Meesigning customized individual and group reti products. Thats why were your. Retirement compa Additional Support has been provided by and by the corporati for public broadcasting. Eo private corporation funded by the americane. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. Jeffrey epstein, the 66yearold multimillionaire convicted sex offender, died by an apparent suicide this morning. Federal authorities were holding him in jail without bail on sex wafficking charges in new york. Found unresponsive, and a hospital pronounced him dead shortly after. The bureau of prisons said his death was an apparent suicide and that the f. B. I. Is investigating. Attorney general william barr released a statement saying he was appalled to learn of epsteins death in federal custody and that the justice departments inspeor general is opening an
The iranian president Hassan Rouhani says hes urged European Countries to save the International Nuclear agreement, during a phone call with his french counterpart, emmanuel macron. Iran says it will start to enrich uranium closer to a weapons grade level, if European Countries dont find a way to save the nuclear deal by sunday. Gareth barlow reports. The landmark deal was supposed to contain irans developments of nuclear technology. Europe felt it worked but donald trump disagree. am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. In a few moments, i will sign a president ial memorandum to begin reinstating us Nuclear Sanctions on the uranian regime. Just over a year ago, the president upended the agreement. Iranian. They brought in harsh sanctum sanctions and now iran is pressuring europe to keep the deal and their economy alive. The europeans have failed to fulfil their promises of protecting irans interests under the deal, and our next step will be
Administration, from britains top diplomat in the us, sir kim darroch. Two years of his secret e mails leaked. In one, he wrote. On Donald Trumps recent state visit to the uk, he said the president had been dazzled by the queen, but cautioned this is still the land of america first. And on foreign policy, trumps sabre rattling over iran, approving air strikes and then calling them off, was described as chaotic. Here, serious questions are being raised about the leak. The thing with diplomatic cables, and i used to work at the Foreign Office, id be quite careful about what you say which is on a personal basis in those cables, because its all very well talking about the substance of the relationship, the policies, but i think some of that may, in retrospect, be regarded as unwise. Put in a statement, the Foreign Office denied it would have any long term impact. As for the future, the ambassador compared it to a roller coaster which could lead to disgrace and downfall, but cautioned about
And not have it put out in the public domain. Skirmishes have broken out between demonstrators and police in hong kong, after another large scale protest against chinas increasing control over the territory, International Condemnation of irans announcement that its breached another condition of its 2015 International Nuclear agreement. The Jodrell Bank Observatory in cheshire which has been at the forefront of Astronomical Research is declared a unesco World Heritage site. In the past five minutes, the United States have won the 2019 womens world cup. They beat the netherlands in lyon, 2 0. Its the fourth time america has triumphed. Lets go straight to olly foster in the bbcs sports centre. And they are a very worthy champions. They simply overpowered the netherlands, the only oddity about this World Cup Final, which was a sell out, by the way, over 57,000 in attendance, to see the now four time champions, as it was goalless at half time but itjust turned on a couple of goals within tw
Emergency officials in Southern California say theyre still assessing the damage caused by fridays major earthquake. Its the biggest earthquake in the region for more than 20 years. The epicentre was near the city of ridgecrest, north east of los angeles. This report from sophie long contains some flashing images. Oh, my god. It created waves in family swimming pools and in communities across Southern California. Oh, my god. Evacuate two earthquakes in two days. Lets go, lets go, lets go . Spread panic. It continues to rattle. This is a very strong earthquake. The tremor so strong. Were experiencing very strong shaking. Even some who didnt feel it, watched it. Were gonna go to a break, well be right back after this. Well be right back, well be right back. Wow. Business owners looked on as potential profits were shaken from shelves and crashed to the ground. We felt around ten or 11 after shocks. Theyve been coming pretty frequently and each one, theyre still scary, because you almost d