Region. They couldnt take us to the front line and in fact they didnt go either not only because its too dangerous but because the Commanding Officer particular platoon didnt want us filming. Just after 11 pm in kuwait city. Right here in moscow this thursday october the 22nd welcome to r. T. International our top story some new information has come to light in the hunter biden email scandal potentially implicating his father democratic president ial hopeful joe biden across the story for us this hour. Tony who claims to be the former Business Partner of hunter biden the son of u. S. President ial candidate and former Vice President joe biden has come forward confirming some of the contents of the recently leaked emails the facts fool the blue a true and accurate any form of domestic or foreign disinflation any suggestion to the country is full and offensive i am the recipient of the email published by the new priest who showed a copy to hundreds of biden and. That email is genuine now mr bob alinsky he says that hunter biden helped him to become the c. E. O. Of Sino Hawk Holdings which is a company that facilitated transactions between the biden family and chinese corporations now its being widely alleged that somehow the position of Vice President by joe biden was used in order to make financial gain for the biden family through this corporation so Tony Bob Alinsky is coming forward to clear his name now he says that in the recently revealed emails that the references to the big guy which hunter biden makes these references to the big guy are indeed a reference to his father Vice President joe biden confirming according to mr bob alinsky that there is indeed some very serious corruption that went on hunt to biden cool to get the big guy might chairman and frequently reference asking him for his sign off for advice on various potential deals that we would discussing ive seen Vice President biden saying he never talked to hunter about his business ive seen firsthand that thats not true because it wasnt just hunters business they said they were put in the biden family name and its legacy on the line the c. E. O. Seems to be challenging the claim from joe biden that he was not involved in his sons business affair that seems to indicate that joe biden was indeed using his position as Vice President to benefit his Family Member financed. Really now at this point weve got joe biden still denying everything claiming this is all part of a Concerted Campaign against him this is the same garbage rudy giuliani. Its the last Desperate Campaign to smear me and my family now mr bob alinsky says he will be turning over the information that he has to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs as well as the Senate Committee on finance now what impact this will have on the way joe biden is viewed by the u. S. Public has perhaps standing in the polls in the lead up to the upcoming u. S. President ial election remains to be seen but this is a confirmation or further confirmation emails that were released and widespread allegations about the biden family and corruption and the election is indeed fast approaching just a dozen days no president will be hoping to cut into joe bidens polling lead to the final debate later tonight with a lot of a very different feel to the 1st road with a mute button and use to stop the candidates from interrupting each other the choice of topics will include the Climate Change on National Security but not Foreign Policy republicans say will deny the chance to attack biden over the business dealings of his son hunter which correspondent was just speaking about the controversy has been spiraling since leaked emails were reported by the New York Post links to the story were taken done by facebook and twitter in the u. S. Senate you discreet committee has asked the heads of those firms to testify overlay its political bias their Senior Correspondent up guess the it delves into a few other controversies. It is often the case that those who trumpet loudest about being fair and unbiased arent thats all but facebook really seems to mean that they want Fair Elections no meddling and the president that america wants and facebook wants so today i want to share the steps that were taking to protect Election Integrity and make sure that facebook is a force for good in democracy part of what facebook is doing is harboring people to police news and one of the things that theyre censoring is about the current scandal so joe biden his son and ukraine which involves alleged meddling abuse of power blatant conflict of interest and a whole lot of money going into the bidens family counts now if you try to share a link to an article about this on twitter or facebook here is what you get the link you are trying to access has been identified by twitter or our partners has been potentially spammy or unseat in accordance with tweeters you are poor see how does this happen how does that huge scandal get sent to the bidens have a lot of friends and one of those friends who now happens to work is Election Integrity police that facebook is a certain anima can do im not used to work as joe biden Senior Policy Adviser for europe and eurasia which includes ukraine perseid see when biden jr was raking in a standing sums of money for Ukrainian Energy company for doing well no one knows what while daddy told ukrainian authorities how to run that country. An American City by Senior Policy Adviser for ukraine at the time also listened to the calls and said release of the transcripts would only strengthen bidens case that he acted properly she helped biden prepare for the conversations and said the old created at a high level if this wasnt enough corruption and cronyism for you adna was also a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council which dubs itself a nonpartisan think that it also provided a slew of stuff for obama and his Democrats AdministrationJames Jones Susan rice etc the point is that the same time it was a devising joe biden at the same time his son was reportedly raking in millions of dollars from this Ukrainian Energy company the firm also began making payments to the Atlantic Council 100000. 00 in donations so under allen is what this company was paying both biden jr her bosss son and the Atlantic Council for which she worked and now shes at facebook which previously partnered with the Atlantic Council and are you at all surprised that stories critical of barton are now disappearing while i will intentionally not link to the New York Post i want to be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by facebooks 3rd Party Fact Checking partners in the meantime we are reducing its distribution on our platform breaking the news was ad d. Stone a career democrat and as is tradition now a facebook spokesperson you couldnt make this up remember what i said about those who proclaim the neutrality loudest well. Facebook is and always has been an open transparent and nonpartisan platform where people can express themselves freely freely are through approval from facebook senses and factious Election Integrity police and chances are a full of a joe biden stuff aside from that yes 3 earlier my colleague nikki earned discussed the link between social Media Censorship on the american elections with the number of guests. Facebook google and twitter previously vowed to prevent election to ferentz through their platforms to what extent do you think theyve managed to fulfill that promise i dont 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 isnt politics where does information is part of the game they showed a significant bias in going after the hunter biden disclosures and ive 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 didnt think about the christopher seal does 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 its Crystal Clear that whoever is these are pretty sober events and very nice companies heavily say we says our Mainstream Media the less than generous 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 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 dont have the laws that really apply to them theyve made promises they cant 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 its an assault on free speech so i think that the there she is much free speech is possible and that means there will be bad speech but the only remedy for bad speech is good speech. Ok moving the program all now a volunteer in a leading corona virus vaccine trial has died in brazil the drug is being developed by the swedish from. The along with Oxford University so far it has not been revealed whether the volunteer received the actual vaccine or a placebo according to brazilian media he was a 28 year old doctor who had been treating covert 1000 patients in an intensive care facility in rio since march he reportedly died from complications jew to the forests its not the 1st setback for the extras and it can fax scene in september tests were temporarily put on hold for a volunteer felt sick with a rare spinal disorder this time however the trials will continue following careful assessment of the skis and 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 but we spoke to mark ellman director of the Crisis Research institute in the u. K. He says the hunt for a vaccine has turned into a new version of the space race. The bigger problem all round is that unlike all creepiest attempts to develop vaccines for such dangerous diseases these are emergency measures being taken so theres obviously going to an element of greater risk anything that can reassure people that everything has been done in an open transparent way is probably the best policy the problem obviously is strong stand that there are extra christian commercial military missions from the competing producers of facts seems now that they dont necessarily want real information that could be helpful to rival the anxiety. Erap seen into production is overwhelming poaching thats true this is what we do see it legitimization all this issue its a bit about space race its a 6 years ago to get the 1st 2 facts to have a huge boost d their standing as a country in terms of what we are well. Partial ostrich. Russias president has given a video address some of the scotian forum here in moscow focusing on interNational Security and the pandemic lattimer put in a speech on q. And a session run for almost 3 hours at the annual valdai club with more heres our taste all quarter. The main themes were of cooperation and protecting the sovereignty of every countrys Democratic Institutions he did begin with talking about the importance of a combined effort against the worlds coronavirus pandemic and he slammed western sanctions that have on purpose or inadvertently stopped many countries from receiving some of that vital humanitarian assistance they need to combat the coronavirus and that actually at that point went hand in hand with another point he made about the danger of trying to impose democracy on other countries as the issues. Of true democracy and Civil Society cannot be imputed as they cannot be a result of the exigencies of foreign will issues even if they stand simply want to are to the biggest this could be possible in theory but to be honest i have never seen its and i dont believe in it so that statement may have been a reference to the situation in bell or where protests against the countrys Election Results have been going on since the beginning of august both the us and the European Union have slapped sanctions on the country a move that the government there is calling for an intervention now we also heard the russian president touch upon the possibility of a new arms race without limits the world will have no future if there are no limits to the omes race thats what we should all think about and well be urging opponents to think about it earlier this month the russian president called on the United States to renew the new start treaty for a year and without preconditions at such a expire in february but so far the u. S. Has refused renewal even though it would significantly reduce the number of Strategic Missile launchers in both countries arsenals would also touched upon the alleged poisoning of opposition figure ill explain a volley casting doubt on russias involvement since he was transported to a german hospital immediately after the event is the british are going to quickly move to if you authorities want to poison someone they would hold the sentence germany for treatment when the wife of the citizen approached me i immediately instructed the prosecutors office. To look into the possibility of yes can go proved for treatment he could have refused as he was under certain restrictions cheechoo criminal procedure. A little bit about the vald i conference the 17th annual conference a very important one its the 1st one in history completely open to the general public and journalists there been a number of International Experts speakers from countries like austria india china and russia of course they all came here to talk about the real issues that the world faces today so this was definitely a monumental event for international relations. Still ahead in the program a former british soldier has being to afghanistan to investigate a series of civilian killings knots and more in 90 seconds of code. Is youll be a reflection of reality. In the world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being that. Direct. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or remain in the shallows. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics or business im show business ill see you then. Hello again. Under media remain locked in their heaviest fighting since the 990 s. In spite of 2 cease fires theres ongoing shelling in the disputed nagornokarabakh region you have done a phase in the area. Right now we head into the north to the Northern Front line which is one of the 2 remaining major hotspots in the corner cab out our drivers brother is serving there so hes bringing food and warm clothes as were going our driver keeps glancing to the right theres only a couple kilometers between our car and theres eerie artillery the road is being heavily shelled. The homely smell of freshly baked bread filling the car seems out of place as were approaching the frontline town so this is where we had to get out the city of the century they couldnt take us to the front line and in fact they didnt go either not only because its too dangerous but because the Commanding Officer of that particular platoon didnt want us filming there so that we dont 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 i mean ian forces managed to repel a 700 strong attack here now that the command knows how storage the resistance is theyve cranked up the bombardments by an order of magnitude. 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 theres 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 odyssey. The car about food stretches back more than 3 decades and erupted in late september. And armenia twice agreed to pause. But of accused each other of violating those agreements the region is populated mostly by armenians but is legally part of azerbaijan on wednesday but claimed it took control of several villages in the war torn region and dates Defense Ministry published this footage as evidence we spoke to some as yuris who fled their homes in the quarter car back almost 30 years ago when the conflict 1st broke out. Im overwhelmed with joy weve been waiting for this for 27 years and all of a sudden you hear the news of liberation when we were forced to leave our village i felt so terrible as i was leaving the grave of my brother behind me i was trying when visiting his grave for the last time as the enemy was approaching. By the time of occupation i had been married for a year and had a young child left her village with empty hands thanks to the authorities and our soldiers will be back home soon let my internal house with all belongings disappear i just want my land back i need that land. We left our hearts and souls the. Best memories are tied to the city for these past 27 years ive been thinking of when we would return i lost almost all my colleagues i worked with we were scattered throughout the country i knew the city is liberated i can hardly believe it. The 1st thing ill do is restore my house i have so many dreams and desires for when i am back it is hard to express it in words i told my kids a lot but they need to see the place on their own to fully understand my stories leaving food really was the end of the world for me i was 14 all i remember is bombs being dropped on our heads i am so happy and grateful to our soldiers that i can make my dream come true the years of displacement will be in my memory forever i do not wish that on anybody. Another story were following today the u. S. Has infuriated china by approving a major arms deal with taiwan the state department has given the green light to 1800000000. 00 worth of weaponry for the territory including missiles and artillery the trouble ministrations recently ramped up its support for taipei with which the u. S. Maintains direct diplomatic relations china meanwhile considers any dealings between washington and the territory to be interference in the countrys internal affairs and the Chinese Foreign ministry has warned of retaliation over the latest. Easy invitingly and we urge the United States to recognize the serious damage caused by arms sales to taiwan and to abide by the one china principle we were to end arms sales to taiwan and military ties with the territory to avoid further harm to china u. S. Relations and to promote peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait china will give a legitimate and necessary response depending on how the situation develops the u. S. Department of defense and says so ever develop boosting tell you well as the fence capability is simply a way to disincentive allies aggression by other powers the recipient will use this capability is a deterrent to regional threats and to strengthen Homeland Defense the proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military balance in the region. China specialist under long believed the dispute is unlikely to escalate into a major standoff between the us and china. A lot seeing the cuban crisis as it were in the Taiwan Strait but of course this is absolute absolute lie as far as. The child is. Big clearly. On how the things develop but i think that weve come to the show. Of the likely candidate without a geisha will be sensually who was of the ships perhaps or the state department. I dont think that is going to be the war because all the. Been sold to taiwan. And there is protected under the u. S. Taiwan relations act anyway but i think that theres been pushing against but merely the breaking point. I dont think that they get i was swans them to cross the group with them because that would be. On both sides. The u. S. Is giving mixed signals on its military presence in afghanistan the troubled ministration has pledged to drastically reduce troop numbers by spring but the u. S. Ambassador to nato threw those plans into diet on whedons theyre Going Forward we will be looking at conditions on the ground to determine if there is a capability to draw down more troops which will would have that conditions would allow us to do that but certainly the conditions have not been met at this time we went into afghanistan together we will adjust together and when the time is right or when the conditions are met we will leave together according to an orderly way. Well run 12 fellows in nato personnel are still employed in afghanistan in support of its mission there the u. S. Which sent in forces in 2001 of july 8600 soldiers on the ground its all part of the trial but ministrations pledge of a total pull out by the spring of next year. With violence in war torn afghanistan persisting former british soldier joe clinton traveled there to investigate a series of civilian killings according to Human Rights Watch they were committed by cia part of militaries were going to show you a snapshot all of his reports you can catch it in full on you chewed on the red fish for. So im back in afghanistan to find out the story behind the headlines crimes record levels of civilian deaths and the story of the 0 you know shadowy cia practice of death schools killing people in the us to come crashing into your point and theres. Been you know youre separating people theyre kill you or they take 0 units arrived at the house of abraham and hajis nephews they interrogated them for several hours then they shot the weapon drops wherein weapons would be placed on bodies to frame them as terrorists extra judicial killings the use of pictures pictures of dead bodies for propaganda when will you be referring the 0 units to the International Criminal court because these look to me like war crimes must change in one word if i could see it change the Current Situation that is not acceptable where us they had extensive documentation of their operations on the weapons caches kills and arrests for the local people there to support killers that are going there in killing innocent people and the official line is that they are under afghan control to see a centrally controlled it all. Be funded but they also control it they also hand out the operation this war is less accountable than ever what was once the job of u. K. And u. S. Special forces is now being carried out by these socalled 0 units and the fact theyre funded by the cia they have no accountability to either the u. S. Or afghan government. This is our chief international you know neal is your. Foreign. But you stay close sizemore great programs get going in moments find out what is showing where you are for the shortest of bricks. In the. Papers or the. U. S. Losing rolaids we have part of the brain right here in the middle thats on the right side very high with assimilated and even Healthy People one through 4 sold out of body experience. An entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out an american town. We do everything in our power to protect the. Water then escaping Climate Change is the same threat right now alaska seems some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world we lost about 35 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. 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