a suspect is arrested after a machete attack on a synagogue in new york state in which 5 people were injured. and in the stories that shaped the week 12 people are killed after a passenger plane crashes near el monte in kazakhstan moments after takeoff dozens more are being treated at hospitals. police fired tear gas and clashes during the 15 minute weekend of yellow bus protest in paris. and the wealthiest us presidential candidate multi-billionaire michael bloomberg apologizes after his team use prison labor to promote his election campaign.

this is the weekly here on r t welcome to our roundup of the day's news along with the headlines that shape the week. a machete attack on a synagogue on saturday night in new york state has left 5 people injured 2 of them in critical condition police arrested a suspect soon after the incident. the attack happened during a hanukkah party a counterterrorism unit is monitoring the situation commenting on the incident a local some women called it pure hatred. semitism. in the area. completely unacceptable we especially during this time of peace. i don't understand you know what the motivation is for all this is 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 gideon levy a harris columnist says nothing can justify such acts of violence. 1st of all there is no total solution i don't want to use the word fighter's solution god forbid there is no law because it is symmetries and it has many many faces and you see it coming from many of their reactions and with many different visions we put everything in one basket but this does not mean that every scene can be approach in

the same way 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 the policy of. the occupation the brutality is fueling. some of the anti semitic movements many anti semites are using the police of israel as an excuse for their semitism. investigations are continuing into what cause a pastor plane to crash shortly after takeoff from oman to airport in kazakhstan killing 12 people dozens were injured in the incident on friday including children these pictures show the rescue operation investigators are considering 3 possible

causes of the tragedy pilot error technical malfunction and bad weather here's how the events unfolded. here's a. bit of a pick a. good. coder a good read and some look at the receiver just. not where as a shows it was a war of the pentagon it's a report you would consider the perception they will see. between you not. like google didn't mention a dog abuser. even had no memory mcgivney going to have. any.

issues you know i should just let hold strong jolt in the left wing literally 2nd plate of the plane began to rock back and forth like both i began to tighten my belt panic and already began that the children had started crying when the plane began to go dollars ok it was clear that would definitely go into a crash which i braced myself for the impact then the sewing caved in the mergence the door was open so we jumped on the wing and against ripping because it was icy we helped each other to get down. the u. . geoffrey thomas from airline ratings 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 snow everywhere was very very cold icing conditions and it may

well have been that the plane was not correctly d.-i still not be arsed at all and if there's a build up of ice on the wing. as the plane takes off you're going to have a situation where you're. 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 let's speak quickly to within a 2nd or 2 of takeoff back to 148 and that's when all daughter was lost. possible engine problems possible icing problem on the wings. on saturday yella best demonstrators gathered in paris for any 59th weekend

a protest they were joined by those condemning the government's pension reform plans reporting from the capital here charlotte. well it's the 59th week of protests by this year lazio owns out every saturday to show their discontentment with the french government and what they see as being policies for the reaction against the poor they've also been joined by protest and 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 of the crimes that we've got here you might be able to see i simply banners and this protest crowd heading back towards cardinal which is about a kilometer away they are in fact also in front of us as well and 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. roy's 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 addressed that. the person who. was one of the books was. 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 is 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 blocs 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 who exactly 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 to protest as you can feel the tension rising in the end now of this 59th week of the yellow vest protests and of course joined by those on protest against the changes to the pension system bringing brought forward by the french government as you can see that fire been set to some of the the roadworks that were 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 dispersed as the police trying to control those crowds you could

see there were bottles they looked like last vocals being thrown into the place you can still see some things being said. into the air and not to you gas now that cloud coming pushing us away mechanism again trying to control the protests picking up it's already it's coming quite close to i say really need to move forward a bit faster if we possibly can just to try and get away from that particular dispersed by the police in attempts to control the crowds here close to shot late in the center of paris just to give you a sense of where she actually is it's just across the water from. 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 cas.

u.s. democratic presidential hopeful michael bloomberg has apologized after his campaign use prison labor to promote his election message female inmates were employed to voters about bloomberg himself to 19 knew what was happening we learned about this when the reporter called us which is 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 reach you have people who have people who have prisoners to do stuff for you i didn't reach 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 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 to thousands of its journalists pledging to uphold its principle of not investigating its own 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 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 will gadgets the same bankers who threw unbridled greed set off the 20085 actual crash the prodding tens of millions of people of those of life savings and jobs. michael bloomberg for president and that's a good journalist dave lindorff believes that this spike bloomberg is a 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 because i 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 will be back with more of the week's top stories after this.

the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those great. thinks. we dare to ask. you know world a big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past

each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back there's been a sharp increase in u.k. weapons sales to saudi arabia over the last 5 years that's despite one signing up to a tribute to prevent exports to rights abusers oxfam which calculated the rise says it's deeply concerned about the way the weapons have been used in the conflict in yemen. according to the charity the u.k. has license sales worth nearly 6 and a half 1000000000 pounds to 8 members of the saudi coalition in the last 5 years that's much more than in the 5 years before it signed the treaty a treaty that more than a 100 countries signed up to it regulates the arms trade in order to prevent human suffering the british government was also keen to stress its importance when it

signed up to it the a.t.t. is the only legally binding treaty regulating on promoting legitimate and responsible trading conventional arms it remains a unique and valuable instrument when the arms trade treaty came into effect the u.k. was a real champion of that treaty unfortunately those 2 countries that. we in yemen know party to not war in yemen or that she increased and i think this is. your yemen world's worst humanitarian crisis right now and the u.k. and far from kind of living up to treaty and the word is that treaty has has continued to so countries involved in a country where we know international having 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 at the supreme court saudi arabia's intervention in yemen started in 2015 to fight her 3 rubbles who they say are terrorists however it's the level of civilian casualties that's become a major cause of concern. oxfam

says there is clear evidence 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 in that violation was clearly so i very much. and i think it's. you know very sad that the government have chosen to appeal this decision and wish to continue to sow weapons being used in a bullit that is causing untold poverty. and destruction for the people of yemen. ukraine and the self-proclaimed people's republic of donetsk and lugansk in the east of the country have initiated

a prisoner exchange the o.s.d. is overseeing the exchange and it's part of a deal brokered during peace talks in paris earlier this month the presidents of russia and ukraine led those talks as the 1st prisoner swap between kiev and the rest of east to eastern ukraine regions in 2 years. it's a tradition of the holiday season for world leaders heads of state and major 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 particular messages 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 fame 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 just hours after the i.d.f. admitted that a raid in the gaza strip can know 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 something we wish everyone a. 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 though he does have other things on his plate i suppose like his possible removal from office even his usually bellicose tweets have been a bit like cluster of late no caps lock no explanation marks kind of thing also jumping in head fast to the whirlpool of christmas for parts u.s. customs and border protection they congratulated santa for not scaling and he was sorry chimneys 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 resources no contact with their parents many as young as one who brought gifts for

these kids. he missed the stop and across the pond things want much better queen elizabeth the 2nd film test 67th christmas speech you think after all these years she'd have it down pat but it's been a tough year for poor queenie what with prince andrew clearly not being a natural in t.v. interviews perry marrying an american divorcee said divorcée crying on t.v. about being bullied by the very people who pay the heating bill at buckingham palace harry saying that he and william are fighting harry being a climate activists while jetting around a private jets her story not my weekly therapy session so instead of the usual merry christmas one and all they got this and returned filled. with small steps can make a world of difference. a very legal way of defining being on the brink of a constitutional crisis our fingers crossed hoping your son didn't spend nights 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 consider these downsides as the road 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 just say it's a winter holiday if the top winter 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. that's a recount of just some of the stories that help shape the world these last 7 days for all the latest and up to the minute reports follow us on twitter facebook. this is a stick from a water bottle phone in the stomach of

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on the welcome to worlds apart no lenny else evolution have turned humans into one of the most adaptable and successful species on the planet with the capacity for self harm and even self-annihilation i think traits that once helped us survive now precipitating our own demise well to discuss that i'm now joined by dr david perlmutter a neurologist and bast selling author dr perlmutter it's such a privilege to talk to you thank you very much for your time well oksana and so

delightful to be with you today thank you now we're recording this conversation a few days before new year's eve when millions of people around the globe will be promising to themselves to lead better house the air a more fulfilling lives and yes we know from from the statistics that most of those pledges will remain and realized why do you think it is such a challenge what a terrific question to lead off with and you know there are so many books out there there are so many programs online and cetera that really give out good information about what we should eat that we should actual size pay attention to our sleep but the problem is so many people end up with these books on their bookshelves and. year after year they go on answered and the reason is now we have to start paying attention to making making the choices so what we are describing in our new book brainwash is the bridge between information and action really finally giving people

2 things number one the recognition that their decision making has been taken from them actively and number 2 how to get it back now full disclosure i've been one of you a big fans ever since your number one new york times bestseller grain brain was published in 2013 it gave me and i'm sure many other people didn't know they had the agency to make a long lasting lifestyle changes but as you said in a couple of weeks you'll have a new book out brainwash what are you trying to achieve with that well we're hoping to achieve some very very big things and what we're trying to bring to the public attention is the fact that our modern world our modern society through the foods that we're eating our lack of sleep and certainly from all of the time we spend.