i'm going to. have a story of 3 years i've had to sit with for johnny roberts it was unbelievable what we had. everything going to lead to video and anger at a major us t.v. network claims the station kuat explosive interview linking powerful people to convicted pedophile jeffrey epstein we spoke to the founder of the investigative group which obtained the footage. 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. and the other stories of the week whistleblowers become the new frontline in the political battle being waged in washington d.c. as a bill to protect their identities is blocked in the senate. and mcdonald's

far as one of its most successful chief executives ever after he admits to having a consensual relationship with a colleague our guest abate the subject of the so-called inappropriate affairs 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 era right now of matt lauer and me. i do know it was out all over i mean sure. this is the weekly here on our team welcome to our roundup of the headlines that shape the week. 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 question her explosive interview with an accuser of the convicted pedophile and it

a number of powerful figures are implicated in his alleged crimes. had a story for 3 years i've had to say are you with virginia roberts that 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 attained by be a transparency group project fair tough and founder james o'keefe shared his thoughts on the footage with us 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 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.b.c. has defended its decision not to broadcast the story at the time stating it didn't meet editorial standards thank you anchor amy robach agreed explaining her comments were made any private moment of frustration a quick reminder of just how this story developed a 66 year old billionaire jeffrey epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution

from a minor in 2008 and was then registered as a sex offender and july 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 epstein was found dead in his cell in an apparent suicide the founder of project farrah tossed james o'keefe again says despite a.b.c. saying the allegations were unverified the network doesn't shy away from other high profile claims 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. 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 sofitel reports on the fate of those who dare 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 go in cologne 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. wouldn't 189 out of 190 cases of whistleblower complaints by had to send you the link but the report was shot down i wonder if mr schumer praised or

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 level 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. 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 a former u.s. marine affronts kayo 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 are you deeds 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 pure and found himself on the wrong side of the table when he shed 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'll 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 and 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 being fired for having a relationship with an employee something strictly against company policy the company forbids around took links between managers and both direct and indirect employees c.v.s. or brook 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've got the opinions of legal analysts lionel and t.v. and 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 listen that he did it's the way it is and today's era of me too and the like not

to mention their own the history of 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 by you know as a single person in america you know famous c.e.o. i don't know how much time this guy had on his hands to meet people you know what is golden parachutes going to be today oh my god this poor guy we're very good immediately bloody match dot com east is too busy for that and it's funny how we read into it well 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 him you can see the era of over it over it. over it could

i mean as a woman in america. judging people i'm tired of us judging you everybody is going to 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 know and gauge in sexual conversation would you please sign this here to it would you signal that yes we are and people didn't people do it every day that it's a world we live in and ship. dragsters 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 all assad share the thoughts and an exclusive interview with r.t. the 1st time he's spoken to an international channel in more than a year. did you make of it when. the british government sent the royal navy to intercept of the iranian vessel. they said the iranian government said it was with heating oil. for syria. 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 both the. united kingdom and this is the core meaning of the word regime called regime and both of these something similar. yes they

wanted to effect the people in syria why because those people expected to rule to rule against 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 the angels of white helmet but the people didn't this with their government so they have to suffer they have to pay the price 1st for they have to learn the lesson but you should. with the 2nd this is maybe the last ditch attempt in order to push them to be against big government but they tried to try to before and they didn't work because the people knew the whole story and they know where their interests lies. you can watch the full version of that interview here on monday on r.t.

as well as on our website r.t. dot com. hereafter the come on the program polls are open in spain as the country vote and yet another general election the 4th in as many years details after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. with the president a constant dread. of the free money. we would have

a day of reckoning. and prices would revert back to reflect supply and demand. and there would be a catastrophic trap door opening underneath the u.s. economy because the u.s. won't do it for itself china will do it for the in the form of announcing as a surprise $20000.00 tons of gold and the introduction of a gold backed crypto currency just will kill the u.s. dollar better than adorning. welcome back spain is holding its 2nd general election of the year and its 4th since 201514 parties are on the ballot they need 176 seats to win a parliamentary majority people have been lining up to vote since early this morning and polling stations close at 8 pm local time once they've shut of course

we'll bring you all the results as they come in. the social media platform take talk is reportedly being investigated by the u.s. government over security concerns the video sharing app is chinese owned and popular among teenagers it's also one of the few to challenge the monopoly of tech giants such as facebook and google. this sounds now look at may not. yet. 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 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 are censored now just let me show you what the people behind tick tock have. you 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. u.s. 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 one of the wall way. want to be still the right word washington even saw jail time for one of wall ways top executives and held google to the wall over android updates anyway for now. 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. so.

that all cash 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 asia as it competes with china even though people back home are still contending with crumbling roads creaking railways and outdated airports has killed off 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 plan 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 the should be paying attention to what's going on with in this country 1st and foremost before we start expanding 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 worse than when i was a kid so they're clean lot of people say u.s.

infrastructure is just in a mass. 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 kaleb mopp and r.t. new york that's a recount of just some of the stories that helped shape the world these last 7 days for all the latest on up to the minute reports follow us on twitter or facebook. time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to excel or it transitions to sustainable transport sustainability stay

number man or a more equitable and sustainable well. they claim their production is completely hama's. it into something companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away this is 2nd eldest let's keep going to anyone and i mean look. we didn't do any minute and then we understood superman. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from.

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lot of people like to use the word electro small very good analogy but when we have cell towers on every to every big building when we are going to put these 5 g. generators on every light pole on every street it is certainly electro small and it's getting worse. my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up winning it up in a box and in a shielded room we the same person that was helping us to shield found the right material to hold back that particular frequency that was coming in and burning my skin and we built a room it looks like a little foil but it's not it's 3 layers thickens like a very very fine chicken wire in the middle of it there were days that i didn't know it the sun came up the sun went down and christmas came around we had christmas inside the cellar room as we like to call it. which is you know look at

it could've been really sad but we made the best of it. having christmas in here meant a lot to all of us it was so many events so many school events so many things that my wife could not. she even missed her daughter's graduation to college it was 34 hours away she couldn't take the drive and she could stay overnight. and you know the kind of thing you know really tell people because one don't think you crazy too they guess we want to stay and. that's why i bother so for the last. how many years since i've been i think for the last 4 years now i spent a minimum of 10000 dollars each year on in a couple years i spent $20000.00 just in trial going from one practitioner to another and supplements and treatments so it's like most of my savings it's been put toward trying to figure out what's wrong with me in again my health back.

p.t.s.d. or company decisions. well. this. was. done so good. you know i've seen martin walking by the way i think probably at a time and it gets you know what i mean. because he. is the call of the fold. he chooses the call so that we can hear the voice. is that. you lose.