A Widening Mideast War, Unsealed Jeffrey Epstein Documents, Migrant Caravan in Mexico
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Mysterious explosions in iran, a drone strike in lebanon and a threat from husb allah's leader to punish .

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Hundreds of pages of court documents were related to disGrace, financing or and convicted sex traffic, or Jeffery epstein are now public. What are they reveal about seen secretive world where women were allegedly exploited? c.

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Attacks in lebanon and iran this week are raising fears that the war in gaza is already widening. At least eighty .

four people were killed yesterday in bombings near the grave of a prominent iranian general is still not clear who's time those blast that I before a suspected israeli drones strike can be root killed a senior leader of the militant .

palestinian group, a MaaS, along with six je arrah is italy. Enjoy now. Good morning.

Good morning, ella.

So help us untangle this. Is there any connection between the attack and iran yesterday and the war in gaza?

Well, IT was certain. Ly, a devastating attack. That bombing and iran was the deadliest.

Ince in nineteen seventy nine, islamic revolution and iran, although not a direct participant, is in the warm gaza is an integral part of a lot of the militia activity against israel and the us, which is israel's biggest barker. Iran is israel in the U. S.

R. Behind the attack, but security analysts and U. S. Officials, and don't see is raise to those blasts. They believe it's much more likely to be an anti sha si militant group linked to ISIS or even domestic opposition. IT is relevant, though, because iran has been convulsed by internal protests for two years since the death of a Young woman in security study. And that's part of the reason that most analysts and specials believe around doesn't want to wider war with israel breaking out because it's already got a lot on its plate yeah.

but the tensions are rising. Let's get to the attack in beyroot, where you are right now. The lebanese government and ham say IT was an israeli drone strike that killed senior hamas official and six others, although israel has not taken responsibility. So I think the big question is, will these killings open a new front in the war?

There's a lot of worry here is the lebanese government is complaining to the U. N. Security council over the breach of sovereign tea in the country, is kind of holding its breath over what his blah is going to do.

His blah is the iron back lebanese moishe, that's more powerful than the lebanon ese army. It's been fighting israel across the israeli lebanese border. But this attack in the country's capital, in a crowded neighbor. Od, that's a whole newbould game. IT killed one of the founders of the hamas military wing, sala a worry, and hezb lah has made clear that IT will retaliate.

And what form could that retaliation take?

We're still waiting to hear he's bola leader has on this roller gave a speech yesterday in which he made clear that his ballot would retaliate, and he said he'd have more to say in another speech tomorrow. So the big fear here, of course, is that all out war along the border could destroy eleven on which is already extremely fragile. And the roller laid out a devastating scenario of what he's bola would do in the name of defending lebanon on, let's listen to a good of that.

the war with us will be very, very, very costly. If we are considering levene situation and the lebanese the interest snow, if what has launched on lebanon on, then lebanese national interest is for us to go toward to the maximum without limitations.

Okay, fire relic there, break IT down for us.

Well, his bell, on fact, has been launching what are considered calibrated attacks, limited mostly to the borders, one so relatively contained. But now they life faces the dilema of how to be seen to respond to those assassinations without Sparking a massive israeli retaliation that would lead to a wider war.

Gene a raf, in the think.

Thank you.

A federal judge in manhattan released a trowth of documents yesterday naming for the first time dozens of powerful men who allegedly had ties to convicted sex offender Geoffrey before his death by suicide two thousand nineteen.

They include politicians such as bill clinton and Donald trump, the across vin spaces and magician David cope field, among many others. Now, to be clear, the fact these men are name doesn't mean they did anything wrong or face criminal allegations. These documents also include testimony and I witness accounts that claimed to paint a more detailed portrait of estein's secretive world, a world where women were allegedly exploited, sexually assaulted .

and rape for more, were joined by npr. Bryan man, good morning. Bryan, good morning there.

okay. So you've been digging through these documents with a team of our reporters. What have you found?

So these documents, compiled as part of a civil k show that have stein, a register sex offender, intended to move for years in the lead circles, associating with people like prince Andrew, the prominent attorney alan dershowitz, the musician Michael Jackson is named here, a former U. S. Senator from main, believed to be George Mitchell l.

Also former israeli prime minister ahoo d broke, as you mentioned, donal trumpet and also a former vice president, al gore, former president bill clinton. Name comes up frequently in these documents and and again, being named here doesn't reflect wrongdoing. Most of these people, including clinton, have said they had no awareness of abstinence alleged crimes, but the arguments also include repeated claims that these social gatherings of powerful men included Young women, some of the miners arranged by abstinent, by his a complex delane maxwell. Maxwell, of course, is now serving a twenty year prison cents on federal trafficking charges linked to her work for everything.

And what do the documents tell us about what was happening at these gatherings?

So estein hosted people for these really lavish gathers at as homes in new york city and palm springs. And IT is mentioned on a private island in the virgin islands. There are hundreds of pages here later of previously rejected their positions from giving maxwell and others employed by abscission that offer really solutions details of conversations where powerful men allegedly expressed interest in Young women.

One witness claims britain's print Andrew group to her breast. There are also police records here in these documents. See tAiling investigations into este after Young women claim he curse them into sexual acts and prostitution.

Over the years, dozens of women have come forward claiming, abstain, sexually assaulted and exploited and rape them. Some say they were minors when these alleged crimes happened. Abe took his own life in prison while waiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Wow, I mean, you mention he took his life that was four years ago. Why are we just learning of these details in these names now?

Yeah, one thing these documents show is IT took a really long time to hold up, seen accountable. He was first investigated in two thousand six, but was allowed to plead relatively minor state tuan charges at that time. After lengthy negotiations with abscission powerful team of attorneys, federal investigators decided not to prosecute, and the dog has since acknowledge that decision reflected poor judgment.

Abdin then went on leading this lifestyle, hanging out with the rich and powerful, often with Young women in tow, for years and years. And he might very well have gotten away with all of this, and the public would never have learned of his alleged crimes, except that the miami herald published an expose that finally LED the federal charges. The newspaper also fought for five years in court to have these documents made public, one of his victim said on social media this week. At this moment in the release of these names, finally bring some transparency and accountability.

Mp s. Brian man talking about new court disclosures in the Jeffery este case, thin .

brian.

Cities along the border are experiencing ing a surge of migrants crossing into the U. S. From mexico. In fact, bader crossings have hit record numbers the season.

That's why republican members of congress tour the southern board of this way, calling on president by to crack down on the flow of migrants. A similar dynamic is playing out of mexico, where authorities have broken up a migrant caravan an in .

their southern border. Npr atter porto has been traveling with the caravan an, and he joins us now from the road heater.

Hey, good morning.

Little good morning. So what have you've been seeing and hearing .

as you make this journey? Well, I heard a lot of hope, and then I heard a lot of that hope turned into agony. This big caribiner left from the patrol, a, which is a city near the bottom a and border.

On Christmas eve a some of the migrants had spent months in southern mexico hoping the this would give them permits to move through the country. They were frustrated. So a good five thousand of them started walking north to pressure the government.

And tuesday IT looked like the government had caved to the government. H started sending a bunch of buses over and said and told them, will take you to a nearby town and process you, so get on the buses. But IT wasn't long before the migrants found out that immigration officials were lying about where they were sending them, and authorities also started separating famous.

So the migrants started trying to get off the buses. And IT was chaos. Let's listen to the element to who was separated from her boyfriend.

We have no idea where .

they're taking us. We have no idea what they are going to do. They don't give us .

any answers.

Till that man at the end of shouting they're separating kids, he was angry. He was calling immigration authorities killers.

Do we know what ultimately happened to those people?

I mean, this caravan, an of migrants, has been a headache for the president of mexico, he said president biden called him to tell him that he was worried about a how many migrants were crossing the U. S.

Border um in mexican president and the this month will look as said he had taken care of IT and now what was a very visible migrant caravan an is no more that woman in a good two or three thousand migrants were put on buses and they ended up in a bunch of little towns across southern mexico. We managed to track down a group ah that was left in a tiny town near tooker la and and I found my eyes have a little about who was desperately looking for her son. He had just turned eighteen and he says the bus that they were on made a sudden stop and authorities told her son to get off and they told her to stay on. Lets listen.

And she's been traveling .

for months from venezia. It's been so hard, he says, travel through so many countries. And just to lose my son this way, I don't know, SHE keeps repeating.

I don't know. I mean, is this is this Normal to move migrants separate them this way?

IT is. And IT gives you a glimpse at h mexican immigration policy ah. What authorities are doing is trying to make IT harder and harder for migrants to reach the border within the us.

And migrants rights advocates here say that the us. Has actually managed to build the wall on its sort of southern border. And they say that that wall is mexico pr.

adr, perl or reporting from tooker lh in southern mexico.

Thank you either. Thank you.

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