i. don't know what i want to. trump to thank him for information which helped prevent a terrorist attack in st petersburg. stories this week a plane crashes in kazakhstan soon after takeoff killing 12 people dozens more are being treated in hospital. on the wealthiest us presidential candidate multi-billionaire michael bloomberg apologizes to his team used prison labor to promote his election campaign. and even welcome this is an international. trump for information which helped to prevent a new year terror plot in st petersburg. has

a story. russia's federal security has detained 2 people that were allegedly planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the city of st petersburg according to the security service these people in question were planning terrorist attacks in crowded places during the new year celebrations it was also reported that avid and shedding light on some of their intentions was also found the scene well they were being detained russian federal security service maint is these the rest on the 27th of december following information that was received from their american colleagues now some may say that it was a significant step in the relationships between the 2 countries and in a telephone conversation the russian president vladimir putin thanked his american counterpart donald trump for this piece of data that help prevent these attacks

they prevented what could have been a tragic catastrophe as the city of san petersburg russia's northland capital is packed with people during new year holidays so this piece of information how to prevent a horrible situation indeed both presidents discussed a range of pressuring issues they agreed to continue cooperation in the fight against terrorism actually the last time they spoke was in july and in person they mad back in june at the g. 20 summit in japan at the time the meeting was said to be quite long and productive so it seems that both sides trying to keep the lines of contact open. we spoke to chris phillips former head of the case national counterterrorism security office who says that terrorists work across borders and security services must do the same. what it does as well is that we live in such an interconnected world now

teligent so does the u.s. of obviously go are also dealing with people and planning incidents in. 2 and i think we're going to see more of this because because of the use of these telephones these interconnected groups able to strike anywhere you can only hope that countries work together not only against terrorism but the bigger thing actually possibly even bigger than terrorism is all the noise crime because organized criminals are wreaking havoc across the world at the moment we've seen people murdered in london a recently a lot to do with drugs and of course this is this is a big problem for all countries. investigations are continuing into what caused a passenger plane to crash shortly after taking off from kazakstan killing 12 people dozens were injured in the incident on friday including children these

pictures show the rescue operation the gators are considering 3 possible causes of the tragedy pilot error technical malfunction and bad weather here's how events unfolded. i'm sure. it is. because you know it was a good look at the crew did. you know that when you consider look at the reason we were discussing risk. was the shores it was a war of the. you would use your proposal jinnie. i'd like to go did i mention a dog but do you. believe in god i mean literally mcgee given that i have. learned

. that i should just let hold strong jolt and the left wing literally seconds later the plane began to rock back and forth like both i began to tighten my belt panic doret the began the children had started crying when the plane began to go dollars look at it it was clear that would definitely go into a crash which i braced myself for impact then the sewing cage that exists 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. and 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 store not do ya asked at all and if there's of build up of ice on the wing as soon as the plane takes off you're going to have a situation where you're told 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 let's 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. the u.s.

democratic presidential candidate michael bloomberg has apologized at this campaign news prison labor to promote his election message female inmates were employed to call of voters or the 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 stop 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 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 more cringing 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 owner this is the sort of person mike is mike bloomberg started as a middle class kid who had 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 new to christie priced products all gadget the same bankers who threw under rivaled greed set off the 2008 financial crash the provident tens of millions of people of homes of life savings and jobs. boot michael bloomberg for president. investigative journalist dave lindorff believes despite bloomberg fox wealthy is not a particularly strong candidate. it really shouldn't be acceptable for anybody liberal or conservative to use prison labor it's forced labor. is a multibillion area $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. i think it's going to hurt him a lot i don't know where people get the idea that. democrats in the race to get stroppy has almost no poll support all the money. 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 it's. like.

it's like that 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 he says. wow i'm feeling 2020.

a shooting of a church in texas is the reportedly left 2 people dead and one in a critical condition the incident happened during the service when the congregation was inside according to a health care spokes person 2 people were killed at the scene another is being treated in hospital the church leaders said the gunman was killed. just prior to that shooting a machete attack on a synagogue in new york state left 5 people injured 2 of them critically so donald trump expressed support for the victims and urged americans to fight the evil scourge of the semitism.

the attack happened during a hanukkah party police arrested a suspect soon after the incident and counter-terrorism unit is monitoring the situation. there was a blank a male the motive remains unclear new york governor called the attack an act of domestic terrorism. seen or not in new york this is my once spurred by hate it is massive violence and i can see. there are is a little. semitism. medicare acts in the area. completely unacceptable we specially during this time of peace and we don't understand. what the motivation is for all of this is just pure hatred. of the attack follows a spike in hate crimes against the jewish community in the region in 70 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 political analyst a living rough of h. says anti semitic hate crimes are a concern far beyond the u.s. . i think that it's a global problem all over the world especially in europe no also in america well the jewish communities they were settled when their jews are in trouble all over the world either the only place safe place to be now of course we can rely on those and haitians are their governments to prevent such attacks but if the situation is getting worse and worse. is of course the place to be for jules was in danger it was a case. 70 years ago it is still the case. there's been a sharp increase in u.k. weapons sales to saudi arabia over the last 5 years that despite london signing up

to a treaty to prevent exports the rights abuses oxfam which calculated the rises it's deeply concerned about the way the weapons have been used in the conflict in yemen . and 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 plus more than 5 years prior to ratifying the treaty more than $100.00 countries signed up to this pact which regulates international trade in conventional weaponry regulates the arms trade in order to prevent human suffering british government is also keen to stress its importance when it signed up. the a.t.t. is the only legally binding treaty regulating and promoting legitimate responsible trading conventional arms he remains a unique and valuable instrument when the arms trade treaty came into effect and the u.k. was a real champion of that treaty unfortunately sales to countries that we in yemen

are party to now or 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 the treaty in and the word is that treaty has has continued to say how countries involved in a conflict where we know international and having no is has been disregarded the press around thing u.k. has now had to suspend the sale of weaponry to saudi arabia in june the court of appeal said that they were lawful so the government is expected to appeal the decision of the supreme court saudi arabia's intervention in yemen started 2015 to $5.00 who rebels they say the terrorists but it's the level of civilian casualties that's become a major cause of concern. oxfam

says there's clear evidence of human rights violations in yemen. the evidence is really able 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 whether there was a pattern of violation in that violation and it was clear that so i find that high

that that system will be a pal 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 so untold poverty and harm and destruction fed the people of yemen. it's a tradition of the whole of the season for world leaders heads of state on major organizations to deliver there are no greetings usually wrapping up the passing year and generally expressing hope for prosperity and a happy future but it seems this time there are a few peculiar messages around saskia taylor 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 in 21st century all the world over people are getting creative with the traditional greeting sometimes though they know how to best put misjudge the mood while some gingerbread houses we do so i get to go with them $35.00 jet merry christmas to christian soldiers and to those celebrating around the world i'm a big fan of gingerbread but one in the shape of an f. $35.00 jet which regularly used 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 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 tribe we wish everyone a. 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 as usually bellicose tweets have been a bit cluster of late no caps lock no explanation marks that 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 it

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 perry marrying an american divorcee said divorcée crying on t.v. about being bullied by the very people who pay the heating bill of 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. time says you have 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. ukraine and the proclaimed people's republic of donetsk and lugansk in the east of the country have completed a prisoner exchange ukraine's president arrived at port of the 76 people released by the breakaway republic has just done a story. well we do have some financial figures finally we do know for

a fact that more than a 100 people in this world. up in total for instance we do know that has sent some $61.00 people former prisoners to the territories of the self-proclaimed . people's republic and those breakaway regions in turn have send 76 of their 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. the ukrainian president for them is lenski under 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 of to this what for instance we do know that at

least 2 people 2 persons refused to take part in the refused to go back from donetsk and lugansk republics regions for one reason or another also all saw 5 former members of burr could police unit an elite police unit that took part in dispersing the protests the protests the might an uprising back in back when it happened they were part of this war 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 former birchard members so yesterday there was a court hearing in kiruv in the ukrainian capital on the fate of the eye 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 they showed up at the courts at the courts doors they clashed with the police chanting slogans like death to burka and so on and so forth but so far it looks that the prisoners will put over rule as being a success which is a major step for the wall for the sides for the current warring sides. with a base for you on our top stories in half an hour's time say that. it 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 in the uk. today there

are good terrorists and bad the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat the good those who work 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 and arming death squads there's no. because there's always a small. really good. profit. her point throughout. the shredder is get rid of it fantastic but here how could it be i am saying good

riddance to the purple cast that i. don't really want to. call film begins in hawaii in the middle of the pacific ocean in spite of the island's remote location it is also foreman that going to the epidemic of the clinton century plastic. plastic pollution is littering beaches and endangering certain species of animals no matter how remote or out of reach.

in this new bar a tree in the north of the occupied ago scientists study marine animals not plastic at least in theory. no idea what that. but it's certainly plastic. jessica perelman is a biologist accustomed to finding plastic in fish stomachs she has started a very unique connection. casually often plastic bags. and this was all coiled off of the stomach when i found it had no idea what it wasn't all that it just. or did you react in this installment i was shocked i started you know documenting it measuring it taking photos showing whoever else was around in the lab and we were kind of. we were just you know a shock to think that that these fish are are really ingesting this i mean. to her

disbelief the scientist has found plastic in an unlikely specimen known as the long fish. the young researcher was not expecting such a surprising discovery when she began her work on this piece is. the. fish live at a depth of about 200 to 400 meters and they're clearly you know coming in contact with plastic and it appears that plastic is is truly a deeper problem that we might have financial. even swimming at these depths the long said fish manages to swallow trivial plastic objects and the i mean occasionally you might find a brand name such as this dishonored bottle label and what is this so this is a label from a water bottle.