twelve hundred or a town of fifth 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 ark watchers on monday june eleventh the federal communications commission led by former verizon lawyer and chairman by effectively ended net neutrality rules rolling back requirements that intercepts internet service providers like the rise 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 our t. correspondent natasha welcome natasha. thanks so much to have a day you know it's a great question because as you can imagine both sides are pretty heated about 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 the net neutrality rollback went into effect today you have nancy pelosi and senators like band 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'd use executive powers to ensure that measures were still being enacted for didn't you try all of these so it's interesting to see them do that and we'll just have to wait and see if other states follow their lead. 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 are protesting this for a long time about like oh wait oh my gosh they did. change this at the end of the

day that's absolutely no analysis of labels like wakin up about it's pretty it's pretty remarkable to see this certainly you know one of the things the that 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 end up paying more that these companies are the ones that buy the majority of the

ads on line 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 we've got. it just you know i don't think you're going to see the big one the slowdown you know i think we're going to see is very selective you're going to see comcast are going to the big companies like that start charging you know hey you're a corporation you could afford it you know but it's the little it's the little businesses that are going to get hit the most by this 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 those things work. people don't notice that till it starts happening and now that

it's such a big deal we might see a real shift in people's behavior on line just anticipating out whether things phone down or not i think we definitely see a lot of. a lot of that. stuff and all the reason more to to pay attention to what's happening yes this is one of those moments in those things and news history where it was your son to let it go at ten years of activism and. i hope 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. listen up as we go to break talk watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics the coverage of facebook and twitter seo poll shows our teeth dot com coming up sean stoll in the world of human trafficking and a new twist of the jeffrey epstein sardo with country disarm the executive director of a liar mst rescue victims of trust that will stay to watch. the

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human trafficking in first world countries rarely make the headlights namely because their trails can often involve the rich and powerful deep institutional corruption and aptitude or both and details of crimes that may still refuse to believe but were still refused to believe take place in our quote unquote civilised 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 countries us are not 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

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 drug. 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 and he tells 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 gays. mr epstein such

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 of florida university in miami florida stated that he was quote assaulted by mr epstein. 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.

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. in order to have

a pictorial view an image of this case statutory rape as you know carries 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

the morning and returned every day at ten o'clock at night and he was allowed to go to his affiliate job correct essentially that's correct a joke sentencing but i mean here is a powerful man he was a hedge fund owner he had a pretty powerful influential friends including former president clinton prince andrew and others so did we learn that i heard just so 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

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 a screen berg. 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

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 they're and usually i'm sorry yes going to you know and you go ahead 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 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 now the secretary of labor and the fact is that. we might suspect that the president could direct the attorney general's office to know that actually go after some of these people named but the problem is the trouble himself has had relationships with in the past not clear necessarily if he was involved in any of the underage girls but certainly was friends with epstein so what does that indicate to you about the desire of the

child but ministration to actually go after the 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. p.a. 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

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 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 weirdly 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 reopen the case and i

know that come out 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. 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 b p a g e 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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history made with a handshake the leaders of the u.s. and north korea meet for the first time just months after threatening to obliterate each other's couple. their summit ends with kim jong un committing to completely denuclearized sation in exchange for security guarantees from donald trump but some are already questioning how seriously u.s. president is about sticking to his side of the deal. or not reducing anything we're not reduced 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 future negotiation is not going along like it should. also ahead this hour to news hour. days and counting the finishing touches are being made ahead of the free for the world cup in russia in part two of our championship special monk chest united manager and you say murray new predicts the countries he thinks will make it through to the semi final. on the crises over a migrant policy in germany he sees angle of merkel go head to head with her new interior minister he's proposing a master plan for asylum seekers. live

from moscow to the world this is r t international my names you know me love your company first up this hour big news out of singapore the leaders of the u.s. and north korea hailed their historic summit as a success and laid the groundwork for the potential denuclearization of the korean peninsula an exchange for kim jong un promising to give all pays nuclear arsenal. committed to providing security guarantees for the peace. u.s. president suggested afterwards the two hundred strong relationship of the intent in . the turnaround in relations comes just months after the pearl were threatening each other all war this is going to lead to more and more we have developed a very special bond. north korea. best not make it one for reduced to the united states they will be met with fire and fury

and have mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place you will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea's rocket man is a sick puppy. a frightened dog barks louder i will surely indefinitely tame the mentally deranged us though to do with fire. this is street is proven over and over again. can indeed become friends both very honored to sign the document thank you. so the today we had the story meeting you 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.

spike the two seeming to get on well chairman came did look a little taken aback by one of president trump's jokes. really. sort of. yeah possibly lost in translation that one double trump wrapped up at the summit in singapore with an hour long news briefing i clung to his position on a number of issues came up and takes us through what he said and how it's led some

to question whether north korea is right to trust them. they've agreed to four basic 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 facilitate in a lasting stable peace on the korean peninsula they agreed 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 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 our century report rehearsing for their destruction these military exercises will be stopped from 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 reduced 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 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 to billions of dollars and nothing happened that was terrible for you 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 folks all recalling that donald trump did pull us out of the historic iran joint

plan of action the nuclear deal other people are wondering exactly how this denuclearization is going to take place with the sanctions not being lifted with the troops remaining on the peninsula well that's timeline that up to this point the talks are first of march but last month came voices anger over military drills between south korea and the u.s. and threaten to call it all then nine days later from council meeting accusing him of hostility but just the next day the white house and pyongyang said things were back on track on the first of june and washington officially announced the summit would go away well the world's key players have all been responding to the talks china said history was made at the summit site korea has also hailed what it sees as a new way forward on the e.u.'s foreign policy chief sais the meeting showed that denuclearization of the korean peninsula is achievable jip poem though said that pressure needs to

be kept on the north until concrete steps toward disarmament are seen political analyst chris palmer. he told us he's skeptical about the joint statement that's been. going into this porch is said that they were going to insist america is going to insist on the complete. of the potential that had to be signed up to in this agreement of course you know there's a general wish to achieve that down the road but there's no commitment to that in this document but i think the biggest thing is you know where are we going here because we need to get an agreement on verification north korea is getting rid of its nuclear facilities not just its nuclear weapons well iran has been the country perhaps expressing the greatest degree of skepticism over the talks the country's foreign ministry. to be vigilant when dealing with trump in light of the fact he pulled out of the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement with tehran. the us administration's failure to honor its commitments to others particularly the j c p

o as an international agreement endorsed by a un resolution makes his watch mr trump and america's behavior with much pessimism for now we cannot be optimistic about their behavior and i think the north korean government should deal with this issue very carefully the united states is not the sort of country that anyone can trust as the iranians know quite well that j c p o a was an agreement that iran made many sacrifices for iran shut down much of its peaceful nuclear program a legitimate nuclear program so under these circumstances i think the iranians have a very good reason to be skeptical and the north koreans should be careful even though iran has very good relations with south korea more extensive relations but the united states is dangerous. it is just two days until the biggest sporting event of the year the twenty eight hundred fifty four world cup gets on the way they.