that story 3 years i've had this interview with jimmy roberts it was unbelievable what we had cleared everything. and video and anger at a major us t.v. network claims the station lost her explosive interview leaving powerful people convicted had to abstain we spoke to the founder of the investigative group which obtain the footage. 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 for amy amy roebuck. and the other stories of the week whistleblowers became the new frontline in the political battle being waged in washington d.c. as a bill to protect their identities is blocked by the u.s. senate. and mcclellan stars of one of its most successful c.e.o.'s ever after he

admitted to having a consensual relationship with a colleague to be the subject of so named inappropriate bears in the workplace. you know being a c.e.o. i don't know how much time this guy had on his hands to meet people but do you know the world we live in this is an arrow right now of matt lauer in me tonight do you know why do you let the world out all over i mean to iraq. welcome to the weekly here on r t international where we bring you the latest headline news on the top stories from the past week. a leaked video appears to show that america's a.b.c. news channel shelved a story on disgraced billionaire geoffrey epstein 3 years ago and that work anchor was recorded ranting about the station quashing her explosive interview with an accuser of the convicted pedophile and it's

a member of powerful figures are implicated in his alleged crimes. had a story for 3 years i've had to say if you would 'd for any roberts the palace found out that we have her whole allegations are false andrew and threatened us a 1000000 different ways she told me everything she had pictures everything she was in hiding for 12 years making history come out and we convinced her to talk to us it was unbelievable what we had cleared with everything. i tried for 3 years to get on to no avail and now it's all coming out and i think these new well of revelations and i presume had i was so pissed right now that video was obtained by the transparency group project for a toss its founder james o'keefe shared his thoughts on the footage i have to wonder why did they not air these stories why why were that why was the shelled 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 she says there seems to be some type of network of people

that you know that that is covering up for this and she says she has a she thought all of it 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 we're working with jeffrey epstein again amy robach saying that f f t 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.b.c. has defended its decision not to broadcast the story back then standing it didn't meet editorial standards the anchor anchor emmy robock agreed explaining her comments were made in a private moment of frustration a reminder of how the story developed 66 year old billionaire jeffrey epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from

a minor in 2008 and was then registered as a sex offender in july of this year he was arrested again and was to face trial over the alleged creation of a sex trafficking network charges he repeatedly denied but a month later obscene was found dead in his cell in an apparent suicide. the founder of project i toss james o'keefe again says despite a.b.c. saying the allegations were uncorroborated and that work doesn't shy away from other high profile claims you can see how frustrated any robot 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. democrats in the u.s. have failed to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblower secret it comes as the president's son trump jr tweeted the alleged name of the whistleblower who triggered the impeachment inquiry saskia tell reports on the fate of those who recently dared to speak out in the u.s. . for the democrats impeachment must now seem tantalizingly close all they need is the final piece of damning evidence to seal the deal and to senate minority leader chuck schumer he has come out arguing for the protection of whistleblowers only rather of one intelligence officer whose insider info could make or break the impeachment dream the calls to make public the whistleblowers identity are despicable whistleblowers should be protected period

period that's quite the radical departure from his previous comments on those exposing government abuses and each day that snowden is allowed to room 3 is another twist to the merits snowden is a one of the few picked up by the media he chose the path of raising his voice and going clone ball unlike the hundreds of others who chose the path of least resistance you see they quietly launched official complaints hoping for the system to reform but they were out of luck because as a damning report from an intelligence watchdog shows the cia and n.s.a. would $189.00 out of $190.00 cases of whistleblower complaints by had to send you the link but the report was shot down i wonder if mr schumer praised even remembers all those whistleblowers who ruled against what the name for example rich

barlow bring about now living in a trailer in remote montana with his hunting dogs back in the late eighty's bhalo worked for the cia now he found himself in a patriotic dye llama when he uncovered what he said amounted to the u.s. helping pakistan become a nuclear power including by selling band technology though he followed protocol he became the victim of a smear come. pain disgraced and discredited barely able to scrape together a living i was disgustingly patriotic and i thought the government is allowing pakistan to develop and spread nuclear weapons and i got destroyed for trying to stop it what about former u.s. marine affronts gayo he thought he'd found a way of reducing the number of u.s. troops dying in iraq as a result of improvised explosive devices all that was needed was

a simple swap of patrol vehicles and given that r u d s were responsible for over 60 percent of all american losses in the country between 20032008 surely the pentagon would have been interested the response was more of. an automated response he's not obeying our instructions he's he's gone off the reservation as we often say. and we've got to stop him from doing that and just as it took gail 7 years to restore his reputation it took just a few months to discredit peter van buren raising 24 years of loyal diplomatic service from beer and found himself on the wrong side of the table when he shouted light on state department mismanagement i'm waste in iraq what happens when you're thrown out of the government and blacklisted is that you lose your security clearance and it's very difficult to find

a grown up job in washington you have to step down a few levels to find a place where they don't care enough about your background to even look into why you washed up there the list of nameless faceless and unrecognized whistleblowers goes on and who to blame them for choosing to do to free fall their complaints because if you follow and manning all snowden's footsteps sure you might end up with your name on a plaque card and become the face of the fight for transparency but you might also find yourself. baas and while you're sitting in prison think about how your brothers in arms only have a how to one and 190 chance of success whistleblowing protection should actually exist in all countries because it helps the country to have people tell the truth about corrupt officials united states pretends to have laws that protect whistleblowers but they often either don't work or they are deliberately

sorted and certainly the government officials do not want anyone ever telling about things they do illegally the governments are basically wanting to control saying who's in control public opinion they put john kiriakou in prison for telling for instance is that the cia was torturing so they normally absolutely do not want to protect whistleblowers and they actually hate anyone who tells the truth about their illegal activities schumer about him alongside the washington elite needs to clarify his position on whistleblower as if you are a whistleblower you need to accept that harassment prison self-imposed exile just being consigned to the forgotten pages of history are all on the cards unless of course you happen to be that rab breed of whistle blower who finds himself in the right place at the right time with just the right exposé.

this week saw a major shake up in the fast food world with mcdonald's c.e.o. being fired for having ever lation ship with an employee something strictly against company policy the company forbids around to kling's between managers and both direct and indirect employees steve easterbrook took over as chief executive in 2015 after working his way up through the company he's been widely credited with revitalizing the fast food chains restaurants and menu and a message to staff he apologized and admitted his dismissal was the right decision we got the opinions of legal analyst lionel and t.v. radio host karen turk. the fact that the best c.e.o. that they've had in a long time is now going to be out of a job because of a personal issue is really sad i mean it's just the state of how we look at things today in america and this was a consensual relationship there was really nothing a licit that he did is the way it is and in today's era of me too and the like not

to mention their own the history of the problems here and there what are they going to do it's their law he knew what he was executive he violated and that's it you know it's hard to meet people these days i'm sure it's hard to be single i'm married but you know as a single person in america you know family is c.e.o. i don't know how much time this guy had on his hands to meet people you know what his golden parachutes going to be today oh my god this poor guy we're very good to me to the body matched on commies east is too busy for that and it's funny how we read into it while it was consensual nobody's saying it was rape nobody's a kludge it was a violent physical attack of course it was consensual but do you know the rule that we live in this is an era right now of matt lauer and me too i do i do know the rules out all over i mean see the era of over it i'll over it. over it good are you sure it i mean as

a woman in america you are not in charge of us judging people i'm tired of us judging you everybody is wrong in a relationship no i'm not and you know why if i was if i was in charge i think the world might be a better place because we're going to sirt some logic into this minutia that has become so consuming in today's journalism and in today's america perhaps the company could have some sort of agreement where you know we allow consensual relationships with some sort of agreement between the parties before our eyes and you engage in sexual conversation would you please signing this here to which would you signal this yes we are entitled to when people do it every day how is a world we live in ship staff. who signs contracts for sexuality what are you talking about who does it you're right you might have to you might have to you might have to have a contract year to protect yourself. the syrian president says that the west attempt to incite

a revolution in his country through sanctions has failed but are also share the thoughts in an exclusive interview with r.t. it's the 1st time he's spoken to an international channel in more than a year. what did you make of it when. the british government sent the royal navy to intercept of the iranian vessel as they said the iranian government said it was with heating oil . for syria or the sanctions from the european union going to hit the poorest people in syria this winter exactly 1st of all this is by this. this is biography by the united kingdom and this is the core meaning of the word regime called regime in the scene gangs of youth something similar. yes they wanted to effect the people in syria why because those people expected to rule with

. their government during the difference to just all the war but they didn't they were supposed to be supporting the terrorists the moderate rebels with the angels of white helmet but the people didn't this would with their government so they have to suffer they have to pay the price 1st for they have to learn the lesson that you should do. with their version and 2nd this is maybe the last ditch attempt in order to push them to be against the government but they tried to tried it before and they didn't work because the people who knew the whole story and they know where their interests lie. you can watch the full version of that interview here on r t on monday as well as at our website r.t. dot com but for now the weekly continues after this short break.

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ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back spain is holding its 2nd general election of the year and its 4th since 201514 parties are on the ballots they need 176 seats to win a parliamentary majority people have been lining up to vote since early this morning polling stations close at 8 pm local time course once they're shut we'll bring you the results as they come in. the social media platform take tok is reportedly being investigated by the u.s. government over security concerns the video. an app is chinese and popular among

teenagers it's also one of the few to challenge the monopoly of tech giants such as facebook and google. these so now look at names. i'll be honest with you up until last week i had no idea this thing even exist it take tock tick tock for me simply the sound i associate with the clock well if you feel the same i'll have to tell you either you're getting old like me or it's just that your online habits need an urgent update take talk a platform to share short videos is now the most downloaded app the king of all apps and twitter and co you've been dethroned just so you know ever heard

the song. if it wasn't for his app store majesty the song wouldn't have become a hit you can hear on the radio anywhere in the world but here's something that may surprise old school folks like me even more the king belongs to an asian dynasty tick tock is that chinese app. so that's why the top democrat senator in his late sixty's is more up to speed than me 110000000 americans who have information with and the chinese government could be grabbing every one of them guess what the u.s. government is already up to reports say they've launched a national security probe into tick talk and the worries are the chinese government could spy through take talk influence through take talk and censor what's on tape

talk good god how come the rest of the world hasn't given up american born facebook speaking of the man who introduced the blue f to us all it's only natural he is keen to have a go at his competitors or services like what's up are used by protesters and activists everywhere due to strong encryption privacy protections on tick tock the chinese are quickly around the world mentions of these same protests. censored now just let me show you what the people will be hiding tick-tock have to say about all that our data centers are located entirely outside of china and none of our data is subject to chinese law we're not influenced by any foreign government including the chinese government to talk does not operate in china nor do we have any intention of doing so in the future oh someone here is either being really does honest or outright paranoid or

a bit of both it's time to stick in. us china trade wars i'll tell you what this year has shown these has still it could easily spill over into modern tech slash online territory remember how america once went after i phone killer want to be while way. want to be still the right word washington even saw jail time for one of while these top executives and held google to the wall over android updates anyway for now teen minds and quite a few older ones even in america will be picking the chinese take talk way mr schumer do you have the guts to keep up with the times and join the royal after party. federal cast to boost american roads rail and other infrastructure appears to be

way down washington's list of priorities this year the u.s. is planning instead to push transport funds and to asia as it competes with china even though people back home are still contending with crumbling roads creaking railways and outdated airports and the scale and with more. china's one belt one road project of building infrastructure around the world is facing a challenger and the united states is not hiding its intent we have no intention of vacating our military or geopolitical position we are here permanently and we will be continuing to invest more here and we will be continuing to have more bilateral trade and i'm spending much more time in the region but wait a mere year ago donald trump promised to channel money into rebuilding america's decaying infrastructure i've asked republicans and democrats in congress to come together and deliver the biggest and boldest infrastructure play in the last half century

a plan generates an unprecedented $1.00 trillion dollar investment in american infrastructure well it sounds great but those plans have been show now the american society of engineers has graded america's infrastructure and they are pretty unimpressed when it comes to bridges c. plus with more than 200000 around the country that are over half a century old dams d. more than $15500.00 of them are listed as high hazard drinking water d. with 2 trillion gallons of treated water lost every year essentially wasted and energy lines are also pretty weak take a look around new york city the richest city in the country the brooklyn queens expressway is falling apart city planners say that by 2026 big trucks will no longer be able to use it for gifted children sign about london bridge falling down it's the brooklyn bridge that's visibly breaking apart

a few years ago 5 people were injured after pieces of granite fell on to the underpass of the iconic brooklyn bridge in fact that bridge is said to be structurally deficient $683.00 bridges in new york city are in disrepair and then there's the subway. system constant delays the ask elaters keep breaking down in fact only $31.00 out of $472.00 subway stations are listed as having all structural components in good repair we should be paying attention to what's going on within this country 1st and foremost before we start spending out to look around new york and tell me if that's what we don't need to do absolutely look at the subway system so 100 something years old and it's still like something from the turn of the century we need to invest in our cities our country and make our country a better place to live it was worth going to as a kid so clean it lot of people say u.s. infrastructure is just a mess i mean do you buy that yes i would because i drive

a lot of drive it depends on where you live to new york for instance the bridge is in bad shape. and i guess you should take the initiative to really fix it will start here fullest yes public opinion seems to feel pretty strongly that we ought to focus on fixing things up here before we go around the world and try to beat china at its own game. r.t. new york that's our breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week or more on those stories and the latest news head to our website r t v dot com. time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to accelerate the transition to sustainable transport sustainability space where manage a more equitable and sustainable well. they claim their production is completely hama's. because.

companies want us to feel good about products while the damage is being done far away this is something else this let's keep going down even as i mean let's skip. we do want to. underscore. is you'll be a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led. direct. what is true what is faith.

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. aura maybe in the shallowness. i've interviewed limits of you and world and rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma. i cannot remember how many times a young female marine that had been raped or sexually assaulted told me that she looked at these guys as your brother or the suspect as your brother it's

a kin to what happens in a family with incest because you know in the military are one or functioning at our best i coach he said of unit oh what brothers and sisters of the band of brothers and sisters. i mean we are family when that ball and of trust is violated. the wound penetrates to the very most inner part of one's soul one psyche. i have this folder that i keep i have all my boot camp letters in it for my mom and my sister and. people and. i was just going through some of this stuff and i'm like what's this you know nailed it i'm like oh my god. my suicide letter.

bomb i'm sorry for the grease that you must feel. just because i'm gone physically doesn't mean i will be there spiritually i truly feel that god will take me without question even though i took my own life. i've had the most broken thoughts of dreams and physical pain to remind me of the her if it acts upon me that happened while a duty a mother brother sister and husband should never live with knowing the horrible acts upon me find peace in knowing that my bottom that the body left behind doesn't consume my soul i am free now and i'm not afraid. ready to soar corded and you know . i took a whole bottle of pills and woke up strangely enough i'm not sure why. i at that point in my life i just wanted to be over. and think i was 2021 and

then. within the next year i tried again i went out into the garage which separate from the house when i turned the car. most of the car in the fixie it was so it was all pulled blondie when not a little w. door to scratching and alan. the dust shot up to me going to wake my wife up so i get out shut the car door for a minute i'll just take her in the garage would be the nominee says why would you kill a dog that's stupid and then then the dawned on me why would you kill yourself i thought of it so many times and so many ways i thought about. at one point in time hanging myself from the flagpole was a sign on me. saying exactly what happened to make him feel bad. i was going to. overdose on pain medication and sleeping medication. and just hope that i'd fall.