Correspondent is in the disputed. Region. He 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 that. Just a few moments into our brand new day here in the russian capital friday october the 23rd good to have your company im you know no. New information has come to light in the hunter biden email scandal potentially implicating his father democratic president ial hopeful joe biden. This hour is across the story. 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 blew a true and accurate than 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 York Post which showed a copy to hunt of biden and group will come 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 called has done it the big guy might chairman and frequently reference asking him for his sign on 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 financial. 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 trumped. Its the last is jeffords is just a 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 and 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 on a certainly is upcoming in the u. S. Election just a dozen days away president trip will be hoping to cut into joe bidens polling lead out the final debate it happens later tonight love a very different feel to the 1st round with a mute button no news to stop the candidates from interrupting each other the choice of topics will the main ones are the pandemic Climate Change enough security not or policy republicans say will deny trump a chance to attack biden over the business dealings of a son hunter which our correspondent was just going through the controversy has been spiraling since leaked emails were reported by the New York Post links to the story were taken by facebook and twitter in the u. S. Senate Judiciary Committee the heads of those firms that testify over alleged political bias are Senior Correspondent goes the of delves into develops on a few other controversies besides. It is often the case that those who trumpet loudest about being fair and unbiased arent at all but facebook really seems to mean that they want Fair Elections no meddling at 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 harming 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 twitters 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 it 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 a 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 tank it also provided a slew of stuff for a bomber 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 adam is what this company was paying both biden junior bosss son and the Atlantic Council for which he 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 nonpartizan platform where people can express themselves freely freely are through approval from facebook senses and factious Election Integrity police and chances are a form of joe biden stuff aside from that yes free ride goes the of taking us through got another of my colleagues nikki irwin discuss the link between social Media Censorship on the American Election with a number of guests earlier. 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 f. B. I. So we really need to be Crystal Clear that whoever is these are pretty sober events and very nice companies heavily say were says our Mainstream Media the less and less and this is pushing down back aggressively right now in ways that i think we may very well suppress results and say the 2020 election in this country do you think many 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 increased government regulation and i think its an assault on free speech so i think the 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. To another headline stories a volunteer in a leading corona virus vaccine trial has died in brazil the drug is being developed by the anglo swedish firm along with Oxford University so far it hasnt been revealed whether they volunteer receive the actual vaccine or a placebo according to brazilian media he was a 28 year old doctor whod been treating covered 1000 patients in an intensive care facility in rio since march he reportedly died from complications due to the virus well its not the 1st setback for the astra zeneca vaccine back in september tests were temporarily put on hold after a volunteer felt sick 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 heard from mark alman director of britains Crisis Research institute 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 the open transparent way is probably the best policy the problem obviously is some extent that there are extra christian commercial military sions from competing produces a pack seems now that they dont necessarily want real information that could be helpful to rival the amazon. Erap scene into production is overwhelming poaching thats true this is what we do sit legitimization all this issue its a bit space race its 6 years ago to get the 1st 2 facts you have a huge boost in a country in terms of what we are it will be who it was partial. Russias president has given a video address on a Discussion Forum here in moscow focusing on International Security on the pandemic blood amir putins speech on q. And a session run for almost 3 hours at the annual involved die club heres our donal 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 knows the issues. Of true democracy and Civil Society cannot be imputed as they cannot be a result of the exigencies of 4 and well wishes even if they stand simply want to add to the biggest this could be possible in theory but to be honest ive never seen its and i dont believe in it so that statement may have been a reference to the situation in bellary 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 will be urging opponents to think about earlier this month the russian president called on the United States to renew the new start treaty for a year and without preconditions 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 but it 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 hope he sends him to germany for treatment would be when the wife of the citizen approached me i immediately instructed the prosecutors office. To look into the possibility of lets go broad for treatment we could have refused as he was under certain restrictions to criminal proceedings. A little bit about the vault 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. Youre watching International Still ahead a former british soldier whos been to up to investigate a series of civilian killings weve got this story. For the. Let me take. My favorite or. Losing rides with part of the brain right here. On the right side. And even Healthy People one of the roof. Of the body experiences. Again. And armenia remain locked in their heaviest fighting since the 1990 s. In spite of 2 cease fires theres ongoing shelling in the disputed nagornokarabakh a region and that is where eager sure the left is right now we head into the north to the Northern Front line which is one of the 2 remaining major hotspots in the corner carabao our drive his 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 artillery the road is being heavily shelled. The homely smell of freshly baked bread filling the car seems out of places 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 the positions but the city of market cap 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 azeri command knows how stupid the resistance is weve 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