in the stories that shaped the week 12 people are killed after a passenger plane crashes moments after takeoff near kazakhstan's largest city dozens more are being treated at the hospital. police fired tear gas and clashes on the 59th weekend of deal of us protests in paris. and the wealthiest us presidential candidate a multimillionaire michael bloomberg apologizes after his team use prison labor to promote his election campaign.

you're watching the weekly here on r t a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us. investigations are continuing into what caused a passenger plane to crash shortly after takeoff from the airport in kazakhstan killing 12 people dozens were injured in the incident on friday including children here we can show you pictures from the rescue operation investigators are considering 3 possible causes of the tragedy pilot error technical malfunction and bad weather here's how the about it unfolded. live to. see. that. you need to look at the legislative. the code and then you can see what you could do was just. now there was a shows it was

a war of the poor he would. see. in a new. life google didn't mention a dog a but do you. believe in god i only live in a given that i have. many. options here 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 doret it began the children had started crying when the plane began to go dollars look at it it was clear that would definitely go into 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 again slipping because it was icy we helped each other to get down. the years.

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 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 be arsed 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'd hit the lift over the top of the wing the air over the top of the wing is disturbed therefore you lose lift and the plane or reach now 2 to 40 feet and then crash back to earth. and the other thing we have 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 that speak quickly to within a 2nd or 2 of takeoff back to a 148 and that's when all the data was lost. so possible engine problem possible icing problem on the wings. on saturday yellow best demonstrators gathered in paris for a 59th weekend a protest they were joined by those condemning the government's pension reform plans of parting from the capital here charlatans. well it's the 59th week of protests by the jle asian ones out every saturday to show their discontentment with the french government and what they see as being policies for the rich are they gauge the poor they've also been joined by protest of those against 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 food chichi 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 ghana's 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 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. a pretty serious series as you can see my camera is being a crash that the schedule of the president. who. was one of the books of all this all. the political just trying to do our job simon

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 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 watch that fire that has been lit. by the protests since you can see things from heathrow not 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 for doing so by some of those mosques to 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 food by the french government as you can see that

far been said 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 purses the police trying to control those crowds you could see there were bottles they look like last 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 asked now 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 shuttle 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 gas. 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 call up voters although bloomberg himself tonight is you know 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 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 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 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. right for president 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 easy good god 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 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 through unbridled greed set off the 2005 actual crash the provident tens of millions of people of both ends of life savings and jobs. michael bloomberg

for president investigative journalist dave lindorff believes that despite bloomberg the past well 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 and 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. they were continuously on our to international after this short break. you make is like the child in the room it's impulsivity it's narcissism it's us versus them it's fear the prefrontal cortex is 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'm feeling 2020 should be. welcome back a 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. talk

happened during a hanukkah party and counterterrorism unit is monitoring the situation currently new york's governor has called the attack and cowardly act a suspect is in police custody and reports say that the attacker was a black male the motive remains unclear commenting on the incident a local some women called it pure hatred but a lot of. semitism a lot of anti-semitic acts in the area. completely unacceptable. in this specially during this time of peace and hanukkah we don't understand you know what the motivation is for all of 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 we have hundreds of thousands of families in new

york we live peacefully but there's no incidence in this community and all the other jewish communities there's all stabbings no shootings no crime the crime rates are literally like at 2 percent nothing to wonder such a thing happens it frightens everyone saturday's attack falls a spike in hate crimes against the jewish community in the region there's been some an anti-semitic incidents reported in new york city this week alone and less than a month ago is shooting at a kosher supermarket in jersey city left for dead gideon levy and her calmness 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 immaterial and has many many faces and you see it coming from many their reactions and with many different look evasions we put everything in one basket but this does not mean that everything 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 it nothing can justify this kind of violence the policy of israel. 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. 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 prospects and

a happy future but it seems this time there are a few peculiar messages asked us to tell explain. 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 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 those 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 kenny 9 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 or you're missing you 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 trump family 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 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 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 hope he 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 harry 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 are sorry not my weekly therapy session so instead of the usual

merry christmas one and all they got this. time says you have filled in that 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 the 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. ukraine and the self-proclaimed people's republic of donetsk and lugansk in the east of the country have just completed a prisoner exchange it has done of joins us live in the studio with the details so break this down for us while we do have some fishel figures finally we do know for a phone that more than a 100 people. in the swamp in total for instance we do know that. some 61. on people former prisoners to the territories of the self-proclaimed nets and people's republics and those breakaway regions in turn have sent 76 of their former prisoners back to kiev now this whole thing was only possible because of the normandy for the latest round of the normandy for talks when vladimir putin for the 1st time met the ukrainian president for mr lensky and german chancellor angela merkel and the french president a manual mccrone being there as well this was one of the one of the things one of

the agreements that they reached during that meeting in paris now this war has seen there have been a few hitches and if you said backs of to this what for instance we do know that at least 2 people 2 persons refused to take part in it they refused to go back for clear from donetsk and lugansk republics regions for one reason or another also all saw 5 former members of birchard police unit an elite police unit part in dispersing the protests the protests the might an uprising back in back when it happened they were part of the swap too and they didn't go well with some people because some people in ukraine they share a rather radical stance the rather radical view look on what's going on on the war and so on and what happened on the my done and they share not just animosity

but pure hatred towards form a burka members so yesterday there was a court hearing in keirin the ukrainian capital on the fate of the of those 5 persons now they were released which effectively that's why that's how it became possible for them to become part of the swap and those more radically inclined individuals they they didn't take it well that you showed up at the courts the courts doors they clashed with the. police chanting slogans like death to burkhard and so on and so forth but so far it looks that the prisoners will put over rule has been a success which is a major step for the wall for the sides for the currently warring sides. thank you for bringing us that report that's our breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week for more on those stories and the latest news head to our website r.t. dot com.

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running 2028 with me max kaiser and stacy herbert as we look ahead to all the excitement of the 2020 elections every episode we dig deep into something new this time we're going to look at the wealth tax stacy that's right we're looking at all the economic policies being presented by the democratic candidates many of them are very radical bernie sanders says billionaires should not exist and to find out whether or not they should we have a guest with us dr michael hudson and professor steve keen steve we'll start with you 1st well i have

a very complicated position on this because part of my research is into. what's called the financial instability hypothesis that explains where the 2008 process came from out of that part of what i discovered from the mathematical modeling i did was this is a simple relationship between an increasing level of private debt and a full name out of money going to work because as you had a rising a level of debt which is what led to across us that rising level of debt and a rising amount of money going to the bankers and rather than the capital of spain the ones who paid for it in fact it was the work because there was a foreign income going to the work as i look at the empirical data that's what's happened as well the rausing level of private debt has meant more money going to bankers less going to work because and capital is feeding in the middle how come this issue is so misunderstood by the democrats they don't they seem to be financially illiterate and that's. do we need billionaires should be really really

phrased as where to billionaires come from other words how do you get billionaires that's right and it seems like there's a lot of area to examine in the banking system in the central banking just i'm where they seem to have engineers if you well using what in economics is called a cantillon effect where central bank prints billions hundreds of billions and somehow it never circulates in the economy and it goes to the same people's pockets all the time so word of billionaires come through that's that's the question one way billionaires come from is getting too much private debt through to a profit to the bubble that shouldn't have been allowed to happen in the 1st place then and so that's the sort of billionaire i want to get rid of and i agree with going in completely on that front the doing is you're talking about we have the corner missed mainstream economists to run central banks who didn't see the crosses coming still kind of stand wide happened in the way of risk using it as being to pump up asset values in the belief that they'll go what they call the will fix which will lead to more consumption and the idea is make make 1000000000 is even

wealthier by making shows more expensive and they'll spend that money and stimulate the economy now there's a very good research paper by the strange little organization called the federal reserve of which shows there is no wealth effect from shares you did very little benefit at all out of that so that's been artificially created well so those 2 are about to get rid of but the entrepreneurial 1000000000 is i have a different feeling i know the 2 of you talk about debt and debt forgiveness all the time and there's a notion of o.d.s. debt is there a notion could you say odious wealth as well if it's being created artificially for a specific class i mean the data point out here that since 1989 the net worth of the top one percent in america went up $21.00 trillion dollars while the bottom 50 percent lost $900000000000.00 and wealth is that because the bottom 50 percent are just dom and they don't work as hard in the.