agreed to up to $75 million to settle a case involving sex offender and former financierjeffrey epstein. the wall streetjournal first reported that the lawsuit alleged that the bank did business with epstein for five years while knowing he was using money in his bank accounts to further sex trafficking activity, and that the bank ignored red flags including payments to numerous young women. with me is news correspondentjessica parker to discuss this further. great to have you with us, tell us what deutsche bank is saying about all this. about all this. deutsche bank toniuht about all this. deutsche bank tonight are about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying very - about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying very little. | tonight are saying very little. it is officially no comment at the moment from the bank. but there have been pointed to a statement they made in 2020 where they talked about acknowledging the
against the company for faciliating financierjefrey epstein s sex trafficking ring. a woman listed anonoymously as jane doe in court papers filed the suit last year on behalf of herself and other accusers. she alleged deutsche bank did business with epstein for five years while knowing he was using money in his bank accounts to further his sex trafficking activity. the lawsuit alleged the bank ignored red flags including payments to numerous young women. epstein took his own life in a federaljail in new york in 2019 while awaiting trail on sex trafficking charges. the journal reports the settlement is expected to compensate dozens of epstein s accusers. in a statement to the newspaper, a spokesman for the bank said: in recent years deutsche bank has made considerable progress inremedying a number of past issues. according to thejournal s sources, the bank did not admit any wrongdoing as part of this settlement. this information has not been verified by the bbc but we
the committee may be flexing its oversight power to illuminate what happened on january 6th. but the d.o.j. is apparently investigating the president himself. key aides to mike pence and his lead counsel have already testified in front of a federal grand jury. pretty high up. they asked hours and hours of detailed questions about meetings that trump himself led, one that was described to the january 6th committee. remember this? mr. eastman came in. he said i m here to request that you reject the electorate. i said we would lose 9-0 in the supreme court, wouldn t we? he started, well, i think you would only lose 7-2 and after further discussion acknowledged, yeah, you re right, we would lose 9-0. 6-2, 6-1, half dozen of another. as for jacob s credibility, keep in mind his version of events was already shown in front of a federal judge and that judge s conclusions, it is, quote, more likely than not that president trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the joint session of
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at least eight people have been killed and several are missing after heavy rains caused flooding in northern italy, and southern europe is bracing for a summer of ferocious drought. earlier my colleague carl nasman spoke to samantha gross the director of energy security and climate at the brookings institution and a former us department of energy official. thank you so much forjoining us today. i want to ask you about the major takeaways in this united nations report. and first of all, researchers now saying that there is a 66% chance that we will pass the 1.5 degrees celsius global warming threshold between now and the year 2027. what would that level of warming look like for humanity? well, the one and a half degree threshold, it s not a hard and fast thing where the world falls off a cliff, but it s definitely an area where things that are concerning to humanity become that much more likely. things like more extreme sea rise, more extreme storms,