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In fact they didnt go either not only because its too dangerous but because the Commanding Officer that particular platoon didnt want us filming that. Thanks for joining us this sunday morning on out international its the week ahead what we look at the stories been grabbed headlines this week. And one that really got people talking peru has decided not to buy doses of a potential corona virus vaccine being developed by the british astra zeneca the most cited and lack of data from the company after the death over trial volunteer a man in brazil reportedly a 28 year old doctor pasta way up to taking part in phase 3 trials run by a us to seneca in partnership with oxygen to foster city its not known whether he received the actual drug or placebo the u. S. Food and Drug Administration is now allowed resumption of trials off to other countries also restarted them in recent weeks Senior Correspondent mark gaza have cost a critical look at the race for a 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 theyre sure its 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 whose 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 the 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 isnt only orgy it isnt politics and it isnt the electoral process. That say it is the vaccine we dont 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 rancid 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 koreas 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 do fast and thoughts that we have a vaccine thats coming its ready its going to be announced within weeks and its going to be delivered we have operation work speed which is the military is going to distribute the vaccine and just as it brazil theres 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 dont worry were going to end this by the summer were about to go into a dark winter. Are you think its going to be a very skeptical American Public about taking a backseat and it should be if the doctors tell us that we should take it ill be the 1st in line to take it absolutely but if Donald Trump Tells us i said to him that weve taken im not taking it it was clear from the get go that there would be a race for a vaccine what we didnt 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 lets just hope that efficiency and Public Health also get a little consideration despite the court of ours fact seen being much anticipated americans are now less keen on it than ever before according to a survey by start on the harris poll this month only 58 percent of americans are ready to receive the job but its a drop of more than 10 percent since the previous. Often voer as vice chair of the u. S. Military and Party National Committee Says vaccination should neither be compulsory nor politically motivated. When you politicize medicine generally the results are bad and thats 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 would you take a vaccine that hasnt 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 theyre 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 this is something where its not a one answer for everybody thats the problem with government trying to make these decisions were trying to politicize them these are individual Health Decisions just like we have individual dietary decisions that we make for ourselves we have to make these individual Health Decisions based on our actual needs are actual perceived risk not on some sort of blanket decision made by a government so when you now have some thats 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 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. From president s recording at one point to talk to you for coming full tension thoughts off the top as president. Cost us passions on his french counterpart macross Mental Health unquestioned his treatment of french muslims following the model of atlanta fire radicalized if i missed. We will not give up caricature drawing even if others retreat. Needs mental treatment what else can you say to a head of state who doesnt understand the freedom of faith freedom of belief and treats millions of different people of faith living in his own country in this way france has announced a crackdown on islam islam following the killing of teacher summer party who allegedly showed caricatural solve the muslim prophet mohammed to his pupils the suspect 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 and declaimed any while the disclaimed any connection saying his citizenship had been revoked after he was granted asylum and france consequences of the murder includes one mosque apologising for sharing the video denouncing party prior to his death and defending free speech many french t. V. Channels started showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad the French Interior ministry has launched numerous audit of muslim and geos and dozens of raids have been carried out against suspected is a must but laura biting muslims now fear they will suffer from the governments response deepened ski reports. In the wake of samuel pattis gruesome murder the french state wants to show that its being quick to act police have raided the homes of islam is activists engaged on social networks more than 80 investigations for online hatred have been arrests have already taken place since yesterday around 50 associative structures will see a certain number of visits from state services all week long and several of them at my suggestion will be dissolved in the council of ministers this latest terror attack is only likely to harden the state starts already led to more accusations that muslims need to take cover or are calling me asking me whether i was raided or not so we have wished the poor into that everybody is scared that there would be 5 or 6 oclock in the morning i fear that you know i will have to maybe be careful of what i post and my freedom of speech as a human rights activist is literally on the balance among still going on as asians in the crossfire n. G. O. S including the collective against islamophobia in france also known as c c i f it describes itself as being Human Rights Organization Whose Mission is to combat islamophobia but france is interior minister says the group is linked to a parent to launched a fatwa against teacher samuel party which it thought led to his assassination it received state age we have evidence to say that it is an enemy of the republic c c o f says it is the victim here since yesterday we have been the target of Death Threats and a companion of hatred that demands the dissolution of. Face through so many smears of incredible indecency given the context our team is now receiving growing support thank you from the heart rates following terror attacks are commonplace but for some of these purges dont target the root. Of the problem this program be so widespread were talking to have people 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 in belgium and other countries so theres just an enormous number of people and by the very speaking out want to. Be from the extreme and that will do some good but this is a problem i saw thats going to go on for a long time to count the least a generation islam isnt in france was already in the spotlight in recent weeks president emanuel might call that outlying details of a new nor aimed at protecting frances secular republic from foreign influence is not going said a minority of the countrys estimated 6000000 muslims were in danger of forming a counter society and accusations followed that he was trying to a price is low in france. Associations to defend the rights of muslims who are bought off by microns police in short the message is muslims were going to screw you up. Well the french unanimously condemned the attack which led to the beheading for professor yesterday some take the opportunity to settle their scores by slipping into the most abject islam a phobia the interior minister says its now possible to see how political islam has joined forces with radical islam and ultimately is leading to terrorism many muslims may now feel that they are under attack with suggestions that some real pattis death opens the floodgates to a political trial of those organizations say the struggle against islamophobia charlotte even ski r t paris. The fierce struggle between armenia and azerbaijan open on our car park has been ongoing for a month now and hostility showed no signs of letting up with reports of shelling in parts of the disputed region even on wednesday not far from the front line our correspondent equals donald. 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 back 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 hes 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 that kept essentially 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 the positions but the city of martek out of 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. 00 strong attack here now that the command knows how storage the resistance is theyve cranked up the bombardments by an order of magnitude. Lavonne 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 dawn of reporting from the Northern Front plain in the going to care about to see. Tensions in a want to stretch back more than 3 decades but the fighting escalated in last september although both sides agreed to a 2nd humanitarian ceasefire they have since accused each other of violating it fighting continues across the disputed region spilling now beyond its borders local journalist omar it was the thought it was actually caught up in shelling while reporting from outside in azerbaijan a factory. This is a good way to build us voters and those who had a 1000000 good when they do so if it isnt particularly shiite you know absolutely with me the closeness capacity of the several would be to rebel if you do not that. Is not to do reproduce but then it does tell us is this new admins that fast. New smooth. Heavy artillery has been walked into the direction. That as soon as the not so exploded so often and so loudly that we could heard it from the neighboring city which is sort of cool with this fall from the from flying as it only morning crew went as a thought the suit him from the really close there of the war this soon jim has became an a. P. Center of artillery at the school marm union side still ahead feeding the limelight for the final president ial debate in the us a full a Business Partner of joe biden makes damaging allegations against the democratic hopeful with all the details that much wolf in just a moment. When almost seemed wrong. But old rules just dont hold. Any you get to shape out these days becomes agitated and in the game equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person with those. Things. We fear to ask. Welcome back we all know 6 it never on the thought is just around the corner and i dont say dont trump and joe biden crossed swords and the final president ial debate stealing the spotlight however a former business associate of joe biden songs spoke out in a blockbuster interview just 90 minutes before the 2 continents took to the stage and many argue has was backed up all those allegations of corruption which have long been stalking the bite. Joe biden say that hes never discussed business with hunter. That is false d i have firsthand knowledge about this because i directly dealt with the biden family the emails so horrible even of the kind of money that you were raking in you and your family in jail you will Vice President when some of this was happening and i think you owe an explanation to the American People if i did my job is complete i carried out u. S. Policy not one single solitary thing was out of line not a single thing 50 former National Intelligence folks who said that were this hes accusing me of is a russian plane you mean the laptop is another russia russia russia hoax or you got exactly what does this tell you exactly where this is where hes going are up is russia yes i know she i want to stay on the issue of race to be kidding here we go again with the russia the emails that trump referenced had been published by the New York Post often being extracted from Hunter Bidens broken laptop the materials claimed joe biden was well aware of his son stealing support and then he also met personally with some of his sons foreign Business Partners or of course while Still Holding the office of u. S. Vice President Joe Biden up to this point has publicly denied any corruption meanwhile social media giants twitter and facebook took down links to that New York Post article during the eye of republicans who now demand heads of both funds to testify before congress and my colleague mccarran discussed social medias role in this upcoming election with a few of august. 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 by our own if we are so relieved to be Crystal Clear that whoever is these are pretty sober events and our Previous Companies heavily say were 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 of the freight 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 of the there she was much free speech is possible and that means there will be their speech but the only remedy for bad speech is good speech. Finally the u. S. Has caused confusion with mixed messages about the ongoing presence of its troops in afghanistan but after officials linked a long promised reduction to conditions on the ground a further statement by nato chief also failed to offer any clarity on the situation Going Forward we will be looking at conditions on the ground to determine if there is a capability to draw down more troops which we all would hope the 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 when the time is right or when the conditions are met we will leave together in there but according to an orderly way. Around 12000 nato personnel are still deployed in afghanistan in support of its mission while the u. S. Which sent forces back in 2001 has gone down to just over 8 and a half this is all part of the trumpet ministrations pledge of a total pullout by the spring of 2021 with violence and war torn afghanistan persisting former british soldier joe clinton travelled to investigate a series of civilian killings according to Human Rights Watch they were committed by cia backed militaries heres a snapshot of clintons report but you can catch it in full on you tube on the redfish platform. 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 when youre separating people there kill you or they take the 0 units arrived at the house of abraham and hajis nephews they interrogated them for several hours then they shot the weapon drops where in 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 must change the Current Situation that is not accept us they had extensive documentation of their operations in the weapons caches kills and arrests for the local people there to support killers that are going there. Killing innocent people and the official line is that they are under afghan central. Trials that all. They 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 that funded by the cia they have no accountability to either the u. S. Or afghan government. By for me for the moment welcome back at the top just hide you if until then. An entire village in alaska. If another country thrun the wife of an american. We do everything i. Wanted them to scraping Climate Change is the same threat right now alaska 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. It is fast and that means the river is 35. 00 closer than how. Was your or i think were part of earth for. A long while going to also part of it the more things change the more they stay the same well the coming years production elections feature many firsts the 1st contest situation areas and the 1st vote during a nationwide down in tactics employed cheat and track and distract voters remain remarkably consistent allegations of corruption from the right so leashes in here just from the law spiced as usual with claims of russian interference cant get any dirtier while to discuss that im now joined by Dimitri Simes deputy head of the center for comprehensive european and International Studies at the high. School of economics in moscow may say its good to see your again thank you very much for taking time to talk to us thank you its my pleasure hello now the last time we talked you predicted that the 2020 campaign is probably going to be the dirtiest campaign in American History reach to be frank with you wasnt that hard to predict when all the emmys vera crabby and investigative tools and shrinks used over the last few years do you know besides have anything left up their sleeves to try to defile their home and with well i think all the arguments all the accusations all the dirt that could have. Presented them poor against each other during this election scheduled as or has already been made already do not exclude that as something other colder months some other issues asians can. Emerge. To tell the truth i dont think that that will be fundamentally decisive of course one of the unique features of these elections is the majority of the people vote by mail. You know made people care already made their. Decisions samurai. Made their minds i am. Well. You know your actual clear eyes of the president the jerks of jersey it features the nature of this company ultimately be that as a result of 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 in 2000 what did you find as derek lets talk about. What i think is that substantively valuable news story data and many mainstream outlets have and nevertheless try to bury either by ignoring it altogether or trying to get on the russians and talking about hunter buying his laptop reportedly a