Elite. From our International News center in moscow this is r t a warm welcome to the program my names you know on our top story a u. S. Federal judge has told washington it must stop alleging that a russian firm accused of election meddling was funded by the kremlin or face a range of potential sanctions the court found that such. Claims against the Internet Research agency which are not included in the 28 an indictment against that risk prejudicing a jury im joined live by. Senior correspondent to put some lights on to this breakdown if you would the court ruling and the potential significance of it well its huge no other way to describe it its very big in. Did at 1st but its quite simple really 1st a little background the Mueller Report the us investigation the media everyone accuses russia of carrying out a sweeping Systematic Campaign meddling campaign in the us election into in 2016 they did it via 2 methods the 1st one was. Intelligence Agency Hackers g. I you had kids who broke into the d. N. C. Systems they allege stole a bunch of embarrassing democrat emails and then released them causing again embarrassment for the democrats all again allegedly russia denies all of this the 2nd part of the operation described by William Burns the special counsel report outlines 2 main efforts by the russian government to influence the 2016 election. First the report details efforts by the Internet Research agency a Russian Company with close ties to the russian government to sow social discord among American Voters through descent from asian and social media operations. Now if youd been listening carefully you would have noticed he said Russian Operations or russian state of russian government operation the Internet Research agency theyre called the troll farm in the United States and the media theyre accused of spreading disinformation of Backing Trump denigrating Hillary Clinton spreading fake news meddling in the election theyre currently fighting a legal battle against the United States government and the judge has come out and said that the government must now. Hes ordered the government to refrain from linking these companies the Internet Research agency and the russian government because in the Mueller Report william said in the new report that they link this company to the russian government theyre carrying out orders of behalf of the russian government they offered proof saying the head of this Internet Research agency is an ally of lied to me a putin that theyve had a number of government contracts and they leave it at that thats supposed to establish that the company was acting on behalf of an extension of the russian government in the indictment the legal document with the charges with the accusations they make a new search link they call them a private entity a private company and this is why the judge has come out and said you know youve offered this new evidence you vote for office no substantial proof linking this company to the russian government so any meddling which they allege in which again russia denies couldnt have been done by the russian government because this is a private company this is a private entity this is this is what it all routes down to and the judge said it is significant and prejudicial that the government itself drew a link between these defendants and the russian government again a major blow to the mule an investigation which labeled this meddling that they see. As a russian systematic sweeping russian government effort. You know another another whole another challenge to the mula accuracy of the Mueller Report in addition to to all the other previous. Holds that have that have been looked at and published by pundits by legal experts for example yes exactly this is a us federal judge ordering the government to stop referring to this company which they accuse of carrying out one half of the meddling as and then 30 of the russian government. You know a further hold to add other inconsistency such as their lack of confidence in how exactly these emails were hacked because even the hacking of the g. R. U. Intelligence agency which they accuse of breaking into d. N. C. Email service they say appear to have stolen this information theres a lack of confidence there then theres a lot of confusion about how we can leaks got this information a lot of confusion about timeframes. This is very recent sure theyll be much more discussion about this but again another challenge to the mueller of court right thanks very much for taking us through all the arts our senior correspondent. And other big story of the week the u. K. The bus routes of us sir kem doric has announced he is stepping down after a series of highly critical comments he made about the Trump Administration were leaked to the press in confidential cable sent back to officials in london the diplomats describe the white house as dysfunctional inept and chaotic. Since the leak of official documents from this embassy theres been a great deal of speculation surrounding my position and that your ration of my remaining term as ambassador i want to put an end to that speculation the Current Situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as i would like. Britains most senior diplomat has been forced to resign and that comes after donald trump the president of the United States said hed no longer be able to deal with him hes emails to the United Kingdom they in fact were leaked and they describe Donald Trumps administration as inept now this political scandal has been on ruffling over the last few days Prime Minister to resign may and the labor leader Jeremy Corbyn they were able to publicly back human fact they said it was regrettable that he was forced to resign and theresa may went a step further in the house of commons earlier today explaining that british diplomats and politicians should be able to stand up for the principles they believe in if indeed they feel theyre under attack this is a matter of great regret that he has felt it necessary to leave his position. The. Whole cabinet rightly gave its full support to the kim on tuesday. So kim has secured has given a lifetime of service to the United Kingdom and we owe him an enormous debt of gratitude. Now it must be said that these robust assessments are in fact routine and secure Diplomatic Communications but of course donald trump has taken to his favorite platform of social media twitter to vocalize his anger in fact calling. Few fit guy i know it must be says that number 10 has tried to distance itself from said kim dereks assessments and communications by saying that they do not really support the u. K. Governments opinions having said that its all up to number 10 or theresa may and what they have to say in fact all eyes are now on Boris Johnson or jeremy hines of course one of the 2 will become the next Prime Minister and both of them have very different opinions when it comes to this political saga the what he ambassador that the u. K. For we stood upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with a very stupid guy he should speak to his country and Prime Minister. May about their failed break that negotiation and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was donald trump friends speak frankly so i will these comments are disrespectful and wrong to our Prime Minister and my country you said the u. K. U. S. Alliance was the greatest in history and i agree but i need to treat each other with respect and threes a maze always done with you ive got a Good Relationship with the white house and i have no embarrassment in saying that the United States is has been will be for the foreseeable future our number one political military friend well there you had the gaffe prone guy Boris Johnson with his usual explicit flair and of course this has angered many in the house of commons who are deeply critical of Boris Johnson stance in fact that also includes the foreign 1 Office Minister sir alan duncan and hes accused mr johnson of throwing the ambassador under a bus now we do know that the British Government has announced a full scale investigation into how these unvarnished thoughts of the kim derrick ended up on the front pages of a National Newspaper over the weekend following that many really are enraged and they really do believe that this is a very bad day for british diplomacy a very bad day for angloamerican relations because they consider the former now ambassador of the u. K. To the United States as a man who has been hailed with the height of professionalism and class in todays going on the ground here on r t a former White House Communications director tells Afshin Rattansi he believes the British Ambassador was the victim of a political hit job inside the Foreign Office i asked afshan who might if anyone stand to benefit from circle mr parcher. Well of course Boris Johnson presumably the new Prime Minister of this country into weeks and was the foreign secretary and had access to all manner of the intelligence operators but of course in a sense this is also mysterious and i did ask a nice guy and we gee about this we know through Edward Snowden who is taken asylum in moscow that the 5 eyes project indeed the National Security agency they have access to encrypted emails all around the world why did it take a leak from london to a british newspaper to inform donald trump that britains man in washington had such a low opinion of donald trump do they not know these things without people here for whatever political reasons for whatever whatever hit me and reasons they can they just get it from surveillance do they really need it leaked because of internal politics here that is about the succession after theresa may in downing street. The sex trafficking and child abuse trial of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is spilling over into the white house with President Trump forced to defend his labor secretary alex acosta when the cost there was a u. S. Attorney in miami he signed off a plea agreement in an earlier case involving epstein which critics say was far too lenient its been a great really great secretary of labor the rest of it will have to look at we have to look at it very carefully but youre talking about a long time ago and again it was a decision made i think not by him but by a lot of people so were going to look at it very carefully Jeffrey Epstein whos a registered sex offender is accused of trafficking and luring dozens of underage girls to his milchan if im guilty face up to 45 years in prison now the democratic leadership is putting pressure on donald trump and his team over a potential obstruction of justice. Secretary costa must step down as u. S. Attorney he engaged in the conscionable agreement with jeffrey abstain kept secret from courageous young victims prevented them from seeking justice this was nailed by the president of the us when he appointed him to the cabinet i am calling on secretary acosta to resign instead of prosecuting a predator and serial sex trafficker of children. A cost to try to lead a more fifi jeffrey abstain a billionaire caught trafficking underage girls between 20022005 has been arrested yet again this time after horrendous new evidence came to life beginning at least 2002 and continuing until 2000 fog ive seen is alleged to have abused dozens of victims epstein is well connected and hes evaded these charges for years thanks to a deal he made with the costa when he was the u. S. Attorney in miami instead of being charged with sex trafficking and child rape he only pled guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting prostitution from a minor while serving his time epstein had up to 12 hours a day 6 days a week as a work release at his Downtown Office he served only 13 months before then being released on probation during his probation epstein took numerous trips to both the Virgin Islands and new york city in his private jet and a new evidence has forced a costa now come forward and defend his decision to give such special treatment to a sexual predator. With the evidence available more than a decade ago federal prosecutors. Go to jail register as a sex offender and put the load on notice that he was a sexual predator now that you havent seen additional testimonies available the new prosecution offers an important opportunity to more fully bring him to justice so democrats just heard about this we are dealing are filled with outrage well actually no theyve known about it for quite some time this is a cost his confirmation hearing back in 27 seen the lawsuit questions why trumps nominee for labor secretary former miami u. S. Attorney you know xander across to cut a nonprosecution deal with epstein a decade ago rather than pursuing a federal indictment in fact the nature of a cost as punishment if you can really call it that was never secret the department of justice. As defended the actions of the office in that matter under both president bush and president obamas administrations so why the sudden outrage well according to Chuck Schumer timing is everything the president needs to answer for his statements he has made about his relationship with mr epstein particularly since President Trump appointed mr acosta to such a powerful position see the issue is that a trumpet ministration official is now caught up in the outrage around Jeffrey Epstein and trump indeed does have some skeletons in his closet when it comes to the epstein case epstein visited mara largo however according to the attorney who represents one of epsteins victims trump threw him out after he started making passes at underage girls on the property furthermore trump seems to be the only prominent individual actually cooperated with the investigation into epsteins crimes trump is the only person who picked up the phone and said lets just to give you as much time as you want we will need to know it was very helpful so that does not put trump in the clear he certainly was familiar with the sexual predator however so was bill clinton the former president actually took 27 different flights on Jeffrey Epsteins private airplanes some of them without being accompanied by secret service and there are rumors circulating that there were underage girls on the plane clinton had his secret service with him and many times he did not almost every time that clintons name is on the pilot logs there are underage girls there are initials and there are names of many many girls on that. Private plane but clinton is just background noise right now epstein fits in with the anti trump chorus from Mainstream Media the federal sex trafficking case against donald trump old friend Jeffrey Epstein times to both the president and notably his labor secretary alex our costume the man who cut that deal with him that was his job then now that labor secretary hes got supporters a report of this administration so perhaps the victims in this case should be happy that donald trump was elected after all until trumps name was brought in and attached to the case there seemed to be far less interest an outrage about epsteins atrocious crimes from certain voices. R. T. New york we keep the newsroom here nor to international in 90 seconds. When we all make this manufacture consensus instead of public wealth. When the ruling classes protect themselves. When the final merry go round lifts and we the one percent. We can all middle of the room sick. And you try and be professional you try and leave it outside the door you try and put in a comma compartmentalizes and you bright and so you can forget about it but little by little these. These little whispers come and for me it was actually putting some ice into my wifes glass of gin and time i saw it on the sound of ice cream to the glass reminded me of how we kept the bodies cool in bali which was with bags of supermarkets ice. 19 minutes into the Program Welcome back germany has rejected an official request from washington to send Ground Troops to Northern Syria in order to support the United States of terror operations there the decision appears to be in line with child star angle americas position that there is no military solution to the conflict the bad loans like thats what we remain convinced that only a political process based on u. N. Mechanisms is capable of ending the bloodshed in syria given the Syrian People the opportunity to decide their countries please. A future in free elections together with the u. N. And International Partners do many will continue to make Real Progress the u. S. Request to germany was made by senior diplomats on friday he said washington was seeking military trainers logistic specialists and technicians to replace some of its personnel saying they would not necessarily have to engage in direct gun but despite Islamic State having collapse losing all of its territory america say it is keeping troops in syria in kurdistan to maintain security. With us live not to be a member of the left party in germany for his take. I put it to you was germany right to reject this request particularly given the possible consequences for europe as a whole if the experience is a resurgence in syria while the i ask has not been defeated by the American Military presence i ask has been defeated by the Russian Armed forces and the forces of the legitimate president of socks and so there is no part and. Tidy against isis there in fact its quite illegal what the americans dish you cannot just be present in the territory of another country without being invited by its legitimate government and since germany has not been invited by president assad we cannot just send troops there so the government was right and its this is not to send troops the u. K. And france have agreed to send more special forces to syria why does germanys thinking defer to their do you think. Well i think. The position of germanys government right knol is influenced by the growing Peace Movement that we have in this country just over a week ago we had a blockade of the us average in germany where groups from the radical left but also from religious groups fought together to stop this abbes from. Making terrible drone attacks all over the world and so the Peace Movement in germany is the real threat for this government and this is something that you can see in its policy nol and also if you look at the election the upcoming state elections where marcus party is probably going to lose power and Marcos Coalition poppy the s. P. D. They are pulling at their lowest in over a century. So they are scared of the voters and rightly so german vote us dont want any foreign intervention in syria just go to us what their army to stay here do not intervene and part of that do you think that germanys rejection of the us request may affect its relationship with the us i mean of course the trumpet ministration how they are going to react to the. I dont think theyre trying to ministrations going to react positively to it but because they are so used to getting their way with the German Government especially with Angela MerkelAngela Merkel has been a patsy of the american governments since george w. Bush when it is george bush who want to join in support for the iraq war for the illegal iraq war then and Angela Merkel who was a position leader at the time chasa sized the German Government for not sending troops and for not participating in the coalition that fought the illegal iraq war so Angela Merkel is very much in favor of every u. S. President even when president obama was caught red handed to be listening in to her calls with the n. S. A. Surveillance scandal she didnt really care so it is a bit unusual for her not to follow through with any request from washington but you have to understand in the context of the growing Peace Movement throughout germany ok beyond very good to get your take as always be on the soli a member of the left party in germany. A global conference for Media Freedom is underway in london cohosted by the u. K. Canada but r. T. Russia Sputnik News Agency has been barred from the party is nearby. 60 minutes is thousands of reports and thousands of esteemed members of Civil Society and academics are all due to attend this inor grewal conference on Media Freedoms around the world its hosted by the u. K. In the canadian government here in london one of the special guests is a certain clooney the International Human rights lawyer also the wife to the hollywood Actor George Clooney shes been appointed britains special envoy on Media Freedoms here at this event the gates to which is just behind me but guess who isnt going to be inside thats right its me here i am billy no mates outside left out in the cold because myself and my artsy colleagues and also colleagues at sputnik which is the other russian News Organization that board cost in english weve all been banned from attending the global conference on Media Freedoms we applied in good time for press accreditation like all the other Media Outlets and we received a pretty standard stock reply i said unfortunately we have been unable to approve your application to a credit as media i think that should have been a warning sign but we thought maybe we just theyve run out of space theres nothing specifically about us in that reply but behind our backs other news channels got a very different message we have not accredited or sputnik because of their active role in spreading disinformation well its not possible to accommodate all requests for recruited fiction journalists from across the worlds media are attending the conference including from russia the russian government isnt impressed with this lack of hospitality to say the least the Russian Embassy here in london has written. So the Foreign Office to express its expressed resolute disagreement with what has taken place and Russias Foreign Ministry spokesperson maria zahar of are also weighed in take a listen the organizers demonstrated their true intentions in 2 to Media Freedom by turning the event into the means of achieving opportunistic political and we believe other countries and responsible journalists will draw their appropriate conclusions and we hope that human rights n. G. O. S and Relevant International actions hes will not shy away from stating their position. And the r. T. News organization itself has released a statement take a listen it takes a particular brand of hypocrisy to advocate for freedom of press banning inconvenient voices and slandering alternative media. The world has learned to expect just that from the u. K. Foreign office are not the only journalists that cant attend the global conference on Media Freedoms i dont want to compare myself to Julian Assange but the editor of wiki leaks is currently incarcerated in a prison. And there is a small demonstration here calling for his release chanting freedom to Julian Assange and now julian the songes mother found out about r c not being allowed to attend and shes tweeted her response take a listen to why she thinks we havent been allowed maybe r. T. Will still listen practicing Media Freedom by reporting the facts of the political persecution of my son journalist giuliana sons nor to norty dont you realize you are supposed to get Us Government clearance 1st then and only then are you free to publish one more important thing to note here which i think is quite curious is that all the russian state funded news outlets which broadcast in russia so some colleagues of mine who. Here in london has been allowed they have been accredited and they have been inside attending the conference for me im out here and ive got my eyes on this pizza restaurant. Pauli boyko well some more great programs get their start in moments here. And colins in the studio at 30 with all the updates all the busy news day hope to see you soon. Greetings and salyut ations here in the United States of america there has been one insidious enemy of hardworking patriotic American Adults since the early part of the 20th century a graver threat to the graver threat than communism far more dangerous than terrorism im speaking of course about the dreaded american teenager yes the United States fear of the teenage mind has a long history in this country from the 1950 s. Fear of juvenile delinquency to the 1960 s. Brutal teenage uprising of growing long hair and singing songs of peace and love. Of course we cant forget about those dangerous morose teenage slackers from the 1990 s. And todays selfindulgent selfrighteous of a condo toast eating social media obsessed generations e. And their socialist millennial brethren but thankfully thankfully the city of philadelphia may have finally found a way to keep the public safe from these dangerous teenagers roaming our streets and that is sonic weaponry yes you heard me correctly according to a. B. C. News the parks and Recreation Department in the city of philadelphia has since 2014 installed a device called the mosquito in parks around the city and that the device goes off from 10 pm to 6 am blaring a high pitched sound that anyone over the age of 25 should not be able to hear its currently installed at 31 city run locations in philadelphia the devices are meant to prevent vandalism and loitering by teens and young people at these public parks naturally this is led to some pushback from the community with Philadelphia CityCouncil Member helen jim telling the news media quote i dont think that this project is going to is going to go any further until it meets with the full scrutiny to the public and that we have some serious attention paid whether this is the best use of our money you know my friends i think its