NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 12/2/2019

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"I had just been abused by a member of the royal family"

That's some of what Virginia Roberts Guiffre told the BBC "Panorama" program in her interview that aired tonight.

Guiffre recounting her first sexual encounter of what she says were three with Prince Andrew when she was 17 years old and closely involved with the convicted child sex offender and accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

She says that Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell instructed her to do for the Duke of York what she did for Epstein.

CBS News broadcast a story that included several clips from Guiffre's interview....VIDEO LINK

The lawyer for five women who've accused Jeffrey Epstein of abusing them, David Boies, says he wants Prince Andrew to tesify in their cases because he witnessed massages being given during his visits to Epstein's homes.

More on all this from the BBC......LINK

The US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia denying a Justice Department request to overturn a preliminary injunction from a lower court preventing executions.

The Justice Department was planning to resume executions of convicted federal felons next Monday.  The last federal execution was 16 years ago.

The United States is preparing retaliatory tariffs against France for its new internet services tax.

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer says the tax unfairly targets American tech firms.

China retaliating Monday for President Trump's signing last week of the "Human Rights and Democracy Act" in support of democracy protesters in Hong Kong.

China banning US military ships and aircraft from Hong Kong.   Sanctions also imposed on five US based non-governmental organizations including Human Rights Watch and the National Endowment for Democracy.

More from Reuters.....LINK 

11 killed and 26 wounded in a Turkish artillery attack in northern Syria.    Eight children reported to be among the dead in the town of Tal Rifaat.     The Kurdish town located north of Aleppo and south of the Turkish border.

THREE RUSSIAN MILITARY POLICE OFFICERS INJURED SLIGHTLY IN NORTHERN SYRIA MONDAY WHEN AN IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE DETONATED NEAR THEIR ARMORED VEHICLE.    THE RUSSIAN MILITARY POLICE ACTING AS RECONNAISSANCE FOR JOINT RUSSIAN-TURKISH PATROL.

MORE FROM "SOUTHFRONT"......LINK

Russian President Vladimir Putin signing a bill into law today that extends existing government regulation of foreign funded media including bloggers and social media accounts.

Media covered under the law required to register as foreign agents.

Opposition groups in Russia see the law as a restriction on freedom of expression and empowerment of the government to crack down on opponents.

Russian natural gas is now flowing to China via a new pipeline.   More from the Tass News Agency.....LINK

And former President Jimmy Carter is hospitalized in Plains, Georgia for treatment of a urinary tract infection.    He was admitted to hospital over the weekend.

And that's the way it really is Monday December 2nd, 2019.