The fbi is to investigate the death of the multi millionaire businessman and convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in his cell, in a jail in new york. The 66 year old is believed to have taken his own life, while awaiting trial on new charges, of trafficking dozens of underage girls for sex. Epstein had once counted among his friends bill clinton, donald trump and Prince Andrew. He was due to stand trial next year. Our north america correspondent, neda tawfik, reports from new york. The body ofJeffrey Epstein is taken away from a New York Hospital this evening. The multimillionaire sex offender was found dead in his prison cell as he awaited trial for sex trafficking. Once, epsteins extravagant lifestyle had seen him party with donald trump. The president had called him a terrific guy. He has since distanced himself from the convicted sex offender. Originally a math teacher in manhattan, the financier mysteriously accumulated a fortune that gained him entrance int
Looks like a Tropical Storm is developing possibly becoming something more than that you cant see very much yet in the cloud but this is the area to watch and thats where the energy is coming out of the atmosphere otherwise whats happening in china not a lot in you know and weve seen flooding in sichuan we see in flooding i think well see that kerio but this circulation they were comes in rather something rather more import does it drifts slowly up through the South China Sea with the edge rain and wind catching hong kong on wednesday there where it goes after that i dont know but it does look quite significant does it not however there the rains the seas no rains are still on the Higher Ground it western china running up to some parts of the yangtze and the same time weve got more activity in the monsoon clothes just fading in now is the current picture of the satellite and you see a good part of indias covered not so much the northeast or buying today so this is a concentrating area
Government this demonstration was an Illegal Assembly and police made a number of arrests these protests arent going away as another rally planned on sunday in Central Hong Kong and this time demonstrators are expected to target chinas my eyes and office sarah clarke aljazeera hong kong. Will still out here all aljazeera behind bars and out of reach the palestinian children imprisoned by israel and do not contact with their families plus is a promise of jobs enough to stop Central American migrants from heading to the u. S. Those stories after the break. Out of the summer Weather Threat north americas or less settled down to wait. Expected to be occasional thunderstorms nice to towards busting to extreme there has been significant down cold rain in utah has produced a certain amount of flooding but you can get out and hes thunderstorms every now and again the midwest is to focus the sun by the temperatures rise again the east coast so he 2 to 33 well you may not think it was San Franci
A group of Palestinian Protesters who also been holding prayers further up the hill started to make their way down carrying palestinian flags the group on this side of the fence which is the occupied East Jerusalem side of the fence started to make their way towards the fence as well in order to try to meet the opposing group in the middle as the Security Forces came down and attended to stop the 3 protesters from throwing rocks and stones into the road a number of rocks began to increase we saw some tear gas being fired further up the hill the whole process of the demolitions has been provocative since monday since the houses here in what he homes were destroyed by the Israeli Military and there has been a tremendous concern that what have up until now being peaceful protests against these demolitions is going to turn into a situation like this. Hundreds of algerians of marched through cities across the country for the 23rd consecutive week in protest against the government president
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