in the stories that shape the week here in r.t. the wealthiest us presidential candidate multi-billionaire michael bloomberg admits his election campaign news prison labor also. coalition in yemen spike in the last 5 years despite britain signing up to a treaty to protect human rights and the case guardian newspaper writes an article from 28 misleadingly of russia had been plotting to smuggle during the sound of the ecuadorian embassy in london. welcome the latest developments in

a look back at the last 7 days to you watch the weekly here and r.t. international now we'll start with some news just coming in because it's from the u.s. where several people have reportedly been stabbed at the home of an ultra orthodox rabbi in new york state authorities say at least one person is in a critical condition the attack happened during a new capacity when a man with a machete entered the building police say the attacker is still at large so that's what we know for the moment any more information we'll bring it straight. now the u.s. democratic presidential candidate michael bloomberg this week because it made it his campaign made use of prison labor and though the billionaire claims he was unaware it was happening his team hired a firm to help with his 2020 election run which in turn employed female inmates to call up voters and promote his message. we learned about this when the reporter called us but as soon as we discovered which friend

a subcontractor had done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hire them imagine being so rich you have people who have people who have prisoners to do stuff for you agence being so rich you don't even bother to check what you are spending millions of dollars on. rita reading we sad indeed when we learn a vendor of a vendor of a vendor use prison labor we did know about it and we never would have allowed it we don't believe in this practice and we immediately stopped working with pro com and the people who hired them so how do you do it pay someone to pay someone to tell them mike bloomberg is a big spender he was last to do in the presidential race and he has already outspent all the other democratic candidates on campaign advertising i mean the guy has so much money he doesn't seem to have the time to check what he spent

a good dog but they his credit michael bloomberg did promise america more work just to. get it. for president jobs creator. right america more jobs even if you don't particularly want them what makes it much much worse is that many of the prisons in the states a private run for profit and there are laws that force people to work so if you are in a jail and you are told to work you have to well you'll be punished sometimes they pay you as much as $20.00 a month that's right $20.00 a month now here's the irony mike bloomberg billionaire one of the richest people in america was essentially paying for what is a slave labor to cool people to apparently tell them that easy good guy wait the bloomberg is he was paying someone to pay someone to tell everyone what

a good guy he is trump says he wants to run the nation like he's running is business god help us. everybody says stuff that comes back to bite them but when billionaires do it it's generally an order of magnitude. it gets. worse the further you dig when he launched his campaign his media bloomberg news sent out a letter thousands of its journalists pledging to uphold its principle of not investigating its own or this is the sort of person mike is mike bloomberg started as a middle class kid to work his way through college and built a business from a single room to a global entity creating tens of thousands of could paying jobs along the way. there he could've he probably should've but he didn't let me continue he became richer year after year he made billions selling bank is ludicrously priced products

all gadgets the same bankers who through un bridled greed set off the 2008 financial crash depriving tens of millions of people of whom of life savings and jobs. michael bloomberg for president. or against the of their would investigative journalist dave lindorff does believe that despite bloomberg vast wealth he's not a particularly strong candidate. it really shouldn't be acceptable for anybody liberal or conservative to use prison labor it's forced labor bloomberg is a multibillionaire he's worth like $54000000000.00 he's made his money by you know not paying attention to things like that. that he's not concerned about the little guy. which i guess becomes you know if you're if you're supposedly a democrat you're concerned about the little guy and. enormous a packer see it

a big problem i just think it's going to hurt him a lot i don't know where people get the idea that bloomberg is the great savior for democrats in the race in the race to get struck he has almost no poll support all he has is money. billionaires have not traditionally done that well running for office it's. you know you got to have money to run for president but when you have that much money i think that most people are pretty suspicious of your motives in running for office. now it is a tradition of the holiday. heads of states. that things they used to wrap up the posse and generally express hunting for a prosperous and happy future but it seems this time the peculiar message is that their. expense. christmas the time of year when people gather together to celebrate the bonds of friendship and family as a side note

a very awkward period for the brits have to regular engage an eye contact except well wishes and fame merriment or at the same time sorry this is not my weekly therapy session but anyway we've all grown tired of repeating the same old merry christmas and in a bid to keep good old yuletide going and make it all trendy and 21st century all the world over people are getting creative with the traditional greeting sometimes though they know how to best put it misjudged the mood while some gingerbread houses we do so i get to go with them $35.00 jet merry christmas to christian soldiers and celebrating around the world i'm a big fan of gingerbread but one in the shape of an f. $35.00 jet which are regularly used to conduct strikes over gaza just hours after the i.d.f. admitted that a raid in the gaza strip can now and members of a single family was a mistake i think i'll give it a miss as apparently will many others yes nothing says merry christmas like

a freaking war machine all you're missing is some gingerbread bombs to drop on some gingerbread palestinians maybe the i.d.f. had a brainstorm session with donald trump because his festive wishes also struck a somber tone i think someone forgot to tell him that joy is a contractual obligation in december on behalf of the entire tribe we wish everyone a joyous merry christmas can you blame him it's the end of the year we're all tired poor thing couldn't even hide the fact he was reading off a prompter but he does have other things on his plate i suppose like his possible removal from office even is usually bellicose tweets have been a bit cluster of late no caps lock no explanation marks that kind of thing also jumping in head fast to the whirlpool of christmas for parts us customs and border protection they congratulated santa for not scaling and he was sorry chimney. this year and applying for his visa on time like you'd expect it went down like

a sack of presents hundreds of kids in texas are spending christmas eve taking care of each other freezing cold insufficient food water medical attention hygiene it resources no contact with their parents many as young as one hope he brought gifts for these kids. he missed the stop so instead of the usual merry christmas one and all they got this and may at times this year have felt. that small steps can make a world of difference. a very legal way of defining being on the brink of a constitutional crisis that fingers crossed hoping your son didn't spend night sweating away with a convicted sex offender and then the icing sugar on top of the your blog the un decided to pick the day christ was born to talk about how motherhood is a real chore which will apparently leave you poor bond employed and most likely gender discriminated against i wonder if mary and joseph considered these downsides

as the road to birth so yeah it's tough to know how to wish people while at this time of year but i don't want to miss out on the fun so mary day the christ was born but only if you recognize christ i'm not forcing anything on you so let's just say it's a winter holiday if the time went to doesn't offend this is a safe space after all totally up to you how you want to celebrate this day or not your call. now there has been a sharp increase in u.k. weapons society arabia over the last 5 years that is despite london signing up to a treaty to prevent exports to rights abuses oxfam which calculated the rise says that it is deeply concerned about the way the weapons have been used in the conflict in yemen well according to the charity the u.k. his license worth nearly 6 and a half 1000000000 pounds to 8 members of the saudi coalition in the last 5 years that is more than 5 years before it signed the treaty the arms trade treaty was adopted in 2014 while 105 sovereign states did sign up to that record here

regulates the arms trade in order to prevent human suffering the government was also keen to stress its importance when it signed up. the a.t.t. is the only legally binding treaty regulating and promoting legitimate and responsible trade in conventional arms it remains a unique and valuable instrument when the arms trade treaty came into effect the u.k. with a real champion of that treaty unfortunately sales to countries that are at war with in yemen are party to not war in yemen actually increased and i think this is the signal that. you're yemen world's worst humanitarian crisis right now and the u.k. and far from kind of living up to the treaty and and the word is that treaty has has continued to so the countries involved in a conflict where we know international tammy know is has been disregarded or with

pressure mounting the u.k. has now had to put our society arabia on hold in june the court of appeal said that they were unlawful it is expected that the government will appeal the decision in the supreme court saudi arabia's intervention in yemen started in 2015 to fight haiti rebels who they see as terrorists however is the level of civilian casualties in the conflicts that are a major cause of concern. work. ruth

timer again says that there is clear evidence riyadh has committed human rights violations in yemen the evidence is really i have a well meaning and that there's been consistent violations of international law and and as you say the case was really clear that. that the government needed to you know if it was going to continue to license weapons had to be clear about what that there was a pattern of violation and that violation was clearly that so i find that tight that that system will be a pallet and i think it's. you know very sad that the government have to have try and chosen to appeal this decision and wish to continue to so weapons that have been used in a war that is causing so untold poverty and homme and destruction

fed the people of yemen. britain's guardian newspaper has amended an article published last year about russia's role in the alleged plot to extract jews in the songs from the ecuadorian embassy in london with more on this is an option. the crime and the punishment the guardian newspaper gave a misleading pression to readers and was forced to clarify that its article was well something that you might be tempted to call fake news the piece in question published in september last year claimed that russia had a secret christmas plot to smuggle julian assange out of the ecuadorian embassy in london to moscow a tentative plan was devised that would have seen that we call expounder taken out of london embassy in a diplomatic vehicle and transported to another country one ultimate destination multiple sources have said was russian the involvement of russian officials in

hatching what was described as a basic plan raises new questions about a san just ties to the kremlin but then this to geisha in which was led by a high profile panel of academics and journalists and last 13 months found that the authors got carried away with some of their claims the plan and relation to mr sanders ability to be able to leave they could door an embassy was not devised instigated by russia there was nothing illicit about the plan as described in the article the investigation was triggered by a formal complaint from the former consul of ecuador 3 they'll not a virus or described several of the papers assertions as falls and defamatory r.t. talked to him they talk about secret talks of russian diplomats in london and they have put trained me us this past contact with. the kremlin in order to execute some kind of plot that's why i

feel 'd that their articles needed to be challenge. and i myself need to have an apology from the guardian apology there happen but their review panel has. decided. and has ruled that the article was indeed misleading breach in the heart of conduct of the press in the united kingdom but i'm not completely satisfied with the correction the other thing is that they have not being. amend it does the article is to says that russian diplomats. secret talks in london in order to. flee the embassy that's not true finally enough one of the journalists who penned the piece luke harding was behind another controversial article published by the guarding that

piece also published last year claimed that the old transcom pain manager paul mann of ford had held secret talks with a son to an ecuadorian embassy somehow one of the most surveyed places on earth didn't manage to capture any evidence of that alleged high profile visit the guardian didn't attract the story but detained the headline shift in the responsibility to its sources mr nigh rise has called the latest corrections his story journalistic fiasco for the guardian for again publishing false information that's not the only article does a part earned by the same mouth those are the same out there there's a pattern they have accused of buying into the embassy they have. several articles which i mentioning. as apart from the same journalese which have disgraced the newspaper in his complaint mr not

a virus accuses journalists of hiding behind confidential sources the article indeed cited various sources and it seems by sources they probably meant their imagination. tends diplomatic standoff between bolivia and mexico has improved spain this week with madrid sending a team to bolivia to investigate the actions of its own diplomatic staff staff the spanish diplomats tried to enter the mexican diplomatic residence in the believing capital of powers but libya's foreign minister says that they were accompanied by many in hoods presumably and called it a violation of sovereignty. this is atrocities hard the dignity and national security of our soldiers are also in danger of foreign guests mexican personnel and people in the area. residency in the past became the center of a diplomatic scandal after it took in 9 bolivian former officials allies of former

president evo morales the powers believes mexico has given asylum to people it accuses of various crimes on thursday mexico back to file a complaint against bolivia's interim government the international court of justice in the hague. is that was established that we are addressing the entire international community because not even join the worst moments of the military coups of the 19 seventies and 19 eighties was the integrity of mexican embassy buildings or residences ever puts at risk every country's bound to protect i respect every diplomatic representation in every country do something very clear under international law so in that sense makes it go it's correct where he was breaking the law he did not try to put pressure on any country that would support evo morales that's the point the garment 38 months to be or prevent people from bill o'reilly supporters not only can win the next

election but any possibility of more lives coming about mexico supported morality because they are on the say we're all related relation the most free what is really a democracy morality it stops being a precedent because we could have. mexico if against but who did entirely. meanwhile the rebellious rule province in central bolivia is continuing to take a stand against the interim government which is illegitimate. it was. passed down by any of those 50 needles the police injured so many erected so many after the cool cars that's why as many as 400 were injured and between 141500 arrested.

but i kept what i saw now is to have some unity and agreement from below to let you know rather than just receiving suggestion these people having candidates appointed for about i'm going to have his will find a grassroots special gives them names like i mean and then add our official candidate to be our representative and president of the multinational state to get a little. girl the. cat. and a chap out of it because the rule of law must be extended to every corner of our country we cannot allow our republic with an odd territory the union polices need the legal constitution will. come. close i hope though the police will not and to the tropical fruits

bomba will stand up and confront them we're not going to sit around with our arms crossed. we're not going to leave people on their own over christmas and new year because it will be standing firm we'll be ready for any conflict that comes our way . bamberger's and. the resistance. regions. and they've established in autonomy defended in eternity i missed this right. u.s. answered who in libya who governments not only unpopular intraparty it's unpopular across libya because it is not ready 99.9 percent of libya only represents wall stratham or the leats price alleviate some of. the region's there is still resistance a lot of repression this repression rid the resistance because. to

invade and occupy. right now the morning police and military have no control. so turning. now monday president vladimir putin officially opened the railway section of the current strait bridge which connects the crimean peninsula to mainland russia he boarded a train for the maidan crossing traveling from crimea to the town of to manning russia's president region the bridge was built in record time 47 months is that the biggest bridge in europe it aims to prove the lives of crimea and those who live on the mainland by making access to the pincian a cheaper and pasting towards. finding britain not act officially out of the european union for another month some have decided to take matters into their own hands and split from brussels early at least in a supermarket. to

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all film begins in hawaii in the middle of the pacific ocean in spite of the island's remote location it is also fallen victim to the epidemic of the 21st century plastic. plastic pollution is littering beaches and endangering certain species of animals no matter how remote or out of reach. in this elaborate tree in the north of the occupied ago scientists study marine animals not plastic at least in theory.

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