and it. equals a trail. when something you find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. new revelations emerge in the hunter. former business partner comes forward directly linking presidential hopeful joe biden to his controversial dealings. the democratic nominee to face off against donald trump in the final debate before the u.s. election tonight there is stricter alteration this time around with a mute button to prevent a drop. of volunteers in a major covert 1000 faxing trial. astra zeneca job. on the conflict between. armenia rages all inspired of to cease fire deal your

correspondent days into this. week. they couldn't take us to the frontline and in fact they didn't go either not only because it's too dangerous but because the commanding officer particular platoon didn't want us filming that. 247 news live from moscow this is your r t international my name's you know me hello and welcome to the program some new information has come to light in the hunter biden e-mail scandal potentially implicating his father democratic presidential hopeful joe biden is across the story. tony who claims to be the former business partner of hunter biden the son of u.s.

presidential candidate and former vice president joe biden has come forward confirming some of the contents of the recently leaked e-mails the fact that fools blew a true and accurate than any form of domestic or foreign disinflation any suggestion to the country is full and offensive i am the recipient of the e-mail published but the new york post which showed a copy to one to biden will come that e-mail is genuine now mr bob alinsky he says that hunter biden helped him to become the c.e.o. of sino hawk holdings which is a company that facilitated transactions between the biden family and chinese corporations now it's being widely alleged that somehow the position of vice president by joe biden was used in order to make financial gain for the biden family through this corporation so tony bob alinsky is coming forward to clear his name now he says that in the recently revealed e-mails that the references to the

big guy which hunter biden makes these references to the big guy are indeed a reference to his father vice president joe biden confirming according to mr bob alinsky that there is indeed some very serious corruption that went on hunt of biden called has done it the big guy might chairman and frequently reference asking him for his sign on for advice on various potential deals that we were discussing i've seen vice president biden saying he never talked to hunter about his business i've seen firsthand that that's not true because it wasn't just hunters business they said they were put in the biden family name and its legacy on the line the c.e.o. seems to be challenging the claim from joe biden that he was not involved in his son's business affair that seems to indicate that joe biden was indeed using his position as vice president to benefit his family member financed. really now at this point we've got joe biden still denying everything claiming this is all part of a concerted campaign against him this is the same garbage rudy giuliani trumped. it's

a last desperate campaign to smear me and my family now mr bob alinsky says he will be turning over the information that he has to the senate committee on homeland security and government affairs as well as the senate committee on finance now what impact this will have on the way joe biden is viewed by the u.s. public his perhaps standing in the polls and in the lead up to the upcoming u.s. presidential election remains to be seen but this is a confirmation or further confirmation emails that were released and widespread allegations about the biden family and corruption the u.s. election is just a dozen days away now president trump will be hoping to cut into joe biden's polling lead out the final debate later tonight love a very different feel to the 1st rowand with a mute button up and used to stop the count of its from interrupting each other the

choice of topics will include the pandemic plummet change on national security but not foreign policy republicans say it's will deny trump a chance to attack biden over the business dealings of a home to which our correspondent was just talking about it now the controversy has been spiraling since leaked e-mails were reported by been new york post links to the story were taken done by facebook twitter and the u.s. senate judiciary committee has asked the heads of those firms to testify over alleged political bias. delves into a few other controversies besides. 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 that huge scandal get censored the bardens have a lot of friends and one of those friends who now happens to workers 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 jr her boss's son hand 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 nonpartizan 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 well earlier my colleague nick here and discussed the link between social media censorship on the american elections with a number of 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 so far on if we are so relieved to be crystal clear that whoever is these are pretty sober events and our previous companies heavily say recesses are mainstream media no less and less and this is pushing down back aggressively right now in ways that 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 and can't wait 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 is afraid 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 that the there she was much free speech is possible and that means there will be bad speech but the only remedy for bad speech is good speech. and let's move on to another headline stories today

a volunteer in a leading corona virus vaccine trial has died in brazil the drug is being developed by the swedish firm. along with oxford university so far it hasn't been revealed whether the volunteer received the actual vaccine or a politically bull according to brazilian media he was a 28 year old doctor who had been treating covert 1000 patients in an intensive care facility in rio since march he reportedly died from complications jew to the virus it's not the 1st setback for the vaccine back in september tests were temporarily put on hold for a volunteer felt sick with a rare spinal this order this time however the trials will continue following careful assessment of the skis and 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 well among the reaction

we've been getting to this story was from dr mohamed munir and for all i just outlined cust university in the u.k. he thinks astra zeneca needs to be transparent what happened to the volunteer. if we look on to the front runner of the vaccine oxford university senator partnership vaccine is the one that have received the major concerns and terms are all there is in terms of having safety concerns and now having anyone here. bit in that phase 3 trial which is the last 'd a trial i think that is really concerning i don't think them but the real question of recall where the dark person has been vaccinated or 'd was in the police or book or oak because that would be determinative for really seeing if the safety is good enough to come to the trial or not but looking really on today on the trial continuation because the brazilian government approved to carry on the trial meaning that probably the person has been in the bullet supergroup but again the question is that about that the transparency in providing all that information

publicly is meant tamed a lot because if it isn't it's really hard to interpret what we really is the actual situation on the ground. and armenia remain locked in their heaviest fighting since the 1990 s. in spite of 2 cease fires there's ongoing shelling in the disputed no corner cutback region either set down or phase in the area for us but now we head into the north to the northern front line which is one of the 2 remaining major hotspots in the corner cab of our drivers brother is serving there so he's bringing in 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 he's 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 $700.00 strong attack here now that the azeri command knows how the resistance is 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 sent us what we need or we buy supplies ourselves and bring them to those who need it i'm accused of reporting from the northern front line in the going to care about r.c. . well they care about few it stretches back more than 3 decades and erupted in late september. under many of twice agreed to pause hostilities but have accused each other of violating those agreements the region is populated mostly by armenians but is legally part of us or by awareness that claimed it took control of several villages in the war torn region and it's the fence ministry published this footage and we spoke to some a series who fled their homes and their work 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 trying

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 and our soldiers will be back home soon let my entire house with all belongings disappear i just want my land back i need that land. we left our hearts and souls and. memories a time to the city for these past 27 years i've been thinking of when and how 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. still ahead in the program a former british soldier has been to afghanistan to investigate a series of civilian killings we hear his story and we're up to the. beginning of this year we outlined 6 or 7 things that could be the pen to pop the bubble i think i'm not sure pandemic was on that list. general doesn't really matter what the pain is the bubble could have been. eased and deflated long ago but it never was and so now it's chopping. to 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 the fact is that the dollar is toast and where garble stuff is at the white house. with little more than a week before the election many are asking the question do you believe the polls have good reason to do so should voters trust the polls if you don't trust them will you trust the outcome of the election. just coming up to 20 minutes into the program welcome back the u.s. has infuriated china by approving

a major arms deal with taiwan the state department has given the green light to 1800000000 dollars worth of weaponry for the territory including mr wild and artillery the trouble ministration has recently ramped up its support for taipei with which the u.s. maintains direct diplomatic relations china meanwhile considers any dealings between washington and the territory to be interference in the country's internal affairs the chinese foreign ministry has warned of retaliation over the lake this deal. easy invitingly and we urge the united states to recognize the serious damage caused by arms sales to taiwan and to abide by the one china principle to end arms sales to taiwan and military ties with the territory to avoid further harm to china u.s. relations and to promote peace and stability across the taiwan strait china will give a legitimate and necessary response depending on how the situation develops the u.s. department of defense meanwhile insists that boosting tell you ones the fence

capability is simply a way to disincentive vies aggression by other powers the recipient will use this capability is a deterrent to regional threats and to strengthen homeland defense the proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military balance in the region so what will the ramifications be while china especially under a long believe the dispute is unlikely to escalate into a major standoff between the us and china. not seeing the other cuban crisis as it were in the taiwan strait but of course this is absolute absolute lie as far as. the. big clear. on how the things develop but i think that we've come to the show. of the likely candidate without a geisha will be sensually. us of the ship's press or the state department. i don't think that is going to be the war because all this is stopped

both. to the essence of being sold to taiwan. and there is protected under the us taiwan relations act anyway but i think that there's more than pushing against it but merely the breaking point. i don't think that they get our states wants them to cross the group with them because that would be other guy and on both sides. the u.s. is giving mixed signals on its military presence in afghanistan the trump administration has pledged to drastically reduce troop numbers by spring but the u.s. ambassador to nato threw those plans into died on wednesday going forward we will be looking at conditions on the ground to determine if there is a capability to draw down more troops which will would have that conditions would

allow us to do that but certainly the conditions have not been met at this time we went into afghanistan together we will adjust together and when the time is right to when the conditions are met we will leave together in a corner to an orderly way. a run 12 fellows in nato personnel are still deployed in afghanistan in support of its mission there while the u.s. which sent in forces in 2001 has all of july 8600 soldiers on the ground it's all part of the troubled ministrations pledge of a total by the spring of next year with violence and war torn afghanistan persisting former british soldier joe clinton traveled there to investigate a series of civilian killings according to human rights watch they were committed by cia a part of the trees you're just not shot off clinton's report you can catch it in full on you tube on the red fish plot for. 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 schools killing people in the us to come crashing into your point and there's. been you know you're separating people they're kill you or they take 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 i could see it must change the current situation that is not accepting the caress they had extensive documentation

of their operations the weapons caches kills 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 central to see any sentient trolls at 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 means they have no accountability to either the u.s. or afghan government. russia's president has just given a video address at the scotian forum here in moscow focusing heavily on that pandemic climate change a lot of where putin's speech in

a session run for almost 3 hours the valdai club artie's double quarter brings us more. i 1st have to note that president putin speech was was more than anything an optimistic one the main themes were of cooperation and protecting the sovereignty of every country's democratic institutions that he did begin with talking about the importance of a combined effort against the world's coronavirus pandemic and he slammed the west western sanctions that have on purpose or inadvertently stopped many countries from receiving some of that vital humanitarian assistance they need to combat the coronavirus and that actually that point went hand in hand with another point he made about the danger of trying to impose democracy on other countries with the issue you. of true democracy and civil society cannot be imputed as they cannot be a result of the exigencies of foreign will issues even if they stand simply want to

work to the dentist this could be possible in theory but to be honest i have never seen it's and i don't believe in it so that statement may have been a reference to the situation in bell or where protests against the country's election results have been going on since the beginning of august both the us and the european union have slapped sanctions on the country a move that the government there is calling for an intervention now we also heard the russian president touch upon the possibility of a new arms race without limits. to the world will have no future if there are no limits to the ohms races that that's what we should all think about and we'll be urging all seans to look at your movies that whims of the middle earlier this month the russian president called on the united states to renew the new start treaty for a year and without preconditions it's set to expire in february but so far the u.s. has refused renewal even though it would significantly reduce the number of strategic missile launchers in both countries arsenals would also touched upon the alleged poisoning of opposition figure i'll explain

a volley casting doubt on russia's involvement since he was transported to a german hospital immediately after the event is that we're going to quickly move you to a few of the rich. i want to poison someone if they would hold the sentence germany for treatment just with it when the when the wife of the citizen approached me i immediately instructed the prosecutor's office to look into the possibility of us can go abroad for treatment he could have refused as he was under certain restrictions just a criminal proceeding to this little bit about the volga conference the 17th annual conference a very important one it's the 1st one in history completely open to the general public and journalists there been a number of international experts speakers from countries like austria india china and russia of course they all came here to talk about the real issues that the world faces today so this was definitely a monumental event for international relations double quarter reporting while that is the way thursday stories are shaping up for a novel be back with all your latest updates in just

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