now you 154 people. are headline stories this hour fears. u.s. federal judge condemns the justice department's substantiated claims that a russian firm indicted for election meddling was ruled by the kremlin saying it sway a jury. the british ambassador to the u.s. result cable scandal after his private e-mails exposed a far from glowing review of donald trump and his administration. meanwhile comes under fire from democrats for links to billionaire jeffrey epstein who's accused of multiple cases of child sexual abuse. his close ties to both camps of washington's political.

one minutes past 10 am in philadelphia and 9 pm in bangkok and 5 meaning right here in moscow welcome to our to international i mean you know in our top story a u.s. federal judge has told the justice department it must stop alleging that our russian firm accused of election interference was funded by the kremlin or face a range of potential sanctions the rebuttal comes in response to on substantiated claims from the attorney general william bar owner senior correspondent. joins me in the studio to talk us through what we know at this story tell us about the ruling the revelations as well here it will this this is a very serious ruling. that challenges a major part of the report because he has a little background music. routed his report they established that the russian

interference as they called it in the us election consisted of 2 elements the 1st element active measures as they called them was carried out by the ira the internet research agency a russian social media company and they accuse them of spreading disinformation of spreading fake news supporting trump and denigrating hillary clinton the 2nd part of the operation was russian intelligence agents g.r.u. agents hacking the democratic national convention the d.n.c. stealing their emails and releasing those and barassi e-mail so to part operation now the internet research agency sued the u.s. government for saying that they were part of the russian government they were acting on behalf of the russian government and a judge in the united states has ruled that you know the kids are ruled in their favor he is said that there is no evidence to support that they. funded the

directed by the russian government so when mueller wrote that the russian state carried out these operations he was in the wrong he was incorrect in the judge and i quote it is significant and prejudicial that the government itself drew a link between the defendants and the russian government so there is this new trial this is a private entity the internet research agency so in effect immunities argument that this was a sweeping systematic operation interference operation by the russian government appears to be this doesn't prove that it's false but the judge merely merely ruled that there's no evidence to support that it is true. they've they've certainly won not front furthermore the government is in violation of certain rules by authorizing the release of public statements that linked the defendant and the russian gov. as i see

a major blow to the mueller report which is you know there are plenty of holes in it now that there's been some time has passed people have had a chance to study it for example the still have no confidence or no real knowledge in how the emails that the queues the russian russian intelligence agents of stealing democratic emails how they ended up in the hands of weekly leaks and furthermore they write that the alleged theft appear to have stolen those e-mails they have no confidence that the russian agents in the 2nd part of this sweeping operation quote unquote were conducted by by russian agents as i say a lot of holes and this is going to this is going to cause even more questions you know pretty significant ruling right guys they're breaking that down for us this hour thank you. let's stay stateside now because the u.k. has a luster to the u.s. kim doric has announced he's stepping down from his position there after

a series of highly critical comments he'd made about the trump administration where leaked to the press in confidential cable sent back to officials in london the diplomat described the white house as dysfunctional and chaotic. since the leak of official documents from this embassy there has been a great deal of speculation surrounding my position and that you 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 britain's most senior diplomat has been forced to resign and that comes after donald trump the president of the united states that it no longer be able to deal with him he 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 raffling over the last few days prime minister teresa may and the labor leader jeremy corbyn they were able to publicly back him in fact they said it was regretted. or 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 this is a matter of great regret that he has felt it necessary to leave his position. the. whole cabinet rightly gave its full support to the kim on tuesday so kim has given a kidney has given a life time of service to the united kingdom and we owe him an enormous debt of gratitude. now it must be said that these robust assessments are in fact routine and secure diplomatic communications but of course donald trump has taken to his favorite platform of social media of twitter to vocalize his anger in fact calling him direct a stupid guy i know it must be said that number 10 has tried to distance itself from 2nd direct assessments and communications by saying that they do not really

support the u.k. government's opinions having said that it's not up to number 10 nor theresa may and what they have to say in fact all eyes are now on boris johnson or jeremy hines of course one of the 2 will become the next prime minister and both of them have very different opinions when it comes to this political saga the what he 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 briggs's 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 always need to treat each other with respect histories i'm a is always done with you i've got a good relationship with the white house and i've had no embarrassment in saying that you know. the 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 flare 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 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 there we can't 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 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 well in

a program that runs throughout the day a former white hosts communications director told option return z. of going underground but he believes the british ambassador was the victim of a political hit job inside the foreign office though i asked stuff who might if any will stand to benefit from the parter. well it goes boris johnson presumably the new prime minister of this country into weeks time 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 got a movie about this we know through edward snowden who is taking 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 whatever whatever hit men 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. it's more world news this hour the u.s. president has stepped in to defend his labor secretary alex cost us a sex trafficking and child abuse trial involving billionaire jeffrey epstein spills over into the white house when a cost there 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. he'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'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 well jeffrey epstein

a registered sex offender is accused of trafficking ring dozens of underage girls to his mansion if guilty he may face up to 45 years in prison the democratic leadership is putting pressure on donald trump and his team over a potential up struction 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 more people see jeffrey abstain 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 has evaded these charges for years thanks to a deal he made with the costa when he was the u.s. attorney in miami and stead 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 sweetheart deal and 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 an to trump chorus from mainstream media the federal sex trafficking case against donald trump old friend jeffrey charged 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 a report 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. are to new york. a global conference for media freedom is under way in london co-hosted by the u.k. canada but r.t. . being barred from the party who has. 60 minutes says 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 governments here in london one of the special guests is assassin 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 with 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 colleagues and also colleagues that sputnik which is the of the russian news organization that. board cost 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 were seeing the pretty standard stock reply it 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 t. or sputnik because of their active role in spreading disinformation well 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 marie as a heart 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 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 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 in his london and there is a small demonstration here calling for his release chanting freedom to julian songs now today in 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 north 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 in london have been allowed they have been accredited and they have been inside attending the conference as for me i'm out here i've got my eyes on this pizza restaurant. ali bacher speaking earlier to the program i'm hoping the international affairs commentator jonathan steele joins us now on the program to offer his thoughts jonathan good to see you so here we have a conference all media freedom with some global news organizations barred. contradiction

backfire on organizers. well i wish it would and i hope that some of the journalists who were in the conference not just the russians would actually have the coverage to stand up and protest the exclusion of all. because it is a disgrace i mean the foreign office that you showed on screen so the problem was russia today. pursuing an active role in spreading this information well i think most journalists attending not conference will understand that is pure spin i mean what is an active policy of spreading information let's deconstruct that i mean what would a passive policy spreading it just information be there isn't any such thing so active policy is useless so useless use of form of words tries to imply that something more there than there is spreading it just information well that could just mean putting out information which turns out to be inaccurate that's what journalists unfortunately do all the time in different countries of the world

they've they make mistakes they put out inaccurate stuff not deliberately because there's a shortage of time very often and then they correct the mistakes and so there's nothing special it's just you call it spreading disinformation makes it sound more sinister than it really is has it come to the stage john sidelining rushes english language media is now an accepted part of the industry. well i think it's part of the general demonization of russia and president putin as well personally so ticklish sensis i guess group our poisoning turned. but even before that russian british relations were very bad and russia was seen as a ripping bars that was useful on any occasion. it's just interesting some of the details on this story other russian channels have been invited why would the conference differentiate between the english language outlets here in russia. well i think that trying to isolate russia today and implies that it's not

a genuine broadcaster in the hope the british people and others around the world who want to international went continue to watch it so they're trying to imply or there's something wrong with their to new plan to keep away from it this is really totally unfair because as a percentage a lot of journalists a lot of media companies around the world also make mistakes some in the b.b.c. which is the holy grail of british journalism is not immune to that to mean it happens that tonight b.b.c. panorama is going to share a programme about the labor party allegations of anti semitism and the man who's made that programme has previously made documentaries for the b.b.c. about british muslims for which he had to apologize and even pay compensation he made a programme about hard left people allegedly taking control of local schools which the b.b.c. zone magazine criticised the programme saying it was abandoned any attempt to reason to detached investigative journalism so really you know the b.b.c.

itself is not above criticism on these things and yet it's putting out a program tonight which appears to be although i haven't seen it are going to be quite biased if i was putting on a conference that i'm not of clearly but i would look for different viewpoints maybe not the mainstream stance because that's what people are interested in the center of the left right surely that should be welcome not barred. of course i mean really no it's authority looks at things from a russian perspective it's different from the british perspective it also prides itself on picking up on the reporter to not overlook stories that as i'm in mainstream media don't cover and it plays a useful role and people i meet occasionally who. here that i've been broadcasting from here to you don't recognize me and say they want you to see if they like it because it does give an alternative point of view they don't necessarily believe everything they see on rush rush today on b.b.c. all the trials they like to get

a balanced amount to different points of view so they can judge which one is closer to what they think is the truth another aspect that some people have been highlighting in this is that the u.k. conference is happening. at the same time that julian assange has extradition papers being signed by the u.k. i've seen some some articles on that already what's your thoughts on the. situation. well and has become a victim of united states government unfortunately because of the leaking of information and it's quite ironic that the going on above the bridge on bass and washington for leaking e-mails 20 turned 20 turn the guardian using. source is published 250000 state department cables far more than just one message is curable they were very rude about various world leaders and the storm blew over

very quickly it's are it's really odd that this can direct story has taken such a high profile coverage jonathan thanks very much for your time this hour we appreciate you coming on the program and giving us your thoughts international affairs commentator jonathan steele. all right i'm not sure many would describe peter lavelle as politically correct just the way he likes it i would say but peace in culture isn't the subject of crosstalk stay tuned for. he put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you when the president. wanted. to go on to be pros which is what the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the waters in the.

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a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family my daughters in florida law the mother daughter is very remiss i'm going to every meeting with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to than him and what happens in court. be. shocked shocked. as far as we do. we don't know this is true. and this. we. still know no chill just.

below and welcome the crossed off were all things are considered i'm peter lavelle why is it when you hear the word diversity it's at the expense of unity then there is inclusion but only inclusion when you agree with a certain political thought and world view and of course we can forget about identity politics if you disagree then you're called a dog whistle how did we get here. political correctness i'm joined by my guess joe concha in new jersey he's a media reporter for the hill in charlottesville we have david swanson is the executive director of world beyond war dot org and campaign coordinator for roots action dot org and in washington we cross to our been for he is

a libertarian party presidential candidate as well as author of pull out men modern life and mutiny are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to joe joe very broadly speaking speaking has political correctness just simply poisoned political discourse because what we've gotten down to is people only talking to people that agree with themselves and and what it's done is it is it's really completely corrupted and. kind of debate i debate people all the time with different political views and i learn something and i enjoy it but i don't see that happen it's happening less and less where people of different views speak to each other because when they do their call they call the or interlocutor amoral or go to some historical reference a nazi or something like that they go very quickly to that point without really any kind of.