when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the final u.s. presidential debate is over that for thursday this time the candidates might be muted down foreign affairs is a no go topic. for trouble for the astra zeneca 809000 jobs a young volunteer has died in that vaccine trial the 1st reported case well wide. 4 weeks on that no signs of risk by the dispute between azerbaijan and armenia over nicole no karabakh remains correspondents god on the ground. he couldn't take us to the front line and in fact he didn't go either not only because it's too dangerous but because the commanding officer of that particular platoon didn't want us filming that.

war welcome to you you're watching r t international with me and. we're less than 2 weeks out from the u.s. election and design tis a patient bill to the 2 presidential hopefuls are set to face off in the final debate on thursday but there's been a slight tweak to the rules moderators will be will now be able to move to the microphones of the candidates off the many ducks the previous event k. also make the choice of topics this time has also raised a few eyebrows as it won't include foreign policy and many say this will deny trump the chance to hit out at joe biden over the business dealings of his son hunter well meanwhile republicans want the twitter on twitter and facebook heads to testify before congress over alleged political bias follows the platforms taking down links to a new york post article on hunter biden's business dealings in ukraine. delves into that and a few other controversies. it is often the case that those who trumpet loudest

about being fair and unbiased aren't at all but facebook really seems to mean that they want fair elections no meddling and the president that america wants and facebook wants so today i want to share the steps that we're taking to protect election integrity and make sure that facebook is a force for good in democracy part of what facebook is doing is harming people to police news and one of the things that they're censoring is about the current scandal so joe biden his son and ukraine which involves alleged meddling abuse of power blatant conflict of interest and a whole lot of money going into the bidens family counts now if you try to share a link to an article about this on twitter or facebook here is what you get the link you are trying to access has been identified by twitter or our partners has

been potentially spammy or unseat in accordance with tweeters you are poor see how does this happen how does a huge scandal get censored the bardens have a lot of friends and one of those friends who now happens to work as election integrity police it facebook is a certain anima can do anna used to work as joe biden senior policy adviser for europe and eurasia which includes ukraine perseid see when biden jr was raking in a standing sums of money for a ukrainian energy company for doing well no one knows what while daddy told ukrainian authorities how to run that country. an american city by devices for ukraine at the time also listen to the calls and said release of the transcripts would only strengthen biden's case that he acted properly she helped biden prepare for the conversations and said the old created at

a high level if this wasn't enough corruption and cronyism for you adna was also a nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council which dubs itself a nonpartisan think tank it also provided a slew of stuff for a bomber and his democrats administration james jones susan rice etc the point is that the same time it was a devising joe biden at the same time his son was reportedly raking in millions of dollars from this ukrainian energy company the firm also began making payments to the atlantic council $100000.00 in donations so under allen is what this company was paying both biden jr her boss's son and the atlantic council for which she worked and now she's at facebook which previously partnered with the atlantic council and are you at all surprised that stories critical of barton are now

disappearing while i will intentionally not link to the new york post i want to be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by facebook's 3rd party fact checking partners in the meantime we are reducing its distribution on our platform breaking the news was ad d. stone a career democrat and as is tradition now a facebook spokesperson you couldn't make this up remember what i said about those who proclaim the neutrality loudest well. facebook is and always has been an open transparent and nonpartisan platform where people can express themselves freely freely are through approval from facebook senses and factious election integrity police and chances are a full of a joe biden stuff aside from that yes free lenny i discuss the link between social media censorship and the american elections with a few of our guests. facebook google and twitter previously vowed to prevent

election to ferentz through their platforms to what extent do you think they've managed to fulfill that promise i don't really know what twitter or facebook could have done what they have instead done is made a horrifying promise that they can regulate truth that is hard enough to do in a world that isn't politics where does information is part of the game they showed a significant bias in going after the hunter biden disclosures and i've read the hunter biden emails may strike me as perfectly valid perfectly plausible so i believe the story and i think that that that twitter and facebook are are deliberately trying to withhold information from the public in a clear effort to swing the election well we know that in contrast to what happened with honor biden story we didn't think about the christopher seal does which exploded across the world we get so used to get creams despite having been utterly

discredited by our own f.b.i. so relieved to be it's crystal clear that whoever is these are pretty sober events and very nice companies heavily say was as is our mainstream media the less than generous and this is pushing down back aggressively right now it ways and i think we may very well suppress results and it would say the 2020 election in this country do you think many is to be legal changes to restrict the power of online platforms to decide what we can accommodate quite frankly we are moving at a startling pace in terms of all these platforms and we don't have the laws that really apply to them they've made promises they can't keep and they are trying to please their user base is based soley on the the outrage of the moment the important point is that the censorship is being imposed on facebook and twitter by the government the government of the freight of these platforms. liberals and

democrats are both pushing for for increased government regulation and i think it's an assault on free speech so i think of the she has much free speech as possible and that means there will be their speech but the only remedy for bad speech is good speech. a young volunteer in a leading corona virus vaccine trial has died in brazil the drug is being developed by the anglo swedish firm astra zeneca along with oxford university so far it hasn't been established whether the volunteer received the actual vaccine or placebo well since this news emerged shares in the pharma company have fallen but it's not the 1st setback for those asters anika vaccine back in september the trials were temporarily put on hold as after a volunteer fell sick with a rare spinal disorder this time however the trials will continue without delay following careful assessment of this case in brazil there have been no concerns about safety of the clinical trial and the independent review in addition to the

brazilian regulator have recommended that the trial should continue we heard from dr mohamad moneer ever ologist of britain's lancaster university he says the key question here is was the person who died given the real vaccine. if we do look on to the front runners vaccine oxford university the arsenic up partnership vaccine is the one that have received the major concerns and terms of pauses in terms of having safety concerns and now having any will and here who died but a bit in that phase 3 trial which is the last 'd a trial i think that is really concerning and i think them that the real question will come back the da person has been vaccinated or was in the police or book group because now i would be determinative for really seeing if the safety is good enough to come to the trial or not but looking really onto 'd the onto the trial continuation because brazilian government approved to carry on the trial meaning that probably the person has been in the political group but

a game the question is that about that the transparency in providing all that information publicly is meant taint a lot because if it doesn't it's really hard to interpret what we really is the actual situation on the ground. the fan struggle between armenia and azerbaijan as an acoa town back has entered his 4th week and the hostilities showed no signs of letting out with reports of shelling in possible disputed region on wednesday well far from the front line his ego standoff. right now we head into the north to the northern front line which is one of the 2 remaining major hotspots in the corner care about our drivers brother is serving there so he's bringing food and warm clothes as we're going our driver keeps glancing to the right there's only a couple kilometers between our car and there's eerie artillery the road is being heavily shelled. the homely smell of freshly big bread filling the car seems out of place as we're approaching

the frontline town so this is where we had to get out the city of that kept essentially they couldn't take us to the front line and in fact they didn't go either not only because it's too dangerous but because the commanding officer of that particular platoon didn't want us filming there so that we don't give out the positions but the city of market gets it has no rest this is just one of hundreds of craters left all around the city just this tuesday the armenian forces managed to repel a 700 strong attack here now that the as every command knows how storage the resistance is they've cranked up the bombardments by an order of magnitude. live on our driver as to unload his cargo here he knows that there will be no shortage of good samaritans willing to pass it on to those in the trenches when

there's a break in the fighting of course meanwhile live on and his friends can do more good collecting a new batch of supplies. or friends from russia sent us what we need or we buy supplies ourselves and bring them to those who need it and i guess diana reporting from the northern front line in the going to karabakh artsy. well there are tensions a nickel and i care a back stretch back more than 3 decades the fighting escalated in late september azerbaijan and armenia agreed on a humanity. hereon ceasefire but since i've accused each other of violating it although the region is populated predominantly by ethnic armenians it is legally part of azerbaijan on wednesday azerbaijan claimed it took control of several villages in the war torn region of the country's defense ministry published this footage as alleged evidence we spoke to some as very refugees who fled their homes in a go no care about almost 30 years ago when the 1st conflict when a conflict 1st broke out. i'm overwhelmed with joy we've been waiting for this for

27 years and all of a sudden you hear the news of liberation when we were forced to leave our village i felt so terrible as i was leaving the grave of my brother behind me i was crying when visiting his grave for the last time as the enemy was approaching. by the time of occupation had been married for a year and had a young child who left her village with empty hands thanks to the authorities and our soldiers will be back home soon let my internal house with all belongings disappear i just want my land back i need that land. we left our hearts and souls that. memories are tied to the city for these past 27 years i've been thinking of when we would return i lost almost all my colleagues i worked with we were scattered throughout the country i knew the city is liberated i can hardly believe it was the 1st thing i'll do is restore my house i have so many dreams and desires

for when i am back it is hard to express it in words i told my kids a lot but they need to see the place on their own to fully understand my stories leaving food really was the end of the world for me i was 14 all i remember is bombs being dropped on our heads i am so happy and grateful to our soldiers that i can make my dream come true the years of displacement will be in my memory forever i do not wish that on anybody. still to come a number of german museums have mysteriously fallen victim to vandalism and their worries that abound our correspondent is on the hunt for on 1st stories after the. beginning of this year we outlined 6 or 7 things that could be that tend to pop the bubble i think god i'm not sure pandemic was on that list but it did rule doesn't

really matter what the pain is the bubble could have been. eased in and deflated long ago but it never was and so now it's chopping and goldman sachs is saying well you know this job by the way an outcome could cause a crash on the dollar baby maybe not and terms of relating to the biden whether he's in or not doesn't matter actually who's in the white house today the fact is that the dollar is toast where garble stuff is at the white house. is little more than a week before the election many are asking the question do you believe the polls we have good reason to do so should voters trust the polls and if you don't trust the folks will you trust the outcome of the election.

welcome back let's take a quick look at some of the happening around the world now the russian soyuz m.-s. 16 spacecraft has left the international space station i'll return to earth that wraps up a home a few mission for the 3 member russia u.s. crew upon landing they all underwent initial medical checks and that's. started readjusting to a world with gravity. one person it reportedly reportedly killed and a dozen injured in a protest in sudan there is anger in the country over continued economic problems earlier in the week the u.s. pledged to remove sedan from its terrorism blacklist of khartoum pays out hundreds of millions to terra victims. and it might look like a brilliantly illuminated lego land but this is a real town in northeast china the most rising site is comprised of energy saving container boxes more than $200.00 in total there are even restaurants and

a 3rd of all there you can move into a new home that just yet entrepreneurs are already snapping up the best real estate u.s. has caused confusion with its mixed messages about the ongoing presence of u.s. troops in afghanistan that's after officials linked to a long promised reduction to conditions on the ground a further statement by the nato chief also failed to offer clarity on the situation going forward we will be looking at conditions on the ground to determine if there is a capability to draw down more troops which we would hope the conditions would allow us to do that but certainly the conditions have not been met at this time in just getting this done together we just to get there when the time is right when the conditions are met we will leave together in the cabinet an orderly way around $12000.00 nato personnel are still deployed in afghanistan in support of its mission there while the u.s.

which sent in forces in 2001 as of july has got 8600 soldiers on the ground this is all part of the trumpet ministrations pledge of a total pullout by the spring of 2021. with violence in the war torn afghanistan persisting former british soldiers joke lengths and travel back to investigate a series of civilian killings according to the human rights watch these were committed by cia backed paramilitaries here's a snapshot of blanton's reports you can catch it in full on your on the redfish. so i'm back in afghanistan to find out the story behind the headlines crimes record levels of civilian deaths and the story of the 0 you know shadowy cia backed death squads killing people in the us to come crashing into your point and there's. been you know you're separating people there kill you or they take the 0 units arrived at the house of abraham and hajis nephew they interrogated them for several

hours then they shot the weapon drops where in weapons would be placed on bodies to frame them as terrorists extra judicial killings the use of pictures pictures of dead bodies for propaganda when will you be referring the 0 units to the international criminal court because these look to me like war crimes must change in one word if i could see it must change the current situation there is not accept us they had extensive documentation of their operations the weapons caches kills and arrests for the local people there it is a bunch of killers are going there. killing innocent people and the official line is that they are under afghan federal to see a essentially controls at all. they fund it but they also control it they also hand out the operation of this war is less accountable than ever what was once the job

of u.k. and u.s. special forces is now being carried out by these so-called 0 units and the fact they're funded by the cia they have no accountability to either the u.s. or afghan government. secrets or vandals are striking museums across the german capital and has given rise to a lot of speculation as to who could be responsible with some theories even including the so-called global elites and satanists piece all of us tries to bring the pieces of the puzzle together. the pergamon museum in berlin is home to some of the most of visited antiquities in the german capital the architectural collection from the ancient world is a particular draw the market gates of militarists ishtar gate the a leper room bring in terrorists from around the world but the per game on along

with the new museum and the old national gallery happy. it happened at the beginning of this month but details of only a merge now. authorities are trying to establish what's happened. if you look at the objects that have been damaged there's no immediate connection between them it's not just naked bodies where you say ok someone has protested against nudity the police have been asking who's the receipt now and there is no there is no recognizable patton we don't know the truth yet but there is speculation swirling in the german media that supporters of a far right conspiracy theorist could be to blame attila held them in celebrity chef turned anti semitic q anonymous supporter hasn't been officially linked to the

damage done in the museums but he has been one of the most vocal proponents of theories that global elites are not only using sites like the peg him on for the fairy tales but also behind the spirit of the qur'an a virus and his followers claim the program on which the museum was built a house in the early 20th century is being used for global see it is a it's important to understand that the pergamon also was located in the city of pokémon where christians were persecuted and killed jesus says in revelation 212 to 13 i know where you live where satan has his throne as well. as being a public health disaster the coronavirus pandemic has also provided 1st tile ground for some of the most outlandish conspiracy theories ever from 5 g. being behind the virus to vaccines being linked to microchips being implanted in people and now this whatever turns out to be the truth behind the museum vandalism

it's for sure this corona conspiracies of gone far beyond harmless fun peter. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international we're back at the top of the hour with the later. let me leave. my seizures or let. us losing rolaids we have a part of the brain right here in the middle that's on the right side very high with assimilated and even to healthy people one roof over sold out of body experience. an entire village in alaska has had to move

if another country trying to wipe out an american town. we do everything in our power to protect the. water then a skating climate change poses the same threat right now alaska does seem some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world we lost about 35 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. it is fast and that means the river is $35.00 closer than how. long it was for i don't think we're part of america or 1st from. join me every 1st day on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

greetings and sal you take. from electric cars that park and drive themselves to the ability to buy damn near anything your imagination desires from the comfort of your own home in just a click or 2 we must truly truly be living in a brand new gilded age of prosperity. yeah not so much not at all apart from all of our gadgets of convenience and entertainment at our fingertips the meat hook reality is that according to the u.s. labor department u.s. jobless claims of risen over 800000 since august we've had more than 75000000 claims for unemployment insurance since the start of the pandemic all the way back in march in fact the number of u.s.

citizens living in poverty has jumped from 9 percent back in june to over 11 percent in september and that number is still rising showing no signs of future decline but things things aren't all bad for some u.s. citizens you see while main street crumbles from disease oppression and degradation wall street in our billionaire class well my friends they have been thriving you see while millions upon millions of us have lost their jobs and health insurance all across this country us a billionaire saw their combined net worth surged by more than $930000000000.00 bringing it the collective wealth of just $644.00 people to a staggering $3.00 trillion $1.03 trillion dollars in just 644 people. a that's according to a new an analysis recently released by americans for tax fairness and the institute for public studies who have been tracking wealth inequality in america since the

start of the cold 19 pandemic yes according to their numbers these greedy for. you saw their wealth rise by more than 33 percent during this crisis and pain and just to give you some perspective that $940000000000.00 gain is roughly 3 times bigger than the paltry 300000000000 the corporate job themselves mitch mcconnell put into his now abandoned september pandemic relief bill. my friends this massive wealth is not the american dream at work it's far from it it's an american mare. and is it is why we will always be watching the hawks. what's going on a city street you want to see. there so you. see the prices joyce state says. grace suggests least systemic deception is the

late show which. so please tell us. all right well we're going to watch in the dark side. and i'm a nice across a range of there's a massive amount of wealth to be bestowed upon the $644.00 people especially seeing all the wealth raised up while the rest of us have been suffering for the last 9 months 8 months oh absolutely and i think up told you this before it seems like whenever there is pestilence whenever there is extreme poverty or degradation across america there are always an elite group of people that tend to make more and more money off of other people's if they manage and that's what we're seeing the likes of just based those and others oh yeah let's look at the likes of these others or you would just jeff bezos as mark zuckerberg and ben gilbert chairman of quick look at what they've made i mean jeff bezos wealth grew from 113000000000 in march 18th 203000000000 by october increase 80 percent zuckerberg $54700000000.00 in march 18th to $101000000000.00 by october 30th 85 percent increase the law must

$24600000000.00 march 18th now close to 100000000000 dollars and ben gilbert chairman include quicken loans so his world rocket by 656 percent 49000000000 at the start of the year from $6000000000.00 at the start of the year to $49000000000.00 now at the end of the year that's massive wealth heading their way now i get it for a jet basis for instance because the majority of us are still using amazon especially when you know all of the stores were raided and everything at the start of 1000 a lot of people are turning to online shopping i get it or face. we're talking about mark zuckerberg because of the ad buys that campaigns are using and as well as you know different political groups right now in a campaign election cycle i don't get it. and. i look at it like this and i'll actually go the opposite i don't get it for any of them and here's why i wondered i understand logically but i will say this we always talk about

a minimum wage and bother actually brought this up in our group that we need to have a maximum wage because when you have people making this much money that gives them more power and control over so many different aspects of this country that it's ungodly what do you need that much money for at the end of the day no i agree with you there and what we know about amazon is that the majority of their workers are full time workers these are contractors so you know when kobe 1000 hit it meant that a lot of people were either laid off or they already didn't have health insurance and we also know that they weren't given the proper p.p.a. to protect them while they were working in these warehouses so there's a lot going on at the back story there as well i mean look like there's just brought a brand new 165000000 dollar home this year that goes along with $80000000.00 worth of new york apartments meanwhile nearly $62000000.00 people lost work between march 21st and september 19th $98000.00 businesses small businesses closed that is not how a country or economy could possibly survive when you have that much money flowing to the top and so little going to the rest of us.