies underway there this sunday as the city's protest campaign continues for what is now on the 11th consecutive weekend a spike driving right now the storm warning people out again people estimated tens of thousands they gathered in victoria park for what i'm not saying that they're

saying another area but to victoria park in the busy causeway district despite efforts by police to arrest a sea of umbrellas walking through the streets in what looks like downtown hong kong i guess it's all been organized by the civil human rights front it's been behind some of the biggest demonstrations in broad is the semi autonomous chinese territory over the past 2 months it comes as south thousands of teachers yesterday rallied against poems authorities in a show solidarity you see the both sides of it there with the young people who've been leading calls for the democratic reform along the way it was also sizeable but on the right time side counter protest by people and sorry on the left side has got the right to be very concerned about the continuing rest of the city and the threat it poses to the territories special status either which way the months of pro-democracy demonstrations were originally called of course for a withdrawal a controversial extradition bill but they've since adopted big demands including

the ongoing calls for resignation of hong kong's leader including democratic elections and an inquiry into how the police have been handling this and allegations of brutality along the way. i. thank you i. thank. so that's not sure what's on this weekend but there was a big hot spot on choose day that we brought you as well protests there taking

place at the airport and when a reporter for china's global times newspaper was literally seized by the crowd. was whatever side you're on here could imagine being a single person in the middle of all those crowds not quite knowing what's going to happen while the editor in chief of the global times has confirmed it is his employee we just saw there he took to twitter at the time to plead with the demonstrators to release the journalist stressing his sole job is said was reporting later that day the reporter was rescued by police and sent to hospital he was discharged wednesday political analysts and journalists and richard told us the protesters have in fact been acting in a pretty hostile way towards media sympathetic in any way to beijing. the protesting sort of chilly afraid that the truth is going to go. to the surface the

are angry it's all the media which is trying to go but it's true the chinese will be out to see for the few of their only supported for the b.b.c. all the see it and other western media go to school the sort. of site if you look. at it issue sleeper cell they out there celebrate that basically the way things look the last 7 days as reported by r.t. international ever suppose you watch this you can see if the afternoon and after that for me kevin i would have a good rest of the weekend. her .

and her little move on for you to get on. why a paradise with so much around turned into a round the experimentation field the agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major here tens there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up and suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people. so one has to ask the question whether there is

a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with it because the people have less political power. or. close to welcome to the part of the recent clashes on the pakistani border while sparking invites you over a potential war between nuclear rivals provided a curious last in in political judo the pakistani leadership confronted to strikes

on its territory not only managed to defuse time but also turned it into a minor p.r. victory kemet make it last while to discuss that i'm now joined by him there obama har pakistan's former foreign minister and currently a member of the national assembly but i'm hardly good to talk to you again thank you very much for the time. so good to be here now the tensions between india and pakistan obviously have a very long history and there were times not so long ago when the one that was much more likely to count on india exercising restraint and pakistan acting more belligerent lee now it seems the tables have turned what explains these dramatic reversal in posters and you know it's interesting that you point that out because we've been saying this for the last many years that pakistan has changed by this is changing for the better getting out of extremism which we unfortunately found ourselves and we lived in because of you know the historical baggage of the one war

and becoming a more progressive society i think the democratic regimes the last 2 democratic regimes had much to do with it whereas at the same time b.c. india going deeper and deeper into this ultra nationalist extremist almost in the state non-secular and all times to mr moody who has not been the treated his vision into the fabric of indian society i think this crisis is unfortunate as it was exposed the changed pakistan worse is the change to india and if i were the world i would be very scared of what i see in india right now for both leaders it was definitely an opportunity to exercise leadership and they chose very different strategists one of them chose to flex muscles the other one i thought relies more on his wits do you think that's more reflective of the personality of the 2 leaders mr modi and mr han or is it indeed more long term reflective of the.