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

this is the weekly here on our to you welcome to our roundup of the headlines that shape the week. investigations are continuing into what caused a passenger plane to crash shortly after taking off from almighty airport in kazakhstan killing 12 people dozens more were injured in the incident on friday including children these are pictures showing the rescue operation investigators are considering 3 possible causes of the tragedy pilot error technical malfunction and bad weather here's how about this unfolded. live show you. see this is. the case you need to go to the exhibit. to the code on there you

can see where you'll get to was just the same. way as the shows it was a border that we are going it's a report for you with your perception that we will see. i don't like google did i mention a dog but do you. believe in god i mean literally mcgee given that i had. you know 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 a dollar a day began the children had started crying when the plane began to go dollars look it was clear that would definitely go into a crash which i braced myself for impact then the sewing capabilities of the mergence a door was open so i jumped on the wing and again slipping because it was icy we

helped each other to get down. 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 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 and the plane or you 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 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 a 148 and that's when all the data was lost. so possible engine problem possible icing problem on the wings. on saturday while a best demonstrators gathered in paris for a 59 quick and a protest they were joined by best condemning the government's pension reform plans reporting from the protest here charlotte about scamp. 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 against 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 she choose 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 banas and this protest crowd heading back towards god to norwich 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 still has the look. out

for this or the book of all this is all. the political will 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 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. there 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 close and 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 fire being 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 purses 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

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 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. 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 voters although bloomberg himself denies he knew 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 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 they his credit michael bloomberg did promise america more work just to. get it. 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 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. the further you dig when he launched his campaign his media bloomberg news sent. thousands of its journalists pledging to uphold its principle of not investigating its own this is the sort of person mike. mike bloomberg started as a middle class kid to work his way through college business from a single room to creating. good paying jobs along the way to stop their eco death he probably shouldn't but he didn't let me continue he became rich. he made selling bank is new to christie priced products all gadgets the same bankers who through unbridled greed set off the 20085 actual crash depriving

tens of millions of people of both ends of life savings and jobs. michael bloomberg the president. and best again of journalist dave lindorff believes that despite the boss while 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 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 it's 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 give strength he has almost no poll support

only 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 that most people are pretty suspicious of your motives in running for office. the weekly continues after this short break. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics. i'm showbusiness i'll see that. the world is driven by a dreamer shaped by one person with those great. thinks

. we dare to ask. is 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. welcome back to the program 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 and a counterterrorism unit is monitoring the situation in new york governor called the attack an act of domestic terrorism as about a suspect is in police custody and reports say the attacker was a black male his motive remains unclear commenting on the incident a local some women called it pure hatred but a lot of. semitism a lot of entice medic acts in the area. completely unacceptable we in the 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 and 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 peaceful peacefully 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 so under such a thing happens it frightens everyone they attack follows a spike in hate crimes against the jewish community in the region there 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 total solution i don't want to use the word fighters solution god forbid there is no law because it is immaterial and 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 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 violence nobody can justify and nothing can justify this kind of violence the policy of israel they 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 the semitism. ukraine and the self-proclaimed people's republic of donetsk and lugansk in the east of the country have completed a prisoner exchange

a guest on of has the details. well we do have some official figures finally we do know for a fact that more than a 100 people took part in this war in the swap in total for instance we do know that key of has sent some 61 people former prisoners to the territories of these self-proclaimed and that's kind of people's republics and those breakaway regions in turn have sent 76 of the former prisoners back to kiev now this whole thing was only possible because of the normandy for all of the latest round of the normandy for talks when vladimir putin for the 1st time met the ukrainian president for them as lenski and of german chancellor angela merkel and the french president of manual necron 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 to 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 from donetsk and lugansk republics regions for one reason or another also all saw 5 former members of burke could police unit an elite police unit that took part in dispersing the protests the protests the mind on 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 a 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 of berkut members so yesterday there was a court hearing in kiran in the ukrainian capital on the fate of the of 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 didn't take could well be showed up at the cool the cool to do is they clashed with the police chanting slogans like death to birth 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. it's a tradition of the holiday season for world leaders heads of state and major organizations to deliver their annual greetings israel wrap up the passing year and generally express hope for a prosperous and happy future but it seems this time around 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 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 and 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 i regularly use to conduct strikes over gaza just hours after the i.d.f. admitted that a raid in the gaza strip can now 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 are 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 tribe we wish everyone a joyous merry christmas but 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 is 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 us 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 of 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 and midterm 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 considered 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 time 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 recap of just some of the stories that help shape the world these last 7 days and that's all for me as well but if you're not my colleague you know harvey will be taking over at the top the hour as always thanks for tuning in.

banks geysers financial survival until they say money the delegates are going to take it easy this is a central bank support dying of illness i don't call them right now it's a stop to the good. of today there are good terrorists and bad attitudes the bad terrorists and those in yemen who the united states deems to be a threat the looked at those who work in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military juntas funding an army of death squads there's no posts anymore because there's always

a small token for a really good that's good for profit. what politicians do usually to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be rich. that you'd like to be crushed this is like the local tree in the morning can't be good that i'm interested in always in the waters of my college. west sydney. in front of the cameras coca-cola c.e.o. promise is a world without waste that's our objective. but behind the scenes the american company is doing everything in its power to ask you any alternatives to plastic like the return of

a bottle i think obviously the shelf. after months of negotiations with the american multinational we have a meeting at the headquarters of coca-cola france for an interview. the message didn't look so well at all when i did it to see you are. polite and welcome. in the public and we don't know if you want to go through them but it seems we have not yet won that trust. question ruined was a short supply problem with every thought well wait a minute back up and say i should push i was wrong. the vice president of the company michael goldsman has travelled from the united states to on so all questions will he has worked for coca-cola for 21 years he's in charge of global policy and environmental sustainability and he's a french speaker. and they'll say after a while was that i knew that i'd stop on over. there either and odd because often

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