bru backs out of a deal to buy a coded $1000.00 vaccine from pharma giant astra zeneca after a trial volunteer dies in brazil accuses the firm of withholding crucial data. the french government confront social media giants for failing to tackle online hate speech but public opinion is divided. it is very easy to put the blame on social media and it's up to a person to decide what is problematic or not. and there should be more people moderating and content. than a 100 biden's alleged business dealings overshadow his father's run for the white house as a former associate speaks out just ahead of thursday night's u.s. presidential debate accusing joe biden of line. i have firsthand knowledge about

this because i directly dealt with the biden family including joe biden. studios in moscow this is our 2 international and i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with. peru has decided not to buy doses of a corona virus vaccine being developed by the british swedish firm astra zeneca. cited a lack of data from the company after the death of a trial volunteer a man in brazil reportedly a 28 year old doctor passed away after taking part in phase 3 trials run by astra zeneca and oxford university it is not known whether he received the actual drug or a placebo correspondent i've got to have takes a closer look. there is always the risk with any vaccine any clinical trial that statistical improbability that point north one percent risk that someone dies

at someone reportedly was a brazilian doctor he was part of an oxford university vaccine trial group and is believed to have suffered fatal complications but they're sure it's safe to keep going 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 there is a race on a race for v. vaccine that works that saves millions of lives and brings in billions of dollars and visits in clinical trial all things go wrong they have astra zeneca who is vaccine it is has already suspended trials last month after another patient developed a strange illness but the trials must go on clients are waiting brazil for example

whose president has said he wants the british vaccine in contrast to his own health ministry which wanted 46000000 doses of the chinese vaccine for my government any vaccine before being made available to the population must be scientifically proven by the health ministry and certified by the national health surveillance agency the brazilian people will not be guinea pigs for anyone there is no justification for a billionaire financial contribution to a drug that is not even parses testing phase given the above my decision is not to purchase the vaccine but it is remarkable to people look at the same vaccine and see 2 different things one sees a lot of votes political capital the other person sees a panacea medicine for millions it isn't only orgy it isn't politics and it isn't the electoral process. that saves it is the vaccine we don't want a new government will go to congress and to cool to ensure that the population has

access to all vaccines that are efficient and safe health is a big rancid an ideological troll disputes brazil is in an awful situation 150000 coronavirus dead 2nd only to the united states things on pretty that korea's lives the economy and the election all hinge on that vaccine no wonder trump has been flooding pharmaceutical jobs with billions urging them to do fast and thought we have a vaccine that's coming it's ready it's going to be announced within weeks and it's going to be delivered we have operation work speed which is the military is going to distribute the vaccine and just as it brazil there's a divide a chasm in opinion people want need a vaccine but they want one that works not one that makes the most money not one that stumbled and struggled through trials and especially not one made to save the

president's korea this is the same fellow told you this is going to end by easter last time the same fellow who told you that don't worry we're going to end this by the summer we're about to go into a dark winter. i think it's going to be a very skeptical american public about taking a back seat and it should be if the doctors tell us that we should take it i'll be the 1st in line to take it absolutely but if donald trump tells us that we've taken i'm not taking it it was clear from the get go that there would be a race for a vaccine what we didn't consider was how dirty it would be simple thing a jab to save millions of lives would turn into a bit of free for all of origin and money name and preach the advantage and reelection let's just hope that efficiency and public health also get a little consideration meanwhile a survey by a stat and of the harris poll this month found only 58 percent of americans are

ready to take a vaccine as soon as it's available that's a drop of more than 10 percent in the previous survey in mid august are involved vice chair of the u.s. libertarian party national committee says vaccination shouldn't be compulsory or politically motivated. when you politicize medicine generally the results are bad and that's one of the reasons that many libertarians of advocated for getting the f.d.a. entirely out of medicine to get the government tiredly out of medicine abolish the f.d.a. and cut our taxes accordingly see the thing is each person has to calculate their own risk their own situation right now the american people are being given a different question which is why would you take a vaccine that hasn't really gone through any kind of long term testing where you could not possibly know what the long term effects are so obviously people can have a little bit colder feet when they're dealing with something that is a lot less well known and then other vaccines that have decades of of of dated

research behind them so this is something where it's not a one answer for everybody that's the problem with government trying to make these decisions we're trying to politicize them these are individual health decisions just like we have individual dietary decisions that we make for ourselves we have to make these individual health decisions based on our actual needs are actual perceived risk not on some sort of blanket decision made by a government so when you now have some that's already kind of an incendiary as issue and you add to it the biggest event in the world in the last decade easily then of course is going to be a politically important a politically important issue and people are going to look very closely at how the candidates treat it do they treat it as a government issue an individual choice issue or something else entirely. france is pressuring social media giants to step out of stream ism online the government has summoned representatives of facebook twitter and other firms it to explain why so-called cyber is rim ism is being allowed to spread on their

platforms. it's a problem to take stock in the wake up some new beheading social media giants have come for. those who participated in the public lynching of this teacher there are videos that were posted on social networks in a way responsible for what happened in the days leading up to the mood of the 47 year old teacher videos inciting hatred against him was shared social media platforms so patty was also targeted by activists online in a hate campaign that went viral whipping up a storm that frances anti terror prosecutor says it was based on lies. it is clear that the teacher was targeted in various ways by social media by these 2 men using a false interpretation of the facts some new party had filed a complaint to the police about the hate campaign but it was not enough to prevent

his brutal murder the terrorists who killed him also used twitter to claim responsibility. for. it will mange online for 2 hours now have taken on not fight taking twitter to court accusing the social media giant of not doing enough to tackle hate speech online so what do people here think social media giants doing their bit the things that are being posted the. hatred not normal. should be done to tackle that much more it's very easy to put all the blame on social media it is an instrument for people to use and it's up to a person to decide what is problematic or not. should block such posts and there should be more people moderating all the content social media joints have also been hauled in front of the government with ministers calling for stricter rules companies such as facebook google twitter and tick-tock have been. asked to come up

with colquitt proposals about cyber islam isn't he said to delusions islamist ideology spread widely on social networks whole generation of young people have been radicalized at home alone in their rooms in front of their phones or computers france has already tried to combat hate speech online with the feel law it's now thought aspects of tackling hate speech could also be included in khan's new draft bill to fight separatism some argue it's naught more regulation that's needed the problem lies with how it's being enforced social media giants have a long been criticized for helping extremist groups recruit and radicalize people with high capturing content for some they can no longer be treated as neutral hosts and dangerous content that can as frances seen recently lead to unspeakable crimes

it's now be treated as a priority. r.t. paris we spoke to the french author of a number of acquainted books on terrorism who believes it is up to the authorities to take action. more should be done from the secret services i mean de france has a in a place called blade it will outside of the big ears or and this is where you you have to really make an effort into identifying the hate speech is. the operations and plays the demands of vengeance on this information traveling on in cyberspace has to be controlled at that level for us i don't think the the social media companies can can can do much besides you know. try and money to keywords in various postings that they will take of but it might be too late people

download them they recycle them it's really complicate it has to be done at the ground level. over $1000.00 dodgy dealings and the bullies in north korea just some of the topics donald trump and joe biden clashed over in the final presidential debate but the 2 step to generic war to the only ones in the spotlight before the event a former associate of biden's son hunter biden spoke out our team has done a quarter takes us through that and the night that was one of the main stars of the debate was definitely the scandalous elephant in the room the topic of hunter biden sketchy overseas business dealings just last week we saw a bombshell report from the new york post claiming that the e-mails found on hunter biden's laptop proved that his father joe biden had been in the know about these stealing something that the former vice president has always denied and then just 90 minutes before the debate an x. business partner of hunter biden tony actually said that joe biden was lying

through his teeth about this joe biden say that is never discussed business with hunter. that is false 'd i have 1st hand knowledge about this because i directly dealt with the biden family while just basically being accused of corruption he's being accused of receiving a lot of money from a ukrainian company called but the most important part of the scandal most interesting involves the now bankrupt chinese energy company that hunters and business venture was allegedly collecting millions of dollars from every year now i also said that joe biden was specifically mentioned in these e-mails as the big guy who was set up to have 10 percent of that business venture and that's interesting but it's also very interesting that right after the publication of this article and these e-mails social media giants like facebook and twitter immediately tried to block this information a lot of conservatives have come forward to call this an instance of political bias

so naturally trump really tried to bring this to drive this point home and during the debates the e-mails the horrible evils of the kind of money that you were raking in you and your family and show you a vice president when some of this was happening and i think you owe an explanation to the american people if i did my job is complete i carried out u.s. policy not one single solitary thing was not a line not a single thing there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this he's accusing me of is a russian plane you mean the laptop is now another russia russia russia hoax and you got exactly what does this tell you exactly what is where he's going right up is russia yes i mean i should i want to stay on the issue of right you have to be kidding here we go again with the russia this wasn't the only point of contention throughout the debate though it's been a very bitter presidential race between biden and trump and neither could help themselves for more name calling if i thought you did

a good job i would have never run anyone whose response to that should not remain as president of the united states of america they. he left us a mess which he's saying is a bunch of garbage this is a terrible thing it is then a flow back i think he called me a racist even a response if he isn't a phobic come on joe you could do better you said i hate i did show the tape put it on your website put it on it on the website the fact of the matter is you're lying you're all talk and no action give me a break now as for where we are right now in the presidential elections as of the beginning of the debates already more than 46000000 americans had cast their ballots and both campaigns have already said that biden is actually has an advantage right now in terms of the popular vote but last time this didn't actually win the democrats the election so we will have to see how it pans out. investigative journalist rick sterling told us 'd the final debate should away from the most crucial issues facing the u.s.

. you know if we look at the debates overall i mean there were only 2 debates and there was almost nothing on foreign policy there was nothing on issues of substance the u.s. occupations of brought the out of control military budget that the deficit this year is projected to be through 3 trillion dollars that's $9000000000.00 a day none of these issues are being are being addressed the the infrastructure that promised he was going to build by by reducing the wars abroad those things haven't happened on the other side we've got joe biden who is a proven member of the establishment so so we're in a we're in a bad place there are no good choices from my perspective. still to come on the program millions of jobs are already being replaced by robots and it's happening faster than you might think a peek at our future coming up in just

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join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome back this is our to international now russia like most of europe is seeing a surge uncovered 1000 cases the caseload rose to a new record daily tally this week and to stem the tide new restrictions have been introduced here in moscow i do have among those who are of went out and about to see what has changed russia is bracing for a 2nd coronavirus wave is fresh cold with numbers continue breaking records across

the country and in moscow while stopping short of introducing logs on measures the mayor's office has announced new rules and guidelines in an effort to keep people safe and keep the economy going. first of all employers are now required to send 30 percent of their force to work from home and they must report who works for mostly and who doesn't students in middle and high schools have switched to distance learning and everyone must wear masks and gloves in all public places like shops and public transport and those who don't follow the antique code measures will be fined. millions of people use the moscow subway every day and with several stations added each year that number continues to grow and metro authorities are doing all they can to ensure the safety of passengers from corona virus everyone using the system is required to wear protective gear at all times and that rule is being very strictly enforced each subway car is disinfected once

it reaches the depot now new trains have a built in ultra violet dickinson the nation system so all it needs are a pair of good hands and some good chemicals as well. the entertainment industry was one of the most affected during that pandemic following at su months logged out imposed by the moscow authorities earlier this year many restaurants and bars either went out of business or closed down for renovations well as the situation with the shutdown is now over but colvin numbers are once again on the rise this time the thory it sees have decided on a softer approach focusing on contact tracing while keeping this kind of business running now let's see exactly how it works when we walk into this bar. sensitive. that's it. now checked in and i'm ready to go in this and to some music and to

party just a little bit. yes like if the t.v. trying to skirt see some for the 1st time it wasn't so bad going to end up in the foreign teen was tough for us we're really happy this time they found another way we were afraid of being closed again riaz of the musicians to mind our own customs to keep wearing masks and maintain social distancing. we try to explain to our visitors if you want us to stay open and if you love us just follow the rules of course they go along with it. the robot revolution is wiping out jobs at a faster rate than ever according to a new report by the world economic forum machines will carry out half of all human jobs within 5 years and the pandemic is only accelerating the trend just may do

that automation will leave 85000000 people out of work by 2025 worldwide although 97000000 new roles are predicted to emerge the forms managing director says firms will have to quickly adapt. if this continues for too much longer there's going to be a big structural change there some of those companies will not be able to last through to the end of this recession and therefore we're looking at more permanent job losses. earlier mccall you know neal i asked a number of guests whether the forecast is all doom and gloom. the prediction is 85000000 job losses it's a number is staggering just to get your head around 1st of all if that's true how devastating is it going to be for people's livelihoods it's going to be very devastating you know i was a union lawyer for 26 years and i've seen job losses before mass job losses but nothing on the scale that is going to have to be part of the future if companies just side to dispense with human labor which is something i don't want to see of

course people are going to fall into 3 real groups there's going to be a i just the same with any massive job those that get it we just need to keep out of that why and let them go forward and create a lot of the wealth and create a lot of the new jobs that are going to be out those that could get other people that could be retrained and we need to focus the skills and the retraining on how best we can require these people for the new reality and for the final group will never get it we need to provide some sort of support and we are not good in creating out on a much reasoning machine that are able to replace you all month poorly human and if you can imagine some of the decision that robots can take are very very basic yes they can work in manufacturing chain but yes they can working nodder sector where there is a repetitive task they would not for complex where we need their quick supplied human cognition it said in the article that 97000000 jobs will be created by this

robot revolution they're talking about the likes of care a big data green economy to name a few it's not overly optimistic there was a huge number but i'm optimistic that there would be still jobs for your money so robots will not replace the human anytime so in india there would be jobs more jobs created for horrible words but there would be also more jobs created for the human scene now monitoring in supervising these reports the really high skilled people at the top of the pyramid again to be salt or what. what will they do that will be alero balsam who do repairs to tell us to and they could be replaced but that's not the enormous group who aren't necessarily highly paid but doing very hands on work i want talking about nurses we talking about care well because we're talking about but also we're talking about weights those people won't be replaced if they move forward on these this robotic revolution. those who've lost their work will stay

out of work in those who've been thrown into poverty will will stay in poverty i fear we need to prepare a bike and making sure. that those who are going to be employed do have a basic income new jobs are open up by this new technological jobs we need to begin training people for those jobs. take a look around the world a look at some other news making headlines this hour we'll start in chile police fired water cannons to disperse protesters in the capital santiago hundreds took to the streets and to protest ahead of a national referendum to change the constitution later this month demonstrators also angry about rising subway fares and falling wages. there has been a solidarity march in london against police brutality in nigeria hundreds marched to downing street demanding global action against the nigerian government it comes just days after nigerian police reportedly you live fire on anti brutality protests

in the law goes dozens have died in almost 2 weeks of unrest in the african nation since a video emerged showing a deadly police shooting. to australia where people are defying a crowd of virus lockdown in the city of melbourne which has been under strict quarantine rules hundreds turned out to protest and more than a dozen arrests were made many more were fined for refusing to wear masks. and student led protesters in bangkok are keeping up the pressure on the prime minister calling on him to step down follows weeks of rallies demanding a new constitution and reform of the monarchy. right that does it for me this hour back with more news in saying $33.00 and a half minutes is our 2 international.

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with 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 motor's trust the polls and if you don't trust the polls will you trust the outcome of the election. to discuss polling i'm joined by my guest my linked in washington he is the g.o.p. strategist and in new york we cross to sarah norman she is a democratic strategist digital marketer and data scientist in the 2020 presidential election she served as the senior adviser of digital on the come out ahead of this campaign already crossed out rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to a sarah sarah's that i guess the simplest question i can ask though his program because it's the topic of it should we trust the polls ok because we do have the

the after effect of 2016 but i think a lot of people exaggerate how much the polls were off ok they were but i mean since 0 significant. even if they had the same margin of error this time again a lot of the polls would say the outcome would be no different by the way so simple question then you're probably the ideal person to ask your digital person ok should we trust the polls. i trust the polls as a strong indicator of what's going on but we have to understand what they are saying and their limitations so 1st let's talk about what the polls are saying using 2016 as you mentioned as an example so in chick out the 16 b. average of said that hillary had about an 85 percent chance of winning well that means the coals were also saying that she had about an 85 percent chance of losing so if you're picturing hillary rolling the dice pollsters don't control it she rolls that one in 7.