longtime confidante arrested and charged in the uninited states. delaying maxwell accused of facilitating app seems crimes by recruiting grooming and ultimately abusing china vows to retaliatate this off to the u. s. congress approves the bill which includes penalties for banks that help violate hong kong's autonomy. . hello landslide addd jade mine in northern myanmar kills at least a hundred and sixty people authorities fear the death toll is set to rise. thank you very much for joining

us here on france twenty four first a british socialite deregulate maxwell has been arrested by the fbi the former girlfriend of jeffrey epstein was his confidante and travel companion she's accused of facilitating app scenes crimes by recruiting grooming and ultimately abusing girls. as young as fouourteen for years women have accused maxwell off recruiting them but those accusations. resulted in charges well now for more on this story we can bring in former federal and state prosecutor eric elise son who joins us from washington thank you very much for joining us here on france twenty four why has it taken this long. for gillian maxwell's arrest to come because for years countless women have accused of it had accused of complicity. yes the case is an extremely complicated history. and as you may have that touched upon originally there was an agreement with federal prosecutors in f florida. that

the case at least five directed by those prosecutors would not proceed against either abstaining or any of his co conspirators which would include maxwell who is one of his closest. if not the closest coconspirator however that agreementt did not bind or limit other federal prosecutors offices outside of that particular one in the southern district of florida. and eventually over time another attention was brought to the case and another deliberations were brought. in the overall department of justice in the southern district of new york where a lot of the criminal activity or alleged criminal activity. took place decided it would bring its own prosecucutin without having to be limited by the agreement made in the southern district of florida that's what the case almost a year ago against that speed and then of course he famously or infamously. died while in federal custodyy and that complilicated things as well the case against maxwell was

further complicated because she was outside the united states most likely and the investigation was still ongoing. our what what it turned out happened was that song on- over the past year they presumably there was- an indndictment placd under seal with charges against her and when she was arrested this morning when she was easily within. of orders that and i mean in those charges were announced. so it's been a long c complicated. process thee are prosecutors in york were always looking the case. and now it's that you get of the call chrissy and her you know jeffrey f. was a billion hero shoulders with with presidents and- kelly prosecutors to get. a gillane maxwell to talk don't they- yes she is probably the most the single most important witness that they had. with the possible exception of abstinence self but in some

ways more valuable than abstinence only. becauause she might be less conflict and not have quite as many enentanglements as h he had in e end in mind to be able to provide a somewhat. more easily corroborated bowl accounts of things so many people of course- and they may be involved in this- maybe nervous right now if we feel that- they had dealings with her t tt she might know about. and t that she might be willing to truthfully cooperating with federal authorities but there's still a lot of unknowns about all this we don't know exactly what she knows and we don't know. that she well also. indeed it you don't may that in you pre answer. for you had to at jeffrey. you know took a own life lightly prison. you know. some doubts from over the people because v. out t. off. he died i in jail but will. geta

max will get justice. well she she her attorneys were the good with the- authorities. about the best wayay in everybodydy's interest to resolve these criminal charges- it does seem like they have a- what do you do with the prosecutors believe is a serious. and fairly solid case against her or they would not have filed it the way they did they would not have arrested her without having in their opinion substantial back up which later it in terms of weapons. which are required to have under internal department guidelines so then the question becomes are at are they willing to work with maxwell as a witness she is willing to work. and can you read. under contentious i would be satisfactory- her should be. name which her own criminal sentence would be limitited in some way and if we can r reach n agreement on that and a find her. mom can be operated she.

would be. okay right now. finding a solution that also into a her they're not to do any deal with it by daddy not it to so in terms of reducing our sense worth what you have to say it's really not all that valuable we see what happens and prosecute to the full extent of the stars indeed this see what happens erica thank yoyou very much for joining us n the program sickening. in other news the us congress has approved a bill which- penalties for banks that help violate. hong k kong's autononoy the legislation unanimously passed the us senate and will now neeeed to be signed by the president. the bill's passing comes a day after beijing imposed a new security legislation on hong kong. one of the city's most prominent democracy activists nathan law has announced he's fled the region around will continue his work on an international level. for more on what impact the new legislation has already had he has all of the fiery reporting

from hong kong. protests have been relatively thin on the ground in the past six weeks or so as well they've only been. happening sporadically and many of those that have have been small enough so the national security level has really changed everything in hong kong. is given sweeping powers to the police on the hong kong government uneven beijing as well to come down hard on any dissent. and many of. the acts that regularly occurred last year such as vandalism of public transport is narrow- highly. classified as terrorism in that case and even. blocking or obstructing politicians from forcing can be considered sedition law applies. advocacating hong kong independence or even waving a flag as a number of. the arrestees yesterday the judge can see were arrested for secession even though that is

something that is supported only. hello percent hong. so yesterday's arrests were for public or offence the probe won't result in that many prosecutions it will be interesting to see how the ten men who were in violent in violation of the new law will fare and of course we also have to realize that there is a new units that will be implementing the national security all in. in junction with beijing uss secretarary of security john lee has said thatt itsperationss ve to be kept secret which is in effect literally a secret police force so once that kicks into place we w will see things. ququite differently. now he's a hundred sixty people have died after a landslide at a jade mine in northern myanmar. environmental watchdog stated is also demonstrates the government's failure in curbing reckless mining practices officials expect the death toll to increasee as more victitims e pulled out. of the rubble monte

francis reports. . helloello hello hell. thihis video captured the moments when a pile of minine waste more than seventy five meters high collapsed i into an o open shady thee pet was already full of water because of heavy r rains and a massive wave overtook dozens of miners who drowned in the muddy water. the disaster happened in a city in a township called hop count in northern myanmar in a state that b bders china and india. the jade industry yields billions of d dollars in the country and the mines are largely under government control. despite efforts to regulate many miners are poor and scour the mine waste for stones the large operators may have missed. they work illegally in the dangerorous conditionsns to prprovide for tr fafamilies. and economic pressse now compounded by the corona virus pandemic. it's a tragedy

not without precedent just last year in the same region fifteen miners died in a similar collapse and a jade mine and one hundred and fifteen died and the very same city and twenty fifteen. that's it for me thank you very much for watching. hello and welcome to the friends twenty four interview our guest today is fought two bands who though she is the chief prosecutorr of the international criminal court in the hague thanank you very much for being with us. thank you thank you for having me. three weeks ago the u. s. president donald trump authorize sanctions against the icc this after the court decided back in march to open a probe into crimes committed in afghanistan by u. s. troops and others- it's essentially a sanctions

regime that includes financial and travel restrictions on icc employees and their family. this is been so that this is the kind of sanctions regime us uses against rogue regimes against terrorists a against drg lords why against the icc. agagain thank you very mucuch fr having m me with respect to thee sanctions such as- i have already expressed publicly it is very regrettable. that the currenent adminisistration in washington has taken this position. t that it has concerning the icc while the judidicial p process was actualy availablble. todayay it't's a wo you see this is s a is that what we see this *-*-- that islamic attempt to o interfere with the course of justice to meet certain desired outcocomes which have n nothing to do witith the rule of law- accccountabililityr atrocity crimemes- a judicial

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corruption and malfeasance at the highest levels of the office of the prosecutor your office i meaean this is a very serious accususation what's your reaction. look this is news to us as i it is news to you it is also used to us we do not know what they said thihis is s talkg and telll you. they hahave alsoo stateded. they they they have nt told us and we and we reaeally o not knknow we're trying to fifie out w what that means. b but whi can also again you will also see and that's the same statatement. t that they said tt russia iss apparently exerting inflfluence. in the officee of e office of the e court. and again this is news to usus. you shohod be again directing this question t to the admininistratn but whahat. i can tell l you in confidence is this. . my office

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