new revelations emerge in the hunter biden e-mail scandal as an alleged former business partner comes forward directly linking presidential hopeful joe biden to suppose that controversial. the democratic nominee is facing off against donald trump in the final debate before the u.s. election that's happening right now. moderation this time though. he volunteered. and the conflict between azerbaijan and armenia rages on. our correspondent in the disputed region. the 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 that. we're broadcasting live in moscow this is our 2 international. 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 facts fool the blue a true and accurate 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 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 hunted biden called has done it the big guy might chairman and frequently reference asking him

for his sign 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. 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 trump. is the last is jeffords is just for a 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 the u.s. election is just a dozen days away now and president trub will be hoping to cut into joe biden's polling lead at the final debate that's underway right now it will have a very different feel to the 1st round the mute button now and used to stop the candidates from interrupting each other the choice of topics includes the pandemic climate change and national security but not foreign policy republican say that that will deny the chance to attack biden over the ledge business dealings of his son hunter which our correspondent was just talking about watching the debate that is actually not true is trying to get that in the controversy has been spiraling since that 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 or to have comments on that and a few of the other controversies as well. 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 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 pussy how does this happen how does that huge scandal get censored 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 prated 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 obama 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 anna's watch this company was paying both biden jr her boss's son and the atlantic council for which

she worked and now she's at facebook which previously partnered with the atlantic council and are you at all surprised that stories critical of barton are now disappearing while i will intentionally not link to the new york post i want to be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by facebook's 3rd party fact checking partners in the meantime we are reducing its distribution on our platform breaking the news was ad d. stone a career democrat and as is tradition now a facebook spokesperson you couldn't make this up remember what i said about those who proclaim the neutrality loudest well. facebook is and always has been an open transparent and nonpartisan platform where people can express themselves freely freely are through approval from facebook senses in fact his

election integrity police and chances are a full of a joe biden stuff aside from that yes 3 earlier my colleague mccarran discussed of the link between a social media censorship and the american election 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 utterly discredited and 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 we're says our mainstream media the less than generous and this is pushing down back aggressively right now it ways and i think we may very well suppress results and 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 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 credit 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 setback 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 case in brazil there have been no concerns about safety of the clinical trial and the independent review in addition to the brazilian regulator have recommended that the trial should continue we heard from mark allman director of britain's crisis research institute he says the hunt for a vaccine has turned into something of a new version of a space race. the bigger problem all round is that all creepiest attempts to develop are accidents or such dangerous diseases these are not emergency measures being taken so there's obviously going to an element of greater risk anything that can and will people that everything has been done in a transparent which is probably the best policy the problem obviously it's extent that there are extra christian commercial iterations from competing produces

a vaccine now that they don't necessarily want real information that could be hopeful to rival the amazon or the rap scene into production is it will be pretty true this is where we do sit legitimization over this issue it's a bit but space race it's 6 years ago to get the 1st 2 facts to have a huge boost and in this country terms of what we are well it was partial. russia's president has given a video address at a discussion forum here in moscow focusing on international security and the pandemic vladimir putin's speech and q. and a session ran for almost 3 hours at the annual valdai club here's what he's done quarter . the main themes were of cooperation and protecting the sovereignty of every country's democratic institutions and 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 mostly issue you market don't scale just a true democracy and civil society cannot be imported as they cannot be a result of the activities of foreign well wishes even if they stand simply want to are to the best 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 u.s. 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 opponents 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 putin 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 sent him to germany for treatment 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 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. as a john 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 not go to know kind of the region is 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 marked the capital 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 as every 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 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 . because stretches a 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 armenians but is legally part of azerbaijan 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 of the as areas who fled their homes in the garden a kind of back 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 great 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 our hearts and souls that. memories are tied to the city for these past 27 years i've been thinking of when we would return i lost almost all my colleagues i worked with we were scattered throughout the country i knew the city is liberated i can hardly believe it was the 1st thing i'll do is restore my house i have so many dreams and desires for when i

am back it is hard to express it in words i told my kids a lot but they need to see the place on their own to fully understand my stories leaving food really was the end of the world for me i was 14 all i remember is bombs being dropped on our heads i am so happy and grateful to our soldiers that i can make my dream come true the years of displacement will be in my memory forever i do not wish that on anybody. the u.s. has infuriated china by approving a major arms deal of taiwan the state department has given the green light to $1800000000.00 worth of weaponry for the territory including missiles and artillery the troubled 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 and the chinese foreign ministry has warned of retaliation over the latest deal easier. we urge the united states to recognize the serious damage

caused by arms sales to taiwan and to abide by the one china 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 the u.s. department of defense insists however that boosting taiwan's a defense capability is simply a way to deal with this incentivize 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 trying to specialist under long believes that the dispute is unlikely to escalate into a major standoff between the us and china. a lot seeing another cuban crisis as it were in the taiwan strait but of course this is absolute absolute as far as.

the. big clear. on how the things develop but i think that if push comes to show. the likely candidate without a geisha will be sanctioning. us of egypt's president state department. i don't think that is going to war because all this is. literally as us up in seoul to war. 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 them to cross the group with them because that would be other guy and on both sides . the u.s.

is giving mexico on its military presence in afghanistan the trump administration has pledged to drastically reduce troop numbers by spring but u.s. ambassador to nato threw those plans into doubt on wednesday going forward we will build the can conditions on the ground to determine if there is a capability to draw down more 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 together and when the time is right that when the conditions are met we will leave together but according to an orderly way. around 12000 nato personnel are still deployed in afghanistan in support of its mission there while the u.s. which sent in troops in 2001 has of as of july 8600 soldiers on the ground it is all part of the trumpet ministrations pledge of a total pullout by spring of next year now 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 going to 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 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 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. 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 that funded by the cia means they have no accountability to either the u.s. or afghan government.

and that is a for me this hour be back with headlines in about 34 minutes statements. 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 pandemic was on that list but it generally doesn't really matter what the pain is the bubble could have been. eased in and deflated long ago but it never was and so now it's popping. back to saying well you know this job by the way an outcome could cause a crash on the dollar maybe maybe not in terms of relating to the biden whether he's in or not doesn't matter actually who's in the white house today the fact is that the dollar is toast and where garble stuff is in the white house.

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its cabin or millenia. to exist election day 2020 political commentator bill press joins us on this edition of a ticket. for the politicking on larry king we're only 2 weeks away from election day 2020 political commentator bill press leans of the program today he's host of the pod cast the bill press. he's in washington daisy. the biden camp was one warning that the race is much closer is it. well i think the biden camp is. smart to do that very 1st let's back up i would rather be joe

biden today than donald trump when you look at the polls on a national level his average all according to real clear politics is about. plus 8 words 9 for biden and. i saw the latest today. of the 10 that all ground states most important states in a we all know what they are michigan wisconsin pennsylvania arizona florida north carolina georgia iowa biden leads in 8 those 8 states trump won them by 10 points or less and 2016 and there are only 2 battleground states ohio who are trump and biden are tied and texas where trump is ahead this is texas red state actors trump ahead by only 2 so given that i'd rather be joe biden today the.