federal judge the justice department's. claims that the russian. election meddling was wrong. and saying. the british. far from. this administration. meanwhile comes under fire from u.s. . who's accused of multiple cases of child sexual abuse. to both of washington's political elite.

maybe tuning in from rights around the world this hour a warm welcome to moscow on to our international. top story a u.s. federal judge has told washington it must stop alleging that a russian firm accused of election meddling was funded by the kremlin or face a range of potential sanctions the court found that such on substantiated claims against the internet research agency risk prejudicing a jury i'm joined live by our senior correspondent the if. indeed take us through this really significant well this this is a huge huge decision a huge ruling because it seriously undermines a large portion of found with regards to u.s. accusations of russian. in the election the election they say the election meddling

they say was to stage it was 1st of all intelligence agents. agents hackers hacking the d.n.c. stealing democrats e-mails releasing them through we can leaks and embarrassing the democrats which was part of the election meddling the 2nd part of the operation how the russians their legs meddled in the election refers to the operation on social media which william by explain. the special council report outlines 2 main efforts by the russian government to influence the 2016 election. first the report details efforts by the internet research agency a russian company with close ties to the russian government to sow social discord among american voters through to see information and social media operations. now

the internet research agency as they call them in the united states in the press the troll farm which is accused of doing this information spreading fake news as supporting donald trump denigrating hillary clinton they're engaged in a legal a legal battle with the united states government and a federal judge has now ruled that the new report the government were wrong that they were in violation of various rules by linking the internet research agency and the russian government because the internet research agency is a private entity a private company and the mueller report offered no direct evidence and for a long time this was just a soon to be fact yeah exactly and because the they accuse them of carrying out attacks on behalf of the russian government as the russians the russian state and the problem here is that they offered no proof whatsoever than saying that the

owner of the into research agency its parent company. is alleged to be a friend of a close ally lied to me or putin and that the company has had in the past several government contracts outside of that no evidence of them acting on behalf of the russian government or following orders of the russian government and the judge ruled that. busy as i quote it is significant and prejudicial that the government itself drew a link between these defendants and the russian government between the internet research agency and the russian government which. which basically says that they were a private entity acting so far. as long as it hasn't been proved that they're acting on behalf of the russian government that they were acting as private actors independent which flies in the face of the mueller invested mueller report which tied the to the russian government and this company so there you go another one of

the whole. blasted in the report so far though of course say this this doesn't prove. that they weren't acting on behalf of the russian government or that they were neither true nor false there's just not enough evidence going forward the judge has ordered the united states government to stop referring to them as part of the russian government so not a russian effort so one of mueller's is alleged to pronged operation a sweeping and systematic operation of the russian government in meddling in the us election well that's collapsed because one of the entities wasn't part of the russian government. just adds to all the other holes in the mueller report for example with regards to the 2nd part of this operation the hackers there's a lot of confusion as to what happened how those e-mails were obtained the new report itself says that they appear to have stolen these e-mails and they have very

little understanding of how these e-mails ended up in the hands of the league so i'm sure they'll be much more discussion and debate regarding the accuracy of the mueller report doing forward especially after the these findings be very significant thank you very much for bringing us right up to date. here lots of big news stories this when stevie ukase ambassador to the u.s. kim doric 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 knowing confidential cable sent back to officials in london the diplomat had described 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 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 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 prime minister to resign may and the labor leader jeremy corbyn they were able to publicly back human 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 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 her kid has given a lifetime 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 for kim a few fed gyno it must be says that number 10 has tried to distance itself from secondary 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 how. and the 4th one of the 2 will become the next prime minister and both of them have very different opinions when it comes to the political saga 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 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've had 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 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 said 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 derek 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. well in today's going underground show or to your former white house communications director anthony score in the chief tells our tees off and returns 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 him 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 whatever whatever hit me and reasons they can't they just get it from surveillance do they really need it leaked because of internal politics here that is about the succession after to resume in downing street. a sex trafficking and child abuse trial of billionaire it jeffrey epstein is spilling over into the white house with president trump forced to defend his labor secretary alex acosta when it cos 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 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'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 dozens of underage girls to his mansion if i'm guilty he may fear up to 45 years in prison 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 abstain 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 challenge to let him 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 seen 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 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 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 across to 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 is 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. artsy new york a global conference on media freedom has begun in the u.k. capital who's not been invited though that story after the break. in a world of big. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to

dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. and you try and be professional you try and leave it outside the door you try and put in a comma compartment and eyes it's new bright and so you can forget about it but little by little these. these little whispers come and for me it was actually putting some ice into my wife's glass of gin and time i saw it on the sound of the ice cream to the glass reminded me of how we had all these cool in

bali which was with bags of supermarkets ice. 19 minutes into the program welcome back a global conference for media freedom is underway in london co-hosted by the u.k. keller that but r.t. . news agency have been barred from the party. is nearby. 60 minutes is 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 i 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. so the foreign office to express its expressed resolute disagreement with what has taken place and russia's foreign ministry spokesperson maria zahar of are 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 the 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 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 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 jewel in the sunshine north to north don't you realize you were 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 who. here in london has 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 case a restaurant. where former european parliament member stephen wolfe sees the b.b.c. and r.t.e. aren't all that different but london is sending a clear message to moscow well i think all to you 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 in vehicle of the russian government will want to get on cue 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 while that 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 you we can. increasing numbers of people with diabetes in america say they have no choice but to go to canada to get affordable instant a group we spoke to spend 15 hours all that bus trip to buy their medication where a cost $10.00 times less than over the border in the u.s. . so this is when i just went to c.v.s.

in minneapolis minnesota and the retail price of that vile is $340.00 when i went to london ontario to pick it out at the wal-mart pharmacy there in us dollars the retail price was $26.00. so there is a huge price discrepancy and so 1st so many americans they just simply can't afford it i have never had to personally ration insulin but from the high cost of insulin i have had to go into debt because of it i've had to put it on credit cards i've had to reach out to family members to help me pay for it because it has gotten too expensive that i can't cover. because that astronomical cost but i also realize there are people that are not as fortunate as me and they don't have family members they can reach out to that can help bail them out. well according to the u.s.

diabetes association 30000000 americans suffer from the illness more than 7000000 rely on insulin it remains the main treatment for diabetics to control glucose levels let's go through what it actually is it was 1st produced in 121 in toronto back then the pain was told for just a dollar with the hope of making treatment available to anyone who needed it but a spike in prices between 20122016 asked for some to start rushing their medication the cool smith hold from the charge on international told us about the tragic consequences of having to limit doses. the price is raised to over 1200 percent the past 20 years and there's just no reason why it's been increasing to the point where people just they're dying because they can't afford their insulin my family has paid the ultimate price of the pharmaceutical companies price gouging their patients in 2017 my 26 year old son passed away.

from diabetic ketoacidosis from rationing his insulin and he was rationing it because he couldn't afford it the monthly price for his insulin and diabetic supplies was $1300.00 is going to such an extreme that people are resorting to some really drastic measures to be able to get affordable insulin and people are traveling outside of the united states and going to other countries to purchase it where it's actually affordable we spoke to the director of the washington pain management center is calling for a fair competition in america's pharmaceuticals industry. sometimes it happens the united states the f.d.a. requires pharmaceutical industry to have a certain standard of care and standards are great but sometimes small businesses cannot enter that market because it's such a barrier by making a 1000 dollars or $3000.00 a year in a product when i as a company want to get into that maybe we need 6 companies maybe you need

a company and the way that you do that is again make sure there's a less of a barrier to make this product if you use competition then me as a patient i'm empowered to understand how much is this medication cost is this product equally as good why would maybe you know take a lesser expensive medication than the other speaking at length no courtesy of interviews recorded over many years one of the foremost thinkers of our age noam chomsky requiem for the american dream begins in moment. with this manufacture consent to stick to the public will. when the ruling closest to protect them so. when the flaming. lips certainly don't. ignore middle

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