headline stories this hour a new revelations emerge in the hunter by e-mail scandal former business partner directly linking presidential hopeful joe biden to the controversial feelings about the democratic nominee to face off against donald trump on thursday nights in the final debate before the u.s. election the restrictor in moderation with a mute button to prevent interruption. volunteered in a major covert 1000 vaccine trial. over the astra zeneca. on the conflict between. ceasefire deal

or. the disputed. 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 particular platoon didn't want us filming. around the clock cross the world this is r t international from the team myself you know me hello and welcome to this news. new information come to light in the hunter biden e-mail scandal potentially implicating his father democratic presidential hopeful joe biden and it's 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 facts fool the

blue 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 by the new priest who 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 hunted 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 financial. 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.

is the last is jeffords is 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 e-mails that were released and widespread allegations about the biden family and corruption in the election is indeed coming . doesn't days away not just 12 days away and president trump well he's got a big night tonight as the final debate against joe biden goes on he will be hoping to cut into his polling now it's going to have a very different feel to the 1st row and with a mute button and used to stop the candidates from interrupting each other the

choice of topics will include the demick climate change on security but not foreign policy republicans say about. the chance to attack biden or for the business dealings of a solemn hunter which our correspondent was just speaking on the controversy has been spiraling since leaked e-mails were reported by a big new york post links to that story were taken down by facebook and twitter in the u.s. senate judiciary committee has asked the heads of those firms to testify over alleged political bias our senior correspondent does the of delves into the 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 hurrying 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 your pull a c 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 is election integrity police it facebook is a certain anima can do i'm not 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 agnes' watch 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 form of joe biden stuff aside from that yes free rock as the evil earlier another of my colleagues nuclear and discussed the link between social media censorship and the american election with the 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 under biden story we didn't think about the christopher c.e.o. which exploded across the world to get so used to get creams utterly discredited and so far on 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 we're says our mainstream media who are less than generous and it is pushing down back aggressively right now in ways that i

think we may very well suppress results and say 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 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 the the there she is 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 the program on the 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 revealed whether the volunteer received the actual vaccine or a placebo according to brazilian media and he was a 28 year old doctor who had been treating 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 senecas vaccine back in september tests were temporarily put on hold after a volunteer fell sick 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 people we got reaction on this from was mark al mark director of britain's crisis research

institute he say's they hunt for a vaccine is turned into a new version of best space race. the bigger problem all round is that michael 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 anything that can reassure people that everything has been done in a transparent which is probably the best policy the problem obviously it's constant that there are extra christian commercial move to asians from competing produces a pack seems now that they don't necessarily want real information that could be helpful to rival the amazon or erap scene into production is overwhelming poaching that's true this is where we do sit legitimization over this issue it's a bit like space race it's a 6 years ago to get the 1st 2 facts to have a huge boost their standing as country terms of what we are as well and also it was

partial. russia's president has given a video address on a discussion forum here in moscow focusing on international security on the pandemic but amir put in a speech and a q. and a session run for almost 3 hours the yanyuwa vald i clubbed years artie's done a quarter. the main themes were of cooperation and protecting the sovereignty of every country's democratic institutions he did begin with talking about the importance of a combined effort against the world's coronavirus pandemic and he slammed 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 the issues. 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 are to the biggest this could be possible in theory but to be honest i've never seen it's and i don't believe in it so that statement may have been a reference to the situation in bellary 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 the world will have no future if there are no limits to the ohms race that's what we should all think about and will be urging upon his to think about 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 such a 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 the british are going to quickly move to if you authorities want to poison someone they would hold the sentence germany for treatment would be when the wife of the citizen approached me i immediately instructed the prosecutor's office. this to look into the possibility of us can go broad for treatment we could have refused as he was under certain restrictions g 2 criminal proceedings a little bit about the vald i 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. this is 247 or 2 international

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join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or. i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. follow again. to armenia remained locked in their heaviest fighting since the $990.00 s. in spite of to cease fires there's ongoing shelling in the disputed no corner called a buck a region that is we're. 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 their 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 students 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 sent us what we need or we buy supplies ourselves and bring them to those who need it a magazine of reporting from the northern front line in the going to karabakh artsy . stretches burke more than 3 decades tell erupted in late september. under many of twice agreed to pause us the. but of accused each other of value in

those agreements the region is populated mostly by armenians but is legally part of . now in whedon's their claim to control several villages in the war torn region and it's the fence ministry published this footage as evidence we spoke to some as eries who fled their homes in the book 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 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 into. 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. first talks big money figures of the u.s. has infuriated china by approving

a major arms deal with taiwan the state department has given the green light to $1800000000.00 worth of weaponry for the territory including missiles and artillery the trouble ministration has recently ramped up its support for taipei with which the u.s. maintains direct a lot of relations china meanwhile consider any dealings between washington and the territory to be interference in the country's internal affairs and the chinese foreign ministry has warned to retaliate over the latest thing. is you've hardly we're the united states to recognize the serious damage caused by arm seals to taiwan and to abide by the one trying a principle we were 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 well the u.s. department of defense and says so about boosting taiwan's defense capability is

simply a way to dis incentivize i gresh in by other priorities the recipient will use this capability is a deterrent to regional threats and to strengthen homeland defense the proposed sell of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military balance in the region of china especially under long believes 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 heart i want to say but of course this is absolute absolute red line as far as paintings that say the child a spokesman make it clear that it depends on how the things develop but i think that if push comes to show. the likely candidate with that geisha will be sanctioning certain u.s. officials perhaps in a state department. i don't think that is going to end they don't war because i'll

call this a stop us firing that literally s. us up in seoul to taiwan. and that is protected under the u.s. taiwan relations act anyway but i think that there's one thing pushing against but merely the breaking point. i don't think that the united states wants them to cross the group with them because that would be another guy and on both sides. lung this is international and i mean you know neal about your news for now. but to stay close has more great programs get going in moments find out what's showing wherever you are across the globe or right now is often the shortest of a great season. with

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welcome to the alex salmond show from richmond in london and to the 1st of 2 special programs marking black history month the concept of black history month can trace its roots back to 1920 s. in america when it was expanded engaged official recognition and the 1970 s. it has been celebrated in the u.k. since 1907 and the month of october this should have been given additional impetus to the search and support for the black life back to movement following the slaying of george floyd and minneapolis in may the focus this year as ever has been on key historical figures such as martin luther king and frederick douglass or don discussions an examination on friday current racial injustice however how about the

forgotten vito's black men and women whose achievements have been all but written out of history to their professional marking black history month will tell the story of one such man a footballer and captain of his country we consult the finder of the scottish football you see if i'm one of england's greatest players john vines. here in richmond 70 seems an unlikely last resting place for the most successful captain of scotland in football history for this is the grave of the mind who led to the county 61 their asking of the old any of england on their home ground still the heaviest total defeat in the history of the 3 lions we tell a largely forgotten story of a footballer who was as influential in the 19th century as pelley was to trade here the year was $80.00 to $81.00 and his name was on 2 boards and today we do our bit to rebalance history and to examine the remarkable tale of the wealth 1st black

international footballer for this line should knight take a survey of poor police and a scottish football pantry and alongside tommy walker jim baxter denis law i'm kenny dalglish but 1st over to alex in the studio with your tweets messed this email of plenty of use and on last week's show in the column which featured professor david blanchflower and ali neil and robert mcculloch plain speaking about new economic thinking in scotland and donald gillis says the highly experienced politically savvy people the no the following the same model that failed scotland today will not work for future telly says fantastic see common wheels robin macao but on the show a man brimming with innovative ideas and a real passion for a better scotland than michael kelly says economies need to be placed on a war footing during world war one us chris government doesn't it was only when it came to the treasury and lloyd george of the ministry of the new.