in the stories that shape the week peru rejects purchasing the astra zeneca coded $1000.00 vaccine after lab data is withheld and a volunteer dies during trials of a test on the job continue. also this hour shortly before thursday's u.s. presidential debate a former business associate of joe biden's son comes forward more allegations of corruption against the biden family. after the horrific slaying of a history teacher friends confronts radical islam muslims fear they will bear the brunt of the government's response. without fear that you want to be out to maybe be cure for all for what the poorest of my freedom of speech as a human rights activist is literally all do but it's.

you watching weekly here on r t a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us. peru has decided not to buy doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine being developed by the british firm astra zeneca them aside a lack of data from the company after the death of a trial volunteer reports claiming a 28 year old male doctor in brazil died while taking part in advanced stage 3 trials run by astra zeneca an oxford university it's not known whether he received the actual drug or a placebo meanwhile the us has now permitted trials to resume after they were temporarily halted there and other countries have also restarted them in recent weeks. has more now on the race for the 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 v vaccine that works that saves millions of lives and brings in billions of dollars and visits in clinical trial all things go wrong they have astra zeneca who is vaccine it is has already suspended trials last month after another patient developed a strange illness but the trials must go on clients 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 a 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 their 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 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 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 should take what 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 over all region in 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 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 i chair for the us libertarian party national committee our menorah 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 it's already kind of an 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 as a politically important issue and people are going to look very closely at how the candidates treated do they treat it as a government issue an individual choice issue or something else entirely. joe biden classed again in the final presidential debate this week over a former business associate of biden's son stole the spotlight and that interview he gave just 90 minutes before the 2 candidates took to the state as 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 a horrible evils of the kind of money that you were raking in you and your family and joe you will 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 she's accusing me of is a russian plane you mean the laptop is now i know the russia russia russia hoaxer you got exactly what does this tell you exactly why this is where he's going right up is russia yes i mean i wish i want to stay on the issue of right you have to be kidding here we go again with the russia e-mails that trump reference had been published earlier by the new york post after reportedly being found on an old laptop of 100 by it claimed joe biden was well aware of his son's dealings abroad and he met personally with some of hundreds of foreign business partners all while holding the office of u.s. vice president joe biden as we heard denies any corruption in all social media giants twitter and facebook took down links to that new york post article citing

concerns over the origin of the source material in response republicans are now demanding the heads of both firms 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 under biden story we didn't think about the christopher c.e.o. which exploded across the world we get so used to get creams utterly discredited and so far on f.b.i. so relieved to be it's crystal clear that whoever is these are pretty sober events and very nice companies heavily say we says our mainstream media the less and less and this is pushing down back aggressively right now it ways and i think we may very well suppress results in 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 necron it came after moran pledged to defend friends a secular values and fight radical islam on the recent brutal killing of a teacher. but we will not give up caricaturists or drawing even if others retreat. zeeuw saying look. it 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 samuel a party who had shown controversal cut cartoons of the prophet muhammad 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 says 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 and was the victim of an islamist terror attack.

and this is a concern class of russian nationality and of chechen origin benefited from a refugee status and lived in the year that he was not known to the intelligence services on a judicial level he's never to be convicted of the laws known for cases of damaging public property and gang violence while still the mind of. the fuel 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 of violence by i don't think that this act of terror is a crazy man state but a premeditated act. the fallout from the killing has seen a one mosque apologizing for sharing a video denouncing some prior to his death the government though still ordered its closure with the prime minister. announcing more mosques would be shut as well the french interior ministry has launched numerous audits of muslim and jews and dozens of raids have been carried out against suspected islamists but law abiding muslims now fear they will suffer from the government's response human rights activist louis tea and counterterrorism specialist chris phillips share their views on the french government's response. were are quoting me asking me whether i was rated or

not so how can we stop for into 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 of and my freedom of speech as a human rights of like to this is literally on the balance this property so widespread we're talking. basically literally thousands of people who 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 i saw that's going to go on for a long time to count them don't be at least a generation. still had finding shows no sign of letting up between armenia and azerbaijan and the disputed they're going to cut off the region of reports from there and also from

a neighboring azerbaijani region and the 2nd half of the program. the world is driven by driven shaped by one percent of those great. day or thinks. we dare to ask. what else seemed wrong. but i. just don't. get me well. yes to shape out just the active. and engaged with equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back to the weekly armenia and azerbaijan have been fighting over nagorno-karabakh for more than a month now and hostilities show no sign of letting up or the ports of shelling and parts of the disputed region once again this week are she's a guest on have sent this report from near the front lawn. 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 big 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 their 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. our 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 artsy. dollar trump has promised to sort out the conflict calling it an easy pace but he might have his work cut out for him because tensions over nagorno-karabakh stretch back. more than 3 decades although the region is legally part of azerbaijan it is populated mainly by ethnic armenians since the fighting flared again last month both sides had

agreed to a 2nd humanitarian ceasefire but have since accuse each other of violating it fighting continues not just across the disputed region but beyond its borders as well officials in azerbaijan claim the city of tar and neighboring areas came under armenian shelling on saturday but it shows an unexploded shell near residential buildings there local journalists most as a day was caught up in shelling while reporting from outside in azerbaijan a factory. let's look at what you did notice about isn't this you out i mean you have on the vision because she yeah you know i've studied with me of the girls as complicity of design 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 bassma. move. to louis has been voting through the direction of that suv or

not 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 from fly as it only morning clear when does it. from there it was there of the war this huge and has became an a.p. sinter of fire to the ethics of armenian side. with a record setting 29 fights on worlds of mixed martial arts lightweight champion has announced his retirement from the sport the russian revealed he had promised his mother that his latest clash would be his last on saturday night hubby beat his american rival and a 2nd round knockout in there you actually title bout in opera dobby it was his 1st fight since his father who was also his coach and passed away have you. spans reacted with joy.

emotions running high voices even straining was one of the most difficult for her. despite all the difficulties with the death of his father had been displayed on strong russian spirit through glad that he won and indeed his career in such a way demonstrated to the whole world he is the. earlier today at least prime minister announced a new swath of code that measures all gyms cinemas and something polls have to close all bars and restaurants can't open past 6 pm public anger had already boiled over in rome last night after a curfew was imposed. protesters hurled projectiles out police and set off fireworks and the colors of the italian flag only 7 arrests were made the 2 officers were also left injured.

with italy currently clocking up almost 20000 new infections a day one local governor had 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. 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. they got reaction from a telling us about the new restrictions take on. but 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 deluca even before called it in my view

it's a pretty silly holiday where catholics you know this america sort of ration is not appropriate to me and so you know she has 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 holiday so you agree with 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. and what's becoming something of a weekend tradition since the disputed election back in august massive crowds of demonstrators have once again flooded the streets of the bell russian capital. this protest comes on the last day of an ultimatum set by the opposition for the embattled leader alexander look at go to resign stun grenades to disperse the

demonstrators who've been peacefully marching through the streets near the president's residence and a number of arrests were made although no casualties have been reported yet. that's our breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week or more and all those stories and the latest news. our facebook. ready. an entire village in alaska. if another country threaten the wife of an american.

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a long while but you also heard that more things change the more they stay the same well the coming years production elections featured many firsts the 1st contest situation areas and the 1st vote during a nationwide down in tactics employed she did not track and distract voters remained remarkably kind of. system allegations of corruption from the right to leeches in here and us from the loud spiced as usual with claims of russian interference getting any dirtier while to discuss that i'm now joined by dimitris the deputy had at the center for comprehensive european and international studies

at the higher school of economics in the ministry it's good to see your again thank you very much for taking time to talk to us. thank you it's my pleasure hello now the last time we talked you predicted that the 2020 campaign is probably going to be the dirtiest campaign in american history reach to me frankly if you wasn't that hard to predict you will the very crabby and investigative tools and shrinks used over the last few years do you know besides have anything left up their sleeves to try to defile their home and with well i think all the arguments all the accusations all the dirt that could have. presented them poor against each other during this election scheduled as or has already been made already do not exclude that as something other colder months some other issues

asian scam can emerge. to tell the truth i don't think that that will be fundamentally decisive of course one of the unique features of these elections is the majority of the people vote by mail. you know made people care already made their. decisions samurai. made their minds i am. well. you know your actual clear eyes of the president the jerks of dirty feature nature of this company ultimately be that as a result of with the. with substantial president for the last several decades polarize a show of not just american political elites but also american society well they need to pass on what you define as derek let's talk about what i think is that

substantively that a little news story bad and many mainstream. i'm outlets have and nevertheless try to bury either by ignoring it altogether or trying to get the russians i'm talking about hunted by its laptop reportedly abandoned at a repair store and allegedly containing a tro compromising material what is the most striking thing for you about this story well for me as a russian observer is a russian political analyst the most i would say most striking by sending a negative feature of this story is that russia is accused by both sides in that it was very explicit in the latest presidential in the latest debase because we don't trump and joe biden they both accuse each other.