in the stories that shaped the week pearl rejects purchasing the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine after lab data is withheld and a volunteer dies during trials although testing does continue. 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 france confronts radical islam head on but muslims fear they'll bear the brunt of the government's response. without fear that you know i would have to maybe be careful for what they post of and my freedom of speech as a human rights of activist these are all the bounds.

bringing of the rundown of this week's stories my name is donald quarter welcome to our international. peru has decided not to buy doses of a potential corona virus vaccine being developed by the british firm astra zeneca lima 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 it's not known whether he received the actual drug or a placebo but meanwhile in the u.s. the u.s. has now permitted trials to resume after they were temporarily halted and other countries have also restarted them in recent weeks we're out of has more on the race for the 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 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 careers and lives the economy and the election all hinge on that vaccine no wonder trump has been flooding pharmaceutical jobs 7 with billions urging them to go fast and faster we have a vaccine that's coming it's ready it's going to be announced within weeks and it's going to be delivered we have operation work speed which is the military is going to distribute the vaccine and just as it brazil there's a divide 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 this specially 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 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 and despite the rush to develop a successful vaccine polls show americans are now less willing 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 chairman of the us libertarian party national committee arvin vora says vaccination vaccinations should neither 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 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 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. how another news france has recalled its ambassador to turkey after the turkish president questions the mental health of his counterpart emanuel macron it came after micron pledged to defend france's secular values and fight islamic radicalism following the brutal killing of a teacher in the one we will not give up caricature or drawing even if others retreat. zia's says the. 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 and then visit the different

faiths 1st of all a mental examination france has announced a crackdown on islamic extremism following the beheading of samuel paddy who had shown controversial caricature of the prophet muhammad to his students. 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. on the case of one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our compassion it was the victim of an islamist terror attack.

and this is because on a judicial level he's never to be convicted the last node for a case 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 oh violence by i don't think that this act of terror is a crazy man steve but a premeditated act. now the fallout from the killing has seen one mosque apologizing for sharing a video denouncing samuel paddy prior to his death the government though still ordered its closure with the prime minister announcing more mosques would be shut down as well the french interior ministry has launched numerous audit's of muslim n.g.o.s and dozens of raids have been carried out against suspected islamicists but law abiding muslims are now in fear that they will suffer human rights activists yasser loudy and counterterrorism specialist chris phillips shared their views on the french government's response. to me asking me whether i was raided or not so we have wished the poor and the everybody is scared that they would be related to 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning here that you know i would have to maybe be careful of what they post of and my freedom of speech as a human rights of activists is literally all about and this group would be so

widespread. to be literally thousands of people who are would be deemed to be in some way. to terrorist groups in the u.k. in paris in france. so there's just an enormous number of people on the speaking out almost to. be from the extreme and that will do some good but this is a problem an assault that's going to go on through a long time to be at least a generation. now on to the us elections 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 in an interview he gave just 90 minutes before the 2 candidates took the stage his words appeared to back allegations of corruption currently haunting the biden family. joe biden say that he's never discussed business with hunter that is false 'd i have firsthand

knowledge about this because i directly dealt with the biden family email 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 there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what 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 what is says oh he's going to write up is russia yes i mean i should i want to stay on the issue of radio have to be kidding here we go again with the russia the e-mails the trump referenced had been published earlier by the new york post after reportedly being found on an old laptop of hunter biden they claim joe biden was well aware of his son's dealings

abroad and he had personally met with some of hunter's foreign business business partners all while holding the office of u.s. president although as we saw joe biden denies any corruption in while the russian president has commented on the allegations while speaking to russian media lot of here putin says he's not aware of anything criminal biden's son has been involved in while doing business in ukraine including you when you would do student. boyden hands and maybe has a business in ukraine i don't know about that but it does not concern us that soul you know it concerns americans and ukrainians only well yes one jim boulden 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 . meanwhile 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 are now demanding that heads of both firms testify before

congress and karen spoke with analysts about 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 so having been utterly discredited and so bar 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 was as is 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 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. 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 bad speech but the only remedy for bad speech is good speech. fighting shows no sign of letting up between armenia and azerbaijan and the disputed nagorno-karabakh region we'll have reports from there and also from a neighboring azerbaijani region stay tuned. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person with those great. dares

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welcome back to the weekly now our main man doesn't budge on have agreed to a new ceasefire starting at 8 am local time on monday a joint statement was released between the 2 opposing sides and the us government the new humanitarian truces the 3rd in just one month the 1st 2 were repeatedly marred by accusations of violations by both sides armenia and azerbaijan have been fighting over nagorno-karabakh for about a month now and reports of shelling have continued in parts of the disputed region once again this week don have 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 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 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. 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 dan of reporting from the northern front line in the going to karabakh r.c. . earlier donald trump pledged to sort out the conflict calling it an easy case but tensions over nagorno-karabakh populated mainly by ethnic armenians stretch back more. and 3 decades fighting continues not just across the disputed region but beyond its borders as well officials in azerbaijan claim the city of tartar and neighboring areas came under armenian shelling over the weekend footage shows an unexploded shell near residential buildings there and local journalist almira moves

as a day was caught up in the shelling while reporting from outside in azerbaijan a factory. let's listen to what you did notice about isn't this you out of me a good one not a physician because she knew i could not have stood it with me there goes those capacity of the 7th would be terrible if you do not that. don't exist but they must as well as is this new admins that past now. move. has been voting for them for days. that i'll soon be not so exposed to so often and so loudly that we could heard it from the neighboring city which is so thick you won't notice from flying as it only morning clear when. they were closed the war has become the center of.

the army inside. now on to a bit of sports news with a record setting 29 fights unbeaten world mixed martial arts lightweight champion how b.b. 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 beat his american rival in a 2nd round knockout in their u.f.c. title bout in abouta dobby it was the 1st fight since his father who was also his coach had passed away a fan celebrated his win. emotions the run in hi i'm a voice is even straining i think it was one of the most difficult phase for. despite all the difficulties with the death of his final the hubby displayed

a strong russian spirit glad that he won indeed his m.m.a. career in such a way he demonstrated to the whole world he is the best. now on to italy the country's prime minister announced a number of new covert measures all gym cinemas and swimming pools have to close starting from monday while bars and restaurants can't open past 6 pm public anger had already boiled over in rome early on sunday. protesters threw projectiles at police and set off fireworks in the colors of the italian flag at least 7 arrests were made and 2 officers were injured. while italy currently is 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 holloway in by ordering

a curfew on october 31st. nyquist main salary 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 a parties everything will be closed on halloween from 10 o'clock and there will be a curfew. got reactions from italians themselves about these new restrictions. and in my opinion it's stupid to think that closing all the night clubs will stop people from gathering because we can regroup in another place. i agree to is deluca even before called it in my view it's a pretty silly holiday where catholics you know this america's liberation is not appropriate to me and so you know says by god 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. now and what's become something of a weekend tradition since the disputed election back in august demonstrators have once again flooded the streets of the belorussian capital. it. comes on the last day of an ultimatum set by the opposition for the embattled leader alexandre lucas to resign police use stun grenades to disperse the demonstrators who've been peacefully marching through the streets near the presidential palace presidential residence in minutes a number of arrests were made although no casualties were reported. that's our breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week for more on

those stories and the latest news follow us on twitter or facebook and check out our website at r t dot com thanks for watching and i hope you have a good day. no i mean maybe up there so i don't think. i don't mean a grown man now for. i kind of were on the. course of the now i think it's higher than our. members of the africa mafias safe and quick passage to europe but once they. leave the country each util. will not some of them leave be

a mom and i couldn't you know if this unit were going to go to him. they sold the. lead. core of the. shifting alliances to washington's unrelenting policy assault against russia and china is already answered the world order what remains to be see is how most going to be genial together to confront a hostile also america ever being. joined me every thursday on the

alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. well while the 2 worlds apart the more things change the more they stay the same well the coming years for general elections featured many firsts the 1st contest of situation arians and the 1st bill during a nationwide condemning tactics employed to track and distract voters remained

remarkably consistent allegations of corruption from the right solutions in the end just from the loud spiced and as usual with claims of russian interference you can't get any dirtier while to discuss that i'm now joined by dimitri simes was deputy head of the center for comprehensive european and international studies and the cars full 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. now 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 your mind only you're a crybaby and investigative tools and shrinks used over the last few years gee thing besides having anything left up their sleeves to try to defile their opponent with well i think all the arguments all the accusations all the terms.

of being presented to them who are against each other during this elections because the reserve has already been made already to the excludes. as something other. some other issues asians can. emerge. until 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 email. you know maybe people care already made their. decision was. made their minds.