invoking the russian. general election campaigning gets underway in the u.k. boys' johnson attempts to smear his main rival. claiming the labor party sided with . a major us network of knowledge is that it did not run explosive allegations of sexual abuse by a disgraced financier because the story did not meet its editorial standards. and a desperation in iraq protests and violence gripped the country on a scale and seen since the overthrow of saddam hussein.

are broadcast from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm certainly glad to have you with us. all right a general election campaigning in the u.k. got off to a bad tempered start on 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 the 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 or go with generally 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 the stalin saying that he's attacking the wealth of the landowning classes when 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 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 26000 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 russia and this information. given the way that her own party leadership is out is the responsibility of her own 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 mud slinging 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

. all the talk radio host and the columnist john god told us that cheap political point scoring is deflecting attention from crucial domestic charges. when we vote to choose lou the levy has to get that it was only just about the reserve play god of all that was for both of their houses this is exactly the kind you drop it. off center with is just complete and no i think the british a letter of fed up of this. garbage let's talk about policy is let's talk about what you're going to do to the country and let us have our democratic rights and about this through a change when we do vote for whoever we vote for and whoever wins what are you in parliament actually implement there what we the people tell you to do. like you should have done over the e.u. referendum result. we have you all are optional column and 16 i don't know even

sure after this election where there will be any less rocks of his accomplices let's hope there debated let's not have books that's all he said she said and did you know these quotes and tweets in addition 2015 is wrong stupid let's get the politics. are to use in case you missed it it is also been exploring the attempts by british politicians to discredit one another by highlighting in their own quirky way their opponent's dubious ties to russia you can find the full version on you tube but here's a quick preview. britain's labor party has expressed concerns that this man dominic cummings the prime minister boris johnson's most senior aide has to be so raw and with whitten great by election feeling that it's a bad time to have your name in the same sentence as russia and a good way to smash your opponent.

coming then blog says that he spent 94 to 97 and being trained up to undermine the west that something in this link. decades into the future just kidding actually the blog 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 me. buddy it's true he said to me i found all the dirty russian rubles and the most incriminating prize of all 3 he won shook hands with yours truly at a party true story and that's all it takes to bar it.

to video appears to cast doubt on the impartiality of america's a.b.c. news channel in it a network anchor claims the station quater explosive interview with an accuser described to tycoon geoffrey epstein back in 2015 who allegedly detailed would be convicted pedophiles predatory behavior of the following is a part of the video obtained by transparency group project where toss. everything. 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 go right now like every day i get more work because i missed like. it was a while ago 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 f c was blackmailing people there's a lot of powerful people on those airplanes that amy is 100 percent certain that 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 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 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 or if you saw skid trailer brings us more. live t.v. one o one check your mike then check it again project has published bombshell

assessed footage of an a.p.c. i 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 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 everything she was fighting for 12 years to come out 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 up stuff was no one knew who was funny because just a few years before they'd been happily sipping champagne on his manhattan townhouse you see back in 20 media heavyweights 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 what both a.b.c. and c.b.s. phosphor 2015 managed to entice virginia roberts to frey one of the victims out of hiding produces few her and her family out to the a.b.c. . 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 fray through wind open the door on the marquee world of epstein and his entourage as they flew around the wall down his private jet dubbed the lita 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 in and while this exposition was seen more salacious than other 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 a 1000000000 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 robotics 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 podcast that will air in the new year you'd be forgiven if that rings a bell because a.b.c.'s response. it's uncanny 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 it 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 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 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 and do i think he was killed 100 percent yes and maybe a.b.c. was right no one knew who 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 it seems lawyer contacted the a.b.c. network at the time saying the allegations being made by the accuser interviewed by the channel could not be trusted while the anchor has backtracked slightly since the video was leaked amy robach explained that her comments were made in

a private moment of frustration but the founder of the project very toss again james o'keefe says a.b.c. does not 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 that were hanging out with jeffrey epstein per amy amy roebuck's iraq is weighing changes to its constitution to stem escalating unrest more on that after

a short break this is our 2 international. the good news if you like and use the term deep state you were no longer deemed a conspiracy theorist the bad news is very real and powerful and dangerous the democratic process the deep state as the 4th branch of government is it. was introduced in a changed global geopolitics forever and you can't invent gunpowder big oil is changed now the whole notion of what money is and you cannot uninvented there's no turning back. in my iphone i have a 1000 times the capability of the of the computers we have on board the space for

the time i mean it's ridiculous in my back pocket i have much much more capability then we could do the entire apollo program. welcome back this is our t. international 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 artie's daniel hawkins has been delving deeper. 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 all 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 or the government's deployed 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 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 the rock 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 the 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 you. 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 how 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 of

law i that are spinning out with such violence all over the country the people of iraq you know 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 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 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 of the sort of. you know pyramid of power in. you know occupied in post occupation iraq where you know this tiny group of u.s. and iranian backed exiles has said 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 us 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 and staying in iraq now the dutch defense ministry has admitted for the 1st time that airstrikes

it conducted there in 2015 led to civilian casualties. we have announced the location date and time of 2 bombings by dutch sixteen's in iraq the dutch government established civilians was certainly over every probably killed here are the 2 airstrikes in question the 1st took place in june 2015 when i saw a bomb factory was targeted it caused secondary explosions that killed more than 70 people including civilians 3 months later in mosul a civilian house was wrongly identified as a terrorist headquarters that that strike left 4 people dead these tragic incidents make up just a minute fraction of the cases where civilians have been caught up in deadly aerial operations in iraq. now over the 1st 3 years of the campaign the us led coalition is accused of killing nearly $3700.00 civilians in airstrikes that is according to the non-governmental group iraq body count coalition was comprised of 59 members

not all of which though took part in direct combat their stated goal was to destroy the islamic state caliphate anti-war activists caffie kelly told us western countries should be held accountable for their roles in the war. it's a time when and and. i would say people of conscience everywhere i've been around how to. work very very hard to call attention to crimes against humanity war crimes responsibility for torture and the consequence of our weapon peddlers it isn't that i want to see anybody go to prison but i do believe that and military leaders and military systems have to be held accountable and we have to i hope that all around the world people are trying. to pay reparations to the people in the countries where western countries

have made war against them for years and years reparations for the suffering cause this is what a civilized country to do. a prominent politician has been stabbed while on his election campaign trail in hong kong after his assailant pretended to be a supporter of the authorities said the suspect continued to shout at junior hole after stabbing him calling him quote human scum the man was arrested at the scene and is believed to be a supporter of hong kong's protest movement against the government has become a controversial figure in the semi autonomous city state for his criticism of the anti beijing protests which have lasted for months is injuries are believed to be relatively minor with the incident strongly condemned hong kong's chief executive. how can protest is carrying out violent acts claimed. democracy and peaceful

demonstrations that every move challenges the freedom and violates the rights of the majority of hong kong people. all comes just days after another knife attack left 5 people wounded and also saw a local politician from a democratic party part of his ear bitten off the demonstrations and subsequent unrest began back in march originally against a proposed extradition bill permitting criminals suspects to be sent to mainland china but since then the movement has embraced a much wider grievances against beijing including a push for independence a senior lecturer at the university dr wong described the attacks as electoral violence. hong kong election is fast approaching this month and i would. specifically. electoral if these types of.

continue to escalate to the extend. should unfortunately be suspended and so i believe to be. very soon. it's the how to you know in the situation more in the kind of tough men and. more to it because it falls on people because they want us to be conducted be nice also. democrats and the democratic party are very sticky situation you need 2 people for it there are people say shouldn't and trying to wall us. and at the same time not to antagonize this fall in protest to get of their goals right now and we still need to see the you have to resolve these election because if you show us what they stand for the democratic parties and the other democrats actually win the polls from the majority of hong kong. or that does it for me i'll be back away from this

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loses. as the u.s. china continue their pull long trains that the people's republic has looked to europe to. professor richard will join the program today to sift through the latest developments in global trade and what the latest developments mean for the state of the world economy plus. we bring back professor wall for a double dose a to delve into the state of the macro economy in the way of increased trade tension and what the chances are for a recession in the united states and abroad and later as u.s. china tensions continue on the rise tech programs have found themselves in the crosshairs christiane is back on the show today to bring down her bring down how video sharing app and tick tock has come under fire in congress so many stories with so little time let's do it. the prospects of the united states and china signing a phase one trade deal may have to wait at least beyond next week's bric summit in brazil.