the stories that shaped the week 2 russian pilots pull off in the export emergency landing to save their passengers and cruise lines after their plane suffers double engine failure during takeoff. the death of the disgraced financier geoffrey epstein is ruled out as a suicide but the tycoon lawyers say they are not satisfied with the conclusion and intend to carry out their own investigation. and hong kong's anti-government protest movement rumbles on with people in the hundreds of thousands demanding reforms while others rally in support of the authorities.

are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international. 2 russian pilots entered aviation history on thursday morning after pulling off what has been described as a miraculous emergency landing there crimea bound euro airlines flight suffered twin engine failure after striking a flock of birds while taking off from moscow's airport but against the odds they were able to bring it down safely in a nearby field saving the lives of everyone on board this was the scene as people left the plane. if i don't already have a. good. day for the teacher to live. up. to. the pilots of flight u. 6178 had just moments to react to the bird strike and avert impending disaster they

decided to land the plane on its belly in a cornfield without deploying the landing gear or dumping fuel and this video was taken from inside the aircraft as it accelerated along the runway the sea eagles that were sucked into the engines can be seen ever so fleetingly through the window with more than 30 days were more remarkable event here is our teams are on course for. 226 passengers and 7 crew members of fuel 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 semir 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 to show you a little but all 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 eye this man 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 that is something we acted in line with our training we've simulated 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 expected there was no panic on board even though the landing was rough the pilot did

a great job he landed the plane really kathleen just cook 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 he's fine the media was quick to make connections with the another such incidents when the 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 ramona koester of artsy moscow region if you should the experts we spoke to say the pilots 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 it sailed over the cornfield and that's quite a robust 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 tower 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. the death of disgraced former money manager jeffrey epstein it was caused by suicide this according to the new york medical examiner's office

a convicted pedophile who had connections in high places in washington was found dead in his jail cell on august 10th when he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges at the time but lawyers for the financier have said that they're not happy with the findings of the 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 multimillionaire was set to face trial over the alleged abuse of dozens of under aged girls and the creation of a sex trafficking network just days before his death a manhattan court had released 1200 documents relating to the case he had repeatedly denied the charges against him now last month epstein had been placed on suicide watch after an apparent attempt to take his own life now since the tycoon's death there have been numerous reports about the conditions that he was being kept

in some have suggested he was having to pay other inmates and guards for protection others that he was being prevented from washing and that he was sleeping on the floor and that there are some that claim his death may not have even been a suicide to get a closer look at all of the speculation here is trying to go with commentary. 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 dis 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 geoffrey 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 doraine 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. 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 steve case we haven't seen any russian oligarchs that have been on his 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 as 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 have access to the cameras where are they this is a remarkably simple program just 1st show us what was recorded. human rights activist has been pardoned in bahrain after almost 3 years behind bars for making critical comments online about the government bahrain maintains that 4 was jailed for promoting and encouraging people to mount a coup and alleges she was tortured and sexually abused by police officers after

her arrest bahraini officials say they have referred her complaint to a special investigation allegations relate to a local police station whose chief was trained by british police are to get taylor spoke to the organization that petition for her release. joe 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 hot of the offices she was arrested by this russian to kill me they tried to bribe me they beat me but worst of all officers tour of 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 just if occasion they give is that the fact is she is involved in what they call it activity is.

that it finishes off this means that the criticizing for will and grace and. reflecting good opinion on facebook or on twitter could considered to be an act and unfortunately for had she was subject to doing kid 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 or raining issue while not really because he appears to me that 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 other sound travel to belfast on a study visit basically a crash course in how to manage a protest is the trip cost british taxpayers 16000 pounds now engineers have raised the alarm question how this all fits in with bahrain's human rights record.

for having higher. 7 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 livelihood preventing treatment 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 offices abroad has poor and over 3000000 pounds 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 the 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 wasn't offer. 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 as the systematic in the country this is what the united nations sayed this is what amnesty and what the human rights watch said and then secondly that it is the climate of impunity is the status in the county allegations of complicity in human rights violations and bolstering authoritarian regimes increased dany complicit or not one has to admit it's not great for the british croutons. or masses of people in hong kong have come out to demonstrate for the 11th weekend

in a row i'll tell you all about it when the weekly returns short break stay with us.

join me every thursday on the alex island shill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you. back another government rally has been filling the streets of hong kong as the city's protest campaign reached into its 11th consecutive weekend hundreds of thousands have taken part in the demonstration which was only given permission to take place in a city park but then spread out for rally has been led by the civil from the rights front which has been behind some of the biggest demonstrations in the semi-autonomous chinese territory since in june on saturday thousands of teachers

rallied against hong kong authorities in a show of solidarity with the youths who have been leading calls for democratic reforms and there was also a sizeable counter protest by people concerned by the continuing on rast in the city and the threat it poses to the territory special status the months of anti-government demonstrations were originally against a controversial extradition bill which has since been suspended indefinitely but the protests have since widened to a much broader set of demands. thank

you he. protests that hong kong's airport took an unexpected turn on tuesday when a reporter for china's global times newspaper was seized by the krauts was it was you were was the editor in chief of the global times confirmed it was his employee in the video he took to twitter to plead with the demonstrators to release the journalist stressing that his sole job was to report the news later that day the reporter was rescued by police and sent to a hospital he was since have been discharged journalist andre will check says he believes the protestors have been acting in a hostile way towards media sympathetic to beijing. the protesters started actually

afraid that the truth is going to go. to the surface the anger it's all the media which is trying to cover it's true of the chinese or be out to see point of view and they're always supportive of the b.b.c. of the c.n.n. and other media correspondents who are oh absolutely if you look you read the british newspapers that they're celebrating basically. switching gears india carried out a major crackdown against political leaders in the disputed region of kashmir this week including arresting 3 former chief ministers of the muslim majority state pakistan which also lays claim to the territory has lashed out at the international community accusing it of standing by as india strips kashmir of its autonomous status prime minister in rikon believe even compared to to the appeasement of nazi germany massive protests were held against india's actions india insistence

decision is a protective move against terrorism and he's eager to have comments. once it was supposed to be a himalayan switzerland kashmir a contested region for decades isn't autonomy no more all for the sake of prosperity and good according to india's prime minister narendra modi. read whether it's the color of saffron in jammu and kashmir or the taste of crowley the sweetness of apples or the succulents of apricot kashmiri sure it works the organic products of. medicine and needs to be spread worldwide but given the history of kashmir there was little chance of modi's move going down well.

here. instead of sweetness or succulents their reforms have brought sour the vile and discrimination out of both sides india didn't just strip kashmir of autonomy many say stripped kashmir's women of their rights it's comments like these coming out of india because the outcry muslim party workers should rejoice in the new provisions they can now marry white skin women of kashmir on social media bigotry is rampant some see this as an opportunity to claim ownership of women living in kashmir under one of the provisions which is no longer in place only permanent residents of carriage male were allowed to buy property in the contested region well now across india there's a spike in google searches related to well seeking marriage with kashmiri women needless to say no one bothering about their consent but it's not just india that's

going haywire pakistan is outraged too it's a contested territory after all so the worst in people is being buried there too the current policy on kashmir is weak we have to respond to the indian atrocities and the look down of the valley jihad is mandatory this is a pakistani cleric declaring jihad on india not any cleric but an open advocate over some of bin ladin some had good relations with my late father we don't support the american narrative declaring him a terrorist he did jihad to implement sharia around the world so for us he's an islamist warrior we named our lawyer bri after him with. a few radicals of course can't speak for the population of 2 nations especially when it amounts to almost 1500000000 people combined but radical change of oaks radical sentiment and it's never a good thing when nuclear powers are involved. i'll be back with 30 in 34 minutes

with another look at your week when you are watching international stay with us. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race in. very dramatic development only mostly i'm going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. we came here where did you work before you came here when you live. in many u.s. states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years

waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor of the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up the right to live among us somebody even proven innocent of 2 years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. you know world of big. law and conspiracies it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell. we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

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