in the stories that shape the week peru rejects purchasing the astra zeneca cope with 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. and 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 the 2 who will have to maybe be careful for what they post of and my freedom of speech as a human rights of the activist is this what it was about it's.

watching the weekly here on our t.v. a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days i'm donald quarter welcome to the program. now pru has decided not to buy doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine being developed by the british firm astra zeneca limas 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 an oxford university it's not known whether he received the actual drug or a placebo but meanwhile in the u.s. has now permitted trials to resume after they were temporarily halted and other countries have also restarted them in recent weeks oregon's d. it has more on the race for a cure. there is always the risk with any vaccine any clinical trial

that statistical improbability that would point to 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 this case in brazil there have been no 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 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 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 with billions urging them to go fast and thought 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 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 a 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 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 for the us libertarian party national committee arvin vora says vaccinations should neither be mandatory nor politically motivated. when you politicize medicine generally the results are bad and that's one of the reasons that many libertarians have advocated for getting the f.d.a. entirely out of medicine to get the government tiredly out of medicine abolish the f.d.a. and cut our taxes accordingly see the thing is each person has to calculate their own risk their own situation right now the american people are being given a different question which is why would you take a vaccine that hasn't really gone through any kind of long term testing where you could not possibly know what the long term effects are so obviously people can have a little bit colder feet when they're dealing with something that is a lot less well known and then other vaccines that have decades of of of dated

research behind them so when you now have some that's already kind of 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 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 emanuel macron it came after macron pledged to defend france a secular values and fight islamic radicalism following the brutal killing of a teacher. we will not give up caricature or drawing even if others retreat. zia's send the. needs of 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 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 and moscow says his russian citizenship was revoked after he was granted asylum in france. uncle said one of our compassion is was murdered because he taught our compassion it 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 you ever in the year that he was not known to the intelligence services on a judicial level he's never to be convicted the law is known for cases in damaging public property and gang violence while still a minor. 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 oh violence 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 one mosque apologising 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 of muslim n.g.o.s and dozens of raids have been carried out against suspected islamicists but law abiding muslims now fear 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 really did or no it's so we

have wished for him to 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 i post of and my freedom of speech as a human rights of activists is literally all about a group would be so widespread. to be literally thousands of people who are would be deemed to be in some way straight to terrorist groups in the u.k. in front. so there's just an enormous number of people on that want to. be from the extreme and that will do some good but this is a problem of a sort of that's going to go on through a long time to be at least a generation. well into 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 and 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 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 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 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 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 met personally with some of hunter's foreign business partners all while holding the office of u.s. vice president although joe biden as we just heard denies any corruption in while the russian president has commented on the allegations while speaking to russian media vladimir putin says he's not aware of anything criminal biden son has been involved in while doing business in ukraine including you when you would use 2000. which became deed boyden hands and maybe has a business in ukraine i don't know about that but it does not concern us that soul concerns americans and ukrainians only well yes hunted by name 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 origin of the source material in response republicans are now demanding the heads of both firms testify before congress nikki aaron spoke with analysts about the social media giants role in the upcoming election. facebook google and twitter previously vowed to prevent election to fair and 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 the uninvited 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 by our own f.b.i. so we needed to be crystal clear that whoever is these are pretty sober events and are very nice companies heavily say was as is our mainstream media no less than democrats and it is pushing down back aggressively right now in ways that i think we may very well suppress results and say the 2020 election in this country do you think many ways to be legal changes to restrict the power of online platforms to decide what we can accommodate quite frankly we are moving at a startling pace in terms of all these platforms and we don't have 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 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.

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welcome back to the program now shocking scenes from new york where donald trump supporters have gotten into vicious fist fights with opponents. at least 4 people have been arrested after a driver for the trump supporters convoy brawl down the street with a female anti tromp demonstrator police were also seen putting handcuffs on an injured man who was lying on a stretcher. now in other news armenia and azerbaijan have

agreed to a new cease fire starting 8 am local time on monday and a joint statement was released by the 2 opposing sides and the u.s. government reaffirming their commitment to abide by the humanitarian truce agreed in moscow on october 10th the 1st ceasefire attempts 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 because they all have sent this report to us 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 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 i guess don of reporting from the new. in the going to care about oxy. 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 than 3 decades the 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 but it shows an unexploded shell near residential buildings there and local journalist moves as a day it was caught up in shelling while reporting from ing and out from outside

and azerbaijani factory. this is a good point you did notice about isn't this you out of many a good i'm not sure if it isn't because you know you know i've said it with me there is no scopus you know you have to settle for peter roebuck you do know that that. don't exist but there are stars that let this new admins that past. move. has been walking through the day. after that scene so exploded so often and so loudly that we could heard it from the neighboring city which is so cool with this fall from the air from flying as it only morning when does it seem to have come their way that is there of the war this has become the center of thanks from army inside. now

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 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 in their u.f.c. title bout in abu dhabi it was his 1st fight since his father who was also his coach had passed away at leeds fans celebrated his win. emotions of running high my voice is even straining i think it was one of the most difficult for him. despite all the difficulties with the death of his final the hubby displayed a strong russian spirit through glad that he won indeed his m.m.a.

career in such a way he demonstrated to the whole world he is the 1st. italy'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 remain open past 6 pm public anger had already boiled over and roll more 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 of officers were injured. with italy occurring 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 hollowing 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 parties everything will be closed on halloween from 10 o'clock and there will be a curfew. and we 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 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. on to our last story 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. comes on the last day of an ultimatum set by the opposition for the embattled leader aleksandr lucas shank go to resign police use stun grenades to disperse the demonstrators who've been peacefully marching through the streets near the presidential residence in minsk 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 facebook and check out our

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a long while the jewels of pride the more things change the more they stay the same well the coming years production elections featured many firsts the 1st contest of situation arians and the 1st though during the nationwide epidemic tactics employed to track and distract voters remained remarkably consistent over dishes a 4 hour. from there i am selling this in the end from the last minute and as usual with claims of rational interference in getting any different here well to discuss that i'm now joined by dimitris those left deputy had the central part called perhaps if european and international studies at the higher school of economics in moscow may say 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 reached to be frank with you wasn't that hard to predict you will leave your a crabby and investigative tools and shrinks used over the last few years g.c. on the side have anything left up their sleeves to try to defile their opponent with well i think all the arguments all the accusations all the dirt that could have been presumed to poor against each other during these elections because the reservation is already being made already do not exclude that as something other colder months some other issues asians can. emerge. to tell the truth i don't think that that will be fundamentally decisive of course one of the unique futures of these elections is the majority of the people vote by mail

. you know made people care already made their. decision. made their minds. well. you know your actual clear eyes of the president the jerk's of jersey it feature is the nature of this company ultimately there is a real. zoeth with the. with substantial president and for the last several decades polarize a show of not just american political elites but also american society well into 2000 what do you define as dirt let's talk about what i think is asked substantively that we will news story bad and many mainstream outlets have and nevertheless try to bury either.