More Epstein files released
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The US Department of Justice has published thousands more files relating to the late sex- offender, Jeffrey Epstein -- its largest such release to date. Among the documents is an email from an investigator that says Donald Trump travelled many more times on Epstein's private jet than was previously reported. Mr Trump has denied any wrongdoing in relation to the Epstein scandal.
Also on the programme: Amid ongoing violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, we report on the trauma of modern-day birth in Bethlehem; and we hear from Mulatu Astatke, known as the father of Ethio-jazz.
(Photo: A newly-released unsealed indictment of disgraced late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is seen in this handout image released by the U.S. Justice Department and printed and arranged for a photograph by Reuters in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 19, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.8 | Hello, welcome to the programme, which is News Hour from the BBC World Service. I'm Paul |
| 0:14.9 | Henley and we're coming to you live from London. The latest US government release of files today, relating to the late sex offender |
| 0:23.2 | Geoffrey Epstein, has put President Trump in the spotlight again. Among them is an email from |
| 0:28.9 | an investigator in the Justice Department saying Mr Trump travelled many more times on the Epstein |
| 0:34.0 | private jet than had previously been reported. |
| 0:40.3 | He is consistently denied any wrongdoing. |
| 0:43.9 | Britain's former Prince Andrew comes under scrutiny once again as well. |
| 0:49.3 | On Monday, President Trump spoke to reporters at his resort in Florida, Mara Lago. |
| 0:55.8 | A lot of people are very angry that pictures are being released of other people that really had nothing to do with Epstein, |
| 1:00.9 | but they're in a picture with him because he was at a party, and you ruin a reputation of somebody. |
| 1:05.0 | So a lot of people are very angry that this continues. |
| 1:09.1 | Well, a lot of files have been released, and they'll take a lot of going through. |
| 1:11.1 | But what has been revealed so far. |
| 1:14.9 | Here's our North America correspondent, Sean Dilley, who's in Washington. |
| 1:19.4 | They do take a lot of going through. Let me paint that picture for you first because I think it's an important point to get across. We have teams of BBC journalists right the way across |
| 1:24.9 | the globe, including teams in the UK, Australia and the |
| 1:28.0 | United Kingdom, going through rather a lot of these files. Now, one thing that's in common with |
| 1:34.5 | this kind of batch compared to any other is in of themselves, an awful lot of the documents in isolation |
| 1:39.8 | do appear to be, you know, not necessarily any smoking guns among them. |
| 1:44.8 | And we will say, we'll say it's at the end as well, |
| 1:46.3 | that being named or pictured in the files doesn't indicate wrongdoing on anyone's part. |
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