civilization of america. and you try and be professional you try and leave it outside the door you try and put it in the compartment and eyes it's new and so you can forget about it but little by little. these little whispers come and for me it was actually putting some ice into my wife's glass of june until i saw it on the sound of the glass reminded me of how we have all these cool in bali which was with bags of supermarkets on. this hour's headlines stories the british ambassador to the us resigned over a leaked cable scandal private e-mails expose the far from glowing reviews of his administration. team told the wall comes under fire from u.s.

democrats for links to billionaire jeffrey epstein who's accused of multiple cases of child sexual abuse the spider is close to 2 both of washington's political elites. and a suspected islamic state terrorist believed to have been involved in this 2015 parra said taxes awarded 500 euro in compensation for having his rights violated and presence. around the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team myself you know neal hello and welcome to the u.k.'s ambassador to the us kim has announced he's stepping down after a series of highly critical comments he'd made about the trumpet ministration were

leaked to the press in confidential cables sent back to officials in london the diplomats had the scribed the white house as dysfunctional inept and chaotic. since the leak of official documents from this embassy there has been a great deal of speculation surrounding my position and that your ration of my remaining term as ambassador i want to put an end to that speculation the current situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as i would like. ok let's get right up to date on this story you can go live to london and ortiz shall be. good to see you through what led to this big departure and the reaction to it. well britain's most senior diplomat has been forced to resign and that comes after donald trump the president of the united states that he no longer be able to deal with him so 2nd darrick he's the u.k. ambassador to the u.s. he's e-mails to the united kingdom they in fact were leaked and they describe donald trump's administration as inept now this political scandal has been on

ruffling over the last few days but it's understood that it came to a head when boris johnson who is the front runner to become the next prime minister was unable to publicly back the ambassador meanwhile though prime minister to resign may and the labor leader jeremy corbyn they were able to publicly back him in fact they said it was regrettable that he was forced to resign and theresa may went a step further in the house of commons earlier today explaining that british diplomats and politicians should be able to stand up for the principles they believe and if indeed they feel they're under attack. does a matter of great regret that he has felt it necessary to leave his position. the. whole cabinet rightly gave its full support to sic him on tuesday. so kim has given so kim has given a lifetime of service to the united kingdom and an enormous debt of gratitude.

well in a series of private messages updating the british government about donald trump so kim darrick actually described the trumpet ministration as you meant inept now it must be said that these robust assessments all routine in secure diplomatic communications having said that donald trump took to his favorite platform of social media on twitter to avoid voice and vocalize his anger and fear about the ambassador he in fact called so kim a wacky ambassador a very stupid guy and in fact said that he's been told he's a pompous full now it also must be made clear that number 10 has tried to distance itself from the entire saga coming from the ambassador's side saying it's not the views of the u.k. government and in fact the publication of ritual was the fever gretta for having said that while number 10 comes out with this and to reason may saying it's also regrettable we know that she's only got 2 weeks left in half position all eyes

really now on boris johnson and jeremy hunt of course one of the 2 will become the next prime minister and on the political saga they've both got very mixed messages . the wacky ambassador that the u.k. for we stood upon the united states is not someone we are thrilled with a very stupid guy he should speak to his country and prime minister may about their failed break that negotiation and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was donald trump friends speak frankly so i will these comments are disrespectful and wrong to our prime minister and my country you said the u.k. u.s. alliance was the greatest in history and i agree but i need to treat each other with respect and three's i'm a is always done with you i've got a good relationship with the white house and i have no embarrassment in saying that the united states is has been will be for the foreseeable future our number one political military friend. well there you had the gaffe prone guy boris johnson

with his usual explicit flair and of course this has angered many in the house of commons who are deeply critical of boris johnson stance in fact that also includes the foreign 1 office minister sir alan duncan and he's accused mr johnson of throwing the ambassador under a bus now we do know that the british government has announced a full scale investigation into how these unvarnished 1 thoughts of kim derrick ended up on the front pages of a national newspaper over the weekend following that many really are enraged and they really do believe that this is a very bad day for british diplomacy a very bad day for anglo-american relations because they consider the former now ambassador of the u.k. to the united states as a man who has been hailed with the height of professionalism and class shadier thanks for breaking all the tone for a show edwards dusty from london where a former white house communications director told ortiz afshin rattansi that he

believes the british ambassador was the victim of a political hit job inside the foreign office i asked afshan who might if anyone stand to benefit from kim directs the parter. well it goes boris johnson presumably the new prime minister of this country into weeks and was the foreign secretary and had access to all manner of the intelligence operators but of course in a sense this is also mysterious and i did ask and he's going to be about this we know through edward snowden who is taken asylum in moscow that the 5 eyes project indeed the national security agency they have access to encrypted emails all around the world why did it take a leak from london to a british newspaper to inform donald trump that britain's man in washington had such a low opinion of donald trump do they not know these things without people here for whatever political reasons for whether whatever hit me and reasons they can they

just get it from surveillance do they really need it leaked because of internal politics here that is about the succession after theresa may in downing street. let's head stateside now the sex trafficking and child abuse trial of billionaire jeffrey epstein is spilling over into the white house where president trump forced to defend his labor secretary alex a cost that when a cost that was a u.s. attorney in miami he signed off a plea agreement in an earlier case involving epstein which critics say was far too lenient. it's been a great really great secretary of labor. the rest of it will have to look at we have to look at it very carefully but you talk 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 if i'm guilty he may face up to 45 years in prison now the democratic leadership is putting pressure on mr 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 abstinent kept secret from courageous young victims prevented them from seeking justice this was nailed 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 to let him off the. jeffrey 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 abused dozens of victims

epstein is well connected and he has 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 the new evidence has forced acosta 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 times to both the president and notably his labor secretary alex our costume the man who cut that deal with him that was his job then and 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 an outrage about epstein's atrocious crimes from certain voices. r.t.

new york more global news this wednesday in 90 seconds stay with us. why is it when you hear the word diversity it's at the expense of unity when there is inclusion but only inclusion when you agree with a certain political thought and world view and oh poor us we can forget about identity politics if you just agree when you're called a dog whistle wanted to get here. half the country for that's a poor country it's a poor a wealthy country a sum of all that you've got. stock markets that are owned by let's call time percent of the population owns most of us. and there are what else is more

and it's a condition that the core americans don't want to cop to it's hard core but the fact is now you've got 150000000 more people of america. going. quarter of an hour into the program welcome back it has been revealed that one of the alleged masterminds of the 2015 terror attacks was offered 500 euro in compensation for a legal terms that the tension of the salon was in a prison cell under permanent surveillance something that contradicts european human rights laws are to show dubinsky has been following the case. so well this

infamous name and the last remaining member of a group behind the worst terror attack in frank's case. i. just months later $32.00 people were killed in coordinating bombings on brussels major transport ups is now serving a 20 year prison sentence yet it's in 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 euros why do you bring abdul salaams incarceration here france he was subjected to nor stop surveillance back in 2016 then justice minister

explained why that decision was taken. 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 addison to be put into video surveillance even the unions supported the government's position and why that scope of surveillance was justified. in this case. surveillance was an effective means of ensuring that the individual did no harm himself and if needed stand trial for what he did but does slams lawyers continued to challenge it and they won in 2017 these administrative 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. 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 presidents have an 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 or 2 previous 50. 5 votes if we

are looking to decide of the justice we've got some rules we've got some lows and we need to respect the law. 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 as though that abd islam has no intention of taking the money so far he's refused it show what do you can ski otty paris we took the chance to ask or guess whether laws need modernizing in the face of terror or of change that's a dangerous precedent to long held traditional norms. 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 ridiculous it's not the fact that they're received one euro it's the fact that the court goes as far as the same 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 but i think that the sentences should be the real sentences that the judge pronounces if it is 2030 years life e.t.s 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 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 they should be consequences and that's what the judge awarded damages to this individual. global conference for media freedom is under way in london co-hosted by the u.k. unkillable but r.t. russia sputnik have been barred from the party ali boy who is nearby. 60 minutes is the thousands of reports and thousands of esteemed members of civil society and academics are all due to attend this in-or grewal conference on media freedoms around the world it's hosted by the u.k. in the canadian government here in london one of the special guests is a certain a mole 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 we have not accredited our team or sputnik because of their active role in spreading disinformation well it's not possible to accommodate all requests for recruited fiction 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 in 2 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 arts the news organization itself has released a statement take a listen it takes a particular brand of hypocrisy to advocate for freedom of press banning inconvenient voices and slandering alternative media. the world has learned to expect just that from the u.k. foreign office are not the only journalists that can't 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. 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 c not being allowed to

attend and she's tweeted her response take a listen to why she thinks we haven't been allowed maybe r.t. will still listen practicing media freedom by reporting the facts of the political persecution of my son journalist julian the sunshine nor to norty don't you realize you are supposed to get us government clearance 1st then and only then are you free to publish one more important thing to note here which i think is quite curious is that all the russian state funded news outlets which broadcast in russia so some colleagues of mine here. there in london has been allowed they have been accredited and they have been inside attending the conference for me i'm out here and i've got my eyes on this pizza restaurant. well former european parliament member stephen walt sees the b.b.c. . different but london is sending a clear message to moscow. well i think ati is being singled out of the sea because

it's seen by the foreign office and many politicians both here in the united kingdom in europe and the united states as being the voice and vehicle of the russian government will want to argue that the b.b.c. in many ways is the voice of the british establishment particularly if you look at the way that the european union and the referendum and the brics issue is being discussed upon by the b.b.c. so i think what it is is the foreign office is very clearly making a statement to president putin and the russian establishment that we will not have your voice listened to in europe and we will try and stop it if we can. record it before today's announcement that the u.k. ambassador to the u.s. is standing down in going underground starting in moments of funny scar in the chief donald trump's former white house director of communications gives his view

on the came. and also trade deals across the atlantic breaks it.

done after time say we're going underground as the british government today bans journalists from a normal clooney host a conference on media freedom and a non wiki leaks cable revelation makes president trump 7 ties with britain's ambassador to washington sic him derek coming out of the show crisis what crisis and is it finally not just the poor who are paying the price for the 2008 financial services crash joint your bank sacks if your mom didn't work as we asked donald trump's former white house director of communications companies currently she really holds the reins in washington in london after the alleged which runs against former labor shadow minister chris williams and the founder of the u.k. zante racist alliance and inaugurate drove a campaign for justice for the 1903 monitor of stephen lawrence welk awards were

blairite attempt to destroy germany's cauldron all the symbol coming up in today's going on the ground the 1st of the last night's televised debate between your liberal candidates to be britain's next prime minister by the end of the month what do they really have to say about this $18000.00 is a really quite extraordinary number accounts the nearly one in 5 bank jobs and by the scale of this restructuring which i'll get into has actually taken some of us by surprise the area in fact it's a half an investment banking so it hasn't come as a surprise to self-styled city analysts according to c.n.n. the bank is firing 800000 people and investment banking is something to get out of well arguably it was a surprise this week decrying london employees of the bank founded in the year of the paris commune where rustbelt american surprise because u.s. taxpayers bailed out deutscher with more than a 3rd of a trillion dollars labour's jeremy corbyn leading in the name just opinion opinion poll is clear about what he thinks of bank because bankers like morgan stanley

should not run our country but they think they do because the party they fund and protects their interests the conservative party is in downing street. that's why they want to keep the tories then because they're rigged economy and their tax cuts for the richest work for them corbin seems to think bankers are unpopular unlike someone who tories good at knowing his u.k. prime minister by the end of the month i don't think i got a copy of any other politician not even conservative politician who from the crash of 2008 onwards actually stuck up for the bankers can you think anybody stuck up for the bankers as much as i did johnson is appealing to a tiny proportion of tory electors who could make him pm and he appears to believe they think that removing billions of billions of pounds worth of public money and poor ing it into the hands of bankers is a good.