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 and kazakhstan moments after takeoff dozens more are being treated in the hospital. plus police fired tear gas amid clashes during the 59th weekend best part ask the parents. and the wealthiest u.s. presidential candidate multi-billionaire michael bloomberg apologizes after his team use prison labor to promote his election campaign.

welcome to the weekly here on r.t. international where we bring you the latest headline news and the top stories from the past 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 new york's governor has called the attack a cowardly act a suspect is in police custody and reports say the attacker was a black male the motive however it remains unclear commenting on the incident a local some women called it pure hatred. it's been a lot of anti semitism a lot of anti-semitic acts in the area. completely unacceptable

we need a specially during this time of peace and hanukkah we don't understand you know 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. but safe haven for everyone here we have hundreds of thousands of families in new york reliving peacefully there's no incidence in this community and all the other jewish communities there's all stabbing school shootings no crime the crime rates are literally like at 2 percent nothing so under such a thing happens it frightens everyone. the attack falls 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 columnist says nothing can justify such acts of violence 1st of all there is no. toll to the solution i don't want to use the word fighters solution god's will be the reason because anti semitism has many many faces and you see it coming from many of their reactions and with many different look evasions we put everything in one basket but this does not mean that every scene can be approached 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 cities. investigations are continuing into what caused a passenger plane to crash shortly after takeoff from oman airport in kazakhstan killing 12 people dozens more 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 bands unfolded. sure. sure. it is a. bit of pick a. little is a good. coder i know you did you did some look at the receiver just.

not there as the shows it was aboard the peregrine he would. see. the union not. like google did the mention of drug abuse. i believe again i don't mean literally mcgivney go right. here in. washington and i should just let hold strong jolt in the left wing literally 2nd play to the plane began to rock back and forth like a boat i began to tighten my belt panic directed began that the children had started crying when the plane began to go dollars look at it was clear that would definitely go into a crash which i braced myself for the impact then the sewing the mergence the door was open and so we jumped on the wing and began slipping because it was icy we helped each other to get down. to you.

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 the snow snow everywhere was very very cold icing conditions and in my world have been that the plane was not correctly d.-i still not do i asked at all and if there's a build up of ice on the wing as soon as the plane takes off you're going to have a situation where you are in 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

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. on saturday elbaz demonstrators gathered in paris for a 59 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 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 of the crimes that we've got hey 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 to 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 barrier is 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 $59.00 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 grass that still has the will. was one of the books i was. still. 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 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 6 to who exactly are fired that has been lit by the protests since you can see things getting 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 vests 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 being 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 just 1st is the police trying to control those crowds you could see there were bottles they look like lost vocals being thrown into the pace 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 dispersed 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 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 apologize after his campaign news prison labor to promote his election message female inmates were employed to call voters on the bloomberg himself tonight who 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. 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 stop 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 my 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 they his credit michael bloomberg did promise america more work just to. get ahead. for president jobs

creator. 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 folks what is a slave labor to cool people to 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 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 should've but he didn't let me continue he became richer year after year he made really a selling bank is ludicrous lee price tried until gadgets the same bankers who through unbridled greed set off the 2008 financial crash the provident tens of

millions of people of whom as of life savings and jobs. michael bloomberg the president investigative journalist dave lindorff believes that despite bloomberg vast wealth he's not a particularly strong candidate for president. it really shouldn't be acceptable for anybody liberal or conservative to use prison labor it's forced labor. is a multibillionaire he's worth like $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 and which i guess becomes you know if you're if you're supposedly a democrat you're concerned about the. enormous apocrypha see it a big problem 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 to give strength he has almost no poll support all the 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 motets running for office then we throw continues here on our to international after this short break. 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 . the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those great.

thinks. we dare to ask. join me every week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll show you the. welcome back there's been a sharp increase in u.k. weapons sales to saudi arabia over the last 5 years that's quite long and signing up to a treaty to prevent exports to rights abusers oxfam which calculated the rise says

it's deeply concerned about the way weapons have been used in the conflict in yemen according to the charity of the u.k. has licensed sales worth nearly 6 and a half 1000000000 pounds to 8 members of the saudi coalition and the last 5 years that's more than in the 5 years before it signed the treaty and that's an agreement that more than a 100 countries signed up to everglades the arms trade in order to prevent human suffering and the british government was 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 say those 2 countries that we in yemen know party to not war in yemen have actually increased and i think there's just been sake know that you're yemen world's worst humanitarian crisis right now

and the u.k. 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 country where we know international and tammy know 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 a lawful although the government is expected to appeal the decision of the supreme court saudi arabia's intervention in yemen started in 2015 to fight who the rebels who they say are terrorist however it's the level of civilian casualties that's become a major cause of concern. oxfam

says there is clear evidence riad 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 whether there was a pattern of violation in that violation was clearly that so i find much hype that

will be upheld 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 untold poverty and homme 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 are conducting a prisoner exchange across live now to our correspondent in the down of how did the swap come about. well jacki i should tell you that the swap is currently under way the ukrainian side is saying that it has moved everyone every single person it was supposed to move across the front line across to the territories of the self-proclaimed din that's going lugansk republic so now the next move is to come from those breakaway regions as they're expected to send ukrainian nationals those

of those prisoners who they held hostage to who were pre-agreed of course for the swap to hear from now it's not going on the hamper and it's not going without hindrance is firstly there were reports that at least 2 people who are being held hostage in donetsk and lugansk that they have refused to be part of the prisoner swap for one reason or another now as for details also the exact number of people who are being swapped it's still unclear out the reports are putting it in a 100 over a 100 so but it's not clear how many exactly each side has agreed and swapping today also yesterday there has been some tension and even clashes in here of as some radically some radical some radicalization see who are very of some people who are very unhappy with this war but they essentially started clashing with the

police outside a court building in kiev because at that point of the court essentially released at least 5 people former members of the special police force barracuda who 2 parts in who took part in while countering the protests in kiev during the my down uprising all those those 5 people are reportedly part of the swap as well and if true they have already been moved to the to the territories of denounce can look on screen public so again more details still to come as for how many people have been swapped and whether or not. more tensions in iraq also it has to be said that this is the exact result of the normandy for talks when vladimir putin for the 1st time met with the lenski the ukrainian president went together of course with angela merkel and the french president emmanuel mccrone so this warp is a direct result of those talks r.t. as it goes down of them to for bringing us the latest on that. that's our breakdown

of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week and today's news for more on those stories and the latest at our website r.t. dot com. today there are good terrorists and bad at it it's the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat the good those word in syria the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military funding an army of death squads there's no any more because there's always a small income for a really good this is a profit. kind of

financial survival job today was all about money laundering 1st to visit this cash industry different. oh good this is a good start well we have our 3 banks all set up here maybe something in europe something in america something overseas in the cayman islands or do we do all these banks are complicit in the kleptocracy we just have to deal with gold and say ok i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while we've got not a nice luxury watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry and how about. luxury automobile again for max you know what money laundering is highly illegal if you watch guys record. you know world of big. lot and conspiracies 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. 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision lives every song came to a complete. the day that i'm afraid to be instructed you know told to shut up or they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life many screamed at me and he made me come in the gram my arm and he write me with his birthing area if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military is a very very traumatizing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from

women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished than the offender by hand and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an hour in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. this is this is a stick from the water bottle phone in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad. they're the litter bugs are throwing us away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. onto the snow as it sits to cook absolutely. distraught and may look at scenes cool sets for their classes to

seek a coffee on my end on a day when you found that essential projects funded me tell the difference and. on i knew that that is the end of a footy team not fun now the mountains of least only grow higher. god definitely wants the innocent to be set free now the question is what happens when that doesn't occur like in the case of this gentleman where he was wrongly convicted. the man was falsely convicted he lost 20 years of his life who knows how he was abused in prison maybe and so that is

a great evil you know this is one of the more challenging questions that we as human beings you know have to deal with it's almost an existential question to you know if there is a god and certainly i believe that then how can we allow evil to occur. no question there are quite often i mean this. as i want to know were true in the way the heroes and those gusts were lives and go to me. my name and jerome are going i'm now 42 years old i was all fully arrested and eventually convicted assented to 17 for murder dad did not commit.

murders to die in prison by the expiration of my life. i was 17 when i was arrested as a rested on my mom's body for as birdie. told a 7993. there was $360.00 apology for a young girl about unable mercer young. i tended to same high school my magri year in high school.