to add to. equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. choose to look for common ground. joe biden prepared to face off in the final debate before the u.s. election there stricter moderation this time round with a mute button to prevent interruptions. volunteered dies in a major covert 19 vaccine trial casting doubt over the answers delicate job. with conflicts between azerbaijan and armenia rages on in spite of to cease fire deal our correspondent a village disputed new corner karabakh region. he 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

that. a variable welcome to you watching r.t. international with me and here aaron. we're less than 2 weeks out from the u.s. election and president trump will be hoping to cut joe biden's polling lead at the final debate later on thursday it will have a very very different feel to the 1st round with a mute button used to stop the candidates from interrupting each other the choice of topics will include the pandemic climate change and national security but no foreign policy and republicans say that will deny trant the chance to attack biden over the business dealings of his son hunter meanwhile republicans want the heads of twitter and facebook to testify before congress over alleged political bias without thought of the platforms talking down links to a new york post article on hunter biden artie's more gas delves into bats 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 twitter's you are poor see how does this happen how does a huge scandal get sent to the bidens have a lot of friends and one of those friends who now happens to work is election integrity police that 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 ukrainian energy company for doing well no one knows what while daddy told ukrainian authorities how to run that country. an american city by senior policy adviser for ukraine at the time also listened 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 adam is what this company was paying both biden junior 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 form of joe biden stuff aside from that yes free well early on i discuss the link between social media censorship and the american elections with

a few of august. 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 so having been utterly

discredited by our own f.b.i. so we really need to be crystal clear that whoever is these are operating these are events and our previous companies heavily say was as is our mainstream media the less than generous and this is pushing down back aggressively right now in ways that i think we may very well suppress results in the 2020 election in this country do you think many ways 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 was much free speech as possible and that means there will be their speech but the only remedy for bad speech is good speech. a volunteer in a leading coronavirus jackson trial has died in brazil the drug is being developed by the anglo swedish her master's zeneca along with oxford university so far it hasn't been revealed whether the volunteer received the actual vaccine or a placebo according to brazilian media he was a 28 year old doctor who had been treating covert 900 patients in an intensive care facility in rio since march he reportedly died from complications due to the virus it's not the 1st setback for the astra zeneca vaccine back in september tests were temporarily put on hold after a volunteer fell sick with

a rare spinal disorder this time however the trials will continue following careful assessment of this case in brazil there have been new concerns about safety of the clinical trial and the independent review in addition to the brazilian regulator have recommended that the trial should continue. let's go live now to mark almost the director of the crisis research institute in oxford welcomes the program it's great to see you mark how much of a setback is this for the vaccine kind of being developed by astra zeneca and oxford university. well it depends obviously whether the status was proved by the test or was unrelated. the bigger problem all round is that creepiest attempts to develop vaccines for such dangerous diseases these are emergency measures being taken so there's obviously going to an element of greater risk than they would normally have been when perhaps the safety all the people who were having the tests carried out on them would have been

a priority to some extent we see now that volunteers are being asked to accept the greater risk because trials have taken place earlier in time that would normally be considered now the exact details of the volunteers death have not been officially confirmed and we don't know if that person receive the actual vaccine or placebo given a global importance of this drug do you think that developers should be should make this information public. well i think there's there is a process of the so-called anti-tax people who perhaps have exaggerated fears of axioms of alternatives are now constitute a kind of global network on the internet exchanging information skepticism about all kinds of axes not least those for confit and so anything that can and will people that everything has been done in an open transparent way is probably the best policy the problem obviously is to some extent that there are extra christian commercial move to a sions from competing produces a pax seems now that they don't necessarily want to real information that could be

helpful to a rival. a recent survey found only half of americans will be willing to take over $100.00 faxing when one is available cut mishaps like this to add to the overall mistrust people have in potential vaccines. what if particularly if the mistrust is more generous probably what people are doubting what they're told by officials also and so it seems to me that the most important thing is all the people carrying out the tests the or courteous helpful or to behind them to really be as open and as rapid. response they can be because in a sense the anti racks doubts already also order problem of skepticism and distrust all for quality and official information in general that's partly been fed by the internet and by as it were affected counter-arguments by they have to perhaps but it's 'd also called the fed by the if you like high handed an arrogant of sometimes all experts they've tended to say we don't need to pander to these ignorant stupid

suspicious people whereas in fact unfortunately if you don't. believe reliable trumped information that dispels doubts and counters questions people has written to her then you actually play into the hands of the people who are perhaps retreated more by a kind of rule rejection rush nations of the moment or any kind including the smallpox all reasons. welcome ones director of the crisis society institute in oxford thank you for your time and you. azerbaijan and armenia remain locked in the heaviest fighting since the 1990 s. in spite of to cease fires there is ongoing shelling in the disputed nagorno-karabakh region he goes down obvious in the area. right now we head into the north to the northern front line which is one of the 2 remaining major hotspots in the corner cab back 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 baked 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 mark that 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 command knows how storage the resistance is they've cranked up the bombardments by an order of magnitude.

live on our driver has 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. our friends from russia send us what we need or we buy supplies ourselves and bring them to those who need it. dawn of reporting from the northern front plain in the going to care about our team. all they care about food stretches back more than 3 decades and erupted in late september as a by john and armenia have twice agreed to pause hostilities but have accused each other of violating those agreements the region is populated mostly by our medians but is legally part of azerbaijan on wednesday azerbaijan claimed it took control of several villages in the war torn region and its defense ministry published this

1st to as evidence we spoke to some azeris who fled their homes in a go no care about almost 30 years ago when the 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 i had been married for a year and had a young child left her village with empty hands thanks to the authorities in 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 in. 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. 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. take a look at the events happening around the world now the russian soyuz m.s.t. eckstein spacecraft has left the international space station and returned to earth that wraps up half a year mr hoffa mission for the 3 member russia u.s. crew upon landing they all underwent initial medical checks and that started readjusting to a world with gravity. one of them has reportedly been killed and

a dozen injured in a protest in sudan over dire living conditions earlier in the week the u.s. pledged to remove saddam from its terrorism fly list of khartoum pays out hundreds of millions to terror victims. as it might look like a brilliantly illuminated lego land but this is a real town in northeast china the mesmerising site is comprised of energy saving container boxes more than $200.00 in total there is there's even restaurants and a cinema where you can move into a new home there just yet entrepreneurs are already snapping up the best real estate. the u.s. has caused confusion with its mixed messages about the ongoing presence of u.s. troops in afghanistan but i thought that officials linked a long promised reduction to conditions on the ground over the 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. just got missed altogether we just together 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 $8600.00 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 war torn afghanistan persisting former british soldier joe clinton traveled there to investigate a series of civilian killings according to the human rights watch these were committed by the cia backed paramilitaries here's a snapshot of clinton's report you can catch it in full on you tube on the redfish

platform. 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 death schools killing people in the us to come crashing into your house pointing 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 nephews 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 state it must change the current situation that is

not accepting the chorus they had extensive documentation of their operations in the weapons caches pills and arrests for the local people there to support killers that are going there. killing innocent people and the official line is that they are under afghan control the cia essentially controls it all. they fund it but they also control it they also hand out the operation 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. secretive vandals the striking museums in the german capital and there's plenty of speculation as to who could be responsible piece all of our reports. the pergamon

museum in berlin is home to some of the most 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 terrorist from around the world put the per game on along with the new museum and the old national gallery happy vandalised 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

is there a theme no 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 and not only using sites like the peg him on from 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 and this of its importance on the stand that the pergamon also was located in the city of postmen 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 tiled grounds 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 fondling some it's for sure this corona conspiracies of going far beyond harmless for. what i would say let's hear your thoughts on all of our stories they do get in touch by following us on social media and even your comments thanks for joining us on r.t. . americans of.

this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country a large understood the bargain you get a hope and then you know rebel right as the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. be really interesting to dial it back and think about the longer deeper history housings man in the united states not just the old question of the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream is for. 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 escaping climate change was the same threat right now alaska seems some of the fastest

coastal erosion in the world lost about 35 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. is fast and that means the river is 35 closer than how many words or anything were a part of america or earth from. you know what i mean yet there are so. many areas. for. that kind of where i wonder. if they now want think it's have enough.

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secret prisons are not usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however he even the most prosperous can be deceived within the zeros all the world to view houses were allowed to leave prison was located only cia people had access to the story for the investigators sure l.z. uncovered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean. you graded no. thought. for. crying for justice on. fellow the max kaiser. provider here is that we've been saying that a new brand of woods is inevitable. and this past week the i.m.f.

said exactly the same thing and new private words is coming oh boy stacey let's go well so many people and so much media is focused on the clown car show happening in the us elections that they kind of overlooked this whole i.m.f. is calling for a new bretton woods which of course would be seismic it would coincide with the 50 year anniversary and 2021 is a 50 year anniversary of the u.s. dollar standard remember we went off the gold standard temporarily and august of 1971 richard nixon said there were close in the gold window just temporarily until they could default on their debts to england and of course 50 years later we're still defaulting on the debts but we could be seeing a new bretton woods who knows what's going to happen but you're talking to simon dixon in the 2nd half about that in the meantime you know really what's going on is that through cities trap that we've talked about which is the rising power china always ends up in conflict with the decline in power which is the united states and

the situation we certainly see that heating out and you see that however even in the attitudes of people around the world here is a chart which is world's leading economic power this question was asked of people in advanced economies around the world and among advanced economy publics 48 percent thought china was the number one power 35 percent thought the u.s. and amongst germans it was 55 percent saw china as a leading power and 17 percent of the u.s. and this is unfathomable a low says adam to use this idea of the 3 cities trap you know it sounds very elegant doesn't it as the it's quite historic an epic and. it's a changing of the guard right so we're moving from the american century to a chinese century no doubt and the us dollar as the world reserve currency had about 100 year run which is normal going back 500 years there was the us turn to have the world reserve currency and that's all shifting and now we have a new brand would succumb and which is effect because the last one came after world

war 2 which was a seismic geo political reordering of the world powers so this is a very and if i add the election right the election is obviously going to be contentious and we've got a good 3rd 4th quarter of 2020 shaping up max you studied greek tragedy as a student at n.y.u. you know not only did the greeks give us democracy and philosophy and so much of mathematics and our understanding of humans but they also you know really understood like this sort of inevitability of these cycles of life tread the greek tragedies you're always know what's coming right the chorus is there you know we're. like the chorus of this tragedy where it's just saying ok this is about to happen this is where hubris is going to make this person do so it is a perfect time a perfect word to city strap to use for this sort of situation because it's just inevitable there's no.