you know i'm looking in all. the main stories of the week here on r.t. proof rejects purchasing the astra zeneca k. with 19 vaccine after lab data is withheld and a volunteer dies during trials like tests on the gaps continued shortly before thursday's u.s. presidential debate a former business associate of joe biden's son comes forward with more allegations of corruption against the biden family and if you care if you've a history teacher france confront radical islam head on but was limbs the fear that they will bear the brunt of the government. without fear that you know i will have to be the big your for all for what they pour stuck in my freedom of speech as a human rights activist is literally on the balance.

hello good evening the latest developments and a look back at events over the last 7 days to you watching the weekly here an r.t. international now peru has decided not to bite or he says of a potential corona virus vaccine being developed by the british firm astra zeneca cited a lack of data from the company half to the death of a trial volunteer reports claim that a 28 year old male doctor in brazil died died while taking part in advanced stage 3 trials run by astra zeneca and oxford university though it isn't known whether he received the actual drug or a placebo meanwhile the u.s. is now permitted trials to resume after they were temporarily halted in other countries have also restarted them in recent weeks but it has more now on the race for a cure. 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 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 giants with billions urging them to do 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 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 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. as the if there were despite the rush to develop

a successful vaccine post the show that americans and i'm less keen to take woman never before a new survey this month those show that only 58 percent are ready to receive the job and that's a drop of more than 10 percent since the previous day back in august for the u.s. libertarian party national committee arvin voted to say that vaccination 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 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 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. well donald trump joe biden they clashed again in the final presidential debate this week however a format this since associate all biden's son stole the spotlight and an interview he gave just 90 minutes before the 2 candidates to the state his words appeared to back allegations of corruption cover and can still can the biden family joe biden say that is never discussed this with hunter. that is false 'd i have firsthand knowledge about this because i directly dealt with the biden family the e-mails the

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 your 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 were 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 shall want to stay on the issue of radio have to be kidding here we go again with the russia or the e-mails that trump reference there had been published by the new york post after reporting being found on an old laptop of under biden they claim that joe biden was well aware of his sons the killings in broad and he met personally with some of hunter's foreign business

partners all while holding the office of the u.s. vice president joe biden as we heard there does deny any corruption in the most social media giants twitter and facebook took down links to that new york post article citing concerns over the origins of the source material in response republicans and i demanding that the heads of both testify before congress mccarron discussed with analysts social media's role in the upcoming election. 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 under 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 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 who are less than generous and this is pushing down back aggressively right now in ways that 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 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 of 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. that france has recalled its ambassador to turkey after the turkish president questioned the mental health of his counterpart emanuel macron it came after macron pledged to defend france to secular values and fight radical islam following the

recent brutal killing of a teacher. but we will not give up caricaturists or drawing even if others retreat. but girl 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 announced a crackdown on islamic extremism following the beheading of samuel pattie who had shown controversial caricatures of the prophet mohammed to his pupils the killer an 18 year old refugee of chechen origin was later shot dead by police he moved to france with his family 12 years ago moscow does say his russian citizenship was revoked after he was granted asylum in france.

i know one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our compassion it was the victim of an islamist terror attack. i'm trying. to see and this is the concern person of russian nationality and of chechen origin benefited from a refugee status and lived in the 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. and . he asked muslim children to raise their hands and leave the classroom she 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. i'm 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 but a premeditated act. well the fallout from the killing has seen one mosque apologizing for sharing a video denouncing samuel pattie prior to his death the government though still ordered its closure with the prime minister announcing that more mosques would be shut to the french interior ministry modest launch numerous or it's of muslim n.g.o.s and dozens of raids have been carried out against suspected islam ists but

your abiding muslims now have faith that they will suffer from the government's response human rights activists yes alive today in counterterrorism specialist chris phillips shared their views with us on the french government's response were are calling me asking me whether i was raided or not so we have wished for instance that everybody is scared that they would be raided at 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning i fear that you know i will have to maybe be careful of what i post of and my freedom of speech as a human rights activist is literally on the balance this problem be so widespread we're talking about. literally thousands of people who are would be deemed to be in some way straightlaced will be to terrorist groups in the u.k. in paris in france in belgium and other countries so there's just an enormous number of people on the free speaking out want to hopefully from the extreme and

that will do some good but this is a problem an assault that's going to go on for a long time to count them will be at least a generation. still to come the weekly fighting chosen a sign of letting up between armenia and azerbaijan in the disputed no go and i can back region we'll have reports from there and also from a neighboring as beyond region that has been affected take us to come just after the break. when i was still seems wrong. but i'll. just don't call. me a liar. get to shape out. educate and gain training as equals to trail. one song many find themselves worlds apart. choose to look for common ground.

the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person those with. no dares thinks. we dare to ask. people. welcome back now armenia and azerbaijan have been fighting i've been a go and i cut it back for more than a month now and all cities do show no sign of letting up either with reports of

shelling in parts of the disputed region once again this week he sent this report from near the front line. right now we head into the north to the northern front line which is one of the 2 remaining major hotspots in the corner a 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 the

positions but the city of marjah take care of 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 as every command knows how students 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 i'm accused of reporting from the northern front line in the going to care about r.c.

. tensions over nagorno-karabakh to stretch back more than 3 decades although the current fighting broke out in late september although the region is legally part of his appeal it is populated mainly by ethnic armenians both sides have agreed to a 2nd humanitarian cease fire recently but have since accused each other of violating it fighting continues to not just across the disputed region but beyond its borders to officials in the claim the city of tartar and neighboring areas came under armenian shelling on saturday footage does show an unexploded shell near residential buildings there are local journalists there made a most as our day was caught up in the shelling while reporting from outside and as a big shiny factory. this isn't what you would let us know it was almost you know i mean you grab on that also if it isn't progression you know i've said it would mean the girls as capacity of those adults would be terrible if you. missed

that so don't go do it but there are stars there is this new ad because i personally was there. most of the. heavy artillery has been walked into the direction of their ass is so exposed so often and so loudly that we could heard it from the neighboring city which is certain kilometers far from the front line as it only morning clear when it was a target from there were 1st day of the war this region has became an epicenter of ethics from armenian side. now with a record setting $29.00 fights unbeaten world mixed martial arts lightweight champion. of has announced his retirement from the sport the russian revealed he had promised his mother that his latest clash would actually be his last on

saturday night had beat his american rival in a 2nd round knockout in their u.f.c. title bout in darby it was his 1st fight since his father who was also his coach passed away a bit fans reacted with joy. emotions are running high voices in straining i think it was one of the most difficult fights for her. despite all the difficulties with the death of his father had been displayed are strong russian spirits grew glad that he won and ended his career in such a way he demonstrated to the whole world he is the best. in korea now earlier today is least prime minister announce a swathe of new measures all jim cinemas and swimming pools will have to close

while bars and restaurants can't open past 6 pm public anger though had already boiled over in rome last night after a curfew was imposed. protesters there hold projectiles at place and set off fireworks in the colors of the italian flag at least 7 arrests were made and 2 officers were left injured while it is currently clocking up almost $20000.00 new infections a day one local governor there has seized the opportunity to use the pandemic to fight back against creeping foreign influences he has effectively banned halloween by ordering a curfew on october 31st. halloween this is this immense idiocy this immense stupid american extravagance that we have imported into our country that's it's halloween is a monument to imbecility as 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 but we got reaction from a talons about the new restrictions. and in my opinion it's stupid to think that closing all the nightclubs 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 and so you know yes by that 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. that the u.s. has course confusion about its ongoing troop presence in afghanistan that after

officials linked a long promised reduction to conditions on the ground a further statement to you by nato should chief also failed to clarify the situation. going forward we will bill or 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 $12000.00 nato personnel are still deployed in afghanistan the u.s. which 1st sentry there in 2001 has cut its presence to around 8 and a half hours and then it is part of the trumpet ministrations pledge of a total pullout by the spring of next year meanwhile former british soldier joe blanton has returned to afghanistan to investigate

a series of civilian killings human rights watch does claim that they were committed by cia backed power paramilitaries something though washington denies claim that many of the allegations against the special forces were likely false or exaggerated here's a taste of clinton's report for the hearty redfish project you can watch it in full online. so i'm back in afghanistan to find out the story behind the headlines crimes record levels of civilian deaths and the story of the 0 you know shadowy cia practice of death schools killing people in the hours to come crashing into your 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 wherein weapons would be placed on bodies to frame them as terrorists extra judicial killings the

use of pictures pictures of dead bodies for propaganda when will you be referring the 0 units to the international criminal court because these look to me like war crimes must change in one word if i could see it it must change the current situation that is not acceptable for us they had extensive documentation of their operations in the weapons caches kills and arrests for the local people there to support killers that are going there. killing innocent people and the official line is that they are under afghan control the cia essentially controls it 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. international back again at the top of. secret prisons are not usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however even the most prosperous can be deceived within this 0 zone there were 2 view houses were. prisoner was located only cia people have access to the story from investigators held the uncovered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean. you great ignore.

for. crying for justice. for. a long while the 2 worlds apart the more things change the more they stay the same well they're coming years production elections be sure many firsts the 1st contest situation areas and the 1st bill during a nationwide condemning tactics employed cheat and track and distract voters remain remarkably consistent allegations of corruption from the right in the end us from

our spies and as usual with claims of russian interference can't get any dirtier while to discuss an analogy i invite dimitri simes left deputy head of the center for comprehensive european and international studies of the heart of economics in the ministry it's good to see your again thank you very much for taking time to start out thank you it's my pleasure. now and the last time we talked you predicted that the 2020 contained is probably. going to be the dirtiest campaign in american history reached to be frank with you wasn't that hard to predict given all the vera craddick and investigative tools and shrinks used over the last few years d.c. on the side have anything left up their sleeves to try to defile their opponent with well i think all the arguments all the accusations all the dirt that could have been through.