invoking the russian menace as general election campaigning gets underway in the u.k. johnson attempts to smear his main rival jeremy corbin claiming the labor party sided with. a major u.s. network to. run explosive allegations of sexual abuse by the disgraced financier geoffrey epstein because the story didn't meet its editorial standards. desperation in iraq as protests and violence and gripped the country on the scale. of the overthrow of saddam hussein.

by broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm certainly glad to have you with us general election campaigning in the u.k. has got off to a bad tempered start this wednesday with boris johnson launching a series of scathing attacks on the opposition leader the prime minister appealed to the public to vote for his conservative party rather than germany corbin's that labor which he claimed has failed to take a tough enough line on russia. come with us a government that believes britain should stand in the world good with jerry could be in the labor party who sided with putin when russia ordered poisonings on the streets. 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 the 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 the response the labor m.p. emily celebrity has 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 in british politics and then i saw him break 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 whether successful 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 rating their election campaign however mr crispin share 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 its role of the rich for her to suggest that somehow the conservative party and this government is linked to russian this information. given the way that our own party leadership is out is the responsibility of party leadership. there is no evidence to suggest. the kremlin has successfully engaged in interference in our 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 to do with russia. talk radio host ed columnist john began to told us the cheaper political point scoring is deflecting attention from a crucial domestic challenge. when we voted to move the new has to get her exit it was only just about the. playground of all of their houses for both of their houses this is exactly the kind of groping that people are fed up with it's just complete . nonsense i think the british a letter of fed up of this sort of garbage let's talk about policy is let's talk about what you're going to do to the country and less have our democratic right aid and how about this for a change when we do vote for whoever we vote for and whoever wins one a year in parliament actually implement their what we the people tell you to do. like you should have done over the e.u.

referendum result 3 years ago we have you on the rocks the parliament and i'm not even sure after this election where there will be any less rocks or probable serious let's have them debated let's not have states books bats and all he said she said and did you know these quotes and tweets and this in 2015 it's all stupid it's bit let's get the politics artie's in case you missed it as also been exploring of the attempts by british politicians to discredit one another by highlighting in their own quirky way their opponents are dubious ties to russia confined for version on youtube. britain's labor party has expressed concerns that this man dominic cummings the prime minister boris johnson's most senior aide has to be. right with britain great by election fever it's a bad time to have your name in the same sentence as russia and a good way to smear your opponent.

can result in blog says that he spent 94 to 97 being trained up to undermine the west at some indistinct point decades into the just kidding actually the flow just says this i worked in russia 994 to 7 on various projects. and last but not least prime minister boris johnson how could he possibly be a russian agent i hear you are one he's called boring. but it's true he said to me i found the russian rubles and the most incriminating possible 3 he wants yours truly true story and that's all it takes.

it lead to video appears to cast a doubt on the impartiality of america's a.b.c. news channel. network and claims that the station quassia her explosive interview with an accuser of disgraced tycoon geoffrey epstein back in 2015 who allegedly detailed the convicted pedophiles predatory behavior and the following is part of the video obtained by the transparent group project. with everything. i have i tried for 3 years to get it on to no avail and now it's all coming out and i think these new well of revelations and i presume. i will so right now every day i get more work because i'm just like. we it was 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 f. epstein 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. of how the story develops 66 year old multimillionaire jeffrey epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008 and then was registered as a sex offender in july this year he was arrested again and 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 an apparent suicide are too soft to taylor burns more. live t.v.

one o one check your mike then check it again project veritas has published bombshell footage of an a.b.c. anchor 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 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 writing for 12 years making history come out we can is here to talk to us it was unbelievable what we have cleared with everything 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've 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 for you 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 walls on his private jet dubbed the express palace found out that we have whole allegations are false andrew and threatened us a 1000000 different ways i viewed 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 while this exposition was saucy more salacious than the reports on that side it wasn't the fust time his morals had 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

a coterie of very young women but all those revelations just like robotics were put back in the troll at the time not all our reporting met our 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 podcast that will air in the new year you'd be forgiven if that rings a bell because a.b.c.'s response is uncommon the similar to n.b.c.'s comment about its coverage. of of media mogul harvey weinstein the end b.c. killed the story because they said you did not have enough facts that didn't reach their level of journalism 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 maybe. to

a state 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 in the castle to avoid reporting some of the more suspicious details surrounding his death are a lot of men in those planes a lot of the 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 abstain was or maybe it didn't want to get on the wrong side of some very powerful people people who if you believe the room was might just now have blood on their hands. abstains a lawyer contacted in the a.b.c. network of the times saying the allegations being made by the accuser interviewed by the channel could not be trusted while the anchor has backtracked slightly since

of the video was leaked. and the robot explained that her comments were made in a private moment of frustration but founder of project very toss again james o'keefe says a.b.c. doesn't shy away from other 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 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 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 all right political commentator and

a new york observer columnist andre walker gave us his thoughts on a.b.c.'s decision not to air the interview. why is it that there appears to be born roof a woman group of people on the mill the rule for another group of people i don't have a problem whatsoever with not broadcasting allegations against people that don't cooperate said but that is precisely what happened to pratt kavanagh and time and time again we see it with anybody on the rights whether that be donald trump right the way through to local representatives and brits and americans and so i just think there's a there's a great degree of hypocrisy have bought him is the thing that i really want to know and i don't care about trial by media i'm much more interested in the police looking into this and the crop the judicial process why time and time again the clinton cowpoke how things way around the just seems to be a deeply disturbing and deeply distasteful i do you know time and time again we're expected to ignore suggested indiscretions 5 bill clinton said in

a way that we would not do for the people of why decide exactly now hey look i'm not a conspiracy theorist but it is on 1000 trailers that there is one rule for one group of people on the real for bill clinton and hillary. still to come iran has announced another step to revive its nuclear program we look at that story and get my reaction after a short break this is our team tradition. good politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they did accept it or reject it. so when you want to be president if you. want to be. too great to be the person this is like the 3 of them or be good. i'm interested in the warriors in the. city.

well it sort of seems wrong. but i. just don't. get to see. this day. and it. equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back this is archie international now you ron has started injecting uranium gas into centrifuges at its nuclear facility fordo iranian president hassan rouhani

has announced it marks tehran's 4th step in reducing its commitments under the iran nuclear deal since the us withdrawal from mitt romney said iran would reconsider the decision if certain conditions are met. by the department of energy to begin working on the centrifuges starting from tomorrow. just like the previous ones that is reversible. be conducted under the supervision of the international atomic energy agency. a nuclear deal was signed between iran and 6 other parties in 2015 after almost 9 years of complex negotiations iran promised to stop its nuclear program in return for international sanctions relief last year the united states decided to withdraw from the deal and reimpose a range of financial and economic sanctions since then european countries and iran have struggled to keep the agreement alive. for more on this let's go now to

hooshang mahdi the president of the iranian american council thank you very much for being with us here on our international my pleasure so how important is this move by iran i mean does it mean that the iranian nuclear program is fully back on track. not yet of course the longer they wait to go read on the. 2000 pipkin but it's signed j c it had almost 200000 kilogram up and do you choose. a time over to any tiles and punch if you just runny tide. through the operation of and so on and so forth and the tide heavy water. was in full operation now you are talking about steps that he's taking to revive that level of engagement it would take with this step they are taking that will take years to

get i believe what iran is trying to do is trying to force europeans to sort of have it on that sanction economically and i believe that is exactly is going wrong you know open are not going to help met to discuss the pressure from it on iran has been trying to pressure you know you know it all means it could but i'm fortunate it hasn't produced results and it will not used to start you know very little to do it on bullying back to the engagement i'll do. so again. and at the same time to my surprise is targeting you know not the us basically saying we are doing this to put

pressure on you know as opposed to russia us to return to the job since to me that you know it is already. decided that you don't. us back and to go back anyway to the gym. again. good point about the united states there they left the nuclear deal but continues to protest iran's steps to enrich uranium applying sanctions to the country give expect that strategy will eventually pay off for washington or will come back to haunt them. i believe and any kind of strategy is to actually make it on to violate. and that. violates the j.c. which is now doing it then the u.s. could go back to europe and everybody saying that i was

a child or an asian i walked out of the j.c. pewit. but why don't you have data for why is why are they. china russia. so then they would. make the international community community. not for a virus. if i was. one i wouldn't i mean you not have 2 choices . and then you go and make comments. and then nobody. wants to come out. and say because you know you guys not. us. so i am out as well i think. not huge mistake by sort of that going.

to buy an. extra walking out. to walk out as opposed to buying understand that said i. understand interesting here thoughts unfortunately we're out of time on this topic hooshang amirahmadi president of the iranian american council we hope you'll stay with us and come back if more develops. all right switching gears now iraqi authorities are holding talks on constitutional amendments amid ongoing violence in the country around $260.00 people are believed to have been killed there since anti-government demonstrations started a month ago protesters are demanding a major overhaul of the political system which was established after the u.s. led invasion back in 2003 or 2 daniel hawkins has been diving deeper. the rock is

no stranger to turmoil the country has seen little peace and even less stability 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. i. found. 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 angered crowds even more roads and bridges have been blocked by demonstrators who

have also tried to take over buildings both in the capital baghdad and across other cities why is this happening with 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 a. 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 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 where they show no sign of slowing down indeed there's been a government crackdown condemned by many organizations where do these grievances that law i that are 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 that the wealth which is not trickling down which is being lost going down the drain 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

a mixture 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. or there's a from a bizarre be back about 31 minutes with another look at a new georgia international. in my iphone i have a 1000 times the capability of that of the computers we had on board the spacecraft at the top i mean it's ridiculous that in my back pocket i have much much more capability to go than we had in the quarter the entire apollo program. time after time called parishioners repeat the same mantra sustainability and it's very important to excel or transition to sustainable transport sustainability stay number man at a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely harmless hollow does need to. look. into. it into something companies want us to feel good about buying their products while

the damage is being done far away and this is 2nd eldest does he want any minute i need much. this time in in this new me do you want any man and i'm strong theme that may be best understood so going. on may 3rd of 2003 the ambassador of switzerland to turkey on delivers a letter from iran to the united states. in that letter the iranians essentially offer negotiations to open up the nuclear program for full transparency. the proposal came in i happened to see it's because it was also given to a member of congress that i worked for at the time. he sent it over to the white house and called roll. call.