in the headlines this morning a major u.s. network killed a bombshell interview allegedly approving sexual assault crimes of disgraced featuring and from the channel we'll tell you more than up to molly's president claims the rise of islamist extremist groups threatens the very existence of his country despite the presence of french forces in the west african nation. developments in the trumpet pictured saga a key witness changes his testimony and remembers the threat of military aid being withheld from both freshly released e-mails reveal new details on joe biden son's position as a major ukrainian gas company. where

their morning just turned 80 when is the morning here in moscow when is kevin 0 in life the r t world news center i'm here with this half hour update for you thanks for tuning in 1st the video appears to cast doubt on the impartiality of america's a.b.c. news network claims the channel koester explosive interview with the cues are of disgraced geoffrey epstein back in 2015 allegedly detail the convicted paedophiles predatory behavior the video was obtained by transparency group project veritas saskia taylor reports live t.v. one o one check your mike then check it again project for a task has published bombshell assessed for to an 8. venting her fury at how experience said geoffrey epstein story being shelved by the channel recorded in late august shortly. after the disgraced billionaire was found dead in his new york

jail cell amy roebuck said over 3 years ago she had exclusive material relating to peter fathering material which had direct testimony from one of the victim's photos as well as other evidence of his dealings which implicated high profile figures like bill clinton prince andrew she told me everything she did it sure did everything she was fighting for 12 years we convinced her to come out we convinced her to talk to us it was unbelievable what we have cleared with everything that the powers found out that we have her whole allegations are false andrew and threatened us a 1000000 different ways robot claims the story was stopped from going to 2015 because according to the people as no one knew who was funny that because just a few years before they'd been happily sipping champagne at his manhattan townhouse you see back in 20 media heavyweights gathered out to dinner and on of the u.k.'s

prince andrew a dinner which was arranged on hosted by you guessed it south and among those who wouldn't know who epstein was were both a.b.c. and c.b.s. phosphor 2015 managed to entice virginia robots to free one of the victims out of hiding produces through her and her family out to the a.b.c. h.q. in new york and hosted them and one of the big apple's most luxurious hotels what they got was the scoop of a lifetime to free through wind opened the door in the muck to world of epstein and his entourage as they flew around the wall down his private jet dubbed the express have a story of 3 years i've had to say are you with virginia roberts we know that i'm here 1st i was told who is geoffrey epstein no one knows who it is this is a stupid story. i tried for 3 years to get on to no avail and. now it's all coming

out and thinking well of revelations and i presume that this is the kind of story that makes koreas and gets people talking which is exactly why it was in some people's interests to bury it i viewed the b.b.c. interview as a potential game changer appearing on a.b.c. with its wide viewership would have been the 1st time for me to speak out against the government for basically looking the other way and to describe the anger and betrayal victims felt i was defeated once again by the very people i spoke out against and once again my voice was silenced i could not believe that a formidable network like a.b.c. had backed down and given in and for all those who are going to cry conspiracy one of the even came forward and confirmed he put pressure on the network to kill the story i simply provided a.b.c. with incontrovertibly evidence proving that jeffrey had

a long history of lying about tipper and al gore her age and other matters and that her credibility could not be counted on and while this exposition was sussing more salacious than all the reports on that side it wasn't the fust time his morals have been called into question stories piecing together a tangled web involving bill clinton and prince andrew had sophos before images of the finance his little black book with hundreds of victims' names and mugged alongside testimony from a 14 year old go claiming to have had sexual relations with the billionaire manhattanites gossipped about how new york city it was being ferried around on his private plane to his private island along with the coterie of very young women but all those revelations just like roebuck's were put back in the troll at the time not all are reporting that are standards to air but we have never stopped investigating this story ever since we've. a team on this investigation and

substantial resources dedicated to it that work has led to a 2 hour documentary and 6 part podcast that will air in the new year you'd be forgiven if that rings a bell because a.b.c.'s response is uncannily similar to n.b.c.'s comment about its coverage. of of media mogul harvey weinstein your efforts to tell the harvey weinstein's story and in the end b.c. killed the story because they said you did not have enough facts it didn't reach their level of journalism they're saying it's an ax to grind on your part so the book is as i said fair and even generous to them at every turn there was a very extensive factual process to make sure every one of the rebuttals is in there because the harvey story didn't run on n.b.c. ultimately took it to alternately took it to the new yorker they are concealing the fact that they actively ordered us to stop yes we had multiple named women in every draft of the story we had audio of harvey weinstein admitting to a crime but more pertinently they ordered us to stop and it seems a.b.c. was not the only one to fall into the trap of enabling cabstand to evade true media

scrutiny but it's vanity fair and the new york times had several allegations of his inappropriate sexual behavior but chose to stick to safe stories on things like the origins of his wealth and was sought to be careful to avoid reporting some of the more suspicious details surrounding his death are a lot of men in those planes a lot of men visited that island the powerful man who came into our hands into i think he was killed 100 percent yes and maybe a.b.c. was right no one knew who epstein was or maybe it didn't want to get on the wrong side of some very powerful people people who with you believe the room was might just now have blood on their hands so skewed tell a reporter that will be. exposed to so saying the comments were made in a private moment of for. stray ssion quick reminder some of the background of the

story the 66 year old multimillionaire was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor back in 2008 and then registered as a sex offender back in july he was arrested again it was about to face trial over the alleged creation of a sex trafficking network you've repeatedly denied those charges by the way a month later epstein was found dead in a cell in an apparent suicide nicaea and spoke with the founder of project journalist james o'keefe. well i think it's a huge concern and that the statement that you just read there was seemingly written by corporate lawyers for a.b.c. it directly contradicts what amy robock says on the set and this leaked hot mike tape i think comes across quite well and if i were her i'd be upset at these executives for squashing the story as well but the tape is if you watch the full 3 minute tape you'll see that she's she's very upset that these interviews with the accusers were not aired she says she's 100 percent confident that epstein was was

killed and this is a pretty prominent american a.b.c. news journalist making these statements and i have to wonder why did they not air these stories why why were that why was the sheld i think that a lot of these people are can are not trusting the media anymore in this country because the media does not cover the news i mean this is a big story this is a a huge story and you can see the the the anger you can see how frustrated amy robock when you listen when you watch this tape it directly contradicts what a.b.c. news is saying publicly now about not having enough corroboration there they're fine airing the allegations against maybe brett kavanaugh for or trump or anybody else but when it comes to bill clinton and some of these folks 'd that are mentioned by amy in this hot mike tape they say they just didn't have enough corroboration i'm not sure how a.b.c. news defines a corroboration when it comes to credible witnesses talking about sexual assault.

french military forces in mali say they've killed the leader of an islamic extremist group in the west african country comes off through a militant attack which killed 53 soldiers last week molly's president recently warned that the existence of his country is at risk because of a rise in violence by terror groups from the stress his commitment to fighting the spread of islam mr extremism in africa's vast said hell region. in the should i feel nothing will be where is the antipodes attorney's trying to my lonely hour guard and a time when says your magic events are having all we must be able to continue but for that there are conditions there are conditions for success even the 7 years of bloodshed and violence isn't just continuing in mali some say it's a worsening in recent weeks attacks have been increasing with islamic states claiming responsibility.

another casualty of the mounting violence is france french troops have been stationed in mali a former colony for years. from now on will account for 50 percent of our budget for international security and cooperation because this is where the security of the african continent and more generally security of a good part of our planet europe included is being threatened the false has been leading the charge off to mali was split in 2 in 2012 by islamists who declared

surely a law in the north of the country it deployed troops to the region in 2013 but despite initial promise to hold this have regrouped and they've spread violence has spilled over into neighboring countries but kenya faster and nisha now despite repeated commitments from president mccone to shore up the fragile region he's just not been able to stabilize the. mali and government and the number of attacks has a doubled since 2016 despite that france is intent on staying in this saw her commitment to the ease and remains a priority for france will take time to defeat these groups who thrive on the social and economic difficulties of the region as the violence spreads across mali the failure of the french and u.n. troops to keep a lid on it is stirring other tensions mali and military families have complained

that the army is not being given sufficient resources to fight the insurgency that's said to protest not just to denounce terrorism but also the presence of foreign troops patients for military progress is wearing thin some groups are calling for change of tack advocating opening up dialogue with the chartists that something front has previously ruled out so to have mollies top officials but with the current impasse a new solution is needed or the death toll is likely to only voice. r.t. paris. journalists in africa. believe the french president in the region could in fact become counterproductive. it comes at a time when people say that those that have come from the outside and that people should only europeans and the french specifically so times when people say they overstayed their welcome there's a time when they have crossed

a line and feel that the local support that they once were receiving may be declining i think we're coming close to that point because at some point in time we're coming close to 7 years that they've been and will be so close to 10 years if not more and that's what some point the money government has got to realize that they're not making the relevant gains that they once were and more so. if things become counterproductive over time the settlers always been a difficult one again we are seeing for the 1st time if not in many most recent times where i s. and al-qaeda us into the working together and we've seen them active your prating on the same territory mallees clearly one of those territories so it can be very difficult to dislodge them and it's going to be very difficult for the cells become free of terrorism and free of jihadists. so this morning fresh revelations of emerged in the impeachment inquiry against us president

trumpeted spaced on the u.s. president allegedly pressure on ukraine to open an investigation is democratic opponent joe biden the newly revised testimony from some bastard to the e.u. now acknowledges telling the financial aid would likely be with held on a quid pro quo basis something he previously denied knowledge of. also i now do recall a conversation on september 1st 2900 in warsaw with you muster here mack this brief pull aside conversation followed a larger meeting involving vice president pence and president lenski in which president selenski had raised the issue of suspension of u.s. aid to ukraine directly with vice president pence after that large meeting i now recall speaking individual with mr your mac rest said that resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we have been discussing for many weeks. you create a scandal revolves around the sun the democratic presidential candidate joe biden who held a top position in the ukrainian gas company but

a newly released e-mails to the idea that the firm used by those connections to get out of a corruption investigation led maupin's go. bris my holdings that's the natural gas firm in ukraine that vice president joe biden's son hunter biden worked for and it's now at the center of a scandal or i guess it isn't mainstream us media insists that any claims of wrongdoing are simply a conspiracy theory that donald trump made up there is a conspiracy theory that biden conspiracy theory vice president might pence has just repeated his bosses debunked conspiracy abidin conspiracy theory the conspiracy theories continue while documents that have newly been released under the freedom of information act reveal that the u.s. government was already looking into potentially shady activities from the company in 2016 furthermore the documents reveal that there is no holdings even dropped to the name of hunter by hoping to win a few brownie points from the obama administration but attorney karen tremont

tonneau requested a meeting to discuss with undersecretary novelli the state department's official overseeing international energy u.s. government remarks alleging bruce mara the ukrainian energy company of corruption she noted that 2 high profile u.s. citizens are affiliated with the company including hunter biden as a board member another board member mentioned his meeting with u.s. secretary of state john kerry and the icing on the cake a month goes by and the prosecutor investigating barista holdings gets fired and we've got the vice president joe biden the father of hunter biden on tape bragging that he made it happen i said you know i get the 1000000000 i'm going to leave in a year i think it was about 6 hours i looked as i'm reading the 6 hours that the prosecutor is not fired you're not getting them. well son of a. fire now joe biden insists the only one of the prosecutor gone because he was

known to be corrupt and that has nothing to do with his son's employers my insistence. that a prosecutor who is viewed as corrupt be replaced. was the official position of the president united states the united states government supported by republican senators who sent a letter sent a letter. in 2016 calling for the move show can because of corruption although the fired prosecutor claims otherwise biden was acting not like a us vice president but as an individual like the individual interested in having me removed having me gone so that i did not interfere in the barisan investigation now mainstream us media glosses over it and says it's all just a big conspiracy theory why look over these facts for yourself and determine if you really believe everything here is just a ok ok look up and r.t.

new york if it was cia officer rem a governor spoke to us about it he thinks the democrats have miscalculated impeaching trub. it's a big mistake this is all of a little game here in washington it's a big mistake for the democrats to circumscribe their their inquiry each been a quarry to the you create a problem what effect does that have. joe biden is out of the running as far as i'm concerned there is show much dirt on joe biden i just wonder what more dirt president truck was trying to dig out so as the state's become reveal it's going to be also revealed that the people talking to the democrats here and have been in touch with these other people like the whistleblowers call and they interrogated working for the day brennan and others and so you know things are going to fall court they should be shrunk right quick but not on these flimsy charges of quid pro

quo. iraq is holding talks on constitutional amendment submitted on going violent unrest in the country $260.00 people have been killed there since anti government demonstrations started a month ago protesters are demanding a major overhaul of the political system that was established after the u.s. led invasion back in 2003 done a whole kit as the story. in iraq is no stranger to turmoil the country's seen little piece and even less the billet since the us led invasion of 2003 mass protests and violence of regulating gulf the state of these though are the worst since the overthrow of saddam hussein 16 years ago.

hundreds killed dozens in just one week by live ammunition many thousands injured amid a heavy crackdown by security forces other governments to provide special forces imposed curfews and an internet blackout across the whole country but that's just anger to crowds even more roads and bridges have been blocked by demonstrators who have also try. the takeover of buildings both in the capital baghdad and across other cities and why is this happening to some these protests address years of grievances corruption unemployment poor public service is there a source of anger across many countries but in iraq things should be different iraq should be thriving the country's oil revenue has exceeded 850000000000 in the post saddam years with production nearly doubling despite the internal strife with iraq estimated to hold almost 10 percent of the globe's proven reserves its prospects

should be growing a report by the international energy agency predicts revenue to hit nearly 5 trillion dollars in just over 15 years time and optimistic estimates set back by years of conflict but you get the picture just months ago any joy in sex on a b.p. were fighting for the right to build a pipeline in the country with tens of billions of dollars at stake and yet a reality for most of the rockies is bleak last year iraq was ranked 168th out of under an 80 by a corruption index but for people surviving on a day to day basis that's one of the smallest concerns the world food program reveals more than half of iraqis are at risk of food insecurity with unicef figures last year showing one in 4 children living in poverty even the u.s. secretary of state agrees things aren't great and it was washington who built iraq's modern political order the iraqi people deserve genuine accountability and

justice the government of iraq should listen to the legitimate demands made by the iraqi people so what happened former u.s. defense secretary robert gates stated on a visit to baghdad that a new era was just around the corner more than ever i believe the goal of a secure and stable and democratic iraq is within reach almost 12 years on things couldn't be further from the truth. now to make sense of post them to mention iraq and where exactly is grievances lawyer let's speak to nicholas j. davis author of blood on our hands the american invasion and destruction of iraq mr davis thanks so much for joining us today good to have you with us now these protests they've been going on since mid october they show no sign of slowing down indeed there's been a government crackdown condemned by many organizations word to these grievances that lloyd but a spreading out with such violence all over the country the people of iraq you know i still you know have really been ignored and all this they're still suffering from

the absolute destruction and economic devastation of iraq by the us invasion and occupation there were large state owned companies that that was the very basis of the iraqi economy and they supported this you know mixed mixed economy beyond that that was all completely destroyed unemployment under the u.s. occupation at one point breached at least 60 percent essential leave the sort of. you know pyramid of of power in you know occupied and post occupation iraq where you know this tiny group of u.s. and iranian backed exiles has you know with u.s. and iranian support created

a monopoly on power that the vast majority of the disenfranchised alienated people of iraq have never supported the u.s. who really has completely discredited itself from start to finish it has done nothing that has helped the people of iraq at all you know either before or after the invasion. a smaller story turn in southwest england probably from there so from the front line in the battle against racism but not everyone is happy about the changes it could bring. if this wording is not removed the town council could be classed as a racist white supremacist therefore this issue should be rectified immediately.

all who have traveled through the delicious scenery of north devon must needs know the little white town of biddeford. shocking. shop i think it's stupid. it's a good a white town if you always bring the white car it's nothing to do with rush or you have to stop or it's in my stage every day. everybody does it i can't imagine why it would get married it's unbelievable to live a good record with your mouth. i'm sure you got your thoughts too there is no law story's going to comment section at r.t. dot com for now this wednesday is kevin lowe and the rest of our judy team this

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