here moscow time headlining this trunk comes under fire from u.s. democrats for links to billionaire jeffrey epstein who's accused multiple cases of child sexual abuse despite his close ties to both camps of washington's political elite. and islamic state terrorist involved in the 25th paris terror attacks gets 500 years compensation for legal terms of detention seems his prison cell was on the permanent surveillance. italy sentences 24 people involved in a campaign of coordinated terror and assassinations carried out by us but dictatorships in south america where back in the 1970 s.

and eighty's tens of thousands of political opponents were rounded up and killed across 6 countries their. new center here in moscow is kevin i'm with you for this 30 minute world news update thanks for watching 1st that the sex trafficking and child abuse trial of billionaire jeff epstein is spilling over into the white house president trump has had to defend his labor secretary alex acosta when acosta was a u.s. attorney in miami way back he signed off a plea agreement in an earlier case involving epstein which critics know say was far too lenient. it's been a great really great the secretary of labor. the rest of it will have to look at we have to look at it very carefully but you're talking about a long time ago and again it was a decision made i think not by him but by a lot of people so we're going to look at it very carefully jeffrey epstein

a registered sex offender is accused of trafficking and luring dozens of underage girls to his mansion now found guilty could face up to 45 years in prison now the democratic leadership is putting pressure on trump and his team over a potential obstruction of justice. secretary costa must step down as u.s. attorney he engaged in the conscionable agreement with jeffrey abstain kept secret from courageous young victims prevented them from seeking justice this was now by the president of the us when he appointed him to the cabinet i am calling on secretary acosta to resign instead of prosecuting a predator and serial sex trafficker of children. a constant shows to let him off the see geoffrey epstein a billionaire caught trafficking underage girls between 20022005 has been arrested yet again this time after horrendous new evidence came to life beginning at least

2002 and continuing until 2000. and 13 is alleged to have dozens of victims epstein is well connected and he's evaded these charges for years thanks to a deal he made with the costa when he was the u.s. attorney in miami instead of being charged with sex trafficking and child rape he only pled guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting prostitution from a minor while serving his time epstein had up to 12 hours a day 6 days a week as work release at his downtown office he served only 13 months before then being released on probation during his probation epstein took numerous trips to both the virgin islands and new york city in his private jet and a new evidence has forced a cost to now come forward and defend his decision to give such special treatment to a sexual predator. with the evidence available more than a decade ago federal prosecutors. go to jail register as

a sex offender and put the wote on notice that he was a sexual predator now that you haven't seen additional testimonies available the new prosecution offers an important opportunity to more fully bring him to justice so democrats just heard about this we are dealing are filled with outrage well actually know they've known about it for quite some time this is a cost his confirmation hearing back in 27 seen the lawsuit questions why trump's nominee for labor secretary former miami u.s. attorney you know xander acosta cut a non-prosecution deal with epstein a decade ago rather than pursuing a federal indictment in fact the nature of a cost as punishment if you can really call it that was never secret the department of justice. as i defended the actions of the office in that matter under both president bush and president obama's administrations so why the sudden outrage well according to chuck schumer timing is everything the president needs to answer for

his statements he has made about his relationship with mr epstein particularly since president trump appointed mr acosta to such a powerful position see the issue is that a trumpet ministration official is now caught up in the outrage around jeffrey epstein and trump indeed does have some skeletons in his closet when it comes to the epstein case epstein visited mara largo however according to the attorney who represents one of epstein's victims trump threw him out after he started making passes at underage girls on the property furthermore trump seems to be the only prominent individual actually cooperated with the investigation into epstein's crimes trump is the only person who picked up the phone and said let's just to give you as much time as you want we will need to know it was very helpful so that does not put trump in the clear he certainly was familiar with the sexual predator however so was bill clinton the former president actually took $27.00 different

flights on jeffrey epstein's private airplanes some of them without being accompanied by secret service and there are rumors circulating that there were underage girls on the plane clinton had his secret service with him and many times he did not almost every time that clinton's name is on the pilot logs there are underage girls there are initials and there are names of many many girls on that. private plane but clinton is just background noise right now epstein fits in with the anti trump chorus from mainstream media the federal sex trafficking case against donald trump old friend jeffrey epstein tries to both the president and notably his labor secretary alex are cost him the man who cut that deal with him that was his job then now that labor secretary he's got supporters are part of this administration so perhaps the victims in this case should be happy that donald trump was elected after all until trump's name was brought in and attached to the

case there seemed to be far less interest and outrage about epstein's atrocious crimes from certain voices. r.t. new york. islamic state terrorists who took part of the 2015 paris terror attacks has received 500 euros compensation for legal terms of detention he was in a prison cell under permanent surveillance something that contradicts european human rights laws that. he's got the latest on this one. this infamous name and the last remaining member of a group behind the worst terror attack in. this thank you. just

a month later $32.00 people were killed in cool would need to filming on brussels transport tops is now serving a 20 year prison sentence yet it's now emerged this self confessed to harvest has found himself on the right side of the legal system of the french state was forced to pay him 500 euro why do you bring abdul slums in. cos aeration here france he was subjected to stop surveillance back in 2016 the then justice minister explained why that decision was taken i made a ministerial order authorizing video surveillance 24 hours a day and on the basis of this decree which i took after consultation with the national commission on informatics and liberty i took an individual decision on mr disallowed to be put into video surveillance even the unions supported the government's position and why is that scope of surveillance was justified. in this

case video surveillance was an effective means of ensuring that the individual did no harm himself and if needed to stand trial for what he did but does lambs who is continued to challenge it and they won in 2017 is minister to court agree that his detention conditions were illegal but this information has only just come to light and it's causing outrage. the french judiciary has condemned the state to pay 500 euros to a terrorist who caused the deaths of more than 130 people and left 400 injured on the 13th of november 25th scene this is a disgrace i'm appalled by the court order to pay $500.00 euros to so obviously this legal outrage must be reviewed urgently this french stay owes nothing to islamist barbarians so what do people here in paris make of this case and that more honestly i don't think that 500 euros is

a lot and i also agree with the human rights side of it but he didn't respect the human rights of the people either i believe that when you are. creating crime that is so horrific that perhaps you should just lose all of your entailments and a privilege is known for as it was about absolutely not that's not normal he committed a crime and now we have to pay him it's not normal. so really amazing that the french government had to p.d.'s 55th $105.00 votes if we are looking to decide of the justices we've got some rules we've got some and we need to respect general rule is no good at all because he's still a terrorist and should be the other way he should be charging condemned some very diverse opinions on a subject that many people were simply shocked by it seems though that has no intention of taking the money so far he's refused charlot do you can ski

otty paris we are so i guess about the rights and wrongs of this coast as it turns out it's not were clear cut. the issue around how we was treated by the french authorities is an important issue regardless of one's background or regardless of one's you know situation in terms of what they've been accused of the rule of law applies equally to the same case in belgium actually where they receive compensation because they are in m.r. a restricted area within prison and they get one euro per day i mean to say it's not the fact that they're received one euro it's the fact that the court goes as far as losing time on this issue i mean in middle eastern countries there is none of that well the reality is somewhat different the people who carried out those a terrorist attacks in paris and in brussels some of them have got very serious sentences they've been given life sentences of 20 plus years you know we look here in the u.k.

there's been many terror plots that have been foiled and the people involved have been given long custodial sentences i think that the sentences should be the real sentences that the judge pronounces if it is 2030 years life it is life it is 30 years or 20 years people in the street. should not get emotional about this but they don't understand the system they have the impression that the victims are penalized while the justice system defense criminals but you've got to take your own emotion out of it and said that the law applies equally to every single citizen and if the authorities the police are not above the law in western societies and if they've done any particular action which is brought their authority into disrepute then there should be consequences and that's what the judge awarded damages to this individual. a global conference for media freedoms under way right now in london as co-hosted by the u.k. and canada but r.t. and russia's not invited to the party all dressed up nowhere to go let's go to

polly boycott the british capital which is the club is this the. story of my. kevin. 60 ministers thousands of reports and thousands of esteemed members of civil society and academics are all due to attend this inaugural conference on media freedoms around the world it's hosted by the u.k. and the canadian governments here in london one of the special guests is a certain amal clooney the international human rights lawyer also the wife to the hollywood actor george clooney she's been appointed britain's special envoy on media freedoms here at this event the gates to which is just behind me but guess who isn't going to be inside that's right it's me here i am billy no mates outside left out in the cold because myself and my artsy colleagues and also

colleagues at sputnik which is the other russian news organization that broadcast in english we've all been banned from attending the global conference on media freedoms we applied in good time for press accreditation like all the other media outlets and we received a pretty standard stock reply said unfortunately we have been unable to approve your application to a credit as media i think that should have been a warning sign but we thought maybe we just they've run out of space there's nothing specifically about us in that reply but behind our backs other news channels got a very different message yesterday one day before the conference a plethora of u.k. news outlets started printing a story that said that we are t. and sputnik had specifically been barred from going into the conference and they

were quoting the foreign office which explained why they did that take a listen. we have not accredited our t. or sputnik because of their active role in spreading disinformation while it's not possible to accommodate all requests for accreditation journalists from across the world's media are attending the conference including from russia. the russian government isn't impressed with this lack of hospitality to say the least the russian embassy here in london has written to the foreign office to express its expressed resolute disagreement with what has taken place and russia's foreign ministry spokesperson maria zahar of us also weighed in take a listen. the organizers demonstrated their true intentions an attitude to media freedom by turning the event into the means of achieving opportunistic political

and we believe other countries and responsible journalists will draw their appropriate conclusions and we hope that human rights n.g.o.s and relevant international actions he's will not shy away from stating their position. and the r.t. news organization itself has released a statement take a listen. it takes a particular brand of hypocrisy to advocate for freedom of press well banning inconvenient voices and slandering alternative media sadly the world has learned to expect just that from the u.k. foreign office. are not the only journalists that call and attend the global conference on media freedoms i don't want to compare myself to julian assange but the editor of wiki leaks is currently incarcerated in a prison in his london and there is a small demonstration here calling for his release chanting freedom to julian

assange and now julian the songes mother found out about r.t. not being allowed to attend and she's tweeted her response take a listen to why she thinks we haven't been allowed. maybe i will still listen practicing media freedom by reporting the facts of the political persecution of my son journalist giuliana son nor to norty don't you realize you were supposed to get us government clearance 1st then and only then are you free to publish. well i did say a little earlier that i have been billy no mates before arty's been sidelined from big events like this in the past one that springs to mind is the french elections in may 27th scene i personally was barred from attending emanuel micron's election headquarters and at the time it was a similar situation we thought we just hadn't got accreditation something and got mixed up but later on his party cited very similar reasons saying r.t.

was responsible for the spread of this information and that's why i wasn't allowed to attend now one more important thing to note here which i think is quite curious is that although russian state funded news outlets which broadcast in russia so some colleagues of mine here in london have been allowed they have been accredited and they have been inside attending the conference as for me i'm out here. first of all nor to you nor to you polly. and most of the london conference where we go to italy and italy is life sentences to 24 people including oil profile individuals involved in something called operation but this is an important story operation condor was a campaign of political oppression by us but dictatorships in the 19 seventies and

eighties in 6 south american countries are buying up to date 23 of 24 were sentenced in absentia the case was initially opened 2 decades ago by families of the victims. kidnappings torture of tens of thousands killed including through being thrown out of flying planes the death flights with a cruel dose of irony the operation was also given the ariel name conduct for over a decade the dictatorships of 6 latin american states were cleansing their left

leaning opposition through repression and state terror now their victims have some closure but only some the executers of operation condor couldn't have excelled the way they did without help we have followed events in argentina closely we wish the new government will wish it will succeed we will do what we can to help it succeed where were you on a difficult period it is a curious to win political criminal and terrorist activities tend to move without any clear separation when the standard most established with auriti in hindsight is stablished authority they did oh by all means quite literally all the 6 nations became staunch allies of the us for which the political purges in latin america became a convenient way to scorch communist idea from its backyard outpost of pinochet now a household name almost synonymous with tyranny enjoyed financial support from washington at least through his chief of intelligence some declassified documents

referred to operation condo as a legitimate counterterrorism action moreover and rick kissinger then secretary of state was briefed on the murder operations of. operation quando in august 1976 the operation would last until 1989 and for all those years the cia chose not to step in to prevent the brutal violence in fact the u.s. kept its finger on the pulse of operation condor or aiding at times with strategic planning. brazil argentina chile bolivia paraguayan year ago i make up the nets they keep in touch with one another through a u.s. communication installation in the panama canal zone which covers all of latin america obviously this is the commodore network which all of us have heard about over the last few years this cia did such a great job ensuring control of latin america through operation corndog that in

1977 just 2 years into its official phase europe took notes representatives of west german french and british intelligence services had visited the condo organization secretary it's important harry's during the month of september $977.00 in order to discuss methods for establishment of an anti subversion organization similar to condo due to their view that the terrorists aversive threats had reached such dangerous levels in europe kissinger was well aware the cia knew all about this state department knew all about this and in fact the united states helped facilitate communications between the 6 countries that were involved in this people are getting some small measure of justice and it's much too late many of the perpetrators have already died you have to realize this was a vast operation thousands and thousands of people involved 7 governments involved at least you have to also remember that you have the intelligence services of

britain france and west germany also collaborating with these governments in south america so this was that michael o'boyle operation he's made his silence critics silence reformers and this is her rent this period in history in terms of actual justice being met it out here on earth that's probably not going to happen in most cases as decades and decades went by will thus it so far stay in touch with so much more of the news today. you know the. and up for the day you know then the saving is called in bright for me kevin 0 in this wednesday afternoon thanks ever so much more international didn't run the world and have a great rest of this wednesday. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the

world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see that. politicians do listen to them. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or some want to be. too bright to be press this is what the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. city. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past

each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. and you try and be professional you try and leave it outside the door you try and put in the comma compartments and eyes it's new bright and so you can forget about it but little by little these. these little wisp of calm and for me was actually putting some. ice into my wife's last june until i saw it and the sound of the ice cream to the glass reminded me of how we had all the schools in bali which was with bags of supermarkets ice. to somebody you hope will come with not a moon but in your circles one of. you know full

of and much the good with a little trip when it comes to live on the. whiting good sort of when you're already in the sims. you know made it seem strange. that. norm chomsky and i had a family at mit and i think. any more have learned as we were activities for the last few years. noam chomsky has made 2 international reputation as does one of the national leaders of american resistance to the vietnam war the deepest is

a professor of linguistics who before he was 40 years old to transform the nature of his subject. you are identified with a new level whatever that is you certainly have been an activist as well as a writer. that's a lot of times. it is wasted in anybody's catalogue among the half dozen top girls of the new. standard he achieved by adopting over the past 2 or 3 years a series of adamant. at least american. bochy this notion anti american is quite an interesting one fascist to tell tarion ocean it is used in free societies so if someone and say italy is

criticizing berlusconi for the corruption of the italian state and so on than a cold area 16 they were called india today and people would collapse and laughter in the streets of rome or milan. in totalitarian states the notion to use so in the old soviet union dissidents were cold and he said that was the worst condemnation. of the brazilian military dictatorship they were gold in every brazilian. no it's true that in just about every society the critics are malign. are mistreated different ways depending on the nature of the society like and so it unions they will be imprisoned. in a us dependency like el salvador at the same time as careful as it other brains blown out by a u.s. run state terrorist worse. than others is it just condemned their villa from the

zone and in the united states or one of the terms of abuse is anti american a couple of others like you know more because there's an array of terms of abuse. of in the united states a very high degree of freedom and so if you're vilified by some commas or who cares to go on to your work anyway these concepts only arise in a culture where if you criticize state power and when i state i mean. we're generally not. government the state worker or if you criticize concentrated power or you're against us you're against the be all it's quite straight game that is used in the united states and it's for another the only democratic society with the concept isn't just ridicule it's a sign of the elements of the elite culture which are the great ugly.

the american dream my many ideals was partly symbolic but partly real so in the 1950 s. and sixty's there was a the biggest growth period in the. american economic history. gold made.