in the stories that shaped the week the room rejects purchasing the astra zeneca coded 1000 vaccine after lab data is withheld and a volunteer dies during the trials all the tests 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 with more allegations of corruption against the biden family. and after the horrific slaying of a history teacher confronts radical islam but muslims fear they will bear the brunt of the government's response. we're not your adult you want to be how to be cure for all for what the poorest of my freedom of speech as a human rights activist is literally all the balance.

you're watching the weekly here on our team 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 lima sided 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 though it's not known whether he received the actual drug or a placebo meanwhile the us has now from the charles to resume after they were temporarily halted and other countries have also restarted them in recent weeks. has more now on the race for a cure. there is always the risk with any vaccine any clinical trial that statistical improbability that northpoint an old 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 this case 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 idealogical will relate to all disputes brazil is in an awful situation 150000 coronavirus dead 2nd only to the united states things on pretty that korea's 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 $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 is the same fellow who told you that don't worry we're going to end this by the summer we're about to go into a dark winter. i think it's going to be a very skeptical american public about taking a back seat and it should be if the doctors tell us that we should take it i'll be the 1st in line to take it absolutely but if donald trump tells us i said to him that we should take it 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 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 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 not a drop of more than 10 percent since the previous survey back in august vice chair for the u.s. libertarian party national committee are going to says vaccinations should either be compulsory nor politically motivated. when you politicize medicine generally the results are bad and that's one of the reasons that many libertarian 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 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 but a politically important issue and people are going to look very closely at how the candidates treat it do they treat it as a government issue an individual choice issue or something else entirely. france has recalled its ambassador to turkey after the turkish president questioned the mental health of his counterpart among all macross and it came after moran pledged to defend francis secular values and fight radical islam following the brutal murder of a teacher who no one else can we will not give up caricature or drawings even if others retreat. zia's said of the macro 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 some in a party who had shown controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammad to his pupils the 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 and moscow says his russian citizenship was revoked after he was granted asylum in france. i know one of our compassion is was murdered because he taught our compassion and was the victim of an islamist terror attack that. i'm.

missing and this is the concern possibly of russian nationality and of chechen origin benefited from a refugee status and lived in you ever a leader he was not known to the intelligence services on a judicial level he's never to be convicted the last nodes a case of damaging public property and gang violence while still the mind of. the fuel he asked the 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 that's 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 staying at a premeditated act. the fallout from the killing has seen one mosque apologizing for sharing a video denouncing some your party a prior to his death the government still ordered its closure with the prime minister announcing more masks would be shot as well the french interior ministry has launched numerous audits of muslim n.g.o.s and dozens of raids have been carried out against suspected is a mess but law abiding muslims now fear they will suffer. for more on this because live to her attorney at law in paris specializes in middle eastern studies and relations thank you for joining us on the program how is the muslim community taking the french government's response to parties murder. thank you for having me

the french muslim community. stop them very easily and they understand that because. the french muslim population are in good good relationship with french values and the weight of the french people leave so they do not i mean the french muslim people who always leave in trance very quietly they don't accept these acts of terror and they feel that the government is right in acting this way against radical islam in france what about when it comes to shutting these mosques that we're seeing. so they're shutting this mosque because in france we have a lot that has been passed in 1000 which sayes this separation of church and the government so they don't want this church to influence people to be radical and the mosque in front doors mosques that have been that have been closed and shut

that they are mosque that are funded by foreign countries we have few months in france that or funded by. more uk or turkey which as you just said and saudi arabia which try to import what hubbies in france and which funds all these mosques and even paid the money the moms that are preaching in these mosques are sent there by more awkward turkey and saudi arabia are kept out and they are paid by the government and the french government doesn't want that anymore now there have been reports of some muslims across the world organizing protests against the french response to suggesting boycotts of french products do you agree with their actions. i don't think i can argue with that because 1st of all when you boycott such a country or a certain region it doesn't change anything and it won't change the politics of

this country and these people that are boycotting french products they don't understand the french way of life and french french country french people are not against islam but they are against radical islam pretty you know is almost criticised because of the french politicians feel that president actually. is not doing is not doing anything and yet these radical islam so 2 weeks ago he announced that he wants to try to stop the radical islam in france and he wants to bring the muslim faith. in accordance with the value of french culture all right thank you we've been speaking with cora shiloh attorney at law in paris specializing in middle eastern studies and relations thank you for joining us on the program today thank you. donald trump and joe biden

clashed again in the final presidential debate this week however a former business associate of biden's son stole the spotlight and an interview he gave just 90 minutes before the 2 candidates took to 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 1st hand knowledge about this because i directly dealt with the biden family the e-mail so horrible evils of the kind of money that you were raking in you and your family and show you a vice president when some of this was happening and i think you owe an explanation to the american people if i did my job is complete i carried out u.s. policy not one single solitary thing was out of line not a single thing 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this she's accusing me of is

a russian plane you mean the laptop is another russia russia russia hoax and you got exactly what does this tell you exactly why this is where he's going right up is russia yes i mean i should i want to stay on the issue of right you have to be kidding here we go again with the russia the e-mails that trump reference had been published earlier by the new york post after reportedly being found on an old laptop of hunter biden's they claim joe biden was well aware of his son's dealings abroad and he met personally with some of hunter's foreign business partners all while holding the office of u.s. vice president although joe barton biden as we heard tonight is any wrongdoing in all the russian president has commented on the allegations while speaking to russian media a lot of their putin said he's not aware of anything criminal biden's son has been involved in while doing business in ukraine no kidding you when you would use to think that. he'd hunted boyden hands and maybe has a business in ukraine because i don't know about that but it does not concern us

it's all that concerns americans and ukrainians only well yes hunted by me is known to have at least one company which he actually hated and apparently good money with but i don't see any crime here at least we don't know anything about it. social media giants twitter and facebook took down links to that new york post article citing concerns over the origins of the source material and response republicans are now demanding the heads of both firms testify before congress my colleague here and discuss with analysts social media's role in the upcoming presidential 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 which exploded across the world we get so used to get creams so having been utterly discredited by our own f.b.i. so relieved to me it's crystal clear that whoever is these are operating these are events and are very nice companies heavily say we're says our mainstream media the less and less 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 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 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 of the freight of these platforms. arms 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 has much free speech as possible and that means there will be to add speech but the only remedy for bad speech is good speech. still to come fighting shows no sign of letting up between armenia and azerbaijan and the disputed i'm going to kind of block region

of reports from there and also from a neighboring azerbaijani region right after the short break. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. aura maybe in the shallowness.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back armenia and azerbaijan have agreed to a new cease fire starting 8 am local time on monday a joint statement was released between the 2 warring sides and the us government the new humanitarian truce is the 3rd in just a month the 1st 2 were repeatedly marred by accusations of violations by both sides a media and as a brush on have been fighting over to go in a car bomb for about

a month now and reports of shelling have continued in parts of the disputed region once again this week don i've 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 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. 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 artsy. earlier dahlan trunk

had pledged to sort out the conflict calling it an easy case but tensions over nagorno-karabakh popular mainly by ethnic armenians. stretch back more than 3 decades fighting continues not just across the disputed region but beyond its borders as well officials announced by john claimed the city of tar tar and neighboring areas came under armenian shelling on saturday but it shows an unexploded shell near presidential buildings there local journalists day it was caught up in the shelling of all reporting from outside and azerbaijani factory. this is a good point you did notice about is almost too late i mean you could have done that osha vision because she knew i could out of state it would mean the gross capacity of his adult would be terrible if you did not that. much but you don't have to do it but there are steps that led to this new bassma.

move. heavy artillery has been voting in the direction of that suv the night exploded so often and so loudly that we could heard it from the neighboring city which is so cool with this fall from the from clause as it only morning clear when because it taught us from the really close day of the war this sujan has became an a.p. sinter of artillery attics crowbar me inside. with a record setting $29.00 fights unbeaten world mixed martial arts lightweight champion hubby a 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 in a 2nd round knockout and there you have to see a title bout in opera dobby it was his 1st fight since his father who was also his coach and passed away. fell braided his went.

in my. the run in hi i'm a voice is even straining i think that was one of the most difficult for hubby. 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. on saturday italy's prime minister announced a swath of new code measures all gym cinemas and something poles have to close all bars and restaurants can't remain open past 6 pm public anger had already boiled over in roma friday night after curfew was imposed.

protesters hurled projectiles at police and set off fireworks in the colors of the italian flag a stubborn arrests were made and 2 officers were injured. with italy currently clocking up almost 20000 new infections a day one local governor 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. 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. and you say 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 to is deluca even before called it in my view it's a pretty silly holy day where catholics you know this america's liberation is not appropriate to me over 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 holidays i 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 and august mass crowds of demonstrators have once again flooded the streets of the belorussian capital.

they came on the last day of an ultimatum set by the opposition for the embattled leader alexander lukashenko to resign placing stun grenades to disperse the demonstrators who have been peacefully marching through the streets near the president's residence and minutes a number of arrests were made. as a breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week or more on those stories and the latest news follow us on twitter or facebook. congo. the maternity town the slums go in and you may never get out some sort of

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