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don't they don't think that having someone covering city councils they don't think that their stories are interesting because in their mind it's much easier to just you know it's what radio stations have done and talk radio stations have done they turn into just play whatever pop music and whatever ads and purana limos international news whatever here's the weather here's the traffic here five. and i knew a lot of people were talking about to the local will you go lloyd will come and save us more people or like many researchers in this group this report from the that doesn't hold weight either because states with high usage you know when you see this percentage of states or cities with high average local paper shuts down same thing happens didn't matter if the news was suddenly online and you know the matter there are you know you say it's really great it's really crazy but ultimately comes down to we've got to get people informed about what's right and that was one of the things that got out all the guardian about that he said quote we hope this paper raises awareness of the importance of a local newspaper it's like a public good earn environmental protection and i think that's what's really
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important whether it's a town of twelve hundred or a town of fifteen fifteen hundred or fifteen thousand or a million you need to have local news and you need to know what's going on in your own backyard most of. this week marks a dark time in the battle over net neutrality watchers on monday june eleventh the federal communications commission led by former verizon lawyer and chairman pie effectively ended neutrality rules rolling back requirements that intercepts internet service providers like fries and comcast offer equal access to all web content here in the u.s. so while we know that the draco malfoy of the f.c.c. will more than likely be spending this weekend dancing on the grave of internet freedom while sipping warm champagne the rest of us are now left wondering what comes next joining us today to help us see into the future is r t correspondent natasha welcome natasha. thanks so much have a you know it's a great question because. as you can imagine both sides are pretty heated about
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this i mean you even have opposing views within the f.c.c. itself with both the commissioner and chairman fighting for different sides and since the net neutrality rollback went into effect today you have nancy pelosi and senators like dan feinstein speaking out against it and feinstein she voted to she voted against the repeal rather last month and now she's urging her colleagues to do the very same but what's interesting is that three different governors in different states they took a proactive measures they are were also against the repeal they use executive powers to ensure that measures were still being enacted for an atrocity so it's interesting to see them do that and we'll just have to wait and see if other states follow their lead. and that stance was so interesting is if these states are going to jump on this if we're going to see you know it's like now that it's too late people were protesting this for
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a long time and now suddenly it's like oh wait oh my gosh they did change this at the end of the day that's absolutely no analysis of labels like waking up to that it's pretty it's pretty remarkable to see this. certainly you know. one of the things the comes to my mind is where so the the activists and such are going to the states now is that is that the next step for them. i mean we'll just have to wait and see i don't know if congress is going to act on it or not i know that you know like i mentioned dianne feinstein is talking about you know having her colleagues vote the same way she did to you know against the repeal but what also is very interesting is that some experts are saying that it's really not going to have much of an impact they name companies like facebook apple microsoft and they're saying that these companies actually have a lot more power to keep things the way they are and what they're saying is that if if these service providers do. you know slow down the internet speed unless people
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end up paying more that these companies are the ones that buy the majority of the ads online that we see and so if it's so slow i mean people like us we're not going to go online and look at our facebook feed as much we're not going to go on amazon and you know looking to see what's on sale to shop or anything like that and so if if these big companies pull their ads because many people are going online then the service providers will really feel it so i think it's an interesting point that you know things might not be changed we just have to wait and see most definitely will be because everybody. is just you know i don't think you're going to see the big ones slow down you know i think we're going to see is very selective you're going to see come to the big companies like that start charging you know pay your corporation to afford it you know but it's a little it's a little business as they're going to get at the most but yes and that's one of the hard parts of understanding this and i'm sure you know it's you know this is one of
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those things where people don't notice it till it starts happening and now that it's such a big deal we might see a real shift in people's behavior online just anticipating whether things phone down or not i think we definitely see a lot of. a lot of that oh yeah most of all the reason more of it to pay attention to what's happening yes this is one of those moments in those things and in news history where it was your son to let it go and ten years of active as and then. i hope we don't see that you know we don't see that we're looking back i'm side twenty twenty but thank you for the good good reporting on this always a pleasure to have you on talk listen up as we go to break talk watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the top of the coverage of facebook and twitter so poll shows that our teams outcome coming up sean stole from the world of human trafficking and a new twist in the geoffrey epstein saga with conchita sarno the executive director of a wire mst rescue victims of trafficking will stay to the bottom of. the
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human trafficking in first world countries rarely make the headlights hot water is mainly because their trails can often involve the rich and powerful deep institutional corruption and up to two or both and details of crimes that may still refuse to believe build but we're still refused to believe take place in our quote unquote civilized societies thankfully there are journalists and authors out there not afraid to report and discuss the trafficking industry in all worlds and one of those is country that's our net who is also the executive director of alliance or rescue victims of trafficking she sat down recently with our own john stone to discuss the issues of human trafficking and some new twists and one of the few cases to break through the mainstream wall of silence on first world sex trafficking the jeffrey abstain case take a less. conceded thanks for coming back on it's always
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a pleasure to interview you and talk about this important issue of human trafficking so in the case of geoffrey epstein we've come to some new information about his deal with the f.b.i. that was cut over ten years ago now when. he was prosecuted really he was accused of driving. having sex with underage girls many many dozens actually came out but ultimately he was only convicted for one and served just over one year a very light sentence for this very powerful man if you tell us what has come to light about his deal that he cut with the f.b.i. certainly well sean as you know i broke the story in the daily beast back in two thousand and ten and in march of two thousand and eleven the current secretary of labor alex acosta issued a letter to my editor tina brown stating why the prosecution gave mr epstein such
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a lenient deal given the number of crimes that he committed against underage girls in palm beach and elsewhere and at that time back in two thousand and eleven. mr acosta who was at the time the dean of the florida. law school university law school at florida university in miami florida stated that he was quote assaulted by mr epstein's defense team and as you know mr epstein hired a barrage of superstar attorneys including alan dershowitz roy bloch kenneth starr gerald lefcourt and many others several others and the team of attorneys negotiated his plea deal here in washington d.c.
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they negotiated at the time we're talking two thousand and seven. with the department of justice and so according to mr acosta our labor secretary acosta. the penalties that the prosecution that the united states attorney's office wanted to hand mr epstein . were in fact disallowed by the department of justice in washington now it has been it has recently resurfaced and the f.b.i. have released files eight i believe in total containing hundreds of documents many of them of course redacted most of them redacted. and many of them containing clippings stating how this case developed well i think you know in order to have a pictorial view an image of this case statutory rape as you know carries
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a sentence a minimum sentence of six to seven years in the state of florida there was a law that was passed even though it was inactive in two thousand and five that is the year mr epstein is arrested for the crime sexual crimes with minors and it's called jessica's law under this law the penalty for rape with a minor is ten years mr epstein only served thirteen months in a palm beach county jail. and then eighteen months of house arrest while he was in the palm beach county jail he was on a work release program which means that he left his private cell in a private building without any inmates in his surroundings at six in
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the morning and returned every day at ten o'clock at night and he was allowed to go to his own family a joke correct essentially that's correct joke sentencing but i mean here is a powerful man he was a hedge fund owner he had a pretty powerful influential friends including for president clinton for him so and you and others so did we learn that i heard mr that he divulged names to the f.b.i. people this may have actually been complicit with him in these crimes absolutely first of all the feds do not give you that kind of a plea deal unless you're going to give them something and what could you possibly give the feds it certainly wasn't money so it was information if you recall when he was arrested and while he was negotiating his plea deal the economy in our country was about to collapse were we were talking about the two thousand and seven financial crisis that brought down lehman brothers as you know and many other banks
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and so mr epstein as a former employee of bear stearns who by the way was fired right after he became a partner he was at i think i believe he worked at bear stearns for a year he was hired by mr by the late mr ace greenberg. and he was fired on a non reg d. violation which means insider trading and so when he left stearns clearly in a very negative way he gave information to the feds as to how hedge funds operated and that was part of the. deal including names of other perhaps pedophiles who were part of his ring one of the victims virginia louise roberts who has sued him multiple times even though she has also signed agreements with mr epstein accepting monies. she claims that she had she was forced to have
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sex as a minor with eight powerful men she does not name or identify the names even though she told one of the attorneys representing the victims that. one of those powerful men was prince andrew the duke of york. she does not identify any other man but she does claim that there were eight powerful men and she was too scared to give the other names so there's there's no indication that the f.b.i. ever actually acted upon the names that were given to them by epstein is there no there is no indication and if there and usually i'm sorry yes going no and you are and if they had acted they have done nothing because we're now in the year two thousand and eighteen this case by the way there are three pending cases there's a florida case which is the c.v.r. case the crimes victims' rights act case against the united states government that
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is jane doe one and jane doe two verses u.s. government and then there are two cases pending in new york against mr epstein and also against the procurers including glenn maxwell who was recently sued and settled against and settled the case with the victim virginia louise roberts in new york so we have three pending cases and nothing has been done against anyone except of course. mr epstein and that was a minimum sentence were given ok or given that across those no the secretary of labor or the for. is that you might you we might suspect that the president could direct the attorney general's office to know that i should go after some of these people named but the problem is the trouble himself has had relationships with him in the past not cleared necessarily if he was involved in even the rich girls but certainly was friends with epstein so what does that indicate to you about the
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desire of childhood ministration to actually go after they had pedophiles well number one given what president trump has signed into law which is the sestak bill it is a bill that goes after website advertisers who promote and sell the children for not only but for sex i.e. sex child sex trafficking so both mr president trump and his daughter missive uncle trump have been very very supportive of this issue and have really done more for this issue i think since the year two thousand when the t.v. which was the trafficking victims protection act was enacted under president bill clinton nothing was really done even though t.v. pierre was reauthorized several times it was reauthorized under president clinton after it was in acted and in two thousand and then when it and then it was
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reauthorized again under president barack obama in two thousand and eight and and now mr trump has issued this very has signed this very very most important loss and very few people know about it and i'm actually surprised when i speak to people who are working in the industry and in the field of sort of child or human trafficking who don't know about the importance of cessed back page as you mentioned earlier has been shut down and seized it was shut down april sixth of this year two thousand and eighteen and the three co-founders were indicted. and where billy enough the case had come forward two years ago and the case against call for one of the co-founders had been dismissed which i found you know. unusual and surprising and then they reopened the case
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and i know that harris. was very much in favor of ensuring that the founders of back page were were prosecuted accordingly so the case is now closed and back page is seized and shut down however i understand from different sources that they have opened a new. online service in canada called back. forgive me bed page. so many of these websites are rerouting the child porn and adult and the minor trafficking of children into routers in canada. most often adorned with a high definition picture of a body of water animal along like a a single word like added to your success followed by a phrase or definition that's meant to inspire for anyone who's sat at
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a corporate desk or visited the office of a high school guidance counselor right now i'm sure you've seen the requisite motivational posters well apparently our good friends at the n.s.a. have their rooms set of motivational posters as you can see the freedom of information act and the folks working at government out of dot org you to improve the motivational posters that once during the walls of a national security agency during the fifty's sixty's and seventy's take a gander and find good honest government motivation or you know more realistically total paranoia and fear unsettling. good security where your mouth so there's a lot of the walls of the n.s.a. back up like the sixty's easy those of those are very very like i mean is taking away the people and replacing it with state wyoming to go look to to look at some of the. secret and i may this is where the james clad tribunals crabber like not
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only are they antiquated and racist and the horrible but terrifying and paranoid and they're all coming together all coming together so this is what happens the employees the work over there but i heart goes out to them i know what happened i'm just like the tiger in the pond with a drop of water in their eyes now you know you don't just hang out around the wire i said now how does our show for you to go and remember everyone in this world we are not told that we are loved and so i tell you all i love you i robot into and out and a lot less people watching those hawks out there and have a great day and night everybody.
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i'd like for many flips over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the beach or the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman he just killed the narrowness and spending to do the twenty million album fly and. it's an experience like nothing else going to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game migrate to one more chance with. thinks it's going to. making history with a handshake between leaders of the united states and north korea for the first time this month after threatening to obliterate each other's countries. there's somebody with kim jong un committing to complete denuclearization in exchange for security guarantees from donald trump but some are already questioning how serious the u.s.
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president is about sticking to his side of the deal. or not readers are going to think we're not reduce very little bit early for that we have to get things moving the sanctions were remain in effect we will be stopping the war games unless and until we see the the future negotiation is not going along like it should be two days and counting the finishing touches are made at the fee for world cup russia a part two of our world cup special manchester united manager chose same radio predicts the countries to make it to the latter rounds next month. and. italy's new government makes good on one of its more divisive campaign promises closing a port to a vessel carrying stricken migrants and. also the battle theater in paris the seat of a deadly terrorist attack three years ago was to stage a controversial concert by a muslim rapper and even people in the french capital. for
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me in the team here at r.t. h.q. in moscow here's how the world's looking from here this hour first up the big news from singapore today the leaders of the u.s. and north korea have hailed their historic summit as a success and laid the groundwork for the potential deal. of the korean peninsula exchange for kim jong un promising to give up his nuclear arsenal donald trump committed to providing security guarantees for the pyongyang. the u.s. president suggested after. that the two had formed a strong relationship and that they intend to meet again the turnaround in relations comes just months ago after the pair would threaten each other with all out war far better i watch we have developed a very special bond. north korea best not make any more threats to the united states they will be met with fire and fury and
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have mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place you will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea rocket man is a sick puppy. a frightened dog barks louder i will surely indefinitely tame the mentally deranged us doted with fire. this is tree has proven over and over again adversaries can indeed become friends both very honored to sign the document thank you. so the today we had a new story meeting and decided to leave the past behind so we're very proud of what took place today it worked out for both of us far better than anybody even predicted and it's an honor to be with you.
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despite the two seeming to get on well chairman kim did look a little taken aback by one of president trump's jokes. feeling in the group very very slowly very. early. and donald trump wrapped up the summit in singapore with an hour long news briefing outlining his position on a number of issues and talk us through next what he said and how it's led some to question whether north korea is right to trust him. they've agreed to four basic
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points that were in the document that was signed by the president the united states and the leader of north korea first they agreed to a new us d.p. r. k. relationship a new relationship between the two countries secondly they agreed to a lasting stable peace and working toward to facilitating a lasting stable peace on the korean peninsula they agreed to to a commitment to denuclearization getting rid of nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula and finally they did agree to return the bodies of p.o.w.'s missing in action the bodies of american soldiers who had died during the korean war or the bodies of american soldiers in the korean peninsula those are the four points of agreement now speaking at his press conference following the meeting did clarify some things he first of all he said that they will not be lifting the sanctions until until there is a full denuclearization of the peninsula donald trump said he look forward to lifting the sanctions but they will not be lifting the sanctions at the moment
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furthermore trump said they would be stopping the war games the military exercises that north korea has often said are very threatening to them and are essentially rehearsing for their destruction these military exercises will be stopped doll trump said that they were very expensive and very provocative and from there we heard some more talk about what would go on on the peninsula itself this is donald trump we're not reduce are going to thing we're not reduce very little bit early for that we have to get things moving the sanctions will remain in effect we will be stopping the war games unless and until we see the the future negotiation is not going along like it should so you saying there that the the number of troops on the korean peninsula will not be reduced at the moment now they are donald trump talks about the previous administrations and their record in dealing with north korea and how to. difficult it was to make this meeting this historic meeting you know
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between two countries that have been basically at war with each other in a legal sense for the last sixty years how difficult it was to make this meeting happen this is donald trump talking about previous administrations and the difficulties they proceeded down a path in the past and ultimately as you know nothing got done in one case they took billions of dollars during the clinton regime took billions of dollars and nothing happened that was a terrible thing and he actually brought it up to me i don't think they've ever had the confidence frankly in a president that they have right now for getting things done and having the ability to get things done well there's obviously a huge amount of optimism around the world in the aftermath of this is story meeting however there are different voices asking how optimistic we really should be vocal recalling that donald trump did pull the u.s. out of the historic iran joint plan of action the nuclear deal other people are
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wondering exactly how this denuclearization is going to take place with the sanctions not yet being lifted with the troops remaining on the peninsula as a rollercoaster just to get to this stage those talks first announced in march of course but it may come voiced his anger over military drills between south korea and the u.s. and threaten to call it all off then nine days later from canceled the meeting accusing kim all hostility but the next day the white house in pyongyang said things were back on track by the first to do washington officially announce that the summit would go ahead right let's bring in our political analyst chris bambery chris we've had a few hours to let this whole mull over and think it through so what do you think happened today was it all symbolic or are we at stage one of the denuclearization of the financial. why it's interesting we're going into this porch is through said that they were going to insist america is going to insist on the complete is ation all of the potential as one had to be signed up to and disagree.
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