we have a look at what moved us what changed and what gave us concern 2019 the good the bad in the. putin calls donald trump to thank him for information that helped for the new year terrorist plots in st petersburg. and of the stories that shape the week a passenger plane crash in kazakstan killed 12 people are left dozens injured. plus u.s. presidential candidate michael bloomberg apologizes after his team used prison labor to promote the billionaire's election campaign. you're watching the weekly here on our to international i'm resigned a low could welcome to the program now that i'm a persian has personally thank donald trump for a tip off from u.s.

intelligence that helped intercept a terror plot in st petersburg medina content of reports. russia's federal security service detain 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 a new year's 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 helped prevent these attacks they prevented what could have been a tragic catastrophe as the city of st petersburg russia is north and 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 well we spoke to chris phillips a former head of the u.k. counterterrorism security office he says the case highlights the need for cross border intelligence sharing. it what it does as well is that we live in such an

interconnected world that intelligent sources the us of obviously go are also dealing with people and that are planning incidents in. petersburg and and i think we're going to see more of this because because of the use of internet telephones these interconnected groups able to strike anywhere you can only hope to come to work together not only against terrorism but the bigger thing actually possibly even bigger than terrorism is organized crime because organized criminals are wreaking havoc across the world at the moment we've seen people murdered in london of a computer recently a lot to do with drugs and of course he says this is a big problem for all countries. now in the stores the shape the week kazakstan has held a day of mourning for the 12 people killed in a plane crash on friday dozens more were injured in the tragedy including children

the aircraft valdosta asked to just after takeoff from the country's largest city almaty on a domestic flight it clipped a concrete barrier and crashed into a building in a residential area investigators are looking at 3 possible causes of the tragedy pilot error a technical malfunction and bad weather his how events unfolded you know. i'm sure. sure. it isn't true. but it did you knew you were going to have a good look at her of the crew i know you didn't listen to them some look at her as we were discussing risk i'm not aware of the shores it was aboard the peregrine it's a report you would use in your proposal the snake will see. warming using. not. like google did i mention

a doctor but do you. believe in god i don't mean literally maybe giving it i have. learned. that i should just let hold strong jolt in the left wing literally seconds later the plane began to rock back and forth like a bogus 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 a crash which i braced myself for the impact then the sewing caved in to see 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. while geoffrey thomas from airline ratings dot com gave us his thoughts on what

might have gone wrong. early indications point to 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 do ya asked 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'd hit 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 takeoff speed of about 175 miles an hour and then quickly that 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. u.s. democratic presidential hopeful michael bloomberg has apologized for the use of prison labor by his campaign team female inmates who recruited call up voters although bloomberg himself denies he knew what was happening we only learned about this when the reporter called us let's assume as we discovered which friend a subcontractor had done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hired them imagine being so wait 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 used 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 more cream it gets . worse the further you dig when he launched his campaign his media bloomberg news sent out a letter 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 good paying jobs along the way there . you probably should but he didn't let me continue he became richer year after year he made really a selling bank is ludicrous lee priced products all gadgets the same bankers who through unbridled greed set off the 2000 a 5 actual crash the provident tens of millions of people the votes of life savings and jobs. michael bloomberg president. michael bloomberg is ranked number 9 in the world on the forbes rich list bantam vestige of journalist dave lindorff believes that does not make him a good 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 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 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've 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. so you people have been killed in the texas church shooting

we'll have that story i'm off to this short break. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to the press this is what the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water. in the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the u.s. and the world. max kaiser and stacy herbert's dig into the burning questions of

this election cycle one self every week will tax student debt trade was corporate money universal basic. and more catch up with what's front running this sunday exclusively on. a gunman opened fire inside a church in texas on sunday killing one person and seriously injuring another the shooter was killed in return fire from 2 members of the congregation the instant happened during a service in the town of point settlement the local chief of police has praised the t. shirt because he took out the attack. so today at approximately 11 50 am

a government in or the west freeway church of christ what's on a texas during a church service deployment reports indicated that the man into the church and part of weapon a couple of members of the church returned bar. striking the suspect who died at the scene project where the person shot by the suspect died a local hospital and a 2nd person or is has lath frightening into injuries well just hours before the texas shooting a machete attack on a synagogue in new york state left 5 people injured 2 of them in critical condition donald trump expressed support for the victims and urged americans to quote fight the evil scourge of anti semitism. if hank happened during a hanukkah party police arrested a suspect soon after the incident and a counterterrorism unit is monitoring the situation. reports say the attacker was a black male but the motive remains unclear the new york governor called the attack

an act of domestic terrorism. we have seen or not in new york this is violence spurred by hate it is mass violence and i consider those. terrorism with a lot of. semitism a lot of medicare acts in the area. completely unacceptable. 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 well this follows a spike of hate crimes against jews in the region there's been 7 anti semitic instance in new york city this week alone and less than a month ago shooting at a kosher supermarket in jersey city left 4 dead the israeli prime minister has condemned the latest incident. swim a global israel strongly condemns the latest surge of anti semitism and the brutal

attack in the middle of hanukkah holiday at the rabbi's house he monsey new york we send our wishes of recovery to the wounded we will cooperate in every way with the local authorities to help eradicate is phenomenal and we offer this help to every country or political analyst olivier raphe of it says the rise in anti semitic instance could encourage immigration to israel. 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 the jews are in trouble all over the world. is the only place safe place to be now of course we can rely on those allegations of their government to prevent certain attacks but if the situation is getting worse and worse. is of course the place to be for jules was in danger to as the case. is 70 years ago it is still the case ukraine

and the self-proclaimed people's republic in the east of the country have completed a prisoner swap president selenski was icky of airport to meet 76 people released by the breakaway regions he goes down of has more on this story. 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 has sent some 61 people former prisoners to the territories of the self-proclaimed guns 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 the latest round of the normandy for talks when vladimir putin for the 1st time. the ukrainian president for there was the lenski and of german chancellor angela merkel and the french president

a 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 burke 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 the swap too and they didn't go well with some people because some people in ukraine think 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 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 good world that you showed up at the codes at 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 wore poor overall has been a success which is a major step for the wall for the sides for the currently warring sides. now it's something of a tradition for the holiday season for world leaders heads of state a major organizations to deliver their annual greetings and 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 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 or 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 i member 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 trump family we wish everyone a joyous 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 is 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 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 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 at buckingham palace harry saying that he and william a 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 midterms this year 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 the son didn't spend nights sweating away with a convicted sex offender and then the icing sugar on top of the you'll log 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. well that is your update for now we'll be back here the top of the hour with another roundup of the stories the shape the week see them. join me every thursday on the alex sullivan show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you there. 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 us 2019 the good the bad and the of. today there are good terrorists and bad editors 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 right away military into those funding and arming death squads there's no. more because there's always a small. or really good. profit. new year's worth. wow 2020 should be a whopper. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision a little sheltered lives every song came to a complete. the day that i was raped. you know told

a shot of what they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed well i only screamed at me and he made me come in and he graham my arm and he write me with his birth year 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 u.s. military is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who. separate military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished then the offender i had an almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave her a sex offender who was not even going to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of our and violent male sexual predators for the large part of charge of whoever is there to prey upon whether that's men or women. in front of the cameras coca-cola c.e.o. promises us

a world without waste that's our objective. but behind the scenes the american company is doing everything in its power to eschew 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 and. it's a message they don't love so well. when i did it to see. how polite and welcome. and affection were in this group you're welcome to frugal but it seems we have not yet won that trust. question knew it was a short little every thought well wait a minute echo takes the action social wrong. the vice president of the company michael goldsman has travelled from the united states to on so all questions he has worked for 21 ms he's in charge of global policy and environmental sustainability

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