i suspect is arrested. on a synagogue in new york state in which 5 people were injured. in this story week here on r.t. 12 people were killed when a passenger plane crashed near or massey kazakstan moments after takeoff dozens more are being treated in hospital and the wealthiest u.s. presidential candidate multi-billionaire michael bloomberg apologizes after his team used prison labor to promote his election campaign.

but either the latest news and look back at the last 7 days you watch and we can hear an r.t. international. attack on a synagogue on saturday night in new york state has left 5 people injured 2 of them in a critical condition. properties were. the incident happened during a new capacity the attacker fled the scene by car before being caught by police a counterterrorism unit is monitoring the situation and commenting on the incident new york's governor has said that there is 0 tolerance for acts of hate the attack does follow a spur a spike in hate crimes against the jewish community in the region less than a month ago a shooting at a kosher supermarket in jersey city left 4 dead and the worst 7 and the semitic instance reported in new york city this week alone so let's get some reaction now

with mark shields a newsweek columnist and editor at history central dot com you're very welcome thanks for your time mark thanks for coming on we don't know the motives for this latest attack but we do know there have been a spate of anti-semitic attacks in new york recently why do you think we've seen this reiss. well we've seen this rise. in america since the presidency of donald trump began but it's begun it's been on the left and it's been on the right it's been white nationalists and it's been african-americans in this case it seems to be a crime by african-americans as was the case recently in philadelphia there is a long history both good good and bad relations between jews and african-americans in the united states jews were the forefront of the civil rights movement those close relations and the late sixty's it were more and more incidents when jewish shop owners left in harlem and those places were being attacked because of being high you know having shops and in these black neighborhoods and black power issues

issues in new york city school district those are receded over the years and now we've seen a renewal partly i guess because there's a lot of ultra-orthodox that are in the same neighborhoods as as the african-americans but partly because of anti israel hatred that has been redefined as being anti jewish and especially amongst african-americans who have become islamicists those all seem to come together so you have this it's like ok to be against the jews now in the united states both of you are white nationalist or if you are far leftists and that's very troubling to say the least this is 15 mark with a general pattern of a rise in hate crime which we feel that the jewish communities being targeted in particular. yes absolutely and if you look at the crimes it's been the greatest rise in hate crimes to the jews more than anyone else in the last year like 110 percent increase in attacks on jews of course we go back to pittsburgh

a little over a year ago which was the 1st you know an attack with guns where a large number of jews were killed but we've had incident they have to incident throughout the united states whether again. white nationalists have been attacking jews as they have african-americans of far left views. and islamicists clearly jews have become a target particularly in the new york area there been the ultra-orthodox who are easily identifiable as jews it's hard to identify a jew generally speaking was not authored ochs but ultra-orthodox jews you know clearly dress a certain way and even regular orthodox jews who are walking around with a keeper are easily identifiable there was a case last week where they went to teaneck which is another suburb of new york not so much an ultra-orthodox but an orthodox community and and also as anti-semitic activity there so there is generally jews to become a target in the united states overall and of course now in new york city where anti-semitism is something that was known for many many years and i think jews of

very very different at the moment and very much under assault without a question ya know the place of responded to me over the last week aside by increasing patrol we see in areas where there's a sort of were largely jewish community it was unable to prevent this attack what you think needs to be done how can you tackle this problem. it's very difficult i mean look you can't make every target a hardened target especially in areas like muncie i mean a city like that i would used to go to in a suburb also called mamaroneck it's a ready been 20 years they've had a policeman on god off duty policeman on god during any time they were services or anything else so jews have been concerned now for a couple of decades. look it's a question of education been extremely and. jewish over the years and not all of them only a small percentage but that's the problem you have hatred islamic hatred of all

jews which have been confined bort together with a hatred of israel and jews are suddenly israel and israel as jews and of course that's a real problem as well look the only way you can fight anti-semitism is education but of course you can try to decrease its effect by having more police patrols by having local patrols by not allow. anyone in without knowing who they are that means having policemen or off duty cops in every synagogue it's a big undertaking and it's very difficult in a city like new york with so many so many jewish institutions so many jews who live there it's a real problem and there is no easy solution mind you i mean that's part of the problem if you're mark look we're going to have to leave it there but really good to talk to this afternoon that was mark schulman a nice week columnist thank you. now another news this week on friday a passenger plane crashed shortly after taking off from our mattie airport in kazakstan killing 12 people dozens were injured including children these pictures do show the rescue operation investigators are considering 2 possible causes of the

tragedy pilot error and technical malfunction a survivor told us what he went through. which is you know i should just let folks strong jolt on the left wing literally so i can play to the plane began to rock back and forth like a boat i began to tighten my belt panic go read it began children started crying when the plane began to go down it was clear that would definitely go into the ground so i braced myself for impact then the sewing caved in it's you know the mergence the door was open so we jumped on the wing and began slipping because it was icy we helped each other to get down. then we. could remove. we could do the $100.00 took up to do you. believe you did not run them as we know you can be good right don't you because if you want to.

see. it is. this. you know that was the only thing. you did that you can simply look at the receiver just as it was. not to be as a shows it was a bore if. you would use your perception and. look at those pictures and realize what a tragedy it is for kazakstan only a few days before new year's eve but if there is a case in which the words good news could be appropriate after a plane crash this is the one because right now we already understand that the doctors have confirmed that the majority of the people were on board survived which means that this couldn't have been a nose dive from a high altitude what actually happened was that this back their flight took off from the airport in almaty which is the biggest city in kazakhstan it was still

dark there about 20 minutes past 7 but then quickly started losing altitude then it is. hit a concrete barrier before crashing into a small building this was just a 2 story building i can tell you that almost like i said it's the biggest city it's a big metropolitan area the airport is not that far from it so there are suburban areas residential areas surrounding the airport so this is apparently where the plane and it up the captain of the aircraft is among the dead what about the plane itself well this is a medium sized twin turbo fan short range regional jet it's called focker 100 it was produced by a dutch company before it went bankrupt up until 1997 but this particular plane was 23 years old so was one of the final ones to be produced by that company and still the widely operated by 2 major airlines in australia for example as

a regional jet by quantas and virgin it's also being operated by an iranian airline and back air this was actually the only type of aircraft that they have and while this is a big company in kazakstan it is the 2nd most popular domestic airline that the people use there for domestic flights to the onus now on the catholic authorities of coast to establish exactly what happened what if they don't so clearly grounded all flights by that type of aircraft and like i said just because its fleet only consists of this particular aircraft now they're out of operation for how long right now we don't know many people are still in critical condition so the doctors are fighting for their lives the president promised that those responsible for the crash will definitely be punished i can tell you that this particular airline was going through some financial difficulties lately but previous the no incidents with

its aircraft had led to any kind of fatalities. talking to conan bright that would you. gave us his thoughts on what might have gone wrong. early indications point to possible causes one is that as we can see snow sleet snow everywhere it was very very cold icing conditions and it may well have been that the plane was not correctly d.-i still not do ya stood all and if there's of buildup of ice on the wing as soon as the plane takes off you're going to have a situation where you would get the lift over the top of the wing the air over the top of the wing is disturbed therefore you lose lift the plane or you reach now 2 to 40 feet and then crash back to earth. and the other thing we but there's a possibility there was an engine problem we know the aircraft reached takeoff

speed of about 175 miles an hour and then quickly that speak quickly to within a 2nd or 2 of takeoff back to 148 and that's when all the data was lost. so possible engine problems possible icing problem on the wings. u.s.m. a catholic presidential candidate michael bloomberg has apologized after his campaign prison labor to promote his election message email inmates were employed to call up voters although bloomberg himself denies he knew it was happening we only learned about this when the reporter called us but to soon as we discovered which friend a subcontractor had done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hired 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 rating we

sad indeed when we learn a vendor of a vendor of a vendor used 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 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 ahead. for president jobs create. problems. 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 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 apparently tell them that he's a 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 good paying jobs along the way. there he could've he probably shouldn't but he didn't let me continue he became richer year after year he made really a selling bank is ludicrously priced products all gadgets the same bankers who through unbridled greed set off the 2008 financial crash depriving tens of millions of people of those of life's savings and jobs. michael bloomberg

for president investigative journalist david into office believe that despite bloomberg vast wealth he's not a particularly strong candidate. i really shouldn't be acceptable for anybody liberal or conservative to use prison labor it's forced labor. is a multibillion area $50000000000.00 he's made his money by you know not paying attention to things like that. he's not concerned about the little guy. which i guess becomes you know if you're supposedly a democrat you're concerned about the. enormous. i think it's going to hurt him a lot i don't know where people get the idea that. democrats in the race to get stroppy has almost no poll support all the money. 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 it's. just awful. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by those. dares thinks. we dare to ask.

there's a long held tradition on cross talk to take stock of the year that is about to pass we have a look at what moved us what changed and what gave us concern 2019 the good the bad and the. join me every 1st week on the alex i'm i'm sure i'll be speaking to the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you. back to the weekly now there has been a sharp increase in u.k. weapons sales to saudi arabia over the last 5 years that's despite london signing up to a treaty to prevent exports to rights abuses oxfam which calculates the rice says 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. has license sales with nearly 6 and a half 1000000000 pounds to 8 members of the saudi coalition in the last 5 years that is more than in the 5 years before it signed the treaty a treaty that has more than 100 countries to sign up well it does regulate the arms trade in order to prevent human suffering the british 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 he remains a unique and valuable instrument when the arms trade treaty came into effect and 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 have actually increased and i think this is the signal. here yemen world's worst humanitarian crisis right now

and the u.k. and far from kind of living up to treaty on and the word is that treaty has has continued to say oh the country's involvement conflict where we know international and having no is has been disregarded. with pressure mounting the u.k. has now had to suspend the sale of weapons to saudi arabia in june the court of appeal said that they were unlawful although the government is expected to appeal the decision the supreme court saudi arabia's intervention in yemen started back in 2015 to fight who the rebels who they say the terrorists however it is the level of civilian casualties that's become a major cause of concern. roof

tanner again says that there is clear evidence that riyadh has committed human rights violations in yemen the evidence is really i have a well meaning. that there's been consistent violations of international law and and as you say the case was really clear that. the government needed to you know if it was going to continue to license weapons had to be clear about that there was a pattern of violation and that violation was clearly that so i find that high that

that system will be a pal and i think it's. you know very sad that the government have had to try and chosen to appeal this decision and wish to continue to sell weapons that have been used in a war that is causing so untold poverty and harm and destruction fed the people of yemen. but finally it is a tradition of the holiday season for world leaders heads of state and they to organizations to deliver their annual greetings they usually wrap up the passing year and generally express hope for a prosperous and happy future but it seems this time there are a few peculiar messages saskia tyler explains. christmas the time of year when people gather together to celebrate the bonds of friendship and family as a side note also a very awkward period for the brits have to regular engage an eye contact except well wishes and feign merriment all 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 in 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 and just hours after the i.d.f. admitted that a raid in the gaza strip can not 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 from family we wish everyone a joyous merry christmas can you blame him it's the end of the year world todd poor thing couldn't even hide the fact he was reading off a prompter though he does have other things on his plate i suppose like his possible removal from office even as usually bellicose tweets have been a bit cluster of late no caps lock no explanation marks 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 chimp. 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 a stop so instead of the usual merry christmas one and all they got this and midterms this year have felt quite a bump in 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 the son didn't spend nights sweating away with a convicted sex offender and then the icing sugar on top of the your log 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 consider these downsides as they rode to bethlehem 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

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