Maxwell says Trump, Clinton, not involved in Epstein crimes

The US Justice Department has released a transcript of an interview conducted in prison with Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell is currently serving a twenty-year prison sentence for helping Epstein abuse young girls. Glenn Thrush, reporting at the Justice department at the New York Times tells Weekend the interview was 'very unusal.'

Also in the programme: A UN-backed food security group, the IPC, confirmed for the first time that there is famine in Gaza City and that it's a man-made disaster.The award-winning conductor is taking over the New York Philharmonic this autumn and leading the renowned Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela as the opening act for Coldplay at its ten-day residency at Wembley Stadium.

Presenter Julian Worricker is joined by Patricia Cumper, writer, playwright and UK-based theatre director and Ben Bland, Director of the Asia-Pacific Programme at the Chatham House think tank here in London.

(Photo: Entrance to Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. 2 Aug 2025/ Adrees Latif, Reuters)