Democrats release photos of Trump from Epstein estate

Global News Podcast

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🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Republicans accuse the Democrats of playing politics with release of photos from the estate of late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, that feature rich and powerful people, including Donald Trump. Also: Thailand attacks what Cambodia describes as civilian facilities near their shared border; Iranian security forces use violence to detain Nobel Peace Prize winner, Narges Mohammadi; the curtain is about to come down on John Cena, one of the most celebrated wrestlers from the world of Sports Entertainment and analysis shows pop song lyrics are getting sadder.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.6	This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:10.7	I'm Ankara Desai and in the early hours of Saturday, December the 13th, these are our main stories.
0:16.2	US Democrats release photos from the estate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,
0:21.3	featuring rich and powerful people, including President Trump.
0:25.4	Thailand has carried out further attacks on Cambodia.
0:28.1	The day after President Trump said the two countries' leaders had agreed to a new ceasefire.
0:33.4	And European Union member states decide to freeze Russian assets worth more than $200 billion for an indefinite period.
0:43.2	Also in this podcast, the security forces in Iran have arrested the winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nargis Mohamedi.
0:51.7	And King Charles says his cancer treatment will be reduced in the new year.
0:55.7	This milestone is both a personal blessing and a testimony to the remarkable advances that have
1:03.4	been made in cancer care in recent years. We start in the US where Democrats have released 89 photos from the estate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, some of which feature rich and powerful people who'd mixed with him, including Donald Trump and the former President Bill Clinton.
1:21.6	All those pictured have strongly denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein and the images do not depict any misconduct.
1:28.5	The White House has accused Democrats of seeking to create a false narrative.
1:32.7	I asked our correspondent in Washington, Sean Dilley, what they showed.
1:36.3	They show absolutely nothing that we haven't known for a long time.
1:39.1	It does demonstrate, it reiterates the very powerful relationships that Epstein had with some key world
1:47.0	figures. But Donald Trump's never denied, for example, that he and Jeffrey Epstein were friends.
1:52.2	He said they fell out in the early 2000s, for instance. So it's a matter of record and full
1:57.7	admission that he would be in photographs historically. Same with Bill Clinton,
2:02.2	Bill Gates there, Steve Bannon, the former White House advisor, Andrew Mountbatten. You know, all
2:07.4	these names that people would know are there. And I'm going to be absolutely clear, having gone
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