new revelations emerge in the. e-mail scandal as an alleged former business partner comes forward correctly linking presidential hopeful joe biden to a controversial dealing. the democratic nominee prepares to face off against on thursday night in the final debate before the u.s. election is moderation this time around with a mute button. volunteered. $1000.00 vaccine trial over the astra zeneca jet. the conflict between azerbaijan and armenia rages on. the disputed region. 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 particular platoon didn't want us filming. our broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly. i now new information has come to light in the hunter by e-mail scandal potentially implicating his father democratic presidential hopeful joe biden and comments. 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 fox 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 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 would discuss and 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. 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 has 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 and president trump will be hoping to cut into joe biden's polling lead at the final debate later tonight will have a very different feel to the 1st round with a mute button now and used to stop the candidates from interrupting each other and the choice of topics will include the pandemic climate change and national security but not foreign policy republican say vat will deny trump the chance to attack biden over the business dealings of his son hunter which our correspondent was just

talking about the controversy has been spiraling since leaked e-mails were reported by the new york post links to that story were taken down by facebook and twitter and the u.s. senate judiciary committee has asked the heads of those firms to testify over alleged political bias our senior correspondent but i have delved into that and 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 at 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 harboring 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 sent to the bidens have a lot of friends and one of those friends who now happens to work as 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 in fact his election integrity police and chances are a full of a joe biden stuff aside from that yes 3 earlier my colleague nikki n. discussed of the link between social media censorship and the american election with a number 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 hon i'm sure we're thinking about the christopher seal does which exploded across the world we get so used to get creams utterly discredited and so by our own if we are so relieved to be crystal clear that whoever is these are operating these are events and are very nice companies heavily say we're says our mainstream media the 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 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 of the there she has much free speech as possible and that means there will be bad speech but the only remedy for bad speech is good speech. to 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 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 due to the virus is not the 1st set back for the astra zeneca 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 this key some 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 mark almond director of britain's crisis research institute he says the hunt for a vaccine has turned into a new version of the 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 is being done in an open and transparent way is probably the best policy the problem obviously is some extent

that there are extra kristie asian commercial or to ration from the competing produces effect seems that they don't necessarily want real information that could be helpful to rival the amazon. erap scene into production is overwhelming poaching that's true i think this is what we do see it legitimization all this issue it's a bit about space race it's a 6 years ago to get the 1st effective vaccine have a huge boost standing as a country in terms of what we will sell far as well being who has traditionally ostrich. russia's president has given a video address at a discussion forum here in moscow focusing on international security and the pandemic what important speech and a q. and a session and for almost 3 hours at the annual valdai club here's artie's done corder . 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 as the issues. of true democracy and civil society cannot be imputed as they cannot be a result of the exigencies of form and well wishes even if they stand simply want to are could have been just 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 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 omes race that's what we should all think about and will be urging upon is 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 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 food and also touched upon the alleged poisoning of opposition figure i'll explain a volley casting doubt on russia's involved. since he was transported to a german hospital immediately after the event which is the british are going to quickly move to if you authorities want to poison someone they would hardly sentence germany for treatment would pay when the wife of the citizen approached me i immediately instructed the prosecutor's office 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 valdai 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. still to come this hour a former british soldier has been to afghanistan to investigate a series of civilian killings that story much more after a short break this is our team international. i. i. beginning of this year we outlined 6 or 7 things that could be the pin to pop the

bubble i think i'm not sure endemic was on that list but it generally doesn't really matter what the pin is the bubble could have been. eased in and deflated long ago but it never was and so now it's popping and goldman sachs is saying well you know this job by the way an outcome could cause a crash on the dollar maybe 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 they the fact is that the dollar is times to where garble sophism the white house. was 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.

and welcome back this is our team international now azerbaijan and armenia remain locked in their heaviest fighting since the 1990 s. in spite of to cease fires there's ongoing shelling in the disputed not go to no kind of region just an office 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 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 drive 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 don of reporting from the northern front line in the going to care about. the car back period stretches back more than 3 decades and erupted in late september 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 armenians but is legally part of us out by john on wednesday but who claimed it took control of several villages in the war torn region and its defense ministry published this footage as evidence we spoke to some who fled their homes in nagorno-karabakh 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 internal house with all belongings disappear i just want my land back i need that land. we left off 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 fus really was the end of the world for me i was 14 all i remember is bombs

being dropped on our heads i'm 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. here as has infuriated china by approving a major arms deal with taiwan at the state department has given the green light to point to $1800000000.00 worth of weaponry for the territory including missiles and artillery the top administration recently ramped up its support to taipei 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 and the chinese foreign ministry has warned of retaliation over the latest deal. we urge the united states to recognize the serious damage caused by arms sales to taiwan and to abide by the one trying a 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 us department of defense insists however that boosting taiwan's defense capability is simply a way of this do decent descent while to scale down 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. china specialist andrew long believes the dispute is unlikely to escalate into a major standoff between the us and china. a lot seeing the cuban crisis as it were in the taiwan strait but of course this is absolute absolute as far as.

the. big clear. on how that is developed but i think that if push comes to show. the likely candidate without a geisha will be sensually who was of the ship's president state department. i don't think that is going to be the war because all this is stop. being sold to taiwan. and there is protected under the u.s. taiwan relations act anyway. but i think that there's been pushing against but merely the breaking point. i don't think that the united states wants to do cross the rubric that the p other go and on both sides. giving mixed signals on its military presence in afghanistan at the trumpet

ministration has pledged to drastically reduce troop numbers by spring but the u.s. ambassador to nato threw those plans into doubt on wednesday. going full of it we will build a can conditions on the ground to determine if there is a capability to draw down troops which we all would hope 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 to get there when the time is right but when the conditions are met we will leave together in the coordinate an orderly way around 12000 nato personnel are still deployed in afghanistan in support of its mission where while the u.s. which sent in forces in 2001 as of july 8600 soldiers on the ground it's all part of the trump administration's pledge of a total pullout by the spring of next year with violence in war torn afghanistan persisting former british soldier joe glinton traveled there to investigate

a series of civilian killings according to human rights watch they were committed by cia backed paramilitaries here's a snapshot of report 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 practice of death schools killing people in the hours 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 wherein 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 it must change the current situation that is not acceptable for us they had extensive documentation of their operations in 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 control to see a centrally controlled it all. be funded 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.

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