Abuse by the. Financier Geoffrey Epstein because the story did not meet its editorial. Desperation and protests and violence gripped the country on the scene since the overthrow. Of the day this is our international my names you know hello and welcome 30 minutes of news and views. General Election Campaigning in the u. K. Got off to a bud tempered start this whedons they were Boris Johnson launching a series of skipping a turks on the Opposition Leader the Prime Minister to the public to vote for his conservative party rather than german corbins labor which he claimed has failed to take a tough enough line. Come with us a government that believes britain should stand in the world or go with generally could be in the labor party who sided with putin when russia did poisonings the streets. Prime minister there in the grab that years referring to the script poisoning case back in march 28th seen of course russia did get the blame for this consistently denied all the allegations ever since because the Prime Minister theyre bringing up the scandal to basically discredit Jeremy Corbyn as part of the Campaign Going forward and it wasnt the only anti russian the negative russian reference thats been used so far in the campaign the Prime Minister has also compared Jeremy Corbyn the stalin saying that hes attacking the wealth of the landowning classes when response the labor m. P. Emily saw him self has raised questions over Boris Johnsons top advisor Dominic Cummings who spent 3 years in russia after he graduated in the 1990 s. And the Prime Minister is also being accused of a cover up as number 10 is failing refusing to publish a report by the security and Intelligence Services about russian insults in british politics and then i saw him break asked why so we are bound to ask what is downing street so worried about why would they not welcome an official report into attempted russian interference in the 26000 referendum whether successful or otherwise and i fear it is because they realize that this report will lead to other questions about the links between russia and brics it and with the current leadership of the tory party which risks the railing there. Election campaign however mr christian shares responded by saying theres nothing unusual in delaying the publication of the report ahead of the election as it needed to be examined and there was no proof of collusion its wrong or the rich for her to suggest that somehow the conservative party and this government is links to the russian this information given the way that her own Party Leadership was outed and the responsibility of her Party Leadership. There is no evidence to suggest. The kremlin has successfully gauged interference in electoral processes so with 5 weeks to go until the election the mudslinging has already started with all the parties trying to compromise each other but perhaps the best way to compromise you is to mention or perhaps indicate any allegations or any links whatever to do with russia. Well we can go live now to john gaunt john theres a talk show host and columnist ana is very welcome to the program john her acrimonious just from what weve seen in the past number of hours day wall of campaigning do you expect this Election Campaign to actually be are you surprised by the tone thats been struck today now i just cant bear the thought of a lot of 6 weeks of this complete nonsense when we vote to lead the to get broke said it wasnt just the playground all of their or both of their houses this is exactly the kind of rubbish that people of said oh with its just complete. Nonsense host cynical and was it of Boris Johnson to allude to the script poisoning there was no a lot wrong with response about instant water saying at the time clear evidence is needed here. Im no fan of Jeremy Corbin and i dont want to be number 10 but the bottom line is you just ask questions like i was asking and i still dont think of governments narrative and of course dont forget theresa may be Prime Minister or Boris Johnson was the cheerleader he seemed to know we would have our 48 hours said it was a case of the russians what the knicks read and heard different narratives all of which didnt really make sense to me and i think bring it up corbin on this particular issue i think is going to backfire i just think its ludicrous i think its childish it does not mean in any way that corbin supports putin or putin supports called it its just like the dominant government coming story which ill call you wont want to come onto in a moment its the same gone and. Well i think the british a letter of federal of the schoolchildren of garbage lets talk about policy is lets talk about what youre going to do to the country and less have our democratic right aid and how about this for a change when we do vote for whoever votes will and whoever wins one a year in parliament actually implement the what we the people tell you to do. Like you should have done over the e. U. Referendum result 3 years ago well thats the thing we start 5 weeks ahead of us are both labor on the conservatives are they offering a vision for the future or simply attempting to frighten the electorate into not voting for the other side well i think what youve got to remember is theyre in a 2 way battle where they are absolutely petrified about knowledge for arch and what the brics the party going to do hes now put in 06 and 2 candidates of course hes not going to form a government but he may well and reopens the balance of power so i think at the moment doris is a bit like a headless chicken so that said Jeremy Corbett completely confused on what their policies will be especially in regard to the e. U. They said it might have some kind of 2nd referendum but then they would. Vote against it its all concluded the bottom line is british politics is in a terribly terribly bad state we have a all Rotten Parliament and im not even sure after this election where there will be any less rot and we could end up with another parliament and i think the people the people of the u. K. All said look to them but with this nonsense lets hear policies lets have that debate lets not have facebook spats and all he said she said and did you know these quotes and tweets in this in 2015 its all stupid but lets get a little politics john thanks for your time and your thoughts this hour always good to have you on the program john gone talk show host and columnist. Elite video appears to cast doubts on the impartiality of americas a. B. C. News channel in it a Network Anchor claims the station quashed her explosive interview with an accuser not disgraced tycoon Jeffrey Epstein back in 2015 who allegedly detailed the convicted paedophiles predatory behavior in some detail the following is part of the video obtained by Transparency Group project protests. With everything. I have i tried for 3 years to get on to no avail and now its all coming out and i think these new well of revelations and i presume had. I was so right now like every day i get more work because i missed like 5 weeks it was all whatever we had it was unreal now this came to us from an insider within the network an insider who currently works at a. B. C. News leaked us this tape and that person is still on the inside so that we expect more to come here its quite telling that this insider leaked this tape to project their its us and not the Washington Post the New York Times c. B. S. Or c. N. N. Because they seem to want to protect the people that were working with Jeffrey Epstein again amy robach saying that f. Epstein was blackmailing people theres a lot of powerful people on those airplanes that amy is 100 percent certain he did not commit suicide i dont know why she wont say that publicly but there she is in the leaked tape on the set of the program saying these things when nobody is looking. A reminder of how this story actually developed 66 year old multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008 and was then register as a sex offender in july this year he was arrested again it was about to face trial over the alleged creation of a 6 Trafficking Network charges he repeatedly denied a month later epstein was found dead in his cell in an apartment suicide. Or princes more. Live t. V. One no one check your mike than check it again project has published bombshell footage of an a. P. C. And recorded in late august shortly after the disgraced billionaire was found dead in his new york jail cell amy roebuck side over 3 years ago she had exclusive material relating to peter fall writing material which had direct testimony from one of the victims photos as well as other evidence of his 2 u. B. S. Dealings which implicated high profile figures like bill clinton Prince Andrew she told me everything she did everything she was in for 12 years to come out to talk to us it was unbelievable what we had when everything robot claims the story was stopped from going to 2015 because according to the people as no one knew who was funny because just a few years before theyd been happily sipping champagne at his manhattan townhouse you see back in 2000 need to have the weights out to dinner and on all of the u. K. s Prince Andrew a dinner which was arranged on hosted by you guessed it south and among those who wouldnt know who epstein was what both a. B. C. And c. B. S. Phosphor 2015 managed to entice Virginia Roberts to frey one of the victims out of hiding produces for. Her and her family out to the a. B. C. H. Q. In new york and hosted and one of the big apples most Luxurious Hotels what they got was the scoop of a lifetime to free through wind open the door on the marquee world of apps tide and his entourage as they flew around the walt on his private jet dubbed the elite express palace found out that we have her whole allegations are false and true and threatened us a 1000000 different ways i viewed the b. B. C. Interview as a potential game changer appearing on a. B. C. With its wide viewership would have been the 1st time for me to speak out against the government for basically looking the other way and to describe the anger and betrayal victims felt i was defeated once again by the very people i spoke out against and once again my voice was silenced i could not believe that for a minute bill network like a. B. C. Had backed down and given while this exposition was obsessing more salacious than other reports on that side it wasnt the 1st time his morals have been called into question stories piecing together a tangled web involving bill clinton and Prince Andrew had sophos before images of the finance his little black book with hundreds of victims names and mugged alongside testimony from a 14 year old go claiming to have had sexual relations with the billionaire manhattanites gossip about how new york city lete was being ferried around on his private plane to his private island along with a coterie of very young women but all those revelations just like group box were put back in the troll at the time not all our reporting met our standards to air but we have never stopped investigating this story ever since weve had a team on this investigation and substantial resources dedicated to it that work has led to a 2 hour documentary and 6 part pod cast that will air in the new year youd be forgiven if that rings a bell. Because a. B. C. s response is uncommon the similar to n. B. C. s comment about its coverage. Of of media mogul Harvey Weinstein in the end b. C. Killed the story because they said you did not have enough facts it didnt reach their level of journalism yes we had multiple named women in every draft of the story we had audio of Harvey Weinstein admitting to a crime but more pertinently they ordered us to stop and it seems a. B. C. Was not the only one to fall into the trap of enabling epstein to evade true media scrutiny but its vanity fair and the New York Times had several allegations of his inappropriate sexual behavior but chose to stick to safe stories on things like the origins of his wealth and was sought to be careful to avoid reporting some of the more suspicious details surrounding his death are a lot of men in those planes a lot of men visited that island the powerful man who came into our hands in 2 i think he was killed 100 percent yes and maybe a. B. C. Was right no one knew who epstein was or maybe it didnt want to get on the wrong side of some very powerful people people who if you believe the room was might just now have blood on their hands lips things a lawyer can talk to the b. C. Network at the time seeing the allegations being made by the accuser interviewed by the channel could not be trusted well be. Slightly since the video was released. Amy robach explain that our comments were made in a private moment of frustration but funder project for a tell us again james okeefe says a. B. C. Doesnt shy away from other high profile cases. You can see how frustrated amy robock when you listen when you watch this tape it directly contradicts what a. B. C. News is saying publicly now about not having enough corroboration there theyre fine airing the allegations against maybe Brett Kavanaugh for or trump or anybody else but when it comes to bill clinton and some of these folks that are mentioned by amy in this hot mike tape they say they just didnt have enough corroboration im not sure how a. B. C. News defines a corroboration when it comes to credible witnesses talking about Sexual Assault but the only conclusion i can draw is that a lot of these Network Executives are very close to the people that were hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein per amy amy roebucks. Lets get the thoughts though on all this from Andrea Walker andries a political commentator a new York Observer columnist good to see you again andre it b c news said that the story fail to meet its editorial standards based on whats happened since what do you make of that reasoning. Well i think the big difficulty here is precisely what james okeefe just said why is it that there appears to be one rule for one group of people and the mill the rule for another group of people i dont have a problem whatsoever with not broadcasting allegations against people that dont cooperate said but that is precisely what happened to Pratt Kavanagh and time and time again we see it with anybody on the rights whether that be donald trump right the way through to local representatives in britain and america and so i just think that theres a great degree of hypocrisy here boortz him is the thing that i really want to know and i dont care about trial by media im much more interested in the Police Looking into this and the judicial process why time and time again the clinton kopel have this way if around the just seems to be deeply disturbing and deeply distasteful and you know time and time again were expected to ignore suggested indiscretions by bill clinton said in a way that we would not do for the people of why decide exist now hey look im not a conspiracy theorist but it is on doubt italy true that there is one rule for one group of people and the rule is still clinton and hillary just point into let me bring it back to 27 dana a. B. C. Aired a report saying former National Security adviser Michael Flynn was a budget to testify about president trumps alleged russian contacts during a 2016 Election Campaign it was based on sources never proven what might have been different for the story to pass the editorial standards. Will put we are all the time didnt wait 1st when they would go on with pretending that the president s trump was a russian spy then they decided that he was ukrainian spy despite the fact the and i dont mean to be rude to your audience these 2 countries are at war with each other so you know you cant be both look at the editorial standards are we going to be deeply boston were going to support our people which is fine if you were doing that in the polls. But if what youre actually doing a smearing people who appear to be innocent or at least for whom there is no evidence of gates that theyre not thats actually where it becomes said i think time and time again the media in both britain and america are they did the rest of western world has been guilty of the do some stories require less verification in your opinion. Well donald trump was a russian spy i mean that was a particularly egregious example was nates and i actually really had no basis whatsoever in fact so look i do think that we see tyrants i began one rule for one group of people another rule for another group people i want us to say bias does not bother me it doesnt bother me that the b. B. C. Dont give the same ring to practice it is they do to remain those what sets may is where there are serious allegations of impropriety Sexual Misconduct fraud spying treason where really with very little evidence these are allegations are made against right wingers whereas it would never be made against people on the political left under good to have you on the program under walker political commentator and new York Observer columnist. And you. Lets bring you know to a rock where authorities are holding talks on whats being called constitutional amendments and all that entails we dont quite know it comes amid all the growing violence in the country around 260 people are believed to have been killed or a sense of government demonstrations started a month ago protesters are demanding a Major Overhaul of political system which was established after the u. S. Led invasion back in 2003 hawkins has been delving deeper. Iraq is no stranger to turmoil the country has seen little peace and even less the billet since the us led invasion of 2003 mass protests and violence of regulating gulf the state of these though are the worst since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein 16 years ago d. Hundreds killed dozens in just one week by live ammunition many thousands injured amid a heavy crackdown by Security Forces or the governments deployed special forces imposed curfews and an internet blackout across the whole country but thats just angered crowds even more roads and bridges have been blocked by demonstrators who have also tried to take over buildings both in the capital baghdad and across other cities why is this happening with these protests address years of grievances corruption unemployment poor Public Service is there a source of anger across many countries but in iraq things should be different iraq should be thriving the countrys oil revenue has exceeded 850000000000 in the post saddam years with production nearly doubling despite the internal strife with iraq estimated to hold almost 10 percent of the globes proven reserves its prospects should be growing a report by the International Energy agency predicts revenue to hit nearly 5 trillion dollars in just over 15 years time and optimistic estimates set back by years of conflict but you get the picture just months ago any joy in sex on a b. P. Were fighting for the right to build a pipeline in the country with tens of billions. Dollars at stake and yet reality for most of the rockies is bleak last year iraq was ranked 168th out of under an 80 by corruption index but for people surviving on a day to day basis thats one of the smallest concerns the World Food Program reveals more than half of iraqis are at risk of Food Insecurity with unicef figures last year showing one in 4 children living in poverty so what happened former u. S. Defense secretary robert gates stated on a visit to baghdad that a new era was just around the corner more than ever i believe the goal of a secure and stable and democratic iraq is within reach almost 12 years on things couldnt be further from the truth to make sense of post intervention in iraq and where exactly the grievances of lawyer lets speak to nicholas j. Davis author of blood on our hands the American Invasion and destruction of iraq mr davis thanks so much for joining us today good to have you with us now these protests theyve been going on since mid october where they show no sign of slowing down indeed theres been a government crackdown condemned by Many Organizations where do these grievances that law i that are spinning out with such violence all over the country the people of iraq you know still you know have really been ignored and all this theyre still suffering from the absolute destruction and economic devastation of iraq by the u. S. Invasion and occupation by statistics iraq having 10 percent nearly 10 percent of the worlds oil reserves this should be a wealthy state yet were seeing something quite different here how much of this is about that inequality about that wealth which is not trickling down which is being lost going down the drain to a corrupt system there were large state owned companies that that was the very basis of the iraqi a cause. To me and they supported this you know mixed mixed economy beyond that that was all completely destroyed unemployment under the u. S. Occupation at one point breached at least 60 percent essential leave the sort of. You know pyramid of power and you know occupied and post occupation iraq where you know this tiny group of u. S. And iranian backed exiles has you know with u. S. And iranian support created a monopoly on power that the vast majority of the disenfranchised alienated people of iraq have never supported the u. S. Who really has completely discredited itself from start to finish it has done nothing that has helped the people of iraq at all you know either before or after the invasion well thats how the news looks from on a busy whedon state but next we turn over the stone on the real cost of war and how corrupt arms deals fuel conflicts across the globe shadow world begins a moment. Were going to fulfill that purpose is politics to the people you know weve all pots the truth. We really. Now you want to. Know how. Long. I can link up my. Time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability very important. Transitions to sustainable transport sustainability. In more equitable and sustainable well. They claim their production is completely harmless. It. Companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something ill just want any minute i need money. Moves in unison we didnt dream and. Understood. Still. We are at war. Im responsible for the deployment of thousands of Young Americans to battle in a distant land. Some will kill. You some will be killed. And so i come here with an cute sense of the costs of armed conflict. Filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace and our effort to replace one with the other. Thomas he too had to. Need to. Come sit through things toddy. I stand before you tonight in my red taj chiffon evening ga. Before. My face off live made up and my family had gen a way. Of know with. The might this extraordinary deal between the United Kingdom and saudi arabia in which. Ronald reagan wanted to sell the saudis billions and billions dollars worth of equipment but these radio be stopped it and congress wouldnt approve it because they feared arming saudi would threaten israel serrano reagan handed the deal is there effectively to his political soulmate margaret sacha un seen nothing yet. The narrative very tough act to follow and. 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