and the stories that shaped the week who rejects purchasing the astra zeneca coded 1916 after a lot of data is with help and a volunteer dies during trials of tests on the japanese. 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. after the horrific slaying of a history teacher friends confronts radical islam and muslims fear they will bear the brunt of the government's response. without fear that you know i will have to be be careful for what they post of my life with the full speech as a human rights of all activists is literally all about it's.

the weekly here on our to international welcome to our roundup of the day's news along with the headlines that shape the week peru has decided not to buy doses of a potential corona virus a vaccine being developed by the british firm astra zeneca liam cited a lack of data from the company after the death of a trial volunteer reports claim a 28 year old male doctor in brazil died while taking part in advanced stage 3 trials run by astra zeneca and oxford university now it's not known whether he received the actual drug or a placebo meanwhile the us has now permitted trials to resume there after they were temporarily halted and other countries have also restarted them in recent weeks on gaza have has more now on the reefs for care. 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 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 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 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 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 cools 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 do fast 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 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 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 a 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 despite the rush to develop a successful vaccine a poll show americans are now less keen to take one than ever before

a new survey this month shows only 58 percent are ready to receive the shot and that's a drop of more than 10 percent since the previous survey back in august vice chair for the libertarian party national committee are one of our says vaccinations should neither 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 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. donald trump and joe biden class again any final presidential debate this week however in former business associate of biden's son stole the spotlight and an interview just 90 minutes before the 2 candidates took the stage his words appear to back allegations of corruption currently stalking the biden family joe biden say that is never discussed business 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 images 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 on the line not a single thing 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this he's accusing me of is a russian plane you mean the laptop is a go the russia russia russia hoax and you got exactly what does this tell you exactly why this is the way 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 e-mails that have been pups some of hunter's foreign business partners all while holding the office of the u.s. vice president of a joe biden as we've heard denies any corruption and also some media giants twitter and facebook took down links to that new york post article citing concerns over the

origin of the source material and response republicans are now demanding the heads of both firms to testify before congress my colleague mccarran discuss 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 honor biden story we didn't think about the christopher seal does which exploded across the world we get so used to get creams despite having been 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 the less than generous and this is pushing down back aggressively right now it ways and i think we may very well suppress results and say the 2020 election in this country do you think many ways to be legal changes to restrict the power of online platforms to decide what we can accommodate quite frankly we are moving at a startling pace in terms of all these platforms and we don't have the laws that really apply to them they've made promises they can't keep and they are trying to please their user base is based soley on the the outrage of the moment the

important point is that the censorship is being imposed on facebook and twitter by the government the government is afraid of these platforms. liberals and democrats are both pushing for for increased government regulation and i think it's an assault on free speech so i think of the there she was much free speech is possible and that means there will be their speech but the only remedy for bad speech is good speech. france has recalled its ambassador to turkey after the turkish president questioned the mental health of his counterpart emanuel mccrone it came out from a grant pledged to defend friends of secular values and fight radical islam on the recent brutal murder of a teacher. and we will not give up caricaturists or drawing even if others retreat. zeus' and those. needs a mental health treatment what else can be said to

a head of state who does not understand freedom of belief and who behaves in this way to millions of people living in his country who are members of a different faith 1st of all a mental examination france has announced a crackdown on islamic extremism following the beheading of some of our party which own controversal characters 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 and moscow says his russian citizenship was revoked after he was granted asylum and friends. i know one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our compassion and was the victim of an islamist terror attack.

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 the judicial level he's never been convicted but was known for cases of damaging public property and gang violence while still a minor. if . 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. 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 of violence by i don't think this act of terror is a crazy man but a premeditated act the fallout from the killing has seen one mosque apologizing for sharing a video denouncing summing up by tape prior to his death the government though still ordered its closure with the promise. announcing more mosques would be shut to the french interior ministry has launched numerous audits of muslim n.g.o.s and dozens of raids have been carried out against suspected islam as law abiding muslims now fear they will suffer from the government's response human rights activist and counterterrorism specialist chris phillips share their views on the french government's response. were are calling me asking me whether i was raided or

not so how can we stop point that everybody is scared that they would be raided at 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning i fear that you know i would 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 program be so widespread we're talking to people literally thousands of people who are would be deemed to be in some way straight mistily 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 an assault that's going to go on for a long time to count them will be at least a generation. still had finding shows no sign of letting up between armenia and azerbaijan and the disputed have gotten a kind of buffer region of reports from there and also from

a neighboring azerbaijan the region that shark right. the world is driven by a dream shaped by franco senators. dares thinks. we dare to ask. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy it won't. and jay shouldn't let it be an arms race in his spirit dramatic development only

loosely. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back to the weekly armenia and azerbaijan have been fighting over to go in a car bomb 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. of 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 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 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 the century 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 mark that gets 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 storage the resistance is they've cranked up the bombardments by an order of magnitude.

live on our driver has to unload his cargo here he knows that there will be no shortage of good samaritans willing to pass it on to those in the trenches when there's a break in the fighting of course meanwhile live on and his friends can do more good collecting a new batch of supplies. or friends from russia sent us what we need or we buy supplies ourselves and bring them to those who need it and i guess diana reporting from the northern front line in the going to karabakh r.c. . tensions over nagorno-karabakh stretch back more than 3 decades but the current fighting broke out in late september although the region is legally a part of azerbaijan its. populated mainly by ethnic armenians both sides have agreed to a 2nd humanitarian ceasefire but have since accused each other of violating it fighting continues not just across the disputed region but be on its borders as

well officials in azerbaijan claim the city of tartar and neighboring areas came under armenian shelling on saturday but it shows an unexploded shell near residential buildings there local journalists muscles a day it was caught up in the shelling while reporting from outside and azerbaijani factory. this is a group which you would notice about is almost a lot of media good on that ocean vision because she knew i could out of studio with me of the business capacity it does that would be terrible if you did not that . much but you don't have to do it but then it does tell us is this new admins that bassma. move. to louis has been walked into the direction of the rest of the night it exploded so often and so loudly that we could heard it from the

neighboring c.d.'s which is so cool with this fall from the front line as it only morning clear when does a cd and from there it goes there of the war this soon jim has became an a.p. sinter of artillery at the expense of armenian side. with a record setting $29.00 fights on beating the world mixed martial arts lightweight champion habib has announced his retirement from the sport the russian revealed he had promised his mother about his latest clash would be his last on saturday night beat his american rival in a 2nd round knockout in their u.f.c. title bout in opera dobby it was his 1st fight since his father who was also his coach had passed away fans reacted with joy. emotions are running high voices even straining i think that was one of the most difficult fights for her.

despite all the difficulties with the death of his father had been displayed a strong russian spirit grew glad that he won and ended his m.m.a. career in such a way he demonstrated to the whole world he is the 1st. earlier today at least prime minister announced a wave of new covert measures all gyms cinemas and something poles have to close the bars and restaurants can't be opened past 6 pm public anger had already boiled over in rome last night after a curfew was imposed. protesters hurled projectiles at police and set off fireworks in the colors of the italian flag at least 7 arrests were made and 2 officers were left injured with a delay currently clocking up almost $20000.00 new infections a day one local governor has seized the opportunity to use the pandemic to fight

back against creeping foreign influences is effectively banned halloween by ordering a curfew on october 31st. nyquist i mean it's 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 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. we got reaction from italians about the new restrictions. but 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 it was deluca even before corbett in my view it's a pretty holy day where catholics you know this is america's liberation is not appropriate to me over and so you know yes by god 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 coronavirus 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. the u.s. has cause confusion about it's ongoing troop presence in afghanistan after officials linked a long promised reduction to conditions on the ground or other statements by nato us chief also failed to clarify the situation going forward we will build a can conditions on the ground to determine if there is a capability to draw down more troops which we all would hope that conditions would allow us to do that but certainly the conditions have not been met at this time we went into afghanistan together we will adjust together when the time is right or 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 sent troops in 2001 has cut its presence down to around 8 and a half 1000 as part of the trouble ministrations pledge of a total pullout by the spring of next year. in while former british soldier joe glenn 10 has returned to afghanistan to investigate a series of civilian killings human rights watch claims they were committed by cia backed paramilitaries something washed into nighest claiming many of the allegations against special forces were likely false or exaggerated here's a taste of plantains report for artie's 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 pattison death squads killing people in the us to come crashing into your house

pointing guns and their dogs there's always weapons and you know when you're separating people there kill you or they take the 0 units arrived at the house of bring him an apology is nephews they interrogated them for several hours then they shot the weapon drops where in weapons would be placed on bodies to frame them as terrorists extra judicial killings the use of pictures pictures of dead bodies for propaganda when will you be referring the 0 units to the international criminal court because these look to me like war crimes must change in one word if i could see it must change the current situation that is not accepting the caress they had extensive documentation of their operations the weapons caches kills and arrests for the local people there to support killers that are going there in killing innocent people and the official line is that they are under afghan central to see

a essentially controls at all. they fund it but they also control it they also hand out the operations 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 that funded by the cia means they have no accountability to either the u.s. or afghan government. as a breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week or more on the stories and the latest news head to our website r.t. dot com.

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