the stories are shaped the way karen r.t. proved rejects purchasing the astra zeneca k. with 19 vaccine after lab data is with held and a volunteer dies during trials both tests on the capital continue to come through for thursday's u.s. presidential debate a former business so joe biden son comes forward with more allegations of corruption against the biden family and after the riff explaining the history teacher france confronts radical islam head on muslims think they will bear the brunt of the government's response. where they are fear that you know i will have to leave the cure for all for what they of course took over my freedom of speech as a human rights activist is literally on the balance.

though they welcome the latest news and a look back at events over the last 7 days to watch the weekly here in r.t. international now peru has decided not to buy his of a potential corona virus vaccine being developed by the british firm astra zeneca lemus 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 although it's not known whether he received the actual drug or a placebo the u.s. food and drug administration has now allowed resumption of the trials after other countries also restarted them in recent weeks our senior correspondent aghast casts a critical look now at the race for a cure. there is always the risk with any vaccine any clinical trial that statistical improbability that would point to nor 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 the 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 who's 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 from 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 ideological troll 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 jobs with billions urging them to go fast and faster 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 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 the bird so you know 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 our simple thing a jab to save millions of lives would turn into a bitter free for all over origin and money name and preach the advantage and reelection let's just hope that efficiency and public health also get a little consideration but i guess the if there were despite the coronavirus vaccine being much anticipated americans and i are less keen than ever before

according to a survey by stat in the harris poll this month and 58 percent of americans are ready to receive the job that is a drop of more than 10 percent since the previous day in mid august of involved. for the us libertarian party national committee says that banks and nation should need to be compulsory nor 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 are going to have a little bit colder feet when they're dealing with something that is a lot less well known then other vaccines that have decades of of of dated research

behind them so when you now have some that already kind of incendiary is 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 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. not november the 3rd and the u.s. election is just around the corner and on thursday donald trump and joe biden crossed swords in the final presidential debate stage in the spotlight however a former business associate of joe biden's son spoke out in a blockbuster interview just 90 minutes before the 2 candidates took to the stage and many do argue to his words back up allegations of corruption stalking the biden family 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 email so horrible even ills of the kind of money that you were raking in you and your family and joe you were 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 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this she's accusing me of is a russian plane you mean the laptop is now another russia russia russia hoaxer you got exactly what does this tell you exactly why this is where he's going the are up is russia yes i mean i shall want to stay on the issue of radio have a be kidding here we go again with the russia well the e-mails that trump reference there had been published by the new york post after being extracted from hunter biden's broken laptop materials claim that joe biden was well aware of his son's

dealings abroad and he also met personally with some of his son's foreign business partners while holding the if the office of u.s. vice president there joe biden as we heard there does deny any corruption meanwhile social media giants twitter and facebook took down links to that new york post article and in response republicans and i'm demanding heads of both to testify before congress and here and discuss social media's role in the upcoming elections with experts. 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 the uninvited story we didn't think about the christopher seal does which exploded across the world we get so used to get creams utterly discredited by our own 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 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 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 increased government regulation and i think it's an assault on free speech so i think that the ocean as much free speech as possible and that means there will be their speech but the only remedy for bad speech is good speech. and other news this week france says it is recalling its envoy to turkey for consultations but after turkish president ressa purdah one cast aspersions on

president macro one's mental health and question to his treatment of french muslims following the murder of a teacher by a radicalized islam is no one else but we will not give up caricaturists or drawing even if others retreat. back or needs mental treatment what else can you say to the head of state who doesn't understand the freedom of faith freedom of belief and treats millions of different people of faith living in his own country in this way france has announced a crackdown on islamic extremism following the killing of teachers samuel patti who showed caricature of the muslim prophet mohammed to his pupils the suspected killer an 18 year old refugee of chechen origin was later shot dead by police he'd moved to france with his family 12 years ago a moscow does say his russian citizenship was revoked after he was granted asylum in france.

i'm not sure one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our compassion and was the victim of an islamist terror attack. he says and this is the concern person of russian nationality and of chechen origin benefited from a refugee status and lived in you ever in the year he was not known to the intelligence services on a judicial level he's never been convicted but was known for cases of damaging public property and gang violence while still a minor. fuel

he asked muslim children to raise their hands and leave the classroom he did it my son told me he didn't do it to discriminate or to hurt he did it to preserve the children to not shield them he explains i'd prefer if you left because i'm going to show a cartoon of the prophet of islam i don't want to shock you. even more shocked that this college is one i opened when i was the town mayor working there was nice and it was located in a neighborhood without any problems oh violence i don't think this act of terror is a crazy man state but a premeditated act. well the fallout from the killing has seen one mosque apologizing for sharing a video denouncing samuel pattern prior to his death the government though still ordered the closure of the mosque with the prime minister announcing that more

would follow to the french interior ministry has launched numerous audit's of muslim n.g.o.s and dozens of raids have been carried out against suspected islamists but who are abiding muslims do not fear that they will suffer from the government's response human rights activists yes allowed to see and counter terrorism specialist chris phillips shared their views with us on the french government's response to the brutal murder. were are calling me asking me whether i was raided or not so we have we stuck point that everybody is scared that they would be raided at 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning without fear that you know i would have to maybe be careful of what i post and my freedom of speech as a human rights of activist is literally on the balance this program be so widespread we're talking. literally thousands of people who are would be deemed to be in some way straight restoring to terrorist groups in the u.k. in paris in france in belgium and other countries that is just an enormous number

of people and by the very speaking out almost 2 and 3 from the extreme and that will do some good but this is a problem i saw that's going to go on for a long time to count them probably at least a generation still to come on the weekly fighting shows nice sign of letting up between on mania and there's a bit in the disputed new going i can't a back region but have reports from there are no so from a neighboring as beyond region just off to the right.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on offense period dramatic development the only move slowly and going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back now armenia and azerbaijan have been locking horns over nicole and i kind of back for more than a month now and hostilities show no sign of letting up with reports of shelling in parts of the disputed region once again this week has done enough sent this report from near the front line but now we head into the north to the northern front line which is one of the 2 remaining major hotspots in the corner care about our drivers brother is serving there so he's bringing food and warm clothes as we're going our driver keeps glancing to the right there's only a couple kilometers between our car and artillery the road he's being heavily shelled. the homely smell of freshly baked bread filling because 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 the 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 strong attack here now that the command knows how stupid the resistance is but we'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 or friends from russia sent us what we need or we buy supplies ourselves and bring them to those who need it i'm accused of reporting

from the northern front line in the going to care about r.c. . or tensions in a war like at about the stretch back more than 3 decades but the current fighting exploded back into life in late september although the region is legally part of as it began its populated mainly by ethnic armenians although both sides agreed a 2nd to agree to a 2nd humanitarian ceasefire they have since accused each other of violating it fighting continues across the disputed region and beyond its borders to equal journalist ahmed and waters that day was caught up in shelling while reporting from outside and as a bizarrely factory. let's look at what you did notice about is almost you out of many a good one that also vision progression yeah you know that it would mean the gross does give us an idea of desired world would be terrible if you didn't know it that . much but you don't have kids but there are stars that says this new admins that.

the. rules move. heavy artillery has been walked into the direction of the direction of the night so exploded so often and so loudly that we could heard it from the neighboring city which is so cool that is far from the from flying as it only morning clear when does it from there were close there of the war this sujan has became an a.p. center of artillery at the school marm union side. public anger boiled over in rome last night after a curfew was imposed to curb surging cases. protesters have projectiles at police and set off fireworks in the colors of the flag at least 7 arrests were made and 2 officers were left. while with this leak clocking up

almost 20000 new infections every day one local government has seized the opportunity to use the pandemic to fight back against creeping foreign influences he's effectively banned halloween by ordering a curfew on october 31st. lowing nyquist i mean it's halloween this is this immense idiocy this immense stupid american extravagance that we have imported into our country that is halloween is a monument to imbecility well since we have to face the reality and since i feel that people are already getting ready to have parties everything will be closed on halloween from 10 o'clock and there will be a curfew or we got reaction from a tallinn's about the new restrictions. and in my opinion it's stupid to think that closing all the night clubs will stop people from gathering because we can regroup in another place. i agree to is the look even before corbett in my view

it's a pretty silly holiday where catholics you know this is america celebration is not appropriate to me yes but i think it's a mistake halloween has become a good holiday here in italy and it helps the economy it's a good thing for the city for young people that want to have fun and for everyone. i think that we can avoid these holidays because of the groan of virus these are useless holidays a group that honestly i'm not sorry for it we can stay home during this phase maybe next year we can go out and enjoy this holiday if there is a vaccine. now the us has caused confusion with mixed messages about the ongoing presence of its troops in afghanistan after officials linked a long promised reduction to conditions on the ground and a further statement by nato chief also failed to clarify the situation. going forward we will below 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 just to get there when the time is right but 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 forces in 2001 has gone down to just over 8 and a half 1000 soldiers on the ground this is all part of the trumpet ministrations pledge of a total pullout by the spring of 2021. and with the violence in water in afghanistan persisting former british soldier clinton traveled there to investigate a series of civilian killings and according to human rights watch they were committed by cia backed paramilitaries well here's a snapshot of clinton's report you can watch 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 squads killing people in the us to come crashing into your point and there's. been you know you're separating people either 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 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 change the current situation that is not accept us they had extensive documentation of their operations on the weapons

caches pills and arrests for the local people there to support killers are going there in killing innocent people 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 of 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 means they have no accountability to either the u.s. or afghan governments. and just reiterate you can watch that report in full on you tube on the red fish platform just coming up to half past 4 here in moscow but back again with the headlines and more stories from the week at the top here.

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