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of poor on 6 in the evening right here in moscow welcome to our to international i mean and o'neill. general election campaigning in the u.k. off to a tempered start this weapon stay with boris johnson launching a series of skipping attacks on the opposition leader the prime minister appealed to the public to vote for his conservative party rather than labor which he claimed failed to take a tough enough line. come with us a government that believes britain should stand tool in the world ok with generally cool being in the labor party who sided with putin when russia ordered poisonings on the streets of songs pre. we cross live to

a party to in london for more hi there kate what we've just heard from the pm wasn't the only attack was that which invoked moscow or jeremy corbin they came thick and fast on campaigning as only just begun. union yes you're right campaigning has only just begun it's day one here of campaigning and as you said an incredible start so far very eventful i mean the prime minister there in the grab that years referring to the script poisoning case back in march 28th seen of course russia did get the blame for this consistently denied all the allegations ever since because the prime minister they're bringing up this scandal to basically discredit jeremy corbyn as part of the campaign going forward and it wasn't the only anti russian the negative russian reference that's been used so far in the campaign the prime minister has also compared jeremy corbyn with stalin saying that he's attacking the wealth of the landowning classes while in response the labor m.p. emily saw him self has raised questions over boris johnson's top advisor dominic

cummings who spent 3 years in russia after he graduated in the 1990 s. and the prime minister is also being accused of a cover up as number 10 is failing refusing to publish a report by the security and intelligence services about russian infiltration into british politics and then i saw him very asked why. so we are bound to ask what is downing street so worried about why would they not welcome an official report into attempted russian interference in the 2016 referendum where the successful or otherwise and i fear it is because they realize that this report will lead to other questions about the links between russia and brics it and with the current leadership of the tory party which risks the railing their election campaign. however mr crispin cher responded by saying there's nothing unusual in delaying the publication of the report ahead of the election as it needed to be examined and there was no proof of collusion. it rob the

rich for her to suggest that somehow the conservative party and this government is links to russia and this information given the way that her own party leadership has acted on the responsibility of her own party leadership. there is no evidence to suggest the. kremlin has successfully engaged in interference in electoral processes. so with 5 weeks to go until the election the mudslinging has already started with all the parties trying to compromise each other but perhaps the best way to compromise you is to mention or perhaps indicate any allegations or any links whatever team is russia or ice for breaking that down this hour ok partridge live in london. a leaked video appears to cast doubt on the impartiality of america's a.b.c.

news channel in its network anchor claims the station quashed her explosive interview with an accuser of the screen geoffrey epstein back in 2015 who allegedly detailed the convicted paedophiles predatory behavior the following is part of the video obtained by transparency group project for atolls. with everything. i have i tried for 3 years to get on to no avail and now it's all coming out and thinking is new well of revelations that i presume had i was so pissed right now that every day i get more work yes because i missed like 5 weeks it was all what we had it was unreal now this came to us from an insider within the network an insider who currently works at a.b.c. news leaked us this tape and that person is still on the inside so that we expect more to come here it's quite telling that this insider leaked this tape to project their it's us and not the washington post the new york times c.b.s. or c.n.n.

because they seem to want to protect the people that were working with jeffrey epstein again amy robach saying that steam was blackmailing people there's a lot of powerful people on those airplanes that amy is 100 percent certain he did not commit suicide i don't know why she won't say that publicly but there she is in the leaked tape on the set of the program saying these things when nobody is looking. a reminder of how this story developed 66 year old multi-millionaire jeffrey epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008 and was then registered as a sex offender in july this year he was arrested again it was about to face trial over the alleged creation of a sex trafficking network charges he repeatedly denied a month later epstein was found dead in his cell in on a par in suicide. taylor brings us more. live t.v. one no one check your mike than check it again project has published

bombshell footage of an a.p.c. and 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 pete a fall writing material which had direct testimony from one of the victims photos as well as other evidence of his 2 u.b.s. dealings which implicated high profile figures like bill clinton prince andrew she told me everything she sure is cheating everything she was in for 12 years making history come out here to talk to us it was unbelievable what we had clinton we had everything robot claims the story was stopped from going to 2015 because according to the people up stuff as no one knew who was funny because just a few years before they've been happily sipping champagne on his manhattan townhouse you see back in 20 need to have the weights go out the out to dinner and

on all 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. has phosphor to 2015 managed to entice virginia robots to fray one of the victims out of hiding produce. 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 phrase through wide open the door on the marquee world of apps tide and his entourage as they flew around the walls on his private jet dubbed the elite express palace found out that we have her whole allegations are false and true and threatened us a 1000000 different ways 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 for a minute bill network like a.b.c. had backed down and given while this exposition was certainly more salacious than other reports on that side it wasn't the 1st 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 group box were put back in the troll at the time not all are reporting there are standards to air but we have never stopped investigating this story ever since we've had a team on this investigation and substantial resources dedicated to it that work has led to a 2 hour documentary and 6 point pod cast that will air in the new year you'd be forgiven if that rings. about because a.b.c.'s response is on kaminey similar to n.b.c.'s comment about its coverage. of of media mogul harvey weinstein the end b.c. killed the story and 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 epstein 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 with socks and a 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 so do 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. lips lawyer has contacted the be seen network but he said it was merely to provide evidence that the accuser interviewed by the channel could not be trusted the younger 2 has backtracked slightly since the video was leaked. amy roebuck explained that her comments were

made in a private moment of frustration but founder of project pro tell us again james o'keefe so you a.b.c. doesn't shy away from other particular high profile cases. 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 keogh. 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 but the only conclusion i can draw is that a lot of these network executives are very close to the people they were hanging out with jeffrey epstein per amy amy roebuck. iraqi authorities are holding talks on constitutional amendments the extent of what that

will be we don't know at this moment what comes amid ongoing violence in the country some figures for you all not around 260 people are believed to have been killed there since anti government demonstrations started a month i go protesters are demanding a major overhaul of the political system which was established after the u.s. led invasion back in 2003 artie's daniel hawkins has been delving deeper. in iraq is no stranger to turmoil the country see little peace and even less the belief he since the u.s. 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 going to crowds even more key roads and bridges up and. rocked by demonstrators who've also tried to take over 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 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 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 to make sense of post intervention iraq and where exactly the 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 where do these grievances of law i that is spinning 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 u.s. invasion and occupation by statistics iraq having 10 percent nearly 10 percent of

the world's oil reserves this should be a wealthy state yet we're seeing something quite different here how much of this is about that inequality about the wealth which is not trickling down which is being lost going on the drawing to a corrupt system 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 prominent probe aging politician has been stopped while on his election campaign trail in hong kong after the nice man pretended he was a supporter the authorities say the suspect continued to shut junius ho after stabbing him calling him quote human scum the man was arrested at the scene is believed to be a supporter of hong kong's pro-democracy movement politician who has become a controversial figure in the semi autonomous city state for his criticism of the

mass protests which of lasted months is injuries are believed to be relatively minor with the instance strongly condemned by hong kong's chief executive. olivier how can protest is carrying out violent acts claimed to be. democracy and peaceful demonstrations that every move challenges the freedom and violates the rights of the majority of hong kong people. well it comes just days after another knife attack low 5 people wounded and also saw a pro-democracy politician left with part of his ear bitten off the demonstrations on subsequent on rest began back in march originally against the proposed extradition bill for suspects of crimes to be sent from hong kong to mainland china but since then the movement has gone into much wider grievances with beijing including a push for independence. let's go live now to dr park he's a senior lecturer at the university of buffalo on an expert in southeast asian

politics good to see you this is the 2nd attack we've seen on a politician in hong kong in the past week how tense is the situation right now what's driving the increasing levels of violence. yes i think these incident in the piece is a. week to politicians 10 has to do with the larger hong kong local election is fast approaching this month and i would categorize these 2 test again specific portion of opposing terms our electoral foreigns so the. shows that the cardinal fallen protesters in the opposition's also using violence are entering and now in the off time where they are also preparing for that you lesson beijing is becoming increasingly vocal

about the turmoil in hong kong and ses calls for independence won't be tolerated how likely is it we'll see the central government intervening if this type of unrest continues. eve these types of. continue to escalate to extend the election and we will unfortunately be suspended or cancel i believe to beijing or for. very seriously how to intervene the situation more in the kind of men are and. more to the court for hong kong people because they want to election to be conducted they want to elect their local representative and they want these the election to bring a certain kind of calm period back to hong kong and to bring better particular political balance back to the hong kong. relations so so i so i believe this is an interest of hong kong to keep the electoral running. to what extent

do you think dr won't have the pro-democracy protesters undermine their own cause by becoming increasingly violent until they see an example. by helping to plunge as well hong kong into recession are the demonstrators losing support in the territory . obviously because the violent protests has school much smaller nala days even though they continue to call weekends. the majority of the hong kong people they are nord very keen and supporting these violent protesters ok not the current situation all of the election has to do with these violent protests the east also. democrats and democratic party are very sticky situation even which do you need to people for it. and trying

to war us. and at the same time not to end taken as this violent protest in order to get of their goals right now we still need to see the electoral result of these election because he do show us to what extend the democratic parties and the other democrats are actually winning dollars from the majority of hong kong ok very interesting to get your thoughts on today's developments on the overall spear as well dr park no one senior lecturer at the university of bath and an expert in southeast asian politics in cuba. a crucial witness in donald trump's impeachment inquiry has revised his testimony concerning the president's alleged abuse of power the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. says he no remembers telling ukrainian officials that the release of financial aid would likely depend on them opening a corruption investigation into joe biden gordon songlines statement backs up an

earlier whistleblower who claimed mr trump praed stay foreign power for dirt a potential presidential rival biden. also i now do recall a conversation on september 1st 29000 and warsaw with you mr your mac this brief conversation followed a larger meeting involving vice president pants and president lensky 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 individually with mr year mack 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 specifically u.s. democrats allege that donald trump tried to force ukrainian authorities to open an investigation into joe biden solmes involvement with ukraine's largest gas company we asked former cia officer ray mcgovern how he thinks the latest testimony will affect the impeachment against the american president. it's

a big mistake this is all political game here in washington it's a big mistake for the democrats to circumscribe their their inquiry their mini tory to the you create a problem what effect is there how well. joe biden is out of the running as far as i'm concerned there's so much dirt on joe biden i just wonder what more dirt president truck was trying to dig out so as the stage become revealed it's going to be also revealed that the people talking to the democrats here have been in touch with these other people like the whistleblower so-called and they in turn have been working for the deep state brennan and others and so you know things are going to fall apart they should be shrunk right quick but not on these flimsy charges of quid pro quo and another related development newly released documents suggest that

the ukrainian gas firm attempted to use its ties to hunter biden to get a corruption inquiry into its business activities course that was while his father was u.s. vice president has been with what's in the. bristol 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 it's fair see if there is a conspiracy theory that biden conspiracy theory vice president might paint 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 morrison holdings even dropped 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 ma 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 of the prosecutors not fired you're not getting the money well son of a. fighter 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 employer's my insistence. that a prosecutor who is. viewed as corrupt be replaced. was the official position of the prison of the united states the united states government supported by republican senators who sent a letter sent a letter. in 26 calling for the move will show couldn't because of corruption although the fired prosecutor claims otherwise but it was acting not like a u.s. 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 well look over these facts for yourself and determine if

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