peru backs out of a deal to buy a $1000.00 vaccine from pharma giant astra zeneca after a trial volunteer dies in brazil says the firm of withholding crucial data. the french government confronts social media giants for failing to hate speech but public opinion is divided. and it's 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 all the content. and hunter biden is a legit 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 lying. i have firsthand knowledge about

this because i directly dealt with the biden family including. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our 2 international i'm john thomas really glad to be with. peru has decided not to buy doses of the corona virus vaccine is being developed by the british swedish. side or the lack of data from the company after the death of a trial volunteer a man in brazil portably a 28 year old doctor passed away after taking part in phase 3 trials run by astra zeneca and oxford university is not known whether he received the actual drug or placebo response takes a closer look. there is always the risk with any vaccine any clinical

trial that statistical improbability that point not 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 the skis in brazil there have been new 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 things go wrong they have astra zeneca whose vaccine it is has already suspended trials last month after another patient developed a strange illness but the trials must go on clients awaiting 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 arrested an idealogical will relate to all disputes brazil is in an awful situation 150000 coronavirus dead 2nd only to the united states things on pretty that careers and lives the economy and the election all hinge on that vaccine no wonder trump has been flooding pharmaceutical giants 7 with billions urging them to do foster and foster 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 $1.00

that stumbled and struggled through trials and especially not one made to save the president's korea he sed this is the same fellow told you this is going to end by easter last time is 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 i said to him 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. well meanwhile

a survey by stat and the harris poll this month found only 50 percent of americans are ready to take a vaccine as soon as it is a variable that is a drop of more than 10 percent since the previous survey in mid august arvin vora vice chair for the u.s. the return party national committee says vaccination should not be compulsory or politically motivated. when you politicize medicine generally the results are bad and that's one of the reasons that many libertarians have 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 but 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 as i'm online the government has summoned representatives of facebook twitter and other firms to explain why so-called cyber islamism is being allowed to spread on their platforms

. it's hard 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 on social media platforms he 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 maintain 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 inciting hatred and 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 the companies

such as facebook google twitter and tick-tock have been. to come up with concrete proposals about cyber islam is a 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 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 not morag elation 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 catching content for some they can no longer be treated as neutral hosts and dangerous content that can as francis seen recently lead to unspeakable crimes

and it's now be treated as a priority. r.t. paris. we spoke to the french arthur of a number of acquainted books on terrorism who believes have 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 like 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. covered 19 dodgy dealings and bullies in north korea just some of the topics donald trump and joe biden clashed over in the final presidential debate but the 2 sept of generic ends weren't the only ones in the spotlight before the event a former associate of biden's son hunter spoke out artie's on quarter takes us through. 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 dealing 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 this scandal most interesting involves a now bankrupt chinese energy company that hunter's business venture was allegedly collecting millions of dollars from every year now he 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 so horrible even ills 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 out of line not a single thing or 50 former national intelligence folks who shed 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 why this 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 who's response to that should not remain as president of united states of america they. he left us a mess what he's saying is a bunch of garbage this is a terrible thing it is in a flow but i think he called me a racist even the 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 web site 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 that the final debate shied 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. occupation of brought the out of control military budget and the deficit this year is projected to be 3 trillion dollars that's $9000000000.00 a day none of these issues are being are being addressed the d. infrastructure that promised he was going to build but 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 we're in a we're in a bad place there are no good choices from my perspective. russia like most of europe is the ng a surgeon covered 1000 cases the case load rose to a new record daily tally this week and to stem the tide new restrictions have been

introduced here in moscow artie's roman culture of went to see what all the change was about. russia is bracing for a 2nd coronavirus wave as fresh coleridge numbers continue breaking records across the country and in moscow while stopping short of introducing a lockdown 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 anti 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 coronavirus everyone using the system is required to wear protective gear at all times and that rule is being various quickly enforced each subway car is disinfected once it reaches the depot now new trains have a built in ultra violet dickinson anation 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 endemic following at su months logs 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 is with the shutdown is now over but call that 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. positive. that's it i am at now checked in and i'm ready to go listen to some music and to party just a little bit. yes i'm going to proceed to try to skirt see some for the 1st time it wasn't so bad going to end of the war in teen was tough for us we're really happy this time they found another way we were afraid of being closed again riaz the musicians to remind 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. and i'm tired bush

unrolling of poland has sparked mass outrage on thursday the country's top court banned pregnancy terminations on the grounds of fetal defects hundreds of people took to the streets of warsaw all right after the ruling was announced on thursday they held up banners denouncing the conservative law and justice party that has long been pushing for tougher abortion laws and has been accused of packing the constitutional court with loyalist riot police were out in force using contra weapons and there were similar so. in cities across poland as well constitutional tribunals ruling affectively bans almost all abortions in poland which already had some of the toughest laws in europe until now 98 percent of terminations were due to severe fetal abnormalities and the only remaining grounds for abortions will be cases of rape incest or a threat to the pregnant woman's life the rules will take effect after being passed by parliament which is seen as certain to happen given the ruling party's majority the council of europe has called the move a sad day for women's rights removing the basis for almost all legal abortion

simple amounts to a ban and violates human rights today's ruling of the constitutional court means on the ground abroad abortions for those who can a food and even greater would you for all of this earlier my colleague you know neal debated both sides of the issue with a panel of our guests have you have you ever met a person to regret having and johnson a child or a child indeed with a severe disability whose health has improved later in life and times even thrived don't children deserve the chance. i think every child deserves to be a wanted child and every mother deserves to be a will and mother and as we see in countries like poland and as it was recently for the same reasons in northern ireland that we allow one hand here these conservatives saying that they want to protect life on the other hand as exacting

government means activist ministrations cut supports for disabled people cut supports for single mothers to cut support for a special education services for people with who seem disabilities well i would like to clarify that no one in the pro-life camp is wanting anyone to be an unwilling mother right saying that you should have the right to abort your fetus is not the same thing as saying you must be a parent for the rest of your life but to say that because the person who conceived you doesn't want to be a parent therefore your right to life is 4th that that is completely ridiculous and to to address something your other previous guest said you know there are many many children out there who grew up with parents that were in the bass and perhaps maybe didn't want them i'm sure many of them would take issue with the idea that just because their parents weren't necessarily the most willing supporters of them that they should have been aborted or that would have been all right to do it it's just something that's very difficult same with the idea that if we want to argue that down syndrome children should not be aborted we must also implement some sort of

huge welfare state or social safety net i don't accept the rationale that either we make the government care for people from cradle to grave or we might as well abort them that is a ridiculous notion and i reject it entirely and the idea that someone making abortion illegal stops it happening is inaccurate the way that you stop abortion targeting as frequently is to introduce sex education programs that aren't absent based is to introduce easily available contraception easy available morning after pills you heard your guest say explicitly the right to life for a fetus does not igs. this and this is what the issue is all about for them they do not recognize the right of the unborn to lead and actually i think the argument of a slippery slope is very valid i'm glad that poland is taking a stand against this. this went around the globe to look at some other stories making headlines this hour we're going to start in chile where there is some unrest there police fired water cannons to disperse protesters in the capital santiago

hundreds took to the streets to protest ahead of a national referendum to change the constitution later this month demonstrators also are angry about rising subway fares and falling wages. there's been a solidarity march in london against police brutality in nigeria hundreds marched to downing street demanding global action against the nigerian government this comes just days after nigerian police reportedly used live fire on anti brutality protests in law goes dozens have died in almost 2 weeks of unrest in the african nation since a video emerged showing a deadly police shooting. on to australia you know where people are defying a coronavirus 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 face masks. and student to lead protesters in bangkok are keeping up with the pressure on the

prime minister calling on him to step down this follows weeks of rallies demanding a new constitution and a reform of the monarchy. that's your news headlines in 35 minutes this is our international. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led so. direct. what is true what is faith.

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trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just in the common ground. an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out an american town. we do everything in our power to protect the. water they escaping the climate change poses the same threat right now alaska does seem some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world we lost about 35 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. it is fast paced the river is $35.00 closer than how. long was years before i think we're part of a murderer 1st for. joining

me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello welcome to do so because visionaries me sophie shevardnadze till recently the concept of consciousness lay add to a complex of philosophy really but my guest today offers

a clinical view on it dr steven la s. is one of the world's leading greece searchers in a new consciousness and he's with me today. professor stephen lewis belgian neurologist recognized worldwide as a leading clinical research or in the field of neurology of consciousness and bliss topic so glad that you're with us today. all right so i'm going to jump right in whistler you never speech knocked unconscious right or lost consciousness but species speaking scientifically can we actually measure lost consciousness i mean is. someone who has been knocked out by mike tyson for instance really unconscious at that moment. i don't know what it is. it's a question of. the wheat.