One million possible Epstein files found
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
US officials have uncovered a million more documents which could be connected to the dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Department of Justice said that given the volume of material, its full release may take a few weeks. Also: Israel's parliament approves the first reading of legislation for a politically controlled inquiry into the October 7th Hamas-led attacks, disappointing families of the victims; Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank celebrates Christmas for the first time since the war in Gaza began; Californians evacuate their homes as an intense storm approaches; we look back on a year of AI; and tracking Santa's sleigh, will he deliver all those presents on time?
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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. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Danny Cox, and in the early hours of Thursday the 25th of December, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.7 | US officials discover another million documents potentially related to |
| 0:21.9 | Jeffrey Epstein. Californians evacuate their homes as an intense storm approaches. And Midnight |
| 0:28.2 | Mass takes place at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem for the first time since the war in Gaza |
| 0:33.7 | began. Also, in this podcast, a look back at the year in AI and... |
| 0:42.0 | The nature of the gift can be great for telling stories. |
| 0:46.0 | And I think also very importantly, it can anchor memory. |
| 0:49.9 | With Christmas in mind, we learn about the art of gift giving. |
| 0:57.9 | First, for the victims of the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, his business associates, former friends, among them Andrew, the brother of Britain's King Charles, and the US presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, the sheer volume of documents |
| 1:12.3 | related to him has been overwhelming. These were in the tens of thousands, but add to this |
| 1:18.2 | one million more, which the authorities in the United States have uncovered. The Department of |
| 1:24.0 | Justice has said that because there are so many, releasing them may take some weeks. |
| 1:28.8 | I heard more from our correspondent in Washington. Sean Dilley. |
| 1:32.3 | Can you even picture what a million documents look like? We don't know whether they're on some hard drive somewhere, |
| 1:37.8 | whether there's a filing cabinet full of papers fluttering about under a desk that have only just been discovered. |
| 1:43.9 | But these are questions that |
| 1:45.1 | survivors are now going to want to ask because the Department of Justice, the investigative |
| 1:50.9 | branch of the federal government didn't publish because the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| 1:55.2 | and a federal prosecutor, the Attorney General for the Southern District of New York, say, hang on a minute, |
| 2:02.2 | we found a million files. Now, the Department of Justice say, well, now they're aware of them. |
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