RT News - October 08, 2018 (17:00 MSK)

A Saudi journalist vanishes in Turkey - with reports he's been tortured and killed inside the Saudi consulate. Riyadh fiercely denies such allegations. A wake-up call for the German chancellor, Angela Merkel as polls predict her main coalition partner, the CSU, will see its worst performance in decades, in Bavaria's upcoming regional elections. It's 17 years since the start of the US war in Afghanistan - and a new UN report warns there's been a horrific increase in the number of civilian casualties this year.