libyan president resigns following weeks of protests against the results of last month's election which the opposition said was taking 2 point. 3 years i've had. it was unbelievable what we had claimed everything stories that shape the week in a leaked video and angered a major us t.v. network claims the station quashed the explosive interview powerful people to convict geoffrey he spoke to the founder of the investigative group that obtained 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. the spying stunts and

further uncertainties posed in the country's general election particularly to new deadlock. only one of his most successful chief executives ever after he admits to having a consensual relationship with a colleague guests to debate the subject of so named in appropriate 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 arrow right now of my flower and me tonight do you feel it was out all over. good evening thanks for joining 'd us here for the weekly. bolivian president evo morales has announced that he is stepping down from office for 2 weeks of violent

protests in which bolivia suffered $170000000.00 worth of damage rollo's emerged victorious in last month's presidential election the protesters allege the vote count had been manipulated the president had earlier announced a new election after the organization of american states said it found irregularities in the process has denied any wrongdoing chief of the country's military also urged the president to resign. and discuss this more now with down kovalchuk use a human and labor rights lawyer very good to have you on down it has only just happened in the last last couple of hours rather stepping down the pressure seems to have told what does this mean for the future of bolivia. well i think it's unfortunately a bad thing for all of them around us is done why is president to prove their economy into prove improve the economy for regular people for poor people in his

support came from the war or from indigenous people and i think this is a bare earth thing that's happened and i see the hands of the u.s. behind. which politicians do you think will benefit from this. well i think it's way too early to say i wouldn't count morales is already out even at this point clearly the right wing is going to try to take advantage of their seats but i'm not sure really have a lot of popular support so we'll just have to see whether a bomb around his party. and we without him. we know it's a fact that united states takes great interest in countries in central america and south america he said is it part of it demand is there any evidence or suggestion of u.s. involvement or influence here. yeah if there was evidence released of conversations

between the white house and opposition leaders so we know that some of this is more needed than we know of international downward for democracy is been spending millions of dollars in bolivia for years trying to undermine a little morales so you know clearly the u.s. has a role in all of this and i think is the days go on more evidence of that will come out as. as was considered to be you know one of one of the people that's why he may sustain power for over a decade is it surprising to you that the people the one see supported him and now the same people who turned against him and said we don't like the fact you're staying in power by what we believe to be unfair means well again i think a lot of the people that have taken the streets were not the same. that supported him there were he throw

a bomb around his demonstrations in the past. you know but of course people. change their minds about things but again i also think there's been some manipulation of the public in bolivia as. do you think he did the right thing here the demonstrations were considerable the damage done was considerable did he have any of the choice that's always hard to say i don't want to 2nd guess him it's his country i think they certainly did not see anything he said he wants to lead to save his own country from violence i think that shows a lot about who really is i think to me the fact that he would do that undermines the claim that he's some sort of dictator you know meanwhile next door in chile the police are blinding in raping protesters and that government doesn't seem willing to step down i think this shows him around cares about his own country now again in

the long term what this will do that uncertain but i think he has shown himself to the well being of his own people. i mean the major criticism was that there were according to election observers irregularities data manipulation in the last election he had called for another but it seemed that there was a lack of trust there that it would be conducted in a fair manner does this give more or less still a chance to come back if you allow someone else to organize an election and he's not in power could he still be a runner. look he could be he could run again but i think given that he and his vice president have resigned i just don't see is happening i think someone else will run under his foreign ticket and see. how they do. it and then sion he was willing to hold new elections. and by the way it would be nice

if there were regularities. even if we assume that there were some who regularly use their regularities in every election i can guarantee there even in the united states and rarely does someone resign or research things again usually or another election in the us we are even in their course of years ago or. so again i don't think that this was required that he stepped down but he was forced to by the military in by the police to actually join the protesters and enjoy violent actions against the government dan appreciate your time and your thoughts turned bank of alec is my guest human and labor rights lawyer thank you thank you. for the news now a link to video appears to show america's a.b.c. news channel shelved a story on disgraced billionaire geoffrey epstein this was 3 years ago and that

were conquered was recorded ranting about the station quashing her explosive interview she described it with an accuser of the convicted paedophile in it's a number of powerful figures are implicated in his alleged crimes. had the story for 3 years i've had to say he would pertain to robert's 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 and one started out and we convinced her to talk to us it was unbelievable what we had cleared with everything. i had i tried for 3 years to get on to no avail and now it's all coming out and things new well of revelations that i originally had i was so pissed right now the videos obtained by the transparency group project veritas 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 sheld 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 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. a.b.c. news's defended its decision not to broadcast the story stating it didn't meet editorial standards the anchor and the robock agreed explaining her comments were made in a private moment of frustration is

a reminder of how the story developed 66 year old multimillionaire jeffrey epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor this was in 2008 to use and registered as a sex offender in 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 that a month later epstein was found dead in his cell in an apparent suicide. the founder of project veritas james o'keefe again says despite a.b.c. saying the allegations were uncorroborated 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 we're hanging out with jeffrey epstein per amy amy roebuck. spain appears no closer to finding a solution to months of political deadlock counting is now underway in the 2nd general election this year and the 4th it is many years no party is predicted to win an overall majority with 95 percent of the votes now counted on the show a dubious he joined me earlier from barcelona. a sense of deja vu is it seems that no one party has been able to command a majority of the vote in spain in this 2nd election this year the suggestions from the exit polls coming out show that after around 24 percent of the vote speaking counted that the socialist party looked like they could end up

with around a 120 seats that's far short of that 176 seat majority that's needed to form a partnership or to form a government on its own without a coalition other results coming in suggesting that other parties like the populist party walks have done very well gaining a number of seats and looking like they could have around $46.00 seats but what is clear is that for anybody to form a government this will have to be a coalition government i know pitching she to reach out to other parties to work together something that spain hasn't been able to do in the last few years i just want to talk about what's been happening in the background in the lead up to this particular election particularly here in catalonia where in barcelona way in the last few weeks there has been a number of clashes and protests that the tensions have been rising on the streets again that was all pro independence leaders with sentences some of up to

13 years for sedition for their role in the pro independence referendum back in 2017 that's going to sense now all those tensions that we've seen in catalonia over the last few weeks. as a result of those tensions there has been a heavy police presence in catalonia not just of the most of the squatter which is the local police force but also the spanish police that is being in here some of

estimated some 324000 spanish police here to try and make sure that the election also they went through smoothly so far it appears to have done that but what we have heard is given the fact that this was the 2nd election this year on the 4th in 4 years many voters were feeling rather apathetic towards another election the suggestions were at 6 o'clock local time on sunday that actually the number of people who'd headed to the polls was down a number of points compared to in the poke the vote earlier this year let's have a listen to what some of the voters have been saying we are a bit charred but i hope that they understand that there is no other option but to take us quite alone and into account there is no way out if they think that with the repression they will achieve something we are stronger than ever well i think the parties should reach an agreement so that we don't have to vote again and that

the situation in spain and kind of see some progress repeating everything too much and with very tired i think i'm not the only one this reputation well my do not know the result will be the same as in the past the last vote in any way hopefully there will be no more elections what is clear is that the vote on sunday is leading to yet another fragmented political landscape and it looks like that no one party will be able to command a majority in the government meaning a coalition government will be the way forward and the chances are all that spain will be without a government until at least 2020. we discussed the elections with independent journalist martin roberts to find out what might come next i think the main thing looking forward is that both the socialists you know who the acting government and the more natural partners there most between them they've actually paid the price for not reaching an agreement in the past 6 months because their seat tally has

actually fall and. that leaves them even far short of the you know the magical majority of them than they were you know just 6 months ago so i mean the big question again looking forward is whether they're going to be able to settle their differences with each other not only the us is whether they're going to be able to reach out and. get a lot of the regional nationalist parties on site at least to form some sort of a pact overwise we have yet more deadlock but begins in the u.s. congress of book to bill this week to keep secret the identity of the trump ukraine whistleblower that story after the break. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic to follow only. i

don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down in. with the president a constant drip. 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 cryptocurrency this will kill the u.s. dollar better than adorning.

welcome back democrats in the united states have failed to push through a bill to keep the identity of whistleblowers secret comes as the president's son. tweeted the alleged name of the whistleblower who triggered the impeachment inquiry so the reports on the fate of those he recently dead 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 to be uses and each day that snowden is allowed to room 3 is another twist to the nie snowden is a one of the few picked up by the media he chose the path of raising his voice and going global 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 hume appraised 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 di lemma when he uncovered what he said amounted to the u.s. helping pakistan become a nuclear power including by selling band technology and though he followed protocol he became the victim of a smear campaign disgraced and discredited barely able to scrape together a list. thing 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 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 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 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 shed light on state department mismanagement i'm waste in iraq. what happens when you're thrown out of the government and blacklisted that use 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 in manual snowden's footsteps sure you might end up with your name on a packet and become the face of the fight for transparency but you might also find yourself behind bars 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 allies that protect whistleblowers but they often either don't work or they are deliberately sordid 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 that 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 whistleblowers if you are a whistleblower you need to accept that harassment prison self-imposed exile we've just been 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's 3 major shakeup in the fast food will with mcdonald's c.e.o.

being followed for having a relationship with an employee something strictly against company policy company forbids romantic links between managers and both direct and didn't direct employees steve easterbrook took over as chief executive in 2015 of to working his way up through the company he's been widely credited with revitalizing the fast food chains restaurants menu and the message the stuff he apologized and admitted his dismissal was the right decision because the opinions of legal analysts lanolin t.v. and radio host count 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 it's the way it is and in 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 it 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 being a 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 buddy match dot com easy just too busy for that and it's funny how we read into it while it was consensual or nobody's saying it was a rape nobody's a kludge it was a violent physical attack of course it was consensual but do you know the rule do 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 where i was over it over it. over it good for you or 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. and you engage in sexual conversation would you please sign this here to which would you signal this yes we are as people do when people do it every day though it's a world we live in and you have stamped. who signs contracts for sex yet you look at 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 to protect yourself. just before we go a wrap up of the breaking news story this hour believe in president evo morales has announced that he is stepping down from office for those 2 weeks of violent

protests in which bolivia suffered one $170000000.00 worth of damage has emerged victorious in last month's presidential election protesters allege the vote count of being manipulated the president to deliver not say new election to the organization of american states said he found the regularities process while it has denied any wrongdoing the chief of the country's military also the president to resign this is the same right now on the streets. they seem pleased with the decision pleased that you chose to stay with aunty international the saving stick around my colleagues and i look we'll have updates on our top stories in 30 minutes.

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i think the men that we attract to the military you know we've got to the army of one you know be all you can be all those themes that we've had throughout the years very very heavily masculine masculinity cannot be victimized because if you're a leader if you're a masculine person and you're victimized then you're weak the problem is that anybody can be a victim of sexual assault. i join the service in 1972. the military is a great way of life. that see the world. i got educated i love the military. was 19 and i went to chelsea alone and the next thing i know i was laying on the ground i was struck from behind and to graduate hold me down and one guy was.