the suspect is arrested after a machete attack on a synagogue in new york state in which 5 people were injured. in the stories and showing the week here on r t 12 people are killed after a passenger plane crashes near on mass in kazakstan moments after takeoff dozens more are being treated in hospital and police fired tear gas made trash during the $59.00 weekend best protest in paris plus also become the wealthiest u.s. presidential candidate multi-billionaire michael bloomberg apologizes after his team used to prison like to promote his election campaign.

and i welcome the latest news and a look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days to you watch the weekly here on r.t. international. machete attack on a synagogue on saturday night in new york state has left 5 people injured 2 of them in a critical condition police arrested a suspect soon after the incident. well the incident happened during a new party account terrorism unit is currently monitoring the situation and commenting on the incident a local assemblyman called it pure hatred a. little. while. anti-semitic acts in the

area. completely unacceptable. in the specially during this time of peace and hanukkah we don't understand. what the motivation is for all of this it's just pure hatred and it's senseless and we need to. do whatever we can to provide safety and. provide a. safe haven for everyone here the attack follows a spike in hate crimes against the jewish community in the region there have been 7 anti-semitic incidents reported in new york city this week alone and less than a month ago a shooting at a kosher supermarket in jersey city left 4 dead let's get some reaction i'm going to tell of if that getting levin he's a heretic columnist and a member of the newspaper's editorial board good afternoon she good ian thanks for coming on we were just reporting there this is the latest in a series of anti semitic attacks in the new york area what's been the reaction in

israel to this. in israel israelis believe the world is against us and anti semitism is serious as it is is many times also used for political purposes but obviously there is a sense of shock and. disgust of this kind of nobody can justify and nothing can justify this kind of violence looking at the reaction i know that israel's former defense minister has tweeted to you he feels the solution is for jews to immigrate to israel what you feel about the potential solutions. you know the solution 1st of all there is no. toll to the solution i don't want to use the word fighters solution god forbid the reason though because that is emitted

from has many many faces and you see it coming from many their reactions and with many different divisions we put everything in one basket but this does not mean that every scene can be approach in the same way. today still is not the more secure. i was revived. 70 years of existence over 70 years there were more jews killed in israel than elsewhere so if they want to come here they're mostly will come but i don't think this is the solution this is a demagogue exclusion because many jews want to stay where they are and deserve security secure life where they live i don't think that is very should become a shelter. for those who don't want to come here those who want to come here mostly welcome by the end of the day we cannot ignore one aspect and that's very important

to emphasize the policy of israel though. their brutality is fueling. some of the anti semitic movements and here the best solution is that isn't real change its policy by this i don't mean by any way that israelis to be blamed for anti semitic isn't all that. has some justification and to some it is by all means naught but many anti semites are using the police of israel as an excuse for their semitism key feel the jewish community is being particularly singled out here or is there a wave of sort of an increase in hate crime generally it's not just you know jewish members of the suffering that members of other ethnic minorities are also suffering to feel is part of a wider trend. if you look at the

world for for sure there are so many more muslims who are being slaughtered and who are have to. are living in believable conditions like in my own in china and other countries muslims are much more in danger in many parts of the world but if we are looking at the way. europe in the united states. jews are facing increasing violence. motivated by anti semitism this does not mean there are the minority i mean islamophobia is much stronger and although i can't get in. any. no getting no finish your point we've got 30 seconds. yeah i know that i just say the fact that others are suffering more does not

justify this involves not give any kind of excuse but we have to remember the proportions ok thank you that was getting levy there hurts columnist a member of the newspaper's editorial board speaking to us there from tel aviv thank you. now investigations are continuing into what caused the passion jet plane to crash shortly after takeoff from the mattie airport in kazakstan killing 12 people dozens were injured in the incident on friday including children these pictures do show the rescue operation investigators are considering 3 possible causes of the tragedy a pilot error technical malfunction and bad weather a survivor told us what he went through. which is to russia just delightful to strong jolt on the left wing literally seconds later the plane began to rock back and. i began to tighten my belt panic had already begun the children had started crying when the plane began to go down and look at it it was clear that would

definitely go into the ground so i braced myself for impact then the sewing the mergence the door was open we jumped on the wing and began slipping because it was icy we helped each other to get down. very. quickly we did them. in the book a beautiful. primary mode you can begin to write only because if you want to. see. it is a. little bit you know you know what the you think it is you think. and then you didn't read them so when you look at there was there were just as a mess all right not too bad as the shows it was aboard the peregrine it's a report that he would go to possibly sneak up on

a c area any pranks discussed what happened with call and bright. you look at those pictures and we 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 who 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 air flight took call 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 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 it was one of the final ones to be produced by a company it's still that 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 people

use there for domestic flights to the onus now on the. of coast to establish exactly what happened what if they don't so clearly grounded all flights by top 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. geoffrey thomas mallon write ins dot com gave us his thoughts on what might have gone wrong. early indications point to 2 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 i asked at 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 lift over the top of the wing the air over the top of the wing is disturbed therefore you lose lift the player 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 reach a takeoff speed of about 175 miles an hour and then quickly let's 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 problem possible icing problem on the wings.

now inserted a yellow vest demonstrators gathered in paris for a 59th weekend of protests and were joined by those condemning the government's pension reform plans reporting from the capital. well it's the 59th week of protests by these illegal ones out every saturday to show their discontentment with the french government and what they see as being policies that they're actually gates the poor they've also been joined by protesting those i came to the pension reforms at the moment in france these the reforms that the french government is trying to put through some reforms that would see some 42 different pension systems joining down into one universal system so to give you a sense oh. of the crimes that we've caught here you might be able to see i simply banas and this protest crowd heading back towards cardinal which is about a kilometer away they are in fact also in front of vs well so far this is being

a generally calm protest but as you can see some of the protesters are trying to pull down some of the barriers that are there for the rude works of it going on in this area it seems like the tensions are starting to rise now here in paris as act 59 is underway we're being told not to fail not to show what's going on. but he said very serious as you can see my camera is being a crash that i still think the person who. was one of the books of all this is all. the political just trying to do our jobs in paris here by showing what's going on with the protests as you probably can see from the end of that footage my cameraman was attacked when we tried to stop the attack us from talking in the camera and that she smacked me across the face this is the kind of reaction you get from some of what people describe as being the

black blocks just literally walking me smack across both sides of my face because i was trying to explain to him that we're doing our job and to stop trying to harass my cameraman and attempting to break the camera as you can see the police going to was that a fire that has been lit by the protests since you can see things very thrown out the police by some of the protesters now as they try and get closer this is the area where we were trying to film earlier and were attacked during so by some of those mosques protest as you can feel the tension rising in the end of this 59th week of the yellow vests protests and of course joined by those on protest against the changes to the pension system bringing brought forward by the. inge government as you can see that fire been set to some of the the roadworks taking place and it looks like they've been able to get some rubbish to put on top of that police now putting that out very quickly and trying to secure the area as the protest is still

around the tear gas now just burst as the police trying to control those crowds you could see there were bottles they look like lost vocals being thrown into the base you can still see some things being thrown into the air and not tear gas now that cloud coming pushing us away a mechanism again trying to control the protests picking up this is already it's coming quite close to say really need to move forward a bit faster if we possibly can just to try and get away from that particular now just 1st by the police in attempts to control the crowds here close to shuttle a in the center of paris just give you a sense of where shuttle is it's just across the water from north to go down that famous cathedral here in paris the police there trying to move themselves away at that tear gas unusual to see the police crying from the tear gas it's perhaps nice

to see for me that i'm not the only person who is impacted by the gas. charge it basically reporting the protests and parish that yesterday will be back with more stories from the week just after the break. it's like the child in the room it's impulsivity it's narcissism it's us versus them it's fear the prefrontal cortex it's empathy it's compassion it's thinking about the future in terms of what we do today that's where we need to make our decisions based from from the prefrontal cortex unfortunately when we eat the modern diet of our planet or when we watch the news or we spend too much time

online we lock in to be a make believe we lock in to the child in the room and we're not able to make good decisions. wow i feel it 2020 should be. the weekly not the us democratic presidential candidate michael bloomberg has apologized to his campaign used the prison to promote his election message female inmates were employed to call up. what was happening.

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 absent being so rich you don't even bother to check what you are spending millions of dollars on. rita rating we sat in did 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 democrat 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 there's 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 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 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 really a selling bank is ludicrously priced tried until gadgets the same bankers who through unbridled greed set off the 2008 financial crash depriving tens of millions of people of whom of life savings and jobs. michael bloomberg the president rescued of journalist dave lindorff believes 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 is worth like $54000000000.00 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 if you're supposedly

a democrat you're concerned about the little guy. 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 the as his 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 most people are pretty suspicious of your motives in running for office. now there has been a shopping crease in him k. weapons sales society arabia over the last 5 years that is 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 that weapons have been used in the conflict in

yemen but according to the charity the u.k.'s license silas worth nearly 6 and a half 1000000000 pounds to 8 members of the saudi calculation in the last 5 years that's more than in the last 5 years before it signed the treaty a treaty that more than $100.00 countries have signed up to but it does regulate the arms trade in order to prevent human suffering the british government was also keen to stress its importance when he signed up. the a.t.t. is the only legally binding treaty regulating i'm promoting legitimate and responsible trading conventional mom. it 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 that you're yemen world's worst humanitarian crisis right now

and the u.k. and far from kind of living up to treaty in and the word is that treaty has has continued to so the country's involvement conflict where we know international tammy know is has been disregarded well 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 norful although the government is expected to appeal the decision at the supreme court saudi arabia's intervention in yemen began in 2015 to fight who think rebels who they say terrorists however it is the level of civilian casualties that has become a major cause of concern. well

says that the risk clear evidence that 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. 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 very much height that that system will be

a pal 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 sell our weapons that have been used in a war that is causing untold poverty and homme and destruction fed the people of yemen. ok well let's bring you some news that's happening right now because ukraine and the self-proclaimed people's republic said the nets can the guns in the east of the country have initiated a prisoner exchange the u.s. sees overseeing this these are live pictures we're looking at and it is part of a deal brokered during peace talks in paris earlier this month the presidents of russia and ukraine did leave those talks it is the 1st prisoner swap between key have and the rest of east. ukrainian regions in 2 years we'll be keeping across the story for you throughout the day. so that's the weekly for the moment more from us at the top of the.

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